September 5, 2026 • 37 mins
On this edition of The Best of the Week of Stugotz and Company LIVE!: Stu and the guys talk about the Week Zero win by North Carolina over TCU in Dublin, and Taylor sings a song about his Tar Heels. Taylor explains why he is a Lane Defender after details are published in a magazine feature. Plus, Adnan Virk joins as the guys partake in a round of "Think About It Thursday".
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
It is a Mount Rushmore Monday here on Stugatz & Company.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Israel Gutierrez is off. Hopefully be back with us tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Jessica Smetana going to join us in about 15 minutes.
We'll have the weekend observations as well. And T-Bob going
to join us in hour number two. Taylor, put it
on the poll, please. That's to got 790 on X.
Were you rooting for Belichick? Also put this on the poll.
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Has Bill Belichick somehow become a lovable underdog?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
The answer to both of those is no.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, for me, it was a yes. And also put
this on the poll.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Was that the biggest win of Bill Belichick's storied career?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Stu, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
What will you be doing Saturday, December 5th?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I have no idea. Watching football.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I know what I'll be doing. I'll be in Charlotte
watching my North Carolina Tar Heels in the ACC championship.
I just booked my flight and hotel.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Did you really?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
After a 15-10 victory over TCU, we have no idea
if TCU is any good. I still have no idea
if Carolina is any good. But I did find myself
rooting for Belichick. Mikey, you didn't find yourself rooting for
Bill Belichick? He's been through it the last couple of years.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
There is nothing that could happen on this planet to
make me ever root for Bill Belichick in any form.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
And I happen to like North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Mikey, that's a very dangerous game because I grew up
a Jets fan and I said the same exact thing.
And then Bill Belichick somehow wound up at my alma mater.
And now I'm rooting for Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You're not though. Yes, I am.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Don't say I'm not rooting for Bill Belichick because I
want this to succeed. It hasn't succeeded. And that's why
I've kind of been at the front line saying that
it hasn't been working.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I don't have to say you're not rooting for Belichick.
You said it plenty headed into the season.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I mean, Mikey, what are we talking about?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I want it to work. Mikey, if Bill Belichick went
to Fordham, if he was the Fordham Rams next head coach,
you're telling me you wouldn't root for Fordham.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
He could go be the Fordham Rams head coach, go
take them to the college football playoff. And then in
the off season, take over Brian Cashman's job and Aaron
Boone's job and turn them into the dynasty Yankees.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And I still wouldn't root for Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I understand what you're doing there. I live with the
same thing. He was the jet coach. He resigned after
a day and then he took the Patriot job and
he won six Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It's not a guy you and I should be rooting for.
Yet I found myself rooting for Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I did.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Just because he's been through. The league has rejected Bill Belichick.
Think about this, Mikey. He won six Super Bowls as
a head coach.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Six. Eight total.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And yet when he was let go by the Patriots,
the NFL said loud and clear, the entire NFL, you're
not good enough to coach here anymore. And so then
he was forced to go to Carolina. Pablo Torre is
chasing him down. I mean, the guy, he left, you know,
a house shirtless one day and there was a video.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I mean, the guy has been through it.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And so yesterday or over the weekend, excuse me, in
a 15 to 10 victory for North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And they are clearly. the number one team in the
country right now.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I found myself rooting for bill Belichick and I found
myself and my wife is the one who brought it
up to me.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Is he the lovable underdog now? And I was like, yeah,
you know what? He kind of is.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So you mentioned that we don't really know what to
really make of either team this year. And I do
think that's right with a week zero game in Ireland
on a pretty sloppy field. I don't know if we
learned if Carolina is good, but it feels safe that
at the very least, they're not bad, which is bad
news for the haters, which there are many, by the way.
(04:17):
College football pundits couldn't wait to dunk on Bill Belichick
and UNC. And then today, guess what was served up
to them?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
What?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Humble pie.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Thank you. Couple servants. Paul Feinbaum. He actually acknowledged it today.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Paul Feinbaum, come back for seconds, buddy.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
He said he was wrong, but we have no idea
if he was wrong. He might still be right because
I don't know if Carolina's good. And I don't know
if TCU is good. And if Carolina is not good,
what's that say about TCU? How about that?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
I'm fairly certain TCU is not good.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Their season's over. I'm fairly certain. I might not know
about North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm fairly certain I know about TCU.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Taylor, how'd you feel? Like, honestly, you've been blasting Belichick.
It's fine. You could do that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Now you're rooting for him, and that's fine. That's what
sports fandom is all about. I mean, there are certain
drives where I want to fire the Jets head coach.
There have been quarters where I want the Jet head
coach to be fired. And the very next quarter, I
want him signed to an extension. That's how sports fandom works.
So how do you feel today? Not about your opinions
on Belichick. Just as a Carolina alum, you walked onto
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that football team. You want Carolina to have success. And yes,
you've been critical of Belichick. But you're off to a
1-0 start. That has to feel good.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It feels good. One, because right now at offensive coordinator,
Bobby Petrino feels like one of the best play callers
in college football, because I don't really think this, I
still don't really think that this North Carolina offense is much,
but Bobby Petrino found ways to scheme North Carolina open
where the, the, the highlight for me on offense was
their tight end. Jelani Thurman four catches, 94 yards, son
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of former NFL linebacker, Odell Thurman and WNBA all-star Cara Braxton.
He transfers in from Ohio state. I think they got
a guy.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
He looks good. And you love the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Oh, Billy Edwards Jr. So going into that game.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Mikey is so mad at you right now. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Going into that game, from people that I talked to
in Chapel Hill, they said... The plan is we are
going to play two quarterbacks. We've got a backup quarterback
that we like in McNeil. He is going to play.
And then I think you saw as that game kind
of unfolded, Billy Edwards Jr. was more than sufficient at
the quarterback position to where Carolina never really had to
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take him out and risk disrupting the rhythm that he
was creating.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I love Bobby Petrino. Everyone is just singing his praises.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
He's so back.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
15 points against TCU. Three in the second half.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You use the phrase lovable underdog.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Bill Belichick, Bobby Petrino. No.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
No, there is nothing lovable about that coaching staff.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And Lombardi. and lombardi yes uh dan bryles to coach
the defense.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yes uh dan i know it's a strange thing to
say but on a resume that includes six super bowl
victories as a head coach do you think the victory
over the weekend for belichick was the most important of his.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Career well they brought home the crystal like they had
a crystal trophy they brought home hardware i think that
says enough Yes.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Dan, great point. The NBA banner. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Dan, great point, because if you presented me two options,
I could win the Super Bowl or the Lombardi Trophy,
or I could win the Aer Lingus College Football Classic
Championship Trophy.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I'm taking that trophy every time.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I will tell you this, Dan.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
If you ask Belichick before the game, hey, the Aer
Lingus Trophy, you can have it. You're going to win
this game, but you have to give up one Lombardi Trophy.
Do you think he would have done it?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Absolutely. Absolutely. Mix it up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Pick one.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
When I was a kid, I wrestled. I always wanted
a bronze because it was different. It was just different than,
you know, there's gold, silver, whatever. But the bronze was
a tough one to get.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
But you understand what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
When people start to question whether or not you're good
at this, this thing you have done your entire life,
and they start to question it. You've won six Super
Bowls and the NFL is rejecting you. OK, Belichick needed validation.
He needed to remind people, hey. I could still do this.
I could still do this as a head coach. I'm
doing it in college. I'm doing it at North Carolina.
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I'm doing it in Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Okay? Belichick needed that. He did. Carolina needed it. Belichick
needed it more. Fair?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Absolutely. And I think he would trade in the Rams
Super Bowl 53 win. Maybe not the 28-3 Falcons and
maybe not Super Bowl 36 or against my Seahawks, but
the one against the Rams in Atlanta, Super Bowl 53 win.
definitely trade that one in for the Aer Lingus.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
We were all confused last week that Taylor was offered
a free trip to Dublin, and he turned it down
as a North Carolina alum, as someone who walked onto
that football team, was part of that program. He turned
it down. He didn't go to the game.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
That did not prevent him from putting together a song
that he would have sang had he attended the game
in a pub right after that victory.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Play it.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh, Bill sawed off for W with his hoodie and
his frown. He brought the heels from Chapel Hill to
shake that Irish town. The horned frogs came to meet him,
all dressed in purple hue. But Bill had come for
one thing, to show what the heels could do. They
said the man was getting old, they said his time
was through. Then Bill went off to Ireland and beat
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the hell out of TCU. They called the team a laughingstock,
nobody gave a chance. They took the fight right to
the frogs and did an Irish dance. They counted out Bibela,
check and said he would go in lists. Well, you
could kiss my Tar Heel ass while I go drink.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
A Guinness.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
A quarterback from Maryland, he's over six feet tall. He
saved the heels in Ireland. His name is Billy Football.
