January 3, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller continues to do a deep dive on the injury to Damar Hamlin including whether or not the NFL will make up the game, if it's back to business as usual this weekend, Cite the Bite, and more!
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Hello, and welcome. It's our name or four hour four
of our small little radio program, and it's repackaged here
in the podcast. God bless you for finance. Thank you
for that. So we dig even deeper into the bag
of conversation. The injury Tomar Hamlin of the Bills. What
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happens next in this story Hamlin in the hospital last
we heard critical condition? Does the NFL get back to
business per normal in Week eighteen, the final week of
the regular season. Do the Bills and the Bengals end
up making up this game or does it end up
being canceled even though it's got big impact on the
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NFL final standings in playoff positioning. We'll discuss all that
and more right now here. It is our number four
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lead this hour. Coming from the Monday night football game
that was not finished. It is the biggest story in
our world of sports, and it has crossed over into
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people that don't have the sports genere talking about it
as well. It was a matchup of heavyweights, the biggest
game in Week seventeen of the NFL, A game with
playoff implications, seating implications as a couple of big time teams,
Cincinnati and Buffalo, teams that have a shot at get
into the Super Bowl in Arizona this year. And they
were duking it out, supposed to duke it out there,
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both teams on long winning streaks. The Bengals won the
coin toss. They decided, you know, wait, wait, got down,
let's score a touchdown, and they did. They went down,
they scored a touchdown and the first possession of the game,
they went to five plays forty six yards. It was
a big twenty nine yard penalty. They got a touchdown
and then Buffalo got the ball and they went down.
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They got a field goal, so it's a seven three game.
Bells kicked off, Bengals get the ball back, and that's
where everything went haywire. On that possession by Cincinnati in
the first quarter, they're matriculating the ball down the field.
Bengals had run a couple of plays. They had the
ball at midfield, Joe Burrow and the shotgun formation. Second
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down in three right at the Cincinnati thirty nine yard line,
and he drops back a couple of steps, throws a
little pass over the middle to te Higgins number eighty
five in your program, but number one in your heart,
and he gets down to the forty eight yard line,
and then the safety for the Bills, Tomar Hamlin, made
what looked like a pretty routine by the book tackle.
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Nothing to see here, that's it. He stood up and
then he fell down, and that is when everything hit
the fan, and the trainers came running out for Buffalo.
Then the trainers for Cincinnati came running out. Next thing
you know, the paramedics are there. Now you've got the
ESPN feed showing a wide angle shot of the stadium,
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not showing the close up on Hamlin, and it turns
out that he had a cardiac event. The Bills released
a statement just before we came on the radio few
hours ago saying that the safety there Damar Hamlin suffered
a cardiac arrest following a hit in the game versus
the Bengals. A heartbeat was restored on the field, they
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conducted CPR, they used the defibrillator for almost ten minutes.
He was then taken to the Trauma Center at the
University of Cincinnati Medical Center further testing and treatment. According
to a marketing rep, Jordan Bruney, who is a friend
and marketing rep of the aforementioned Damar Hamlin of the Bills,
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said that the vitals were back to normal and that
they are running tests and as the Bill said, currently sedated.
So what happened. There'll be an investigation trying to figure
out exactly what happened to pinpoint it, what led to this,
and there is a medical condition that we learned about it.
We had heard about this a few years ago. It
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was a player to Nam, Chris Pronger and the NHL
that had this happened. And this started out with some
medical types, some doctors chiming in on social media, but
it appears to still have legs, and we'll see if
this is actually the case here. But the term I
believe is commodo cortis. Commodio cortis, I believe is the
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term excuse my Latin. But it's it's essentially just blunt
forced to the chest, and the consensus is that's what happened,
but it's it's more than that. And as we've learned
through the overnight here that this is just really bad luck.
It's bad timing. Could happen to any of us. You
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don't have to play football. You can get in a
situation where you're in a collision, but a fraction of
a second window think about that less than it's the
fraction of a second, and if everything lines up, you
get hit in the right place in your chest, it
causes your heart to short circuit and that's why you
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need to get rebooted now. Normally, when this happens, it
is fatal. And the reason it's fatal is because you
don't have an ambulance there and you don't have doctors there,
and even when they have that, sometimes it doesn't work out.
And it is important to note that DeMar Hamlin is
still in critical condition, and that is defined as uncertain prognosis,
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the vital signs unstable or abnormal. In this case, it
would appear to be abnormal and there are major complications
and death may be imminent, but hopefully the status will
be upgraded and we'll move on. We'll see what happens
when the sun comes up here in a little bit,
and there'll be more news on this situation. So the
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game was postponed after the DeMar Hamlin injury. So let
us discuss the question what happens next with this particular
story while you wait for the health update and you
hope that that's a green light and not a yellow light,
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and we'll find out. They're doing all the tests and
all that, seeing how much time his heart was out
and was it less than a minute? Was it longer
than that? They seemed to start CPR right away, like
they knew immediately. That's the vibe I got watching it.
I saw the look on the trainers and they're like,
holy crap. I mean, and you know, you watch these
NFL games and you're like, Okay, they know it's a knee,
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it's a shoulder, it's an elbow, it's a hand. Whatever. Well,
the look. The expression on the Buffalo training staff was like,
oh my god. They were immediately calling for the paramedics,
the ambulance to get on the field right away, like
they knew immediately what was going on with his cat
for the Bills. So as far as that, that's the
first thing, the medical side. Updating the story. Now, does
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the NFL get back to business per normal this week?
That's that's that's a factor. Also, do the Bills and
the Bengals make up this game or does it end
up being canceled? Do they call it a tie? The
word on the street here the whispers going around overnight,
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knowing that everyone prefaced this by saying, well, it's not important,
but not important. But right, so what do they do?
All right, what are you gonna do? The NFL is
gonna get on the horn this morning with their big
shots and try to figure out how to play the game.
Can they do it now? They could conceivably do it.
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If tomorrow Hamlin is okay and everything's all right, then
they can say, Okay, the show goes on. That's it.
But it's a matter of squeezing in the game between
Week eighteen and the wild card round, and so you're logistically,
if you're the NFL, you got you got television commitments.
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You've gotta schedule things and move things around. Now, the
easiest scenario, IM gonna give the NFL some free advice here.
The easiest scenario, if they desperately have to play the
Cincinnati Buffalo game, would be to push it back now,
Push it back right, Push everything back, including the playoffs.
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Push it back by a week. Do you eliminate the
bye week between the conference championship game and the super Bowl? Simple? Done?
There you go, that's it. Now? Will the NFL do that?
They love their two weeks. They love the two weeks
to hype up the super Bowl and build up the excitement.
They've got parties planned, and they've got everything logistically lined
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up in the Greater Phoenix area for the Super Bowl.
So what do you do? And the fun thing about this,
if you like goofing on the NFL, is, no matter
what the NFL does, they're screwed because someone's gonna be
very upset. Someone's gonna be angry. All of these scenarios.
