December 19, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Seattle Seahawks defeating the Rams on TNF thanks to a controversial call from the officials, how concerned Sean McVay should be after the Rams loss, if Sam Darnold saved himself with that crazy comeback win, if this kills the Stafford MVP campaign, and more!
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An Hour number one.
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It's the story everyone's talking about, the most crooked officiating
call we've ever seen, as Sam Darnald and Seattle celebrating.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Did Sam Darnald and the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Beat the Rams or did the zebras a two point
conversion that was not recorded on the field but was
given despite a whistle blowing by the officials. How concerned
should Sean mcvaby As the Rams ended up losing in
overtime to Seattle, Did Sam Darnold save himself with the
crazy comeback for the Seahawks? And does this Ram loss
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kill the Matthew Stafford MVP campaigning.
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Box as someone called it in our lead this hour from.
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The Pacific Northwest, as you had Matthew Stafford and the
lr I AMS party bus driving in to the Pacific
Northwest to Chew for a little playdate versus that stiff
Sam Donald and the Seahawks. You had Alt Michael's there
and Herbie on the call on the Amazon And did
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you watch?
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Were you checking this out? Were you consuming the product? You?
Maybe not? You were doing some shopping? What were you doing? Really?
Nothing else going on? There's nothing else to watch.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Well, if you missed it, you missed a hum dinger
of a Thursday night game It was kind of like
a buffet where they have a little bit of everything.
You have the seafood over there, you've got steak, there's
some pasta if you're if you're a vegan, you can
go out the back door there and leave, but a
little bit of everything. So the game for many lived
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up to the advance building and Sam Donald, who was
bad to the bone, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad to
the bone. Sometimes good things happen to bad performances, and
Sam Donald connecting with Jackson Smith and Jigba for a
touchdown and overtime after the Rams had gone down and
scored a touchdown on a brilliant pass by Matthew Stafford
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and Pooka Nka and then Seattle said we're gonna go
for We're gonna go for the win. And they said
we're gonna try to win right here on our two
point conversion, knowing that the Rams were just going to
go down the field and kick a field goal to
win if they did not go for two. And Donald
did connect, he found a wide open player in the
How does that happen?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Does?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
How does somebody get wide open? At that point?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
The two point conversion complete, game over, That's it. The
Seattle Seahawks rallied from a sixteen point fourth quarter deficit,
converting on three two point conversions. The math on that
is just insane, and of course it's not kosher, so
it's not really legit. They end up the end the
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final score thirty eight to thirty seven on Thursday night.
So Seattle, for the moment, takes a one game lead
in the NFC West.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But the game was not clean.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It was marred by controversy as the Seattle football team
was not good enough to beat the Rams on their own.
They needed some help from the league office. And one
of the most blatant things I've ever seen in my
time watching football, there was a two point conversion that
the NFL claimed tied the game at thirty. Now, for
our blind listeners, the past hit the ground. Normally that's
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considered an incomplete pass. It's a good jumping off point
because it's really the story everyone's talkalking about.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Did Sam Darnold and the Seahawks beat the Rams or
did the Zebras.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Take down the Rams?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So I got Godfather, mister potato Head, and jukebox, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make some banana cream pie, which is
what was thrown in the face of the La Rams. Now,
anybody who knows football knows this game should have ended
thirty to twenty eight Rams a two point win in regulation.
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Seattle was given two points out of thin air. Out
of thin air. Now, we believe in speaking the truth
into the microphones of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
We can do that. We're not part of the mainstream.
We're not on during the day six am to six pm.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
They get paid more money and they have nicer cars
and all that stuff. But at night we can talk
the truth. And the truth is the Rams got the
screw job. They did one of the all time horrific calls.
I I know house to say it for Gayzy Sam
Darnold pass deflected intended for the running back Zach Charboneau,
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and it was ruled correctly on the field incomplete pass.
That was the right call.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
They got it right.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
However, after a replay review to the league headquarters in
New York, it was determined surprisingly that it was no, no, no,
not an incomplete pass. You're don't believe your lying eyes.
Do not believe your lying eyes. It was a it
was determined to be a backwards pass, all right, So
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it was not It was not determined there was a
forward pass.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
It was a backward pass. So Scharboneau, who this is
my favorite part. So he just la la, la la la.
He walked over.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
He picked up the ball casually, you know, no concern.
Uh picked up the loose ball.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
They gave him two points for that.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It is comically bad, but it's very dusty. It doesn't exist.
It's not effing real. You can clearly you.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Go back in here it You don't even need to
be uh with working eyeballs to know.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
If you go back and listen, you can clearly hear
the whistle blow.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And maybe I'm wrong on this. I know times have changed.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I guess I'm getting older, but I always thought once
the whistle blue, you play through the whistle, that's it.
Once the whistle blows, plays over, plays over. So the
whistle blows, whistle, whistle, whistle, the whistle blows.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The play dead. Then Charboneau picks up the ball.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Keep in mind, players on both teams, both teams stop
playing because of the whistle blue.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Up nuts at the end.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
There's the whistle, all right, So you got players on
Seattle and the Rams who both stopped at the same
time because an official blue the whistle and apra e
f and kept.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I mean, it was jup digulous. I can't even say it.
The NFL decided to roll a two point conversion.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Holcus what this was more than just a guardian angel
for the Seattle Seahawks, all right, there's some serious funny
business going on. Here is Sean McVay, the Ram coach.
Who is he gonna get fined for this? Here's McVeagh
pointing out, well, that's not kosher.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
What happened. Take a list.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I've never quite seen anything like what happened on the
two point conversion where you're wined up to kick off.
Then they say it's a fumble because they had the
clear and obvious recovery. Now you tack it on, you
make it a thirty to thirty game.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Very interesting.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Didn't get a clear explanation of everything that went on,
just because of some of the timing of it. They
were trying to be able.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
To do that.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But that's the thing that I've said.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I've never seen anything or never been a part of
anything like that, and I've grown up around this game.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I'm not making excuses. We don't do that. I don't
believe in that.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
It doesn't move us forward, but we do want clarity
and an understanding of, you know, the things that we
can do to minimize that when we rejected the two
point conversion.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
All right, So coach McVay, two things. Number one, the
reason you've ever seen it's never happened before. This is unprecedented.
What happened here. This is one of the great injustices
in the history of that fraudulent sport, the NFL. Right insane,
let's play connected dots Mallard style connected dots.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
All right, So the big story this week.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
In the NFL was Pooka Nakua going on a live stream,
right trashing the NFL officials, doing a dance which I
apologize for whatever, and ripping Taylor Swift and Jacksonville a
bunch of crazy stuff. So Puoka goes out and goes nuclear.
Has twelve catches. It was like he was running through
the Serengetti. Twelve catches, two un of twenty five yards.
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A partrides in the paragy, had two touchdowns, including what
should have been.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
The game winner.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well name shit entered in regulation but the touchdown and overtime,
the story is we connect the dots though. Is Pooka
nkou right? He dared to question authority, He questioned the
referees on the live stream. Is it a coincidence that
a day later this happens?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Methinks not so much? Right.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
This was big Brother at the NFL sending a clear message.
This was payback the horse head in the bed from
the Godfather, an unmistakable message that was sent by the NFL.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
We control all of this.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You mess with us again, and the next warning will
not be symbolic, Pooka, It's not gonna be. We We
have the power to give points that did not get scored.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
We are almighty, omni present worth the NFL. Don't mess
with us. Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That was a horsehead in the bed, is what That was?