They said his coach was finished. His legacy was done.
He left Lombardi in the States and then he finally won.
Petrino called the offense. Oh, Bill controlled the D. The
Fries came in as favorites, but that meant to me.
(10:22):
They crossed the sea as underdogs with everybody short. That
TCU would roll the heels while 1510 says more. The
time for laughing's over. Coach Bill has got his team.
When Carolina comes to town, they're going to cause a scene.
I hope you had your fun. I mean it sincerely.
You woke the sleeping giant. Next stop, the CFP.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It was so good right till the end. I've heard
that song four times now. And every time I know.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
The CFP is coming, it makes me cringe anyway.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, but the first couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's an amazing song.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
One of my favorites. Yeah, it really gets you moving.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I started scouting who we might be playing that first
round of the playoffs. I'm thinking Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You wanted to fire Belichick.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
By the way, you'll laugh at this. McAfee is on.
I think he's on. Something on ESPN is going on.
And who was being wired up to go on the show?
Bobby Petrino.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
He's so back. Never been more back. 15 points.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
15.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Whatever you want to talk about Wednesday, 877-99 on Fox.
That is 877-99 on Fox. We'll get to Taylor's mistake
in just a second. The new Seahawks owner had a
rough opening press conference. We'll get to that sound in
just a second as well.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
But Isaac, if you can hear me, Ike. If you
wouldn't mind coming back to the microphone. Oh, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yes. Can you just read.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
The Lane Kiffin story you just gave us in the update?
Just read it the way you read it during the update.
Taylor has some thoughts on it.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Oh, I would be delighted to.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Hang on.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Let me get into character.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Authoritative. Walter Cronkite. Peter Jennings.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Walter Cronkite. Peter Jennings.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Vanity Fair today published an excerpt of a new book
about LSU head coach Lane Kiffin. The excerpt covered his
time as Alabama's offensive coordinator, in which then head coach
Nick Saban told a staff member regarding Kiffin, quote, keep
him away from the sorority girls. Make sure they've graduated
college or are working a job, unquote. An associate of
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Kiffin's also said a local bar owner called him and said, quote,
your boy Lane's back in here asking where the hotties are, unquote.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Taylor, what are we doing with Lane Kiffin where we're
reporting every possible detail in this man's life?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Sue him. He asked where the hotties are at.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
We're not liking him and we're making money off of him.
That's what people are doing with Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Listen, I know people are going to call me a
lane defender. And yes, I am a lane defender. I'm
a I'm a go Tigers through and through. I want
Lane Kiffin to succeed at LSU because I know what
it means for college football. Sue the man if he's
going around asking where the hotties are.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Or divorce him.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Well, that's a whole different story.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I do not condone that. That's where you draw the line?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
It's ridiculous. What are we doing with Lane Kiffin? Lane
Kiffin is doing it to himself.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
He has made himself, I mean, he's taken one of
the biggest jobs in America. He left the playoff team
to take over a head coaching position at LSU. And
he has put an end, through his actions and his words,
has put himself in the spotlight. That's where he wants
to be. And when you put yourself in the spotlight,
people start reporting stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Listen, but we know Lane Kiffin is a menace. Of course.
And at LSU, I hate to say this, but at LSU,
it's almost expected from your football coaches. Brian Kelly was
the one who kind of broke the mold of not
being a menace.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Put it on the poll, Taylor. Would you want Lane
Kiffin to be your head coach? Yes or no?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Because, man, you're going to win some games.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You're going to win some games. You're going to have
reports like the one we just heard. What are my expectations?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The expectations are high because Lane makes them high. I mean,
they're high expectations, of course.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Would you want them? Yeah, but it depends.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Like, if I'm at Alabama where the expectation is is
to win the national title every year, then no, I
probably don't want him, because Lane's never done that.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
But if my expectations are, hey.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Make the playoff, win some games, be interesting, hell yeah,
I want Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
I think the thing that comes with Lane Kiffin is
when he becomes your head coach, you do kind of
turn a blind eye, because we have T-Bob Hebert on,
and T-Bob has kind of said before, he's going to
defend Lane Kiffin until he's not his head coach anymore,
and history has shown you Lane Kiffin is going to
leave LSU, and when he does, he's going to leave
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a trail of fire behind him.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Mikey, you made a face there when he tried to
pronounce T-Bob. It's an easy word to pronounce.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah. But Taylor's finding out that he's talking too
much in too many places. I'm in my own head.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I got the yips. This is like this is like
when George Lombard from the Yankee shortstop had six errors
in six consecutive games. And they're like, nobody's had six
errors in six consecutive games for a Yankee shortstop since
Roger Peckinpah. That's me right now. I got the yips.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And we'll get to why he has the yips in
a second. But you're right. It's a baseball hitter.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
And he's in a slump and he finally gets that
meatball and he still misses it because T-Bob is that meatball.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I mean, it's T-Bob.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Roger Peckinpah is such a great baseball name.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
From the early.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You call him T-Bag?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
From the early 1910s.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
What's the name?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Roger Peckinpah.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Put it on the poll. Is that a great baseball name?
I don't want to try to pronounce it. This is
why Taylor has the yips. This happened yesterday towards the
end of the show.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
To get the all boat.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It still hurts.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
That's me trying to say the old ball coach. To
get the all boat. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
You're reeling. You're in a slump.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
You got a little porky pig there in the middle.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
How many people did you hear from once they heard that?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Because I find that more people comment on my mistakes
than they do on anything I have to say where
I don't make a mistake.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, it's just a lot of people just checking in,
trying to get a state of the union from me,
just saying, hey, is everything okay? And I'm like, yeah,
I'm just fighting through this right now. Got to get
to the other side of this slump.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I am told here, Mikey, let's see if it's as
bad as we thought it was. This is very quick work.
They turned it around quickly. This is Taylor trying to
say T-Bob.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Because we have T-Bob A-Bear on.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
T-Bear. T-Bag A-Bear.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I think I said T-Bear, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I think you were headed towards bag. Let's hear it
one more time.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Because we have T-Bob A-Bear on.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I'm just not seeing the ball well right now.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
It's okay, Taylor. You'll see.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Like Lombard, I come up as this great, exciting prospect.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
And then you put me out there and you're saying,
the one thing we don't have to worry about, George
Lombard Jr., is his defense. And then all of a sudden,
I become a liability to the show.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah. Shake it off, kid.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Yeah. I'm Chuck Knobloch.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Growing pains.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
But you're one good joke away from being back. That's
the beauty of talking. So the Seattle Seahawks owner, the
new owner, what's his name? Do we know the name
of this owner for the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks
that no one is taking seriously, mostly me, by saying
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they're not going to make it to the playoffs this year?
I don't know his name, but we do have sound.
This is the new Seahawks owner. This is not the
way you want to start your ownership of a brand
new NFL team. Here's what he had to say during
his opening press conference.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Also, I happened to come to this country in 76
when the Steelers were winning the Super Bowl. So actually,
I was originally and still am a big Steelers fan. Also,
little known fact, but I still watch all the Steelers games, too.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Keep that fact to yourself.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
His name is V-Node. Again, when you're in a slump,
this is not the name you want when you're in
a slump.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
You don't want to see Pedro, Randy Johnson out there
when you're in a slump.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I get it. Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, but try to thunder through it and see if
you get your confidence back.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
V-Node, Kosla. No, that can't be right.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I mean, it's not... Wow. Wow. It's not like any
of us would know.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Who rang the bell? Mikey, how would you feel about
the Jets.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Owner if we had a new owner? And Lord knows,
I wish we did. But if he stepped up to
the podium.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Stop. I already like him.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
He's new. I already like him. Yeah, but if he
acknowledges he's a fan of another team that he doesn't own.
You're not Woody Johnson.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Welcome to the family. And I wouldn't blame Steelers.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
But when you're the Seattle owner and you're coming off
a Super Bowl victory, you can come to the podium
and say little known fact. And why would we know it?
Little known fact. I'm a Steelers fan.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
You could see. the other people in this press conference
when he says it the people behind him are like
wincing like oh no i can't believe he just said
that there's like one thing you can't say as an
owner right it's i root for another team because now
people are thinking steelers seahawks super bowl.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yes who's he rooting for Secretly, who's he rooting for? Publicly,
we know he's rooting for.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
How about any trade made between the Steelers and the Seahawks?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You start to wonder. That's why you got to keep
these things quiet. Who does he root for? Publicly, he'll
say Seattle. He's the owner of the Seahawks. But privately,
when he's alone with the family, they're all Steeler fans.