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If they do play again, I think there's still a
shot that they don't play the game. They don't make
this up. They just say it's a tie. Whatever it's
that happened, You move on. But you could all you
could you could have I'm trying to think outside whether
options are there. You have it, call it a tie,
even though the Bengals were winning. You could do that,
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call it a forfeited game. But you're then you're punishing
both the teams. And who would forfeit the game? Would
it be the Bills, would it be the Bengals? Like,
how exactly would all that work? So there's a lot
of moving parts to this, but we can guarantee you
that the number of people would be upset because of
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the fact if you could plan a Wednesday like there's
a pot and you can move the thing around to
when they don't want it, that's a good, not a
great situation for television. So that's also a thing in
the NFL is just a glorified TV show. So you've
got that as well. Also, about two hours ago, the
Bills did arrive back at the airport there, the Buffalo
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Niagara Airport. I know you're excited about that. There's video.
I saw the little video clip. There was police escort
for the guys when they were leaving the airport and
they said there were no fans. Ordinary there's a bunch
of fans waiting to greet the team, but just after
three in the morning, so a few hours ago there
was nobody there. They landed and then get the police escort.
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If I'd love that when I come back from a
road trip, if the police could give me an escort,
that would really help. There's a lot of traffic at
the airport and I would really appreciate that. I don't
know how do you get that? And you have to
know somebody. I guess you got to know somebody, right,
you have to They don't just give those out. They
paid the bills pay for those or the police are like, yeah,
I will help you out whatever. Yeah, all right. It
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is the Bandmaller Show. If you'd like to talk about
any of this, I know there's also a visual A
bunch of Bengal fans were joining Bills fans outside the hospital.
You've had a number of different things pop up here
in the overnight. The charity angle is insane to the
membrane and people scrambling. They're like, well, we gotta do something.
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People feel helpless. You watch these games, feel guilty You're like,
what are we doing. This guy's who knows what's gonna happen.
He could die tomorrow. Hamlin, You're like, I want to
do something. I want to give back. And they found
out that they, being the Internet social media, found out
he had a charity for his hometown area in Pennsylvania
where he's from, and he was raising money. The goal
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is to get twenty five hundred dollars to buy toys
for kids, and so people started doning and they kept doning,
and they have some people put five bucks in, some
people put thirty bucks in, some people with thousands of dollars.
And in the span of the time this guy got hurt.
Let's remember, this is not a household name. This is
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a guy that's on the roster and he's an NFL
player and that's great, but he's not a star, and
he's one of these guys that's kind of on the roster.
He's unknown, and now people know who he is and
they're like, wait a minute. They looked him up and
that charity has now raised over three point one million
dollars since he got hurt, which was around what nine
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o'clock eastern, six o'clock in the West and right now
I'm looking at it right here, over one hundred and
twenty thousand random donation all over the world. It's not
just in the US. There's people all over the world
that are donating this thing. How harder is to get
people to donate to anything. It's like it's like you know,
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and people are in the money. It's wild and this
is actually more money. It's gonna end up being more
money by the time the sun's sun comes up and
people keep donating throughout the day. He's on. This guy,
Damar Hamlin is on a four year contract with the Bills.
He was a six round pick, so he's not a
big money guy, but by NFL standards he's not. By
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the real world, he is. He's in the highest tax bracket,
but a four year contract for three point six million,
So again, this is gonna be more money for the
charity by the time this is all done. Eight seven,
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It's Ben Maller. Well, that's false advertising, Eddie. Jay Mitch writes,
and he says this listener enjoys the show. Also wishes
the NFL players suffered the cardiac arrest a full and
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speedy recovery. However, tonight's show is boring, So do we
have any money back guarantee? Eddie can we give any
money back guarantee to the listeners that are Probably we
can give them back all the money they've invested in
the show. Yes, Now, this is this is one of
those slippery slopes that he I've been doing this a
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long time. You've been with me a long time. But
I've been doing this before you and I've done these shows.
And when you don't follow the mantra, you get killed.
So it's you're stuck between the devil and deep Lucy.
If I came in here and did a regular goofy
show and did a bunch of jokes and goofed on this,
that and the other thing, I'd have the I can't
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believe you doing that kind of radio. You are ungrateful.
Shame on you. Yeah, and now I'm getting the man.
Your show's pretty pretty boring. It sucks, So I've got
that damned if you do. Yeah. But the reason I'm
going this path is because I can guarantee you none
of my bosses will call me up today and say, Ben,
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why are you doing jokes at three in the morning
when the guys in the hospital, what's wrong with you?
I will not get that phone call that will not
happen today. So and that's really the goal for all this,
just to have a nice sleep and not have a
phone call on your wake up say hey, numb nuts,
what were you doing. Don't have to worry about it, man,
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Lady Sideburns writes, And you know this is a legitimate,
says Holy smokes been. I don't think you've ever had
a segment go this long without any sound effects. You
would think the soundboard is malfunctioned. Somber mood. Understandably so,
says Lady sideburn JJ writes and says, Troy Aikman and
Joe Smug got at least one police escort after a game.
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Years now, I've heard the broadcasters do get police escorts,
So good for them, Harry writes, and he says, why
will people do stuff like donate to this charity but
they won't help their neighbor across the streets. It's a
flaw in human nature, Harry. As you get older, I
don't know how you are, harry're probably as old as
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I am. Maybe you're not, I don't know. But it's
a flaw in human nature. It's it's this weird thing where,
like the people around here, you're like, screw them, but
somebody far far away. You're like, I helpe that guy.
Now the neighbor could be an a hole too. That's
true exactly. But a lot of this is just I
believe it's guilt, Eddy, that we feel guilty because we're
watching the game. Who are we? I don't think it's guilt.
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I think it's guilt. I'm going guilt. I think you
feel you just feel bad for him, so you want
to do something to help out. I don't know he's guilt.
I'm going guilt. You feel guilty about what you're watching.
This guy's out there, could you know die? And you're
you're sitting your ass on a sofa watching the game
eating popcorn. I don't feel guilty about that. You don't. No,
you're something wrong by watching him play football. These people
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are not here for your enjoyment, Eddie, I think they are.
Are they okay? Robin Vegas is maybe Whoopie Pie Blair
should have performed a stunt like this before he did
the polar plunge. I think think about the kind of
cheddar the reigning caller of the Year could have brought in.
It's too much masturbation. The problems year, I've not heard
from Blair. I hope he made it back out of
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the Atlantic Ocean. Blair. Blair not as big a star
this year as he was in the past. He didn't
called sports radio as much. He's got a job, Yeah
he didn't. I don't think he earned as much money.
Is now a band wag? Yeah? Anyway, let's go to
the phones, and America's favorite drag queen caller is Flexus
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in Buffalo. Hello Flexus, Then Hello everybody. Then, I'm probably
the only person I come out to say this. I
feel really that what happened last night? You and I
got something coming with that young man weight thing? Yeah
it was you lost weight. I lost weight. Yeah, we
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didn't do that weight. We could be in that same predictament. No, no,
they said, no, no, this had nothing to do with
He's not fat, he Flexus. He's in fine shape. He's
a professional football player in the secondary, runs a lot.
