November 27, 2025 • 30 mins
The Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Manti Te’o and Mike Garafolo preview the Thanksgiving slate of games. Then Mike Tirico joins and talks about the NFL on Thanksgiving and his career.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome inside Good Morning Football, everybody. We are brought to
you by, as always, our favorite dried meat in a bag,
Old Trapper beef Jerky, even though today is about meat
in the oven for a long time on the grill
in the friar, what have you.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It's Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody, Well, thank We're thankful for you and
for football. Jamie eard All, Manti Tao, Mike Grifollo, and
Kyle Brandt.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Kyle, we have.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So many things to get to this hour, trivia and
a very special friend of GMFB joining.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
And we're just going to leave it like that.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We're relieve the mysterious on Thanksgiving where all the meats
are nice and that delicious.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Word moist moist moist ry.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Speaking for the Great Dell Griffith, I'll speak.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I'm aving our show.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I like me, my wife likes me, and we're going
to talk football on a Thursday this morning. Mike Mantai, Jamie,
we're at home.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It's fun.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Let's start the show.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Welcome to Good Morning Football, present it by Old Trapper.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's right, GMFB on a very special Thursday, everybody, and
by special, I mean gluttonous and filling and hopefully for you,
filled with family, football and great food. This is our family.
This is how we like to start the day. Jamie Mantai,
Mike g and Kyle on a Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Guys, it's us.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's this conversation and then it's just a day of
great football matchups.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Can we take a look at the schedule? Please?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I beg of you. It is the lead block. It
is a generic blue football helmet. I guess you could
slap a lion on that helmet and it would work.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Since the Packers'.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Lions kick off the day on the John Madden Thanksgiving Celebration,
a great slate of matchups. Chiefs Cowboys is your second
your main course, if you will, and the dessert with
the whipped cream on top. Bengals Ravens. What the heck
is happening in the AFC North. Like we said to
start the show, we got a special guest coming on
GMFB from NBC. There's the next little teaser, next segment.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
On GMFP to start this hour. This is what you're
going to be.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Seeing today at the coin tosses. When the guys, the
captains of the teams go out and shake hands, it
is the John Madden coin. The referees and the officials
will be using this, of course, John Madden with that
legendary headset using as the heads on the coin. And
then that Turkey tale as the tale. They'll see those
throughout the game, the three games today.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
With that buckle up everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The man who hates apple Pie, but we love him anyways,
or at least that's what I'm told to say again.
Rapaport joining the show, rap Sheet, I go all the
way to the third game to talk about one quarterback
who is finally, as he said, back and return. What's
going on with Joe Burrow ahead of tonight's game.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Yeah, one of the biggest stories of the NFL is
unfolding tonight a little after eight o'clock. Joe Burrow is
officially back. About three yesterday, the Cincinnati Bengals activated him
off into reserve back to the active roster, solidifying what
we've known probably for a couple of days, that Joe
Burrow is going to start tonight for the Cincinnati Bengals.
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It has been a long roadback two and a half
months from surgery to repair a Grade three turf toe,
just not as long as people thought it was supposed
to be out. A three month recovery shaved about two
or so weeks off. Probably gained himself at least an
extra game to be able to play tonight against the Ravens.
The Bengals are still live. They are Joe Burrow could
go in and run the table or something close to that.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
The Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
At least we'll have a shot, may have some mobility,
We'll have to protect himself, but he is going to play.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
We had another fascinating story.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Unfold yesterday, not about the Bengals, but about that guy
right there. That is Frank ragnow the Pro Bowl center
for the Detroit Lions, who retired last year. I was
on the golf course. Had to send it just the
right time at his retirement. He is now officially back.
Was reinstated yesterday off the reserve retired list. He can
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have a roster exemption for a couple weeks. Probably will
take him, by the way, a couple weeks to play,
but he is a pro bowler.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
He retired it just twenty nine.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Body kind of broke down He's got another month or
so in him and certainly will help this Detroit Lions
offensive line solidify themselves to be better than they were previously.
Just a really really cool story for the Lions, one
of their dudes is back. And then for the Green
Bay Packer, someone who is going to play in the
game Ragno is not.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Going to play.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
This guy is Josh Jacobs. Dealing with a thigh brus
Andy Brow and Bruce in his knee miss last week,
wanted to play. They held him out. They knew we
got two games in five days. Once we're ready for
the second one. This is the second one he is
going to play against the Lions. Should be pretty close
to one hundred percent. So Josh Jacobs is in the
lineup later today for the pack rap sheet.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Thank you very much Abby Thanksgiving. We look forward to
that this weekend. Until then, we got to start talking
about these games. Manti, Mike g and Kyle get in here. Manti,
I start with you and the emotion behind the middle
game today, specifically in Chiefs Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You got a tie mixed in there.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You got the old tradition of the Cowboys playing on Thanksgiving.
You got this new tradition, which is why are the
Chiefs being weird this season, but also the fact that
this will be the first time that Patrick Mahomes makes
an NFL start at at and T Stadium, an NFL
building that he.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Grew up not too far from so Manti.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
There's a lot baked into this Chiefs Cowboys game.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
With a lot bakedan and you you mentioned tradition, right, Jamie,
the old versus a new and you talk about the
Cowboys dynasty in the eighties and the nineties, and that's
a lot about what the Ogs can relate to a
lot of us enthusiasts of the game of football. But
it reminds me of when I listen to some songs
or I watch some movies that were during my time
and my dad said, well, that's the remake of a
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song that I used to listen to back in my day.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I feel like the Chiefs have been for the.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
Past ten to fifteen years the new America's team. There's
that sense of, you know, Cowboys, where the old America's team,
the Chiefs are now the new America's team, and it's
that new remake. For myself, I can't relate to the
old Hawley Fivo, I know the new Hawy five bo. Yeah, yes,
it's gonna see there you go, Kate. This is gonna
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be that game where an old generation and a new
generation of just a family of football fans can come
together and watch probably the two biggest brands of the
football be represented one in one game with some of
the biggest stars in our game. So that's the thing
that stands out to me about that middle game four
thirty pm Eastern.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
I'm excited for Ravens Bengals tonight, and these two played
some really exciting games last year, down to the wire games.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
I want that. That's what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
With Joe Burrow returning to the field, Jamar Chase back
as well. The Bengals probably aren't gonna make the playoffs.
They're gonna have to go on a ridiculous run and
get some help in order to make that happen.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
But let's see this division rivalry.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
Rick Kindle, I also want to see the Baltimore Ravens
in this spot again for the third time. Is the
third time they played the Thanksgiving nightcap, and the previous
two were not as memorable as we thought that The
first one was the Harbo back in twenty eleven, John
Harbol against Jim Harble.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
This was a sixteen to six.
Speaker 9 (07:23):
Field goal fest happening there Between those two was the
last Thanksgiving night game on NFL Network, by the way,
and then a couple of years later the Ravens again
in that spot. Now, there was a memorable moment, but
not a great moment, like I don't want Mike Tomlin,
who clearly knew that Jacoby Jones was running by him,
did the old dance out of the way. We had
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a lot of fun with it. He got fined for
it. It was a big talking point. But this was another
field goal fest that really was never truly in doubt.
I mean, I think pulled close late in the game.