They have the terrible towels. They've been going to games forever.
They love Mean Joe Green. They love Jack Hamm. They
love Terry Bradshaw. They love the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Louie Lips.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I'm just going to rattle off Steeler names for the
rest of time. But secretly, they're all saying, let's go Steelers, right?
If you're a Steeler fan, you're a Steeler fan.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I mean.
Is that fair?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I think he's 1,000% rooting for the Steelers because when
he's talking about his Steelers fandom, you could hear the
joy coming through. And that joy that you hear him
talking about his Steelers fandom, that doesn't really go away.
I know when you buy a team, you become part
of that team, but your fandom doesn't really just go away. No.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
No.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Seattle will forever be business to him while Steelers are
his heart.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Pleasure.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
He's going to forever be like, hey, listen, I hope
Seattle does well because I want to make money.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
This is my business.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
But I'm a Steelers fan.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
That's a bad look. But it seems to me like
he wishes he was the Steelers owner and not the
Seahawks owner. Just couldn't get the right price for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
The family wouldn't sell.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Darn Roonies.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I want to hear the sound again. Listen to him
laugh at himself, and he's the only one laughing.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Also happened to come to this country in 76 when
the Steelers were winning the Super Bowl. So actually, I
was originally and still am a big Steelers fan. Also,
little known fact, but I still watch all.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
The Steelers games, too.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
This sound also just goes to show you how disconnected
billionaires are from the casual sports fans.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Casual sports fans would never even... This thought would never
even cross their mind. Like, if I gave you $ 3 billion, Stu,
to buy a team and you went out and bought
a team, like, let's say in baseball you bought the
Tampa Bay Rays. At your press conference, you know for
certain you would not say, hey, I grew up a
Mets fan. I'm still rooting for the Mets.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Right, you can't say it. You just can't, right.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
But when you're so, like, disconnected from reality with all
these people and their billions of dollars... You don't even
think about trying to relate to the common man.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
No, I'm not even okay with him saying, Hey, when
I came to this country, I rooted for the Steelers,
but now my soul phone, you know, like you have to,
you have to draw a line where there was the
previous me who liked the Steelers and the new me
who likes the Seahawks.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
So we're asking them not to be honest. And that's
part of what being an owner is all about, is
to lie.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Right?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Take a page out of Lane Kiffin's book.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
What are you doing to Lane Kiffin?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I love Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
877-99 on Fox. I don't know why I'm giving out
the phone number. Dominique Foxworth.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Now I got it. I have the yips right now.
He feels better. It's either leaving. No, it's either. He
makes a good joke.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
He gets out of his slump or someone else does
something worse.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
And I just did it. And now he feels better
about himself. Damn.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
I do feel better about myself. This just goes to
show the apple does not fall far from the tree.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Dominique Foxworth.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
live weekdays at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m. Pacific.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
We are thrilled to have a distracted Adnan Virk with
us today because he's watching a Taylor Fritz match. John
Fanta is going to join us in hour number two.
Looking forward to that. The last time we spoke to Adnan. Now, Adnan,
I promised them that you and I would not spend
an hour and change here talking tennis.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I want to. I could.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I could have a 60-minute rally with you back and forth,
but I promised the guys here I would not do
60 minutes on tennis because the last time we spoke
to you, you were headed to Rhode Island for the
Roger Federer Hall of Fame induction, and you're wearing your
Fed hat today.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
So I promised them I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You and I want to talk tennis for an hour,
and I have promised them that we won't do that today.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
It's that constant balance, Stu. Our old boss, the great
Scott Shapiro at Eastern would tell me, you got to
play the hitch. You know, every hour, talk LeBron, talk NFL.
What I want to talk about, like, I just want
to talk about Roger Federer. And as you had said
to me, as you predicted to me, if you meet Federer,
that 20 seconds is going to end up being 20
minutes of content.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's one of those situations where people have said to me,
so what was it like? And I go, listen, you're
going to get one of two versions, either the full
version or no version. I can't tell it to you
in 30 seconds. Oh, is this?
Speaker 9 (25:03):
No, I'm going to tell you every damn detail of
meeting Roger Federer, my lifelong hero and favorite athlete and
favorite person. Aside from my wife and kids. So I
hope at some point we can dive in. Like I said,
how many of the people could just say they're locked
into Taylor Fritz right now?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
But you're absolutely right. Six level. You love second set.
It's going to be an interesting balance today.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
Clippers Rams, what the audience deserves and what you and
I deserve, which is some hardcore tennis talk.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
But if you hear gaps, just it's us watching Taylor Fritz.
It's Fritz's fault.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
What do you got Taylor?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
So I'm going to extend an olive branch since Adnan's
here today. Let's get some tennis talk in right now.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Really? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Why?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
I want to hear some tennis talk.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I know, but Scott Shapiro told us to play the hits,
and I promised Scott Shapiro we would do an hour
on tennis.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I'm going to be the judge of how long that
tennis talk goes, but I want to hear some tennis talk.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
How about this, Taylor? How about this?
Speaker 9 (25:53):
Do you want, because the Federer story, I'm not kidding,
that's going to be 15 minutes.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I'm assuming we're saving that for a cheat block.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
When you say tennis talk, do you want me to
start the Federer conversation or do non-Federer related time?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
No, here, I'll start the tennis talk and then Taylor
will do whatever it is he's planning on doing here,
but Let's start the tennis talk here. Were you thrilled
as Novak Djokovic, as a lover of Roger Federer.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
As Djokovic... Why are there snores? As Djokovic was.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Throwing up all over the court and losing to a
guy who qualified to get into the Open, the snoring's
annoying me, was Adnan happy because he doesn't want Djokovic
to tack on any more majors here?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Was I happy? The ultimate rhetorical question. I was delirious
with joy. And the only thing that would have.
Speaker 9 (26:39):
Made me happiest to God is if I actually stepped
to watch the entire match. When Novak won the third set,
I say he's up 2-1.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
It's 11 o'clock here on the East Coast. I'm going
to go ahead and go to bed. That was met
with the gleeful joy.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
I felt like a child when I woke up at
4.50 to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I said, what? He lost in five seconds. I'm like, yeah, yeah.
This is so great. This is going to be a
great day. What a perfect Capra to a weekend. I
get to meet... Roger Federer, hashtag Team Fed.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
And then Novak loses on a Sunday night, arguably the
best 48 hours I've experienced in a long time.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
And people say, don't you have sympathy?
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Of course I don't. He's up there puking away. If
you can't play, then don't play.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Just bow out. If you think you can play, then
credit to you. Battle it out. But you lost, and
you lost badly. Stewie lost 6-2, 6-1 before the final set.
So what I say was illness.
Speaker 9 (27:27):
But, I mean, the shot of him puking in slow motion,
I could have done without that.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (27:31):
But macro on the best line afterwards, you know, this
guy's enjoying his big moment.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
And he says, see you on court 21 for your
next match.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
Just completely douses the guy's dreamlike moment as he beats Djokovic.
But for me, as you said, I do not want
to see that majors record extended by Djokovic. I want
him to lose, and I want him to lose badly.
I think an interesting guy in this U.S. Open is
Ben Shelton. He won in four sets.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And time! What? Oh, come on, we're going to do Shelton.
Come on, let us do Shelton. No, we can't. He's right. Time.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
He called it. And Scott Shapiro did train us to
play the hits. So let's play the hits. It's a
Think About It Thursday.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Give me the imaging.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
You know that segment, Talk About It Tuesday, on Hockman, Crowder,
and Solero? This is like that, but bigger and better.
And 48 hours later, this is Think About It Thursday.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
It's a staple every Thursday. We're playing the hits.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It's Taylor's attempt to counter-program a local show down here
in Miami.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Weird. We're a national show on Fox, but.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
It is a Think About It Thursday, 877-99 on Fox,
if you would like to think with me and Adnet.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Go ahead, Taylor.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
So I saw a video on Snapback Sports on social media.
A Cowboys fan was born in 2004. And he says
Emmitt Smith is his favorite cowboy ever, even though Emmitt
Smith's last game in Dallas was in 2002. So that's
what I want to ask you guys. Can your favorite
player be someone who played before you were even born?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
A lot of Jet fans will tell you that Joe
Namath is their favorite Jet player, whether they were born
or not when he won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I don't. He's not my favorite player. I think he's overrated.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
But Jet fans, some Jet fans who were not alive
in 1969, 70s, they will tell you that Namath is
their favorite jet of all time.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It's ludicrous. It's absolutely ludicrous, Stu. And I liked your
point on Namath, by the way.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Years ago, Sports Illustrated had this great magazine which they
said overrated, underrated, and went through all the major figures.