He's This had nothing to do with the weight, felex Okay,
I'm glad you cleared that up. Now, what do you
think he was five hundred pounds playing safety for the
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Buffalo Bills on usually I don't thank anyway, depends it
depends what kind of TV you have. You know, I
think that was great. They all got to get him right.
But I think the game should have went on. I
really gives you. Now you're you're sitting there for three
hours figuring, well, how they're going to do a makeup game?
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How are you going to give them money back? You know,
why go through all that bolgrap the game. It's the
right thing to do. It's the right thing. Sometimes you
gotta take a hit. You're not there. You can't always
be about the money. Whet and pray. There's nothing they
can do for the guy. The guys in good care now,
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the good doctors, have you listen. It doesn't It doesn't
guarantee anything. I mean, the hospitals are great and doctors
are wonderful, but people die in hospitals all the time.
So it doesn't guarantee anything. But how do you know
that guy didn't thing? He would still want to play
the game? You know, people really love their team. They
really loved the game. Yeah, I mean the NFL if
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they had finished that game, oh man, would that have
been That would have been right? Well, it would have
great for you, It would be great for you and
justin it's that people's heads would have exploded. Oh my,
can you imagine that? Are in fact, it's bad enough.
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The SoundBite I wish we had it of Joe Bucks saying,
all right, five minutes, they'll be back out of the
um boy, holy cano, holy canole. Let's go to Eli,
who's hanging out in Eddie's old stopping grounds of Fresno.
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Right there, and the it's the bread basket of California,
right Eddie. That's where all the cows and the milk
and all that come from, vegetables and fruits. Yeah, that's right.
All the rich people, the a holes in San Francisco,
in La Eat all comes from that area. Hello, Eli, welcome.
What's going on? I can answer I can answer all
the gambling questions about the game. All the bets, all
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the bets are going to be refunded for any bets
on the spreads and the total all props that had
already been decided will be paid out. I mean that's
at least most sports books. Yeah, yeah, I mean it
makes since the game was not finished, and so if
they even if they play again, the situation is different.
And as a gambler, as you know, you buy the
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stakes are different because you get this guy out, how
the Bill's gonna respond? And then what about the Bengals?
So there's is different perspective on the game and all
that stuff. So sure, yeah, yeah, but like the first
touchdown prop and all that stuff gets paid out because
it happened. There you go, So team to score first
Bengals first touchdown, Bengals done, done, there you go perfect,
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absolutely better. But I don't know if you remember, but
I called a few weeks ago and I told you
that I had a peek at the the way the
NFL season, who's gonna play out with the scripts and
the flex in games and primetime? This weekend went exactly
I thought they would, and we got the Titans Jags
for a playoff spot and the Lions and Lions and package.
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But does this mean now the Rams have to beat Seattle?
So that's like a free playoff game, right because if
they well know, if the Rams lose, then see the
Lions are eliminated and then they're just playing for pride. Yeah,
but the Packers are going to beat the Lions, so
it's a moot point. The only way the Lions win,
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the only way the Lions win that game is if
they can put a dome over Lambeau Field. Because Jared Golf,
I don't know what the weather is going to be
in Green Bay on Sunday. I'm guessing it's not gonna
be seventy five degrees on Sunday in Green Bay. So
Jared Goff's gonna he's gonna freeze his nuts off and
he does not play well in cold weather. Yeah, but
I've got another peek at the script prediction for you.
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I think the Packers are going to play the Niners
in the first round of the playoffs and beat them.
I think Aaron Rodgers is gonna get his first playoffs
win in San Francisco. And then I also think Jacksonville
is gonna make the playoffs and pull off a upset
against the Chargers. Also, congratulations Eddie on a on that
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comeback win with Kenny Pickett on a Sunday was a
great game, which one was it was Saturday last last week,
and then this past weekend it was it was on Sunday.
So yeah, back to football game, And how about how
about Eddie. I think Roberto should think Eddie because the
Steelers actually killed the career of Derek Carr as a raider.
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That was the final blow. Yeah, it's set up. It's
set up perfectly, so the Browns can crush the Steelers
hopes and dreams this week. Unless they do. My Browns
and Uncle Touchy the Shaun Watson are gonna go ahead
and uh yeah, go ahead and go ahead and handle
the Steelers. So good luck. You got it all figured
out here here, Li, you're a made man. Look at
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you got all the answers to the test. It's unbelievable. Absolutely,
I killed the NFL, but I lose all my money
in Chinese basketball in the middle of night. Nothing about.
It's like college football when Hawaii would play the late
game on a Saturday, and then you well, usually you're chasing,
you're betting on Hawaii, but in your case different. All right,
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I think I gotta go. You might want to call someone.
It seems like you have a problem. You have apologize.
We love China. We love playing there. That's right. Big
fans over there at the NBA, they love their China.
All right. It is the Bannet Maller Show. As we
continue on that light show story that we were talking
about the skyline of Cincinnati and justin some of these
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other guys can can point out that they turned on
blue lights as a as a tribute to de mar
him and I assume that the stadium formerly called Paul
Brown Stadium, I believe it was, but it's got some
corporate name now. But they turned on blue lights as well.
So little symbolic things that are taking place here is
the Sporting World reacts to the story about the bill
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safety to Mar Hammond there and his situation. Almost ten
minutes of CPR on the field Wild Scene. Be sure
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All right, it is the Ben Maller Show. As we
continue on, and we do have Site to Bite coming
up in a little bit story that's obviously not related
to the big story here in the NFL. But somebody
who's very happy all of sports media is not talking
about anything but the story that happened in the Monday
night game would be Dana White. About that my man
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Dana White there popping up on TMZ and yeah, Mahico
and apparently what happens in Mexico does not stay in
Mexico if you sell the video to Harvey eleven and
TMZ and somebody did just that. The little booze cruise
a cruise. They were at a bar, Dana White and
his longtime wife there. Cocaine isn't cheap. Your wife decided
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to slap Dana, and Dana then did the thing that
you unfortunately can't do, slapped her back. Yeah tit for
tat there. Yes, So anyway, that's what happened. And Dana
did a long video on TMZ explaining what happened, said,
there's no excuse for what happened to this resort in Mexico.
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Both were hammered when it took place, and then it's
one of these things. You know, Dana has been very outspoken,
said all the right things, you can't you can't put
hands on a woman and all that, and the yeah,
little talk, little talk there. All right, Let's say hello
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to our friend Jerry, who's in Rhode Island, And hello Jerry, Welcome,
Hey Ben, how you doing. If I was any better,
I'd be Coop, but not justin Cooper because he hates
New Year's Well, nice to nice to talk to you.
