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welcome back to another episode of the Tailgate. It's Colts Week.
We need a victory, a big week for the Minnesota Vikings.
Joining me on this week's show is lifelong die hard
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Colts fan Megan Gaily. Incredible comedian, incredible writers. She's written
for the SP's her podcast with Rachel Bonetta and Sarah
Tiana called Sports Bitches. It is fantastic. You have to
check out our TikTok at Better Gaily. She is absolutely fantastic.
You can get her posts her upcoming tour dates. She folks.
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She is a full on lunatic for her favorite teams,
much like me. So this was a fun episode and
I hope you guys like it. Recket recket. I'm here. Hey, everybody,
(01:31):
Welcome into the Vikings Tailgate, brought to you by Ticketmaster,
the official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings. I'm your host,
Si Amenson and joining us today to discuss Colts Vikings
die hard lifelong Colts fan and somebody who I can
already sense her I need to speak about Joe Flacco,
(01:55):
Anthony Richardson Energy, the Great Megan Gaily. Thank you for
hanging out.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Meghan, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You know, I had really high hopes. We both have
young children, and I had really high hopes. I was
gonna wake up, shower, put on makeup, do my hair,
and then I said that would just be so uncults
fan of me. So you are getting like fresh out
of bed. I think I brushed my teeth. Colts had
on very hoosier.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, that's well. And I have a wife who is
from Indiana, so I very much understand the very hoosier vibe,
as her entire family exists inside of it. So I
appreciate you coming authentically. I am obsessed with Joe Flacco's existence, Okay,
because I have a one of my best friends is
a lifelong Browns fan and went through that mayhem last year.
(02:47):
I don't understand if he can still throw the football
like this, why he is a mid season fourth option
for struggling teams. How do you feel walking away from
a draft pick towards one hundred year old Joe Flacco
who can still throw the ball ninety yards?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So I will start by saying, I love Joe Flacco.
I think Joe Flacco is like a hunk. Like I
saw him in a post game and I was like, wait,
is he hot? Like I think he is a great quarterback.
He seems like a lovely man. I think it's absolutely insane.
The Colts were the only team to offer him a
contract in the off season. Unfortunately, Joe Flacco is now
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the fourth version of this experiment the Colts have done.
We did it with Philip Rivers. We did it with
Carson Wentz, we did it with Matt Ryan. All like
pretty serviceable to very good quarterbacks at some point, and
it has failed miserably, and so to be repeating it
now feels absolutely insane to myself and I think a
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large portion of the Colts fan base.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I always like talking to fans of the few fan bases,
the few teams that I don't despise you know how
you build up that animosity for eighty ninety percent of
the league and you're like, well, I guess I just
don't hate the Colts for any reason whatsoever. Yeah, you do,
you guys find yourselves? Like you mentioned the Philip Rivers thing,
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which I thought that was gonna go way better than
it did. I really did. Yeah, but you feel like
you just never escaped the post Andrew Luck Hayes. And
you can't because right after it there was that vibe
where it felt like you put a good quarterback in here.
This defense is so good, and you've just kind of,
you know, never gone too low or too high. Since then?
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Do you just feel like you're trapped in no man's land?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
We are in a purgatory since Andrew Luck retired. I
am of like the very small minority of Colts fans
that is like happy for Andrew Luck.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I do not blame him. I would not have booed him.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I actually think the fans who booed him put a
curse on on us that we have still yet to
break love it.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I mean, I don't want you guys to struggle, but
anything with a curse, I'm interested in.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
No, I think I there are my own family members who,
like yesterday when when Richardson was benched, I was irate,
like as upset. It was probably the most upset I'd
been since Luck retiring. And I knew I couldn't even
text my brother and my dad because we were just
not in the same camp. Sure, And so I was
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just like, well, now I just have to like go
to Twitter. Like my husband was like, hey, I see
you're posting whole threads about the benching of Anthony Richardson,
and I'm out of town and I just need to
know that you and our son are says, And I'm like,
we'll see.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Do you here's a question, because we are a long
suffering no quarterback. I mean we had Fran, but Fran
Tarkentin is so removed from any like yeah, you have
to be my dad or older to be like I remember.
But so there's this desperate gravitation towards anyone who you
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believe can be the guy from a franchise Hall of
Fame standpoint, And that's hard. Do you think it is
somehow harder to have had one of them, one of
the like one of the five to ten guys, know,
what that looks like only have won one title, which
is still amazing, but like, only have gotten one and
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now you almost know what you're missing out.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
On, Yes, and having Peyton and then going directly to Luck. Yes,
it almost you know that's you're being blessed in a
way that franchises are just not. And I think we
lost Luck because we did not know how good we
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had it and the reason. And I think Luck has
been much more open.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
There was that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Really long piece last year that I bored over every
word like it was a true Detective season finale, and
you know, people walk away from different things in their
life for many different reasons, but like it is, it
is hard to not look at how blessed this franchise
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has been with like Luck, no pun intended of We
almost drafted Ryan Leaf, who I've met and as a
lovely man, and I was like, oh my god, I'm
a Colts fan and he was like okay. So it's
like we we lucked out by even knowing that we
should take Peyton Manning.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That was like a huge controversy. So it is I
also have to wonder too.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I find sports fans to be very impatient and dumb
and I'm at the top of that too.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I'm the most I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, And I think Walts fans have been spoiled and
whether we believe it or not, and it's been like
nine years of not being spoiled.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But it we look back.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And we go, well, we were thirteen and three every
year and we went to the AFG Championship every year,
and it's like, yeah, we were really, really lucky. And
then you look at other franchises and you're like, they've
never even sniffed the playoffs. So I think it put
a lot of pressure on Anthony Richardson to be good
right now. And it's like Peyton went three and thirteen
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his rookie season, Like we're having revisionist history on what
it takes to build a franchise quarterback, and you see it.
I think it's an epidemic across the league. You look
at all these guys that were drafted in the last
three years and they're all benched right now, and I
don't think that that is all of their fall.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, And then you look at what else has happened
in the league, which is these the renaissance aspect for
different quarterbacks careers where you have Sam Darnold here in Minnesota,
you have Gino out in Seattle, you have Baker down
in Tampa. So and that's kind the other side of
proving your point is what happens when some of those
guys get good chances in healthy situations, good second chances.
(09:08):
Yeah and yeah, I you know, I can't imagine. C J.
Stroud's success makes it. It's funny because you could easily
go like, hey, it's really hard to be a young quarterback.
