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January 9, 2025 22 mins

A new urban legend has emerged courtesy of Gilbert Arenas, so Covino & Rich highlight some of the well-known urban legends in sports. Wild Card weekend is upon us and NFL stadiums have announced a few new food items, so we decide which one we would DEFINITELY want to try.  And Rich gives his 5 days of Football stiffies College Football Parlay courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook, CODE: CRSHOW

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
As we keep alluding on Fox Sports Radio, today's day
one of your football boner. That's right, five straight days
of boners.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
So I call a doctor because they always say for
the last longer than twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Two college football playoff games and then three days of
wild card stiffy. So no, this is over promised. We
can say what we want.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
This is our bonus show because normally we're on from
two to four on the West Fox Sports Radio five
to seven on the East. Covino and Rich and Spotties
here do want to say stay safe.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
The fires are terrible.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
We're okay, but sending good vibes and prayers to everybody affected.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
It's definitely scary, but we're good for now. Football is
going to be a great distraction, you know, starting today,
Stay safe, But that five days of stiffy football actually
ting NFL college train drink Ship's gonna occupy you.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Oh yeah, no, definitely gonna keep you occupied for the
next five days.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
In fact, we're going to talk about it later in
the show. Rich has a college playoff parlay because we
have some great college games and some wild card games.
We're also going to talk playoff, wild card wild food.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
This weekend. There's some wild food on the menu. Will explain,
But we got.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
To start it off.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
You're a wildly crazy guy with the best sports urban legends.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now, well there's a reason because there's a new entry.
If it's true, we may have a new top three,
maybe a new number one. Right, there's some great stories
in the world of sports. Some are true, some are like,
I don't know if they're true. But there's sports urban legends,
and of course we've discussed them in the past. One
that comes to mind Jordan gambling that we know we gambled,

(01:57):
but did it get and go too far? Is it
the reason he left the NBA and came out right?
We may never know. That's on the list. You gotta
also think about just the numbers. If you do the math,
it seems impossible for Will Chamberlain to have slept with
twenty plus thousand women, Like that's yo. No one's penis
could survive that twenty thousand.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Women in those pants. Again, that's one of the best
urban legends. There's no doubt. Again, where there's smoke, there's fire.
With Jordan with Will, we know he's sung with a
lot of women. With twenty thousand women I don't know. Now,
the bloody sock always comes up in conversation. We know
it happened, we saw it, but the urban legend is
it was fake. It was all stage. Imagine it's possible.

(02:43):
That O four documentary about the Red Sox that's on Netflix.
It made you realize that Kurt Schilling just wanted to win,
and beating the Yankees gave him a stiffy. So, I mean,
he went out there, he wasn't sure he could play.
But the actual blood Do you believe it? Some don't,
Some say it just added to the theatrics.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
So you know what I say, luot In let out.
I say.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
And the story of Doc Ellis pitching a no hitter
on LSD, you know we always hear that story.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's just a matter of.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I find it hard to believe, right, Like I don't
want to drive if I'm you know, under the influence.
I mean, we shouldn't do that, but you know, I
just can't imagine pitching a no hitter when you're tripping.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Well, you know, along the same lines, your boy David Wells,
the joke was always he was on Saturday Night Live,
Got Trash or Jimmy fallon the whole cast, and that
was the day he went and pitched a perfect game.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's what he says. That's that's the legend. When the
legend becomes the story, print the legend. Now speaking of drinking,
Wade bogs this is like a two part story, two
part urban legend, because you always hear the legend of
you know, his his fried chicken, he needs his fried chicken.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
But the story is Pedro Serrano. But the story that
he I think the number was always sixty three, sixty
four beer, sixty four beers on a flight.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Sixty four Miller lights or something on a flight, and
you're like, no way, did this dude drink sixty four beers?
And just recently, Rich, not too long ago, he was
on Burt Kreischer Show, Burt Kreischer, Hi Bert, hey Bert,
and Bert was like, hey, you gotta tell me the story.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
And Wade still doubles down. But get this, the legend grows.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
He says it was eighty eight eighty nine, Oh, hold on, no,
nineteen eighty eight eighty nine. He goes, we're taking a
flight from Boston to la and he said he had
seventy three beers and then went two for three off
Mark Langston the next day and I'm like, seventy three beers,
well three, I'm good, seventy three.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
That arguably unbelievable. But there was another beer story, speaking
of people drinking a lot. Yeah, he was the eighth
Wonder of the World. Yes, but there was always the
rumor that Andre the Giant would have like one hundred. Oh. No,
the greatest urban legend is that he farted for sixteen seconds.
Did you know that story? On the set? Was it
sixteen seconds? On the set of Princess Bride? There's a

