September 22, 2025 • 6 mins
In this nostalgic Monday episode of The Bama Brown Experience, Bama dives into his unforgettable attempt to join a semi-pro arena football team—complete with fumbles, full gear, and a lineman who “just felt sorry for him.” From hilarious sports stories to heartfelt reflections, this episode is a rollercoaster of nostalgia, humility, and pure entertainment.
Joined by the ever-charismatic Puma from The Sports Cave, Bama shares behind-the-scenes tales of his time in radio, including a memorable interview with Jerry Jones and Chan Gailey, and the unexpected quirks of live broadcasting—like coffee spills that nearly fried the studio board. Puma brings his sports-savvy insights and updates on his partner DJ LG’s new gig with the San Antonio Spurs. Their dynamic banter and shared love for football make this episode a must-listen for sports fans and podcast lovers alike.
Whether you're a die-hard football fan or just here for the laughs, this episode delivers a perfect mix of humor, heart, and hometown charm. If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend who thinks they could make it in the NFL. Spoiler alert: they probably can’t—but they’ll love this episode anyway!
Joined by the ever-charismatic Puma from The Sports Cave, Bama shares behind-the-scenes tales of his time in radio, including a memorable interview with Jerry Jones and Chan Gailey, and the unexpected quirks of live broadcasting—like coffee spills that nearly fried the studio board. Puma brings his sports-savvy insights and updates on his partner DJ LG’s new gig with the San Antonio Spurs. Their dynamic banter and shared love for football make this episode a must-listen for sports fans and podcast lovers alike.
Whether you're a die-hard football fan or just here for the laughs, this episode delivers a perfect mix of humor, heart, and hometown charm. If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend who thinks they could make it in the NFL. Spoiler alert: they probably can’t—but they’ll love this episode anyway!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hi, everybody, Bama Brown with you in the Bama Brown experience.
I heard podcast network along with the Big Cat Puma
in the Sports Cave.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But you guys are rocking it now. Your partner got
hired by the Spurs, right is it? By correcting now.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, you are. Indeed you might. You might catch him,
although he's not going to be in front of a camera.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
He is.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
He is the DJLG, the guy who produces my show.
He is the best person I've ever met at producing.
So he he got hired by the Spurs actually to
be a cameraman.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So you might still do it. Y'all are still doing
your shows and some live shows?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Oh absolutely, Yeah, we're moving the schedule around a little
bit because of football season. Now, don't want to go up.
I want to watch Monday night football each week. So
uh still anywhere everywhere you get your podcasts, just search
for the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma and then of
course the live shows there on YouTube at Sports Cave Live.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I will make you this valve now because I love you.
I will never be hired by a pro team.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I will always be here for you.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm not going for commitment.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm gonna if they call it the Spurs call, that's
say no spurs, big cat in me.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's I'm loyal, you know I'm not just.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Cowboys asked you, Hey, look we really need a general manager,
uh and we think you're the right man for the job.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I would.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I would let you go take the Cowboys GM job,
just because that would mean it would get rid of Jerry.
I don't know how much better you would be, but
at least.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It wouldn't be Jerry Jones. Years and years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
When I was on case one on one before Kavett
uh I interviewed Jerry and Chan Gaily when Chan was
to coach god and and uh So I asked Chan.
I said, Chan, I still feel like, you know, I
got some football emmy. I think I could do it.
