August 8, 2024 • 21 mins
Matt Eberflus debuts a new bearded look on Hard Knocks and gets a lot of attention so C&R highlight other stars that show the importance of the beard. Drake admits that Serena Williams was the inspiration for his 2016 song "Too Good" so Covino & Rich highlight their favorite athlete shout outs in pop music
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Day buddies, what's going on practicing my robot for the
Olympics this weekend? Yeah, my birthday weekend. Welcome to over
Promised Episode fifty eight. Coveno and Rich from Fox Sports Radio.
What do you want a cookie? What your birthday weekend?
(00:21):
Wait to ruin my excitement? Sorry, just more reason to celebrate.
I think you're expedingac the NFL. We got two more
preseason games that are going on, like right now, or
it's my birthday weekend. You got the Giants of Alliance.
That's a tough one, you know, a lions. Yeah, lie
on these giant nuts. Shit up, got you downy?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So catch us on Fox Sports Radio weekdays two to
four on the West out here in La five to
seven on the East. Everything at Covino and Rich. We
want to play along at home. Follow our podcast search
Coveno and Rich. We're gonna throw it back on a
Thursday or whenever you're watching it. Big Trouble and Little
China Style lest go. It's on the reflex and for.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Me, it's a little uh throw back to a couple
of months ago. Yeah, let's go Grimace. The Mets need
to keep up with some of the hottest teams in
baseball like the Padres and the d Backs and the
Braves are slipping. So baseball's heating up. Football's about to start,
So great time to be a sports fan.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Absolutely, So on today's show, we're gonna talk about songs.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
With great old school sports references, like the most random ones. Yeah,
yeah to us.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
According to us, you could add to the list because
there's a story about Drake and I'm calling our first discussion.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You can call it whatever you want. Beards are false advertising,
That's what I'm calling it. Oh, I thought I was
gonna name it Saved by the Beard or yeah. For
guys like Spot, yeah, man, the beard really helped them
out here. There are some people without the beard. They
would be completely different. Like we're talking, you could go
(01:59):
from a guy that's slaying it to a guy that
would get no booty, a guy that guys think he's
a cool guy, or who's that nerd. Beard can change
it all.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Do you remember that movie I'm Gonna Get You Suck
Out keenan Ivory WANs He's with this woman and she
takes off her wig, she takes off her eyelashes, she
takes off all her makeup, then she starts taking off
her legs and he's like, what you know, that's not
what he thought was going on here for me, that's
the beard for women.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You can see I'm hating. Look, I've had facial hair
for a long time. It's a little gray now, so
I don't grow it in as much. Rich. You frocked
the beard, So I'm not hating on the beard. It
adds character. But what's really going on underneath that beard
is my question? We got to decide, Well, first of all,
what is a beard like what I have? Now? This
is a scrub, but it's a beard because if I
was clean shaven, I would look different. But I'm talking
(02:46):
guys like our video producer Spot who listen, when I
met this guy way different than the guy taking Jim
selfies now with his muscles and beard. Spot, why don't
you show everyone a little before and after of yourself
before we get in this story about Matt Eberfluse. Why
are you coming for me? Because I'll be honest, I
(03:06):
feel like you're culprit number one? What did I do
to you? Okay, here's the here's the now. Yeah, you
go to the that's spot. When I first met him,
going that beard is what I want to know. You know,
this is this is the this is the that beard works. Matt,
You're sorry. Spot went to the barber Yea and brought
(03:29):
a picture of Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And said, hook it up. But he's had that beard
for a while. Now becomes the look. It really changes
the guy, not only in your physical appearance, it changes
their attitude big time. And the biggest story actually aired
this week. Have you guys watched Chicago Bears Hard Knocks
on HBO Max, Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You mean the Caleb Williams documentary.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, it's mostly about Caleb Williams so far, but there
was a major part of the episode that was about
head coach Matt Eberflew. I had to look it up
because he's fifty four. Yeah, that's Matt Eberflew.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah. Well, yeah, exactly because prior to well recent episodes,
you picture him as a tired, old white guy. He's
a fifty four year old guy. But that's kind of
how you knew him. Right.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, in the off season he started to let the
scruff grow and the beard was coming in and his
pretty attractive younger wife, Oh, I mean she looks.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I mean he's an NFL coach. Yeah. She was like,
why don't you let it grow out? It looks good?
