November 2, 2025 • 22 mins
Celebrities and Athletes share their stories of reacting to the New England Patriots Super Bowl 51 Comeback, 28-3, over the Atlanta Falcons
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Games of Names. I'm Julian Edelman, and we
got a brand new compilation, Highlight Real starting now now.
Paul Pierce on.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Watching the end of Super Bowl fifty one with his
Celtics teammates.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
That game was unreal because I remember we was getting
off the plane. It was in Toronto. We actually landed
in Toronto. Because when we landed stuff the score was
twenty eight to three. It was like damn.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
And then we.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Started watching it in the lobby. We watched it in
the lobby at the hotel.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I never forget it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
We watched in the lobby hotel. We didn't move me
and Sam was right there the whole time, like damn,
what the hell is going on? That was crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So basically because of the truth watching the game was
Sam Cassell in the lobby and gave us the good
luck to come back. Those are the vibes we need.
And when which.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Game was that? When you caught that ridiculous? That was
probably to me, I think he made the greatest catch
of all time.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That was in that game.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Game that game, right, that was that game. That's what
I thought. That was the greatest catch ever.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
That was a crazy I know how you caught that ball, dude,
how did you catch that? Keep your eye on the ball.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You couldn't see the ball, dude, You keep your eyes
couldn't even see the ball.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Your eyes will always bring your hands to the ball
somewhere out there.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Next ice Cube on how unbelievable the Patriots twenty eight
to three comeback was.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, that twenty eight to three game was.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
That was some shit because I remember watching that game,
had a house full of people and we're going crazy
because we want the Falcons to win, no offense, but
the Patriots was they had hurt so many of our
hearts over the years. We was like, you know, let's
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get one for the A. And everybody's talking during halftime,
were drinking food everywhere, halfway paying attention to the game,
and I'm like looking out the corner of my eye
and I'm just saying, like I'm starting to do the
(02:04):
math in my head, like did they have enough time,
if they scored, if they get the ball back, if
they oh they got the ball back? Oh shit they
And it goes from us not paying attention to ship
to everybody slowly but surely locking back into the game
to see to come back, and uh, you know, I'm
(02:26):
talking to my friend from Atlanta and shit, and he
just he almost shit a chicken.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Man.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
He was so fucking beside hisself, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
He was so beside himself.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
And he just I was like, man, like, we're gonna
do a wellness check on you later on tonight, because
don't kill yourself off in a fucking game.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Man Like.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It was. It was bad. It was bad, but it
was a great fucking comeback.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
You know what I'm gonna pull from something from this episode.
What you said you were what fourteen? You went in saftcarface? Yeah,
people like you, people like me to say, that's a
fucking bad guy. Yeah, where the fucking bad guy? Yes,
we are. I just I just felt like it was
(03:16):
it was playable. You know, everyone needs a fucking bad
guy to look at. That's a bad guy. That's him.
He could punch your fucking finger.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You could point your finger, put your fingers, say that's
the bad.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's a fucking back hand. I'm the fucking back of hand.
You know, the Patriots, We're the fucking bad guys. It's cool,
it's all.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
You know, just what you want football, You need you need,
you need a threshold, you need a something to chase.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And the great thing about this league there was a
time where it was you guys, and there's a time
when it was the ninth and then there's a time
now it's the Chiefs. You know who's it gonna be next?
Is it gonna be the Chiefs Eagles?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
The Eagle?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Or is it not? Next up?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Julian tells Carissa Thompson about going on Jimmy Fallon with
coach Bill Belichick after winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
You and Bill were guests together. Yeah, I need to
know that story. How does that happen?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Right after the Super Bowl Atlanta, they asked us if
we wanted to go on Stacy James came up, Do
you want to go do Foulin with Bill?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I was like hell yeah, oh my god, in this heartbeat.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
So wait, how was.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
He He was? Fun?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I mean, you know, Bill, that's the only time you know,
you can bank on that Bill is smiling, having good time.
I'm sure like five days later he's on to the draft.
