August 28, 2024 • 17 mins
Dennis Green's "They Are Who We Thought They Were" post-game rant is one of the most memorable of all time. But what fueled it? Well, just one of the most improbable NFL comebacks in the history of the sport...
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Cardinals Stadium opened on August first, two thousand and six.
Capable of seating sixty three thousand and four hundred people
and thousands more if needed with its temporary features, the
stadium took three years and four hundred and fifty five
million dollars let me stress four hundred and fifty five
(00:43):
million in two thousand and six dollars to construct. Shortly
after its opening, the University of Phoenix acquired the naming
rights and changed it to the University of Phoenix Stadium,
a name that would stand until twenty eighteen, when it
became State Farm Stadium. One of its most unique features
(01:04):
is that it has both a retractable roof and a
sliding pitch, also known as a retractable pitch, which is
exactly as it sounds, a field or playing surface that
could be removed aka retracted for other events. That dual
functionality makes it the only stadium of its kind in
the United States and one of only a few in
(01:26):
the entire world, which also makes it the perfect venue
to host tons of different sports, games, events, and concerts.
Since its opening, the stadium has hosted the US national
soccer team, the annual College Football Fiesta Bowl, monster truck rallies,
wrestling events, and even Super Bowls forty two and forty nine.
(01:48):
In fact, it might rank among the top stadiums of
all time in terms of the number of legendary football
games played at a stadium. Those two Super Bowls I
just mentioned the first first Super Bowl forty two, featured
Tom Brady and the sixteen and oh New England Patriots
losing in a shocking upset to Eli Manning and the
(02:09):
ten and six New York Giants in two thousand and eight,
capped off by Giants wide receiver David Tyree making a
one in a million, one handed catch with the help
of his helmet. The second Super Bowl forty nine ended
up a lot better for Tom Brady and the Patriots,
as it saw them win that one in equally dramatic
fashion with Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler's game winning interception against
(02:32):
the Seattle Seahawks with twenty seconds to go on the
one yard line, which brings up a lot of questions
of why they didn't just hand the pulp off to
Marshawn Lynch, But that's a different story. In the middle
of October in two thousand and six, however, that controversy.
Those Super Bowls and various other college games I didn't
mention for the sake of keeping this episode a reasonable length,
(02:55):
were far into the future. At present, the recently built
and even more recently renamed University of Phoenix Stadium was
about to host the first of its iconic football games,
though few would have guessed it beforehand, an NFL Week
six Monday night football matchup between the undefeated Chicago Bears
(03:16):
and the one in four Arizona Cardinals. The game itself
was an instant classic, and yet somehow it was instantly
overshadowed by a different type of classic, a classic all
time coaching rand from none other than Cardinals head coach
Danny Green.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Four picks against Grossman and two fumbels. What did you
see about the Bears of shut them down that way? Now?
You know? I mean, we just wait. The Bears are
what we thought they were, what we thought they were.
We played them in preseason. Who the hell takes a
third game in a preseason like as we played them
in the third game, everybody played three quarters the Bears
(03:57):
or who we thought they were. That's why we took
the damn field. Now, if you want to crown them,
They crown or ass but they are who we thought
they were, and we let them about the hook.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Thanks coach, Who is the who Green is talking about?
What were they doing there? Was exactly as he thought
they would be. How did they let them off the hook?
What type of hook was it? Who was crowning who?
And those are all fair questions that all attempt to
(04:33):
answer on today's episode of Sports Dot MP three. So
sit back, relax, and get ready to learn about the
legendary game and little known context that fueled Denny Green's
unforgettable postgame ran. But first the intra music. Seconds after
(05:11):
Green's interview ends, one of the reporters calls out the
name of the next Cardinals member slated for a postgame interview,
Matt Lionert, the Cardinals rookie quarterback. Thanks Coach, Matt.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Lion would be one of the persons room probably got five.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
He actually spoke to Rich Eisen about the whole experience
years later and explained that one of the many reasons
Green was so mad was that the Cardinals had played
the Bears in Game three of the preseason that year
and had constructed the perfect game plan to beat them
in that Monday night matchup, and that game plan had been,
by all accounts, almost perfect. Lionert actually finished the game
(05:50):
with two hundred and thirty two passing yards and two touchdowns,
while his counterpart, Bears quarterback Rex Grossman, would end the
game with one hundred and forty four yards and four interceptions.