I'd like to try out. And he goes, well, Bama,
it's a it's a pretty tough program up there. And
(01:55):
I go, gallay, Chan, that sounds like you're really telling me, know,
I not even get a tryout. He goes, I'm doing
it as politely as I know how to still do
the interview.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I would. I would listen to it like Chang Gaily
not so much, not that great of a head coach,
but I would listen to you and change because Chang
Gaily is also backwoods country.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He was fun.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
He was a fun interview the country childhood stories because
I'm sure a lot of them probably similar.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He and I hit it off really well. And then
uh and like standing there, then we got Jerry not
as fun an interview.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And then I got Jerry to do a promo and
it was Case one on one, you know, the number
one station in Austin.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And I said, Jerry, can you just read this?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And he goes, hey, you're listening to you know, Bama
Robin Heather on KESO one oh one. I said, I said,
could you say Case one on one? And he goes,
now turn. So we ran it like that forever. Just
says Jerry Jones on Case one.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Look it's even better. I would argue, you not the
true Jerry.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I got to Jerry and I was happy with that
and so uh but chan I never.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Got to try out.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I did try out for the uh god like what
was our semipro we had here the arena team.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I tried out. Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I did a deal on Fox with one of their
I can't think of there with the Wrangler. No, was
it been the Wrangler anyway, It was the arena team
that was here. I can't even remember who was. I
think it's the Wranglers.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I think it's the and so on Fox seven on
their sports deal, I had one of their linemen. Uh,
he tried, you know, he's throwing the ball to me,
and I kept fumbling his stuff and so you know,
and he fired out on me and just kept knocking
knocking my ass off and so.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Uh but I was a full uniform everything. I mean,
we did.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
We were at the stadium Hodel And so when they
interviewed me, I go, they go, well, how do you
think he did? And I said, well, I think I
felt like I held my own I think I got
his respect of nothing else.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And then they interviewed him and he goes kind.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I just felt so sorry for it.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Was just great and.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
That was arena football. Imagine what an NFL player real football.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, so when whenever someone in your living room and
they're watching the game goes, I could I could just
go shut up and don't even just don't even talk.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now, Uh, you want a bonehead?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
A week with a bonehead.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
There you go, United Pilot there at O'Hare a couple
of weeks ago. He got everything ready to go there
backing out and he gave me his coffee and he
spills it and they had to pull in and it's
a two hour delay while they dried off the instrument board.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
This is like us in radio, like you can't you
don't have drinks in the studio, rights like that. Why
are we allowing coffee in the cockpit. I understand we
want him to stay awake and be alert, but it
feels like there's a lot of risk there especial.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, we spilled one years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He filled one and the engineer came in and he's like,
he's pulled the board.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I didn't even know.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
That thing would come up and there's all those circuits
and crap, you know. And he goes, well, I think
it's because it's been too dry, and I go, I.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Don't think he's going to too dry.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
He already looked at me like, shut up, trouble. I
think it's because it's too dry, and he's because he
spilled the whole thing of golf. Uh. Here's a kid,
seventeen year old kid in Ontario, Canada. He was in
high school and he lost his wallet fifty one years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He's sixty seven now.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
They were remodeling the school found his wallet still had
his license and everything in it.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So I was about to say, it makes me wonder
what like if it had his, you know, a school
ID card.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Or had all that.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He had a driver's license too at seventeen, and they
said he was fifty one years ago. He was the
same age as me. A bicentennial graduate. I graduated in
seventy six. What a year did you graduate high school?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That would have been two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh Christ, I'm oldest Christ. That's just I wish I
hadn't even let's just stop question answer. Yeah, okay, thanks
for listening everybody. I'm gonna sure if.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
They ever remodel my old high school, I guarantee you
they'd find three of my wallet I lost.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I lost, Oh god, yeah I was.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I went to Odessa High I was in poor part
Odessa and uh and it was Bronco. B Bronco was
spelled with c h O Bronco. They misspelled the name
of the animal on the school you knew going in.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
This isn't gonna be good.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So go Broncos. Yeah, we're gonna have to. We gotta
get out of here. That just depressed the hell out
of me. Nobody wants to hear me depressed on how
old I am?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
All Right, that's.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Sabama Brown experience on the iron Heart Podcast Network.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Thank you,
Well, hi, everybody, Bama Brown with you in the Bama Brown experience.
I heard podcast network along with the Big Cat Puma
in the Sports Cave.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
But you guys are rocking it now. Your partner got
hired by the Spurs, right is it? By correcting now.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, you are. Indeed you might. You might catch him,
although he's not going to be in front of a camera.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
He is.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
He is the DJLG, the guy who produces my show.
He is the best person I've ever met at producing.
So he he got hired by the Spurs actually to
be a cameraman.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So you might still do it. Y'all are still doing
your shows and some live shows?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Oh absolutely, Yeah, we're moving the schedule around a little
bit because of football season. Now, don't want to go up.
I want to watch Monday night football each week. So
uh still anywhere everywhere you get your podcasts, just search
for the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma and then of
course the live shows there on YouTube at Sports Cave Live.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I will make you this valve now because I love you.
I will never be hired by a pro team.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I will always be here for you.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm not going for commitment.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm gonna if they call it the Spurs call, that's
say no spurs, big cat in me.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's I'm loyal, you know I'm not just.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Cowboys asked you, Hey, look we really need a general manager,
uh and we think you're the right man for the job.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I would.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I would let you go take the Cowboys GM job,
just because that would mean it would get rid of Jerry.