Look at what's happening with Bryce, you know, but everybody
he just goes, oh, c J. Stroud is immediately amazing,
and then Jaydeen Daniels is playing well. It's it's one.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Those are both with organizations that you don't necessarily think of,
Like the Commanders are a joke, not anymore. But until
Dan Snyder sold them like, it was like they could
not they had to change their name. They're like the
whole city of Washington was like, why don't we have
this team like it? And the Texans are an expansion
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team that got their ass kicked all the time and
they've been able to go in those systems and flourish.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I had really liked Anthony Richardson coming out. I think
the question is, then you know, if you take if
you set the angst aside about Anthony Richardson, which I
would also have if I was a Colts fan. Uh,
but you're in the immediate moment here that division hasn't
proven to be so incredible and THEFC isn't so runaway
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with top heavy teams that you still have to be
competing where you're at right now? Do you think you
get the Joe Flacco bump? Do you think, regardless of
the frustrations, do you see a high level Joe Flacco
where all the coaches are like, yes, we needed to
be able to actually run this play and he can
run it.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I don't, And maybe that's just me like really not
being able to see the forest through the trees because
I'm so upset. And I really found Richardson's like running
to be so dynamic and to just.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Open up the playbook to be like.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
We can do anything. We have a linebacker at quarterback,
and yeah he was he was missing passes, but like
I was even listening to Brian Florit's talk about Richardson yesterday,
and it's like, this is this defensive coordinator on the
team we were about to play, and he seemed like
he did not want to have to prepare for him.
And I think Flacco is like obviously a good quarterback,
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but I think it actually limits and I think Richardson
in the same way that like Robert sala Is, it's
like you end up having these sort of scapegoats when
things aren't going the right way, and when you remove
the scapegoats, you kind of start to see, oh, maybe
there's other issues.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And I think for the Colts the.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Other issues are play calling and and just sort of
us not necessarily having a standout, knockdown number one receiver.
I think Pittman is great. You look at Pittman and
Justin Jefferson, obviously he's the class of the league, and
it's like, well, they're even close to each other. So
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I think there's gonna be some other things that fall
under the microscope. And if there are these drop balls, again,
it's going to be a lot more obvious when you
have a former Super Bowl winner throwing them to you, guy.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Who has a little bit more of the arm talent
at this point and his wife unfortunately, as someone who
also have it like has it, I can read the
energy off you. You are an insane person, Megan, and
I love it. I just absolutely love it. Before the show,
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so everybody who's everybody who listens to the show, We've
had a lot of great comedians and actors on here,
and they know, like, before the show, we talk a
little bit before we get in, and you were telling
me some of the things about you being a Colts fan,
and you know, I was like, oh, we are very
similar in our insanity. And then I just watched you
exist in this first fifteen minute and I was like,
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we shouldn't even be. We can't. We need to delete
cell phone numbers. This this is an unhealthy.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm sorry, No, it really is, like I and I
wish that I wasn't like this.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
It's impossible not to be. It's impossible not to be.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Even so, I was in Indianapolis this past weekend and
I went to a bar afterwards to watch the end
of the Dodgers game. I've only been a Dodgers fan
for nine years, like I cause I didn't grow up
with a baseball team and do no want anyone to
come after me. And when they won, I had eight
of my closest friends there, four of my seven bridesmaids,
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some other girls I've known like a long time.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
They won.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I screamed and ran around so crazy that I got
back to the table. I put my head in my
hands and I said, gave myself an internal pep talk
that was, do not embarrass yourself in front of these
women you love, because I was like, I am, I'm
so insane.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
After that, that's when you give the pep talk.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
After that, after you yell at men you don't know,
get the out of here.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
But here's the thing. Was that the was that the
walk off grand Slam? Yes, okay here, I'm not even
I don't enjoy baseball because my local team has like
drilled it out of me as much as I like
loved Kirby Pucket growing up. Yeah, and want to be
a baseball fan. So I don't even like baseball. And
when I saw that clip on you know, social media somewhere,
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I'm just in my car. I don't even know who
the man who hit the home run was. I'm not
even nessus. I think they're playing the Yankees, is what
I thought in the moment. That's what I'm like, I
think this is against the Yankees. Yes, don't know what
game it is. And I was like, am I crying
in my car? Is that what's happening right now? So yeah,
I can recognize it and I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, And sports says that, and it's like, not only
do I know who that man is, I know his
mother passed away.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I know his three year.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Old son, who I like worship has been through a
terrible health crisis this year. Like it's like I'm invested
now as a mother and that is and like a
lot of my friends since I became a mom, wh'ere like,
I don't like talking sports with you anymore because my
talking has gone way down because now I see everyone
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as my son.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And so it's like when a guy drops the ball,
I'm like someone's baby.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Someone's baby is gonna go cry.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
No, And like I watched I cried it every single
episode of Hard Knocks this year. It's like I despise bears,
fans despise them, and I'm weeping because a man loves
his mother.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Like it just it does really ramp it up.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I I scheduled nine am ballet lessons for my son
and then we go games start at ten am out here,
so we have ballet then we go to breakfast so
I can miss the first half because I get.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
To Yeah, it's not good for my mental health.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
No, I think I think we need to. I think
we need to. I think we need to switch to
nine am. It's this funny thing like cause I'm it's
my first kid as well, where it's the thing that
you hear people say because they can't elocute it right
where they go like, we're not sawing my son. I
just understood a different love and you're like, and then
you learn and you it sounds so stupid, and I
(16:17):
inarguably that description of it is. But it's it's biology, right,
It's science. It literally changes the chemistry of your brain,
so you just receive information differently. And I do that
same thing too, where I was like when somebody like
I had that thought during that home run, I was like,
I bet his dad is just living good right now?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
It really does. I do think it like changes sports
for you.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, it's the absolute best part of it. But here's
as I've now. I was like, I told everybody, I
think you're insane like me, and then you were like, oh, yeah,
watch this and let's talk about our children. But you yeah,
So just to explain to people why I said that
you are the sort of Colts fan who you scheduled. Well,
(17:02):
I'm not even gonna say it because I no one
would believe me. So you say the thing out loud.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Okay. So I was getting married.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I did get engaged in front of the mural of
Reggie Miller that is in Indianapolis. That is where my
husband decided to not even get down on one knee
because he has bad knees from playing football, so he
crouched he did the Trevor laurn snow knee down in
front of Reggie Miller. And then as we were planning
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our wedding, I looked at the Colts schedule and said,
when should I have my bridal shower in Indianapolis? I
wanted to coincide with like a good game. And then
I realized that Dwight Freene's jersey was being retired, and
Dwight Freennie is my number one favorite Cults player of
all time, and so I scheduled my bridal shower for
my mother in law to come in, all my friends
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to come in from out of town the day before
Dwight Freenie's jersey retirement, so then I could go to
the game the next day.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And they lost, and I'm still upset about it.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And then tell me you for those people who are
listening not watching. So you have up behind you on
the left hand on your wall, Yeah, you have a
road sign. Tell me about that.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
This is the exact mileage from where I had my
baby shower to Lucas Oil Stadium. So it's two thousand miles,
two thousand and sixty miles. And that is the exact
mileage from yeah, the venue to Lucas Oil.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I want to tell you, and I say this with
so much love because I have no less than five
things that are this exact thing. That is such a
stupid thing. It is such a dumb combination of like
when you're like, my irrational love for the creature that
I am birthing or gonna or I'm raising combined with
(18:55):
my irrational love where you're like, wouldn't it be neat
if I you know how they did like this? What's that? Stupid? Uh?