And he's like, you think so, I mean, you have
an attractive younger girlfriend and you're just a radio podcaster. Yeah. Yeah,
he's not that far.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Fast, right, He's like you think so, She's like, yeah,
it looks good, and he's like, oh, so he starts
letting the beard grow out. I'm ad libbing the story
here on Hard Knocks, right, because this is the only
part where they divert from Kayleb Williams back to Caleb Boyhams.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
No, no, no. He goes, well, what about the hair to
hair sort of looks like, you know, tired and gray
and head coach. And she's like, yeah, why don't you
get a Ryan Reynolds sort of haircut. So he takes
the Ryan Reynolds picture, brings it to the barber. They
give him a sweet little fade up shape up, and
now he's looking like an Adonis now, and now he's
really films.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Even the wife goes, he thinks he's a lot cooler now,
and then she goes, he is a lot cooler now, dude.
Even his name with Eberfluse sounding like aie. Now the
guy's got a changed image. Now listen, I'm not you
could say, who gives a shit about a beard? But
I feel like his new cool image goes with the
new cool Chicago Bears vibe. Dude, this team has.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Revamped and retold and rebranded so much their coaching even
got cooler.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I couldn't agree with you more. Of course, we're taking
shots at people with their beard. Hey, what's going on
in false advertising? But it does add a lot to
the vibe. It works for a lot of people, could
work for you, just switch it up. I think he's
bringing a different sense of confidence to the team, and
he looks cooler to a young, cooler team. I think
he's building that relationship with Kayleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
He how looks like that. It's crazy the difference. And
by the way, spot they let me tell you, the
pictures don't do it justice. When you see him interacting
and you see him moving now he seems like a
cooler guy, a more relevant guy with the modern days look.
It works for him. Did he go to Turkey? And
(06:20):
by the way, Richard, I wasn't the only one. I
wasn't the only one.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That really sort of noticed how grat he looks, because
it became like a trending thing, like hold on after
the episode air and everyone's like, have you seen mad Heberflus?
And now you guys know and that makes us think
of some of these before and afters that really changed
the guy and how he looked and maybe the trajectory
of their image and career.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well. A lot of times money helps, right and people
getting hair work done or just that's meme. It's like
you're not ugly or just poor. You grow into your
look too. And I think of Steve Carell now listen,
I get it because sometimes the role calls for it.
But when he was Michael Scott on the Office, even
in early seasons when he was losing the hairline, versus
Steve Carell, when he's on the morning show on Apple
(07:06):
TV or just current day, Steve Carell, it's got the scruff,
with the glasses a little gray. That's the same guy
who said it rich.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
If you ever backtracked and watched The Office, you realize
that he was thinning out big time, big me and
then probably took that flight to Turkey, like you said,
got the all inclusive, got the transplant, the hair plug.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But the beard helped. Heil the beard helped, and he
went from like goofy Steve Carell, lovable Steve Carell to
like I think women see him as a sexy older guy,
like a sex symbol almost, and he is. He's a
handsome dude. Now, there are guys that are handsome that
even with a clean shape, they look handsome, but the
beard makes women lose their shit, like the Cloonies and
(07:46):
Ryan Reynolds. And there's guys that are handsome with or
without the beard. But I think the top of the
list when it comes to handsome without the beard. But
with the beard, I mean, I just said it. Spot
took a picture to the barber shop. Travis Kelce with
the beard makes him way cooler, way cooler. Yeah, here's
him without the beard. Yeah, not that cool. I mean,
(08:06):
big football player.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I'm not saying he's ugly or anything, but that beard
really took him next level.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I mean, that guy get some booty. This guy gets
the number one pop star in the world. Yeah, it
gets Taylor Swift booty. It really helps. So let this
motivate you or inspire you, but again not to shoot
you down. Travis Kelsey, we know what's going on underneath
because we've seen it. There's some other people you meet
for all you know, they're hiding like a really weak
(08:33):
shin under there. So ladies, when you have a kid
with no chin, you fell for the trap. Yeah, it's
like meet the girl that got work done. Yeah, what's
our kid gonna look like? Let me hit you up
with another one. Let's go the hip hop world. Drake,
we saw him growing up, but we all picture Drake
with the pretty sweet, chiseled beard, clean shaven Drake, sort
(08:53):
of a nerd. So were you again? I mean changed
his image completely.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That's like de grassy Drake, nice guy, lovable Drake, you
know on the right. Now you got hey, I'm beefing
with some disstracks and happy because I'm getting some booty
Drake with that beard.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
How about a baseball player that let the Yankees destroy
his whole Look you know what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Of, of course, I know. I mean it's been done
many At times. You're not thinking Johnny Damon, you're thinking
Kevin Euculus.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Kevin Euclus was one of the He was your quintessential
cowboy up Red Sox. And by the way, the beard
and the photo. You see there his his beard is
pretty well groomed. He had a gross beard going on
for wait for this, side by side the Yeah, I
mean this is a great example of what a beer
could do for you. He lost all intimidation factor. Yeah,
(09:51):
he was not comfortable. You know, it's a confidence killer.