One thousand percent all right? And I would I would
be puking in my mouth if I was a Seattle
Seahawk fan right now that I would want to I
would really want to vomit at that because you know
you're not good enough. You know you're not and you
needed you talk about the twelfth man man. How many
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officials were on the field, that's like the you know, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Man, my god, it's so bad. I don't even what
to say. It's such a crap call.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
It's not even I mean, they were at McVeigh said,
they're lining up for the kickoff and they're like, coach,
we've decided to give Seattle two points. They but they
didn't score. But yeah, we felt like they needed the
two points. We decided we wanted to give them the
two points, but they didn't. The play was whistled, Dad,
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the play was over.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
That was it. But no, we kind of liked them,
you know.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
We felt bad for Nostradinas and JJ and Retten and
crying Craig and all these fan guys. So we had
to give them two points. Okay, thank you?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
All right, now as for the big picture here the
big picture, So the question how concerned because the Rams
did end up being given the loss by the NFL.
So how concerned should Sean McVay be with the Rams
lose this game in Seattle thanks to some help by
the league office.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So the Mallard panic meter one to ten, one.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
To ten, I'm at I'm at about a three on
the Malard panic meter. It took the league meddling, It
took the NFL fuxing around with the outcome of the game.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
People talk about.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Gambling scandals right in NBA and all this baseball. I mean,
this is clear and obvious for most you know. It
took the league meddling for Seattle to win this game,
which tells you Seattle's not good enough. And keep in mind,
the Rams did not have their nuclear torpedo Devonte Adams,
the cheat code in the red zone, and they were
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missing a couple of other starters.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
In this game.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The Rams put up let me check my notes here,
they put up five hundred and eighty one yards and
thirty seven points in a place selects to pump their
chest out. Talk about how people just don't play well
in Seattle. The twelves, Oh, it's very the weather. Top
five defense, Sea awusly had a top five defense coming
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to that game. Top five defense gave up five hundred
and eighty one yards and thirty seven points to a
team without the without their number two receiver and a
couple of other key players.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, okay, so there you go. That's it now. The
issue for the Rams, obviously is that you can't factor in.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
How do you game plan for the officials just giving
the team two points when they didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
There's really nothing to do on that. The Rams defense wears.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
The scarlet letter to some degree here with the capitol
d My god, you're up sixteen in the fourth quarter.
And I know it took the officials helping out Seattle,
but that's that's that's not great. And the Rams did
play a little mister potato head here, the hot potato
game with the you know, they played the hot potato
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with the live you know, it was like a live
grenade they were passing around. It's inexcusable, right, you know,
f around you find out. But the NFL certainly helped in.
And there's a bit of a pattern here the Rams.
Usually they just lose games more than get beat. Like
they didn't lose this game, or they didn't they didn't
get beat. I should say the game was given to
Seattle in this case, but the fur balls being coughed up,
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they blew up a sixteen point they really they blew
a fourteen point lead because Seattle is given two points.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So you don't get credit for that. You didn't you
didn't earn it. You know, real people know that they
did blow a nineteen point lead in Philadelphia earlier this year.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So that's a bad habit and McVeigh needs to flush
that immediately. You look at the big picture, thirty thousand
feet up looking down, the Rams are perfectly fine. It's
not like they have some kind of home field advantage.
There's not a moat at Sofi Stadium. They were in
the NFC Championship Game a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I was there.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
They played the forty nine Ers. They might as well
have been played at the old Candlestick Park. There were
so many Niner fans it didn't matter. The Rams won
the game, and the Rams can win anywhere.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
They're good enough to do that.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And as long as Stafford's standing upright and the fellas
are relatively healthy.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
You're not ever going to be completely healthy. And the
Rams aren't really concerned.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I mean, they'd love to play Seattle in the NFC
Championship Game, and the only way Seattle can win is
with some help from the referees from the league office.
So the panic meter is pretty low, and I'm sure
McVeigh will sleep fine knowing that this was out of
his control. I mean, the NFL clearly wanted this outcome
based on what they did, giving Seattle two points.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Otherwise the game would have ended thirty to twenty eight.
That's it. Game over, Rams win by two. All right,
last word here, So on the.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Seattle side of things, being given a gift, Merry Christmas,
Happy Hanukah? Did Sam Donald save himself with Seattle and
that crazy comeback? Because Sam Darnald was just getting roasted
and deserved it. He sucked at a time you cannot suck.
So did Darnald save himself? Because Seattle ended up winning
that game? So I'm gonna vote first on this, and
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I'm going to vote A and absolutely not. I go
back to my point earlier. The og know what time
it is Seattle right now, they got that shiny record.
They're now in the penthouse in the NFC West. I
wouldn't get comfortable, boys, it's more like a Verbo. It's
an Airbnb Seattle standing on a rickety pier and there's
a big windstorm coming here, so be careful. And hey,
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it's great. I wish the Rams had gotten help from
the Zebras.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I didn't know that that was possible to get be
given two points. I've never seen that before.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Watch football. I'm getting old. I watched football my entyle live.
I've ever seen that.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
The Zebras gave them more than a gentle nudge Seattle.
And you'll call it a league issued shopping cart shove
if you will.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And you know, suddenly some of you are like, oh wait,
we beat your Ram the Rams lost, are you well? No,
I know about that. I wouldn't. I wouldn't be opening
champagne and lighting cigars. I would not do that.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Sam Darnold was a haunted house from kickoff pretty much
to the curtain call here two touchdowns, two picks. He
was sacked four times, and for much of that game
he was seeing ghosts. It was like a midnight Mattinee
for Sam Darnold. And you know, you just know you
can't win with him, so it's like, what are we
doing here? It's an exercise in futility for Seattle. The
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real Seahawk fans know this guy's gonna break just break
your back. Seattle won in spite of him, not because
of him, And he's an unreliable orchestrator. It's more kazoo
than conductor. And you know, and I know, and every man,
woman and child knows when the music matters, the needle
skips just.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
A little bit, just a little bit at skips.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And we've we've read this paperback before we saw it
in Seattle. Last year, we saw it in Minnesota. Rather
the last year the dog eared kind of predictable. So
if you were really happy, I good for you, you should
send a thank you note email the NFL. Thank you
very much, appreciate it. Boys on Park Avenue there, thank you.
We hope you enjoy the mirage while it lasts. Enjoy it,
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Seattle fans, twelve fans, whatever you call it, because the
jukebox is warming up, and it's an Elvis classic for Seattle.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I'll welcome to Heartbreak Hotel, as as that's going to
be the case.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Now, as far as the MVP debate, does this end it?
I guess that's the question. Does this ram lost kill
Matthew Stafford's MVP campaign, his mojo for the MVP. I
don't even think that's close. Like again, I give that
argument side eye. Stafford played for most It wasn't perfect.
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There were some throws that sailed on him, but he
played for the most part like a five star chef
who was trapped in a kitchen fire. Four hundred and
fifty seven yards, three touchdowns against the top five defense,
against the top five defense.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Did not turn the ball over, and he did it shorthanded.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
He did shorthanded without Poka Nicoua, or with Pooka Nikoua
scoring the touchdown, but without DeVante Adams. And he threw
that laser to Pooka in overtime. Shich You'd say, well,
that's that's the sizzle play. If you look at the
sizzle reel, that's one of the sizzle plays on the
sizzle reel. And do you really dock the quarterback? Because
the defense at diarrhea Die Die diarrhea. Now we know
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the refs had to send Pooka a message. We mentioned
the horsehead in the bed. The defense did not do
its job in overtime.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
They did not.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And that's not on Stafford though to me. The real
call for the big loser, and they were trying to
prop this guy up. They showed him on TV. Is
Chris Shula, the defensive coordinator of Arims all name recognition,
another NEPO baby, Chris Shula and his team had multiple
chances to make a play in overtime and did not
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get to stop. And so Grandpa Don is rolling in
his grave, like, what are you doing? At least you're
not as embarrassing as my kid, but my god, you're
my grandson. You got to do better than that. What
are we doing here?