Most overrated quarterback was Joe Namath. You look at his numbers,
the guy was a 500 quarterback. He just won the
unbelievable game. But you look at his numbers, there's no
way he should be mentioned with Brady, Aikman, Bradshaw, you
name it.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
This doesn't make any sense, Taylor.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Why on earth.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Give me any team. I mean, this is beyond absurdity.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
That's like a Blue Jays fan born in 2000 saying,
Joe Carter's his favorite Blue Jays. Like, what are you
talking about? Just because you've seen the image of him
jumping around winning the World Series?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Like, no. If Emmitt Smith's your favorite player, the earliest
you could have.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
Been born is 1990. Maybe at five years of age,
you remember Emmitt Smith doing that. Like, that's like being
a Steelers fan born in 1987.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Who's your favorite player? Paul Amalo? Roethlisberger? No, Jerry Bradshaw.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
What?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I love Frank Harris.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
That's stupidity. It depends on the team, though. It really does, right?
And that's why you're right.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
With the Jets, it makes a little sense because, unfortunately,
your guys have been such futility. The one moment you go, well,
I have to clink that. What other Jet do I have?
I can't pick Nick Folk.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
But if you weren't alive for the Cowboys run with Emmitt,
Michael Irvin, Troy Aikman, you were born after that run.
and the Cowboys have been dreadful ever since. Maybe, and
you care about the Cowboys that much. It's like, it's
in your family. You're a Cowboy fan at birth. Maybe
Emmitt Smith is your favorite Cowboy of all time because
you have no choice, you know?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, I guess it's true. If you just have a
complete lack of success, it wouldn't make sense.
Speaker 9 (30:49):
It'd be like an Angels fan born in 04, and
all of a sudden, like, Darren Erstad, your favorite Angel.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Like, what about Mike Trout? Like, Mike Trout's never won anything.
Speaker 9 (30:56):
I gotta go back to the Rally Monkey until they
won a World Series in 02.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I'm riding with Jared Weaver.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
I'm like, okay, I guess that's how we're gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I'm trying to put myself in these shoes and I'm
thinking right now, if today I had a son and
he grows up to be a Yankee fan and he's like, man,
all my dad does is wax poetically about Derek Jeter
or watching the yes network 24 seven and watching classics.
The Yankees still haven't won a world series though. Their
last world series of 2009 Aaron judge has let me down.
(31:25):
Aaron judge junior has let me down too. I could
see that kid being a Darjeeter is his favorite player fan.
And if that was my son, I would be damn
proud of him.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
There's a big difference between saying I'm a big fan
and he's my favorite player.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
So think about this.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
As an Eagles fan, I was born in 78. So
Cunningham's my favorite player, right? That makes sense. That's the
era which I grew up in. I love McNabb and,
of course, Jalen Hurtson. Saquon Barkley. So when I meet
Ron Jaworski at ESPN, I'm like, oh my God, Jaws.
I know he's an all-time great eagle, but I was
two when he was in the Super Bowl. He's my
favorite eagle.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I can say, Jaws, I love you. All-time great eagle.
Favorite player?
Speaker 7 (32:04):
No.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
So as a Yankee fan, you can say, I love
Derek Jeter, but it's supposed to be somebody more of
your era.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
It's a ludicrous argument.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
But the Eagles have had success since. That's the big difference, yes.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
So I have a perfect example, I think, Stu.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
What about Chicago Bulls fans who have been born since
Michael Jordan?
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Jordan's their favorite Bull of all time.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
You have the greatest player of all time. He's not
your favorite Bull of all time?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
He's your favorite Bull of all time, yes.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
If you were born after Michael Jordan stopped playing basketball,
he is your favorite Chicago Bull of all time, of course, right?
Speaker 9 (32:33):
Yeah, I think that's one where we have to make
an exception because he's so supernatural.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
And again, the Bulls have stunk.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
That's the key point that Stu is pointing out, which
I think is key, is that that's the nuance. If
your team has still been good while you've been alive,
then you should have other players to rally around. But
if you're the Bulls, it's been a lot of dreck
ever since then. And Jordan's the greatest ever. So, yeah,
you know what? I'll allow an exception. Bulls, no matter
what you are, you can be a Michael.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Jordan if you care.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
What if you're a Laker fan that was born after
the Shaq and Kobe run? And your choice is LeBron James,
who won a championship in a bubble.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
It doesn't really count. Or it's Kobe. I would go Kobe.
I would.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
And I'd be okay with it. Meaning he saw LeBron.
He didn't see Kobe. He or she saw LeBron, didn't
see Kobe. And Kobe is still their favorite Laker.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
It's tough because the younger generation is growing up wanting
to be LeBron fans. But the older generation that is
influencing these kids as Laker fans, they don't really respect
LeBron's tenure in L.A.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
Yeah, again, that's where the wrinkle becomes. I would argue
you had LeBron in purple and gold. It wasn't like
a cup of coffee. No, he was there. He served
substantial time.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
He loves the Lakers. But he doesn't feel like a Laker.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
And the key point is, Stu, that championship was a joke.
People mention the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
It's their first world title since 2008. What are you
talking about? They go... Well, the COVID year, I go,
it was a 60-game baseball season.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
That was the stupidest World Series title I've ever heard
of in my life.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Like, what? No one's taking that seriously. No one goes,
remember that arduous 60-game season?
Speaker 9 (34:01):
And then Clayton Kershaw finally won a World Series.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I'm like, no, it's completely diluted. It's a joke.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
How would you feel if one of your kids said, hey, Dad,
Favorite tennis player of all time is someone other than
Roger Federer?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
It's a great question.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
One of my friends asked me the other day, he said, hey,
you know, since Federer's been gone, who do you root for?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
And I go, no one. He said, what do you mean?
I go, I watch tennis, I love tennis, but....
Speaker 9 (34:25):
No one will ever match the sheer wattage and beloved
nature I have towards Roger Federer.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
I like OJ Aliassime because I'm Canadian. I root for Felix, okay?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Like I said, bounce Shelton to the left. He's got
a good serve. Okay, cool. Taylor Fritz, we're locked in
right now, you and me, but no one ever.
Speaker 9 (34:41):
It often makes me think, I think it was Bill
Simmons who once said, a great sign of parental failure
is if your kids don't cheer for your teams. Like
if Taylor's kid Godwin was a Red Sox fan, he'd go,
you must hate your father.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Like, wow, you really stuck it to him by doing that.
So you're right.
Speaker 9 (34:57):
If ever my kids didn't name Federer as their favorite player.
That is parental failure 101. Managerial malpractice by me.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
I poisoned them into thinking. When I told them I'm
going to run around to meet Federer, they said, oh,
he's the GOAT. He's LeBron.
Speaker 9 (35:11):
If you had other people in the room, they'd go, well,
Joker's 24 majors. Nadal beat him head-to-head. My kids are
so poisoned by my nonsense. They're like, yeah, Roger's clearly.
He's the LeBron and the Michael Jordan of tennis. No
one's even close to this guy.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I'm like, yes! I've got them believing my nonsense.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
And an I would rather my kid grows up to
be a Red Sox fan than he grows up to
be a Duke fan.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
That's a good question. What would be the least favorite
thing you'd like to see happen?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
He loves the Yankees. He loves Carolina. He went to Carolina.
He walked onto that football team. So you're saying that
you would rather your kid come to you one day
and say, hey, I'm a.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Red Sox fan, just as long as he doesn't say
he's a Duke fan, right?
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah, that's where I draw the line.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
To be clear, though.
Speaker 9 (35:52):
Taylor, again, I know we hate Duke, but Duke is
a great school. Imagine your son's going to Duke Law School.
And he happens to be a Blue Devils fan. You're
just saying fandom. What if he actually gets accepted to Duke,
which is a great institution? You're not gonna let him
go to Duke?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
He's not gonna let him apply to Duke.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
And I'm definitely not paying that tuition.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
He gets a full scholarship. Full ride. Super smart kid.
He's going to Duke Law School and you're going to go, sorry, buddy.
He'd rather pay for him to go somewhere else. He would.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
You go to Elon down the street, buddy. Be a phoenix.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Not quite the same prestige as graduating from Duke. Elon
over Duke. That is unbelievable. That is a true thing
about a Thursday.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Some people call Elon the Harvard of the South.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
No, that's not happening. There's no one saying that. Come on.
Still people is no people. Taylor, put it on the poll, please.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
That's the got 790 on X.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Does anyone refer to Elon as the Harvard of the South?
