May 22, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie being so vocally involved with the Tush Push vote, why the Tush Push should be embraced rather than eliminated, if the play is out of the danger zone, Fact or Fiction, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bing go. It's our number far underway, the squeeze play
here an hour, number four, and it's all about the tushy.
It's all about the tushy. The vote is in and
the NFL owner said, we're going to keep the toush push.
But there were a lot of stories around this, including
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the Eagles owner going bonkers. Should an owner like the
Eagles Jeffrey Luriy be so vocally involved with a tush
push or did he cross the line taking an hour
to filibuster. Shouldn't the toush push be embraced rather than eliminated?
And it's not going to be, but shouldn't also the
toush push in addition to that, is it fair to
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legislate against football tactics just because they're difficult to stop?
It's too hard to stop, so we should get rid
of it. We'll talk about that. And is the toush
push out of the danger zone now that the league
has voted against it, or is this something you file away.
We'll talk about all of that and more right now here.
It is our number four. Have a great Thursday. A
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twenty four hours because you had the story last night
in basketball where the New York Knickerbockers rode the vomit
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com that was a Kamakazi mission. At the end, blew
a seventeen point lead with six minutes ago, blew a
fourteen point lead with less than three minutes to go
and somehow lost to the Indiana Pacers and the story
of the night. He also had the passing the death
of Jim Irsay, the owner of the Colts, a unexpected events.
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But our lead is from Minneapolis. That is where the
league meetings have been taking place, taking care of business
and will certainly the death of Jim Mercy trump everything
else NFL related. We'll get back to that if you
would like later on. We did a monologue earlier, it'll
be up on the podcast later about some of our
memories of Jim Mercy. But we learned that the meetings
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turned heated. It was angry. There was vitriol at the
NFL league meetings. Why there was a heated exchange. I'm
not playing nice guy anymore. No, So there's the seated
exchange between NFL owners. All of this over to keep
or not keep the tush push. The discussion occurred during
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the general session. Now Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie made an
impassion speech. It wasn't just a speech, it was a
long drawn out, never ending story in defense of the play.
And we are told that the Eagles owner had seen
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reports on social media that the NFL had enough votes
the Tushy Pushy was going to be bait, and he
was I all right. He was hopping mad, hopping mad.
So the Eagles owner then figured, Hey, I got nothing
to lose here, so I'm gonna go for it. And
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he went with the hail Mary and the ball was
tipped and it bounced into the wide receiver's hands, touchdown.
Blabbing for close to an hour, close to an hour,
got so bad. Another NFL owner got up and said,
what the eff are you doing? Why are you doing
this now? Near the end of the rant, the Eagles
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owner he used an analogy. He said, to the other aristocrats,
the robber barons, this meeting at this location in Minneapolis,
he said, listen, regardless of whether or not the tush
push is banned, it is a win win for the
Philadelphia Eagles. He added, it's like a this is the
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money quote. It's like a wet dream for a teenage
boy to create a play that was so successful that
the only way for it to be stopped is to
ben it, the Eagles owners said.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Lurie also criticized, criticized Roger Goodell, Roger the Dodger, and
Troy Vincent another tody of Roger Goodell for advocating for
the band. He was reprimanded for the wet Dream analogy.
So let us discuss the question. Let's focus in on
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this brew ha between the Eagles owner and his rant.
Should an NFL owner like Jeffrey Lurie of the Eagles
be so vocally involved with the touch push or did
he cross the line? He was reprimanded by mister Vincent,
So did he cross the line. So I've got Bill Murray,
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Banana cream Pie and Razor, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are gonna make the
Gabba ghoul. We're gonna make the Gabba ghul is what
we're gonna make, all right, So, first of all, absolutely
support the owner of the Eagles defending his his play. Now,
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would I have wanted to sit in a room and
listen to some whack a doodle go on for an hour? God? No,
I've had many meetings over my time here, and every
one of them we try to get over with as
quick as possible. Just end the meeting. That's the one
goal we all are united in as employees, let's end
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the meeting. And so I get it. They were having
a vote. This is the signature play. We know all
about that. But then all of a sudden, it's like
you're on Capitol Hill and you're doing a filibuster and
you're advocating the virtues of the tush push and so
waxing loquations like a Bill Murray movie that was not
one of the all time great Bill Murray movies, Passion
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play right, it is a tender spot. Now, we would
rather have root canal than listen to an NFL owner,
a billionaire yap on and on and on and on
on on on. Yeah, and so most of these owners,
most of these owners are not out in front and
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just kind of along for the ride. There's a few
we know who they are. We talk about him all
the time. But Luriy brought up he did bring up
a great point, and I wanted to highlight that he
talked about this being a win win situation, and this
is something that we've talked about. Clearly. The Eagles owner
is a fan of our show. He's listened to our podcast.
We pointed this out the other day. Now, some I'm
dumb called ubs Oh, don't know what you're doing, because
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I'd pointed out that this would have been the ultimate
flex for the Birds if the NFL had banned it.
A play so invincible, so amazing that the other members
of the cartel, the Good Old Boys Network, said we
can't stop it. We're gonna give up. We give up.
That's the old one. This is a can Now it
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didn't happen, but it's akin to when basketball banned the
slam dunky, and they used much of the same language
the NFL tried to use to get rid of the
toush push. All right, now, Secondly, shouldn't the tush push
be embraced? Shouldn't it be embraced rather than trying to
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eliminate it? And on that one, I am I'm nod
in my head. Yes, I'm nod in my head. Yes,
this has been an innovation. He said, Well, it's a
rugby play, it's not a football player. But it is
something that did not exist in the NFL that has
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popped up. And while it has been amazing for Philadelphia,
if you look around, if it were so easy to
execute that play, then you'd have seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
fourteen teen. I'm not getting fifteen. That would be running
it at a high success rate. But you know, and
I know that is not happening. That is not me.
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Jalen Hurtz is the only quarterback who has consistently been
able to use this as a cheek code. And that's
just the reality. Now, Is it fair to legislate against
football tactics just because they're difficult to stop? It's not right.
See that is foul played like the NFL medal. It's
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been confirmed. I was a read a story about this
earlier that the conspiracy theory that we talked about the
other day is accurate. That the NFL did. The NFL
did deputize the Green Bay Packers to do their dirty work.