I want to see a legendary Thanksgiving Baltimore Ravens moment,
and I want to see it tonight between them and
the Cincinnati Bengal Bengals, kind of like the games that
they played last year. Let's get this thing down to
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the wire. I want some excitement as I'm trying and
fighting to stay away because I've been awake since five
forty five.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Because these kids just don't sleep. They just never are.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Ever, never, never complain about when you wake up on
this show. My gee, I, for the love of God,
I beg of you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I love you so much. But don't do it. Don't
put because of that, don't put a don't put a
five in front of it. Just don't do it. Kyle,
go ahead, I'll pass.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh yeah, I feel what you're saying right now, and
I know you're going to feel this. What I like
on Thanksgiving is I like before the meal is come
in later. I just like the all day grazing food,
where the food that you eat before you eat whatever
you do. If you do sandwiches or cheese and crackers,
we make like these little up they're called little smokies.
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They're like cocktail weenies and a toothpick and oh yeah, yeah, seven.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Love me a little smoky.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Wonderful, you know what I'm saying. They're wonderful.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
That equivalent today in football is the early game Lion's Packers.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
That's the one I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Looking for to the grazing food, not only because it's
a really good game between two division rivals and.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
History and all that.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Honestly, the angle that I like on it. I am
so excited today as a nostalgist for the entire John
Madden celebration factor. I really am never mind the Lions Packers,
that John Madden.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Stuff is what I'm really excited this because.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I feel like John Madden.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I feel like I heard him call one thousand games
and like nine hundred of them more Packers games to
me because he was always calling Brett fav games. And
I just think this is a very cool thing. If
you're someone like me who either grew up with Madden,
or even if you didn't, you just know the lore
of Madden. My take on this is that John Madden
is becoming the face of Thanksgiving, not just for the NFL,
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for the country. And think about our holidays. You know,
Christmas we have Santa Claus. The fourth of July we
have Uncle Sam. I really think that Thanksgiving's official face
is going to be the Raiders old coach John Madden,
and I love it.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
It's everything about it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It's a large, loud, well proportioned man who likes football
and family. And if you think about the Madden legacy,
it's hilarious because he's kind of the face of football,
he's kind of the face of video games. He's one
of the faces of the Raiders. He's the face of
athletes foot medication, He's the face of year. If you
go back to the commercials then and now, I think
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like the truly American holiday. You look at it and
you're like John Madden Mutton Chops or later in life
with the silver hair. I look at his face and
it just makes me happy, and it makes me hungry
for food and football. And I know that's going to
be all over the Lions Packers game today.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
It's just one reason I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
M Kyle. It's great.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's like the Cupid with the arrow through the heart
is the Easter money, and it's John Madden. Yes, we
were missing that main character energy on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
We appreciate that so much, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
To your point about the all day grays, a lot
of people do the low and slow approach when cooking
literally anything today, mostly because they want to stay outside
away from their family for probably fifteen hours, but also
because we have to take this approach for some teams
this year, like the Ravens and the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Are they low and slow? Which team is going to
come out perfect in the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
We shall see that is a game we will be
talking about not only for the rest of the show,
but specifically with our next guest on GMFB because the
finale of the Thanksgiving Day matchups has Mike Turrico's voice
all over at for NBC. Kylie's coming on GMFB. We
know him, we love him, He's a friend of ours.
Happy Thanksgiving to Mike and everybody who loves him.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
There's no place that I would rather be on Thanksgiving
than right here, right now at a football game. There's
just certain things that go together, you know, the turkey,
the family, the tradition, football, and we have it all today.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Short Thanksgiving everyone, Okay, that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
We've got a full slate of games for today's fourth
annual John Madden celebration. And now we are beyond thrilled
to be joined by a friend of our show, one
of our favorite broadcasters, who is calling tonight's.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Bengal Ravens game. He is the voice the Olympics. That's
going to have a ball it.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
It's thank you guys, have Thanksgiving. How are we doing
it too?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Thanks Giving?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Awesome?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
We're better now that you're on to talk about Joe Burrow,
the Bengals, the Ravens, everything, that you're covering tonight. First
of all, thankful for you, Mike and the moments that
you bring us in sports every day, round the clock,
all year long. But Mike Burrow posts this picture of him,
the throwback and the lebron jersey and the He's back.
Did that fire you up a little bit in your
production meetings ahead of this one?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Oh? Absolutely.
Speaker 11 (12:36):
We got on the production meeting with Joe yesterday and
I said, Joe, thank you for saving Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
No knocking Joe Flacco, no knocking to Big Browning.
Speaker 11 (12:47):
But Joe Burrow gives you something, right, He gives you sizzlies,
the coolest of the quarterbacks that are out there right
now right And to hear him talk about wanting to
come back and wanting to play, it's the Ravens. It's Thanksgiving.
What is interested me over the years, and this is
I think this is the eighth NFL game of donald
thanks Giving night, and I've done eight college games way
back when. The thing that interests me is players love
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the chance to do this because they've grown up watching it.
Unless you're in Detroit and Dallas, you're not guaranteed that
this ever happens in your career so players love the
chance to do this, and Joe was talking about and
all the guys we talked to this week, the chance
to be a part of the Thanksgiving game, especially the
one at night.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Mike, I've watched so many, so many games that you
have broadcast, and I have my favorites. The Monday Night
Miracle Bears Cardinals in two thousand and six, Lakers Mavericks
JJ Burrea gets knocked out by Andrew Bynham and gets
ejected in the middle of the game Andrew by I
just hear cables are cataloged in my head, and I know,
as one who's been real student of the game, you
go way back in terms of watching John matt and
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John madd has become a celebration this.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Day on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I was saying earlier, it's like the face of Thanksgiving. Now,
what are your reflections on John Madden?
Speaker 11 (13:57):
As only you could say, Kyle, that was perfect in
every description of Madden and Thanksgiving together, it just fits.
And I think for any of us who are of
a certain age, we grew up with a Madden game,
whether it was in Detroit or in Dallas, and the
Turducan and the Turkey and the Turkey legs, which is
a tradition that all the networks carry over. We've got
a feast flang for the via the mvpiece of tonight's game.
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But John started all of that, and John was a
soundtrack for generations, not just through the games but also
through the video game. Obviously at halftime tonight, we've got
a great piece coming up on John Badden the Coach,
because if you are not fifty okay, if you are
fifty or under, you probably don't ever remember watching a
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John Badden coached game. So we've got a great feature
looking at the coach part of John Madison's John Madden's
triple leg career, because it's the football coach, it's of
course the video game, and it's the TV thing you're
talking about.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
So I think you'll enjoy that.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
And Andy Reid, by the way, is the one who's
the voice on that piece, so.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Mentor for John Madden. So I think you're really gonna enjoy.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
That piece, Mike, So I can only equate to this
in my world and playing there's a difference between playing
in certain games and playing prime time and then playing
on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
For you, you've caught so many games in your career.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
How is calling the Thanksgiving nightcap different than anything else
you've done so far in your career.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
Yeah, well, Mantatt. First off, I one the sharecise have
for you. Thank you for the seventy seven. I appreciate
Marcus Freeman and the Irish taking it easy.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Could have been eighty or ninety. You got your sweet
so they know the name all the way through.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
You know, there are times I had mind the Irish
sevent years of calling the Irish.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
It's all lot of arms and sing the fight song.
Thank you. You know what's different, mansie.