But yeah, you know, he's a fun guy.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I we had some awesome conversations. We took a jet
together to the to New York right after the super Bowl,
and you know, we know.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Like weird awkwardness and conversation like you're.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Definitely there's always awkwardness with Bill. I mean he's socially awkward,
but like in a cool like it's my socially awkward friend,
not like I probably could say that now.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
That's like you're your socially awkward friend.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Maybe incredible.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I need to get Bill on this. Goddann Couch. I
swear if he does McAfee before he does my show,
that would hurt.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
It should hurt your feelings.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Coach, Okay, I didn't coach. I didn't take all those
team friendly deals right for just nothing.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Show me the receipts on that your socially awkward friend
needs to be right here sooner than later.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
What do we got right there?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Oh yeah, Julian, what is this.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Look that's let's playoff, baby, Jules.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
That doesn't even look like you. You look like you're
an extra and teen wolf. Like this is crazy, Like
your actual face doesn't maybe because it's halfway covered, but
like what also, what are what are LB's.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
At that point?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Uh to I was I'm like five pounds under really?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Oh maybe just the camera. As you know, people on camera,
it adds ten pounds. Yeah, you look thick.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
There, I'm too seat thick.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, I'm are you guys holding hands to Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What what what did they say? They said, Uh, they
were addressing that coach is a hard ass.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I think it came to like he said, we do kumbaia,
and like we held hands, and look at how we
held hands. It was so awkward. He held my hands,
so the holding of the hand was awkward. I didn't
know how to react. But we're on you know, live TV.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Or it's so good.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Old coach.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Now we got Howie Long recalling his experience on the
sidelines of Super Bowl fifty one.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Now is just the greatest game of all time.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
You know, your game, your game in the Super Bowl
when Chris played for the Patriots, it was so improbable
in so many ways.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Same halftime scores yours. Yeah, another way improbable. So here
we are. I walk into the stadium and it's the
Super Bowl. Fox is covering. He got the pregame. It's
four or five hours long. You know, we've got our own.
As you know now as.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
A as a broadcaster, there's a lot going on, a
lot going on a lot going on. There's thirty two sections,
and you know, what are we talking? What's the order?
You know who's talking about?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
What?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
You know?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Et cetera.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Because you don't want to be redundant and you want
to be on top of it. But this hits me,
and you know, I think it's Usher, who is there
during the day. He kind of had had his kind
of all all access pass into our green room and
everything else. He's a huge Atlanta fent and you know,
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which is great. And he's a really nice guy and
and I want to save that up front. He's a
really nice guy. But here we are. It's twenty eight
to three in the third quarter, and I'm standing next
to Terry, and I get kind of quiet. When I
get quiet, it's never good. And I'm quiet, and and
(08:00):
Terry knows I'm you know, I feel like the worst
dad in the world. I pushed this kid. Now he
makes his own decisions, he's he's a grown man. He
makes his own decisions. But I certainly played a part
in you know, him going to New.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
England over Atlanta.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
And it's over Atlanta, and it's twenty eight to three,
and I'm the worst dad in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
That's how I felt.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
And Terry says to me, like, you know, kind of
like Forrest Gumpy just said, don't worry, little buddy. Tom's
gonna throw it all over the yard and it's gonna
be fine. It's gonna be the greatest comeback in Super
Bowl history. And I'm like this, You're out of your
freaking mind.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You're out of your mind, Terry.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
And then you know, I would I would say the
giant catch was the most improbable catch. I think your
catch was the most amazing catch I've seen. And seriously,
I mean I was there, I'm looking at him like,
(09:05):
oh my god, that just happened, and I'm looking for
the review to see if your hands under it, and
and it was just the sequence of things that had
to happen, including Chris getting a holding call down down
on it was like first and then it goes to.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
First, and then they decided to throw it, and then
we got decided.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
To throw it. I mean, when I say improbable, there
were so many things that had to happen in that half,
and and everything included the two point conversion, you know,
I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It was amazing, and we put him five for that game.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
It was amazing and I and I remember, you know,
Chris came on the set, and Diane was there, and
you know, the boys were there. Kyle had a tendon
surgery and he was limping around, and uh, you know,
just it was one of those kind of you know
moments that you know was a polaroid and your head
and you know, and and we go back to the
(10:03):
hotel and I remember, I'm still in disbelief and Usher,
who had been yelling, you know, after halftime in our
green room, you know, you know, falcons, falcons, screaming and
yelling and in my head, I'm punching him in the face.
But you know, I'm sitting in the corner. I'm quiet.
(10:24):
And he's a good guy, nothing wrong with being a fan,
and he probably had no idea that you know, he
didn't put two and two together, but you know, not
the place to be yelling.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But here we are. We go back to the hotel.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
And I remember it like it was yesterday, and the
family's there, and you know, it's one in the morning
and you can't get room service. I tucked him in
the sending us some burgers down the lobby, and we're
sitting around having burgers. And I go back up to
the room, finding it like four in the morning, and
the game was being replayed on NFL Network and I
(11:01):
had to watch it, like did this really happen? And
I was almost my poor wife's dead asleep, and I'm
watching NFL Network replay a super Bowl and I'm watching
it again to say this really happened. And you know,
of course Chris goes to Philadelphia the next year and
does it again, and does it again, and you know
(11:22):
it's a it's another barn Burner game versus New England.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
What would the average what was the average win Our
biggest our biggest win total was eighteen when we went
by ten points against the Rams. Yeah, it's usually always
been four three three, four, yep, you know, But that's
how we wanted to play the game. Yeah, that's how
Bill wanted. He wanted to control the game.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
But you have to be really, really confident in your
ability to run situational football to play that kind of
a game without every possession, every first down, every punt,
every field goal, every kickoff is important. It's like you
can't turn the ball over. You can't. There's so many
things that can't go wrong without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I mean that that I did the same thing like
three years later and just watched that game, Like when
I retired, I saw that game for the first time
TV copy. I don't think I've ever watched our Super
Bowl front exactly. You don't. You don't watch them. Yeah,
but it was on and I was sitting there like,
how the fuck did we win this game?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Next, Jay Glazer and Julian swap Super Bowl fifty one stories.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Hey, I'll tell you this to the twenty eighth to
three game. So we're in the We did that game too,
and Stray and I brought Usher with us, so before
am the NFC Championship game. So we're in Mexico with
Usher dam Drop and we Michael and I did this
thing where he Rusher was performing the next night and
we're like, dude, we're doing shots and He's like, I
can't do shots, man, I'm performing tomorrow night. We're like,
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stop being a fucking woos. You're doing shots with us.