They hired the Packers as the hitman to try to
take out the Tushy Pushy. And since that team does
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not have a real owner, they just are owned by
the community. They have a panel of people that run
the Packers, but they're not owned by any one human being.
And so they were like, hey, you're gonna be the
bad cop. We are going to make you the bad cop,
and the facers like okay. And for the NFL think
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about this, this monstrosity, this mammoth operation. That's like the
mob the NFL, and they could not get this to pass.
They could not. This is what Roger Goodell wanted and
he couldn't get it. He couldn't get it. This is
a banana cream pie right to the face, to the kisser,
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banana cream pie to the face. Remember the the NFL
tabled this for about a month till lobby for extra votes,
and they still swinging a miss. They swing by a
swing back out of they swing a miss. All right,
final phing. So is the Toush push out now of
the danger zone? Is it out of the danger zone?
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Because the league get voted, they pushed it back for
a month, they voted, they decided that they could not
get enough votes. So in terms of the question, is
the Toush push out of the danger zone? The answer
is an absolutely not, absolutely not. And here's the reason. Okay,
I'll tell you why. Because of the razor Or Go
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razor thin margins. Okay, the NFL needed twenty four votes
the ban the tushy pushing. They only got to twenty two.
They closed the gap, but they didn't close it long enough.
So what does that mean? Expect the NFL to re
examine this play down the line, especially if the Birds
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continue to monster mash with this and this will pop
up again on the radar. Now Here are the ten teams.
This is not a list. These are the ten teams
that voted against the Tousch push. They are obviously the Eagles.
So there's nine other teams. The Ravens Fly, Ravens Fly,
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Those Birds have to stick together. The Cleveland Browns supporting
the Toush push, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Miami Dolphins, We're
not done. The New England Patriots. Good job by the Patriots,
the Saints, the Jets, and the Tennessee Titans. That's it.
If your team was not mentioned, that means your team
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voted to censor the Toush push. Out with the tush
is essentially what they said. So those are the teams
we like that, those are that we support those teams.
That's good job by you. And so the question becomes,
can the NFL now convince two of those other nine
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teams to say it's nay on the Tush push a
get rid of it and change their vote, flip the vote.
All they need is to that's it. And I will
garn effing to you that as long as Roger Goodell's
in charge and he doesn't like the play, he's going
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to bring this up again. And how about television? Does
TV like it? Do they decide this is a bad
product and that this is an issue and it's a
it's a tender spot. We have to address this. But
either way, the story is not over, not by a
long shot. It's not done. They're going to continue to
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run this up the flagpoles and play this cat and
mouse game with the tushy pushy And even though for
the Eagles it is a testing, trusted play, for the
rest of the nfls we've documented not so much. Not
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out there, some messages from him and you as well.
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as much as I will. He says, and then the
I don't have time to get to that right now,
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Oho Texto, but I will. I will dive into that
PG thirteen there coming up later. Lady sideburns rights and
says if they are going to allow the tush push,
they need to legalize leaping and leverage on the field
goal and pats there is less contact when you leap
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then there is with the tush push. Oh yeah, the
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Man, man, I can't get over that game last night.
I don't understand it. I mean, how could you know
that you had it? You had the game. I mean
I have a vested interest in.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It because okay, they just no, no.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
No, they just drafted this girl that reminds me of
my daughter, and you're a kiky area. Then the message
could have went three and oh, Ben, come on man,
he man.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I don't know what you want me to It was
that they were playing on your d last night.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Man. They over there in Golden State. They had the game.
They could have went three and oh she just reminds
me of my daughter. Man, she had that demeanor. She
talks like her and I just I just loved the
mistics because they got teaky. Oh my god, they had
the game tho. It could have been three and oh.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Beny, morning time, morning time is gonna be good by
time here in a minute. How dare you? How dare
you get out of here? How about this? As far
as the Knicks game last night, though, thank you Rick.
The entering Wednesday I saw this. It's one of those
mind blowing numbers entering Wednesday teams that trailed by nine
or more points in the final minute of the fourth
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quarter overtime in the playoffs. This goes back to nineteen
ninety eight. They didn't keep track of this stuff before
nineteen ninety eight, so that's the modern era. But since then,
that had happened where her teams were trailing by nine
or more points final minute of the fourth quarter overtime
in the playoffs, it had happened one thousand, four hundred
and fourteen times. How many times do you think the
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team that was trailing won again, well, fourteen hundred times.
How many times did the team How many times did
the team trailing end up winning down by nine final minute?
The answer none. The Indiana Pacers. Last night, the Indiana Pacers,
according to the Elias, became the first team in the
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last twenty seven years to trail by nine or more
points in the final minute fourth quarter overtime and win
the game. They won the game, an amazing accomplishment. And
if you think last night's game was high scoring, high
Faluton and all that, you're not wrong. That was the
highest scoring conference final game, highest scoring conference final game
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two hundred seventy one total points since the Warriors played
the Hawks. And I don't think they were the Atlanta
Hawks at the time in nineteen sixty seven. The last
time you had a game that was that epic with
that much offense and all that. So it's been it's
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been a while. It is absolutely been a while. Now.
One person that is annoyed and financially annoyed with the outcome.
It's probably a lot of people financially avoid annoyed with that,
but that would be des Bryant. Des Bryant, the former
NFL wide receiver, former Dallas Cowboy des Bryant, who was disgusted, dismayed,
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and disheartened by the Knicks losing that game. He claims
that he lost five hundred thousand dollars. He had a
bet on that game. He would have won five hundred
thousand dollars had the New York Knickerbockers won the game. Now,
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I don't know if that was the points spread or
just to have to win the game. I'm sure about
that part of it, but that that was what Bryant
sent out. I do understand he's he's a prolific gambler,
so I guess that would make sense. He got he
has money from his NFL careers by betting big time money,
and if it doesn't work out, he'll end up in
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a documentary about going bankrupt. If it works out, then
that's good for him. Now, speaking of gambling, there's a
big gamble going on this weekend. A NFL rookie star
supposed to be a star, Travis Hunter, is going to
become an honest man, Travis Hunter said to marry in
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Tennessee this weekend. Wasn't that the when he was at Colorado?