I figured i'd call in because I have something that
obviously doesn't personally relate till tonight, but I just wanted
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to share because on the aspect of the Bills and
the Bengals and all the fans and the millions that
watched the incident tonight. Because when I was thirteen, I
worked in my uncle's bakery and a man working that
comes in once every two weeks. What came in collapsed
right next to me, and you know I saw that,
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and you know, they had to do the defibrillator and
he actually died. So I'm praying for damar that you know,
he survives and recovers fully, so he has all my prayers.
But my point is that that was when I was thirteen.
I'm in my forties and that will never leave you.
So my I'm sharing that. I really I hope that
they get some help if the players are suffering, because
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that's very, very traumatizing. I know I was a teenager.
It's different. I mean, yeah, yeah, I mean you have
that memory and and you were writing that age. This
is my theory on life as I've gotten older. It's
like when you're from like eight or nine to like thirteen,
like those are the most vivid memories. Yeah, everything, because
you're like smart enough to figure out the world a
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little bit, but you're still naive enough to have the
kids stuff in you. And then like everything that happened,
like I remember like all of sports for that time
period in my life is like, oh I remember this that,
but I also remember traumatic events that. Yeah, I remember
sports since I was seven, and I obviously remember that
because you know, it's just something that no one should
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ever have to witness, and you know that, I think
of the thousands of fans that witness that that we
didn't witness that they kept going to commercial and you know,
obviously went away from it understandably. Yeah we didn't. I
mean you didn't know from watching the proctis. I mean
you knew it was bad, but you didn't see them
doing the CPR. And I can't speak highly enough of
those players to form that circle around him, to give
him his privacy, so the media and all of us
(30:11):
couldn't see the work that was being done to hear
that his you know, obviously shirt was cut off and
all that. That makes it even more just surreal to
what they witnessed. So I just wanted to reach out
and talk to you. I haven't slept because it's triggered
mine my situation. Yeah, I'm sorry about there. We gotta
get some rest. The You gotta take care of yourself too.
I'm listening to you, my friend, and I always do well.
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Thank God, bless you. All right, be good? All right,
hanging all right, there's our friend Jerry and we go
to Cowboy John Brad in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, south of
the motor City of Detroit for the first Cowboys Corner
of twenty twenty three. Okay, thank you, obviously, Cowbrey how
many Cowbey, how many years is this calling sports radio?
(30:52):
Now you're in a new year. Wow, I've got third
nineteen sixty five one? How about that sixty five this
guy started calling radio unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, Well, anyways, I
thought some purs the DeMar Rosen DeMar hammm for his
speedy recovery. Fifty six years ago today, Jack Ruby, the
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murderer of purported President John F. Kennedy assassin uh Bille
Harvey Oswald died in Park Light Hospital. I think it
was called the same place President Kennedy died and uh
in nineteen ninety one on this date, um Luca Appland
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Hall of Fame shortstop and Bruby Hall, a manager, died
and ninety nine Jerry Cory, the former heavyweight contender, died
in futualistic dementia, as Mike did. On June eleven, two
thousand and six, and eight nineteen years ago. Today, former
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Major League Leon Wigner died. They found him in the
tool shed. That was three months after and a month
before the birth of my youngest great nephew, Christian Jeneglia,
and three years super Dave Armstrong, the wrestling wrestling announcer
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great mean gene Oakerlet and Darryl Dragon one half of
the Captain and Tenio. So that's for sure. So anyways,
by first call of twenty twenty three, and everybody who's
got to be a boy there you go, all right,
can't wait? Cow wait two more years from now, twenty
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twenty five, that'll be the big magic round number. Wow, unbelievable.
It's Cowboys Corner. Think about that. Nineteen sixty five the
guys started calling radio shows here are still calling him
doing the same material. All right, it is the Ben
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it is Site the Bite. The great sports radio mystery.
We take an audio clip from someone in the world
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got to figure out who it is listening closely using
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And then after every couple of incorrect guesses, we will
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Let's go to the audio tape. Here we go. We're
still live. We're still live. We're still alive. We're still live.
Who said we are still alive? Who could I know
it's not Sean McVay. We're still live. No, it is
(34:54):
Baker Mayfield. No not Baker Man. Is it Derek Carr?
Or no, not Derek Carr. Can't be him? No, no, no,
all right, we're still alive. I know you're alive. Congratulations. Okay,
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seven ninety nine. By the way, call early, call up?
Will anyone get it right? I'll go first. I'll say
caller five, Call it five, Eddie. All right, it's a
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new year. I'm gonna give you guys a chance. Caller five.
Don't f it up. Roberto same here, You'm on a
gonna scene called big Bell. All right, what about you?
Coopa loop? Call number five? Alright, Caller five is back.
We'll start out with furd Dog. Nobody picking Ferd Dog.
Who's caller number one? Hello, ferg Dog? Happy new year? Ben?
(35:38):
Is that a Steelers quarterback? Kenny Pickett? Is that Kenny
Pickets in? We're still alive? All right, great guest, though,
hang out on yourself, please, thank you? All right, go,
Let's check in with our friend from North Carolina, Black
Steve the Second, not to be confused with Black Steve
(35:59):
the for me. That's what he wants to be called.
Hello Black Steve. I knew I wasn't gonna get a
damn hint. All right, I got it. It's aj Hawk's brother,
Mike Hawk. I didn't know Bart Simpson was calling the show.
I had no idea. All right, thank you for that thought.
(36:23):
He was gonna say Brady Quinn for a minute there.
Actually what he said it was pretty funny. Yeah, it
was all right. I don't think i've heard that one.
If I heard that one, I don't know I've heard. Yeah.
All right, let's give a clue here. This person helps
set records for completions and yards by a rookie quarterback
receiver combination. We're still alive, all right, Let's go to
(36:45):
let's see here. Uncle Moe called up. Hello, Uncle Mo.
If I was a schmuck, I was gonna say former
Fab five member Derek Rose. But it's that former mlbes,
that former MB legend Tanyan Starts. Is it ti In Sturts.
It's a good name, though, Thank you. Uncle Moros would
have been a better guest. All right, let's go to
(37:06):
Blake in Kansas City. Blake quickly, Joe Burrow. No, go
CALLAR five Lord, No, it's's Andy Daltons. I had to
get CALLAR five on quickly, but only the answer was
(37:27):
Andy Dalton. So we're out of time anyway. But but
he won the game earlier, So Justin won the game earlier.
He was flustered because he actually had to work. He's
not used to working. Having a job is odd to him.