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My goodness?
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We go as a story here the Thursday night game
as some meddling by the league. This is NBA level meddling.
You got to tell you. But take good for Seattle.
You looked out for you. It's good for you. We'll
pay back for Puka Nekoua. And that's the way it is.
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Speaker 1 (24:41):
Tredinis writes, and he says, Ben, You're absolutely right. Seahawks
did not deserve to win that game. There's no denying that.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
The officials helped out the Seahawks. And Sam Donald is
not the man you cannot depend on. Well if very
honest of No, stredenas to admit all that stuff. I
did not expect you to admit that on this night,
But I give you. I thought you'd send some fanboy
tweet in about saying that Sam Darnold.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Is good and Seattle's great and all that stuff. But
you didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, Scrooge says, aside from bad officiating, you cannot let
vomit comet Sam Darnold have a game winning drive against
your defense. So aside from the game, Scrooge, that should
have been over thirty to twenty eight in regulation. Aside
from that, let's just overlook. Let's overlook snuffalupogous in the room. Okay,
(25:32):
let's just overlook snuffalopogus.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
In the room.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Please, my god, not a burner, says Ben. Even though
we will be missing you, try not to think about
your favorite militia members and enjoy your holiday break.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
This is not my last show before the holiday. I am.
I'm gonna be working a partial week next week. So
are you going to work most of the days?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
No, not most of this, but I will be part
of the week. I will be part of well, one
of the days. There's a best of show which I
can only I think I'll be running that.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You'll You'll have a lot of space to enjoy yourself.
All the space.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
No one will be no one will be farting, no
one will be studio to myself.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I could host a rave here, Oh my god. Good.
You could charge money. That's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You can get some of the homeless people out in
shrim not oaks. Bring him inside there, give me some
coffee and some tea.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
And all that. Why not? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Absolutely, I Leen in San Francisco says I only care
about my Niners, that they're still alive. Just don't lose
to forty four year old Philip Rivers on Monday night.
Do not lose that game as a dangerous game. The
Niners not great against the run, and Indianapolis pretty pretty
good running the ball. Ozzie was from Western Australia rights
and he says I missed the Thursday night game, although
(26:47):
for him it's Friday because they're a day ahead. He says,
I missed the game. Dude driving about half an hour
to get McDonald's and do some food chopping.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, Ozzie was. Ozzi was lives out like far far
away from everything.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
He's surrounded by hundreds of kangaroos and that's it. And
so he's got if he wants to get anything, he's
got to drive like half an hour an hour to
civilization to get like a like a big mac and
fries is what he's gotta do. The specialist says big
Ben is in full conspiracy theory mode.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Well, I know, what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I guess you're a fan of the CIA, which came
up with that term years ago to dismiss claims against
the CIA about aliens and whatnot. So you're falling right
into the CIA playbook. When you use the conspiracy theory
to try to demean the truth, you stand against the
truth specialists.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
That's it. He says.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
The NFL wanted the Seahawks to win, really ben small
market Seahawks over big band Rams from LA the metro
population a ten million. Well, I know you're not that bright.
Let me let me explain something to you specialists. This
was bigger than Rams Seahawks. The story here is Pook
pooka question authority. He questioned the overlords at the NFL.
(28:02):
He took some shots on a live stream. He defied
Sean mvay. But then he defied the NFL and he
did the thing you can't do it. So the NFL.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
They don't mess around.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
They don't mess around, and it's still time to manipulate
things and get the Rams back. But they had to
send a message, and they absolutely sent that message. Mister
nice guy Ritch and he agrees that was a terrible call.
He was doing what aboutism, which is his way of agreeing.
When you do what about ism, that's your way of saying,
you're right, Ben, and I do appreciate you having my support.
(28:34):
Supermarket Steve also in a grim Well that's good. I thought,
you know, I came into the studio. I was walking
to the studio. I was like, man, you know, people
are gonna be busting my chops here. But so far
everyone's kind of on my side. Jj N Renton, he
agrees with me. I didn't realize the Seahawk fans were
wired this way. I thought they would be, you know,
(28:56):
in denial about the call being bogus and all that.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I thought.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
But no, they're admitting that they did not deserve to
win that game, that the final score was thirty to
twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, thirty to twenty eight. There you go.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Let's see here, Fried Daddy writes in He says, we
all know there's no such thing as momentum in football.
He says, but there is karma. He says, he's the daddy.
He gave some stat about you know something, something something.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
He says, Oh, this is good.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So Fry Daddy thinks because a bashing Sam Donald, he thinks,
I am responsible for this outcome because I bashed Sam donal. Yes,
because Sam Donald's play did not merit criticism.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Like, what are we doing? Have you fried daddy? Have
you lost your bloody mind? I like you, dude, but
what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (29:47):
This?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Anger never works for anybody. I don't I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I know you're all just trying to you know, hit
Ben's buttons there, you know, get the mellow mallar you know,
melo dramatic mallor and all that, and you guys enjoy it. Uh,
And that's fine, you know, have you a little fun there.
But I speak the truth and no justice, no peace.
I learned that years ago from all my favorite friends
who love to protest.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
No justice, no peace. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And if you're not part of the solution, you're part
of the problem. And right now, if you disagree that
the NFL did not meddle with this game, you are
part of the problem, okay. And if you stay silent,
that means you support what happened in the NFL. Am
I getting all the talking points, right, I think have
I missed any Hey, hey ho ho Goodell's got to go?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Is that one?
Speaker 7 (30:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
What do we want. That sounds good. How about this?
What do we want? Better? Officials? When do we want it?
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Now?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Get up, get down. There's a malad militia movement in
this town. How about that? Exactly the one? How about this?
Who's streets are streets? How does that work? Hard? Anyway?
You get the point. I'm in protest mode.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I am filing a formal protest, is what I'm doing
right here. Absolutely, that's a formal protest. One thousand percent.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Herd Dog says, great job, mister nice guy. I agree.
The rams got host.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, I thought mister nice guy, I thought he wouldn't agree,
But there is. Hatch Daddy says, so are you working
into the morning on Christmas Eve? Or is Monday night
your last show? Merry Christmas to you and the crew.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I I swear I don't want.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
To know when and where you're going to be, but
exactly what time Ben I sent.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
You know, Scott is our big boss, and he he
had texted me some dates.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
And I have a lot of comp days because I
worked most of the holidays during the year, so they
hooked me up. Have crazy vacation time I do.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I don't take a lot of time off so which
they they will you know, I don't want to get
into it here, but it will hurt them eventually. But
but no, I I I will, you know what I'm saying,
l but uh, but no, I will say on my
podcast how about this. I don't have it in front
of me, and I'm not really interested enough to look
hatch daddy. But if you listen to the fifth Hour podcast,
I haven't even done it obviously, because you do it
(32:07):
after this show. So I will put in there my
holiday schedule for you and ferg Dog and Alf And
I think I mentioned it last week and I don't
know if I went into great detail there, but last
last weekend, Yeah, Scrooge says, I understand the Rams got
ft over. I'm just saying you cannot be confident with
that defense going.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
To the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Well, the defense was good enough to win the game,
and they played well enough in regulation to win the game.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And the fact that the referees got some the revery.
And here's the thing that kills me.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
You know, I know you're not in my house, because
if you were, you'd be a stockar I'd have you arrested.
But I'm watching the game and the playoffs. Okay, that's it.
Thirty to twenty eight, that's the final. In fact, I
couldn't believe when they put the two points up. I'm like, well,
what are you doing? I give anything.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
If you really.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Thought that that play was a backwards pass, was a fumble,
since you blew the whistle, which is clear and obvious,
you would have redone the two point conversion.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
They didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
They didn't redo the two point conversion. They just gave
Seattle two points. I mean, my god, that was horrific.
