Tiff Pulls the Sword at the FCC Match !

What an honor! Learn about the process  and the behind the scenes. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're waking up with tips in the morning on kiss one.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
What a thrill high, Happy Monday.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You and I haven't had a chance to debrief pulling
the sword at Saturday's FCC match. What an honor, truly
to stand in front of the bailey for a time
honored tradition since it's their ten year anniversary and be
able to pull that sword was the coolest experience. And
I'm forever grateful. If you didn't know, pulling the sword

(00:29):
is kind of like throwing out the first pitch at
a red schame. FCC does it every match and they
choose someone they were celebrating Women's History Month, and I
was honored to be selected, and Tiff in the Morning
and iHeartRadio selected to pull the sword that match, and.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
It was so cool.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
So if you're a visual person, there's a reel that
breaks down, like the behind the scenes and the dress rehearsal,
because this is a whole thing, and I'll walk you
through the dress rehearsal a little bit here in hot second.
And then there's one thing in my story the tif
to F's potter like the Wizard, and that one thing
is giving vikings of Valhalla.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
If you've watched it on Netflix.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm still working on putting together the whole reel and
the whole breakdown and the video, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
But that's what I have for you this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
So if you're a visual person in tandem with listening
to the story, you can go and watch it as well.
So they had asked a couple of weeks ago and
I was like absolutely, So Saturday morning, around eleven thirty,
I went to the stadium and there's a full blown
dress rehearsal because.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
You not only have to.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Match up with timing cues on the video board, the
big JumboTron behind the bailey, there's the fireworks behind you,
and at the same time you're in front of twenty
thousand plus people.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
There were twenty three thousand people.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
By the way, I sell out at TQL is twenty
five thousand and five to one to three, so there's
a lot happening.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
So they let you come ahead of time.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
The one thing you need to know about that sword
is that it is legitimate. That is a real life
sword sharpened. But if we were to go to battle,
you get behind your girl.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
She's ready.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
It's giving eight hundred a d it's giving after death,
it's giving Viking, it's giving everything. So that thing's real
and you have to practice pulling it out of the
stone to time up with the board and the fireworks,
because one it's like twenty pounds, and two there's just
a lot happening. So I went early enough to kind

(02:27):
of get everything practice. At one point I was practicing like,
when you wield the sword, do you go like left right, left, right,
like do you go into the sky. You know, if
you've gone to a game, especially if you've sat in
the bailey, you already know that whoever pulls the sword
usually goes along with the chant that the bailey does,
which is f C C right. And then at one
point I was like stabbing it forward as I was

(02:48):
practicing and shout out to Corey.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
He was so kind, he's the person that helps.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
He was like, I don't know if I would go
like at the crowd, because I don't want you to
like stab the crowd.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Got it.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Oh, it's a thrill of a lifetime to stand on
the pitch and be able to walk out into the grass.
And by the way, they are so like meticulous about
the pitch. You can never walk onto the grass, and
so I just that in general, like I'm one of
a few people to even just walk onto the grass
and that, let me tell you, that's magical grass. If

(03:23):
I had a lot Jeff's kiss, I'd go with that one.
So overall, the experience was so cool. I had me
thinking though, like men used to go to war with swords,
and I used to giggle at the people that would
larp in Eden Park near my neighborhood, and or Boston
Common where I went to school. And now I wish
I had spent more time LARPing so that I had more,

(03:45):
you know, knowledge on how to really wield a sword,
cause you know, you walk out there and Prime is
playing the song and you get the sword, and.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
You're like, here we go. Like I said, it's giving
Viking of Valhall up. All right.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
I appreciate you stopping by at the tip to S's
potter like the Wizard.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
In the meantime, we're commercial free