877-99 on Fox.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Can your favorite player from your favorite team be a
player that you never saw play? 877-99 on Fox. That's
why we call it a Think About It Thursday. I'm thinking.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
I mean, I prefer not to think, but here I
am thinking. I just want to watch Taylor Fritz.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the Best of Stugatz & Company live on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It is a Mount Rushmore Monday here on Stugatz & Company.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Israel Gutierrez is off. Hopefully be back with us tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Jessica Smetana going to join us in about 15 minutes.
We'll have the weekend observations as well. And T-Bob going
to join us in hour number two. Taylor, put it
on the poll, please. That's to got 790 on X.
Were you rooting for Belichick? Also put this on the poll.
(00:47):
Has Bill Belichick somehow become a lovable underdog?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
The answer to both of those is no.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, for me, it was a yes. And also put
this on the poll.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Was that the biggest win of Bill Belichick's storied career?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Stu, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
What will you be doing Saturday, December 5th?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I have no idea. Watching football.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I know what I'll be doing. I'll be in Charlotte
watching my North Carolina Tar Heels in the ACC championship.
I just booked my flight and hotel.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Did you really?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
After a 15-10 victory over TCU, we have no idea
if TCU is any good. I still have no idea
if Carolina is any good. But I did find myself
rooting for Belichick. Mikey, you didn't find yourself rooting for
Bill Belichick? He's been through it the last couple of years.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
There is nothing that could happen on this planet to
make me ever root for Bill Belichick in any form.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
And I happen to like North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Mikey, that's a very dangerous game because I grew up
a Jets fan and I said the same exact thing.
And then Bill Belichick somehow wound up at my alma mater.
And now I'm rooting for Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You're not though. Yes, I am.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Don't say I'm not rooting for Bill Belichick because I
want this to succeed. It hasn't succeeded. And that's why
I've kind of been at the front line saying that
it hasn't been working.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I don't have to say you're not rooting for Belichick.
You said it plenty headed into the season.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I mean, Mikey, what are we talking about?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I want it to work. Mikey, if Bill Belichick went
to Fordham, if he was the Fordham Rams next head coach,
you're telling me you wouldn't root for Fordham.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
He could go be the Fordham Rams head coach, go
take them to the college football playoff. And then in
the off season, take over Brian Cashman's job and Aaron
Boone's job and turn them into the dynasty Yankees.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And I still wouldn't root for Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I understand what you're doing there. I live with the
same thing. He was the jet coach. He resigned after
a day and then he took the Patriot job and
he won six Super Bowls.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It's not a guy you and I should be rooting for.
Yet I found myself rooting for Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I did.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Just because he's been through. The league has rejected Bill Belichick.
Think about this, Mikey. He won six Super Bowls as
a head coach.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Six. Eight total.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And yet when he was let go by the Patriots,
the NFL said loud and clear, the entire NFL, you're
not good enough to coach here anymore. And so then
he was forced to go to Carolina. Pablo Torre is
chasing him down. I mean, the guy, he left, you know,
a house shirtless one day and there was a video.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I mean, the guy has been through it.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And so yesterday or over the weekend, excuse me, in
a 15 to 10 victory for North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And they are clearly. the number one team in the
country right now.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I found myself rooting for bill Belichick and I found
myself and my wife is the one who brought it
up to me.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Is he the lovable underdog now? And I was like, yeah,
you know what? He kind of is.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So you mentioned that we don't really know what to
really make of either team this year. And I do
think that's right with a week zero game in Ireland
on a pretty sloppy field. I don't know if we
learned if Carolina is good, but it feels safe that
at the very least, they're not bad, which is bad
news for the haters, which there are many, by the way.
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College football pundits couldn't wait to dunk on Bill Belichick
and UNC. And then today, guess what was served up
to them?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
What?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Humble pie.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Thank you. Couple servants. Paul Feinbaum. He actually acknowledged it today.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Paul Feinbaum, come back for seconds, buddy.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
He said he was wrong, but we have no idea
if he was wrong. He might still be right because
I don't know if Carolina's good. And I don't know
if TCU is good. And if Carolina is not good,
what's that say about TCU? How about that?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
I'm fairly certain TCU is not good.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Their season's over. I'm fairly certain. I might not know
about North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm fairly certain I know about TCU.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Taylor, how'd you feel? Like, honestly, you've been blasting Belichick.
It's fine. You could do that.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Now you're rooting for him, and that's fine. That's what
sports fandom is all about. I mean, there are certain
drives where I want to fire the Jets head coach.
There have been quarters where I want the Jet head
coach to be fired. And the very next quarter, I
want him signed to an extension. That's how sports fandom works.
So how do you feel today? Not about your opinions
on Belichick. Just as a Carolina alum, you walked onto
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that football team. You want Carolina to have success. And yes,
you've been critical of Belichick. But you're off to a
1-0 start. That has to feel good.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It feels good. One, because right now at offensive coordinator,
Bobby Petrino feels like one of the best play callers
in college football, because I don't really think this, I
still don't really think that this North Carolina offense is much,
but Bobby Petrino found ways to scheme North Carolina open
where the, the, the highlight for me on offense was
their tight end. Jelani Thurman four catches, 94 yards, son
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of former NFL linebacker, Odell Thurman and WNBA all-star Cara Braxton.
He transfers in from Ohio state. I think they got
a guy.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
He looks good. And you love the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Oh, Billy Edwards Jr. So going into that game.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Mikey is so mad at you right now. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Going into that game, from people that I talked to
in Chapel Hill, they said... The plan is we are
going to play two quarterbacks. We've got a backup quarterback
that we like in McNeil. He is going to play.
And then I think you saw as that game kind
of unfolded, Billy Edwards Jr. was more than sufficient at
the quarterback position to where Carolina never really had to
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take him out and risk disrupting the rhythm that he
was creating.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I love Bobby Petrino. Everyone is just singing his praises.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
He's so back.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
15 points against TCU. Three in the second half.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You use the phrase lovable underdog.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Bill Belichick, Bobby Petrino. No.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
No, there is nothing lovable about that coaching staff.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And Lombardi. and lombardi yes uh dan bryles to coach
the defense.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yes uh dan i know it's a strange thing to
say but on a resume that includes six super bowl
victories as a head coach do you think the victory
over the weekend for belichick was the most important of his.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Career well they brought home the crystal like they had
a crystal trophy they brought home hardware i think that
says enough Yes.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Dan, great point. The NBA banner. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Dan, great point, because if you presented me two options,
I could win the Super Bowl or the Lombardi Trophy,
or I could win the Aer Lingus College Football Classic
Championship Trophy.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I'm taking that trophy every time.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I will tell you this, Dan.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
If you ask Belichick before the game, hey, the Aer
Lingus Trophy, you can have it. You're going to win
this game, but you have to give up one Lombardi Trophy.
Do you think he would have done it?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Absolutely. Absolutely. Mix it up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Pick one.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
When I was a kid, I wrestled. I always wanted
a bronze because it was different. It was just different than,
you know, there's gold, silver, whatever. But the bronze was
a tough one to get.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
But you understand what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
When people start to question whether or not you're good
at this, this thing you have done your entire life,
and they start to question it. You've won six Super
Bowls and the NFL is rejecting you. OK, Belichick needed validation.
He needed to remind people, hey. I could still do this.
I could still do this as a head coach. I'm
doing it in college. I'm doing it at North Carolina.
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I'm doing it in Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Okay? Belichick needed that. He did. Carolina needed it. Belichick
needed it more. Fair?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Absolutely. And I think he would trade in the Rams
Super Bowl 53 win. Maybe not the 28-3 Falcons and
maybe not Super Bowl 36 or against my Seahawks, but
the one against the Rams in Atlanta, Super Bowl 53 win.
definitely trade that one in for the Aer Lingus.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
We were all confused last week that Taylor was offered
a free trip to Dublin, and he turned it down
as a North Carolina alum, as someone who walked onto
that football team, was part of that program. He turned
it down. He didn't go to the game.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
That did not prevent him from putting together a song
that he would have sang had he attended the game
in a pub right after that victory.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Play it.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh, Bill sawed off for W with his hoodie and
his frown. He brought the heels from Chapel Hill to
shake that Irish town. The horned frogs came to meet him,
all dressed in purple hue. But Bill had come for
one thing, to show what the heels could do. They
said the man was getting old, they said his time
was through. Then Bill went off to Ireland and beat
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the hell out of TCU. They called the team a laughingstock,
nobody gave a chance. They took the fight right to
the frogs and did an Irish dance. They counted out Bibela,
check and said he would go in lists. Well, you
could kiss my Tar Heel ass while I go drink.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
A Guinness.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
A quarterback from Maryland, he's over six feet tall. He
saved the heels in Ireland. His name is Billy Football.