(05:09):
rumor that Andre the Giant farted for sixteen seconds.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Then he blow like Rob Reiner's to pay off or
something like that. Then you say like, sorry, buss, Yeah,
apparently he farted for like a record amount of time,
and people still talk about it. I forget who was there,
but all sorts of urban legends. Now one of the
greatest may lose its number one spot because I know
you love the Kevin Costner cal Ripkins story. What I

(05:33):
love about it is that it makes cal Ripkin mad, right,
But if it's brought up, he is like adamantly denies
and he's like, don't talk about it, like he Cal
Ripken gets angry when you talk about the rumor that
during his Iron Man streak. The story is again allegedly
because he adamantly denies.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
The legends urban legends, he left his house to go
to Camden Yards, said, oh, I forgot some turned around,
went home and found his wife in bed with Kevin Costner, whoa,
there was an altercation. Again, this is all urban legend
that they got in a fight. Maybe there was like
an arrest, and because of that, he would have lost

(06:15):
his consecutive game streak. So Camden Yards fiddles with the lights,
and there's this, oh, the game's canceled tonight for you know,
stadium malfunctions feels.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Right to Me's a shot of him walking in. Yeah,
imagine the shock. You know, you made me think of
nonsports related. But one of my favorite urban legends, just
period is the Richard gear story. Because I don't know
how that happens. I don't know how the Gerbil got
involved in this story. But you no one asks how
the Gerbil feels about being involved in his story.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Can I tell you? Yeah? It's probably someone he did
dirty and they were like, you know what, Richard Gear,
I'll I'll show you and they're like, hear about gear
and the Gerbil. Now, so this isn't a real photo.
I don't think it is. It could be AI maybe somehow,
some say a I thought last weekend. You know, it
could be. It could have been a spring break moment

(07:06):
from So was the other one when we were kids
that Paul Pfeiffer from The Wonder Years grew up to
become Marilyn Manson. That's another great urban legend, right, ridiculous
in the world of sports. To Kevin Costner, cal Ripken
one was always a good one because there's something believable
about it, and he was always defensive about it. Now
there's a new one in town, and it involves Gilbert Arenas.

(07:28):
Gilbert Arena's former NBA star, Gilbert Arenas proposed to his
girlfriend with the four hundred thousand dollars ring. Now you
might say, what, but this guy made millions and tens
of millions of dollars.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
He played in the NBA for a long time, he's
got a successful podcast, he's over the outspoken nowadays. The
story goes like this, They broke up after eight days.
They eventually made up, and he faked a relationship with
her for a few months so he could switch to
ring out with a fake version.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
She sued him and lost, and following that, he gave
her almost a ring that was worth half a million dollars.
They breaked up and she's probably thinking, well, fuck you,
I got a half a million dollar ring and I
gotta get that ring back. Well, baby, I'm sorry. They
get back together. He has to fake the funk on
the Nasty dunk and the relationship for a few months
so that he could find the perfect opportunity to switch

(08:20):
through and then make sir Cone. He probably you know,
dips out, moon walks out the door, got his ring.
Later on, she's like, well, I stick up my ring.
Fuck him. Probably gets to the praise and then realizes,
oh shit, I got duped. You could get them like made.
They're like made in a like a factory. Yeah there,

(08:40):
what do they call it? One time diamond lab diamond?
So yeah, so he switched it out.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
And if that story is true, man, how crafty, how creative, drafty.
You almost have to give him a high fire for that.
If that's true, that has to be in the top
three of all time sports urban legends, because how many
dudes get f two in this sort of situation, you
know what I mean. I'm not saying Gilbert Renas is innocent.