Wasn't she the one that was viral for all the
wrong reasons and all that? In my confusing.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Mind, I didn't know that she had a backount well when.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
He was at Colorado. I thought there was an incident
a couple of things where where he was like kind
of beholden to her. He was, yeah, she was. She
was like, you know, very possessive. Yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
So they're they're getting married. So okay, didn't he get
off social media because of that? Didn't he? I think
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he did? Right, he was on there for a while
and he's like, I'm good, I'm out. That's it, I'm done,
Ski's no more. I'm sure that wedding will be be
amazing eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number.
And uh, let's say a little blind Scott who's always
there no matter what, Always blind Scott, Hello, blind Scott welcome.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Oh hey, yeah, they.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Died Jim Mercy. Stuff was kind of depressing. I didn't
realize he was only sixty five. He brought his traveling
museum here to Boston a couple of years ago. I
was on the on the sidewalk when they were bringing
all the equipment in.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You know what I mean. He was riding like a
little Hubver scooter and he was smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
So like if you if you smoke those cigarettes, they
can strict.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Your blood vessels and eventually you'll have a stroker to
while you're sleeping or even when you're just standing up
or whatever, the blood just rushes straight to your head.
I'm assuming the cigarettes is what did him in.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But what do you what are your doctor? I get
you assume because he smokes a lot of people smoke cigarettes.
He didn't die from I don't believe he died from cancer.
You just whatever, we'll find out. We're gonna fight out
at some point here, We're gonna fight out.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So I played a doctor on the radio, like I've
been multiple health problems since I was ten years old.
You know, uh one other thing, dude, this ousie was guy?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
He why are you so upset?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Why are you obsessed with Ozzy Was? I don't under
I do not understand.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Fake tough guy he has like a fake tough guy.
I'm from the North End. I'm a real tough guy.
He flexed on me like you you.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Would You would not last too. If you were in
Western Australia, you would not You would not last if
you were in Westerns.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Total hill billy act, dude. That's that's a total act
he's doing. He has a weird accent. He sounds like
a goofball like literally, man, real, that's.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
His native tongue. What do you want to tell you?
What's where he grew up?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Come on, dude, he's threatening people on Twitter at I'm
like he's he works in an excavatory.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You how many people have you threaten? You threatened?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You threatened me?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
How many times do you threatened me over the years?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Well, I would do it you if you don't give
me any airtime, let me finish what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Oh, Mike, I gave you the air You've given you
plenty of airs I'm giving you. I get people complaining
I give you so much airtime. Why do you put
this guy on? They said, what do you do? Put
Scott on? Blind? Scott was wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
They tell me, these are these are these those older dudes.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
That listen to the podcast or the day. They can't
even get out of bed for the show due they're
not even in the age demographic. I'm the biggest star
in the radio show I'm bringing on.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, all right, do you think all right? I go,
I go, get get all right? Please? Oh my god?
All right? Is my family back in the day would say,
all right, anyway? So how about let's get the money
real money. Yeah, I mentioned the loss of five hundred
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thousand dollars supposedly Des Bryant lost his you know what
on the on the Knicks. But how about this one?
All right? Shaye jogis Alexander the MVP of the NBA.
He has a decision to make you make the call
you now, he's already rich. So it's one of those deals.
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So the MVP of Oklahoma City SGA is eligible this
offseason to sign a four year contract for two hundred
and ninety three million. Let me repeat that for those
of you that are little slow. SGA the MVP of
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the NBA. Because of this, he is eligible for a
two hundred and ninety three million dollar extension. However, since
he won the MVP and also was an All NBA
player this year, assuming that all takes place, Sga is
going to be eligible to sign a five year, three
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hundred and eighty million dollar contract, but he has to
wait until twenty twenty six, the offseason after next year.
So you make the call. It's an extra eighty seven
million dollars. Do you take the money right now at
two hundred ninety three million, or do you bet on yourself?
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Do you gamble that you're going to stay healthy, You're
going to be okay, and then you're gonna get the
extra eighty seven million dollars. It's the only logical move
here would be to go and play out for the
eighty seven million dollars. Now, you play out the year
and you go for it. I mean because either he's
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already got enough money I would assume based on what
he's been earning up until this point, where diversified portfolio. Oh,
put some some money away. You're you're fine, You're you're
in really good shape. You've got nothing to worry about.
And he obviously has plenty of money because did you
see Jay uh Gilghis Alexander what he bought his teammates? Uh?
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You know how they all hang out together us like
a high school team there in Oklahoma City. They all
every time they do a postgame interview, the whole team
has to stand around. That's their stick. So he bought
everyone on the team a beautiful Rolex watch.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So us that's chump change. When you're in the two
hundred million dollar territory and all that, that's like nothing, right,
that's forget about it. Uh, but he's got the cash.
He has the cash ola for sure. All right, coming
up straight ahead, we have momentarily we are going to
have is it a fact or Is it fiction? A
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find the latest on Bill Belichick, and the only I
found out we had the big scandal tabloid story where
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Jordan Hudson claimed that they're engaged in all that, and
some people are saying, well, they're not engaged. And then
the TMZ had the story that Belichick changed the name
of his boat, which raised some eyebrows and added an
extra ring on there. They think that's for her cheerleading ring,
which would be hilarious. Would make Bill the most whipped
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man in America, in the world. If that's the case, Well,
now someone else has entered the chat. Mac Brown, of
all people. Mac Brown, longtime college football coach who flopped
his second stint for the Tar Hills so out of
finn Air. Mac Brown has laid out a claim against
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Bill Belichick. He's the guy that Belichick essentially replaced at
North There might have been some interim coach at the end,
but Mack Brown had been there for couple of years,
and so Bill Belichick takes over, and in an appearance
on a serious XM radio, mac Brown said, as far
as North Carolina and Bill Belichick, and he went on,
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he's the greatest coach. Blah blah blah blah blah. They've
committed money to it, They've helped him with the academics.
This is the money part of a quote. Mac Brown
claims they lowered the standards at North Carolina to get
a better football team. I'm paraphrasing some of this, but
to get a better football team on the field. And
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they've so they've changed the academics. So that's let me
tell you what's gonna happen. I'll tell you why mac
Brown said this. Right, So you're talking about committing money
and lowering academics because mac Brown knows if Belichick is good,
if Belichick a wins a bunch, that's gonna make mac
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Brown look like a dumb ass. Right, while you were there.