They said his coach was finished. His legacy was done.
He left Lombardi in the States and then he finally won.
Petrino called the offense. Oh, Bill controlled the D. The
Fries came in as favorites, but that meant to me.
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They crossed the sea as underdogs with everybody short. That
TCU would roll the heels while 1510 says more. The
time for laughing's over. Coach Bill has got his team.
When Carolina comes to town, they're going to cause a scene.
I hope you had your fun. I mean it sincerely.
You woke the sleeping giant. Next stop, the CFP.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It was so good right till the end. I've heard
that song four times now. And every time I know.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
The CFP is coming, it makes me cringe anyway.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, but the first couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's an amazing song.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
One of my favorites. Yeah, it really gets you moving.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I started scouting who we might be playing that first
round of the playoffs. I'm thinking Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You wanted to fire Belichick.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
By the way, you'll laugh at this. McAfee is on.
I think he's on. Something on ESPN is going on.
And who was being wired up to go on the show?
Bobby Petrino.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
He's so back. Never been more back. 15 points.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
15.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Whatever you want to talk about Wednesday, 877-99 on Fox.
That is 877-99 on Fox. We'll get to Taylor's mistake
in just a second. The new Seahawks owner had a
rough opening press conference. We'll get to that sound in
just a second as well.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
But Isaac, if you can hear me, Ike. If you
wouldn't mind coming back to the microphone. Oh, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yes. Can you just read.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
The Lane Kiffin story you just gave us in the update?
Just read it the way you read it during the update.
Taylor has some thoughts on it.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Oh, I would be delighted to.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Hang on.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Let me get into character.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Authoritative. Walter Cronkite. Peter Jennings.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Walter Cronkite. Peter Jennings.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Vanity Fair today published an excerpt of a new book
about LSU head coach Lane Kiffin. The excerpt covered his
time as Alabama's offensive coordinator, in which then head coach
Nick Saban told a staff member regarding Kiffin, quote, keep
him away from the sorority girls. Make sure they've graduated
college or are working a job, unquote. An associate of
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Kiffin's also said a local bar owner called him and said, quote,
your boy Lane's back in here asking where the hotties are, unquote.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Taylor, what are we doing with Lane Kiffin where we're
reporting every possible detail in this man's life?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Sue him. He asked where the hotties are at.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
We're not liking him and we're making money off of him.
That's what people are doing with Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Listen, I know people are going to call me a
lane defender. And yes, I am a lane defender. I'm
a I'm a go Tigers through and through. I want
Lane Kiffin to succeed at LSU because I know what
it means for college football. Sue the man if he's
going around asking where the hotties are.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Or divorce him.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Well, that's a whole different story.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I do not condone that. That's where you draw the line?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
It's ridiculous. What are we doing with Lane Kiffin? Lane
Kiffin is doing it to himself.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
He has made himself, I mean, he's taken one of
the biggest jobs in America. He left the playoff team
to take over a head coaching position at LSU. And
he has put an end, through his actions and his words,
has put himself in the spotlight. That's where he wants
to be. And when you put yourself in the spotlight,
people start reporting stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Listen, but we know Lane Kiffin is a menace. Of course.
And at LSU, I hate to say this, but at LSU,
it's almost expected from your football coaches. Brian Kelly was
the one who kind of broke the mold of not
being a menace.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Put it on the poll, Taylor. Would you want Lane
Kiffin to be your head coach? Yes or no?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Because, man, you're going to win some games.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You're going to win some games. You're going to have
reports like the one we just heard. What are my expectations?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The expectations are high because Lane makes them high. I mean,
they're high expectations, of course.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Would you want them? Yeah, but it depends.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Like, if I'm at Alabama where the expectation is is
to win the national title every year, then no, I
probably don't want him, because Lane's never done that.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
But if my expectations are, hey.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Make the playoff, win some games, be interesting, hell yeah,
I want Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
I think the thing that comes with Lane Kiffin is
when he becomes your head coach, you do kind of
turn a blind eye, because we have T-Bob Hebert on,
and T-Bob has kind of said before, he's going to
defend Lane Kiffin until he's not his head coach anymore,
and history has shown you Lane Kiffin is going to
leave LSU, and when he does, he's going to leave
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a trail of fire behind him.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Mikey, you made a face there when he tried to
pronounce T-Bob. It's an easy word to pronounce.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah. But Taylor's finding out that he's talking too
much in too many places. I'm in my own head.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I got the yips. This is like this is like
when George Lombard from the Yankee shortstop had six errors
in six consecutive games. And they're like, nobody's had six
errors in six consecutive games for a Yankee shortstop since
Roger Peckinpah. That's me right now. I got the yips.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And we'll get to why he has the yips in
a second. But you're right. It's a baseball hitter.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
And he's in a slump and he finally gets that
meatball and he still misses it because T-Bob is that meatball.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I mean, it's T-Bob.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Roger Peckinpah is such a great baseball name.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
From the early.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You call him T-Bag?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
From the early 1910s.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
What's the name?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Roger Peckinpah.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Put it on the poll. Is that a great baseball name?
I don't want to try to pronounce it. This is
why Taylor has the yips. This happened yesterday towards the
end of the show.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
To get the all boat.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It still hurts.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
That's me trying to say the old ball coach. To
get the all boat. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
You're reeling. You're in a slump.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
You got a little porky pig there in the middle.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
How many people did you hear from once they heard that?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Because I find that more people comment on my mistakes
than they do on anything I have to say where
I don't make a mistake.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, it's just a lot of people just checking in,
trying to get a state of the union from me,
just saying, hey, is everything okay? And I'm like, yeah,
I'm just fighting through this right now. Got to get
to the other side of this slump.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I am told here, Mikey, let's see if it's as
bad as we thought it was. This is very quick work.
They turned it around quickly. This is Taylor trying to
say T-Bob.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Because we have T-Bob A-Bear on.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
T-Bear. T-Bag A-Bear.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I think I said T-Bear, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I think you were headed towards bag. Let's hear it
one more time.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Because we have T-Bob A-Bear on.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I'm just not seeing the ball well right now.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
It's okay, Taylor. You'll see.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Like Lombard, I come up as this great, exciting prospect.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
And then you put me out there and you're saying,
the one thing we don't have to worry about, George
Lombard Jr., is his defense. And then all of a sudden,
I become a liability to the show.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah. Shake it off, kid.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Yeah. I'm Chuck Knobloch.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Growing pains.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
But you're one good joke away from being back. That's
the beauty of talking. So the Seattle Seahawks owner, the
new owner, what's his name? Do we know the name
of this owner for the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks
that no one is taking seriously, mostly me, by saying
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they're not going to make it to the playoffs this year?
I don't know his name, but we do have sound.
This is the new Seahawks owner. This is not the
way you want to start your ownership of a brand
new NFL team. Here's what he had to say during
his opening press conference.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Also, I happened to come to this country in 76
when the Steelers were winning the Super Bowl. So actually,
I was originally and still am a big Steelers fan. Also,
little known fact, but I still watch all the Steelers games, too.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Keep that fact to yourself.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
His name is V-Node. Again, when you're in a slump,
this is not the name you want when you're in
a slump.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
You don't want to see Pedro, Randy Johnson out there
when you're in a slump.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I get it. Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, but try to thunder through it and see if
you get your confidence back.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
V-Node, Kosla. No, that can't be right.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I mean, it's not... Wow. Wow. It's not like any
of us would know.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Who rang the bell? Mikey, how would you feel about
the Jets.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Owner if we had a new owner? And Lord knows,
I wish we did. But if he stepped up to
the podium.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Stop. I already like him.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
He's new. I already like him. Yeah, but if he
acknowledges he's a fan of another team that he doesn't own.
You're not Woody Johnson.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Welcome to the family. And I wouldn't blame Steelers.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
But when you're the Seattle owner and you're coming off
a Super Bowl victory, you can come to the podium
and say little known fact. And why would we know it?
Little known fact. I'm a Steelers fan.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
You could see. the other people in this press conference
when he says it the people behind him are like
wincing like oh no i can't believe he just said
that there's like one thing you can't say as an
owner right it's i root for another team because now
people are thinking steelers seahawks super bowl.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yes who's he rooting for Secretly, who's he rooting for? Publicly,
we know he's rooting for.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
How about any trade made between the Steelers and the Seahawks?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You start to wonder. That's why you got to keep
these things quiet. Who does he root for? Publicly, he'll
say Seattle. He's the owner of the Seahawks. But privately,
when he's alone with the family, they're all Steeler fans.
They have the terrible towels. They've been going to games forever.