Speaker 11 (15:49):
You know everybody's about to fall asleep, I mean seriously
thinking about it. You are probably at home right now
thinking about which corner of the couch you are going
to camp out in for our game. You're thinking about
can we get the throat pillow that mom has bought
and loves and brought out, the special Thanksgiving pillow that
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goes in the corner of the couch.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
But that's mine tonight, like I'm taking that right.
Speaker 11 (16:13):
You're also thinking about that nine fifteen ninety five run
to the refrigerator to grab like a little piece of
turkey and maybe a little bit, a little bit more
apple pie or whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Right, So you know, people are strewn all over their.
Speaker 11 (16:26):
House, dogs are laying their blankets, are out, people are chill.
So it's a night to just kind of celebrate football,
talk some family stories.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Maybe a little bit more than you normally do.
Speaker 11 (16:37):
But just know that the audience at home, the Ravens
and the Bengals fans are all in now.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
They're serious.
Speaker 11 (16:43):
The rest of the country and the Steelers fans too,
because the NFC North cares about family. Everybody else is
just chill and they're relaxed. So you just try to
tell some fun stories during the night and make it
enjoyable as well.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
You know, Mike Mikyle on this very program has talked
about the Master's nap being one of the best naps
that you could party. I'm gonna have to get his
take on whether the Master's Nap or the falling asleep
to the night, which one's better. I'm gonna have to
get that from Kyle in a little bit here, you know,
Chris Collinsworth and night Jason Garrett going to be on
the call with you. Yes, Collinsworth using one of his
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com days respected the other day on America's favorite segment
into the booth or at least America broadcasters favorite segment.
We honored his five hundredth broadcast he brought the slide
back in. You've worked with a bunch of analysts throughout
your career. Why does it work so well with you
and Chris?
Speaker 11 (17:34):
Well, thanks for saying that, and congratulations to Christian. Every
five hundred games you should get a Thanksgiving off.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You know, that's kind of the way we run here.
Speaker 11 (17:41):
Chris, our producer Rob Hiland at the Idea. You know, well,
let's bring the slide back for old time sake, which
was fun on Sunday night.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
You know with Chris.
Speaker 11 (17:51):
I said this in an article that Sam Farmer, who's
an awesome writer who covers many sports, but predominantly the NFL.
And you all know Sam if you read The Times,
Sam did a great article on Chris. Sam My quoting
there is what I'll repeat to you, my ge Chris
is the smartest guy in.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
The room almost all the time and doesn't let you
know it.
Speaker 11 (18:10):
We talk about people like that, but to live with
somebody like that three three days a week, twenty weeks
a year, it's really special. And Chris has a passion
and a desire for teaching football and meeting people who
make football special that is unmatched from anybody who I've
worked with. That's working with a lot of people, So
it's a joy. I know al Michael's enjoyed the two
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hundred and sixty so odd games that he did with Chris.
We've now done ninety five of the five hundred that
he's done together. And everyone's a treat. And we're gonna
get done with this game tonight and we'll be tired,
and then we'll get in a van we'll head off
to DC because we go see the Commander's practice on
Friday before their game with the nine and two Broncos
on Sunday, and collins Worth's gonna be waiting for us,
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bright eyed and bushy tail in Washington tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I'll saying, all right, come on, guys, let's go. Let's
talk the books.
Speaker 11 (18:58):
Mariona, We're ready, and his energy will kind of lift
us through through the week for sure.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Well, your energy is listening us right now. I'm Mike,
I'm gonna I'm gonna force your hand to talk.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
About yourself for a second because you you're doing it
all right now, you're doing the NFL, the NBC's got
the NBA back, You've got the Olympics coming up this year.
Just when you work on a holiday, when you take
a moment on what it means for you and all
that you have done in your journey, the fact that
you have big moments like this, whether or not people
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are falling asleep in the corner of their couches.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
You are the you.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You are the voice we will hear tonight and on
Sunday and in February. What is this like for you
to have this as the as the do you call
it the peak of your career? How do you label
this era for you?
Speaker 11 (19:41):
You know, I grew up in this business with a
lot of great mentors. John Gruden was one of them
during our time, and he would always tell us the
Bill Walsh quote that every day you get better, you
get worse. You never stay the same, right, So it's
a it's get better tomorrow, get better tomorrow. I truly,
truly don't stop to reflect on what's going on right now,
but when I do, I am super thankful for the
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peakeople who allow me to do this. This is so
much fun to get to sit and talk to Lamar
Jackson and have him tell us about growing up as
a kid and playing playing football with his brother and
they were so good that they try to make sure
that they drafted a couple of guys who weren't as
good so they could keep the teams even right, but
to be around, to be around the best players in
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the world, and then the Olympics, the biggest sporting event
in the world. To get to call the super Bowl
this year, you pinch yourself because it's way beyond whatever
you dreamed would be your career. And on days like this,
I do get reflective and thankful for a family that
supports the heck out of me to let me do
this silly stuff and change our Thanksgiving to Hey, guys,
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we're gonna Thanksgiving this year on Monday instead of Thursday
because Dad's got Thursday and Sunday.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Are you all love that you're working today? So those
are the things.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
And also the viewers too, like all of you like
without our viewers, we have nothing. So I'm so appreciative
that people will have the honor of phone sleep with
the dog at their feet tonight. As they listened Tonnison,
Everyone's well, maybe if you come out of that turkey
induced sleep and you hear a funny line, just kind
of laugh and smile and just enjoy the day with family.
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It's an honor to be welcome to too people's homes
on a day like this, and that's what I love
the most about Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Hey man, it's well said, Mike. We're so thankful for you.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And as you put it, our jobs are everybody else's hobby.
We get to talk about sports and watch it and
take it in.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You just get to put the soundtrack on it for
their memories.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
As Kyle said, Mike Turico, everybody, you'll hear them on
the call tonight on Sunday Night, and a heck of
a lot in February. Congratulations Mike, as always on just
everything that you are doing these days.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
We love you. Have a great game tonight, Love you guys.
Speaker 11 (21:46):
Happy Thanksgiving, best few families, Happy Thanksgiving, Mike.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
We can't let you go onto your Thanksgiving without having
a friendly little game of GMFB trivia. Everybody, put your
coffee cups down, turn up the volume and play along
with a Thanksgiving Day twist of NFL trivia here on GMFB.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Manti, Mike g Kyle, Kyle's wearing.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
An apron, which means he's about to cooke in this
trivia segment.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
And here, Mike g E're up first, You're up.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
First, Mike Here Fulham Chiefs Cowboys in the middle window
today on Thanksgiving Day this year. The thing is, though,
the last time Andy Reid coached a game on Thanksgiving
was back in two thousand and eight, when his Eagles
dismantled Kurt Warner's Cardinals in a forty eight to twenty
beat down to get between the Philadelphia Arizona. In that game,
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Brian Westbrook had four scrimmage touchdowns, which is amazing. Who
is the only other player in the Super Bowl era
to tally four touchdowns in a game on Turkey Day?