All right, let's go to the phones and let's see
who do we have pays. Let's go to Bubba in uh.
I think he's in Sokel here. I believe, hello, Bubba.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Welcome, Yo. This is the this is the part you talk.
This is the part you stir it up a little
bit here.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Yeah, oh, I would believe that. Yeah, they got hos
on that play for sure, But I mean, special teams.
You let the guy run back, you know, with what
some minutes left, seven minutes left to run back. They
were down thirty to fourteen, so you let, you know,
you let him run back, run it back, and then
(33:59):
they shut down the rams and then they got that
two point conversion or whatever you want to call it,
but it never should have happened. It was should be
thirty to twenty eight. And then Seattle's defense did pretty
good to shut down the Rams. But if the Rams
would have got up the field kick the field goal,
maybe we wouldn't be talking about it. But when you
go against the NFL, they come back hard with a vengeance.
(34:22):
And what you know, Nikua said yesterday or today or
even tonight, I think that never should have been said,
but he said it, and they got to do with
the consequences, and that two point conversion was a consequence.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, all right, Bob, thank you man. I appreciate that.
I don't know that I'd say Seattle shut the Rams down.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
The squed thirty seven points and five hundred and eighty
one yards of offense.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I mean they.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
They had the ball for forty minutes. There were sixties
almost like six I think it was close to sixty
seven minutes because of overtime in the game, and they
had it for forty over forty minutes of game time.
They were in the red zone six times. That's one
of the most pathetic defensive performances I've ever seen. From
the Seattle football team. In fact, I don't know how
(35:11):
you can anyone can take them seriously. When you combine
Sam Darnold and that defense bunch of lightweights, absolute lightweights
on defense, Holy crap, man of us, Just Josh writes
in he says, I know you don't do shout outs
because this isn't the Morning Zoos show. So if you
could give the boys at the Jefferson City and TM
Nicholas Hunt a mention, I'm.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Sure they would be honored. There you go. This is
Merry Christmas to all the armed surfaces deployed overseas. Godspeed.
There you go.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
So, as you know, we don't do shout outs. That
was more of a mention than a shout out. We
were okay with mentions, shout outs or something bigger. So
you call me out, you can call me out yet again,
Has there ever been a Thursday night game where Al
Michaels is not bludgeting by the bots and the algorithms.
(36:03):
People very upset with Al. When Puka Nakua scored the
touchdown that gave the Rams the lead in overtime, people
very upset that Al did not get excited enough.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I guess he was supposed to pull his.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Pants down at that moment and give everyone a show. Mike,
I hope al I want to make Al Ai. You
know how NBC uses that dead guy's voice to do
the voiceover on NBA and he's not it's been dead
for twenty years whatever.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah, yeah, they brought him back from the.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I hope we have Ai al Michaels just to annoy
these losers, these losers, And I know why people do it.
You're in the engagement business, and you know that works
well on the algorithm, ripping old people like al Michaels. Right,
guy's an absolute freaking legend, right, and he wasn't enthusiastic
(36:51):
enough for you.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
How about you go choke on? I can't say what
I want you to choke on? All right? Anyway, Time
now for the who Am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
So Matthew staff had his eighth game with three plus
touchdown passes and no interceptions this season. That breaks a
tie with me for the most in a season all
time by a player aged thirty seven role. This is
the greatest season ever by a player at that age
or older. Matthew stafford his eighth game with three plus
(37:21):
touchdown passes and no interceptions. That breaks a tie with
me for the most in a season ever by a
player age thirty seven or older.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Who am I the answer? We'll get to it and
we'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
He min got run over by jar.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Go a back to prison Christmas. You can say there's
no such stages, Calm.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Bryan. He believed it is a ye, Bill Miller The
Ben Mahler Show. Let's rolls on. This is ohio Al
who and sent me a very nasty email. He was upset.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I guess I gave credit to one of his songs
to somebody else's batch up by me.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
So apologize, ohio Al.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I usually imperfect man, Sometimes I guess I'm not. I believable.
Love love getting those angry emails.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Your memory actually amazes me.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
It makes me appreciate the well. Thank you appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
And meantime we are on YouTube at Ben Maler Show
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If you'd like to support Bennie versus Pay, there's a
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Speaker 1 (38:49):
All right back to it. Time now for the play
of the day.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
And in the history of the NFL, we have never
seen a more egregious bad call.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Never before has the league just given two points to
a team. It has never happened. It might never happen again,
not in our lifetime.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
And it happened. And here's how it sounded. It's the
play of the night, but just not just any play
of the night. No, no, no, this is the tire
rack play of the night.
Speaker 7 (39:14):
Darnald will go under center, jsm farside, throw inside and
the ball is battered down and if this down thrown
backwards and it kind of looks like it is and
it bounced off the defender rolled into the end zone.
Charbonay had one foot in the end zone when he
picked it up, and that's all he needed.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
And so reviewing the play, the quarterback threw a backward pass.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You know he gave no he you blow the whistle, dum,
you blow the.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Whistle, dummy, you plow the whistle, dummy, I'm you blow
the whistle pays to live a good life, and so yeah,
guess what a life?
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Wells We are tied at thirty A piece.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
That was the broadcaster for the Seahawks way of saying well.
We thank the League office for that one. That is
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the payoff on the who am I game? We're watching
the greatest season ever by an old guy quarterback Matthew Stafford,
who had his eighth game with three plus passing touchdowns
(40:26):
and no interceptions that broke a tie with me for
the most all time in a season by a player
age thirty seven or older.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Never have we seen this greatness at this age.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
And so that is the question. What is the answer?
Donkey sausage, says the elf on the shelf? Who is
the correct answer?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Who else? You have? Pancakes? Orlando Pace by Big lou
He's on number two.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Roman reigns from Mister Luciano Queen Rocks and with her
favorite Tom Brady Dall. Who else do we have? Big
Ben Roethlisberger from e in Roseville, Minnesota. Alexa Bliss guessed
by Just Josh and Cincinnati. Alph is going with al
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in Fergie. Phil Collins guess by Rob Chuck Noll from
Scrooge in the Bay. Mark and Queens says Aaron, I
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Who else do we have? John Brody from Eileen in
San Francisco, Bill Clinton from King Rory, Nikki Bella from
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Shannon More.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Do you have an answer? Lorena Charlie Brown.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
You know it's Peyton Manning back in twenty thirteen when
he won the MVP.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Peyton Manning
Holy cow, it's our number one.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Happy Friday to you, the last Friday before the Christmas
Week celebration next week as Hanukkah continues. But here an
hour one of the Ben Malor Show. A reminder the
Fifth Hour podcast will be up later today. Also Benny
Versus the Penny available right now on YouTube Bennie Vspenny.
You can watch mallard monologues like the one we're doing
(00:24):
in this podcast on Ben Mahlor.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Show on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
On the Fifth Hour podcast, we'll take a look at
Santa Baby. We've got Santa Baby on that, the holiday
schedule and some surprises new podcast all weekend long. All
weekend long, we'll have new pods for you, so check
all that out here.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
An Hour number one.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's the story everyone's talking about, the most crooked officiating
call we've ever seen, as Sam Darnald and Seattle celebrating.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Did Sam Darnald and the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Beat the Rams or did the zebras a two point
conversion that was not recorded on the field but was
given despite a whistle blowing by the officials. How concerned
should Sean mcvaby As the Rams ended up losing in
overtime to Seattle, Did Sam Darnold save himself with the
crazy comeback for the Seahawks? And does this Ram loss
(01:17):
kill the Matthew Stafford MVP campaigning.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
We'll check in on campaign headquarters.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Right about now as Oh no, we're not going our
separate ways.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
This is just our number one as we do the
dance here, it is.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Talk, talk talk. It's a talk show.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I'll talk.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's a talk show.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
All I have to do is talk talk talk talk
talk talk talk talk. D Well, come in not beginning
of another night of the Ben Mather Show.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
We are in the air every.