I don't know how much better you would be, but
at least.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It wouldn't be Jerry Jones. Years and years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
When I was on case one on one before Kavett
uh I interviewed Jerry and Chan Gaily when Chan was
to coach god and and uh So I asked Chan.
I said, Chan, I still feel like, you know, I
got some football emmy. I think I could do it.
I'd like to try out. And he goes, well, Bama,
it's a it's a pretty tough program up there. And
(01:55):
I go, gallay, Chan, that sounds like you're really telling me, know,
I not even get a tryout. He goes, I'm doing
it as politely as I know how to still do
the interview.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I would. I would listen to it like Chang Gaily
not so much, not that great of a head coach,
but I would listen to you and change because Chang
Gaily is also backwoods country.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He was fun.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
He was a fun interview the country childhood stories because
I'm sure a lot of them probably similar.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He and I hit it off really well. And then
uh and like standing there, then we got Jerry not
as fun an interview.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And then I got Jerry to do a promo and
it was Case one on one, you know, the number
one station in Austin.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And I said, Jerry, can you just read this?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And he goes, hey, you're listening to you know, Bama
Robin Heather on KESO one oh one. I said, I said,
could you say Case one on one? And he goes,
now turn. So we ran it like that forever. Just
says Jerry Jones on Case one.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Look it's even better. I would argue, you not the
true Jerry.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I got to Jerry and I was happy with that
and so uh but chan I never.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Got to try out.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I did try out for the uh god like what
was our semipro we had here the arena team.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I tried out. Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I did a deal on Fox with one of their
I can't think of there with the Wrangler. No, was
it been the Wrangler anyway, It was the arena team
that was here. I can't even remember who was. I
think it's the Wranglers.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I think it's the and so on Fox seven on
their sports deal, I had one of their linemen. Uh,
he tried, you know, he's throwing the ball to me,
and I kept fumbling his stuff and so you know,
and he fired out on me and just kept knocking
knocking my ass off and so.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Uh but I was a full uniform everything. I mean,
we did.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
We were at the stadium Hodel And so when they
interviewed me, I go, they go, well, how do you
think he did? And I said, well, I think I
felt like I held my own I think I got
his respect of nothing else.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And then they interviewed him and he goes kind.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I just felt so sorry for it.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Was just great and.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
That was arena football. Imagine what an NFL player real football.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, so when whenever someone in your living room and
they're watching the game goes, I could I could just
go shut up and don't even just don't even talk.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now, Uh, you want a bonehead?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
A week with a bonehead.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
There you go, United Pilot there at O'Hare a couple
of weeks ago. He got everything ready to go there
backing out and he gave me his coffee and he
spills it and they had to pull in and it's
a two hour delay while they dried off the instrument board.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
This is like us in radio, like you can't you
don't have drinks in the studio, rights like that. Why
are we allowing coffee in the cockpit. I understand we
want him to stay awake and be alert, but it
feels like there's a lot of risk there especial.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, we spilled one years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He filled one and the engineer came in and he's like,
he's pulled the board.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I didn't even know.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
That thing would come up and there's all those circuits
and crap, you know. And he goes, well, I think
it's because it's been too dry, and I go, I.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Don't think he's going to too dry.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
He already looked at me like, shut up, trouble. I
think it's because it's too dry, and he's because he
spilled the whole thing of golf. Uh. Here's a kid,
seventeen year old kid in Ontario, Canada. He was in
high school and he lost his wallet fifty one years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He's sixty seven now.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
They were remodeling the school found his wallet still had
his license and everything in it.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So I was about to say, it makes me wonder
what like if it had his, you know, a school
ID card.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Or had all that.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
He had a driver's license too at seventeen, and they
said he was fifty one years ago. He was the
same age as me. A bicentennial graduate. I graduated in
seventy six. What a year did you graduate high school?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That would have been two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh Christ, I'm oldest Christ. That's just I wish I
hadn't even let's just stop question answer. Yeah, okay, thanks
for listening everybody. I'm gonna sure if.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
They ever remodel my old high school, I guarantee you
they'd find three of my wallet I lost.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I lost, Oh god, yeah I was.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I went to Odessa High I was in poor part
Odessa and uh and it was Bronco. B Bronco was
spelled with c h O Bronco. They misspelled the name
of the animal on the school you knew going in.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
This isn't gonna be good.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So go Broncos. Yeah, we're gonna have to. We gotta
get out of here. That just depressed the hell out
of me. Nobody wants to hear me depressed on how
old I am?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
All Right, that's.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Sabama Brown experience on the iron Heart Podcast Network.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Thank you,
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