It's
Hello, and welcome. It's our name or four hour four
of our small little radio program, and it's repackaged here
in the podcast. God bless you for finance. Thank you
for that. So we dig even deeper into the bag
of conversation. The injury Tomar Hamlin of the Bills. What
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happens next in this story Hamlin in the hospital last
we heard critical condition? Does the NFL get back to
business per normal in Week eighteen, the final week of
the regular season. Do the Bills and the Bengals end
up making up this game or does it end up
being canceled even though it's got big impact on the
(00:47):
NFL final standings in playoff positioning. We'll discuss all that
and more right now here. It is our number four
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lead this hour. Coming from the Monday night football game
that was not finished. It is the biggest story in
our world of sports, and it has crossed over into
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people that don't have the sports genere talking about it
as well. It was a matchup of heavyweights, the biggest
game in Week seventeen of the NFL, A game with
playoff implications, seating implications as a couple of big time teams,
Cincinnati and Buffalo, teams that have a shot at get
into the Super Bowl in Arizona this year. And they
were duking it out, supposed to duke it out there,
(02:20):
both teams on long winning streaks. The Bengals won the
coin toss. They decided, you know, wait, wait, got down,
let's score a touchdown, and they did. They went down,
they scored a touchdown and the first possession of the game,
they went to five plays forty six yards. It was
a big twenty nine yard penalty. They got a touchdown
and then Buffalo got the ball and they went down.
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They got a field goal, so it's a seven three game.
Bells kicked off, Bengals get the ball back, and that's
where everything went haywire. On that possession by Cincinnati in
the first quarter, they're matriculating the ball down the field.
Bengals had run a couple of plays. They had the
ball at midfield, Joe Burrow and the shotgun formation. Second
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down in three right at the Cincinnati thirty nine yard line,
and he drops back a couple of steps, throws a
little pass over the middle to te Higgins number eighty
five in your program, but number one in your heart,
and he gets down to the forty eight yard line,
and then the safety for the Bills, Tomar Hamlin, made
what looked like a pretty routine by the book tackle.
(03:30):
Nothing to see here, that's it. He stood up and
then he fell down, and that is when everything hit
the fan, and the trainers came running out for Buffalo.
Then the trainers for Cincinnati came running out. Next thing
you know, the paramedics are there. Now you've got the
ESPN feed showing a wide angle shot of the stadium,
(03:50):
not showing the close up on Hamlin, and it turns
out that he had a cardiac event. The Bills released
a statement just before we came on the radio few
hours ago saying that the safety there Damar Hamlin suffered
a cardiac arrest following a hit in the game versus
the Bengals. A heartbeat was restored on the field, they
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conducted CPR, they used the defibrillator for almost ten minutes.
He was then taken to the Trauma Center at the
University of Cincinnati Medical Center further testing and treatment. According
to a marketing rep, Jordan Bruney, who is a friend
and marketing rep of the aforementioned Damar Hamlin of the Bills,
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said that the vitals were back to normal and that
they are running tests and as the Bill said, currently sedated.
So what happened. There'll be an investigation trying to figure
out exactly what happened to pinpoint it, what led to this,
and there is a medical condition that we learned about it.
We had heard about this a few years ago. It
(04:54):
was a player to Nam, Chris Pronger and the NHL
that had this happened. And this started out with some
medical types, some doctors chiming in on social media, but
it appears to still have legs, and we'll see if
this is actually the case here. But the term I
believe is commodo cortis. Commodio cortis, I believe is the
(05:16):
term excuse my Latin. But it's it's essentially just blunt
forced to the chest, and the consensus is that's what happened,
but it's it's more than that. And as we've learned
through the overnight here that this is just really bad luck.
It's bad timing. Could happen to any of us. You
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don't have to play football. You can get in a
situation where you're in a collision, but a fraction of
a second window think about that less than it's the
fraction of a second, and if everything lines up, you
get hit in the right place in your chest, it
causes your heart to short circuit and that's why you
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need to get rebooted now. Normally, when this happens, it
is fatal. And the reason it's fatal is because you
don't have an ambulance there and you don't have doctors there,
and even when they have that, sometimes it doesn't work out.
And it is important to note that DeMar Hamlin is
still in critical condition, and that is defined as uncertain prognosis,
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the vital signs unstable or abnormal. In this case, it
would appear to be abnormal and there are major complications
and death may be imminent, but hopefully the status will
be upgraded and we'll move on. We'll see what happens
when the sun comes up here in a little bit,
and there'll be more news on this situation. So the
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game was postponed after the DeMar Hamlin injury. So let
us discuss the question what happens next with this particular
story while you wait for the health update and you
hope that that's a green light and not a yellow light,
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and we'll find out. They're doing all the tests and
all that, seeing how much time his heart was out
and was it less than a minute? Was it longer
than that? They seemed to start CPR right away, like
they knew immediately. That's the vibe I got watching it.
I saw the look on the trainers and they're like,
holy crap. I mean, and you know, you watch these
NFL games and you're like, Okay, they know it's a knee,
(07:21):
it's a shoulder, it's an elbow, it's a hand. Whatever. Well,
the look. The expression on the Buffalo training staff was like,
oh my god. They were immediately calling for the paramedics,
the ambulance to get on the field right away, like
they knew immediately what was going on with his cat
for the Bills. So as far as that, that's the
first thing, the medical side. Updating the story. Now, does
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the NFL get back to business per normal this week?
That's that's that's a factor. Also, do the Bills and
the Bengals make up this game or does it end
up being canceled? Do they call it a tie? The
word on the street here the whispers going around overnight,
(08:03):
knowing that everyone prefaced this by saying, well, it's not important,
but not important. But right, so what do they do?
All right, what are you gonna do? The NFL is
gonna get on the horn this morning with their big
shots and try to figure out how to play the game.
Can they do it now? They could conceivably do it.
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If tomorrow Hamlin is okay and everything's all right, then
they can say, Okay, the show goes on. That's it.
But it's a matter of squeezing in the game between
Week eighteen and the wild card round, and so you're logistically,
if you're the NFL, you got you got television commitments.
(08:47):
You've gotta schedule things and move things around. Now, the
easiest scenario, IM gonna give the NFL some free advice here.
The easiest scenario, if they desperately have to play the
Cincinnati Buffalo game, would be to push it back now,
Push it back right, Push everything back, including the playoffs.
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Push it back by a week. Do you eliminate the
bye week between the conference championship game and the super Bowl? Simple? Done?
There you go, that's it. Now? Will the NFL do that?
They love their two weeks. They love the two weeks
to hype up the super Bowl and build up the excitement.
They've got parties planned, and they've got everything logistically lined
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up in the Greater Phoenix area for the Super Bowl.
So what do you do? And the fun thing about this,
if you like goofing on the NFL, is, no matter
what the NFL does, they're screwed because someone's gonna be
very upset. Someone's gonna be angry. All of these scenarios.
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If they do play again, I think there's still a
shot that they don't play the game. They don't make
this up. They just say it's a tie. Whatever it's
that happened, You move on. But you could all you
could you could have I'm trying to think outside whether
options are there. You have it, call it a tie,
even though the Bengals were winning. You could do that,
(10:07):
call it a forfeited game. But you're then you're punishing
both the teams. And who would forfeit the game? Would
it be the Bills, would it be the Bengals? Like,
how exactly would all that work? So there's a lot
of moving parts to this, but we can guarantee you
that the number of people would be upset because of
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the fact if you could plan a Wednesday like there's
a pot and you can move the thing around to
when they don't want it, that's a good, not a
great situation for television. So that's also a thing in
the NFL is just a glorified TV show. So you've
got that as well. Also, about two hours ago, the
Bills did arrive back at the airport there, the Buffalo
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Niagara Airport. I know you're excited about that. There's video.