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As we are cohorts, and we have melt in your
mouth takes. You know, our takes literally will melt in
your mouth coast to coast, border, the border and beyond
on the vast and massively powerful microphones of FSR AM
modinating lies FROD the plates as we are spinning many
(02:24):
many plates from the world famous Fox Sports Radio Studios,
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Makes mister nice guy very happy and crying.
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Craig reminds me that tire rack dot Com is the
way that tire buying should be. So we are back
at it. In the audio world. The magic radio.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Box as someone called it in our lead this hour from.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
The Pacific Northwest, as you had Matthew Stafford and the
lr I AMS party bus driving in to the Pacific
Northwest to Chew for a little playdate versus that stiff
Sam Donald and the Seahawks. You had Alt Michael's there
and Herbie on the call on the Amazon And did
(03:45):
you watch?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Were you checking this out? Were you consuming the product? You?
Maybe not? You were doing some shopping? What were you doing? Really?
Nothing else going on? There's nothing else to watch.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Well, if you missed it, you missed a hum dinger
of a Thursday night game It was kind of like
a buffet where they have a little bit of everything.
You have the seafood over there, you've got steak, there's
some pasta if you're if you're a vegan, you can
go out the back door there and leave, but a
little bit of everything. So the game for many lived
(04:18):
up to the advance building and Sam Donald, who was
bad to the bone, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad to
the bone. Sometimes good things happen to bad performances, and
Sam Donald connecting with Jackson Smith and Jigba for a
touchdown and overtime after the Rams had gone down and
scored a touchdown on a brilliant pass by Matthew Stafford
(04:39):
and Pooka Nka and then Seattle said we're gonna go
for We're gonna go for the win. And they said
we're gonna try to win right here on our two
point conversion, knowing that the Rams were just going to
go down the field and kick a field goal to
win if they did not go for two. And Donald
did connect, he found a wide open player in the
How does that happen?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Does?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
How does somebody get wide open? At that point?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
The two point conversion complete, game over, That's it. The
Seattle Seahawks rallied from a sixteen point fourth quarter deficit,
converting on three two point conversions. The math on that
is just insane, and of course it's not kosher, so
it's not really legit. They end up the end the
(05:24):
final score thirty eight to thirty seven on Thursday night.
So Seattle, for the moment, takes a one game lead
in the NFC West.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But the game was not clean.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It was marred by controversy as the Seattle football team
was not good enough to beat the Rams on their own.
They needed some help from the league office. And one
of the most blatant things I've ever seen in my
time watching football, there was a two point conversion that
the NFL claimed tied the game at thirty. Now, for
our blind listeners, the past hit the ground. Normally that's
(05:54):
considered an incomplete pass. It's a good jumping off point
because it's really the story everyone's talkalking about.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Did Sam Darnold and the Seahawks beat the Rams or
did the Zebras.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Take down the Rams?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So I got Godfather, mister potato Head, and jukebox, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make some banana cream pie, which is
what was thrown in the face of the La Rams. Now,
anybody who knows football knows this game should have ended
thirty to twenty eight Rams a two point win in regulation.
(06:37):
Seattle was given two points out of thin air. Out
of thin air. Now, we believe in speaking the truth
into the microphones of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
We can do that. We're not part of the mainstream.
We're not on during the day six am to six pm.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
They get paid more money and they have nicer cars
and all that stuff. But at night we can talk
the truth. And the truth is the Rams got the
screw job. They did one of the all time horrific calls.
I I know house to say it for Gayzy Sam
Darnold pass deflected intended for the running back Zach Charboneau,
(07:12):
and it was ruled correctly on the field incomplete pass.
That was the right call.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
They got it right.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
However, after a replay review to the league headquarters in
New York, it was determined surprisingly that it was no, no, no,
not an incomplete pass. You're don't believe your lying eyes.
Do not believe your lying eyes. It was a it
was determined to be a backwards pass, all right, So
(07:39):
it was not It was not determined there was a
forward pass.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
It was a backward pass. So Scharboneau, who this is
my favorite part. So he just la la, la la la.
He walked over.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
He picked up the ball casually, you know, no concern.
Uh picked up the loose ball.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
They gave him two points for that.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It is comically bad, but it's very dusty. It doesn't exist.
It's not effing real. You can clearly you.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Go back in here it You don't even need to
be uh with working eyeballs to know.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
If you go back and listen, you can clearly hear
the whistle blow.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And maybe I'm wrong on this. I know times have changed.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I guess I'm getting older, but I always thought once
the whistle blue, you play through the whistle, that's it.
Once the whistle blows, plays over, plays over. So the
whistle blows, whistle, whistle, whistle, the whistle blows.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The play dead. Then Charboneau picks up the ball.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Keep in mind, players on both teams, both teams stop
playing because of the whistle blue.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Up nuts at the end.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
There's the whistle, all right, So you got players on
Seattle and the Rams who both stopped at the same
time because an official blue the whistle and apra e
f and kept.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I mean, it was jup digulous. I can't even say it.
The NFL decided to roll a two point conversion.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Holcus what this was more than just a guardian angel
for the Seattle Seahawks, all right, there's some serious funny
business going on. Here is Sean McVay, the Ram coach.
Who is he gonna get fined for this? Here's McVeagh
pointing out, well, that's not kosher.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
What happened. Take a list.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I've never quite seen anything like what happened on the
two point conversion where you're wined up to kick off.
Then they say it's a fumble because they had the
clear and obvious recovery. Now you tack it on, you
make it a thirty to thirty game.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Very interesting.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Didn't get a clear explanation of everything that went on,
just because of some of the timing of it. They
were trying to be able.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
To do that.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
But that's the thing that I've said.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I've never seen anything or never been a part of
anything like that, and I've grown up around this game.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I'm not making excuses. We don't do that. I don't
believe in that.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
It doesn't move us forward, but we do want clarity
and an understanding of, you know, the things that we
can do to minimize that when we rejected the two
point conversion.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
All right, So coach McVay, two things. Number one, the
reason you've ever seen it's never happened before. This is unprecedented.
What happened here. This is one of the great injustices
in the history of that fraudulent sport, the NFL. Right insane,
let's play connected dots Mallard style connected dots.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
All right, So the big story this week.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
In the NFL was Pooka Nakua going on a live stream,
right trashing the NFL officials, doing a dance which I
apologize for whatever, and ripping Taylor Swift and Jacksonville a
bunch of crazy stuff. So Puoka goes out and goes nuclear.
Has twelve catches. It was like he was running through
the Serengetti. Twelve catches, two un of twenty five yards.
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A partrides in the paragy, had two touchdowns, including what
should have been.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
The game winner.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well name shit entered in regulation but the touchdown and overtime,
the story is we connect the dots though. Is Pooka
nkou right? He dared to question authority, He questioned the
referees on the live stream. Is it a coincidence that
a day later this happens?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Methinks not so much? Right.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
This was big Brother at the NFL sending a clear message.
This was payback the horse head in the bed from
the Godfather, an unmistakable message that was sent by the NFL.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
We control all of this.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You mess with us again, and the next warning will
not be symbolic, Pooka, It's not gonna be. We We
have the power to give points that did not get scored.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
We are almighty, omni present worth the NFL. Don't mess
with us. Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That was a horsehead in the bed, is what That was?