Look at it, says perspective. Spot.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I bet when you get your beard trimmed up and
your sweet fade as you got right now, anybody can
relate to that sweet fresh haircut. You feel like a
sense of false confidence.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You feel like the man. I feel like the man
if someone's forcing you to change that look yesterday. Look
at this.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You think Kevin yuklos Ever felt great about looking like
that without the beard. You grow accustomed to that look, man,
And I bet you a spot. I bet you're scared
to see what you look like about that beard. You know,
it's like when you saw your dad went out his
mustache as a kid.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You're like, oh, no, former Yankee now met Severino. They
asked him what's the biggest difference between playing Crosstown Queens
or the Bronx New York Yankees New York Mets. He
jokingly said, the biggest difference. Yeah, with the Mets, I
don't have to shave and look like a nerd. It's
definitely a better look. As far as intimidation factor in sports,
(10:46):
there's no question about it. But you know what, like
every conversation we have so is beard false advertising or
does the beard make the man? Like every conversation we
have on over promised and convin on Rich, I know
you like a lesson to be learned or a number
one answer on the board, there is clearly a number one.
A guy that is known as the Beard, a guy
that before the Beard was as intimidating as a schoolboy,
(11:10):
and now he's an NBA superstar. Used to be called
James Softon, Now he's James Harden. This is the best
example by far. James Softon on the last there is
James Harden on the right. I have another photo. Is
this real? Yes, that's James Soften.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yes, maybe that's real, maybe not, but it might as
well be because was doing under There is the question.
This is the one, by the way, you said he's
known for the Beard. Honestly, can I give honorable mention
and give credit to where I think credits due? And
I think we often forget how the beard came back.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's been around. It came back, and it's been around
for a long time. Mate, I think Curtis give it
a shout out to Chester, Ay, Arthur Chester. No, Brian Wilson,
not the beach boy the picture, Fear the Beard. He's
the guy that brought it back. And he used to diet.
If you're looking at it and you're thinking, is that
even real? Yes, but he would diet and no, dude,
(12:06):
people rallied around that beard and it became a thing.
When you think back, yeah, you think James Harden, and
you think of all the Red Sox players. But he
was the first guy to really, in my recent memory,
to bring it back and own it and run with it,
and that's how it became such a thing. I'm giving
him honorable mention here on the show today. But I
do pose the question, based on the reinvention the new
(12:30):
look of Matt Eberflus, does the beard make the man
or is this false advertising? Like that's not mad Eberflus
now he's Maddy e or Matthew.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But I'm telling you you got to watch the show
because you know, Rich, I think you hit the nail
on the head. This gives the team a different sort
of vibe. You don't have that tired, fifty four year
old looking. Even the coach got even the coach got
to glow up. I mean the team, they have their
their wide receiving corps, their quarterback, and their coach all
(13:05):
got a glow up in the offseason. So, hey, Bears
fans should be excited for mostly what's going on in
the field, But now that your coach has more confidence,
you can't argue that.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Right, Hey, spine, you ever shaved the beard to know?
I wanted to, right, it completes the look. You know what,
it goes fully gray if it full like, because they're
starting to get a little shit they think all the
Santa Claus k No, I don't know. Well there you go. Hey,
(13:35):
something else we wanted to get to on.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Over promident Drake. You know, we were just talking about Drake.
He's in the news this week. At first, I wasn't
sure if it was true.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Is this true? But he confirmed his romance with Tennis
quote greatest woman of all time quote Tennis quote Serena Williams.
They had a thing going on in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's official, and that means the song Too Good was
indeed about Serena Williams.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Off the air earlier before we started recording the pod,
and Covino goes, he is he still banging? Or I'm like, no,
like this married? You write a song like that about
somebody you never know? Maybe he still trying to slip
in there is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
But I've always thought there's so many men out there
professing their love, writing these beautiful women songs for women,
not enough women writing like love songs about men like
the only one I can think.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Of is like Bell, I love you so I always will.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Bill must have been crowing the do Bill. How many
songs do you know where the woman's shouting out the dude.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Not many, not many. It's usually they hate full songs.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So anyway, the song too Good is about Serena Williams confirmed,
and it got us thinking here on over promised, well,
if he's shouting out tennis legend, what are some other
old school sports shout outs and music so songs with
great old school sports references?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well, I think comes to mind, she can starred me.
I mean, I don't know when this song came out,
probably when I was not even born yet or a
little baby.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I'll say what they say on your favorite show? Was
it the Goldbergs? That was a great show back in
nineteen eighty so it was nineteen eighty something. It was
early eighties.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Curtis Blow gave shout outs to everybody. Basketball is my
favorite sport. I like the way they dribbled up and
down the court, just like I'm the King of the microphone.