Is it a sterling sharp b Randy Moss, c Emmett
Smith or d Alvin Kamara.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
Randy Moss was a three touchdown game, I recall correctly
by the way, you guys, I thought it was to
get a.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Layup Eagles question. Here made a left turn there at
the end.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Come on, Emmitt Smith feels like, Oh, Cowboys play all
the time. Em Smith quart a bunch of touch out
of them throwing him out, so be and sere gone.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
We're going Sterling Sharp or Alvin Kamara. Okah, there was
like a six touchdown game, but that wasn't Thanksgiving. It
was Crystal Alvin Kamara.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
D Mike Ge.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
We just did the Hall of Fame semi final announcements
this week.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
We could have lent into that. You gotta go with
the gold jackline implication. It is Hall of.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Famer Sterling Sharp who caught four hot down in a
Thanksgiving game against the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
He gone in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
I was right there too.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Despite despite Farv and Sterling Sharp diced up the Cowboys defense,
backup quarterback Jason Garrett still let the Cowboys do a
forty two thirty one victory over the Packers that day.
That's incredible, Mike Ge. You gotta know when you in
the middle of the questions, Yeah, I remember that game.
You gotta know the question is not going to be
about that game yet make it down.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
You gotta know a lot of things, Mike. I know
exactly what you're referring to. KB knows it to the
Alvin Kamara gay working one like this. Yeah, it's Christmas
hit the Christmas shoes on holiday.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
All right?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
MANSI see if you can redeem help Mike out. Yeah,
stay in the box here, Manton, Right, my Anta, You
can't have the NFL on Thanksgiving without thinking about a
name that we have mentioned so many times here today,
which is the late great John Madden, who will be
the focus of our video.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Clue later on.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
But let's focus on the gold game. Let's focus on
the video game. In twenty thirteen, as a rookie, Manti
Teo had a seventy four overall Madden rating, tied for
the highest rated rookie middle linebacker in Madden that year, Mansid,
who was the highest rated teammate you had on the
Chargers in Madden your rookie season? Was it a Philip Rivers,
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b Antonio Gates, Ce, Eric Weddle or d Dwight Freeny?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Okay, so Philip Antonio, Eric Dwight for some and I
feel like Eric was coming off of a year in
twenty twelve. Yeah, I think they're trying to distract me
with the goat Antonio Gates.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
And you know, I just did the thing on Philip
this week.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Congrats Philip.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
I am going to go with see Jane Eric now Wittle,
that's my answer nowhere.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Kile yes, way, he's right.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Manchi knows his guys, Nantam knows his guys. Wow, Mantai
Nanti fifteen seconds on how great Eric Whidle was that season.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Let me tell you, Eric Whiddle was a great teammates.
He was also one of the worst teammates because I
thought I knew things about football.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Until it was my first day of.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Pads and I'm calling the plays in the huddle in
practice and right when I say break from the huddle thirty.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Two, it's yapping already about what to alert, what to
look to.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
And when I knew I was in the NFL, I
was like I had never heard so much talking before
the balls snapped until I went to the charges in
Eric Whiddle he called me Tizzle.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
That's my big bro. Shout out to the big.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Good job, Tizzle. You got the first point on the board. Kyle,
here we go. This one's hard, Kyle, this one's hard.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
I'll be the judge of that, all right, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
The Ravens have never lost on Thanksgiving, winning both of
their previous Turkey Day games. It's kind of like how
they always win in the preseason.
Speaker 11 (26:22):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You got to go back to the nineteen twenties where
the Pottsville Maroons are the only team that has more
wins without a loss on Thanksgiving in league history.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
This is stunning film footage.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
By the way, here's a question th Kyle speaking of
the Pottsville Maroons. Yeah, what was the first song Maroon
five performed at Super Bowl fifty three the halftime show?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
What was their opener? Was it A This Love?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Was it b It's getting Hot to Breathe, Seat Sugar
or deep Moves Like?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Which one is it?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I remember being there, and I remember people online were
pissed off and whatever, shut up.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I enjoyed the halftime show.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Harder to Breathe.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I don't really know that one. I don't.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You don't open with this love.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Moves like Jagger feels like a closer.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So I'm gonna go with sugar and I'm gonna pour
some sugar on me.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
A watermelon sugar.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Sugar, I think is the answer here, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
While Moves is like Jagger was the song that closed
out the performance, Maroon Five actually opened the show with.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Bee Harder to Breathe.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Yes, Sugar, You're going down Harder to do that?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
It was? They were the headliner for the Super Bowl
halftime show.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It featured Travis Scott and a big boy about cast
as we know.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
But that's it, Kyle. I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Look at you got to open with like one of
your second biggest hits. Justin Timberlake in Minnesota, came out,
played some new song.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Yeah, that was bad, Bunny.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I don't know your song, but whatever is your second
most popular, Open with that and I will learn it.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
And I will sing it.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Okay, great, great, great, great perfect. We look forward to that.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
All right, video clue everybody, Manti, Mike, g Kyle. That's
the order that you give your answers. Here we go.
In nineteen eighty one, John Madden's first season after joining
Pat Summerle on the new CBSA team he called his
first Thanksgiving Day game. It was a ten to nine barnburner.
That's all the Cowboys taytent. Early in the game, Chicago
had the ball on their own twenty after a Cowboys punt.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
What happens on this play?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Was it an a Walter Payton thirty nine yard pass
to Ricky Watts be a strip sack by Ed Tootole Jones.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
See a Walter Payton thirty nine yard run.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Or d a pick six by Everson Walls, Manti, Mike
g and then Kyle.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
A few weeks ago, we had the trivia question about
a running back that threw passes for touchdowns and also
ran and the answer was Walter Paytent. So based off
of that, I'm going to go a Walter Paytent thirty
ninenine yard passed through Ricky Watts, And I know Kaby
knows his answer, so I hope.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
That I got it right.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Yes, what's with the double thirty nine? Like, what are
you telling me with that?
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Why would you randomly throw the same number in twice
if it wasn't going to be in the answer. I
gotta I gotta ride with me because the thirty nine
yard run is not going to do it for me.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
I gotta ride with man Ti.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Hey here, Jamie, this is eighty one, I think next
nice I did say this was eighty one.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Yep, Okay, this is Walter's prime.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
A lot of people think the eighty five season nough,
he was a little bit slowing down by the eighty
one as he was unstoppable. There's no way you're gonna
put two peyton up. And then it hit us with
the two tall Jones or Everson Walls. No, I think
that it's usually the past with Walter. But I'll go
and see the second of the two thirty nine, and
I think the Sweetness is going to give us a
thirty nine yard run.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Well, let's see if Kyle redeemed himself Pat Summer Alan
John Madden who got the answer right?
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Oh, maybe a little first down pass would be nice.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Here how he holds it.
Speaker 8 (30:05):
So Hitch and I Peyton still on his street, finally
taken down by Michael Downs.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Well take forty one.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Let's watch it again.
Speaker 10 (30:12):
I watch right here, see Thurman gets black and now
watch Downs here he gets caught flat footage.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Then he makes out sideways to the left, and when
he's gone.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Looking at you holding the ball, kangaroo cleats.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Amazing.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
I love him, great job, serious lately.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Sweetness finished that day with one hundred and seventy one
rushing yards, which is by Eddy player in the twenty
day twenty Thanksgiving Day games, John Madden would call in
his career today, Mike g dead flock next week leg
well done everybody, GMFB trivia.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
We hope you scored a point. Unlike Mike Garrifla. We're
thankful for pull Man that goal.