One thousand percent all right? And I would I would
be puking in my mouth if I was a Seattle
Seahawk fan right now that I would want to I
would really want to vomit at that because you know
you're not good enough. You know you're not and you
needed you talk about the twelfth man man. How many
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officials were on the field, that's like the you know, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Man, my god, it's so bad. I don't even what
to say. It's such a crap call.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
It's not even I mean, they were at McVeigh said,
they're lining up for the kickoff and they're like, coach,
we've decided to give Seattle two points. They but they
didn't score. But yeah, we felt like they needed the
two points. We decided we wanted to give them the
two points, but they didn't. The play was whistled, Dad,
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the play was over.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
That was it. But no, we kind of liked them,
you know.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
We felt bad for Nostradinas and JJ and Retten and
crying Craig and all these fan guys. So we had
to give them two points. Okay, thank you?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
All right, now as for the big picture here the
big picture, So the question how concerned because the Rams
did end up being given the loss by the NFL.
So how concerned should Sean McVay be with the Rams
lose this game in Seattle thanks to some help by
the league office.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So the Mallard panic meter one to ten, one.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
To ten, I'm at I'm at about a three on
the Malard panic meter. It took the league meddling, It
took the NFL fuxing around with the outcome of the game.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
People talk about.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Gambling scandals right in NBA and all this baseball. I mean,
this is clear and obvious for most you know. It
took the league meddling for Seattle to win this game,
which tells you Seattle's not good enough. And keep in mind,
the Rams did not have their nuclear torpedo Devonte Adams,
the cheat code in the red zone, and they were
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missing a couple of other starters.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
In this game.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The Rams put up let me check my notes here,
they put up five hundred and eighty one yards and
thirty seven points in a place selects to pump their
chest out. Talk about how people just don't play well
in Seattle. The twelves, Oh, it's very the weather. Top
five defense, Sea awusly had a top five defense coming
(14:09):
to that game. Top five defense gave up five hundred
and eighty one yards and thirty seven points to a
team without the without their number two receiver and a
couple of other key players.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, okay, so there you go. That's it now. The
issue for the Rams, obviously is that you can't factor in.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
How do you game plan for the officials just giving
the team two points when they didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
There's really nothing to do on that. The Rams defense wears.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
The scarlet letter to some degree here with the capitol
d My god, you're up sixteen in the fourth quarter.
And I know it took the officials helping out Seattle,
but that's that's that's not great. And the Rams did
play a little mister potato head here, the hot potato
game with the you know, they played the hot potato
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with the live you know, it was like a live
grenade they were passing around. It's inexcusable, right, you know,
f around you find out. But the NFL certainly helped in.
And there's a bit of a pattern here the Rams.
Usually they just lose games more than get beat. Like
they didn't lose this game, or they didn't they didn't
get beat. I should say the game was given to
Seattle in this case, but the fur balls being coughed up,
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they blew up a sixteen point they really they blew
a fourteen point lead because Seattle is given two points.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So you don't get credit for that. You didn't you
didn't earn it. You know, real people know that they
did blow a nineteen point lead in Philadelphia earlier this year.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So that's a bad habit and McVeigh needs to flush
that immediately. You look at the big picture, thirty thousand
feet up looking down, the Rams are perfectly fine. It's
not like they have some kind of home field advantage.
There's not a moat at Sofi Stadium. They were in
the NFC Championship Game a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I was there.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
They played the forty nine Ers. They might as well
have been played at the old Candlestick Park. There were
so many Niner fans it didn't matter. The Rams won
the game, and the Rams can win anywhere.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
They're good enough to do that.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And as long as Stafford's standing upright and the fellas
are relatively healthy.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
You're not ever going to be completely healthy. And the
Rams aren't really concerned.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I mean, they'd love to play Seattle in the NFC
Championship Game, and the only way Seattle can win is
with some help from the referees from the league office.
So the panic meter is pretty low, and I'm sure
McVeigh will sleep fine knowing that this was out of
his control. I mean, the NFL clearly wanted this outcome
based on what they did, giving Seattle two points.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Otherwise the game would have ended thirty to twenty eight.
That's it. Game over, Rams win by two. All right,
last word here, So on the.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Seattle side of things, being given a gift, Merry Christmas,
Happy Hanukah? Did Sam Donald save himself with Seattle and
that crazy comeback? Because Sam Darnald was just getting roasted
and deserved it. He sucked at a time you cannot suck.
So did Darnald save himself? Because Seattle ended up winning
that game? So I'm gonna vote first on this, and
(16:55):
I'm going to vote A and absolutely not. I go
back to my point earlier. The og know what time
it is Seattle right now, they got that shiny record.
They're now in the penthouse in the NFC West. I
wouldn't get comfortable, boys, it's more like a Verbo. It's
an Airbnb Seattle standing on a rickety pier and there's
a big windstorm coming here, so be careful. And hey,
(17:17):
it's great. I wish the Rams had gotten help from
the Zebras.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I didn't know that that was possible to get be
given two points. I've never seen that before.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Watch football. I'm getting old. I watched football my entyle live.
I've ever seen that.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
The Zebras gave them more than a gentle nudge Seattle.
And you'll call it a league issued shopping cart shove
if you will.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And you know, suddenly some of you are like, oh wait,
we beat your Ram the Rams lost, are you well? No,
I know about that. I wouldn't. I wouldn't be opening
champagne and lighting cigars. I would not do that.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Sam Darnold was a haunted house from kickoff pretty much
to the curtain call here two touchdowns, two picks. He
was sacked four times, and for much of that game
he was seeing ghosts. It was like a midnight Mattinee
for Sam Darnold. And you know, you just know you
can't win with him, so it's like, what are we
doing here? It's an exercise in futility for Seattle. The
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real Seahawk fans know this guy's gonna break just break
your back. Seattle won in spite of him, not because
of him, And he's an unreliable orchestrator. It's more kazoo
than conductor. And you know, and I know, and every man,
woman and child knows when the music matters, the needle
skips just.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
A little bit, just a little bit at skips.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And we've we've read this paperback before we saw it
in Seattle. Last year, we saw it in Minnesota. Rather
the last year the dog eared kind of predictable. So
if you were really happy, I good for you, you should
send a thank you note email the NFL. Thank you
very much, appreciate it. Boys on Park Avenue there, thank you.
We hope you enjoy the mirage while it lasts. Enjoy it,
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Seattle fans, twelve fans, whatever you call it, because the
jukebox is warming up, and it's an Elvis classic for Seattle.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I'll welcome to Heartbreak Hotel, as as that's going to
be the case.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Now, as far as the MVP debate, does this end it?
I guess that's the question. Does this ram lost kill
Matthew Stafford's MVP campaign, his mojo for the MVP. I
don't even think that's close. Like again, I give that
argument side eye. Stafford played for most It wasn't perfect.
(19:26):
There were some throws that sailed on him, but he
played for the most part like a five star chef
who was trapped in a kitchen fire. Four hundred and
fifty seven yards, three touchdowns against the top five defense,
against the top five defense.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Did not turn the ball over, and he did it shorthanded.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
He did shorthanded without Poka Nicoua, or with Pooka Nikoua
scoring the touchdown, but without DeVante Adams. And he threw
that laser to Pooka in overtime. Shich You'd say, well,
that's that's the sizzle play. If you look at the
sizzle reel, that's one of the sizzle plays on the
sizzle reel. And do you really dock the quarterback? Because
the defense at diarrhea Die Die diarrhea. Now we know
(20:09):
the refs had to send Pooka a message. We mentioned
the horsehead in the bed. The defense did not do
its job in overtime.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
They did not.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And that's not on Stafford though to me. The real
call for the big loser, and they were trying to
prop this guy up. They showed him on TV. Is
Chris Shula, the defensive coordinator of Arims all name recognition,
another NEPO baby, Chris Shula and his team had multiple
chances to make a play in overtime and did not
(20:40):
get to stop. And so Grandpa Don is rolling in
his grave, like, what are you doing? At least you're
not as embarrassing as my kid, but my god, you're
my grandson. You got to do better than that. What
are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
My goodness?