But even the best plans need to be executed, which
brings us to the reason that probably made Green the angriest,
(06:10):
the same reason the game is considered a classic because
the Arizona Cardinals, despite entering halftime winning twenty to nothing
and despite their opponent finishing the game without scoring a
single offensive touchdown, would ultimately lose to the Bears twenty
four to twenty three, making for one of the most
(06:33):
improbable comebacks in NFL history. Entering halftime, Denny Green's Cardinals
were playing flawless football. The Bears offense had crossed into
Arizona's half of the field a single time in those
(06:53):
first thirty minutes, and that drive had ended at the
forty nine yard line. Just a recap, here's how each
of the Bears offensive series went in the first half.
Three plays, one yard punt, three plays, eight yards punt,
three plays twenty two yards intercepted pass three plays seven yards,
(07:15):
punt one play, twenty four yards intercepted pass three plays
seven yards, punt one play. Here we go negative one
yards fumble, four plays, nineteen yards fumble. End of half.
For my advanced analytics lovers, that means the Cardinals averaged
(07:36):
one point scored for every Bears offensive play run more
or less. Honestly, the most memorable part of the game
at that point was Charles Barkley, Yes, the Basketball Hall
of Famer. He was a guest announcer for part of
the broadcast as part of an NFL project at the
time that had on guest appearances and whatnot. I honestly
think they should bring it back, but you never know
(07:57):
what a celebrity's going to say these days. I'm not
sure what went down, what was said, or what secret
sorcery took place in those two locker rooms during the halftime.
But just like a centaur, the second half would look
nothing like the first. A twenty three yard field goal
from Robbie Gold would give the Bears their first points
of the game with seven minutes and twenty two seconds
(08:20):
remaining in the third quarter, cutting the deficit to seventeen points.
The Cardinals would then march down the field and kick
their own field goal, making the score twenty three to
three with under two minutes to go in the quarter.
And it's from this point on that things get really weird.
The Bears offense, for starters, won't score any more points
(08:42):
the rest of the game. In fact, here's the rest
of their possessions for the second half. Three plays eight yards, punt,
three plays four yards punt, one play, seventy three yards
intercepted pass, four plays thirteen yards intercepted pass, four plays
negative seven yards. End of game. If you had to
(09:05):
pick a word to describe how the Bears offense played
the entire game, the opposite could be used to describe
how the Bear's defense and special teams units played in
the second half. With the Cardinals having the ball and
up twenty points with only eight seconds to go in
the third quarter, it seemed like the game would probably
end in a victory. They had the ball on their
(09:26):
own fifteen yard line and it was second down and ten.
The center hiked the ball to the left handed Matt Liinert.
He dropped back a few steps and got ready to
sling the ball to his left, but then an instant later,
Lionert is on his back and the football is bouncing
towards a Bear's defender who scoops it up and walks
it into the end zone, cutting the Cardinals lead to
(09:49):
fourteen points and then thirteen after a successful extra point.
The score would stay the same until, with just over
five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, the Cardinals fumbled again,
this time running back Edgerrin James was the culprit, and
Bears cornerback Charles Peanut Tillman happily scooped that ball up
(10:11):
and ran it back forty yards for a touchdown, and
then suddenly the Cardinals were only winning by six points.
Lionert and the Cardinals offense would do their best to
drain the clock on the next series, but ultimately they
(10:32):
ended up facing a fourth and twelve on their own
thirty three yard line, and the clock displayed three minutes
and seventeen seconds left in the game. So the Cardinals,
still winning at that point, sent out their punter, Scott Player,
onto the field. The play started and the long snapper
hiked the ball back to Player, who did exactly what
(10:54):
he got paid to do, punted the football far down
the field, but also high up enough to give his
team time to run down the field and prevent the
other team's returner from well returning it. There was just
one major issue. The rookie returner facing player on the
other side of the field wasn't just some other team's returner. No,
(11:18):
he was Devin Hester, the man who had become the
only primary return specialist to be enshrined in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame. Hester had returned a punt for
a touchdown in his first ever NFL game earlier that
same season, and about twenty seconds after player punted the
ball with three minutes and seventeen seconds to go, Hess
(11:41):
had doubled his season tally with an eighty three yard
punt return touchdown. The ensuing Bears extra point put them
up twenty four to twenty three, completing their stunning comeback.