So we're doing shots with them, but Michael and I
are just doing water and we gave Usher probably four
teen shots up tequila. We fucked him up so bad
he was beyond cross. I don't know how he performed
the next night. But during that night he's like, Hey,
if the Falcons make the MC Championship game, I want
to come be with you guys on the sideline, says he.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
You could do it.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
You got to be my fucking sideline assistant. I'm gonna
wear you out right. And we didn't really think the
Falcon's gonna make the NMCY Championship game. Sure shit, they
make it, so hey, a deal's a deal. I'm like, hey,
you come down. We're gonna get your pass, sideline pass,
but you got to be my sideline assistant. And he
walking around my little fucking red bull and my makeup
and pads, and I was literally doing stuff just to fuck.
(13:37):
I'd like put something over here, and I'd be like.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Damn, you have to run over again it and walk over.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
And tell people's my assistant. At one point we're on
the air and I call him Moskowitz. I my ex
girlfriend asked if Usher was his real name. I said, no,
it's actually Usher Moskowitz. He was raised by Jews, which
obviously is not but I just said, and so I
call him Moscuwitz.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Whoever.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
So he comes on live TV and he tries to
pat my head some Moscow, what's what are you doing?
And the whole world's like, why is he calling Usher moscot?
So that's anyway, there's the add So later on that
twenty eight to three game, Howry Long obviously is going
nuts because Chris playing for First Plane, is losing twenty
eight to three and Usher comes into art our green
room and he is celebrating and fucking Herman Munster. The
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bolts on his neck start lighting up. In the mis
series How He Loves Hate starts going the vans and
he's like and we're like, no, no, get out, guy.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
We are like, Usher gets the funk out. How He's
about to murder you. This is full broken arrow.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Yes, yes, anyway, that was a twenty three game, but
this game it was just it was the just the
tyree thing itself. But dude, I don't know because your
catch two in that twenty eight to three game, man,
that all right, I don't know which is the insane
catch first. It's more than saying first. But also that
(15:03):
catch you had, dude, is just I just saw it
again recently and I'm like, how the fuck did that
little squirrel catch on that thing?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's unbelievable. They're both very very Did you realize like
you always know you had it the whole time, but
you did it? It's like miked up, No, I know that,
but did you know I didn't think you're going. I
didn't think I had it the whole time. But when
I right before and I snatched it, like after that,
I was like, yeah, I fully got that. So you
(15:31):
think the ground you never never you knew you always
kind of know that tennis and serves like you know,
like with the servers, like sometimes the eye can't see it,
but those those tennis players know.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
That's a horrible fucking comparison.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I think it's perfect tennis serve. As to what you did,
you should be judgment, you know what I mean? No,
I know, but I mean I'm talking about like the
actual scenario of like when judgment isn't in, did you
make the catch or not? Is it in or is
it out?
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Does it slow down for you or is it I
don't really remember now, Sam Jay, I'm being the only
Patriots fan at her Super Bowl fifty one party.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Were you in Atlanta for the twenty eight to three
Super Bowl? I was, And I have a story for
that yes, I was. No, I wasn't in Atlanta. I
was in La. I was in LA and I have
a wild story.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
That was a wild that was because that was also
so at this time, I'm like, really in comedy. You know,
I moved to La to do comedy and I'm feeling good.
You know, shit is kind of moving. I'm feeling good.
And I used I would do these super Bowl parties,
like I mean football Every Sunday was at my house.
All the little homies we do comedy together. They would all
come over my girl make wings. We'd watch football. So
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super Bowl lemon pepper, We'll do lemon pepper hot, and
then she would do something off branded to like Garba
palmejan a jerk.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
They would always be like a little flave.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Right, what about like sauce? We have dip sauce.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
We got some ranch blue cheese, Like are you blue cheese?