So it was Doctor J and Moses Malone. Those were
great shoutouts. I think could it be they were the
first athletes to get shouted out to this song? It
has to be. When you bring up songs with great
(15:40):
old school sports references, it's the first one that comes
to mind. I guess every hip hop song now will
throw in a one lyric about a current NBA or
NFL player. It's commonplace now, but back then, I'm I'd
argue that who forgot? Who else would have that in
rappers Delight? Maybe everyone over a friend's house to eat nothing.
This is number one.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I'm just hoping that you hear some Curtis Blow over
the Olympics this weekend when they do some break dancing.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Now, that would be cool, being uh, I can't wait
for break dancing. You're a big Yankees fan. I know
you wanted to throw this in here just because you
love the Scooter.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'm listen there because anytime this song comes out in
the bar, everyone loves to sing along and they love me.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
All of a sudden, everybody loves meat Loaf. Oh, I
love this song Paradise by the dashboard Light. I don't
really love this song. I don't necessarily now. I don't
hate meat Loaf by any means. I think he was
a great actor and performer. He's completely underrated. Dude sold
like one hundred million albums looking up love. But the
(16:45):
part I like about this song I love him club
as he yan His name was Robert Paulson. What I
love about the song is and it's not everybody knows us.
That's Phil rizzutto the Scooter calling the home run call.
Not everybody knows that you're in New York kid. I
brought it up at Fox Sports. People are like, who,
that's a shit's part of the scooter. That's like the breakdown.
Everyone in a wedding. Everyone at a wedding can't dance
(17:08):
during Phil Rizzuto spoken like a goofy Mets fan with
a Grimer shirt on. As a Yankees fan, I always
thought that was awesome. I grew up watching Phil Rizzuto
call the game, and he's in the song a song
that everybody knows his home run call. Hey, he's running
on a basis. His baseball call is in there. Holy cow.
(17:30):
So not everybody knows that, but now you do old
school sports reference. Let me hit you up with a
Rando one. And by the way, if there's a kiddie
watching Phil Risuto, the Scooter played second base for the Yankees.
He won an MVP and became a longtime broadcaster for
the Yankees. Yeah hearing this, pinstripes, I got another one. Now.
(17:50):
She has a new album coming out next month. You
probably haven't heard of her in a long time. Unstoppable,
but she was hot in the two thousands, Nelly Fortado
hot in the two thousands. Have you seen them cakes?
In twenty twenty four, she you know, she was gonna
put all auto tune on a new album. She's a
teenager who's like, mom, that's lame, So she has a mom.
Now she heard us.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Blow is writing a song as we speak, called these
All the Cakes.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Nellie Fortato. She shouted out Steve Nash. She says, is
your game MVP, just like Steve Nash, something like that
spot do you can you sing it for us? Is
your game MVP like Steve Nash. I always thought that
stood out too. I'm like with Steve Nash getting a
shatow from Nellie Fortato in Timberland. She was very seductive
(18:33):
and sultry. Another one that you gotta remember. I for
some reason you think this is my favorite one because
it might be you, you more than outcasts, because every
time I hear this athlete's name, I want to sing it.
Ket should be running like rand By Moss in the
world World. I haven't heard that. We don't. You don't
(18:56):
don't play that song much? What Ket should be running
like brand By? And you know it does make you think,
Like you said, it is commonplace to hear a lot
of shout outs and references to athletes and rap songs today.
But you think Randy Moss felt cool or Steve nashviellet
cool about that back then? I would imagine. So, I
(19:17):
mean who doesn't, right? I mean everyone would be honored.
In fact, people would say, even when Eminem makes fun
of them it's an honor.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Eminem throws a lot of the same names down, like
Christopher Reeve. He loves talking about that Superman out of
this I'm cat throw one more and jay Z and Beyonce.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah. I always thought this was interesting because I guarantee
this guy never thought he would ever get shouted out.
And I think he got shouted out just because his
name rhyme would snare like snare drum. I think there's
some people who don't follow sports have no idea who
they only know the name from the song. Okay, well,
jay Z and Beyonce they had a song Deja Vu,
and the first lyric of the song. The song starts
(19:58):
out with I used to write based like wamp Pierre
and then it ends with now I run bass, high
hat and snare, And I'm like, did you just shout out?
I was probably at the gym one day, headphones on
sy jay Z's rip around me what Wampierre know for
stealing bases? Man fast as hell? He had the quickness,
(20:18):
he had some speed, But to me, such a cool honor. Again,
hear it all the time nowadays, but those are songs
with great old school sports references or shout outs. Random
ones that came to mind for us. But that's where
we get you involved. Fox Sports Radio over Promised Nation.