And if that wasn't a gut wrenching enough loss, there
was one final thing for Cardinals fans to suffer. Through
(12:01):
line Art in just his second career start, marched the
offense down the field and set them up for a
forty yard game winning field goal attempt that would miss
by just a few feet. It's one of the greatest
and most bizarre comebacks of all time. The winning team's
quarterback threw four picks and lost two fumbles, and their
(12:24):
best player that night was probably linebacker Brian Urlacker, who
finished the game with a ridiculous nineteen tackles. The Cardinals,
who were up twenty points at half, finished the game
with nearly double the Bears time of possession, number of
first downs, and total passing yards, and its defense did
not give up a single touchdown and somehow they lost.
(12:49):
So having just suffered that loss, Green walked into the
postgame press interview.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Four picks against Grossman and two fumbles. What did you
see about the Bears? Of would shut them down? Out? No,
you know what I mean? We just wait. The Bears
are what we thought they were. What we thought they were.
We played them in preseason. Who the hell takes a
third game in a preseason like as book, We played
them in the third game. Everybody played three quarters their
(13:15):
Bears or who we thought they were. Now that's why
we took the damn field. Now, if you want to
crown them, they crowned their ass. But they are who
we thought they were, and we let about the hook.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Some players actually didn't know about their rant until the
next day, but soon it would be inescapable spreading across
ESPN sets, radio shows, and bar talk alike, quickly cementing
itself as one of the most iconic rants of all time.
And when the Cardinals met for a team wide meeting
that following Wednesday, Green definitely made sure that the offense
(13:50):
knew he was still really pissed at them. He reportedly
started the meeting by saying that he wished he could
put the offense and defense together in a room and
lock the door. Unfortunately, that never happened, and the rest
of the season itself played out more like the second
half of their Monday night football game than the first,
(14:11):
and it would be Green's last season with the Cardinals.
Denny never ended up taking them on a deep postseason
run himself, but he was certainly the one who built
the framework for the franchise's future success. He was the
guy who had drafted or brought in Larry Fitzgerald, Carlos Dansby,
(14:35):
Darnell Dockett, Entrell Roll, Kurt Warner, Edrin James, and many Moore.
Just two years after Green's departure, the Cardinals team went
on their legendary underdog Super Bowl run in two thousand
and eight, losing in heartbreaking fashion to the Steelers. It
seems like it took Green a bit of time to
understand just how popular his rant had become over the years,
(15:00):
and eventually he embraced it, even parroting the interview and
a corpse light commercial just like Jim Mora did for
his Playoffs rant. Sadly, Denny Green passed away at the
age of sixty seven in twenty sixteen, and he was
exactly what people thought he was, if not more, a
great father, role model, mentor, and football legend. Green was
(15:25):
one of the first black head coaches in both college
and professional football. He was one of the winningest coaches
in the NFL in the nineteen nineties as head coach
of the Minnesota Vikings. With the help of star thirty
five year old quarterback Randall Cunningham and a young receiver
named Randy Moss, the team had one of the best
offensive seasons in NFL history in nineteen ninety eight, when
(15:47):
he won Coach of the Year and the Vikings went
fifteen to one, just losing out on a Super Bowl
berth after their kicker who hadn't missed a kick all season,
missed a kick that would have sent the game into overtime.
And before you feel bad because Green never won a
Super Bowl as a head coach, he did win one
as an assistant coach for the forty nine ers in
(16:08):
nineteen eighty eight and mentored coaching legend Tony Dungeye and
currently holds the fortieth most wins as a head coach
in NFL history, with a final record of one hundred
and thirteen wins, ninety four losses, and zero ties. For
whatever reason, to me, that means something you know, win
or lose. But a tie, I mean, come on, you're
(16:29):
really going to tie. Green was involved with football his
entire life, and his commitment to the sport and passion
for the game are undeniable. And even though his most
famous moment happened off of a football field, it was
pretty close to one and pretty poetic that it still
captures that very passion and intensity. They made him exactly
(16:53):
who he thought he was Danny Green. The end, Thank
(17:19):
you all for listening to episode eight of Sports Dot
MP three. I'll be back with another episode in two
weeks time, so make sure to follow the podcast on
socials at Sports Underscore MP three on Instagram, TikTok and
Twitter or x and follow on YouTube at sports MP
three No underscore or dots. Once again, I'm Bill Gatchell.