Speaker 11 (30:50):
Yeah,
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome inside Good Morning Football, everybody. We are brought to
you by, as always, our favorite dried meat in a bag,
Old Trapper beef Jerky, even though today is about meat
in the oven for a long time on the grill
in the friar, what have you.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It's Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody, Well, thank We're thankful for you and
for football. Jamie eard All, Manti Tao, Mike Grifollo, and
Kyle Brandt.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Kyle, we have.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
So many things to get to this hour, trivia and
a very special friend of GMFB joining.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
And we're just going to leave it like that.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We're relieve the mysterious on Thanksgiving where all the meats
are nice and that delicious.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Word moist moist moist ry.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Speaking for the Great Dell Griffith, I'll speak.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I'm aving our show.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I like me, my wife likes me, and we're going
to talk football on a Thursday this morning. Mike Mantai, Jamie,
we're at home.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It's fun.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Let's start the show.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Welcome to Good Morning Football, present it by Old Trapper.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's right, GMFB on a very special Thursday, everybody, and
by special, I mean gluttonous and filling and hopefully for you,
filled with family, football and great food. This is our family.
This is how we like to start the day. Jamie Mantai,
Mike g and Kyle on a Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Guys, it's us.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's this conversation and then it's just a day of
great football matchups.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Can we take a look at the schedule? Please?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I beg of you. It is the lead block. It
is a generic blue football helmet. I guess you could
slap a lion on that helmet and it would work.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Since the Packers'.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Lions kick off the day on the John Madden Thanksgiving Celebration,
a great slate of matchups. Chiefs Cowboys is your second
your main course, if you will, and the dessert with
the whipped cream on top. Bengals Ravens. What the heck
is happening in the AFC North. Like we said to
start the show, we got a special guest coming on
GMFB from NBC. There's the next little teaser, next segment.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
On GMFP to start this hour. This is what you're
going to be.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Seeing today at the coin tosses. When the guys, the
captains of the teams go out and shake hands, it
is the John Madden coin. The referees and the officials
will be using this, of course, John Madden with that
legendary headset using as the heads on the coin. And
then that Turkey tale as the tale. They'll see those
throughout the game, the three games today.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
With that buckle up everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The man who hates apple Pie, but we love him anyways,
or at least that's what I'm told to say again.
Rapaport joining the show, rap Sheet, I go all the
way to the third game to talk about one quarterback
who is finally, as he said, back and return. What's
going on with Joe Burrow ahead of tonight's game.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Yeah, one of the biggest stories of the NFL is
unfolding tonight a little after eight o'clock. Joe Burrow is
officially back. About three yesterday, the Cincinnati Bengals activated him
off into reserve back to the active roster, solidifying what
we've known probably for a couple of days, that Joe
Burrow is going to start tonight for the Cincinnati Bengals.
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It has been a long roadback two and a half
months from surgery to repair a Grade three turf toe,
just not as long as people thought it was supposed
to be out. A three month recovery shaved about two
or so weeks off. Probably gained himself at least an
extra game to be able to play tonight against the Ravens.
The Bengals are still live. They are Joe Burrow could
go in and run the table or something close to that.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
The Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
At least we'll have a shot, may have some mobility,
We'll have to protect himself, but he is going to play.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
We had another fascinating story.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Unfold yesterday, not about the Bengals, but about that guy
right there. That is Frank ragnow the Pro Bowl center
for the Detroit Lions, who retired last year. I was
on the golf course. Had to send it just the
right time at his retirement. He is now officially back.
Was reinstated yesterday off the reserve retired list. He can
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have a roster exemption for a couple weeks. Probably will
take him, by the way, a couple weeks to play,
but he is a pro bowler.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
He retired it just twenty nine.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Body kind of broke down He's got another month or
so in him and certainly will help this Detroit Lions
offensive line solidify themselves to be better than they were previously.
Just a really really cool story for the Lions, one
of their dudes is back. And then for the Green
Bay Packer, someone who is going to play in the
game Ragno is not.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Going to play.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
This guy is Josh Jacobs. Dealing with a thigh brus
Andy Brow and Bruce in his knee miss last week,
wanted to play. They held him out. They knew we
got two games in five days. Once we're ready for
the second one. This is the second one he is
going to play against the Lions. Should be pretty close
to one hundred percent. So Josh Jacobs is in the
lineup later today for the pack rap sheet.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Thank you very much Abby Thanksgiving. We look forward to
that this weekend. Until then, we got to start talking
about these games. Manti, Mike g and Kyle get in here. Manti,
I start with you and the emotion behind the middle
game today, specifically in Chiefs Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You got a tie mixed in there.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You got the old tradition of the Cowboys playing on Thanksgiving.
You got this new tradition, which is why are the
Chiefs being weird this season, but also the fact that
this will be the first time that Patrick Mahomes makes
an NFL start at at and T Stadium, an NFL
building that he.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Grew up not too far from so Manti.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
There's a lot baked into this Chiefs Cowboys game.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
With a lot bakedan and you you mentioned tradition, right, Jamie,
the old versus a new and you talk about the
Cowboys dynasty in the eighties and the nineties, and that's
a lot about what the Ogs can relate to a
lot of us enthusiasts of the game of football. But
it reminds me of when I listen to some songs
or I watch some movies that were during my time
and my dad said, well, that's the remake of a
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song that I used to listen to back in my day.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I feel like the Chiefs have been for the.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
Past ten to fifteen years the new America's team. There's
that sense of, you know, Cowboys, where the old America's team,
the Chiefs are now the new America's team, and it's
that new remake. For myself, I can't relate to the
old Hawley Fivo, I know the new Hawy five bo. Yeah, yes,
it's gonna see there you go, Kate. This is gonna
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be that game where an old generation and a new
generation of just a family of football fans can come
together and watch probably the two biggest brands of the
football be represented one in one game with some of
the biggest stars in our game. So that's the thing
that stands out to me about that middle game four
thirty pm Eastern.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
I'm excited for Ravens Bengals tonight, and these two played
some really exciting games last year, down to the wire games.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
I want that. That's what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
With Joe Burrow returning to the field, Jamar Chase back
as well. The Bengals probably aren't gonna make the playoffs.
They're gonna have to go on a ridiculous run and
get some help in order to make that happen.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
But let's see this division rivalry.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
Rick Kindle, I also want to see the Baltimore Ravens
in this spot again for the third time. Is the
third time they played the Thanksgiving nightcap, and the previous
two were not as memorable as we thought that The
first one was the Harbo back in twenty eleven, John
Harbol against Jim Harble.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
This was a sixteen to six.
Speaker 9 (07:23):
Field goal fest happening there Between those two was the
last Thanksgiving night game on NFL Network, by the way,
and then a couple of years later the Ravens again
in that spot. Now, there was a memorable moment, but
not a great moment, like I don't want Mike Tomlin,
who clearly knew that Jacoby Jones was running by him,
did the old dance out of the way. We had
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a lot of fun with it. He got fined for
it. It was a big talking point. But this was another
field goal fest that really was never truly in doubt.
I mean, I think pulled close late in the game.