It depends on what I'm on that day. Allow, I
like blue cheese. I'm traditional, but sometime do rich but
limen pep.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
I usually go these are important questions.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I love chicken wings.
Speaker 9 (17:20):
So the super Bowl is about happened? Momy is like, yo,
are you doing a party? I had that experience with
you're traumatized trauma. I'm traumatized, So I go, no, I
don't want to watch the game with people who aren't
Patriots fans.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I know you guys aren't Patriots fans. I'm not having
a party. I'm gonna just watch it in my house,
me and my lady because she was.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Also from mass Jesus, my ex wife. I'm gonna watch
the shit.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
At my house. That's it.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
I'm not We're not doing that. He's like, you're being
a fucking sucker. You know we come every week.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Now you're not gonna have any way. Where are we
supposed to watch game? Bro?
Speaker 9 (17:53):
And like I'm the only one who's like settled with
my in my first two Like I have a girl
at the time, I have like a home where this
good food cook. He's like, you know, we're all living
like fucking savages. Like your house is the house.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
And I'm like, I'm not doing it. He breaks me.
I do it.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Now everybody's in my house and we are getting beat bad,
bad bad, And it's like for a Bostonian, you feel
like the curse is coming back. Literally, I'm like, oh shit,
the curse is coming back because this is unraveling in
a way that is fucking insane.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Like we're playing in a way that doesn't make sense
to me, Like.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Plays are happening and it's fucking Atlanta, and I'm like,
what the fuck is that? So now I'm equating this
to my career, right, I'm like, oh, everything's about the
crumble around me.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Yeah, I'm a cursed Bostonian once again. Nothing good's gonna
happen to me this year. Everything I wanted this year
is fucking down the toilet. This is fucking crazy. And
these motherfuckers are celerating like they're having the time of
their life. They're passing around memes, they're fucking laughing, and
they're all in my house eating my food, and I'm
just like, I want to fucking I'm quiet. They're like
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standing in my face. Ah, and I'm just eating this shit. Right,
my friend I gave up. I'm not gonna lie. I
gave up my friend Jack, God rest his soul. He
comes in a Randy Mass jersey. Every time Atlanta's scores.
He is taking this jersey off, throwing it on the
floor and stepping on it. Because we're comics too, so
people are being fucking ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Right.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
I am seething.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
I want to fucking cry. I'm losing hope. I'm like,
it can't happen. My ex wife goes we have Tom.
She's like, just believe, and I'm like, I don't know, man,
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
I'm really like watching.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
In the comeback starting and now I'm like, I'm just quiet.
I'm not saying anything. I'm just like hands in prayer,
just don't want to jinx it, don't want to jinx it.
But I'm like, okay, complete a pass. I'm like, let's go,
let's go, let's go, let's go. They're getting quieter, the
house is getting quieter. I don't I'm just like, yo, yep,
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I never roughed.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
We win? Did you get body movement? Where you getting
the body? I'm like they knew you were about it.
You were t Kevin m hm.
Speaker 9 (20:14):
And now now I'm watching Tom Tom so you know,
you know when you see Brady old Brady, I'm like,
my nigga's in it, let's go.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
You know what I'm saying, Like he's about to do
these niggas. So I'm like mm hmmm, hmm, we win.
I jump up. I screamed, I'm gonna.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Get everything I fucking want this year.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
This is my fucking year.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
And then I looked at my friend Jack, I said,
now put on your fucking jersey and get.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
The fuck out of my house. Bitch. I threw it
out my fucking house.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
And it was the best day of my fucking life.
And that year I got jfl I got. That was
my mother fucking year. I got everything I wanted.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It's because of Tom Brady. Gotta believe, gotta believe. When
did you know that we had it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
That first touchdown in the.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Third James White, I believe, or was it Danny.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
I was like, we're good, Yeah, we're good. What about
to snatch the heart of these boys?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
For me? I was still doing math.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I was like, all right, it's cute. Yeah, we're still
down twenty one points, yeah or eighteen or whatever. I
can't do math.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I was like, Tommy gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Nah. It wasn't until the defense. I saw that when
they started pissing down their leg Yeah. The offense, Atlanta's offense,
and then Trey Flowers had a big sack. They had
a holding and Dante fucking had the strip sack and
I'm sitting there like, oh, this shit's about to happen. Yeah,
it was James White and the third.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
When we got that, I was like, now it's just
pick apart time because I'm like, Okay, he's figured it out. Yeah,
he's figured it out, and now he's just gonna methodically
them apart.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
And you Tom can do that just so fast.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
Whence he can move the ball once he figures out
how to move it.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, you up dunk and dunk death by a thousand cuts.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Oh that's what I mean. You're gonna eat you up?