(09:10):
I'm not saying I.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Don't even know why they necessarily broke out. He was
a good dude.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
I'm just saying to pull this off, that's a majestic heist.
And props to him forgetting his ring back and money back,
because too many women get away with the flip side
of this, So props to him.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
If true, that rings fake. I mean, I don't know,
we don't know his I think her name was Laura
go Govan, Laura Govan, and she was some sort of
actress the little nuts when she finds how to rings
that are reality TV personality, she then realized it was

(09:45):
fake and he got away with it, And props to
him if true. Another sports urban legend to tell the
grand kids one day. Yeah, you know what I used
to know, Gay Andy n Men. His name is Gilbert Renus.
You know. It does a As far as like scandalous ones,
there there's a bunch, but one of my favorite funny

(10:05):
ones that I feel like I only learned about in
the last couple of years. I want to throw it
in there as well. We have Dennis Rodman. No, when
Dennis Rodmin told Carmen Electra that a woman fell out
of the ceiling onto his penis. She caught him cheating
and that was his and she fell out of the ceiling.
They fell out of My favorite that's how the story is.
Every one that has to do with women is the
story that the Kembe Mtumbo would walk in a room

(10:28):
with beautiful women and say the phrase who wants to sex? Matumba?

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, that's why I say that till this day. Yeah,
I got you didn't know I got that from him?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Is that four point? Who want Cavino? Yeah? I don't
think it works as well.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
It works, but not as often as it did for
the Kemball. But sports urban legends add another one to
the list. Gilbert Reinas, Gilbert Reinas, if true, thumbs up?

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Good for you.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Now you already talked about the five days of football
boners that starts today, right if you're.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
A football fan. Honestly, it's hard not to say Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Friday.
But it's not BS games. These are all games of significance,
College playoffs and then six wild card games, and they're
all really good matchups.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
They're all great matchups. We're gonna go over again the
college playoff parlay. But along with playoff wild card weekend,
you have to start making plans, right. So first off,
first and first mostly enjoy your games. But if you're
going to the games, they got some wild food on
the menu this year.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
You know what, I'm always about the stadiums trying new things,
because listen, it's all evolution. Baby. When we were kids,
you go to the ballpark the stadium, it was like
a hockey puck, shitty cheeseburger or a hot dog, and
like beer or soda. Now these arenas and stadiums have sushi,
They got gourmet smash burgers, they got chicken fingers, they
got there was you know what at City Field had

(11:50):
They had fried rainbow Italian cookies. This past playoff season
looks like Wan Soto had all of them. From the
latest picture. You shut your damn mouth, probably eating some
right now Potos instead of center Field having a double
shake check Burger.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Now. We did briefly touch on this on our regular
show on Fox Sports Radio again Monday through Friday two
to four on the West, but we didn't have a
whole lot of time to get into it, so we
want to show you what these new items are.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, not only we'll promise you know. If you're listening,
we very much appreciate that. But why not watch because
I'll be honest, I feel like this is better than
most sports TV shows.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
So yeah, if you're just listening to the podcast, we
appreciate it. It was a whole video layer on Fox
Sports Radio's YouTube page.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Let's start off with touchdown toast. Man, look at this
on this touchdown toast is going to be served in
Kansas City. Now that my friends, can I put ketch
up on it? No, this is this is a breakfast
ye style entree. It's like French toast with ice cream, strawberries.

(12:55):
And look at how thick that is.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
That's a loaf of bread.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
I see see. Yeah, But you know what, football and
food are just so synonymous. It really is.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
There's a whole theory in conspiracy in sports, urban legend
that's that football is just one big conspiracy to push food.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Have you seen that? But lately the stadiums are delivering
and this is the Texas touchdown. I'm sorry, the touchdown
toast that Kansas City is going to serve up. I'll
be honest with It's like French toast and berries and
cream and ice cream. It sounds good to make.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
I would have tons of regret and remorse eating this,
but I absolutely would.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
That's she looks good after that, I'd hate myself. You're right,
but I would definitely eat it, and I could probably
finish the whole thing spots right. You know how you
love to say Cavino loves to get in your head
when we have Mexican food. He's like, you know, for
every four nachos you have, that's one tortella. That's true. Yeah,
this is probably why eight pieces of French toast that like,
look at that, it's a loaf of bread, a low