What's it? Waldrug? You remember that place in U Yeah,
during the Vietnam War, there's that picture of like ten
thousand miles the Waal drug and your brain was like,
I need that, but my baby and the colts and
I have exactly so many do my son when he
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started learning to draw on stuff, the first two crayons
he used were purple and gold, and I was like, vikings.
I didn't even let him finish. I took it from
him because I saw him going for a third color.
I was like, this is all you meant. No, this
is your you, this was your art and I will
frame it and that will be everything to us as
a dad and son duo.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Does he go to daycare yet.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
We're making the insane choice to put him in. Uh
what's the place where all their toys are?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Just like wooden monasury.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna. We're gonna take on the
challenge of Montossori School with my mania.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Okay, I very modern of you.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Sure, my son goes to daycare and he has little
friends and sometimes they will send pictures of them doing
stuff and so Conrad that's his name.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You can please look him up. Please please perceive the caution.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
He wears tons of He wears Anthony Richardson jersey every Friday.
He also has an Edrind James jersey and then he
has tons of Lakers gear, like he just has a
lot of stuff. So they sent a picture one Friday
Conrad was in his Richardson Colts, Jersey, and then he
was sitting seated next to one of his best friends,
who I did not know up until that point had
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parents that were obviously Steelers fans. And I screen shot
at it, screens shot at it, sent it to my
husband and my entire family and said, look who Conrad's
never playing with ever again. And I don't look at
that kid the same, Like I'm like, I know that
you're a sweet boy, but I don't know what's going
on in that house. So we'll be keeping a wide
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berth from you.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
And I think as somebody who whose closest rival is
the Green Bay Packers, whose fans, yeah, at best can't
be trusted with general transportation, or an ability to make
a meal for a large group of people, and any
of the basic tasks that you'd want logistical help with,
I can understand. We have we have somebody in our
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neighborhood who drives by and like I don't know if
they are parked somewhere like just waiting, like oh, like
there's a walkie talkie system, like a guy behind the tree,
like he's outside. He's outside again. Yeah, he must drive
by my house three times a day, and without fail,
I will be outside and he will shout go Pat
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go and give me the finger every single time. And
it's so funny, it's so good. Man. I do I
do know him. I do know the man. Now here's
the thing. I'm not like, let's hang.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Out, okay, but when no, But but when.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I see him at the playground with his kid, I
say hello, and then he tells me about how you
know the Packers are the divine choice for a football team,
and you know all the insane stuff you remember earlier
when you were like, we were so lucky to get
to Yeah, if only we could send that, like just
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take a breeze of that up to Wisconsin. We're like, well,
I actually believe we were chosen right, right, right right,
the team that hosts these great quarterbacks. It's more the
spirit of Green Bay. You know.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
My mom will do a flip thing with the neighbors
they live. My parents live right next door to a
former Colts I want to say, legend. He was important
to me, very fun who no longer plays. My mom
texts me a lot. She wants to talk to me
all the time, and I am a very responsive daughter,
so I will like sometimes miss some text messages. And
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then what she'll do is she will say the name
of the Colts player and go, oh, I gotta tell
you a funny story about fill in the blank name
of the Colts player, and she knows immediately I will
call her.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Get you're gonna be on the phone. Really, that's really
good a parental manipulation. Also, it really is. My parents
can't move next to a former Minnesota sports legend. That's
an unhealthy dynamic for me. There's no way I'm handling that. Well,
no way, I'm I'm now, I'm the version of the
guy in the truck. I'm just in my driveway allway, Like, Oh,
(23:27):
are you outside right now too? Can I ask you
some questions?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
So I luckily live very far away from Indianapolis, so
I can't be out there all the time.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So my mom is a nurse. They have three young kids.
They're very close.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
My parents go to all of their kids like soccer games,
like they are close. My dad is not allowed to
have his phone number like my mom has his phone number.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And I, and he slips. Sometimes he goes, hey, I need.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
To text so and so about the acorns in the yard,
and she's like, I'll text him, like I have seen
him try and wiggle it out of her and she's like,
you are not legally allowed to have this man's phone number.
So it's like my dad sometimes will just be like
I can see him just like standing on the porch
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like anybody else side.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, that's that's the greatest. That is probably that is
probably the greatest way that could play out, as long
as he doesn't cross the extra line or two.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
No, they have a big fence.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
A big fence, I would imagine, So I would imagine,
so you'd be like, excuse me, could you build this
fence tall enough so that a tall man standing on
a tall deck can't see over it? That's the sort
of fence I need. Uh. I want to I want
to ask you one or two questions about the game
this week. But I first want to ask you, because
it was such a weird time with the you know,
(24:53):
the weird coach, you had, everything that was going on,
how did you experience the greatest come back in NFL history?
Because I want to tell you the Vikings did a
very nice thing for my family. So I have a big,
weird family. So I have an adult nephew who's almost
my age, and then he has a son who just
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a few years old but obsessed with the Vikings at
this time. So my nephews and my brother in law
John and the little boy, Tyson, went to the game.
And Ben Leeber, who's a Vikings legend, was nice enough.
He came over and he gave my nephew Seth's son, Tyson,
a Vikings jersey.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
And if you want to talk about, like just that
alone for a little kid is such a cool But
it's his first ever game and they're getting slaughtered, and
I'm sitting I'm not there, and I'm thinking, well, at
least he got this cool moment. And then it turns
out that this kid's first ever game in the history
of his life like the greatest comeback in NFL history,
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So that that game was such a fun moment, even
more than it was like as a you know, a
fan of the team moment. How did how did your
brain receive that meltdown?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Let's call it honestly, and I will be bringing this
up in therapy. You like mentioning it. I'm like, I
don't know what you're talking about. And then as you
were talking, I was like, oh yeah, like I it
was like a suppressed memory, like if I I it
was like a trauma that I blocked out that Now
(26:38):
I am like meeting with like a trauma psychologist to
try and get it out of me. And I'm like,
this is this has to be witness tampering.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
This is messed up.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I actually like the Vikings. I find the A.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I find the NFC North to be like a really
fascinating sort of microcosm of football. So when it was
when Jeff Saturday was the coach, that's just the time
that you go, you know, maybe rich men aren't smart,
and there's other times like that, but when you have
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an owner like Jim Mersey, you really you hang on
and you hope for the best because you are on
a wild ride. You really are beholden to kind of
the absolutely insane whims of a person who you don't
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know what they're gonna do next. And so I think
we I went to the first Jeff Saturday coach game.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It was in Vegas, and the Colts won.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
They beat the Raiders, and we were like maybe this
is maybe this works, you know, like it really was like,
oh my god, this was so fun. I saw Reggie
Wayne the night before and I was just drunk enough
that I went up to him and I said, they
should have made you coach, which they should have because
he was actually on staff already, and he goes out
of my hands, you know. So I was like I
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was putting in work on the ground too to try
and make sure this all worked out. And then that game,
that Minnesota game, it really I think drove home like
you do need an actual coach. You can't And like
I still listen to Jeff Saturday. I love PTI. He's
on PTI almost.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Every week, so good.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I think a lovely man, super kind took that on
the chin pretty much like a champ.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
But it was just like, yeah, you need you need
a coach. It can't.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
It was probably a good lesson for like all sports
fans to be like, you can't just like have a
guy who's good at something JJ Reddick and then just
put them in there and like cross your fingers, like
you kind of need somewhat of a pedigree to be able.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
To do this.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
You said The thing that I thought was most interesting
about the whole Saturday thing is he tried it, he
failed at it, he went, well, I failed at it,
owned it, and then just went back to the other
thing he was good at. I thought it was so
interesting to not see him try to what I think
people in every walk of life are so quick to do,
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which is push the blame anywhere but themselves or even
part of it. Yeah, I thought that was really really interesting, dude,
Jim Hear say, because I, like I said, Jenna's family,
my wife's family is there. Owning a sports team is
also owning a business and winning and bus like, it's
a very complex thing. And when you get the best owners,
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you get the ones who set winning right next to
the business aspect of it and believe they go hand
in hand. And you know, we've seen unending amount of
organizations that have owners who don't really value the winning.