So how did that catch you had though? Crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Remember to tune in every Tuesday for a brand new
episode and every Sunday for another Games with Names high
that year
Welcome to Games of Names. I'm Julian Edelman, and we
got a brand new compilation, Highlight Real starting now now.
Paul Pierce on.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Watching the end of Super Bowl fifty one with his
Celtics teammates.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
That game was unreal because I remember we was getting
off the plane. It was in Toronto. We actually landed
in Toronto. Because when we landed stuff the score was
twenty eight to three. It was like damn.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
And then we.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Started watching it in the lobby. We watched it in
the lobby at the hotel.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
I never forget it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
We watched in the lobby hotel. We didn't move me
and Sam was right there the whole time, like damn,
what the hell is going on? That was crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So basically because of the truth watching the game was
Sam Cassell in the lobby and gave us the good
luck to come back. Those are the vibes we need.
And when which.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Game was that? When you caught that ridiculous? That was
probably to me, I think he made the greatest catch
of all time.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That was in that game.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Game that game, right, that was that game. That's what
I thought. That was the greatest catch ever.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
That was a crazy I know how you caught that ball, dude,
how did you catch that? Keep your eye on the ball.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You couldn't see the ball, dude, You keep your eyes
couldn't even see the ball.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Your eyes will always bring your hands to the ball
somewhere out there.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Next ice Cube on how unbelievable the Patriots twenty eight
to three comeback was.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, that twenty eight to three game was.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
That was some shit because I remember watching that game,
had a house full of people and we're going crazy
because we want the Falcons to win, no offense, but
the Patriots was they had hurt so many of our
hearts over the years. We was like, you know, let's
(01:44):
get one for the A. And everybody's talking during halftime,
were drinking food everywhere, halfway paying attention to the game,
and I'm like looking out the corner of my eye
and I'm just saying, like I'm starting to do the
(02:04):
math in my head, like did they have enough time,
if they scored, if they get the ball back, if
they oh they got the ball back? Oh shit they
And it goes from us not paying attention to ship
to everybody slowly but surely locking back into the game
to see to come back, and uh, you know, I'm
(02:26):
talking to my friend from Atlanta and shit, and he
just he almost shit a chicken.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Man.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
He was so fucking beside hisself, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
He was so beside himself.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
And he just I was like, man, like, we're gonna
do a wellness check on you later on tonight, because
don't kill yourself off in a fucking game.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Man Like.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It was. It was bad. It was bad, but it
was a great fucking comeback.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
You know what I'm gonna pull from something from this episode.
What you said you were what fourteen? You went in saftcarface? Yeah,
people like you, people like me to say, that's a
fucking bad guy. Yeah, where the fucking bad guy? Yes,
we are. I just I just felt like it was
(03:16):
it was playable. You know, everyone needs a fucking bad
guy to look at. That's a bad guy. That's him.
He could punch your fucking finger.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You could point your finger, put your fingers, say that's
the bad.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's a fucking back hand. I'm the fucking back of hand.
You know, the Patriots, We're the fucking bad guys. It's cool,
it's all.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
You know, just what you want football, You need you need,
you need a threshold, you need a something to chase.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And the great thing about this league there was a
time where it was you guys, and there's a time
when it was the ninth and then there's a time
now it's the Chiefs. You know who's it gonna be next?
Is it gonna be the Chiefs Eagles?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
The Eagle?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Or is it not? Next up?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Julian tells Carissa Thompson about going on Jimmy Fallon with
coach Bill Belichick after winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
You and Bill were guests together. Yeah, I need to
know that story. How does that happen?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Right after the Super Bowl Atlanta, they asked us if
we wanted to go on Stacy James came up, Do
you want to go do Foulin with Bill?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I was like hell yeah, oh my god, in this heartbeat.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
So wait, how was.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
He He was? Fun?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I mean, you know, Bill, that's the only time you know,
you can bank on that Bill is smiling, having good time.
I'm sure like five days later he's on to the draft.