(13:57):
for bread. You slop and you go in there with
you know what I mean, I'll try it. It's the playoffs.
Let's get wild man. And then you're like, yeah, I'll
try it. And then you finished a whole thing like
you and your girl like, hey, let's let's share that touchdowns. Well,
let's let's move on to Philadelphia, who's hosting a playoff

(14:18):
game this weekend. You're gonna have the pretzel, John, and
when you when you when I say John. You know
what that is. It's like a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania slang word.
It can mean a thing, it can mean a place,
it can mean an event like it's just it's interchangeable,
like it's only your name. And I say that respectful.
Cool though they made a pretzel in the shape of
the eagle look, which, by the way, the only logo

(14:41):
in the NFL that faces this way. You know that
smears of I know that.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
I know why they do it because the feathers on
the eagle formed the shape of an e for eagle,
so it's the only logo that goes the opposite direction.
There's an e hidden in there. But the pretzel Dippens
say no disrespect to the Philly fans that use the
word john, because that's your thing. But I don't feel

(15:07):
comfortable saying it's not a word I use.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
I don't like it. The guy. It's probably tasty as hell,
but I'd be like, can I get the pretzel thing? Please?
You know you won't say the word john, But I'm
not gonna say question people that. All right, maybe this
is a stretch, but do you ever use the word
haunt or your local haunt? I got like spot does.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, I'm like, I don't my local haunt. I'm like,
that's not a word I use, just like I don't
use the word John. So hey, can I have a pretzel?

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Thanks?

Speaker 3 (15:32):
The one with well, I'm gonna judge you right now.
So the same guy that will never order the Rudy
two D fresh and fruity.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
I don't like that. There's a there's a drink back
in the day. I've known Caveno a long time. Emember
when John but juice was all the rage. Yeah, Cavino
refused to order the drink. Was it? The orange dream machine?
Dream machine is like the orange one? You mean the
dream machine. I'm not saying that. Someone I was like,
just I saw it, or she's like just say it.
I'm like, no, give me the orange the dream Machine.

(15:58):
When Cavino gets his overpriced smoothie at Whole Foods, he
refuses to say the peanut buttery. That's true.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
I'm like, give me the with the peanut butter. And
this is the latest one. This really happened.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
What is it called. It's called the gimme the creamsicle one.
You mean the gene machine? Yeah, no, the orange one.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
You'll give me that one dude, I swear to god,
I was at a restaurant not too long ago. You
might remember this, and I wanted an old fashion, Just
give me the old fashion, and they looked at me like,
we don't know what you're talking about. Do you mean
the whiskey business? And I'm like, just give me the
old fashion. Stop with your nonsense. What would you call
me starry business? So anyway, that being said, just give

(16:39):
me the pretzel with the eagle.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Thank you, appreciate it. That ego. I'm gonna judge your
regular pretzel. I'm gonna judge you right now. It's just
a flat It's like a buttery anti Ann's Wetzels Pretzels.
Now you're talking, but let's say you do that. I'm
judging you completely by your answer. What are you dipping
it in cheese? Like a butter sauce, like a mustard?
Like like what what's you're dipping a truck caramel?

Speaker 3 (16:58):
So that looks like it looks like a mustard, a
cheese and a chipotle maybe like a peste.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
What is that tiziki sauce? I'm down for all those dippens. Oh,
green mustard, it's that rand mustard. Oh obviously eagles, green,
green mustard. Okay, the green mustard cheese or some sort
of ranchy looking sour cream things on all dippins. I
think I'm going all three if they're gonna give them
to me, But if they're gonna charge me extra, I'm
going mustard. Queen. I don't like the green mustard, but

(17:28):
let's just go mustard.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
And I know it's and I know it's for presentation,
but can we all agree that has not nearly enough dippins?