And the thing that's interesting about Ears say, because you're right,
he's very open about his demons. He's very odd. If
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no one's ever gone and read about the weird guitar
museum he has, which is incredible, So you're like, it's like, oh,
this is your baby over here you have all these
insane guitars. But I do think he's a guy who
whatever the path to it and if he can get
there is another conversation. I do think he seems like
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he really wants to win a super Bowl. Is that accurate?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I think sometimes it like maybe blinds him a little
bit too. And I do think that the paytent era
wasn't more successful in terms of super Bowls is still
upsetting to him. And I also I think he's like
a good person as far as billionaires go. The Colts
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I do want quality guys to bring into the community,
and I think that's like ursay caring about Indianapolis as
a small town to be like, these guys are going
to be like shoulder to shoulder at the grocery store
with everybody, Like we want to make sure that they
are good guys and that they feel supported by the community.
He does a lot for like mental health. He talks
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a lot about addiction, like he very is front facing
in a way that I think he is trying to
better the community.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
But he does really want to win.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I mean, the Colts have now lost the season opener
ten years in a row, and I don't know that
and hold we hold the record. We hold the record,
and it is devastating to him.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
He hates it. And the guys that are here now
they're new guys.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
It's like that that transcends like three different coaching staffs,
like a lot of different personnel changes, and it's just
like a hill we cannot get over, and it I
think eats at him.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
That's, yeah, you almost have no place. I mean, the
fans take that a certain way, but he's probably he's
probably the only one that's been around for all of
those losses, So yeah, how do you not take that
in a ridiculously hard way. So if you're coming into
this game this weekend, which this is a really big
spot for the Vikings, I thought that Rams game, there's
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this Zach Martinez does this show, and he's infuriating because
he's right a lot. He said, you know, teams that
come off playing the Lions really struggled the next week
and we had a short week a Thursday against the Rams.
Puka and Cooper come back. And if you go and
you get that wins the as the Vikings, you kind
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of walk out of there and you go, man, we
compete in that last one right at the ship and
we keep going. Now, you have put a unique amount
of pressure on this. This is a really big spot
for the Vikings. What do you worry about? From a
Colt's perspective, where do you where do you see this
thing going? And where is your big concern facing Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I think the Vikings are angry.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
They seem upset about the no call on the face mask.
So you never you never want to face a team
that's angry. They've had extra time, so there and I
and I also think it does not help the Cults
that they are the national number one story right now.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
That brings a lot of eyes, a lot of attention.
It's it's upheople too.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
It's like, well, we had Richardson and then we had Flacco,
Then we had Richardson, then we had Flacco. I think
our defense looked really good this past week and we
got to Forrest Buckner back Sire Franklin is at the
top or leading the league in tackles, and the Colts
defense really flies under the radar just because it's not
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a team that usually has this powerful defense. Kenny Moore
so CJ. Stroud struggled, he really and it was it
was mostly the offensive line, but it's like Divorce Buckner,
Big Grover Stewart. They can get to some guys and
they will be looking to rattle Darnold and and I'm
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you know, I think they can make an Okay offensive
line look bad. This rookie we have lot to lat to,
has like started kind of rough and then has like
for some fumbles, had some strip sacks like they I
am pretty impressed by them. And then I would have
to imagine I think Jonathan Taylor is.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Going to be back.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I I think that he they got. My hope as
a fan is they just feed him the ball and
then that that opens everything up. But like I I
just see Justin Jefferson like probably having two touchdowns. Like
I bet they'll put Kenny Moore on him, Kenny Moore
as a stud, but like Justin Jefferson is the best
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wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Like it's just it's hard.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, if it's anywhere near him, he's he's gonna get it.
So I could see them exploiting the secondary for sure.
I don't I don't know if it honestly feels like
a moral morale must win for both of them.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, Like yeah, especially with the flat. Yeah, they're both
in weird spots. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah, And it's like you guys are fighting probably for
a wild card, you know, for if we're being honest, just.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Because the Lions be honest.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
So go ahead, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Mean yes, you and the Colts and the Vikings are
all are both in the sense still in the hunt
to win their division. Sure, but like the Texans have
now beat us twice, have the tiebreaker over us, so
it's like unless something catastrophic happens there, like we are
fighting for a wildcard. The NFC is good, and like
there's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Of teams the Eagle coming. They're good.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I really wish we were not playing you this week.
And I'm sure there's some Vikings players that are like,
I don't need this old man quarterback coming in that
we kind of have limited tape on with this team.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I don't know, I am honestly.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
So it's it's in Minnesota because Taylor Swift is in
Indianapolis this weekend, and I think it's good the Colts
are not at home.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I think there would be booze. I think fans are upset.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I mean, the Vikings losing their all world left tackle
is a really big issue, especially against that started defensive line.
Would I'll be curious. I think Hockinson should be back?
What will be? They have ran seemingly as a guy
who admittedly knows nothing about how football is actually played,
they seem to have succeeded with such long developing plays
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throughout the season. The line has done such a good job,
and they've gotten some guys so far down the field.
I think with TJ. Hockinson back being a release valve
underneath and actually being able to get some separation, maybe
that some of the other tight ends can't. I will
be curious if they come out and you see them
early quick drop, quick throw slants, you know, check downs
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and marching down the field. I will get real confident,
real quick if if we are going to try to
hold up against I think you hit it on the
head your defensive line for longer developing plays. That worries
me because if when Jonathan Taylor plays for your football team,
they are just as much as everybody wants to devalue
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the running back position. We know it here. Whatever the
money is for these guys, when you take your superstar
guy who and this is the thing with Aaron Jones.
When Aaron Jones is out, it's not just that he
can run and catch. There is nobody, I don't think
in the league who picks up up the middle pass
protection like Aaron Jones. And so when these guys are out,
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you just almost don't even look like the same football team.