They love Mean Joe Green. They love Jack Hamm. They
love Terry Bradshaw. They love the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Louie Lips.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I'm just going to rattle off Steeler names for the
rest of time. But secretly, they're all saying, let's go Steelers, right?
If you're a Steeler fan, you're a Steeler fan.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I mean.
Is that fair?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I think he's 1,000% rooting for the Steelers because when
he's talking about his Steelers fandom, you could hear the
joy coming through. And that joy that you hear him
talking about his Steelers fandom, that doesn't really go away.
I know when you buy a team, you become part
of that team, but your fandom doesn't really just go away. No.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
No.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Seattle will forever be business to him while Steelers are
his heart.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Pleasure.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
He's going to forever be like, hey, listen, I hope
Seattle does well because I want to make money.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
This is my business.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
But I'm a Steelers fan.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
That's a bad look. But it seems to me like
he wishes he was the Steelers owner and not the
Seahawks owner. Just couldn't get the right price for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
The family wouldn't sell.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Darn Roonies.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I want to hear the sound again. Listen to him
laugh at himself, and he's the only one laughing.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Also happened to come to this country in 76 when
the Steelers were winning the Super Bowl. So actually, I
was originally and still am a big Steelers fan. Also,
little known fact, but I still watch all.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
The Steelers games, too.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
This sound also just goes to show you how disconnected
billionaires are from the casual sports fans.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Casual sports fans would never even... This thought would never
even cross their mind. Like, if I gave you $ 3 billion, Stu,
to buy a team and you went out and bought
a team, like, let's say in baseball you bought the
Tampa Bay Rays. At your press conference, you know for
certain you would not say, hey, I grew up a
Mets fan. I'm still rooting for the Mets.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Right, you can't say it. You just can't, right.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
But when you're so, like, disconnected from reality with all
these people and their billions of dollars... You don't even
think about trying to relate to the common man.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
No, I'm not even okay with him saying, Hey, when
I came to this country, I rooted for the Steelers,
but now my soul phone, you know, like you have to,
you have to draw a line where there was the
previous me who liked the Steelers and the new me
who likes the Seahawks.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
So we're asking them not to be honest. And that's
part of what being an owner is all about, is
to lie.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Right?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Take a page out of Lane Kiffin's book.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
What are you doing to Lane Kiffin?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I love Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
877-99 on Fox. I don't know why I'm giving out
the phone number. Dominique Foxworth.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Now I got it. I have the yips right now.
He feels better. It's either leaving. No, it's either. He
makes a good joke.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
He gets out of his slump or someone else does
something worse.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
And I just did it. And now he feels better
about himself. Damn.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
I do feel better about myself. This just goes to
show the apple does not fall far from the tree.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Dominique Foxworth.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
live weekdays at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m. Pacific.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
We are thrilled to have a distracted Adnan Virk with
us today because he's watching a Taylor Fritz match. John
Fanta is going to join us in hour number two.
Looking forward to that. The last time we spoke to Adnan. Now, Adnan,
I promised them that you and I would not spend
an hour and change here talking tennis.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I want to. I could.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I could have a 60-minute rally with you back and forth,
but I promised the guys here I would not do
60 minutes on tennis because the last time we spoke
to you, you were headed to Rhode Island for the
Roger Federer Hall of Fame induction, and you're wearing your
Fed hat today.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
So I promised them I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You and I want to talk tennis for an hour,
and I have promised them that we won't do that today.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
It's that constant balance, Stu. Our old boss, the great
Scott Shapiro at Eastern would tell me, you got to
play the hitch. You know, every hour, talk LeBron, talk NFL.
What I want to talk about, like, I just want
to talk about Roger Federer. And as you had said
to me, as you predicted to me, if you meet Federer,
that 20 seconds is going to end up being 20
minutes of content.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's one of those situations where people have said to me,
so what was it like? And I go, listen, you're
going to get one of two versions, either the full
version or no version. I can't tell it to you
in 30 seconds. Oh, is this?
Speaker 9 (25:03):
No, I'm going to tell you every damn detail of
meeting Roger Federer, my lifelong hero and favorite athlete and
favorite person. Aside from my wife and kids. So I
hope at some point we can dive in. Like I said,
how many of the people could just say they're locked
into Taylor Fritz right now?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
But you're absolutely right. Six level. You love second set.
It's going to be an interesting balance today.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
Clippers Rams, what the audience deserves and what you and
I deserve, which is some hardcore tennis talk.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
But if you hear gaps, just it's us watching Taylor Fritz.
It's Fritz's fault.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
What do you got Taylor?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
So I'm going to extend an olive branch since Adnan's
here today. Let's get some tennis talk in right now.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Really? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Why?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
I want to hear some tennis talk.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I know, but Scott Shapiro told us to play the hits,
and I promised Scott Shapiro we would do an hour
on tennis.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I'm going to be the judge of how long that
tennis talk goes, but I want to hear some tennis talk.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
How about this, Taylor? How about this?
Speaker 9 (25:53):
Do you want, because the Federer story, I'm not kidding,
that's going to be 15 minutes.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I'm assuming we're saving that for a cheat block.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
When you say tennis talk, do you want me to
start the Federer conversation or do non-Federer related time?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
No, here, I'll start the tennis talk and then Taylor
will do whatever it is he's planning on doing here,
but Let's start the tennis talk here. Were you thrilled
as Novak Djokovic, as a lover of Roger Federer.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
As Djokovic... Why are there snores? As Djokovic was.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Throwing up all over the court and losing to a
guy who qualified to get into the Open, the snoring's
annoying me, was Adnan happy because he doesn't want Djokovic
to tack on any more majors here?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Was I happy? The ultimate rhetorical question. I was delirious
with joy. And the only thing that would have.
Speaker 9 (26:39):
Made me happiest to God is if I actually stepped
to watch the entire match. When Novak won the third set,
I say he's up 2-1.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
It's 11 o'clock here on the East Coast. I'm going
to go ahead and go to bed. That was met
with the gleeful joy.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
I felt like a child when I woke up at
4.50 to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I said, what? He lost in five seconds. I'm like, yeah, yeah.
This is so great. This is going to be a
great day. What a perfect Capra to a weekend. I
get to meet... Roger Federer, hashtag Team Fed.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
And then Novak loses on a Sunday night, arguably the
best 48 hours I've experienced in a long time.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
And people say, don't you have sympathy?
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Of course I don't. He's up there puking away. If
you can't play, then don't play.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Just bow out. If you think you can play, then
credit to you. Battle it out. But you lost, and
you lost badly. Stewie lost 6-2, 6-1 before the final set.
So what I say was illness.
Speaker 9 (27:27):
But, I mean, the shot of him puking in slow motion,
I could have done without that.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (27:31):
But macro on the best line afterwards, you know, this
guy's enjoying his big moment.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
And he says, see you on court 21 for your
next match.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
Just completely douses the guy's dreamlike moment as he beats Djokovic.
But for me, as you said, I do not want
to see that majors record extended by Djokovic. I want
him to lose, and I want him to lose badly.
I think an interesting guy in this U.S. Open is
Ben Shelton. He won in four sets.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And time! What? Oh, come on, we're going to do Shelton.
Come on, let us do Shelton. No, we can't. He's right. Time.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
He called it. And Scott Shapiro did train us to
play the hits. So let's play the hits. It's a
Think About It Thursday.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Give me the imaging.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
You know that segment, Talk About It Tuesday, on Hockman, Crowder,
and Solero? This is like that, but bigger and better.
And 48 hours later, this is Think About It Thursday.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
It's a staple every Thursday. We're playing the hits.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It's Taylor's attempt to counter-program a local show down here
in Miami.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Weird. We're a national show on Fox, but.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
It is a Think About It Thursday, 877-99 on Fox,
if you would like to think with me and Adnet.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Go ahead, Taylor.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
So I saw a video on Snapback Sports on social media.
A Cowboys fan was born in 2004. And he says
Emmitt Smith is his favorite cowboy ever, even though Emmitt
Smith's last game in Dallas was in 2002. So that's
what I want to ask you guys. Can your favorite
player be someone who played before you were even born?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
A lot of Jet fans will tell you that Joe
Namath is their favorite Jet player, whether they were born
or not when he won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I don't. He's not my favorite player. I think he's overrated.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
But Jet fans, some Jet fans who were not alive
in 1969, 70s, they will tell you that Namath is
their favorite jet of all time.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It's ludicrous. It's absolutely ludicrous, Stu. And I liked your
point on Namath, by the way.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Years ago, Sports Illustrated had this great magazine which they
said overrated, underrated, and went through all the major figures.