But yeah, you know, he's a fun guy.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I we had some awesome conversations. We took a jet
together to the to New York right after the super Bowl,
and you know, we know.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Like weird awkwardness and conversation like you're.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Definitely there's always awkwardness with Bill. I mean he's socially awkward,
but like in a cool like it's my socially awkward friend,
not like I probably could say that now.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
That's like you're your socially awkward friend.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Maybe incredible.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I need to get Bill on this. Goddann Couch. I
swear if he does McAfee before he does my show,
that would hurt.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
It should hurt your feelings.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Coach, Okay, I didn't coach. I didn't take all those
team friendly deals right for just nothing.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Show me the receipts on that your socially awkward friend
needs to be right here sooner than later.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
What do we got right there?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Oh yeah, Julian, what is this.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Look that's let's playoff, baby, Jules.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
That doesn't even look like you. You look like you're
an extra and teen wolf. Like this is crazy, Like
your actual face doesn't maybe because it's halfway covered, but
like what also, what are what are LB's.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
At that point?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Uh to I was I'm like five pounds under really?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Oh maybe just the camera. As you know, people on camera,
it adds ten pounds. Yeah, you look thick.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
There, I'm too seat thick.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, I'm are you guys holding hands to Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What what what did they say? They said, Uh, they
were addressing that coach is a hard ass.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I think it came to like he said, we do kumbaia,
and like we held hands, and look at how we
held hands. It was so awkward. He held my hands,
so the holding of the hand was awkward. I didn't
know how to react. But we're on you know, live TV.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Or it's so good.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Old coach.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Now we got Howie Long recalling his experience on the
sidelines of Super Bowl fifty one.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Now is just the greatest game of all time.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
You know, your game, your game in the Super Bowl
when Chris played for the Patriots, it was so improbable
in so many ways.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Same halftime scores yours. Yeah, another way improbable. So here
we are. I walk into the stadium and it's the
Super Bowl. Fox is covering. He got the pregame. It's
four or five hours long. You know, we've got our own.
As you know now as.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
A as a broadcaster, there's a lot going on, a
lot going on a lot going on. There's thirty two sections,
and you know, what are we talking? What's the order?
You know who's talking about?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
What?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
You know?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Et cetera.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Because you don't want to be redundant and you want
to be on top of it. But this hits me,
and you know, I think it's Usher, who is there
during the day. He kind of had had his kind
of all all access pass into our green room and
everything else. He's a huge Atlanta fent and you know,
(07:38):
which is great. And he's a really nice guy and
and I want to save that up front. He's a
really nice guy. But here we are. It's twenty eight
to three in the third quarter, and I'm standing next
to Terry, and I get kind of quiet. When I
get quiet, it's never good. And I'm quiet, and and
(08:00):
Terry knows I'm you know, I feel like the worst
dad in the world. I pushed this kid. Now he
makes his own decisions, he's he's a grown man. He
makes his own decisions. But I certainly played a part
in you know, him going to New.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
England over Atlanta.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
And it's over Atlanta, and it's twenty eight to three,
and I'm the worst dad in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
That's how I felt.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
And Terry says to me, like, you know, kind of
like Forrest Gumpy just said, don't worry, little buddy. Tom's
gonna throw it all over the yard and it's gonna
be fine. It's gonna be the greatest comeback in Super
Bowl history. And I'm like this, You're out of your
freaking mind.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You're out of your mind, Terry.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
And then you know, I would I would say the
giant catch was the most improbable catch. I think your
catch was the most amazing catch I've seen. And seriously,
I mean I was there, I'm looking at him like,
(09:05):
oh my god, that just happened, and I'm looking for
the review to see if your hands under it, and
and it was just the sequence of things that had
to happen, including Chris getting a holding call down down
on it was like first and then it goes to.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
First, and then they decided to throw it, and then
we got decided.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
To throw it. I mean, when I say improbable, there
were so many things that had to happen in that half,
and and everything included the two point conversion, you know,
I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It was amazing, and we put him five for that game.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
It was amazing and I and I remember, you know,
Chris came on the set, and Diane was there, and
you know, the boys were there. Kyle had a tendon
surgery and he was limping around, and uh, you know,
just it was one of those kind of you know
moments that you know was a polaroid and your head
and you know, and and we go back to the
(10:03):
hotel and I remember, I'm still in disbelief and Usher,
who had been yelling, you know, after halftime in our
green room, you know, you know, falcons, falcons, screaming and
yelling and in my head, I'm punching him in the face.
But you know, I'm sitting in the corner. I'm quiet.
(10:24):
And he's a good guy, nothing wrong with being a fan,
and he probably had no idea that you know, he
didn't put two and two together, but you know, not
the place to be yelling.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But here we are. We go back to the hotel.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
And I remember it like it was yesterday, and the
family's there, and you know, it's one in the morning
and you can't get room service. I tucked him in
the sending us some burgers down the lobby, and we're
sitting around having burgers. And I go back up to
the room, finding it like four in the morning, and
the game was being replayed on NFL Network and I
(11:01):
had to watch it, like did this really happen? And
I was almost my poor wife's dead asleep, and I'm
watching NFL Network replay a super Bowl and I'm watching
it again to say this really happened. And you know,
of course Chris goes to Philadelphia the next year and
does it again, and does it again, and you know
(11:22):
it's a it's another barn Burner game versus New England.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
What would the average what was the average win Our
biggest our biggest win total was eighteen when we went
by ten points against the Rams. Yeah, it's usually always
been four three three, four, yep, you know, But that's
how we wanted to play the game. Yeah, that's how
Bill wanted. He wanted to control the game.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
But you have to be really, really confident in your
ability to run situational football to play that kind of
a game without every possession, every first down, every punt,
every field goal, every kickoff is important. It's like you
can't turn the ball over. You can't. There's so many
things that can't go wrong without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I mean that that I did the same thing like
three years later and just watched that game, Like when
I retired, I saw that game for the first time
TV copy. I don't think I've ever watched our Super
Bowl front exactly. You don't. You don't watch them. Yeah,
but it was on and I was sitting there like,
how the fuck did we win this game?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Next, Jay Glazer and Julian swap Super Bowl fifty one stories.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Hey, I'll tell you this to the twenty eighth to
three game. So we're in the We did that game too,
and Stray and I brought Usher with us, so before
am the NFC Championship game. So we're in Mexico with
Usher dam Drop and we Michael and I did this
thing where he Rusher was performing the next night and
we're like, dude, we're doing shots and He's like, I
can't do shots, man, I'm performing tomorrow night. We're like,
(12:53):
stop being a fucking woos. You're doing shots with us.