I want to see a legendary Thanksgiving Baltimore Ravens moment,
and I want to see it tonight between them and
the Cincinnati Bengal Bengals, kind of like the games that
they played last year. Let's get this thing down to
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the wire. I want some excitement as I'm trying and
fighting to stay away because I've been awake since five
forty five.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Because these kids just don't sleep. They just never are.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Ever, never, never complain about when you wake up on
this show. My gee, I, for the love of God,
I beg of you.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I love you so much. But don't do it. Don't
put because of that, don't put a don't put a
five in front of it. Just don't do it. Kyle,
go ahead, I'll pass.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh yeah, I feel what you're saying right now, and
I know you're going to feel this. What I like
on Thanksgiving is I like before the meal is come
in later. I just like the all day grazing food,
where the food that you eat before you eat whatever
you do. If you do sandwiches or cheese and crackers,
we make like these little up they're called little smokies.
(08:48):
They're like cocktail weenies and a toothpick and oh yeah, yeah, seven.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Love me a little smoky.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Wonderful, you know what I'm saying. They're wonderful.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
That equivalent today in football is the early game Lion's Packers.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
That's the one I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Looking for to the grazing food, not only because it's
a really good game between two division rivals and.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
History and all that.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Honestly, the angle that I like on it. I am
so excited today as a nostalgist for the entire John
Madden celebration factor. I really am never mind the Lions Packers,
that John Madden.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Stuff is what I'm really excited this because.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I feel like John Madden.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I feel like I heard him call one thousand games
and like nine hundred of them more Packers games to
me because he was always calling Brett fav games. And
I just think this is a very cool thing. If
you're someone like me who either grew up with Madden,
or even if you didn't, you just know the lore
of Madden. My take on this is that John Madden
is becoming the face of Thanksgiving, not just for the NFL,
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for the country. And think about our holidays. You know,
Christmas we have Santa Claus. The fourth of July we
have Uncle Sam. I really think that Thanksgiving's official face
is going to be the Raiders old coach John Madden,
and I love it.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
It's everything about it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It's a large, loud, well proportioned man who likes football
and family. And if you think about the Madden legacy,
it's hilarious because he's kind of the face of football,
he's kind of the face of video games. He's one
of the faces of the Raiders. He's the face of
athletes foot medication, He's the face of year. If you
go back to the commercials then and now, I think
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like the truly American holiday. You look at it and
you're like John Madden Mutton Chops or later in life
with the silver hair. I look at his face and
it just makes me happy, and it makes me hungry
for food and football. And I know that's going to
be all over the Lions Packers game today.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
It's just one reason I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
M Kyle. It's great.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It's like the Cupid with the arrow through the heart
is the Easter money, and it's John Madden. Yes, we
were missing that main character energy on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
We appreciate that so much, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
To your point about the all day grays, a lot
of people do the low and slow approach when cooking
literally anything today, mostly because they want to stay outside
away from their family for probably fifteen hours, but also
because we have to take this approach for some teams
this year, like the Ravens and the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Are they low and slow? Which team is going to
come out perfect in the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
We shall see that is a game we will be
talking about not only for the rest of the show,
but specifically with our next guest on GMFB because the
finale of the Thanksgiving Day matchups has Mike Turrico's voice
all over at for NBC. Kylie's coming on GMFB. We
know him, we love him, He's a friend of ours.
Happy Thanksgiving to Mike and everybody who loves him.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
There's no place that I would rather be on Thanksgiving
than right here, right now at a football game. There's
just certain things that go together, you know, the turkey,
the family, the tradition, football, and we have it all today.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Short Thanksgiving everyone, Okay, that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
We've got a full slate of games for today's fourth
annual John Madden celebration. And now we are beyond thrilled
to be joined by a friend of our show, one
of our favorite broadcasters, who is calling tonight's.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Bengal Ravens game. He is the voice the Olympics. That's
going to have a ball it.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
It's thank you guys, have Thanksgiving. How are we doing
it too?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Thanks Giving?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Awesome?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
We're better now that you're on to talk about Joe Burrow,
the Bengals, the Ravens, everything, that you're covering tonight. First
of all, thankful for you, Mike and the moments that
you bring us in sports every day, round the clock,
all year long. But Mike Burrow posts this picture of him,
the throwback and the lebron jersey and the He's back.
Did that fire you up a little bit in your
production meetings ahead of this one?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Oh? Absolutely.
Speaker 11 (12:36):
We got on the production meeting with Joe yesterday and
I said, Joe, thank you for saving Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
No knocking Joe Flacco, no knocking to Big Browning.
Speaker 11 (12:47):
But Joe Burrow gives you something, right, He gives you sizzlies,
the coolest of the quarterbacks that are out there right
now right And to hear him talk about wanting to
come back and wanting to play, it's the Ravens. It's Thanksgiving.
What is interested me over the years, and this is
I think this is the eighth NFL game of donald
thanks Giving night, and I've done eight college games way
back when. The thing that interests me is players love
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the chance to do this because they've grown up watching it.
Unless you're in Detroit and Dallas, you're not guaranteed that
this ever happens in your career so players love the
chance to do this, and Joe was talking about and
all the guys we talked to this week, the chance
to be a part of the Thanksgiving game, especially the
one at night.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Mike, I've watched so many, so many games that you
have broadcast, and I have my favorites. The Monday Night
Miracle Bears Cardinals in two thousand and six, Lakers Mavericks
JJ Burrea gets knocked out by Andrew Bynham and gets
ejected in the middle of the game Andrew by I
just hear cables are cataloged in my head, and I know,
as one who's been real student of the game, you
go way back in terms of watching John matt and
(13:50):
John madd has become a celebration this.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Day on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I was saying earlier, it's like the face of Thanksgiving. Now,
what are your reflections on John Madden?
Speaker 11 (13:57):
As only you could say, Kyle, that was perfect in
every description of Madden and Thanksgiving together, it just fits.
And I think for any of us who are of
a certain age, we grew up with a Madden game,
whether it was in Detroit or in Dallas, and the
Turducan and the Turkey and the Turkey legs, which is
a tradition that all the networks carry over. We've got
a feast flang for the via the mvpiece of tonight's game.
(14:19):
But John started all of that, and John was a
soundtrack for generations, not just through the games but also
through the video game. Obviously at halftime tonight, we've got
a great piece coming up on John Badden the Coach,
because if you are not fifty okay, if you are
fifty or under, you probably don't ever remember watching a
(14:42):
John Badden coached game. So we've got a great feature
looking at the coach part of John Madison's John Madden's
triple leg career, because it's the football coach, it's of
course the video game, and it's the TV thing you're
talking about.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
So I think you'll enjoy that.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
And Andy Reid, by the way, is the one who's
the voice on that piece, so.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Mentor for John Madden. So I think you're really gonna enjoy.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
That piece, Mike, So I can only equate to this
in my world and playing there's a difference between playing
in certain games and playing prime time and then playing
on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
For you, you've caught so many games in your career.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
How is calling the Thanksgiving nightcap different than anything else
you've done so far in your career.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
Yeah, well, Mantatt. First off, I one the sharecise have
for you. Thank you for the seventy seven. I appreciate
Marcus Freeman and the Irish taking it easy.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Could have been eighty or ninety. You got your sweet
so they know the name all the way through.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
You know, there are times I had mind the Irish
sevent years of calling the Irish.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
It's all lot of arms and sing the fight song.
Thank you. You know what's different, mansie.