Most overrated quarterback was Joe Namath. You look at his numbers,
the guy was a 500 quarterback. He just won the
unbelievable game. But you look at his numbers, there's no
way he should be mentioned with Brady, Aikman, Bradshaw, you
name it.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
This doesn't make any sense, Taylor.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Why on earth.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Give me any team. I mean, this is beyond absurdity.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
That's like a Blue Jays fan born in 2000 saying,
Joe Carter's his favorite Blue Jays. Like, what are you
talking about? Just because you've seen the image of him
jumping around winning the World Series?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Like, no. If Emmitt Smith's your favorite player, the earliest
you could have.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
Been born is 1990. Maybe at five years of age,
you remember Emmitt Smith doing that. Like, that's like being
a Steelers fan born in 1987.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Who's your favorite player? Paul Amalo? Roethlisberger? No, Jerry Bradshaw.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
What?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I love Frank Harris.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
That's stupidity. It depends on the team, though. It really does, right?
And that's why you're right.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
With the Jets, it makes a little sense because, unfortunately,
your guys have been such futility. The one moment you go, well,
I have to clink that. What other Jet do I have?
I can't pick Nick Folk.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
But if you weren't alive for the Cowboys run with Emmitt,
Michael Irvin, Troy Aikman, you were born after that run.
and the Cowboys have been dreadful ever since. Maybe, and
you care about the Cowboys that much. It's like, it's
in your family. You're a Cowboy fan at birth. Maybe
Emmitt Smith is your favorite Cowboy of all time because
you have no choice, you know?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, I guess it's true. If you just have a
complete lack of success, it wouldn't make sense.
Speaker 9 (30:49):
It'd be like an Angels fan born in 04, and
all of a sudden, like, Darren Erstad, your favorite Angel.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Like, what about Mike Trout? Like, Mike Trout's never won anything.
Speaker 9 (30:56):
I gotta go back to the Rally Monkey until they
won a World Series in 02.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I'm riding with Jared Weaver.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
I'm like, okay, I guess that's how we're gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I'm trying to put myself in these shoes and I'm
thinking right now, if today I had a son and
he grows up to be a Yankee fan and he's like, man,
all my dad does is wax poetically about Derek Jeter
or watching the yes network 24 seven and watching classics.
The Yankees still haven't won a world series though. Their
last world series of 2009 Aaron judge has let me down.
(31:25):
Aaron judge junior has let me down too. I could
see that kid being a Darjeeter is his favorite player fan.
And if that was my son, I would be damn
proud of him.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
There's a big difference between saying I'm a big fan
and he's my favorite player.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
So think about this.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
As an Eagles fan, I was born in 78. So
Cunningham's my favorite player, right? That makes sense. That's the
era which I grew up in. I love McNabb and,
of course, Jalen Hurtson. Saquon Barkley. So when I meet
Ron Jaworski at ESPN, I'm like, oh my God, Jaws.
I know he's an all-time great eagle, but I was
two when he was in the Super Bowl. He's my
favorite eagle.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I can say, Jaws, I love you. All-time great eagle.
Favorite player?
Speaker 7 (32:04):
No.
Speaker 9 (32:04):
So as a Yankee fan, you can say, I love
Derek Jeter, but it's supposed to be somebody more of
your era.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
It's a ludicrous argument.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
But the Eagles have had success since. That's the big difference, yes.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
So I have a perfect example, I think, Stu.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
What about Chicago Bulls fans who have been born since
Michael Jordan?
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Jordan's their favorite Bull of all time.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
You have the greatest player of all time. He's not
your favorite Bull of all time?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
He's your favorite Bull of all time, yes.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
If you were born after Michael Jordan stopped playing basketball,
he is your favorite Chicago Bull of all time, of course, right?
Speaker 9 (32:33):
Yeah, I think that's one where we have to make
an exception because he's so supernatural.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
And again, the Bulls have stunk.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
That's the key point that Stu is pointing out, which
I think is key, is that that's the nuance. If
your team has still been good while you've been alive,
then you should have other players to rally around. But
if you're the Bulls, it's been a lot of dreck
ever since then. And Jordan's the greatest ever. So, yeah,
you know what? I'll allow an exception. Bulls, no matter
what you are, you can be a Michael.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Jordan if you care.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
What if you're a Laker fan that was born after
the Shaq and Kobe run? And your choice is LeBron James,
who won a championship in a bubble.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
It doesn't really count. Or it's Kobe. I would go Kobe.
I would.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
And I'd be okay with it. Meaning he saw LeBron.
He didn't see Kobe. He or she saw LeBron, didn't
see Kobe. And Kobe is still their favorite Laker.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
It's tough because the younger generation is growing up wanting
to be LeBron fans. But the older generation that is
influencing these kids as Laker fans, they don't really respect
LeBron's tenure in L.A.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
Yeah, again, that's where the wrinkle becomes. I would argue
you had LeBron in purple and gold. It wasn't like
a cup of coffee. No, he was there. He served
substantial time.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
He loves the Lakers. But he doesn't feel like a Laker.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
And the key point is, Stu, that championship was a joke.
People mention the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
It's their first world title since 2008. What are you
talking about? They go... Well, the COVID year, I go,
it was a 60-game baseball season.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
That was the stupidest World Series title I've ever heard
of in my life.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Like, what? No one's taking that seriously. No one goes,
remember that arduous 60-game season?
Speaker 9 (34:01):
And then Clayton Kershaw finally won a World Series.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I'm like, no, it's completely diluted. It's a joke.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
How would you feel if one of your kids said, hey, Dad,
Favorite tennis player of all time is someone other than
Roger Federer?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
It's a great question.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
One of my friends asked me the other day, he said, hey,
you know, since Federer's been gone, who do you root for?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
And I go, no one. He said, what do you mean?
I go, I watch tennis, I love tennis, but....
Speaker 9 (34:25):
No one will ever match the sheer wattage and beloved
nature I have towards Roger Federer.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
I like OJ Aliassime because I'm Canadian. I root for Felix, okay?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Like I said, bounce Shelton to the left. He's got
a good serve. Okay, cool. Taylor Fritz, we're locked in
right now, you and me, but no one ever.
Speaker 9 (34:41):
It often makes me think, I think it was Bill
Simmons who once said, a great sign of parental failure
is if your kids don't cheer for your teams. Like
if Taylor's kid Godwin was a Red Sox fan, he'd go,
you must hate your father.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Like, wow, you really stuck it to him by doing that.
So you're right.
Speaker 9 (34:57):
If ever my kids didn't name Federer as their favorite player.
That is parental failure 101. Managerial malpractice by me.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
I poisoned them into thinking. When I told them I'm
going to run around to meet Federer, they said, oh,
he's the GOAT. He's LeBron.
Speaker 9 (35:11):
If you had other people in the room, they'd go, well,
Joker's 24 majors. Nadal beat him head-to-head. My kids are
so poisoned by my nonsense. They're like, yeah, Roger's clearly.
He's the LeBron and the Michael Jordan of tennis. No
one's even close to this guy.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I'm like, yes! I've got them believing my nonsense.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
And an I would rather my kid grows up to
be a Red Sox fan than he grows up to
be a Duke fan.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
That's a good question. What would be the least favorite
thing you'd like to see happen?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
He loves the Yankees. He loves Carolina. He went to Carolina.
He walked onto that football team. So you're saying that
you would rather your kid come to you one day
and say, hey, I'm a.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Red Sox fan, just as long as he doesn't say
he's a Duke fan, right?
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah, that's where I draw the line.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
To be clear, though.
Speaker 9 (35:52):
Taylor, again, I know we hate Duke, but Duke is
a great school. Imagine your son's going to Duke Law School.
And he happens to be a Blue Devils fan. You're
just saying fandom. What if he actually gets accepted to Duke,
which is a great institution? You're not gonna let him
go to Duke?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
He's not gonna let him apply to Duke.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
And I'm definitely not paying that tuition.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
He gets a full scholarship. Full ride. Super smart kid.
He's going to Duke Law School and you're going to go, sorry, buddy.
He'd rather pay for him to go somewhere else. He would.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
You go to Elon down the street, buddy. Be a phoenix.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Not quite the same prestige as graduating from Duke. Elon
over Duke. That is unbelievable. That is a true thing
about a Thursday.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Some people call Elon the Harvard of the South.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
No, that's not happening. There's no one saying that. Come on.
Still people is no people. Taylor, put it on the poll, please.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
That's the got 790 on X.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Does anyone refer to Elon as the Harvard of the South?
877-99 on Fox.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Can your favorite player from your favorite team be a
player that you never saw play? 877-99 on Fox. That's
why we call it a Think About It Thursday. I'm thinking.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
I mean, I prefer not to think, but here I
am thinking. I just want to watch Taylor Fritz.
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