So we're doing shots with them, but Michael and I
are just doing water and we gave Usher probably four
teen shots up tequila. We fucked him up so bad
he was beyond cross. I don't know how he performed
the next night. But during that night he's like, Hey,
if the Falcons make the MC Championship game, I want
to come be with you guys on the sideline, says he.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
You could do it.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
You got to be my fucking sideline assistant. I'm gonna
wear you out right. And we didn't really think the
Falcon's gonna make the NMCY Championship game. Sure shit, they
make it, so hey, a deal's a deal. I'm like, hey,
you come down. We're gonna get your pass, sideline pass,
but you got to be my sideline assistant. And he
walking around my little fucking red bull and my makeup
and pads, and I was literally doing stuff just to fuck.
(13:37):
I'd like put something over here, and I'd be like.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Damn, you have to run over again it and walk over.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
And tell people's my assistant. At one point we're on
the air and I call him Moskowitz. I my ex
girlfriend asked if Usher was his real name. I said, no,
it's actually Usher Moskowitz. He was raised by Jews, which
obviously is not but I just said, and so I
call him Moscuwitz.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Whoever.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
So he comes on live TV and he tries to
pat my head some Moscow, what's what are you doing?
And the whole world's like, why is he calling Usher moscot?
So that's anyway, there's the add So later on that
twenty eight to three game, Howry Long obviously is going
nuts because Chris playing for First Plane, is losing twenty
eight to three and Usher comes into art our green
room and he is celebrating and fucking Herman Munster. The
(14:25):
bolts on his neck start lighting up. In the mis
series How He Loves Hate starts going the vans and
he's like and we're like, no, no, get out, guy.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
We are like, Usher gets the funk out. How He's
about to murder you. This is full broken arrow.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Yes, yes, anyway, that was a twenty three game, but
this game it was just it was the just the
tyree thing itself. But dude, I don't know because your
catch two in that twenty eight to three game, man,
that all right, I don't know which is the insane
catch first. It's more than saying first. But also that
(15:03):
catch you had, dude, is just I just saw it
again recently and I'm like, how the fuck did that
little squirrel catch on that thing?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's unbelievable. They're both very very Did you realize like
you always know you had it the whole time, but
you did it? It's like miked up, No, I know that,
but did you know I didn't think you're going. I
didn't think I had it the whole time. But when
I right before and I snatched it, like after that,
I was like, yeah, I fully got that. So you
(15:31):
think the ground you never never you knew you always
kind of know that tennis and serves like you know,
like with the servers, like sometimes the eye can't see it,
but those those tennis players know.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
That's a horrible fucking comparison.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I think it's perfect tennis serve. As to what you did,
you should be judgment, you know what I mean? No,
I know, but I mean I'm talking about like the
actual scenario of like when judgment isn't in, did you
make the catch or not? Is it in or is
it out?
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Does it slow down for you or is it I
don't really remember now, Sam Jay, I'm being the only
Patriots fan at her Super Bowl fifty one party.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Were you in Atlanta for the twenty eight to three
Super Bowl? I was, And I have a story for
that yes, I was. No, I wasn't in Atlanta. I
was in La. I was in LA and I have
a wild story.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
That was a wild that was because that was also
so at this time, I'm like, really in comedy. You know,
I moved to La to do comedy and I'm feeling good.
You know, shit is kind of moving. I'm feeling good.
And I used I would do these super Bowl parties,
like I mean football Every Sunday was at my house.
All the little homies we do comedy together. They would all
come over my girl make wings. We'd watch football. So
(16:51):
super Bowl lemon pepper, We'll do lemon pepper hot, and
then she would do something off branded to like Garba
palmejan a jerk.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
They would always be like a little flave.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Right, what about like sauce? We have dip sauce.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
We got some ranch blue cheese, Like are you blue cheese?
It depends on what I'm on that day. Allow, I
like blue cheese. I'm traditional, but sometime do rich but
limen pep.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
I usually go these are important questions.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I love chicken wings.