So I would like to get a lead. I would
not like, I don't want your running back and your
defensive line to control the tempo of the game or
that gets real scary, real quick in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Yeah, even hearing you describe like the short plays, I'm like, yeah,
you the cultural miss tackles, you know, mis Tackler two.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
I have two birthday parties this Sunday, two kids' birthday party,
so I may be yelling on my phone. Yeah, while
while a blippy impersonators there.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Well, thank you for doing this. I told you this
off air. I'm going to say it on air. I
love your podcast with you and Rachel and Sarah so
I was on her last year. You guys are fantastic. Everybody.
We will plug it at the beginning, we'll plug it
at the end. Please download Megan's show and thank you
so much. For doing this, and I hope you have
a wonderful season, not counting this coming week. Do you
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want to give a prediction or do you wanna Do
you want to stay away from that? I don't. Here's
the thing. I always make people give a prediction, but
your I don't feel like I want to put you
through those emotions, given what I recognizing you as a fan.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I want everyone to have a nice time and I
don't want anyone to get hurt. And I also will
say to the people of Minnesota. I went to the
Patriots Eagles Super Bowl there and I remember landing and
I'm from an Indian Indianapolis host to a Super Bowl,
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and you and the Vikings had lost the NFC championship, heartbreaking,
and I remember being like, I don't know that we
should even be going to these people's city. This feels inhumane.
And I landed and everyone was so kind, so lovely,
in a level of maturity that I myself would not
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be able to have. If I had volunteered for that
Super Bowl, I'd have been like, burn my name tag,
I'm not coming.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I hope it's a failure.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
I hope the stadium collapses like it would have not
been like, Hi, do you need any help with directions?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
I was shocked.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
I was like, Wow, Minnesota's are a good stock. So
I do wish you all well and always beat the Bears.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah, I think we can all agree on that that
nobody needs that team to succeed, No one.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Needs those fans. They've had enough.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
They've had enough.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
So yeah, I hope you guys make it into the playoffs.
I think you will well.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
I wish the best for you as well. Thank you,
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Welcome into the Vikings Tailgate, brought to you by Ticketmaster,
the official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings. I'm your host,
Si Amenson and joining us today to discuss Colts Vikings
die hard lifelong Colts fan and somebody who I can
already sense her I need to speak about Joe Flacco,
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Anthony Richardson Energy, the Great Megan Gaily. Thank you for
hanging out.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Meghan, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You know, I had really high hopes. We both have
young children, and I had really high hopes. I was
gonna wake up, shower, put on makeup, do my hair,
and then I said that would just be so uncults
fan of me. So you are getting like fresh out
of bed. I think I brushed my teeth. Colts had
on very hoosier.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, that's well. And I have a wife who is
from Indiana, so I very much understand the very hoosier vibe,
as her entire family exists inside of it. So I
appreciate you coming authentically. I am obsessed with Joe Flacco's existence, Okay,
because I have a one of my best friends is
a lifelong Browns fan and went through that mayhem last year.
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I don't understand if he can still throw the football
like this, why he is a mid season fourth option
for struggling teams. How do you feel walking away from
a draft pick towards one hundred year old Joe Flacco
who can still throw the ball ninety yards?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So I will start by saying, I love Joe Flacco.
I think Joe Flacco is like a hunk. Like I
saw him in a post game and I was like, wait,
is he hot? Like I think he is a great quarterback.
He seems like a lovely man. I think it's absolutely insane.
The Colts were the only team to offer him a
contract in the off season. Unfortunately, Joe Flacco is now
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the fourth version of this experiment the Colts have done.
We did it with Philip Rivers. We did it with
Carson Wentz, we did it with Matt Ryan. All like
pretty serviceable to very good quarterbacks at some point, and
it has failed miserably, and so to be repeating it
now feels absolutely insane to myself and I think a
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large portion of the Colts fan base.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I always like talking to fans of the few fan bases,
the few teams that I don't despise you know how
you build up that animosity for eighty ninety percent of
the league and you're like, well, I guess I just
don't hate the Colts for any reason whatsoever. Yeah, you do,
you guys find yourselves? Like you mentioned the Philip Rivers thing,
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which I thought that was gonna go way better than
it did. I really did. Yeah, but you feel like
you just never escaped the post Andrew Luck Hayes. And
you can't because right after it there was that vibe
where it felt like you put a good quarterback in here.
This defense is so good, and you've just kind of,
you know, never gone too low or too high. Since then?
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Do you just feel like you're trapped in no man's land?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
We are in a purgatory since Andrew Luck retired. I
am of like the very small minority of Colts fans
that is like happy for Andrew Luck.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I do not blame him. I would not have booed him.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I actually think the fans who booed him put a
curse on on us that we have still yet to
break love it.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I mean, I don't want you guys to struggle, but
anything with a curse, I'm interested in.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
No, I think I there are my own family members who,
like yesterday when when Richardson was benched, I was irate,
like as upset. It was probably the most upset I'd
been since Luck retiring. And I knew I couldn't even
text my brother and my dad because we were just
not in the same camp. Sure, And so I was
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just like, well, now I just have to like go
to Twitter. Like my husband was like, hey, I see
you're posting whole threads about the benching of Anthony Richardson,
and I'm out of town and I just need to
know that you and our son are says, And I'm like,
we'll see.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Do you here's a question, because we are a long
suffering no quarterback. I mean we had Fran, but Fran
Tarkentin is so removed from any like yeah, you have
to be my dad or older to be like I remember.
But so there's this desperate gravitation towards anyone who you
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believe can be the guy from a franchise Hall of
Fame standpoint, And that's hard. Do you think it is
somehow harder to have had one of them, one of
the like one of the five to ten guys, know,
what that looks like only have won one title, which
is still amazing, but like, only have gotten one and
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now you almost know what you're missing out.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
On, Yes, and having Peyton and then going directly to Luck. Yes,
it almost you know that's you're being blessed in a
way that franchises are just not. And I think we
lost Luck because we did not know how good we
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had it and the reason. And I think Luck has
been much more open.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
There was that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Really long piece last year that I bored over every
word like it was a true Detective season finale, and
you know, people walk away from different things in their
life for many different reasons, but like it is, it
is hard to not look at how blessed this franchise
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has been with like Luck, no pun intended of We
almost drafted Ryan Leaf, who I've met and as a
lovely man, and I was like, oh my god, I'm
a Colts fan and he was like okay. So it's
like we we lucked out by even knowing that we
should take Peyton Manning.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That was like a huge controversy. So it is I
also have to wonder too.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I find sports fans to be very impatient and dumb
and I'm at the top of that too.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I'm the most I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, And I think Walts fans have been spoiled and
whether we believe it or not, and it's been like
nine years of not being spoiled.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But it we look back.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And we go, well, we were thirteen and three every
year and we went to the AFG Championship every year,
and it's like, yeah, we were really, really lucky. And
then you look at other franchises and you're like, they've
never even sniffed the playoffs. So I think it put
a lot of pressure on Anthony Richardson to be good
right now. And it's like Peyton went three and thirteen
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his rookie season, Like we're having revisionist history on what
it takes to build a franchise quarterback, and you see it.