(17:40):
This is sports dot MP three. Thank you for listening
and hopefully enjoying. I'll see you next week or I
guess you'll hear from me in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Peace
Cardinals Stadium opened on August first, two thousand and six.
Capable of seating sixty three thousand and four hundred people
and thousands more if needed with its temporary features, the
stadium took three years and four hundred and fifty five
million dollars let me stress four hundred and fifty five
(00:43):
million in two thousand and six dollars to construct. Shortly
after its opening, the University of Phoenix acquired the naming
rights and changed it to the University of Phoenix Stadium,
a name that would stand until twenty eighteen, when it
became State Farm Stadium. One of its most unique features
(01:04):
is that it has both a retractable roof and a
sliding pitch, also known as a retractable pitch, which is
exactly as it sounds, a field or playing surface that
could be removed aka retracted for other events. That dual
functionality makes it the only stadium of its kind in
the United States and one of only a few in
(01:26):
the entire world, which also makes it the perfect venue
to host tons of different sports, games, events, and concerts.
Since its opening, the stadium has hosted the US national
soccer team, the annual College Football Fiesta Bowl, monster truck rallies,
wrestling events, and even Super Bowls forty two and forty nine.
(01:48):
In fact, it might rank among the top stadiums of
all time in terms of the number of legendary football
games played at a stadium. Those two Super Bowls I
just mentioned the first first Super Bowl forty two, featured
Tom Brady and the sixteen and oh New England Patriots
losing in a shocking upset to Eli Manning and the
(02:09):
ten and six New York Giants in two thousand and eight,
capped off by Giants wide receiver David Tyree making a
one in a million, one handed catch with the help
of his helmet. The second Super Bowl forty nine ended
up a lot better for Tom Brady and the Patriots,
as it saw them win that one in equally dramatic
fashion with Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler's game winning interception against
(02:32):
the Seattle Seahawks with twenty seconds to go on the
one yard line, which brings up a lot of questions
of why they didn't just hand the pulp off to
Marshawn Lynch, But that's a different story. In the middle
of October in two thousand and six, however, that controversy.
Those Super Bowls and various other college games I didn't
mention for the sake of keeping this episode a reasonable length,
(02:55):
were far into the future. At present, the recently built
and even more recently renamed University of Phoenix Stadium was
about to host the first of its iconic football games,
though few would have guessed it beforehand, an NFL Week
six Monday night football matchup between the undefeated Chicago Bears
(03:16):
and the one in four Arizona Cardinals. The game itself
was an instant classic, and yet somehow it was instantly
overshadowed by a different type of classic, a classic all
time coaching rand from none other than Cardinals head coach
Danny Green.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Four picks against Grossman and two fumbels. What did you
see about the Bears of shut them down that way? Now?
You know? I mean, we just wait. The Bears are
what we thought they were, what we thought they were.
We played them in preseason. Who the hell takes a
third game in a preseason like as we played them
in the third game, everybody played three quarters the Bears
(03:57):
or who we thought they were. That's why we took
the damn field. Now, if you want to crown them,
They crown or ass but they are who we thought
they were, and we let them about the hook.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Thanks coach, Who is the who Green is talking about?
What were they doing there? Was exactly as he thought
they would be. How did they let them off the hook?
What type of hook was it? Who was crowning who?
And those are all fair questions that all attempt to
(04:33):
answer on today's episode of Sports Dot MP three. So
sit back, relax, and get ready to learn about the
legendary game and little known context that fueled Denny Green's
unforgettable postgame ran. But first the intra music. Seconds after
(05:11):
Green's interview ends, one of the reporters calls out the
name of the next Cardinals member slated for a postgame interview,
Matt Lionert, the Cardinals rookie quarterback. Thanks Coach, Matt.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Lion would be one of the persons room probably got five.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
He actually spoke to Rich Eisen about the whole experience
years later and explained that one of the many reasons
Green was so mad was that the Cardinals had played
the Bears in Game three of the preseason that year
and had constructed the perfect game plan to beat them
in that Monday night matchup, and that game plan had been,
by all accounts, almost perfect. Lionert actually finished the game
(05:50):
with two hundred and thirty two passing yards and two touchdowns,
while his counterpart, Bears quarterback Rex Grossman, would end the
game with one hundred and forty four yards and four interceptions.