Speaker 9 (17:20):
So the super Bowl is about happened? Momy is like, yo,
are you doing a party? I had that experience with
you're traumatized trauma. I'm traumatized, So I go, no, I
don't want to watch the game with people who aren't
Patriots fans.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I know you guys aren't Patriots fans. I'm not having
a party. I'm gonna just watch it in my house,
me and my lady because she was.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Also from mass Jesus, my ex wife. I'm gonna watch
the shit.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
At my house. That's it.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
I'm not We're not doing that. He's like, you're being
a fucking sucker. You know we come every week.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Now you're not gonna have any way. Where are we
supposed to watch game? Bro?
Speaker 9 (17:53):
And like I'm the only one who's like settled with
my in my first two Like I have a girl
at the time, I have like a home where this
good food cook. He's like, you know, we're all living
like fucking savages. Like your house is the house.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
And I'm like, I'm not doing it. He breaks me.
I do it.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Now everybody's in my house and we are getting beat bad,
bad bad, And it's like for a Bostonian, you feel
like the curse is coming back. Literally, I'm like, oh shit,
the curse is coming back because this is unraveling in
a way that is fucking insane.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Like we're playing in a way that doesn't make sense
to me, Like.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Plays are happening and it's fucking Atlanta, and I'm like,
what the fuck is that? So now I'm equating this
to my career, right, I'm like, oh, everything's about the
crumble around me.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh my god.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Yeah, I'm a cursed Bostonian once again. Nothing good's gonna
happen to me this year. Everything I wanted this year
is fucking down the toilet. This is fucking crazy. And
these motherfuckers are celerating like they're having the time of
their life. They're passing around memes, they're fucking laughing, and
they're all in my house eating my food, and I'm
just like, I want to fucking I'm quiet. They're like
(19:05):
standing in my face. Ah, and I'm just eating this shit. Right,
my friend I gave up. I'm not gonna lie. I
gave up my friend Jack, God rest his soul. He
comes in a Randy Mass jersey. Every time Atlanta's scores.
He is taking this jersey off, throwing it on the
floor and stepping on it. Because we're comics too, so
people are being fucking ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Right.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
I am seething.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
I want to fucking cry. I'm losing hope. I'm like,
it can't happen. My ex wife goes we have Tom.
She's like, just believe, and I'm like, I don't know, man,
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
I'm really like watching.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
In the comeback starting and now I'm like, I'm just quiet.
I'm not saying anything. I'm just like hands in prayer,
just don't want to jinx it, don't want to jinx it.
But I'm like, okay, complete a pass. I'm like, let's go,
let's go, let's go, let's go. They're getting quieter, the
house is getting quieter. I don't I'm just like, yo, yep,
(20:06):
I never roughed.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
We win? Did you get body movement? Where you getting
the body? I'm like they knew you were about it.
You were t Kevin m hm.
Speaker 9 (20:14):
And now now I'm watching Tom Tom so you know,
you know when you see Brady old Brady, I'm like,
my nigga's in it, let's go.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
You know what I'm saying, Like he's about to do
these niggas. So I'm like mm hmmm, hmm, we win.
I jump up. I screamed, I'm gonna.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Get everything I fucking want this year.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
This is my fucking year.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
And then I looked at my friend Jack, I said,
now put on your fucking jersey and get.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
The fuck out of my house. Bitch. I threw it
out my fucking house.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
And it was the best day of my fucking life.
And that year I got jfl I got. That was
my mother fucking year. I got everything I wanted.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
It's because of Tom Brady. Gotta believe, gotta believe. When
did you know that we had it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
That first touchdown in the.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Third James White, I believe, or was it Danny.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
I was like, we're good, Yeah, we're good. What about
to snatch the heart of these boys?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
For me? I was still doing math.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I was like, all right, it's cute. Yeah, we're still
down twenty one points, yeah or eighteen or whatever. I
can't do math.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I was like, Tommy gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Nah. It wasn't until the defense. I saw that when
they started pissing down their leg Yeah. The offense, Atlanta's offense,
and then Trey Flowers had a big sack. They had
a holding and Dante fucking had the strip sack and
I'm sitting there like, oh, this shit's about to happen. Yeah,
it was James White and the third.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
When we got that, I was like, now it's just
pick apart time because I'm like, Okay, he's figured it out. Yeah,
he's figured it out, and now he's just gonna methodically
them apart.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
And you Tom can do that just so fast.
Speaker 9 (22:02):
Whence he can move the ball once he figures out
how to move it.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, you up dunk and dunk death by a thousand cuts.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Oh that's what I mean. You're gonna eat you up?
So how did that catch you had though? Crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Remember to tune in every Tuesday for a brand new
episode and every Sunday for another Games with Names high
that year
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