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Of course in jail. Yeah, all right, back to it.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
We go as a story here the Thursday night game
as some meddling by the league. This is NBA level meddling.
You got to tell you. But take good for Seattle.
You looked out for you. It's good for you. We'll
pay back for Puka Nekoua. And that's the way it is.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Right there. Boom boom boom boom boom.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Let's see what do we have here, page Dan. Let's
see skip over that one.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
No. S.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Tredinis writes, and he says, Ben, You're absolutely right. Seahawks
did not deserve to win that game. There's no denying that.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
The officials helped out the Seahawks. And Sam Donald is
not the man you cannot depend on. Well if very
honest of No, stredenas to admit all that stuff. I
did not expect you to admit that on this night,
But I give you. I thought you'd send some fanboy
tweet in about saying that Sam Darnold.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Is good and Seattle's great and all that stuff. But
you didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, Scrooge says, aside from bad officiating, you cannot let
vomit comet Sam Darnold have a game winning drive against
your defense. So aside from the game, Scrooge, that should
have been over thirty to twenty eight in regulation. Aside
from that, let's just overlook. Let's overlook snuffalupogous in the room. Okay,
(25:32):
let's just overlook snuffalopogus.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
In the room.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Please, my god, not a burner, says Ben. Even though
we will be missing you, try not to think about
your favorite militia members and enjoy your holiday break.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
This is not my last show before the holiday. I am.
I'm gonna be working a partial week next week. So
are you going to work most of the days?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
No, not most of this, but I will be part
of the week. I will be part of well, one
of the days. There's a best of show which I
can only I think I'll be running that.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You'll You'll have a lot of space to enjoy yourself.
All the space.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
No one will be no one will be farting, no
one will be studio to myself.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I could host a rave here, Oh my god. Good.
You could charge money. That's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You can get some of the homeless people out in
shrim not oaks. Bring him inside there, give me some
coffee and some tea.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
And all that. Why not? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Absolutely, I Leen in San Francisco says I only care
about my Niners, that they're still alive. Just don't lose
to forty four year old Philip Rivers on Monday night.
Do not lose that game as a dangerous game. The
Niners not great against the run, and Indianapolis pretty pretty
good running the ball. Ozzie was from Western Australia rights
and he says I missed the Thursday night game, although
(26:47):
for him it's Friday because they're a day ahead. He says,
I missed the game. Dude driving about half an hour
to get McDonald's and do some food chopping.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, Ozzie was. Ozzi was lives out like far far
away from everything.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
He's surrounded by hundreds of kangaroos and that's it. And
so he's got if he wants to get anything, he's
got to drive like half an hour an hour to
civilization to get like a like a big mac and
fries is what he's gotta do. The specialist says big
Ben is in full conspiracy theory mode.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Well, I know, what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I guess you're a fan of the CIA, which came
up with that term years ago to dismiss claims against
the CIA about aliens and whatnot. So you're falling right
into the CIA playbook. When you use the conspiracy theory
to try to demean the truth, you stand against the
truth specialists.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
That's it. He says.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
The NFL wanted the Seahawks to win, really ben small
market Seahawks over big band Rams from LA the metro
population a ten million. Well, I know you're not that bright.
Let me let me explain something to you specialists. This
was bigger than Rams Seahawks. The story here is Pook
pooka question authority. He questioned the overlords at the NFL.
(28:02):
He took some shots on a live stream. He defied
Sean mvay. But then he defied the NFL and he
did the thing you can't do it. So the NFL.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
They don't mess around.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
They don't mess around, and it's still time to manipulate
things and get the Rams back. But they had to
send a message, and they absolutely sent that message. Mister
nice guy Ritch and he agrees that was a terrible call.
He was doing what aboutism, which is his way of agreeing.
When you do what about ism, that's your way of saying,
you're right, Ben, and I do appreciate you having my support.
(28:34):
Supermarket Steve also in a grim Well that's good. I thought,
you know, I came into the studio. I was walking
to the studio. I was like, man, you know, people
are gonna be busting my chops here. But so far
everyone's kind of on my side. Jj N Renton, he
agrees with me. I didn't realize the Seahawk fans were
wired this way. I thought they would be, you know,
(28:56):
in denial about the call being bogus and all that.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I thought.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
But no, they're admitting that they did not deserve to
win that game, that the final score was thirty to
twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, thirty to twenty eight. There you go.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Let's see here, Fried Daddy writes in He says, we
all know there's no such thing as momentum in football.
He says, but there is karma. He says, he's the daddy.
He gave some stat about you know something, something something.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
He says, Oh, this is good.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So Fry Daddy thinks because a bashing Sam Donald, he thinks,
I am responsible for this outcome because I bashed Sam donal. Yes,
because Sam Donald's play did not merit criticism.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Like, what are we doing? Have you fried daddy? Have
you lost your bloody mind? I like you, dude, but
what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (29:47):
This?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Anger never works for anybody. I don't I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I know you're all just trying to you know, hit
Ben's buttons there, you know, get the mellow mallar you know,
melo dramatic mallor and all that, and you guys enjoy it. Uh,
And that's fine, you know, have you a little fun there.
But I speak the truth and no justice, no peace.
I learned that years ago from all my favorite friends
who love to protest.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
No justice, no peace. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And if you're not part of the solution, you're part
of the problem. And right now, if you disagree that
the NFL did not meddle with this game, you are
part of the problem, okay. And if you stay silent,
that means you support what happened in the NFL. Am
I getting all the talking points, right, I think have
I missed any Hey, hey ho ho Goodell's got to go?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Is that one?
Speaker 7 (30:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
What do we want. That sounds good. How about this?
What do we want? Better? Officials? When do we want it?
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Now?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Get up, get down. There's a malad militia movement in
this town. How about that? Exactly the one? How about this?
Who's streets are streets? How does that work? Hard? Anyway?
You get the point. I'm in protest mode.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I am filing a formal protest, is what I'm doing
right here. Absolutely, that's a formal protest. One thousand percent.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Herd Dog says, great job, mister nice guy. I agree.
The rams got host.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, I thought mister nice guy, I thought he wouldn't agree,
But there is. Hatch Daddy says, so are you working
into the morning on Christmas Eve? Or is Monday night
your last show? Merry Christmas to you and the crew.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I I swear I don't want.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
To know when and where you're going to be, but
exactly what time Ben I sent.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
You know, Scott is our big boss, and he he
had texted me some dates.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
And I have a lot of comp days because I
worked most of the holidays during the year, so they
hooked me up. Have crazy vacation time I do.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I don't take a lot of time off so which
they they will you know, I don't want to get
into it here, but it will hurt them eventually. But
but no, I I I will, you know what I'm saying,
l but uh, but no, I will say on my
podcast how about this. I don't have it in front
of me, and I'm not really interested enough to look
hatch daddy. But if you listen to the fifth Hour podcast,
I haven't even done it obviously, because you do it
(32:07):
after this show. So I will put in there my
holiday schedule for you and ferg Dog and Alf And
I think I mentioned it last week and I don't
know if I went into great detail there, but last
last weekend, Yeah, Scrooge says, I understand the Rams got
ft over. I'm just saying you cannot be confident with
that defense going.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
To the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Well, the defense was good enough to win the game,
and they played well enough in regulation to win the game.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And the fact that the referees got some the revery.