I saw the little video clip. There was police escort
for the guys when they were leaving the airport and
they said there were no fans. Ordinary there's a bunch
of fans waiting to greet the team, but just after
three in the morning, so a few hours ago there
was nobody there. They landed and then get the police escort.
(11:14):
If I'd love that when I come back from a
road trip, if the police could give me an escort,
that would really help. There's a lot of traffic at
the airport and I would really appreciate that. I don't
know how do you get that? And you have to
know somebody. I guess you got to know somebody, right,
you have to They don't just give those out. They
paid the bills pay for those or the police are like, yeah,
I will help you out whatever. Yeah, all right. It
(11:35):
is the Bandmaller Show. If you'd like to talk about
any of this, I know there's also a visual A
bunch of Bengal fans were joining Bills fans outside the hospital.
You've had a number of different things pop up here
in the overnight. The charity angle is insane to the
membrane and people scrambling. They're like, well, we gotta do something.
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People feel helpless. You watch these games, feel guilty You're like,
what are we doing. This guy's who knows what's gonna happen.
He could die tomorrow. Hamlin, You're like, I want to
do something. I want to give back. And they found
out that they, being the Internet social media, found out
he had a charity for his hometown area in Pennsylvania
where he's from, and he was raising money. The goal
(12:20):
is to get twenty five hundred dollars to buy toys
for kids, and so people started doning and they kept doning,
and they have some people put five bucks in, some
people put thirty bucks in, some people with thousands of dollars.
And in the span of the time this guy got hurt.
Let's remember, this is not a household name. This is
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a guy that's on the roster and he's an NFL
player and that's great, but he's not a star, and
he's one of these guys that's kind of on the roster.
He's unknown, and now people know who he is and
they're like, wait a minute. They looked him up and
that charity has now raised over three point one million
dollars since he got hurt, which was around what nine
(13:03):
o'clock eastern, six o'clock in the West and right now
I'm looking at it right here, over one hundred and
twenty thousand random donation all over the world. It's not
just in the US. There's people all over the world
that are donating this thing. How harder is to get
people to donate to anything. It's like it's like you know,
(13:26):
and people are in the money. It's wild and this
is actually more money. It's gonna end up being more
money by the time the sun's sun comes up and
people keep donating throughout the day. He's on. This guy,
Damar Hamlin is on a four year contract with the Bills.
He was a six round pick, so he's not a
big money guy, but by NFL standards he's not. By
(13:47):
the real world, he is. He's in the highest tax bracket,
but a four year contract for three point six million,
So again, this is gonna be more money for the
charity by the time this is all done. Eight seven,
seven nine nine on Fox. If you would like to
be part, we'll run through a bunch of these calls
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It's Ben Maller. Well, that's false advertising, Eddie. Jay Mitch writes,
and he says this listener enjoys the show. Also wishes
the NFL players suffered the cardiac arrest a full and
(15:12):
speedy recovery. However, tonight's show is boring, So do we
have any money back guarantee? Eddie can we give any
money back guarantee to the listeners that are Probably we
can give them back all the money they've invested in
the show. Yes, Now, this is this is one of
those slippery slopes that he I've been doing this a
(15:34):
long time. You've been with me a long time. But
I've been doing this before you and I've done these shows.
And when you don't follow the mantra, you get killed.
So it's you're stuck between the devil and deep Lucy.
If I came in here and did a regular goofy
show and did a bunch of jokes and goofed on this,
that and the other thing, I'd have the I can't
(15:55):
believe you doing that kind of radio. You are ungrateful.
Shame on you. Yeah, and now I'm getting the man.
Your show's pretty pretty boring. It sucks, So I've got
that damned if you do. Yeah. But the reason I'm
going this path is because I can guarantee you none
of my bosses will call me up today and say, Ben,
(16:16):
why are you doing jokes at three in the morning
when the guys in the hospital, what's wrong with you?
I will not get that phone call that will not
happen today. So and that's really the goal for all this,
just to have a nice sleep and not have a
phone call on your wake up say hey, numb nuts,
what were you doing. Don't have to worry about it, man,
(16:37):
Lady Sideburns writes, And you know this is a legitimate,
says Holy smokes been. I don't think you've ever had
a segment go this long without any sound effects. You
would think the soundboard is malfunctioned. Somber mood. Understandably so,
says Lady sideburn JJ writes and says, Troy Aikman and
Joe Smug got at least one police escort after a game.
(16:59):
Years now, I've heard the broadcasters do get police escorts,
So good for them, Harry writes, and he says, why
will people do stuff like donate to this charity but
they won't help their neighbor across the streets. It's a
flaw in human nature, Harry. As you get older, I
don't know how you are, harry're probably as old as
(17:20):
I am. Maybe you're not, I don't know. But it's
a flaw in human nature. It's it's this weird thing where,
like the people around here, you're like, screw them, but
somebody far far away. You're like, I helpe that guy.
Now the neighbor could be an a hole too. That's
true exactly. But a lot of this is just I
believe it's guilt, Eddy, that we feel guilty because we're
watching the game. Who are we? I don't think it's guilt.
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I think it's guilt. I'm going guilt. I think you
feel you just feel bad for him, so you want
to do something to help out. I don't know he's guilt.
I'm going guilt. You feel guilty about what you're watching.
This guy's out there, could you know die? And you're
you're sitting your ass on a sofa watching the game
eating popcorn. I don't feel guilty about that. You don't. No,
you're something wrong by watching him play football. These people
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are not here for your enjoyment, Eddie, I think they are.
Are they okay? Robin Vegas is maybe Whoopie Pie Blair
should have performed a stunt like this before he did
the polar plunge. I think think about the kind of
cheddar the reigning caller of the Year could have brought in.
It's too much masturbation. The problems year, I've not heard
from Blair. I hope he made it back out of
(18:27):
the Atlantic Ocean. Blair. Blair not as big a star
this year as he was in the past. He didn't
called sports radio as much. He's got a job, Yeah
he didn't. I don't think he earned as much money.
Is now a band wag? Yeah? Anyway, let's go to
the phones, and America's favorite drag queen caller is Flexus
(18:49):
in Buffalo. Hello Flexus, Then Hello everybody. Then, I'm probably
the only person I come out to say this. I
feel really that what happened last night? You and I
got something coming with that young man weight thing? Yeah
it was you lost weight. I lost weight. Yeah, we
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didn't do that weight. We could be in that same predictament. No, no,
they said, no, no, this had nothing to do with
He's not fat, he Flexus. He's in fine shape. He's
a professional football player in the secondary, runs a lot.
He's This had nothing to do with the weight, felex Okay,
I'm glad you cleared that up. Now, what do you
think he was five hundred pounds playing safety for the
(19:31):
Buffalo Bills on usually I don't thank anyway, depends it
depends what kind of TV you have. You know, I
think that was great. They all got to get him right.