You could chime in what comes to mind for you
(20:39):
at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio hashtag over
Promised and we'll see you guys later on. Until then, Hey,
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Day buddies, what's going on practicing my robot for the
Olympics this weekend? Yeah, my birthday weekend. Welcome to over
Promised Episode fifty eight. Coveno and Rich from Fox Sports Radio.
What do you want a cookie? What your birthday weekend?
(00:21):
Wait to ruin my excitement? Sorry, just more reason to celebrate.
I think you're expedingac the NFL. We got two more
preseason games that are going on, like right now, or
it's my birthday weekend. You got the Giants of Alliance.
That's a tough one, you know, a lions. Yeah, lie
on these giant nuts. Shit up, got you downy?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So catch us on Fox Sports Radio weekdays two to
four on the West out here in La five to
seven on the East. Everything at Covino and Rich. We
want to play along at home. Follow our podcast search
Coveno and Rich. We're gonna throw it back on a
Thursday or whenever you're watching it. Big Trouble and Little
China Style lest go. It's on the reflex and for.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Me, it's a little uh throw back to a couple
of months ago. Yeah, let's go Grimace. The Mets need
to keep up with some of the hottest teams in
baseball like the Padres and the d Backs and the
Braves are slipping. So baseball's heating up. Football's about to start,
So great time to be a sports fan.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Absolutely, So on today's show, we're gonna talk about songs.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
With great old school sports references, like the most random ones. Yeah,
yeah to us.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
According to us, you could add to the list because
there's a story about Drake and I'm calling our first discussion.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You can call it whatever you want. Beards are false advertising,
That's what I'm calling it. Oh, I thought I was
gonna name it Saved by the Beard or yeah. For
guys like Spot, yeah, man, the beard really helped them
out here. There are some people without the beard. They
would be completely different. Like we're talking, you could go
(01:59):
from a guy that's slaying it to a guy that
would get no booty, a guy that guys think he's
a cool guy, or who's that nerd. Beard can change
it all.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Do you remember that movie I'm Gonna Get You Suck
Out keenan Ivory WANs He's with this woman and she
takes off her wig, she takes off her eyelashes, she
takes off all her makeup, then she starts taking off
her legs and he's like, what you know, that's not
what he thought was going on here for me, that's
the beard for women.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You can see I'm hating. Look, I've had facial hair
for a long time. It's a little gray now, so
I don't grow it in as much. Rich. You frocked
the beard, So I'm not hating on the beard. It
adds character. But what's really going on underneath that beard
is my question? We got to decide, Well, first of all,
what is a beard like what I have? Now? This
is a scrub, but it's a beard because if I
was clean shaven, I would look different. But I'm talking
(02:46):
guys like our video producer Spot who listen, when I
met this guy way different than the guy taking Jim
selfies now with his muscles and beard. Spot, why don't
you show everyone a little before and after of yourself
before we get in this story about Matt Eberfluse. Why
are you coming for me? Because I'll be honest, I
(03:06):
feel like you're culprit number one? What did I do
to you? Okay, here's the here's the now. Yeah, you
go to the that's spot. When I first met him,
going that beard is what I want to know. You know,
this is this is the this is the that beard works. Matt,
You're sorry. Spot went to the barber Yea and brought
(03:29):
a picture of Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And said, hook it up. But he's had that beard
for a while. Now becomes the look. It really changes
the guy, not only in your physical appearance, it changes
their attitude big time. And the biggest story actually aired
this week. Have you guys watched Chicago Bears Hard Knocks
on HBO Max, Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You mean the Caleb Williams documentary.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, it's mostly about Caleb Williams so far, but there
was a major part of the episode that was about
head coach Matt Eberflew. I had to look it up
because he's fifty four. Yeah, that's Matt Eberflew.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah. Well, yeah, exactly because prior to well recent episodes,
you picture him as a tired, old white guy. He's
a fifty four year old guy. But that's kind of
how you knew him. Right.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, in the off season he started to let the
scruff grow and the beard was coming in and his
pretty attractive younger wife, Oh, I mean she looks.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I mean he's an NFL coach. Yeah. She was like,
why don't you let it grow out? It looks good?
And he's like, you think so, I mean, you have
an attractive younger girlfriend and you're just a radio podcaster. Yeah. Yeah,
he's not that far.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Fast, right, He's like you think so, She's like, yeah,
it looks good, and he's like, oh, so he starts
letting the beard grow out. I'm ad libbing the story
here on Hard Knocks, right, because this is the only
part where they divert from Kayleb Williams back to Caleb Boyhams.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
No, no, no. He goes, well, what about the hair to
hair sort of looks like, you know, tired and gray
and head coach. And she's like, yeah, why don't you
get a Ryan Reynolds sort of haircut. So he takes
the Ryan Reynolds picture, brings it to the barber. They
give him a sweet little fade up shape up, and
now he's looking like an Adonis now, and now he's
really films.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Even the wife goes, he thinks he's a lot cooler now,
and then she goes, he is a lot cooler now, dude.