You couldn't win at North Carolina, Macburn, what's wrong with you?
Bill Belichick came in there and he won. And it
works perfectly if Belichick doesn't win, because then page two
here mac Brown can say, well, I mean they lowered
the academic standards, they had more money, and he still
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couldn't win. He still could not win. You know, that
whole rang. So it's advantage. It's a savvy move by
mac Brown to a savvy move because either way, if
Belichick wins, you're like, you dismiss it because you're, hey,
they lowered the standards. You know, he's got a bunch
of meathead guys that aren't and they're not there for academia.
They're there to play football, which is what everyone wants.
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Who is a college football team? And if Belichick somehow
doesn't win, doesn't have success, doesn't have that Dion Razmataz
at North Carolina, then mac Brown can do a victory
lap and say, man, I didn't have success, but at
least I had higher standards. I had higher standards that
Bill Belichick. Come on, it is the Ben Mahler Show.
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we break it down. Now, the way this bit works,
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I'm not deputizing anyone not listening because they can't hear me.
But I'm deputizing you to be one of our judges. Now,
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play along. There are three stories. You got to figure
(35:30):
out which of the three stories is not true, separating
fiction from fact. Let's welcome in the Power Couple. They
are back and better than ever. Brandon and Florida. We
say hello to Leslie and Jack the Judge. Hello, Leslie,
good morning fan. I regret to inform you if Jack
isn't even awake yet, so you get alpibut it. Okay,
(35:55):
that's all right, that's fine. You got you gotta get
your beauty sleep, you know, celebrity not the power. Yeah, no,
I got I got to listen. We love that you're
You're very meticulous, very rarely do you ever miss this show.
We appreciate that, Leslie. That's how that's how you became
the power couple. Right there, that's an example one of
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you every week. All right, hold on a sec, Leslie.
We have who else do we have?
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We have?
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Uh, let's hear Eenie meenie, miney moe. We've got Big
Bow in Glendale in Cali, Cali, I think in California.
Maybe's in Arizona. I know there's a couple of Glendale's.
What's up, Big Bow?
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That's Arizona.
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Hey, what's up?
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Man?
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Arizona, the Valley of the Sun. Right there, hanging out,
I'm training, home of the Dodgers and the White Sox
and every chain restaurant you could possibly want right there
in Glendale, Arizona.
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Right, yeah, we havent Dondy, Irishman.
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Yeah, all right, Hold on a second. We have Mark
on the North End.
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Hello Mark, Good morning Ben. Someone needs to tell blind
Scott you get the memo. Just because he lives in
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tough guy?
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Yeah? Just by living there, you're not automatically tough. Yeah,
I got you if that's the case. I lived in
Lincoln Heights for seven years, one of the worst neighbors
in LA. I'm not tough, but I lived there. I
did anyway, Hold on, Mark, we have who else? We
have Matt in Fort Wayne. Hello, Matt.
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Man.
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I'm telling you welcome back. Congratulations on your Are you
a Pacer fan or no? You don't care? Uh the ban?
But oh good, you're a Clipper fan. You're a good person.
Then Clipper fans are better people. Yeah, all right, all right, buddy,
hold on, say you gonna be one of our judges.
We got time one more, mister irrigation. You want to
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Mister you've been Thank you very very much.
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You have been. Time to meet tonight all.
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Right, mister is in Houston, and you're gonna be one
of our judges. All right, let's get to these here
three stories. Figure out which the three is not true.
Story number one, well, the Dodgers are known for having
a large Latino fan base, and so when they had
Mexican Heritage Night this week, they went all out. In fact,
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before the game, the Dodgers put a ring in center
field and they held a wrestling match right there for
the fans to enjoy. Story number two The Pretty Bear
Caleb Williams, who was known to wear nail polish back
in his college days at SC and it is a
tradition he started in high school, continues to do it
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in the NFL. Last week, Williams took the social media
to announce that he is launching his own nail polish line,
a collaborative effort with his mom, who has been a
nail technician for over twenty five years. And story number
three pros versus Joe's. If you were a fan of
the TV show back in the day that pitted regular
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You'll be happy to know that Fanatics is doing something
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of fifty high folut and celebrities, fifty regular folk country
bumpkins who will compete in eight sports theme challenges. Among
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the names that have signed up, you've got Tom Brady,
Kevin Durant, the Beer James Harden, all of them set
to participate. And I'm sure they're doing that for charity
and not getting paid a ton of money from Fanatics
unless we made the whole thing up. So those are
the three stories. Which of the three is not true?
You must separate fiction from fact. Let's get right back
to the judges and we'll start out with the power couple.
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Jack is still snoozing, but the brains of the operation,
Leslie has the answer. Leslie one, two or three.
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Leslie, I gotta say number one, number one one.
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All right. You have a great weekend this and enjoy yourself,
to get out and enjoy the sun. All right, thank you.
Big Bow in Glendale, Arizona, Big Bow one two or
three Bow number two, number two. Let's go to Matt.
He's in Fort Wayne. He's a good man, he's a
Clipper fan. Matt one two or three, Matt Lead You're
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gonna go with number two. I got you, all right,
Mark north End, Mark one, two or three? Mark Well,
I could pitch a Los Angeles and the Dodgers doing that.
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So I mean, I'm gonna go with number two.
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All right, mister Rigad quickly, mister Rigation, it's number two,
number two?
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Is it two?
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Number two?
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The fix th
Bing go. It's our number far underway, the squeeze play
here an hour, number four, and it's all about the tushy.
It's all about the tushy. The vote is in and
the NFL owner said, we're going to keep the toush push.
But there were a lot of stories around this, including
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the Eagles owner going bonkers. Should an owner like the
Eagles Jeffrey Luriy be so vocally involved with a tush
push or did he cross the line taking an hour
to filibuster. Shouldn't the toush push be embraced rather than eliminated?
And it's not going to be, but shouldn't also the
toush push in addition to that, is it fair to
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legislate against football tactics just because they're difficult to stop?
It's too hard to stop, so we should get rid
of it. We'll talk about that. And is the toush
push out of the danger zone now that the league
has voted against it, or is this something you file away.