I think it's an epidemic across the league. You look
at all these guys that were drafted in the last
three years and they're all benched right now, and I
don't think that that is all of their fall.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, And then you look at what else has happened
in the league, which is these the renaissance aspect for
different quarterbacks careers where you have Sam Darnold here in Minnesota,
you have Gino out in Seattle, you have Baker down
in Tampa. So and that's kind the other side of
proving your point is what happens when some of those
guys get good chances in healthy situations, good second chances.
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Yeah and yeah, I you know, I can't imagine. C J.
Stroud's success makes it. It's funny because you could easily
go like, hey, it's really hard to be a young quarterback.
Look at what's happening with Bryce, you know, but everybody
he just goes, oh, c J. Stroud is immediately amazing,
and then Jaydeen Daniels is playing well. It's it's one.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Those are both with organizations that you don't necessarily think of,
Like the Commanders are a joke, not anymore. But until
Dan Snyder sold them like, it was like they could
not they had to change their name. They're like the
whole city of Washington was like, why don't we have
this team like it? And the Texans are an expansion
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team that got their ass kicked all the time and
they've been able to go in those systems and flourish.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I had really liked Anthony Richardson coming out. I think
the question is, then you know, if you take if
you set the angst aside about Anthony Richardson, which I
would also have if I was a Colts fan. Uh,
but you're in the immediate moment here that division hasn't
proven to be so incredible and THEFC isn't so runaway
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with top heavy teams that you still have to be
competing where you're at right now? Do you think you
get the Joe Flacco bump? Do you think, regardless of
the frustrations, do you see a high level Joe Flacco
where all the coaches are like, yes, we needed to
be able to actually run this play and he can
run it.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I don't, And maybe that's just me like really not
being able to see the forest through the trees because
I'm so upset. And I really found Richardson's like running
to be so dynamic and to just.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Open up the playbook to be like.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
We can do anything. We have a linebacker at quarterback,
and yeah he was he was missing passes, but like
I was even listening to Brian Florit's talk about Richardson yesterday,
and it's like, this is this defensive coordinator on the
team we were about to play, and he seemed like
he did not want to have to prepare for him.
And I think Flacco is like obviously a good quarterback,
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but I think it actually limits and I think Richardson
in the same way that like Robert sala Is, it's
like you end up having these sort of scapegoats when
things aren't going the right way, and when you remove
the scapegoats, you kind of start to see, oh, maybe
there's other issues.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And I think for the Colts the.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Other issues are play calling and and just sort of
us not necessarily having a standout, knockdown number one receiver.
I think Pittman is great. You look at Pittman and
Justin Jefferson, obviously he's the class of the league, and
it's like, well, they're even close to each other. So
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I think there's gonna be some other things that fall
under the microscope. And if there are these drop balls, again,
it's going to be a lot more obvious when you
have a former Super Bowl winner throwing them to you, guy.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Who has a little bit more of the arm talent
at this point and his wife unfortunately, as someone who
also have it like has it, I can read the
energy off you. You are an insane person, Megan, and
I love it. I just absolutely love it. Before the show,
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so everybody who's everybody who listens to the show, We've
had a lot of great comedians and actors on here,
and they know, like, before the show, we talk a
little bit before we get in, and you were telling
me some of the things about you being a Colts fan,
and you know, I was like, oh, we are very
similar in our insanity. And then I just watched you
exist in this first fifteen minute and I was like,
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we shouldn't even be. We can't. We need to delete
cell phone numbers. This this is an unhealthy.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm sorry, No, it really is, like I and I
wish that I wasn't like this.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
It's impossible not to be. It's impossible not to be.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Even so, I was in Indianapolis this past weekend and
I went to a bar afterwards to watch the end
of the Dodgers game. I've only been a Dodgers fan
for nine years, like I cause I didn't grow up
with a baseball team and do no want anyone to
come after me. And when they won, I had eight
of my closest friends there, four of my seven bridesmaids,
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some other girls I've known like a long time.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
They won.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I screamed and ran around so crazy that I got
back to the table. I put my head in my
hands and I said, gave myself an internal pep talk
that was, do not embarrass yourself in front of these
women you love, because I was like, I am, I'm
so insane.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
After that, that's when you give the pep talk.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
After that, after you yell at men you don't know,
get the out of here.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
But here's the thing. Was that the was that the
walk off grand Slam? Yes, okay here, I'm not even
I don't enjoy baseball because my local team has like
drilled it out of me as much as I like
loved Kirby Pucket growing up. Yeah, and want to be
a baseball fan. So I don't even like baseball. And
when I saw that clip on you know, social media somewhere,
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I'm just in my car. I don't even know who
the man who hit the home run was. I'm not
even nessus. I think they're playing the Yankees, is what
I thought in the moment. That's what I'm like, I
think this is against the Yankees. Yes, don't know what
game it is. And I was like, am I crying
in my car? Is that what's happening right now? So yeah,
I can recognize it and I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, And sports says that, and it's like, not only
do I know who that man is, I know his
mother passed away.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I know his three year.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Old son, who I like worship has been through a
terrible health crisis this year. Like it's like I'm invested
now as a mother and that is and like a
lot of my friends since I became a mom, wh'ere like,
I don't like talking sports with you anymore because my
talking has gone way down because now I see everyone
(15:16):
as my son.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And so it's like when a guy drops the ball,
I'm like someone's baby.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Someone's baby is gonna go cry.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
No, And like I watched I cried it every single
episode of Hard Knocks this year. It's like I despise bears,
fans despise them, and I'm weeping because a man loves
his mother.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Like it just it does really ramp it up.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I I scheduled nine am ballet lessons for my son
and then we go games start at ten am out here,
so we have ballet then we go to breakfast so
I can miss the first half because I get.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
To Yeah, it's not good for my mental health.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
No, I think I think we need to. I think
we need to. I think we need to switch to
nine am. It's this funny thing like cause I'm it's
my first kid as well, where it's the thing that
you hear people say because they can't elocute it right
where they go like, we're not sawing my son. I
just understood a different love and you're like, and then
you learn and you it sounds so stupid, and I
(16:17):
inarguably that description of it is. But it's it's biology, right,
It's science. It literally changes the chemistry of your brain,
so you just receive information differently. And I do that
same thing too, where I was like when somebody like
I had that thought during that home run, I was like,
I bet his dad is just living good right now?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
It really does. I do think it like changes sports
for you.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, it's the absolute best part of it. But here's
as I've now. I was like, I told everybody, I
think you're insane like me, and then you were like, oh, yeah,
watch this and let's talk about our children. But you yeah,
So just to explain to people why I said that
you are the sort of Colts fan who you scheduled. Well,
(17:02):
I'm not even gonna say it because I no one
would believe me. So you say the thing out loud.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Okay. So I was getting married.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I did get engaged in front of the mural of
Reggie Miller that is in Indianapolis. That is where my
husband decided to not even get down on one knee
because he has bad knees from playing football, so he
crouched he did the Trevor laurn snow knee down in
front of Reggie Miller. And then as we were planning
(17:29):
our wedding, I looked at the Colts schedule and said,
when should I have my bridal shower in Indianapolis? I
wanted to coincide with like a good game. And then
I realized that Dwight Freene's jersey was being retired, and
Dwight Freennie is my number one favorite Cults player of
all time, and so I scheduled my bridal shower for
my mother in law to come in, all my friends
(17:51):
to come in from out of town the day before
Dwight Freenie's jersey retirement, so then I could go to
the game the next day.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And they lost, and I'm still upset about it.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And then tell me you for those people who are
listening not watching. So you have up behind you on
the left hand on your wall, Yeah, you have a
road sign. Tell me about that.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
This is the exact mileage from where I had my
baby shower to Lucas Oil Stadium. So it's two thousand miles,
two thousand and sixty miles. And that is the exact
mileage from yeah, the venue to Lucas Oil.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I want to tell you, and I say this with
so much love because I have no less than five
things that are this exact thing. That is such a
stupid thing. It is such a dumb combination of like
when you're like, my irrational love for the creature that
I am birthing or gonna or I'm raising combined with
(18:55):
my irrational love where you're like, wouldn't it be neat
if I you know how they did like this? What's that? Stupid? Uh?