Even his name with Eberfluse sounding like aie. Now the
guy's got a changed image. Now listen, I'm not you
could say, who gives a shit about a beard? But
I feel like his new cool image goes with the
new cool Chicago Bears vibe. Dude, this team has.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Revamped and retold and rebranded so much their coaching even
got cooler.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I couldn't agree with you more. Of course, we're taking
shots at people with their beard. Hey, what's going on
in false advertising? But it does add a lot to
the vibe. It works for a lot of people, could
work for you, just switch it up. I think he's
bringing a different sense of confidence to the team, and
he looks cooler to a young, cooler team. I think
he's building that relationship with Kayleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
He how looks like that. It's crazy the difference. And
by the way, spot they let me tell you, the
pictures don't do it justice. When you see him interacting
and you see him moving now he seems like a
cooler guy, a more relevant guy with the modern days look.
It works for him. Did he go to Turkey? And
(06:20):
by the way, Richard, I wasn't the only one. I
wasn't the only one.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That really sort of noticed how grat he looks, because
it became like a trending thing, like hold on after
the episode air and everyone's like, have you seen mad Heberflus?
And now you guys know and that makes us think
of some of these before and afters that really changed
the guy and how he looked and maybe the trajectory
of their image and career.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well. A lot of times money helps, right and people
getting hair work done or just that's meme. It's like
you're not ugly or just poor. You grow into your
look too. And I think of Steve Carell now listen,
I get it because sometimes the role calls for it.
But when he was Michael Scott on the Office, even
in early seasons when he was losing the hairline, versus
Steve Carell, when he's on the morning show on Apple
(07:06):
TV or just current day, Steve Carell, it's got the scruff,
with the glasses a little gray. That's the same guy
who said it rich.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
If you ever backtracked and watched The Office, you realize
that he was thinning out big time, big me and
then probably took that flight to Turkey, like you said,
got the all inclusive, got the transplant, the hair plug.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But the beard helped. Heil the beard helped, and he
went from like goofy Steve Carell, lovable Steve Carell to
like I think women see him as a sexy older guy,
like a sex symbol almost, and he is. He's a
handsome dude. Now, there are guys that are handsome that
even with a clean shape, they look handsome, but the
beard makes women lose their shit, like the Cloonies and
(07:46):
Ryan Reynolds. And there's guys that are handsome with or
without the beard. But I think the top of the
list when it comes to handsome without the beard. But
with the beard, I mean, I just said it. Spot
took a picture to the barber shop. Travis Kelce with
the beard makes him way cooler, way cooler. Yeah, here's
him without the beard. Yeah, not that cool. I mean,
(08:06):
big football player.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I'm not saying he's ugly or anything, but that beard
really took him next level.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I mean, that guy get some booty. This guy gets
the number one pop star in the world. Yeah, it
gets Taylor Swift booty. It really helps. So let this
motivate you or inspire you, but again not to shoot
you down. Travis Kelsey, we know what's going on underneath
because we've seen it. There's some other people you meet
for all you know, they're hiding like a really weak
(08:33):
shin under there. So ladies, when you have a kid
with no chin, you fell for the trap. Yeah, it's
like meet the girl that got work done. Yeah, what's
our kid gonna look like? Let me hit you up
with another one. Let's go the hip hop world. Drake,
we saw him growing up, but we all picture Drake
with the pretty sweet, chiseled beard, clean shaven Drake, sort
(08:53):
of a nerd. So were you again? I mean changed
his image completely.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That's like de grassy Drake, nice guy, lovable Drake, you
know on the right. Now you got hey, I'm beefing
with some disstracks and happy because I'm getting some booty
Drake with that beard.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
How about a baseball player that let the Yankees destroy
his whole Look you know what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Of, of course, I know. I mean it's been done
many At times. You're not thinking Johnny Damon, you're thinking
Kevin Euculus.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Kevin Euclus was one of the He was your quintessential
cowboy up Red Sox. And by the way, the beard
and the photo. You see there his his beard is
pretty well groomed. He had a gross beard going on
for wait for this, side by side the Yeah, I
mean this is a great example of what a beer
could do for you. He lost all intimidation factor. Yeah,
(09:51):
he was not comfortable. You know, it's a confidence killer.