But even the best plans need to be executed, which
brings us to the reason that probably made Green the angriest,
(06:10):
the same reason the game is considered a classic because
the Arizona Cardinals, despite entering halftime winning twenty to nothing
and despite their opponent finishing the game without scoring a
single offensive touchdown, would ultimately lose to the Bears twenty
four to twenty three, making for one of the most
(06:33):
improbable comebacks in NFL history. Entering halftime, Denny Green's Cardinals
were playing flawless football. The Bears offense had crossed into
Arizona's half of the field a single time in those
(06:53):
first thirty minutes, and that drive had ended at the
forty nine yard line. Just a recap, here's how each
of the Bears offensive series went in the first half.
Three plays, one yard punt, three plays, eight yards punt,
three plays twenty two yards intercepted pass three plays seven yards,
(07:15):
punt one play, twenty four yards intercepted pass three plays
seven yards, punt one play. Here we go negative one
yards fumble, four plays, nineteen yards fumble. End of half.
For my advanced analytics lovers, that means the Cardinals averaged
(07:36):
one point scored for every Bears offensive play run more
or less. Honestly, the most memorable part of the game
at that point was Charles Barkley, Yes, the Basketball Hall
of Famer. He was a guest announcer for part of
the broadcast as part of an NFL project at the
time that had on guest appearances and whatnot. I honestly
think they should bring it back, but you never know
(07:57):
what a celebrity's going to say these days. I'm not
sure what went down, what was said, or what secret
sorcery took place in those two locker rooms during the halftime.
But just like a centaur, the second half would look
nothing like the first. A twenty three yard field goal
from Robbie Gold would give the Bears their first points
of the game with seven minutes and twenty two seconds
(08:20):
remaining in the third quarter, cutting the deficit to seventeen points.
The Cardinals would then march down the field and kick
their own field goal, making the score twenty three to
three with under two minutes to go in the quarter.
And it's from this point on that things get really weird.
The Bears offense, for starters, won't score any more points
(08:42):
the rest of the game. In fact, here's the rest
of their possessions for the second half. Three plays eight yards, punt,
three plays four yards punt, one play, seventy three yards
intercepted pass, four plays thirteen yards intercepted pass, four plays
negative seven yards. End of game. If you had to
(09:05):
pick a word to describe how the Bears offense played
the entire game, the opposite could be used to describe
how the Bear's defense and special teams units played in
the second half. With the Cardinals having the ball and
up twenty points with only eight seconds to go in
the third quarter, it seemed like the game would probably
end in a victory. They had the ball on their
(09:26):
own fifteen yard line and it was second down and ten.
The center hiked the ball to the left handed Matt Liinert.
He dropped back a few steps and got ready to
sling the ball to his left, but then an instant later,
Lionert is on his back and the football is bouncing
towards a Bear's defender who scoops it up and walks
it into the end zone, cutting the Cardinals lead to
(09:49):
fourteen points and then thirteen after a successful extra point.
The score would stay the same until, with just over
five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, the Cardinals fumbled again,
this time running back Edgerrin James was the culprit, and
Bears cornerback Charles Peanut Tillman happily scooped that ball up
(10:11):
and ran it back forty yards for a touchdown, and
then suddenly the Cardinals were only winning by six points.
Lionert and the Cardinals offense would do their best to
drain the clock on the next series, but ultimately they
(10:32):
ended up facing a fourth and twelve on their own
thirty three yard line, and the clock displayed three minutes
and seventeen seconds left in the game. So the Cardinals,
still winning at that point, sent out their punter, Scott Player,
onto the field. The play started and the long snapper
hiked the ball back to Player, who did exactly what
(10:54):
he got paid to do, punted the football far down
the field, but also high up enough to give his
team time to run down the field and prevent the
other team's returner from well returning it. There was just
one major issue. The rookie returner facing player on the
other side of the field wasn't just some other team's returner. No,
(11:18):
he was Devin Hester, the man who had become the
only primary return specialist to be enshrined in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame. Hester had returned a punt for
a touchdown in his first ever NFL game earlier that
same season, and about twenty seconds after player punted the
ball with three minutes and seventeen seconds to go, Hess
(11:41):
had doubled his season tally with an eighty three yard
punt return touchdown. The ensuing Bears extra point put them
up twenty four to twenty three, completing their stunning comeback.