Speaker 11 (15:49):
You know everybody's about to fall asleep, I mean seriously
thinking about it. You are probably at home right now
thinking about which corner of the couch you are going
to camp out in for our game. You're thinking about
can we get the throat pillow that mom has bought
and loves and brought out, the special Thanksgiving pillow that
(16:09):
goes in the corner of the couch.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
But that's mine tonight, like I'm taking that right.
Speaker 11 (16:13):
You're also thinking about that nine fifteen ninety five run
to the refrigerator to grab like a little piece of
turkey and maybe a little bit, a little bit more
apple pie or whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Right, So you know, people are strewn all over their.
Speaker 11 (16:26):
House, dogs are laying their blankets, are out, people are chill.
So it's a night to just kind of celebrate football,
talk some family stories.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Maybe a little bit more than you normally do.
Speaker 11 (16:37):
But just know that the audience at home, the Ravens
and the Bengals fans are all in now.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
They're serious.
Speaker 11 (16:43):
The rest of the country and the Steelers fans too,
because the NFC North cares about family. Everybody else is
just chill and they're relaxed. So you just try to
tell some fun stories during the night and make it
enjoyable as well.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
You know, Mike Mikyle on this very program has talked
about the Master's nap being one of the best naps
that you could party. I'm gonna have to get his
take on whether the Master's Nap or the falling asleep
to the night, which one's better. I'm gonna have to
get that from Kyle in a little bit here, you know,
Chris Collinsworth and night Jason Garrett going to be on
the call with you. Yes, Collinsworth using one of his
(17:15):
com days respected the other day on America's favorite segment
into the booth or at least America broadcasters favorite segment.
We honored his five hundredth broadcast he brought the slide
back in. You've worked with a bunch of analysts throughout
your career. Why does it work so well with you
and Chris?
Speaker 11 (17:34):
Well, thanks for saying that, and congratulations to Christian. Every
five hundred games you should get a Thanksgiving off.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You know, that's kind of the way we run here.
Speaker 11 (17:41):
Chris, our producer Rob Hiland at the Idea. You know, well,
let's bring the slide back for old time sake, which
was fun on Sunday night.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
You know with Chris.
Speaker 11 (17:51):
I said this in an article that Sam Farmer, who's
an awesome writer who covers many sports, but predominantly the NFL.
And you all know Sam if you read The Times,
Sam did a great article on Chris. Sam My quoting
there is what I'll repeat to you, my ge Chris
is the smartest guy in.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
The room almost all the time and doesn't let you
know it.
Speaker 11 (18:10):
We talk about people like that, but to live with
somebody like that three three days a week, twenty weeks
a year, it's really special. And Chris has a passion
and a desire for teaching football and meeting people who
make football special that is unmatched from anybody who I've
worked with. That's working with a lot of people, So
it's a joy. I know al Michael's enjoyed the two
(18:31):
hundred and sixty so odd games that he did with Chris.
We've now done ninety five of the five hundred that
he's done together. And everyone's a treat. And we're gonna
get done with this game tonight and we'll be tired,
and then we'll get in a van we'll head off
to DC because we go see the Commander's practice on
Friday before their game with the nine and two Broncos
on Sunday, and collins Worth's gonna be waiting for us,
(18:52):
bright eyed and bushy tail in Washington tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I'll saying, all right, come on, guys, let's go. Let's
talk the books.
Speaker 11 (18:58):
Mariona, We're ready, and his energy will kind of lift
us through through the week for sure.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Well, your energy is listening us right now. I'm Mike,
I'm gonna I'm gonna force your hand to talk.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
About yourself for a second because you you're doing it
all right now, you're doing the NFL, the NBC's got
the NBA back, You've got the Olympics coming up this year.
Just when you work on a holiday, when you take
a moment on what it means for you and all
that you have done in your journey, the fact that
you have big moments like this, whether or not people
(19:26):
are falling asleep in the corner of their couches.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
You are the you.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You are the voice we will hear tonight and on
Sunday and in February. What is this like for you
to have this as the as the do you call
it the peak of your career? How do you label
this era for you?
Speaker 11 (19:41):
You know, I grew up in this business with a
lot of great mentors. John Gruden was one of them
during our time, and he would always tell us the
Bill Walsh quote that every day you get better, you
get worse. You never stay the same, right, So it's
a it's get better tomorrow, get better tomorrow. I truly,
truly don't stop to reflect on what's going on right now,
but when I do, I am super thankful for the
(20:04):
peakeople who allow me to do this. This is so
much fun to get to sit and talk to Lamar
Jackson and have him tell us about growing up as
a kid and playing playing football with his brother and
they were so good that they try to make sure
that they drafted a couple of guys who weren't as
good so they could keep the teams even right, but
to be around, to be around the best players in
(20:25):
the world, and then the Olympics, the biggest sporting event
in the world. To get to call the super Bowl
this year, you pinch yourself because it's way beyond whatever
you dreamed would be your career. And on days like this,
I do get reflective and thankful for a family that
supports the heck out of me to let me do
this silly stuff and change our Thanksgiving to Hey, guys,
(20:46):
we're gonna Thanksgiving this year on Monday instead of Thursday
because Dad's got Thursday and Sunday.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Are you all love that you're working today? So those
are the things.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
And also the viewers too, like all of you like
without our viewers, we have nothing. So I'm so appreciative
that people will have the honor of phone sleep with
the dog at their feet tonight. As they listened Tonnison,
Everyone's well, maybe if you come out of that turkey
induced sleep and you hear a funny line, just kind
of laugh and smile and just enjoy the day with family.
(21:17):
It's an honor to be welcome to too people's homes
on a day like this, and that's what I love
the most about Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Hey man, it's well said, Mike. We're so thankful for you.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And as you put it, our jobs are everybody else's hobby.
We get to talk about sports and watch it and
take it in.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You just get to put the soundtrack on it for
their memories.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
As Kyle said, Mike Turico, everybody, you'll hear them on
the call tonight on Sunday Night, and a heck of
a lot in February. Congratulations Mike, as always on just
everything that you are doing these days.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
We love you. Have a great game tonight, Love you guys.
Speaker 11 (21:46):
Happy Thanksgiving, best few families, Happy Thanksgiving, Mike.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
We can't let you go onto your Thanksgiving without having
a friendly little game of GMFB trivia. Everybody, put your
coffee cups down, turn up the volume and play along
with a Thanksgiving Day twist of NFL trivia here on GMFB.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Manti, Mike g Kyle, Kyle's wearing.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
An apron, which means he's about to cooke in this
trivia segment.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
And here, Mike g E're up first, You're up.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
First, Mike Here Fulham Chiefs Cowboys in the middle window
today on Thanksgiving Day this year. The thing is, though,
the last time Andy Reid coached a game on Thanksgiving
was back in two thousand and eight, when his Eagles
dismantled Kurt Warner's Cardinals in a forty eight to twenty
beat down to get between the Philadelphia Arizona. In that game,
(22:40):
Brian Westbrook had four scrimmage touchdowns, which is amazing. Who
is the only other player in the Super Bowl era
to tally four touchdowns in a game on Turkey Day?