Look at it, says perspective. Spot.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I bet when you get your beard trimmed up and
your sweet fade as you got right now, anybody can
relate to that sweet fresh haircut. You feel like a
sense of false confidence.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You feel like the man. I feel like the man
if someone's forcing you to change that look yesterday. Look
at this.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You think Kevin yuklos Ever felt great about looking like
that without the beard. You grow accustomed to that look, man,
And I bet you a spot. I bet you're scared
to see what you look like about that beard. You know,
it's like when you saw your dad went out his
mustache as a kid.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You're like, oh, no, former Yankee now met Severino. They
asked him what's the biggest difference between playing Crosstown Queens
or the Bronx New York Yankees New York Mets. He
jokingly said, the biggest difference. Yeah, with the Mets, I
don't have to shave and look like a nerd. It's
definitely a better look. As far as intimidation factor in sports,
(10:46):
there's no question about it. But you know what, like
every conversation we have so is beard false advertising or
does the beard make the man? Like every conversation we
have on over promised and convin on Rich, I know
you like a lesson to be learned or a number
one answer on the board, there is clearly a number one.
A guy that is known as the Beard, a guy
that before the Beard was as intimidating as a schoolboy,
(11:10):
and now he's an NBA superstar. Used to be called
James Softon, Now he's James Harden. This is the best
example by far. James Softon on the last there is
James Harden on the right. I have another photo. Is
this real? Yes, that's James Soften.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yes, maybe that's real, maybe not, but it might as
well be because was doing under There is the question.
This is the one, by the way, you said he's
known for the Beard. Honestly, can I give honorable mention
and give credit to where I think credits due? And
I think we often forget how the beard came back.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's been around. It came back, and it's been around
for a long time. Mate, I think Curtis give it
a shout out to Chester, Ay, Arthur Chester. No, Brian Wilson,
not the beach boy the picture, Fear the Beard. He's
the guy that brought it back. And he used to diet.
If you're looking at it and you're thinking, is that
even real? Yes, but he would diet and no, dude,
(12:06):
people rallied around that beard and it became a thing.
When you think back, yeah, you think James Harden, and
you think of all the Red Sox players. But he
was the first guy to really, in my recent memory,
to bring it back and own it and run with it,
and that's how it became such a thing. I'm giving
him honorable mention here on the show today. But I
do pose the question, based on the reinvention the new
(12:30):
look of Matt Eberflus, does the beard make the man
or is this false advertising? Like that's not mad Eberflus
now he's Maddy e or Matthew.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But I'm telling you you got to watch the show
because you know, Rich, I think you hit the nail
on the head. This gives the team a different sort
of vibe. You don't have that tired, fifty four year
old looking. Even the coach got even the coach got
to glow up. I mean the team, they have their
their wide receiving corps, their quarterback, and their coach all
(13:05):
got a glow up in the offseason. So, hey, Bears
fans should be excited for mostly what's going on in
the field, But now that your coach has more confidence,
you can't argue that.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Right, Hey, spine, you ever shaved the beard to know?
I wanted to, right, it completes the look. You know what,
it goes fully gray if it full like, because they're
starting to get a little shit they think all the
Santa Claus k No, I don't know. Well there you go. Hey,
(13:35):
something else we wanted to get to on.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Over promident Drake. You know, we were just talking about Drake.
He's in the news this week. At first, I wasn't
sure if it was true.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Is this true? But he confirmed his romance with Tennis
quote greatest woman of all time quote Tennis quote Serena Williams.
They had a thing going on in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's official, and that means the song Too Good was
indeed about Serena Williams.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Off the air earlier before we started recording the pod,
and Covino goes, he is he still banging? Or I'm like, no,
like this married? You write a song like that about
somebody you never know? Maybe he still trying to slip
in there is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
But I've always thought there's so many men out there
professing their love, writing these beautiful women songs for women,
not enough women writing like love songs about men like
the only one I can think.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Of is like Bell, I love you so I always will.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Bill must have been crowing the do Bill. How many
songs do you know where the woman's shouting out the dude.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Not many, not many. It's usually they hate full songs.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
So anyway, the song too Good is about Serena Williams confirmed,
and it got us thinking here on over promised, well,
if he's shouting out tennis legend, what are some other
old school sports shout outs and music so songs with
great old school sports references?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well, I think comes to mind, she can starred me.
I mean, I don't know when this song came out,
probably when I was not even born yet or a
little baby.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I'll say what they say on your favorite show? Was
it the Goldbergs? That was a great show back in
nineteen eighty so it was nineteen eighty something. It was
early eighties.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Curtis Blow gave shout outs to everybody. Basketball is my
favorite sport. I like the way they dribbled up and
down the court, just like I'm the King of the microphone.