And if that wasn't a gut wrenching enough loss, there
was one final thing for Cardinals fans to suffer. Through
(12:01):
line Art in just his second career start, marched the
offense down the field and set them up for a
forty yard game winning field goal attempt that would miss
by just a few feet. It's one of the greatest
and most bizarre comebacks of all time. The winning team's
quarterback threw four picks and lost two fumbles, and their
(12:24):
best player that night was probably linebacker Brian Urlacker, who
finished the game with a ridiculous nineteen tackles. The Cardinals,
who were up twenty points at half, finished the game
with nearly double the Bears time of possession, number of
first downs, and total passing yards, and its defense did
not give up a single touchdown and somehow they lost.
(12:49):
So having just suffered that loss, Green walked into the
postgame press interview.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Four picks against Grossman and two fumbles. What did you
see about the Bears? Of would shut them down? Out? No,
you know what I mean? We just wait. The Bears
are what we thought they were. What we thought they were.
We played them in preseason. Who the hell takes a
third game in a preseason like as book, We played
them in the third game. Everybody played three quarters their
(13:15):
Bears or who we thought they were. Now that's why
we took the damn field. Now, if you want to
crown them, they crowned their ass. But they are who
we thought they were, and we let about the hook.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Some players actually didn't know about their rant until the
next day, but soon it would be inescapable spreading across
ESPN sets, radio shows, and bar talk alike, quickly cementing
itself as one of the most iconic rants of all time.
And when the Cardinals met for a team wide meeting
that following Wednesday, Green definitely made sure that the offense
(13:50):
knew he was still really pissed at them. He reportedly
started the meeting by saying that he wished he could
put the offense and defense together in a room and
lock the door. Unfortunately, that never happened, and the rest
of the season itself played out more like the second
half of their Monday night football game than the first,
(14:11):
and it would be Green's last season with the Cardinals.
Denny never ended up taking them on a deep postseason
run himself, but he was certainly the one who built
the framework for the franchise's future success. He was the
guy who had drafted or brought in Larry Fitzgerald, Carlos Dansby,
(14:35):
Darnell Dockett, Entrell Roll, Kurt Warner, Edrin James, and many Moore.
Just two years after Green's departure, the Cardinals team went
on their legendary underdog Super Bowl run in two thousand
and eight, losing in heartbreaking fashion to the Steelers. It
seems like it took Green a bit of time to
understand just how popular his rant had become over the years,
(15:00):
and eventually he embraced it, even parroting the interview and
a corpse light commercial just like Jim Mora did for
his Playoffs rant. Sadly, Denny Green passed away at the
age of sixty seven in twenty sixteen, and he was
exactly what people thought he was, if not more, a
great father, role model, mentor, and football legend. Green was
(15:25):
one of the first black head coaches in both college
and professional football. He was one of the winningest coaches
in the NFL in the nineteen nineties as head coach
of the Minnesota Vikings. With the help of star thirty
five year old quarterback Randall Cunningham and a young receiver
named Randy Moss, the team had one of the best
offensive seasons in NFL history in nineteen ninety eight, when
(15:47):
he won Coach of the Year and the Vikings went
fifteen to one, just losing out on a Super Bowl
berth after their kicker who hadn't missed a kick all season,
missed a kick that would have sent the game into overtime.
And before you feel bad because Green never won a
Super Bowl as a head coach, he did win one
as an assistant coach for the forty nine ers in
(16:08):
nineteen eighty eight and mentored coaching legend Tony Dungeye and
currently holds the fortieth most wins as a head coach
in NFL history, with a final record of one hundred
and thirteen wins, ninety four losses, and zero ties. For
whatever reason, to me, that means something you know, win
or lose. But a tie, I mean, come on, you're
(16:29):
really going to tie. Green was involved with football his
entire life, and his commitment to the sport and passion
for the game are undeniable. And even though his most
famous moment happened off of a football field, it was
pretty close to one and pretty poetic that it still
captures that very passion and intensity. They made him exactly
(16:53):
who he thought he was Danny Green. The end, Thank
(17:19):
you all for listening to episode eight of Sports Dot
MP three. I'll be back with another episode in two
weeks time, so make sure to follow the podcast on
socials at Sports Underscore MP three on Instagram, TikTok and
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three No underscore or dots. Once again, I'm Bill Gatchell.
(17:40):
This is sports dot MP three. Thank you for listening
and hopefully enjoying. I'll see you next week or I
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