What's it? Waldrug? You remember that place in U Yeah,
during the Vietnam War, there's that picture of like ten
thousand miles the Waal drug and your brain was like,
I need that, but my baby and the colts and
I have exactly so many do my son when he
(19:19):
started learning to draw on stuff, the first two crayons
he used were purple and gold, and I was like, vikings.
I didn't even let him finish. I took it from
him because I saw him going for a third color.
I was like, this is all you meant. No, this
is your you, this was your art and I will
frame it and that will be everything to us as
a dad and son duo.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Does he go to daycare yet.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
We're making the insane choice to put him in. Uh
what's the place where all their toys are?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Just like wooden monasury.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna. We're gonna take on the
challenge of Montossori School with my mania.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Okay, I very modern of you.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Sure, my son goes to daycare and he has little
friends and sometimes they will send pictures of them doing
stuff and so Conrad that's his name.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You can please look him up. Please please perceive the caution.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
He wears tons of He wears Anthony Richardson jersey every Friday.
He also has an Edrind James jersey and then he
has tons of Lakers gear, like he just has a
lot of stuff. So they sent a picture one Friday
Conrad was in his Richardson Colts, Jersey, and then he
was sitting seated next to one of his best friends,
who I did not know up until that point had
(20:35):
parents that were obviously Steelers fans. And I screen shot
at it, screens shot at it, sent it to my
husband and my entire family and said, look who Conrad's
never playing with ever again. And I don't look at
that kid the same, Like I'm like, I know that
you're a sweet boy, but I don't know what's going
on in that house. So we'll be keeping a wide
(20:56):
berth from you.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
And I think as somebody who whose closest rival is
the Green Bay Packers, whose fans, yeah, at best can't
be trusted with general transportation, or an ability to make
a meal for a large group of people, and any
of the basic tasks that you'd want logistical help with,
I can understand. We have we have somebody in our
(21:20):
neighborhood who drives by and like I don't know if
they are parked somewhere like just waiting, like oh, like
there's a walkie talkie system, like a guy behind the tree,
like he's outside. He's outside again. Yeah, he must drive
by my house three times a day, and without fail,
I will be outside and he will shout go Pat
(21:42):
go and give me the finger every single time. And
it's so funny, it's so good. Man. I do I
do know him. I do know the man. Now here's
the thing. I'm not like, let's hang.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Out, okay, but when no, But but when.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I see him at the playground with his kid, I
say hello, and then he tells me about how you
know the Packers are the divine choice for a football team,
and you know all the insane stuff you remember earlier
when you were like, we were so lucky to get
to Yeah, if only we could send that, like just
(22:19):
take a breeze of that up to Wisconsin. We're like, well,
I actually believe we were chosen right, right, right right,
the team that hosts these great quarterbacks. It's more the
spirit of Green Bay. You know.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
My mom will do a flip thing with the neighbors
they live. My parents live right next door to a
former Colts I want to say, legend. He was important
to me, very fun who no longer plays. My mom
texts me a lot. She wants to talk to me
all the time, and I am a very responsive daughter,
so I will like sometimes miss some text messages. And
(22:55):
then what she'll do is she will say the name
of the Colts player and go, oh, I gotta tell
you a funny story about fill in the blank name
of the Colts player, and she knows immediately I will
call her.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Get you're gonna be on the phone. Really, that's really
good a parental manipulation. Also, it really is. My parents
can't move next to a former Minnesota sports legend. That's
an unhealthy dynamic for me. There's no way I'm handling that. Well,
no way, I'm I'm now, I'm the version of the
guy in the truck. I'm just in my driveway allway, Like, Oh,
(23:27):
are you outside right now too? Can I ask you
some questions?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
So I luckily live very far away from Indianapolis, so
I can't be out there all the time.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So my mom is a nurse. They have three young kids.
They're very close.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
My parents go to all of their kids like soccer games,
like they are close. My dad is not allowed to
have his phone number like my mom has his phone number.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And I, and he slips. Sometimes he goes, hey, I need.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
To text so and so about the acorns in the yard,
and she's like, I'll text him, like I have seen
him try and wiggle it out of her and she's like,
you are not legally allowed to have this man's phone number.
So it's like my dad sometimes will just be like
I can see him just like standing on the porch
(24:14):
like anybody else side.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, that's that's the greatest. That is probably that is
probably the greatest way that could play out, as long
as he doesn't cross the extra line or two.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
No, they have a big fence.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
A big fence, I would imagine, So I would imagine,
so you'd be like, excuse me, could you build this
fence tall enough so that a tall man standing on
a tall deck can't see over it? That's the sort
of fence I need. Uh. I want to I want
to ask you one or two questions about the game
this week. But I first want to ask you, because
it was such a weird time with the you know,
(24:53):
the weird coach, you had, everything that was going on,
how did you experience the greatest come back in NFL history?
Because I want to tell you the Vikings did a
very nice thing for my family. So I have a big,
weird family. So I have an adult nephew who's almost
my age, and then he has a son who just
(25:18):
a few years old but obsessed with the Vikings at
this time. So my nephews and my brother in law
John and the little boy, Tyson, went to the game.
And Ben Leeber, who's a Vikings legend, was nice enough.
He came over and he gave my nephew Seth's son, Tyson,
a Vikings jersey.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
And if you want to talk about, like just that
alone for a little kid is such a cool But
it's his first ever game and they're getting slaughtered, and
I'm sitting I'm not there, and I'm thinking, well, at
least he got this cool moment. And then it turns
out that this kid's first ever game in the history
of his life like the greatest comeback in NFL history,
(26:03):
So that that game was such a fun moment, even
more than it was like as a you know, a
fan of the team moment. How did how did your
brain receive that meltdown?