But I think the game should have went on. I
really gives you. Now you're you're sitting there for three
hours figuring, well, how they're going to do a makeup game?
(19:55):
How are you going to give them money back? You know,
why go through all that bolgrap the game. It's the
right thing to do. It's the right thing. Sometimes you
gotta take a hit. You're not there. You can't always
be about the money. Whet and pray. There's nothing they
can do for the guy. The guys in good care now,
(20:15):
the good doctors, have you listen. It doesn't It doesn't
guarantee anything. I mean, the hospitals are great and doctors
are wonderful, but people die in hospitals all the time.
So it doesn't guarantee anything. But how do you know
that guy didn't thing? He would still want to play
the game? You know, people really love their team. They
really loved the game. Yeah, I mean the NFL if
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they had finished that game, oh man, would that have
been That would have been right? Well, it would have
great for you, It would be great for you and
justin it's that people's heads would have exploded. Oh my,
can you imagine that? Are in fact, it's bad enough.
(21:03):
The SoundBite I wish we had it of Joe Bucks saying,
all right, five minutes, they'll be back out of the
um boy, holy cano, holy canole. Let's go to Eli,
who's hanging out in Eddie's old stopping grounds of Fresno.
(21:24):
Right there, and the it's the bread basket of California,
right Eddie. That's where all the cows and the milk
and all that come from, vegetables and fruits. Yeah, that's right.
All the rich people, the a holes in San Francisco,
in La Eat all comes from that area. Hello, Eli, welcome.
What's going on? I can answer I can answer all
the gambling questions about the game. All the bets, all
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the bets are going to be refunded for any bets
on the spreads and the total all props that had
already been decided will be paid out. I mean that's
at least most sports books. Yeah, yeah, I mean it
makes since the game was not finished, and so if
they even if they play again, the situation is different.
And as a gambler, as you know, you buy the
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stakes are different because you get this guy out, how
the Bill's gonna respond? And then what about the Bengals?
So there's is different perspective on the game and all
that stuff. So sure, yeah, yeah, but like the first
touchdown prop and all that stuff gets paid out because
it happened. There you go, So team to score first
Bengals first touchdown, Bengals done, done, there you go perfect,
(22:32):
absolutely better. But I don't know if you remember, but
I called a few weeks ago and I told you
that I had a peek at the the way the
NFL season, who's gonna play out with the scripts and
the flex in games and primetime? This weekend went exactly
I thought they would, and we got the Titans Jags
for a playoff spot and the Lions and Lions and package.
(22:55):
But does this mean now the Rams have to beat Seattle?
So that's like a free playoff game, right because if
they well know, if the Rams lose, then see the
Lions are eliminated and then they're just playing for pride. Yeah,
but the Packers are going to beat the Lions, so
it's a moot point. The only way the Lions win,
(23:16):
the only way the Lions win that game is if
they can put a dome over Lambeau Field. Because Jared Golf,
I don't know what the weather is going to be
in Green Bay on Sunday. I'm guessing it's not gonna
be seventy five degrees on Sunday in Green Bay. So
Jared Goff's gonna he's gonna freeze his nuts off and
he does not play well in cold weather. Yeah, but
I've got another peek at the script prediction for you.
(23:36):
I think the Packers are going to play the Niners
in the first round of the playoffs and beat them.
I think Aaron Rodgers is gonna get his first playoffs
win in San Francisco. And then I also think Jacksonville
is gonna make the playoffs and pull off a upset
against the Chargers. Also, congratulations Eddie on a on that
(23:57):
comeback win with Kenny Pickett on a Sunday was a
great game, which one was it was Saturday last last week,
and then this past weekend it was it was on Sunday.
So yeah, back to football game, And how about how
about Eddie. I think Roberto should think Eddie because the
Steelers actually killed the career of Derek Carr as a raider.
(24:18):
That was the final blow. Yeah, it's set up. It's
set up perfectly, so the Browns can crush the Steelers
hopes and dreams this week. Unless they do. My Browns
and Uncle Touchy the Shaun Watson are gonna go ahead
and uh yeah, go ahead and go ahead and handle
the Steelers. So good luck. You got it all figured
out here here, Li, you're a made man. Look at
(24:39):
you got all the answers to the test. It's unbelievable. Absolutely,
I killed the NFL, but I lose all my money
in Chinese basketball in the middle of night. Nothing about.
It's like college football when Hawaii would play the late
game on a Saturday, and then you well, usually you're chasing,
you're betting on Hawaii, but in your case different. All right,
(25:00):
I think I gotta go. You might want to call someone.
It seems like you have a problem. You have apologize.
We love China. We love playing there. That's right. Big
fans over there at the NBA, they love their China.
All right. It is the Bannet Maller Show. As we
continue on that light show story that we were talking
about the skyline of Cincinnati and justin some of these
(25:23):
other guys can can point out that they turned on
blue lights as a as a tribute to de mar
him and I assume that the stadium formerly called Paul
Brown Stadium, I believe it was, but it's got some
corporate name now. But they turned on blue lights as well.
So little symbolic things that are taking place here is
the Sporting World reacts to the story about the bill
(25:45):
safety to Mar Hammond there and his situation. Almost ten
minutes of CPR on the field Wild Scene. Be sure
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(26:30):
All right, it is the Ben Maller Show. As we
continue on, and we do have Site to Bite coming
up in a little bit story that's obviously not related
to the big story here in the NFL. But somebody
who's very happy all of sports media is not talking
about anything but the story that happened in the Monday
night game would be Dana White. About that my man
(26:51):
Dana White there popping up on TMZ and yeah, Mahico
and apparently what happens in Mexico does not stay in
Mexico if you sell the video to Harvey eleven and
TMZ and somebody did just that. The little booze cruise
a cruise. They were at a bar, Dana White and
his longtime wife there. Cocaine isn't cheap. Your wife decided
(27:14):
to slap Dana, and Dana then did the thing that
you unfortunately can't do, slapped her back. Yeah tit for
tat there. Yes, So anyway, that's what happened. And Dana
did a long video on TMZ explaining what happened, said,
there's no excuse for what happened to this resort in Mexico.
(27:36):
Both were hammered when it took place, and then it's
one of these things. You know, Dana has been very outspoken,
said all the right things, you can't you can't put
hands on a woman and all that, and the yeah,
little talk, little talk there. All right, Let's say hello
(27:56):
to our friend Jerry, who's in Rhode Island, And hello Jerry, Welcome,
Hey Ben, how you doing. If I was any better,
I'd be Coop, but not justin Cooper because he hates
New Year's Well, nice to nice to talk to you.
I figured i'd call in because I have something that
obviously doesn't personally relate till tonight, but I just wanted
(28:21):
to share because on the aspect of the Bills and
the Bengals and all the fans and the millions that
watched the incident tonight. Because when I was thirteen, I
worked in my uncle's bakery and a man working that
comes in once every two weeks. What came in collapsed
right next to me, and you know I saw that,
(28:44):
and you know, they had to do the defibrillator and
he actually died. So I'm praying for damar that you know,
he survives and recovers fully, so he has all my prayers.