Speaker 1 (17:35):
No, I need, I need, I need remnick In after
remnick In pretzel that size. I'm gonna need a bucket
of dippins.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
So again this playoff wild Card weekend, these are the
new wild food items. There's one more doozy, and that's
if you're down in Texas, because what do they say,
everything's bigger in.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Texas, So even the asses out there? How about those
big asses? And how about the bigger in Texas Tamalay
I like it. I would crush out. That's nothing better
than a good Tomali, especially Texas, so that you know
they're doing it right. And they got different sauces, different
green sauces, vana day sauces, they got everything I'm all

(18:13):
for it. It fits the city Texas likes to state.
I like it. That's gonna be so. It looks like
a giant loaf of corn bread. That's stuff, you know.
It looks like it looks like a little Tamaley with
the with the chef hat on.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
We get it to it does, but we get it
to share and then you eat the whole thing and
you hate yourself. But again, that's wild card weekend. Gotta
get wild, man, get wild. You know what, I tell
you what, I think this wins because it's not as
gluttonous and gross as the loaf of bread French toast right,

(18:48):
and the pretzel there really not that inventive.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
It's just a flat pretzel with the cool logo on it.
So I'm going with the big, bigger in Texas, Tomali,
Like I gotta ask you, Yeah, you do you, however,
agree that winner. These stadiums are doing a good thing
by giving cool options, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
No, I'm not against They're allergic to fun at all
and new options and new menu items, especially for a
special weekend like this. It's been, uh, it's been an
emotional week especially here in La I'm not gonna stifle
anybody's fun, have fun, get wild, Wild Card weekend, stuff
your face and enjoy. If you're there, you got to
get some of the stuff that's part of the novelty,

(19:27):
especially if you're bringing kids or your family. Hey, kids,
we got tickets. It's not every year your team makes
the playoffs and you're like, we're getting that Pretzel show.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Pretzel, fill your belly with joy. Here you go. Let
me get like Kwan. So you're happy. You're gonna be
someth man when he has fifty home runs and the
Yankees are win eighty two games. If you're gonna hit
twenty six months pregnant, I don't know. Yes on the
head out of maternity leave, not pregnant. Too many Pretzel jones,
they hit too many, too many bigger in Texas tomorrow.

(19:57):
Be he you guys, not that with to touch toast.
And by the way, I'm hating on him if you're
new to the show, because I'm a Yankees fan, that's
why I love one. That's my motherfucker. All right, let's
go to my playoff. Harlay college football playoff, I think
is the best thing that's happened to college football. It's
leveled the playing field, all the top seeds better than
the nil dude, nil, and the playoff combined has given

(20:21):
for the casual college football fan more interest, to be honest,
because when you do the math, you know who would
have been in the college playoff if they did an
old school style, the championship would have been Georgia against Oregon.
Where are those two teams now sitting on there as?
So it just gives a little more opportunity for teams
to show no, no, they may be ranked number one,

(20:42):
but the old system of hey ranked is what matters.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
That's that he got a five and four going at
it in what six and three?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
I think a bet that if any other sport was like, yeah,
we're just gonna give the championship to the team we
think is best. And then they were like, well, now
we'll have a game, all right, Now, we'll make it
a couple teams. By making it the bigger playoff, it
really is just enhanced college football. So we got two
games today and tomorrow. You'll get your championship game after

(21:10):
the next two days. But here's what I like. Notre
Dame and Penn State. This is a point spread of
one and a half. I can't imagine having a feeling
on this game that's that drastic. So I'm not even
gonna care who wins. But if you look at the
past five games or so from each team, I think
we're gonna see more offense. And the over under is
only at forty four, so I could argue that you

(21:33):
could see both of these teams easily scoring in the twenties.
So I like the over, forget the point spread. I
like the over and Penn State Notre Dame, and simply
just because they've looked so dominant, they beat other good
teams by significant margins. And your brother in law, Chris Ohio,
you'd go to Lovum. I just like Ohio State by

(21:55):
six beating number three texts eating Texas. I just think
think that Texas is good, but I don't think. I
don't think they can stop Ohio State. And I just
think I like Ohio State winning by a touchdown. And
I just like the over in Notre Dame Penn State.
So lock that in college football playoff. Covino on Rich Wow,

(22:15):
look at that.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
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for Coveno and Rich Show. Thanks again to DraftKings, and
thanks again for using the code. Enjoy your foosball, everybody.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Five days of Wow, five days of days of bonters.
Enjoy and hey, stay safe on the West coast and
we'll see you later. Until then, aree with there, baby,
see you in the over Promised Land.
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