Is it a sterling sharp b Randy Moss, c Emmett
Smith or d Alvin Kamara.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
Randy Moss was a three touchdown game, I recall correctly
by the way, you guys, I thought it was to
get a.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Layup Eagles question. Here made a left turn there at
the end.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Come on, Emmitt Smith feels like, Oh, Cowboys play all
the time. Em Smith quart a bunch of touch out
of them throwing him out, so be and sere gone.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
We're going Sterling Sharp or Alvin Kamara. Okah, there was
like a six touchdown game, but that wasn't Thanksgiving. It
was Crystal Alvin Kamara.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
D Mike Ge.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
We just did the Hall of Fame semi final announcements
this week.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
We could have lent into that. You gotta go with
the gold jackline implication. It is Hall of.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Famer Sterling Sharp who caught four hot down in a
Thanksgiving game against the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
He gone in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
I was right there too.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Despite despite Farv and Sterling Sharp diced up the Cowboys defense,
backup quarterback Jason Garrett still let the Cowboys do a
forty two thirty one victory over the Packers that day.
That's incredible, Mike Ge. You gotta know when you in
the middle of the questions, Yeah, I remember that game.
You gotta know the question is not going to be
about that game yet make it down.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
You gotta know a lot of things, Mike. I know
exactly what you're referring to. KB knows it to the
Alvin Kamara gay working one like this. Yeah, it's Christmas
hit the Christmas shoes on holiday.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
All right?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
MANSI see if you can redeem help Mike out. Yeah,
stay in the box here, Manton, Right, my Anta, You
can't have the NFL on Thanksgiving without thinking about a
name that we have mentioned so many times here today,
which is the late great John Madden, who will be
the focus of our video.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Clue later on.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
But let's focus on the gold game. Let's focus on
the video game. In twenty thirteen, as a rookie, Manti
Teo had a seventy four overall Madden rating, tied for
the highest rated rookie middle linebacker in Madden that year, Mansid,
who was the highest rated teammate you had on the
Chargers in Madden your rookie season? Was it a Philip Rivers,
(24:55):
b Antonio Gates, Ce, Eric Weddle or d Dwight Freeny?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Okay, so Philip Antonio, Eric Dwight for some and I
feel like Eric was coming off of a year in
twenty twelve. Yeah, I think they're trying to distract me
with the goat Antonio Gates.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
And you know, I just did the thing on Philip
this week.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Congrats Philip.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
I am going to go with see Jane Eric now Wittle,
that's my answer nowhere.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Kile yes, way, he's right.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Manchi knows his guys, Nantam knows his guys. Wow, Mantai
Nanti fifteen seconds on how great Eric Whidle was that season.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Let me tell you, Eric Whiddle was a great teammates.
He was also one of the worst teammates because I
thought I knew things about football.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Until it was my first day of.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Pads and I'm calling the plays in the huddle in
practice and right when I say break from the huddle thirty.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Two, it's yapping already about what to alert, what to
look to.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
And when I knew I was in the NFL, I
was like I had never heard so much talking before
the balls snapped until I went to the charges in
Eric Whiddle he called me Tizzle.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
That's my big bro. Shout out to the big.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Good job, Tizzle. You got the first point on the board. Kyle,
here we go. This one's hard, Kyle, this one's hard.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
I'll be the judge of that, all right, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
The Ravens have never lost on Thanksgiving, winning both of
their previous Turkey Day games. It's kind of like how
they always win in the preseason.
Speaker 11 (26:22):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You got to go back to the nineteen twenties where
the Pottsville Maroons are the only team that has more
wins without a loss on Thanksgiving in league history.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
This is stunning film footage.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
By the way, here's a question th Kyle speaking of
the Pottsville Maroons. Yeah, what was the first song Maroon
five performed at Super Bowl fifty three the halftime show?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
What was their opener? Was it A This Love?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Was it b It's getting Hot to Breathe, Seat Sugar
or deep Moves Like?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Which one is it?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I remember being there, and I remember people online were
pissed off and whatever, shut up.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I enjoyed the halftime show.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Harder to Breathe.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I don't really know that one. I don't.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You don't open with this love.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Moves like Jagger feels like a closer.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So I'm gonna go with sugar and I'm gonna pour
some sugar on me.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
A watermelon sugar.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Sugar, I think is the answer here, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
While Moves is like Jagger was the song that closed
out the performance, Maroon Five actually opened the show with.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Bee Harder to Breathe.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Yes, Sugar, You're going down Harder to do that?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
It was? They were the headliner for the Super Bowl
halftime show.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It featured Travis Scott and a big boy about cast
as we know.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
But that's it, Kyle. I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Look at you got to open with like one of
your second biggest hits. Justin Timberlake in Minnesota, came out,
played some new song.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Yeah, that was bad, Bunny.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I don't know your song, but whatever is your second
most popular, Open with that and I will learn it.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
And I will sing it.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Okay, great, great, great, great perfect. We look forward to that.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
All right, video clue everybody, Manti, Mike, g Kyle. That's
the order that you give your answers. Here we go.
In nineteen eighty one, John Madden's first season after joining
Pat Summerle on the new CBSA team he called his
first Thanksgiving Day game. It was a ten to nine barnburner.
That's all the Cowboys taytent. Early in the game, Chicago
had the ball on their own twenty after a Cowboys punt.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
What happens on this play?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Was it an a Walter Payton thirty nine yard pass
to Ricky Watts be a strip sack by Ed Tootole Jones.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
See a Walter Payton thirty nine yard run.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Or d a pick six by Everson Walls, Manti, Mike
g and then Kyle.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
A few weeks ago, we had the trivia question about
a running back that threw passes for touchdowns and also
ran and the answer was Walter Paytent. So based off
of that, I'm going to go a Walter Paytent thirty
ninenine yard passed through Ricky Watts, And I know Kaby
knows his answer, so I hope.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
That I got it right.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Yes, what's with the double thirty nine? Like, what are
you telling me with that?
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Why would you randomly throw the same number in twice
if it wasn't going to be in the answer. I
gotta I gotta ride with me because the thirty nine
yard run is not going to do it for me.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
I gotta ride with man Ti.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Hey here, Jamie, this is eighty one, I think next
nice I did say this was eighty one.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Yep, Okay, this is Walter's prime.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
A lot of people think the eighty five season nough,
he was a little bit slowing down by the eighty
one as he was unstoppable. There's no way you're gonna
put two peyton up. And then it hit us with
the two tall Jones or Everson Walls. No, I think
that it's usually the past with Walter. But I'll go
and see the second of the two thirty nine, and
I think the Sweetness is going to give us a
thirty nine yard run.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Well, let's see if Kyle redeemed himself Pat Summer Alan
John Madden who got the answer right?
Speaker 10 (29:55):
Oh, maybe a little first down pass would be nice.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Here how he holds it.
Speaker 8 (30:05):
So Hitch and I Peyton still on his street, finally
taken down by Michael Downs.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Well take forty one.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Let's watch it again.
Speaker 10 (30:12):
I watch right here, see Thurman gets black and now
watch Downs here he gets caught flat footage.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Then he makes out sideways to the left, and when
he's gone.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Looking at you holding the ball, kangaroo cleats.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Amazing.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
I love him, great job, serious lately.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Sweetness finished that day with one hundred and seventy one
rushing yards, which is by Eddy player in the twenty
day twenty Thanksgiving Day games, John Madden would call in
his career today, Mike g dead flock next week leg
well done everybody, GMFB trivia.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
We hope you scored a point. Unlike Mike Garrifla. We're
thankful for pull Man that goal.
Speaker 11 (30:50):
Yeah,
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