But my point is that that was when I was thirteen.
I'm in my forties and that will never leave you.
So my I'm sharing that. I really I hope that
they get some help if the players are suffering, because
(29:07):
that's very, very traumatizing. I know I was a teenager.
It's different. I mean, yeah, yeah, I mean you have
that memory and and you were writing that age. This
is my theory on life as I've gotten older. It's
like when you're from like eight or nine to like thirteen,
like those are the most vivid memories. Yeah, everything, because
you're like smart enough to figure out the world a
(29:27):
little bit, but you're still naive enough to have the
kids stuff in you. And then like everything that happened,
like I remember like all of sports for that time
period in my life is like, oh I remember this that,
but I also remember traumatic events that. Yeah, I remember
sports since I was seven, and I obviously remember that
because you know, it's just something that no one should
(29:48):
ever have to witness, and you know that, I think
of the thousands of fans that witness that that we
didn't witness that they kept going to commercial and you know,
obviously went away from it understandably. Yeah we didn't. I
mean you didn't know from watching the proctis. I mean
you knew it was bad, but you didn't see them
doing the CPR. And I can't speak highly enough of
those players to form that circle around him, to give
him his privacy, so the media and all of us
(30:11):
couldn't see the work that was being done to hear
that his you know, obviously shirt was cut off and
all that. That makes it even more just surreal to
what they witnessed. So I just wanted to reach out
and talk to you. I haven't slept because it's triggered
mine my situation. Yeah, I'm sorry about there. We gotta
get some rest. The You gotta take care of yourself too.
I'm listening to you, my friend, and I always do well.
(30:32):
Thank God, bless you. All right, be good? All right,
hanging all right, there's our friend Jerry and we go
to Cowboy John Brad in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, south of
the motor City of Detroit for the first Cowboys Corner
of twenty twenty three. Okay, thank you, obviously, Cowbrey how
many Cowbey, how many years is this calling sports radio?
(30:52):
Now you're in a new year. Wow, I've got third
nineteen sixty five one? How about that sixty five this
guy started calling radio unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, Well, anyways, I
thought some purs the DeMar Rosen DeMar hammm for his
speedy recovery. Fifty six years ago today, Jack Ruby, the
(31:14):
murderer of purported President John F. Kennedy assassin uh Bille
Harvey Oswald died in Park Light Hospital. I think it
was called the same place President Kennedy died and uh
in nineteen ninety one on this date, um Luca Appland
(31:35):
Hall of Fame shortstop and Bruby Hall, a manager, died
and ninety nine Jerry Cory, the former heavyweight contender, died
in futualistic dementia, as Mike did. On June eleven, two
thousand and six, and eight nineteen years ago. Today, former
(31:58):
Major League Leon Wigner died. They found him in the
tool shed. That was three months after and a month
before the birth of my youngest great nephew, Christian Jeneglia,
and three years super Dave Armstrong, the wrestling wrestling announcer
(32:20):
great mean gene Oakerlet and Darryl Dragon one half of
the Captain and Tenio. So that's for sure. So anyways,
by first call of twenty twenty three, and everybody who's
got to be a boy there you go, all right,
can't wait? Cow wait two more years from now, twenty
(32:40):
twenty five, that'll be the big magic round number. Wow, unbelievable.
It's Cowboys Corner. Think about that. Nineteen sixty five the
guys started calling radio shows here are still calling him
doing the same material. All right, it is the Ben
Maller Shaw. As we press on and we are going
(33:02):
to have site the Bite, the Great Sports Radio Mystery.
If you want to be one of our judges, call
right now eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox Site
the Bite. We'll get to it and we will do
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been Maller. It's time now to site Site to bite
Tite where we play random generic sound bites you know
in a sports and entertainment cliche spoken by so called experts.
(34:10):
You try to tell us who's doing the talking, and
it is Site the Bite. The great sports radio mystery.
We take an audio clip from someone in the world
of sports over the last seven to ten days. You
got to figure out who it is listening closely using
your super human hearing ability. No cheating, do not cheat.
(34:33):
And then after every couple of incorrect guesses, we will
give you a clue to make it a little easier.
Let's go to the audio tape. Here we go. We're
still live. We're still live. We're still alive. We're still live.
Who said we are still alive? Who could I know
it's not Sean McVay. We're still live. No, it is
(34:54):
Baker Mayfield. No not Baker Man. Is it Derek Carr?
Or no, not Derek Carr. Can't be him? No, no, no,
all right, we're still alive. I know you're alive. Congratulations. Okay,
here we go. Let's go to the call eight seven
seven ninety nine. By the way, call early, call up?
Will anyone get it right? I'll go first. I'll say
caller five, Call it five, Eddie. All right, it's a
(35:16):
new year. I'm gonna give you guys a chance. Caller five.
Don't f it up. Roberto same here, You'm on a
gonna scene called big Bell. All right, what about you?
Coopa loop? Call number five? Alright, Caller five is back.
We'll start out with furd Dog. Nobody picking Ferd Dog.
Who's caller number one? Hello, ferg Dog? Happy new year? Ben?
(35:38):
Is that a Steelers quarterback? Kenny Pickett? Is that Kenny
Pickets in? We're still alive? All right, great guest, though,
hang out on yourself, please, thank you? All right, go,
Let's check in with our friend from North Carolina, Black
Steve the Second, not to be confused with Black Steve
(35:59):
the for me. That's what he wants to be called.
Hello Black Steve. I knew I wasn't gonna get a
damn hint. All right, I got it. It's aj Hawk's brother,
Mike Hawk. I didn't know Bart Simpson was calling the show.
I had no idea. All right, thank you for that thought.
(36:23):
He was gonna say Brady Quinn for a minute there.
Actually what he said it was pretty funny. Yeah, it
was all right. I don't think i've heard that one.
If I heard that one, I don't know I've heard. Yeah.
All right, let's give a clue here. This person helps
set records for completions and yards by a rookie quarterback
receiver combination. We're still alive, all right, Let's go to
(36:45):
let's see here. Uncle Moe called up. Hello, Uncle Mo.
If I was a schmuck, I was gonna say former
Fab five member Derek Rose. But it's that former mlbes,
that former MB legend Tanyan Starts. Is it ti In Sturts.
It's a good name, though, Thank you. Uncle Moros would
have been a better guest. All right, let's go to
(37:06):
Blake in Kansas City. Blake quickly, Joe Burrow. No, go
CALLAR five Lord, No, it's's Andy Daltons. I had to
get CALLAR five on quickly, but only the answer was
(37:27):
Andy Dalton. So we're out of time anyway. But but
he won the game earlier, So Justin won the game earlier.
He was flustered because he actually had to work. He's
not used to working. Having a job is odd to him.
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