We'll talk about all of that and more right now here.
It is our number four. Have a great Thursday. A
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bear the lead. My man. Well, it was very interesting
twenty four hours because you had the story last night
in basketball where the New York Knickerbockers rode the vomit
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com that was a Kamakazi mission. At the end, blew
a seventeen point lead with six minutes ago, blew a
fourteen point lead with less than three minutes to go
and somehow lost to the Indiana Pacers and the story
of the night. He also had the passing the death
of Jim Irsay, the owner of the Colts, a unexpected events.
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But our lead is from Minneapolis. That is where the
league meetings have been taking place, taking care of business
and will certainly the death of Jim Mercy trump everything
else NFL related. We'll get back to that if you
would like later on. We did a monologue earlier, it'll
be up on the podcast later about some of our
memories of Jim Mercy. But we learned that the meetings
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turned heated. It was angry. There was vitriol at the
NFL league meetings. Why there was a heated exchange. I'm
not playing nice guy anymore. No, So there's the seated
exchange between NFL owners. All of this over to keep
or not keep the tush push. The discussion occurred during
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the general session. Now Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie made an
impassion speech. It wasn't just a speech, it was a
long drawn out, never ending story in defense of the play.
And we are told that the Eagles owner had seen
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reports on social media that the NFL had enough votes
the Tushy Pushy was going to be bait, and he
was I all right. He was hopping mad, hopping mad.
So the Eagles owner then figured, Hey, I got nothing
to lose here, so I'm gonna go for it. And
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he went with the hail Mary and the ball was
tipped and it bounced into the wide receiver's hands, touchdown.
Blabbing for close to an hour, close to an hour,
got so bad. Another NFL owner got up and said,
what the eff are you doing? Why are you doing
this now? Near the end of the rant, the Eagles
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owner he used an analogy. He said, to the other aristocrats,
the robber barons, this meeting at this location in Minneapolis,
he said, listen, regardless of whether or not the tush
push is banned, it is a win win for the
Philadelphia Eagles. He added, it's like a this is the
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money quote. It's like a wet dream for a teenage
boy to create a play that was so successful that
the only way for it to be stopped is to
ben it, the Eagles owners said.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Lurie also criticized, criticized Roger Goodell, Roger the Dodger, and
Troy Vincent another tody of Roger Goodell for advocating for
the band. He was reprimanded for the wet Dream analogy.
So let us discuss the question. Let's focus in on
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this brew ha between the Eagles owner and his rant.
Should an NFL owner like Jeffrey Lurie of the Eagles
be so vocally involved with the touch push or did
he cross the line? He was reprimanded by mister Vincent,
So did he cross the line. So I've got Bill Murray,
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Banana cream Pie and Razor, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are gonna make the
Gabba ghoul. We're gonna make the Gabba ghul is what
we're gonna make, all right, So, first of all, absolutely
support the owner of the Eagles defending his his play. Now,
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would I have wanted to sit in a room and
listen to some whack a doodle go on for an hour? God? No,
I've had many meetings over my time here, and every
one of them we try to get over with as
quick as possible. Just end the meeting. That's the one
goal we all are united in as employees, let's end
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the meeting. And so I get it. They were having
a vote. This is the signature play. We know all
about that. But then all of a sudden, it's like
you're on Capitol Hill and you're doing a filibuster and
you're advocating the virtues of the tush push and so
waxing loquations like a Bill Murray movie that was not
one of the all time great Bill Murray movies, Passion
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play right, it is a tender spot. Now, we would
rather have root canal than listen to an NFL owner,
a billionaire yap on and on and on and on
on on on. Yeah, and so most of these owners,
most of these owners are not out in front and
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just kind of along for the ride. There's a few
we know who they are. We talk about him all
the time. But Luriy brought up he did bring up
a great point, and I wanted to highlight that he
talked about this being a win win situation, and this
is something that we've talked about. Clearly. The Eagles owner
is a fan of our show. He's listened to our podcast.
We pointed this out the other day. Now, some I'm
dumb called ubs Oh, don't know what you're doing, because
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I'd pointed out that this would have been the ultimate
flex for the Birds if the NFL had banned it.
A play so invincible, so amazing that the other members
of the cartel, the Good Old Boys Network, said we
can't stop it. We're gonna give up. We give up.
That's the old one. This is a can Now it
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didn't happen, but it's akin to when basketball banned the
slam dunky, and they used much of the same language
the NFL tried to use to get rid of the
toush push. All right, now, Secondly, shouldn't the tush push
be embraced? Shouldn't it be embraced rather than trying to
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eliminate it? And on that one, I am I'm nod
in my head. Yes, I'm nod in my head. Yes,
this has been an innovation. He said, Well, it's a
rugby play, it's not a football player. But it is
something that did not exist in the NFL that has
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popped up. And while it has been amazing for Philadelphia,
if you look around, if it were so easy to
execute that play, then you'd have seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
fourteen teen. I'm not getting fifteen. That would be running
it at a high success rate. But you know, and
I know that is not happening. That is not me.
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Jalen Hurtz is the only quarterback who has consistently been
able to use this as a cheek code. And that's
just the reality. Now, Is it fair to legislate against
football tactics just because they're difficult to stop? It's not right.
See that is foul played like the NFL medal. It's
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been confirmed. I was a read a story about this
earlier that the conspiracy theory that we talked about the
other day is accurate. That the NFL did. The NFL
did deputize the Green Bay Packers to do their dirty work.
They hired the Packers as the hitman to try to
take out the Tushy Pushy. And since that team does
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not have a real owner, they just are owned by
the community. They have a panel of people that run
the Packers, but they're not owned by any one human being.
And so they were like, hey, you're gonna be the
bad cop. We are going to make you the bad cop,
and the facers like okay. And for the NFL think
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about this, this monstrosity, this mammoth operation. That's like the
mob the NFL, and they could not get this to pass.
They could not. This is what Roger Goodell wanted and
he couldn't get it. He couldn't get it. This is
a banana cream pie right to the face, to the kisser,
(10:53):
banana cream pie to the face. Remember the the NFL
tabled this for about a month till lobby for extra votes,
and they still swinging a miss. They swing by a
swing back out of they swing a miss. All right,
final phing. So is the Toush push out now of
the danger zone? Is it out of the danger zone?