So it was Doctor J and Moses Malone. Those were
great shoutouts. I think could it be they were the
first athletes to get shouted out to this song? It
has to be. When you bring up songs with great
(15:40):
old school sports references, it's the first one that comes
to mind. I guess every hip hop song now will
throw in a one lyric about a current NBA or
NFL player. It's commonplace now, but back then, I'm I'd
argue that who forgot? Who else would have that in
rappers Delight? Maybe everyone over a friend's house to eat nothing.
This is number one.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I'm just hoping that you hear some Curtis Blow over
the Olympics this weekend when they do some break dancing.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Now, that would be cool, being uh, I can't wait
for break dancing. You're a big Yankees fan. I know
you wanted to throw this in here just because you
love the Scooter.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'm listen there because anytime this song comes out in
the bar, everyone loves to sing along and they love me.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
All of a sudden, everybody loves meat Loaf. Oh, I
love this song Paradise by the dashboard Light. I don't
really love this song. I don't necessarily now. I don't
hate meat Loaf by any means. I think he was
a great actor and performer. He's completely underrated. Dude sold
like one hundred million albums looking up love. But the
(16:45):
part I like about this song I love him club
as he yan His name was Robert Paulson. What I
love about the song is and it's not everybody knows us.
That's Phil rizzutto the Scooter calling the home run call.
Not everybody knows that you're in New York kid. I
brought it up at Fox Sports. People are like, who,
that's a shit's part of the scooter. That's like the breakdown.
Everyone in a wedding. Everyone at a wedding can't dance
(17:08):
during Phil Rizzuto spoken like a goofy Mets fan with
a Grimer shirt on. As a Yankees fan, I always
thought that was awesome. I grew up watching Phil Rizzuto
call the game, and he's in the song a song
that everybody knows his home run call. Hey, he's running
on a basis. His baseball call is in there. Holy cow.
(17:30):
So not everybody knows that, but now you do old
school sports reference. Let me hit you up with a
Rando one. And by the way, if there's a kiddie
watching Phil Risuto, the Scooter played second base for the Yankees.
He won an MVP and became a longtime broadcaster for
the Yankees. Yeah hearing this, pinstripes, I got another one. Now.
(17:50):
She has a new album coming out next month. You
probably haven't heard of her in a long time. Unstoppable,
but she was hot in the two thousands, Nelly Fortado
hot in the two thousands. Have you seen them cakes?
In twenty twenty four, she you know, she was gonna
put all auto tune on a new album. She's a
teenager who's like, mom, that's lame, So she has a mom.
Now she heard us.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Blow is writing a song as we speak, called these
All the Cakes.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Nellie Fortato. She shouted out Steve Nash. She says, is
your game MVP, just like Steve Nash, something like that
spot do you can you sing it for us? Is
your game MVP like Steve Nash. I always thought that
stood out too. I'm like with Steve Nash getting a
shatow from Nellie Fortato in Timberland. She was very seductive
(18:33):
and sultry. Another one that you gotta remember. I for
some reason you think this is my favorite one because
it might be you, you more than outcasts, because every
time I hear this athlete's name, I want to sing it.
Ket should be running like rand By Moss in the
world World. I haven't heard that. We don't. You don't
(18:56):
don't play that song much? What Ket should be running
like brand By? And you know it does make you think,
Like you said, it is commonplace to hear a lot
of shout outs and references to athletes and rap songs today.
But you think Randy Moss felt cool or Steve nashviellet
cool about that back then? I would imagine. So, I
(19:17):
mean who doesn't, right? I mean everyone would be honored.
In fact, people would say, even when Eminem makes fun
of them it's an honor.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Eminem throws a lot of the same names down, like
Christopher Reeve. He loves talking about that Superman out of
this I'm cat throw one more and jay Z and Beyonce.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah. I always thought this was interesting because I guarantee
this guy never thought he would ever get shouted out.
And I think he got shouted out just because his
name rhyme would snare like snare drum. I think there's
some people who don't follow sports have no idea who
they only know the name from the song. Okay, well,
jay Z and Beyonce they had a song Deja Vu,
and the first lyric of the song. The song starts
(19:58):
out with I used to write based like wamp Pierre
and then it ends with now I run bass, high
hat and snare, And I'm like, did you just shout out?
I was probably at the gym one day, headphones on
sy jay Z's rip around me what Wampierre know for
stealing bases? Man fast as hell? He had the quickness,
(20:18):
he had some speed, But to me, such a cool honor. Again,
hear it all the time nowadays, but those are songs
with great old school sports references or shout outs. Random
ones that came to mind for us. But that's where
we get you involved. Fox Sports Radio over Promised Nation.
You could chime in what comes to mind for you
(20:39):
at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio hashtag over
Promised and we'll see you guys later on. Until then, Hey,
hass a song to your friends? Yeah, join the Olympics,
break dancing, itching for a scratch, follow Bugaloo, and celebrate
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