And here's the thing that kills me.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
You know, I know you're not in my house, because
if you were, you'd be a stockar I'd have you arrested.
But I'm watching the game and the playoffs. Okay, that's it.
Thirty to twenty eight, that's the final. In fact, I
couldn't believe when they put the two points up. I'm like, well,
what are you doing? I give anything.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
If you really.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Thought that that play was a backwards pass, was a fumble,
since you blew the whistle, which is clear and obvious,
you would have redone the two point conversion.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
They didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
They didn't redo the two point conversion. They just gave
Seattle two points. I mean, my god, that was horrific.
All right, let's go to the phones and let's see
who do we have pays. Let's go to Bubba in uh.
I think he's in Sokel here. I believe, hello, Bubba.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Welcome, Yo. This is the this is the part you talk.
This is the part you stir it up a little
bit here.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Yeah, oh, I would believe that. Yeah, they got hos
on that play for sure, But I mean, special teams.
You let the guy run back, you know, with what
some minutes left, seven minutes left to run back. They
were down thirty to fourteen, so you let, you know,
you let him run back, run it back, and then
(33:59):
they shut down the rams and then they got that
two point conversion or whatever you want to call it,
but it never should have happened. It was should be
thirty to twenty eight. And then Seattle's defense did pretty
good to shut down the Rams. But if the Rams
would have got up the field kick the field goal,
maybe we wouldn't be talking about it. But when you
go against the NFL, they come back hard with a vengeance.
(34:22):
And what you know, Nikua said yesterday or today or
even tonight, I think that never should have been said,
but he said it, and they got to do with
the consequences, and that two point conversion was a consequence.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, all right, Bob, thank you man. I appreciate that.
I don't know that I'd say Seattle shut the Rams down.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
The squed thirty seven points and five hundred and eighty
one yards of offense.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I mean they.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
They had the ball for forty minutes. There were sixties
almost like six I think it was close to sixty
seven minutes because of overtime in the game, and they
had it for forty over forty minutes of game time.
They were in the red zone six times. That's one
of the most pathetic defensive performances I've ever seen. From
the Seattle football team. In fact, I don't know how
(35:11):
you can anyone can take them seriously. When you combine
Sam Darnold and that defense bunch of lightweights, absolute lightweights
on defense, Holy crap, man of us, Just Josh writes
in he says, I know you don't do shout outs
because this isn't the Morning Zoos show. So if you
could give the boys at the Jefferson City and TM
Nicholas Hunt a mention, I'm.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Sure they would be honored. There you go. This is
Merry Christmas to all the armed surfaces deployed overseas. Godspeed.
There you go.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
So, as you know, we don't do shout outs. That
was more of a mention than a shout out. We
were okay with mentions, shout outs or something bigger. So
you call me out, you can call me out yet again,
Has there ever been a Thursday night game where Al
Michaels is not bludgeting by the bots and the algorithms.
(36:03):
People very upset with Al. When Puka Nakua scored the
touchdown that gave the Rams the lead in overtime, people
very upset that Al did not get excited enough.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I guess he was supposed to pull his.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Pants down at that moment and give everyone a show. Mike,
I hope al I want to make Al Ai. You
know how NBC uses that dead guy's voice to do
the voiceover on NBA and he's not it's been dead
for twenty years whatever.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah, yeah, they brought him back from the.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I hope we have Ai al Michaels just to annoy
these losers, these losers, And I know why people do it.
You're in the engagement business, and you know that works
well on the algorithm, ripping old people like al Michaels. Right,
guy's an absolute freaking legend, right, and he wasn't enthusiastic
(36:51):
enough for you.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
How about you go choke on? I can't say what
I want you to choke on? All right? Anyway, Time
now for the who Am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
So Matthew staff had his eighth game with three plus
touchdown passes and no interceptions this season. That breaks a
tie with me for the most in a season all
time by a player aged thirty seven role. This is
the greatest season ever by a player at that age
or older. Matthew stafford his eighth game with three plus
(37:21):
touchdown passes and no interceptions. That breaks a tie with
me for the most in a season ever by a
player age thirty seven or older.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Who am I the answer? We'll get to it and
we'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
He min got run over by jar.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Go a back to prison Christmas. You can say there's
no such stages, Calm.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Bryan. He believed it is a ye, Bill Miller The
Ben Mahler Show. Let's rolls on. This is ohio Al
who and sent me a very nasty email. He was upset.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I guess I gave credit to one of his songs
to somebody else's batch up by me.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
So apologize, ohio Al.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I usually imperfect man, Sometimes I guess I'm not. I believable.
Love love getting those angry emails.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Your memory actually amazes me.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
It makes me appreciate the well. Thank you appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
And meantime we are on YouTube at Ben Maler Show
for Mallard monologues and Bennie vs.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Penny Bennie vs.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Penny.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
If you'd like to support Bennie versus Pay, there's a
Saturday episode up right now for the two games on Saturday,
and then later today it'll be a full for every
game on Sunday, and check that out on Bennie Vspenny.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
All right back to it. Time now for the play
of the day.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
And in the history of the NFL, we have never
seen a more egregious bad call.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Never before has the league just given two points to
a team. It has never happened. It might never happen again,
not in our lifetime.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
And it happened. And here's how it sounded. It's the
play of the night, but just not just any play
of the night. No, no, no, this is the tire
rack play of the night.
Speaker 7 (39:14):
Darnald will go under center, jsm farside, throw inside and
the ball is battered down and if this down thrown
backwards and it kind of looks like it is and
it bounced off the defender rolled into the end zone.
Charbonay had one foot in the end zone when he
picked it up, and that's all he needed.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
And so reviewing the play, the quarterback threw a backward pass.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You know he gave no he you blow the whistle, dum,
you blow the.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Whistle, dummy, you plow the whistle, dummy, I'm you blow
the whistle pays to live a good life, and so yeah,
guess what a life?
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Wells We are tied at thirty A piece.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
That was the broadcaster for the Seahawks way of saying well.
We thank the League office for that one. That is
the tire rack play of the night. For over forty years,
ty iraq has been helping customers find the right tires.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
For how, what and where they drive.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Ship fast and freeback by free road hazard protection with
convenient insulation options like mobile tire installation. Ty iraq dot
com the way tire buying should be. Time now for
the payoff on the who am I game? We're watching
the greatest season ever by an old guy quarterback Matthew Stafford,
who had his eighth game with three plus passing touchdowns
(40:26):
and no interceptions that broke a tie with me for
the most all time in a season by a player
age thirty seven or older.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Never have we seen this greatness at this age.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
And so that is the question. What is the answer?
Donkey sausage, says the elf on the shelf? Who is
the correct answer?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Who else? You have? Pancakes? Orlando Pace by Big lou
He's on number two.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Roman reigns from Mister Luciano Queen Rocks and with her
favorite Tom Brady Dall. Who else do we have? Big
Ben Roethlisberger from e in Roseville, Minnesota. Alexa Bliss guessed
by Just Josh and Cincinnati. Alph is going with al
michaels as a Robot the twelfth Man the Zebras there
(41:10):
from Fergdarg, Boy, that's the real twelfth Man. No kidd
in Fergie. Phil Collins guess by Rob Chuck Noll from
Scrooge in the Bay. Mark and Queens says Aaron, I
have a mystery wife Rogers. Jake Cutler from Not a Burner?
Who else do we have? John Brody from Eileen in
San Francisco, Bill Clinton from King Rory, Nikki Bella from
(41:33):
Shannon More.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Do you have an answer? Lorena Charlie Brown.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
You know it's Peyton Manning back in twenty thirteen when
he won the MVP.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Peyton Manning
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