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Because the league get voted, they pushed it back for
a month, they voted, they decided that they could not
get enough votes. So in terms of the question, is
the Toush push out of the danger zone? The answer
is an absolutely not, absolutely not. And here's the reason. Okay,
I'll tell you why. Because of the razor Or Go
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razor thin margins. Okay, the NFL needed twenty four votes
the ban the tushy pushing. They only got to twenty two.
They closed the gap, but they didn't close it long enough.
So what does that mean? Expect the NFL to re
examine this play down the line, especially if the Birds
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continue to monster mash with this and this will pop
up again on the radar. Now Here are the ten teams.
This is not a list. These are the ten teams
that voted against the Tousch push. They are obviously the Eagles.
So there's nine other teams. The Ravens Fly, Ravens Fly,
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Those Birds have to stick together. The Cleveland Browns supporting
the Toush push, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Miami Dolphins, We're
not done. The New England Patriots. Good job by the Patriots,
the Saints, the Jets, and the Tennessee Titans. That's it.
If your team was not mentioned, that means your team
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voted to censor the Toush push. Out with the tush
is essentially what they said. So those are the teams
we like that, those are that we support those teams.
That's good job by you. And so the question becomes,
can the NFL now convince two of those other nine
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teams to say it's nay on the Tush push a
get rid of it and change their vote, flip the vote.
All they need is to that's it. And I will
garn effing to you that as long as Roger Goodell's
in charge and he doesn't like the play, he's going
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to bring this up again. And how about television? Does
TV like it? Do they decide this is a bad
product and that this is an issue and it's a
it's a tender spot. We have to address this. But
either way, the story is not over, not by a
long shot. It's not done. They're going to continue to
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run this up the flagpoles and play this cat and
mouse game with the tushy pushy And even though for
the Eagles it is a testing, trusted play, for the
rest of the nfls we've documented not so much. Not
so much. All right, is the Ben Mahler Show. If
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out there, some messages from him and you as well.
And your message is coming in here like o Cho Texto,
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I don't have time to get to that right now,
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Oho Texto, but I will. I will dive into that
PG thirteen there coming up later. Lady sideburns rights and
says if they are going to allow the tush push,
they need to legalize leaping and leverage on the field
goal and pats there is less contact when you leap
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then there is with the tush push. Oh yeah, the
human torpedo, the human torpedo. Ostrich Ant is up Laterash Early,
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It's morning time and that means Rick in Maryland. Hello, Rick, Welcome,
morning time.
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Am I on the air? Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
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Yes? I can hear you. I can hear you now.
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Hey, Ben hallelujah, helllllujah helllllujah.
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Man, man, I can't get over that game last night.
I don't understand it. I mean, how could you know
that you had it? You had the game. I mean
I have a vested interest in.
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It because okay, they just no, no.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
No, they just drafted this girl that reminds me of
my daughter, and you're a kiky area. Then the message
could have went three and oh, Ben, come on man,
he man.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I don't know what you want me to It was
that they were playing on your d last night.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Man. They over there in Golden State. They had the game.
They could have went three and oh she just reminds
me of my daughter. Man, she had that demeanor. She
talks like her and I just I just loved the
mistics because they got teaky. Oh my god, they had
the game tho. It could have been three and oh.
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Beny, morning time, morning time is gonna be good by
time here in a minute. How dare you? How dare
you get out of here? How about this? As far
as the Knicks game last night, though, thank you Rick.
The entering Wednesday I saw this. It's one of those
mind blowing numbers entering Wednesday teams that trailed by nine
or more points in the final minute of the fourth
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quarter overtime in the playoffs. This goes back to nineteen
ninety eight. They didn't keep track of this stuff before
nineteen ninety eight, so that's the modern era. But since then,
that had happened where her teams were trailing by nine
or more points final minute of the fourth quarter overtime
in the playoffs, it had happened one thousand, four hundred
and fourteen times. How many times do you think the
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team that was trailing won again, well, fourteen hundred times.
How many times did the team How many times did
the team trailing end up winning down by nine final minute?
The answer none. The Indiana Pacers. Last night, the Indiana Pacers,
according to the Elias, became the first team in the
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last twenty seven years to trail by nine or more
points in the final minute fourth quarter overtime and win
the game. They won the game, an amazing accomplishment. And
if you think last night's game was high scoring, high
Faluton and all that, you're not wrong. That was the
highest scoring conference final game, highest scoring conference final game
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two hundred seventy one total points since the Warriors played
the Hawks. And I don't think they were the Atlanta
Hawks at the time in nineteen sixty seven. The last
time you had a game that was that epic with
that much offense and all that. So it's been it's
(21:09):
been a while. It is absolutely been a while. Now.
One person that is annoyed and financially annoyed with the outcome.
It's probably a lot of people financially avoid annoyed with that,
but that would be des Bryant. Des Bryant, the former
NFL wide receiver, former Dallas Cowboy des Bryant, who was disgusted, dismayed,
(21:33):
and disheartened by the Knicks losing that game. He claims
that he lost five hundred thousand dollars. He had a
bet on that game. He would have won five hundred
thousand dollars had the New York Knickerbockers won the game. Now,
(21:53):
I don't know if that was the points spread or
just to have to win the game. I'm sure about
that part of it, but that that was what Bryant
sent out. I do understand he's he's a prolific gambler,
so I guess that would make sense. He got he
has money from his NFL careers by betting big time money,
and if it doesn't work out, he'll end up in
(22:15):
a documentary about going bankrupt. If it works out, then
that's good for him. Now, speaking of gambling, there's a
big gamble going on this weekend. A NFL rookie star
supposed to be a star, Travis Hunter, is going to
become an honest man, Travis Hunter said to marry in
(22:37):
Tennessee this weekend. Wasn't that the when he was at Colorado?
Wasn't she the one that was viral for all the
wrong reasons and all that? In my confusing.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Mind, I didn't know that she had a backount well when.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
He was at Colorado. I thought there was an incident
a couple of things where where he was like kind
of beholden to her. He was, yeah, she was. She
was like, you know, very possessive. Yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
So they're they're getting married. So okay, didn't he get
off social media because of that? Didn't he? I think
(23:13):
he did? Right, he was on there for a while
and he's like, I'm good, I'm out. That's it, I'm done,
Ski's no more. I'm sure that wedding will be be
amazing eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number.
