Stripe Hype Friday w/ the Bengals

Team reporter Marissa Contipelli joins Tiff in the AM to talk about Striping the Jungle Sunday! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're waking up in the morning. Kiss, let us good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Fun facts about me. My favorite time to watch a
Bengals game is at four to twenty five and they'll
be home ready to go. We're striping the Jungle this week.
It's stripe Pipe Friday with my gal, Marissa Contipelli, who's
a team reporter and producer for the Bengals. At four
to twenty five. Do you agree best time or not? Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Absolutely, tiss. Not only just as a football fan getting
to watch the early games and then having a chance
to watch your team and the four twenty five window,
but I mean, come on, we get that extra time
to tailgate and get all the hype going for an
early afternoon game. It's by far one of the most
premiere time slots.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, you know me, that door Cup is going to
be overflow with it on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I love to hear it and I love so much
that we were back in the jungle. We have to
start first three of the four on the road tips,
so the fact that we're finally back home, it's going
to be nice October. Well, they're striping the Jungle. This
is one of my favorite games that the team has
decided to bring on over the course of the years
to start the Jungle. Some sections were orange, some sections

(01:07):
were black. If you're coming out of the game and
you don't know what to wear, we have our maps
on our social media channels along with Bengals dot com,
so make sure you check that out before getting to
take course stadium because you want to be wearing the
right color in your section.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, and I'm assuming a woman had to put this
together because I can't see a group of men being like, Okay,
this section is orange and this section is black and
that one's orange.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
It was definitely a steam effort that created this a
couple of years ago. And then another fun fact since
it's inception, the Bengals are undefeated when we start the Jungle.
I love that stat. Going into Sunday too, we also
tip have our crucial catch game on Sunday, so very
special the Bengals. At halftime, we will be bringing out
a very large ballasis in partnership with Tottering Health and

(01:54):
they bring out cancer survivors at halftime and they get
a chance to ring the bell because they're in and
are going through the fight. It's always just an incredibly
emotional time when that happens at halftime, and the last
couple of years they've actually been bringing in a child
survivor to ring the bell last. So should be some

(02:15):
tears supploring a pay course stadium, but it's just the
incredible work that the NFL has done during Crucial Catch over.
Since its inception, they've helped to raise over thirty five
million dollars to the fight to providing support and resources,
and it's affected over one point nine million people in
its time.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
You know, Marissa, when you're on the field, don't the
players usually wear pink at some point during the month
of October? Do We still do that with the NFL.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
So that's as part of our Crucial Catch initiative, and
it's gone beyond just breast cancer awareness, so they really
try to be inclusion with all the different fights that
everyone is enduring. So you'll see some pink, you'll also
see purple and some blue to help raise awareness for
those other you know, different types of cancers, and you know,

(03:07):
different types of illnesses that loved ones that may be
you know, enduring or just how cancer has affected each
you know, individual player and coach, family member, fan throughout
the you know, throughout their course of you know, their.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Time you have to use when you're watching on Sunday,
whether you're inside or outside of pay Corps, you'll have
to notice the player's shoes and what colors they're wearing.
Thanks for that inside tip. You get all the good
stuff being on the field every Sunday. Well, Marissa Contapelli,
thank you for joining the show. I appreciate you. Of
course I would be. It wouldn't be a tailor day
if I didn't ask you. Have you spent any time

(03:42):
with the life of a showgirl? Or are you just
buried underneath the turf at pay Corps right now?

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I hate to stamm a little buried under that turf
coming off of our Monday night game. It was a
little bit of a short week. So at some point
this weekend I will get it to listening to some
of the tracks and I can't kind of wait to
see what she's done with the latest album.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Thank you, Mike Gal. I appreciate you.