And uh, let's say a little blind Scott who's always
there no matter what, Always blind Scott, Hello, blind Scott welcome.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Oh hey, yeah, they.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Died Jim Mercy. Stuff was kind of depressing. I didn't
realize he was only sixty five. He brought his traveling
museum here to Boston a couple of years ago. I
was on the on the sidewalk when they were bringing
all the equipment in.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You know what I mean. He was riding like a
little Hubver scooter and he was smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
So like if you if you smoke those cigarettes, they
can strict.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Your blood vessels and eventually you'll have a stroker to
while you're sleeping or even when you're just standing up
or whatever, the blood just rushes straight to your head.
I'm assuming the cigarettes is what did him in.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But what do you what are your doctor? I get
you assume because he smokes a lot of people smoke cigarettes.
He didn't die from I don't believe he died from cancer.
You just whatever, we'll find out. We're gonna fight out
at some point here, We're gonna fight out.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So I played a doctor on the radio, like I've
been multiple health problems since I was ten years old.
You know, uh one other thing, dude, this ousie was guy?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
He why are you so upset?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Why are you obsessed with Ozzy Was? I don't under
I do not understand.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Fake tough guy he has like a fake tough guy.
I'm from the North End. I'm a real tough guy.
He flexed on me like you you.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Would You would not last too. If you were in
Western Australia, you would not You would not last if
you were in Westerns.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Total hill billy act, dude. That's that's a total act
he's doing. He has a weird accent. He sounds like
a goofball like literally, man, real, that's.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
His native tongue. What do you want to tell you?
What's where he grew up?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Come on, dude, he's threatening people on Twitter at I'm
like he's he works in an excavatory.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You how many people have you threaten? You threatened?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You threatened me?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
How many times do you threatened me over the years?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Well, I would do it you if you don't give
me any airtime, let me finish what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Oh, Mike, I gave you the air You've given you
plenty of airs I'm giving you. I get people complaining
I give you so much airtime. Why do you put
this guy on? They said, what do you do? Put
Scott on? Blind? Scott was wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
They tell me, these are these are these those older dudes.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
That listen to the podcast or the day. They can't
even get out of bed for the show due they're
not even in the age demographic. I'm the biggest star
in the radio show I'm bringing on.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, all right, do you think all right? I go,
I go, get get all right? Please? Oh my god?
All right? Is my family back in the day would say,
all right, anyway? So how about let's get the money
real money. Yeah, I mentioned the loss of five hundred
(26:02):
thousand dollars supposedly Des Bryant lost his you know what
on the on the Knicks. But how about this one?
All right? Shaye jogis Alexander the MVP of the NBA.
He has a decision to make you make the call
you now, he's already rich. So it's one of those deals.
(26:25):
So the MVP of Oklahoma City SGA is eligible this
offseason to sign a four year contract for two hundred
and ninety three million. Let me repeat that for those
of you that are little slow. SGA the MVP of
(26:45):
the NBA. Because of this, he is eligible for a
two hundred and ninety three million dollar extension. However, since
he won the MVP and also was an All NBA
player this year, assuming that all takes place, Sga is
going to be eligible to sign a five year, three
(27:07):
hundred and eighty million dollar contract, but he has to
wait until twenty twenty six, the offseason after next year.
So you make the call. It's an extra eighty seven
million dollars. Do you take the money right now at
two hundred ninety three million, or do you bet on yourself?
(27:29):
Do you gamble that you're going to stay healthy, You're
going to be okay, and then you're gonna get the
extra eighty seven million dollars. It's the only logical move
here would be to go and play out for the
eighty seven million dollars. Now, you play out the year
and you go for it. I mean because either he's
(27:51):
already got enough money I would assume based on what
he's been earning up until this point, where diversified portfolio. Oh,
put some some money away. You're you're fine, You're you're
in really good shape. You've got nothing to worry about.
And he obviously has plenty of money because did you
see Jay uh Gilghis Alexander what he bought his teammates? Uh?
(28:15):
You know how they all hang out together us like
a high school team there in Oklahoma City. They all
every time they do a postgame interview, the whole team
has to stand around. That's their stick. So he bought
everyone on the team a beautiful Rolex watch.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So us that's chump change. When you're in the two
hundred million dollar territory and all that, that's like nothing, right,
that's forget about it. Uh, but he's got the cash.
He has the cash ola for sure. All right, coming
up straight ahead, we have momentarily we are going to
have is it a fact or Is it fiction? A
(28:54):
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find the latest on Bill Belichick, and the only I
found out we had the big scandal tabloid story where
(30:04):
Jordan Hudson claimed that they're engaged in all that, and
some people are saying, well, they're not engaged. And then
the TMZ had the story that Belichick changed the name
of his boat, which raised some eyebrows and added an
extra ring on there. They think that's for her cheerleading ring,
which would be hilarious. Would make Bill the most whipped
(30:26):
man in America, in the world. If that's the case, Well,
now someone else has entered the chat. Mac Brown, of
all people. Mac Brown, longtime college football coach who flopped
his second stint for the Tar Hills so out of
finn Air. Mac Brown has laid out a claim against
(30:51):
Bill Belichick. He's the guy that Belichick essentially replaced at
North There might have been some interim coach at the end,
but Mack Brown had been there for couple of years,
and so Bill Belichick takes over, and in an appearance
on a serious XM radio, mac Brown said, as far
as North Carolina and Bill Belichick, and he went on,
(31:12):
he's the greatest coach. Blah blah blah blah blah. They've
committed money to it, They've helped him with the academics.
This is the money part of a quote. Mac Brown
claims they lowered the standards at North Carolina to get
a better football team. I'm paraphrasing some of this, but
to get a better football team on the field. And
(31:33):
they've so they've changed the academics. So that's let me
tell you what's gonna happen. I'll tell you why mac
Brown said this. Right, So you're talking about committing money
and lowering academics because mac Brown knows if Belichick is good,
if Belichick a wins a bunch, that's gonna make mac
(31:55):
Brown look like a dumb ass. Right, while you were there.
You couldn't win at North Carolina, Macburn, what's wrong with you?
Bill Belichick came in there and he won. And it
works perfectly if Belichick doesn't win, because then page two
here mac Brown can say, well, I mean they lowered
the academic standards, they had more money, and he still
(32:17):
couldn't win. He still could not win. You know, that
whole rang. So it's advantage. It's a savvy move by
mac Brown to a savvy move because either way, if
Belichick wins, you're like, you dismiss it because you're, hey,
they lowered the standards. You know, he's got a bunch
of meathead guys that aren't and they're not there for academia.
They're there to play football, which is what everyone wants.
(32:38):
Who is a college football team? And if Belichick somehow
doesn't win, doesn't have success, doesn't have that Dion Razmataz
at North Carolina, then mac Brown can do a victory
lap and say, man, I didn't have success, but at
least I had higher standards. I had higher standards that
Bill Belichick. Come on, it is the Ben Mahler Show.
(33:02):
We are moments away from fact or fiction. That's right.
I know if you'd like to be a judge, call
right now eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's
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Will whizz around to all of our judges fact or
fiction for the rest of the hour. We'll get to
(33:24):
that and we will do it next.
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please transmit me. Is it fact or fiction? Let's face
some raw facts, Ben Mallor, show Man, It is that
time yet again? Oh it's amazing. Is it a fact
or is it fiction? Every week at about this time
(35:09):
we break it down. Now, the way this bit works,
you are deputized. I'm deputizing you right now, you listening.
I'm not deputizing anyone not listening because they can't hear me.
But I'm deputizing you to be one of our judges. Now,
you can call in and do this, but you didn't
do that, so instead you just have to listen and
play along. There are three stories. You got to figure
(35:30):
out which of the three stories is not true, separating
fiction from fact. Let's welcome in the Power Couple. They
are back and better than ever. Brandon and Florida. We
say hello to Leslie and Jack the Judge. Hello, Leslie,
good morning fan. I regret to inform you if Jack
isn't even awake yet, so you get alpibut it. Okay,
(35:55):
that's all right, that's fine. You got you gotta get
your beauty sleep, you know, celebrity not the power. Yeah, no,
I got I got to listen. We love that you're
You're very meticulous, very rarely do you ever miss this show.
We appreciate that, Leslie. That's how that's how you became
the power couple. Right there, that's an example one of
(36:15):
you every week. All right, hold on a sec, Leslie.
We have who else do we have?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
We have?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Uh, let's hear Eenie meenie, miney moe. We've got Big
Bow in Glendale in Cali, Cali, I think in California.
Maybe's in Arizona. I know there's a couple of Glendale's.
What's up, Big Bow?
Speaker 3 (36:33):
That's Arizona.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 5 (36:35):
Man?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Arizona, the Valley of the Sun. Right there, hanging out,
I'm training, home of the Dodgers and the White Sox
and every chain restaurant you could possibly want right there
in Glendale, Arizona.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Right, yeah, we havent Dondy, Irishman.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, all right, Hold on a second. We have Mark
on the North End.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Hello Mark, Good morning Ben. Someone needs to tell blind
Scott you get the memo. Just because he lives in
the oft end for a few years, does that mean
he trumps there or nor does it make him a
tough guy?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah? Just by living there, you're not automatically tough. Yeah,
I got you if that's the case. I lived in
Lincoln Heights for seven years, one of the worst neighbors
in LA. I'm not tough, but I lived there. I
did anyway, Hold on, Mark, we have who else? We
have Matt in Fort Wayne. Hello, Matt.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
I'm telling you welcome back. Congratulations on your Are you
a Pacer fan or no? You don't care? Uh the ban?
But oh good, you're a Clipper fan. You're a good person.
Then Clipper fans are better people. Yeah, all right, all right, buddy,
hold on, say you gonna be one of our judges.
We got time one more, mister irrigation. You want to
(37:46):
be one of the judges.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Mister you've been Thank you very very much.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
You have been. Time to meet tonight all.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Right, mister is in Houston, and you're gonna be one
of our judges. All right, let's get to these here
three stories. Figure out which the three is not true.
Story number one, well, the Dodgers are known for having
a large Latino fan base, and so when they had
Mexican Heritage Night this week, they went all out. In fact,
(38:15):
before the game, the Dodgers put a ring in center
field and they held a wrestling match right there for
the fans to enjoy. Story number two The Pretty Bear
Caleb Williams, who was known to wear nail polish back
in his college days at SC and it is a
tradition he started in high school, continues to do it
(38:37):
in the NFL. Last week, Williams took the social media
to announce that he is launching his own nail polish line,
a collaborative effort with his mom, who has been a
nail technician for over twenty five years. And story number
three pros versus Joe's. If you were a fan of
the TV show back in the day that pitted regular
(38:59):
Joe against professional athletes, your dreams are about to come true.
You'll be happy to know that Fanatics is doing something
similar they are launching a competition called Fanatics Games, consists
of fifty high folut and celebrities, fifty regular folk country
bumpkins who will compete in eight sports theme challenges. Among
(39:20):
the names that have signed up, you've got Tom Brady,
Kevin Durant, the Beer James Harden, all of them set
to participate. And I'm sure they're doing that for charity
and not getting paid a ton of money from Fanatics
unless we made the whole thing up. So those are
the three stories. Which of the three is not true?
You must separate fiction from fact. Let's get right back
to the judges and we'll start out with the power couple.
(39:43):
Jack is still snoozing, but the brains of the operation,
Leslie has the answer. Leslie one, two or three.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Leslie, I gotta say number one, number one one.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
All right. You have a great weekend this and enjoy yourself,
to get out and enjoy the sun. All right, thank you.
Big Bow in Glendale, Arizona, Big Bow one two or
three Bow number two, number two. Let's go to Matt.
He's in Fort Wayne. He's a good man, he's a
Clipper fan. Matt one two or three, Matt Lead You're
(40:24):
gonna go with number two. I got you, all right,
Mark north End, Mark one, two or three? Mark Well,
I could pitch a Los Angeles and the Dodgers doing that.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
So I mean, I'm gonna go with number two.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
All right, mister Rigad quickly, mister Rigation, it's number two,
number two?
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Is it two?
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Number two?
Speaker 3 (40:46):
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