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Let's call it honestly, and I will be bringing this
up in therapy. You like mentioning it. I'm like, I
don't know what you're talking about. And then as you
were talking, I was like, oh yeah, like I it
was like a suppressed memory, like if I I it
was like a trauma that I blocked out that Now
(26:38):
I am like meeting with like a trauma psychologist to
try and get it out of me. And I'm like,
this is this has to be witness tampering.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
This is messed up.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I actually like the Vikings. I find the A.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I find the NFC North to be like a really
fascinating sort of microcosm of football. So when it was
when Jeff Saturday was the coach, that's just the time
that you go, you know, maybe rich men aren't smart,
and there's other times like that, but when you have
(27:18):
an owner like Jim Mersey, you really you hang on
and you hope for the best because you are on
a wild ride. You really are beholden to kind of
the absolutely insane whims of a person who you don't
(27:40):
know what they're gonna do next. And so I think
we I went to the first Jeff Saturday coach game.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It was in Vegas, and the Colts won.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
They beat the Raiders, and we were like maybe this
is maybe this works, you know, like it really was like,
oh my god, this was so fun. I saw Reggie
Wayne the night before and I was just drunk enough
that I went up to him and I said, they
should have made you coach, which they should have because
he was actually on staff already, and he goes out
of my hands, you know. So I was like I
(28:10):
was putting in work on the ground too to try
and make sure this all worked out. And then that game,
that Minnesota game, it really I think drove home like
you do need an actual coach. You can't And like
I still listen to Jeff Saturday. I love PTI. He's
on PTI almost.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Every week, so good.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I think a lovely man, super kind took that on
the chin pretty much like a champ.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
But it was just like, yeah, you need you need
a coach. It can't.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
It was probably a good lesson for like all sports
fans to be like, you can't just like have a
guy who's good at something JJ Reddick and then just
put them in there and like cross your fingers, like
you kind of need somewhat of a pedigree to be able.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
To do this.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
You said The thing that I thought was most interesting
about the whole Saturday thing is he tried it, he
failed at it, he went, well, I failed at it,
owned it, and then just went back to the other
thing he was good at. I thought it was so
interesting to not see him try to what I think
people in every walk of life are so quick to do,
(29:22):
which is push the blame anywhere but themselves or even
part of it. Yeah, I thought that was really really interesting, dude,
Jim Hear say, because I, like I said, Jenna's family,
my wife's family is there. Owning a sports team is
also owning a business and winning and bus like, it's
a very complex thing. And when you get the best owners,
(29:45):
you get the ones who set winning right next to
the business aspect of it and believe they go hand
in hand. And you know, we've seen unending amount of
organizations that have owners who don't really value the winning.
And the thing that's interesting about Ears say, because you're right,
he's very open about his demons. He's very odd. If
(30:06):
no one's ever gone and read about the weird guitar
museum he has, which is incredible, So you're like, it's like, oh,
this is your baby over here you have all these
insane guitars. But I do think he's a guy who
whatever the path to it and if he can get
there is another conversation. I do think he seems like
(30:28):
he really wants to win a super Bowl. Is that accurate?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I think sometimes it like maybe blinds him a little
bit too. And I do think that the paytent era
wasn't more successful in terms of super Bowls is still
upsetting to him. And I also I think he's like
a good person as far as billionaires go. The Colts
(30:55):
I do want quality guys to bring into the community,
and I think that's like ursay caring about Indianapolis as
a small town to be like, these guys are going
to be like shoulder to shoulder at the grocery store
with everybody, Like we want to make sure that they
are good guys and that they feel supported by the community.
He does a lot for like mental health. He talks
(31:16):
a lot about addiction, like he very is front facing
in a way that I think he is trying to
better the community.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
But he does really want to win.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I mean, the Colts have now lost the season opener
ten years in a row, and I don't know that
and hold we hold the record. We hold the record,
and it is devastating to him.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
He hates it. And the guys that are here now
they're new guys.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
It's like that that transcends like three different coaching staffs,
like a lot of different personnel changes, and it's just
like a hill we cannot get over, and it I
think eats at him.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
That's, yeah, you almost have no place. I mean, the
fans take that a certain way, but he's probably he's
probably the only one that's been around for all of
those losses, So yeah, how do you not take that
in a ridiculously hard way. So if you're coming into
this game this weekend, which this is a really big
spot for the Vikings, I thought that Rams game, there's
(32:22):
this Zach Martinez does this show, and he's infuriating because
he's right a lot. He said, you know, teams that
come off playing the Lions really struggled the next week
and we had a short week a Thursday against the Rams.
Puka and Cooper come back. And if you go and
you get that wins the as the Vikings, you kind
(32:43):
of walk out of there and you go, man, we
compete in that last one right at the ship and
we keep going. Now, you have put a unique amount
of pressure on this. This is a really big spot
for the Vikings. What do you worry about? From a
Colt's perspective, where do you where do you see this
thing going? And where is your big concern facing Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I think the Vikings are angry.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
They seem upset about the no call on the face mask.
So you never you never want to face a team
that's angry. They've had extra time, so there and I
and I also think it does not help the Cults
that they are the national number one story right now.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
That brings a lot of eyes, a lot of attention.
It's it's upheople too.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
It's like, well, we had Richardson and then we had Flacco,
Then we had Richardson, then we had Flacco. I think
our defense looked really good this past week and we
got to Forrest Buckner back Sire Franklin is at the
top or leading the league in tackles, and the Colts
defense really flies under the radar just because it's not
(33:56):
a team that usually has this powerful defense. Kenny Moore
so CJ. Stroud struggled, he really and it was it
was mostly the offensive line, but it's like Divorce Buckner,
Big Grover Stewart. They can get to some guys and
they will be looking to rattle Darnold and and I'm
(34:19):
you know, I think they can make an Okay offensive
line look bad. This rookie we have lot to lat to,
has like started kind of rough and then has like
for some fumbles, had some strip sacks like they I
am pretty impressed by them. And then I would have
to imagine I think Jonathan Taylor is.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Going to be back.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I I think that he they got. My hope as
a fan is they just feed him the ball and
then that that opens everything up. But like I I
just see Justin Jefferson like probably having two touchdowns. Like
I bet they'll put Kenny Moore on him, Kenny Moore
as a stud, but like Justin Jefferson is the best
(35:04):
wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Like it's just it's hard.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, if it's anywhere near him, he's he's gonna get it.
So I could see them exploiting the secondary for sure.
I don't I don't know if it honestly feels like
a moral morale must win for both of them.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, Like yeah, especially with the flat. Yeah, they're both
in weird spots. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah, And it's like you guys are fighting probably for
a wild card, you know, for if we're being honest, just.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Because the Lions be honest.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
So go ahead, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Mean yes, you and the Colts and the Vikings are
all are both in the sense still in the hunt
to win their division. Sure, but like the Texans have
now beat us twice, have the tiebreaker over us, so
it's like unless something catastrophic happens there, like we are
fighting for a wildcard. The NFC is good, and like
there's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Of teams the Eagle coming. They're good.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I really wish we were not playing you this week.
And I'm sure there's some Vikings players that are like,
I don't need this old man quarterback coming in that
we kind of have limited tape on with this team.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I don't know, I am honestly.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
So it's it's in Minnesota because Taylor Swift is in
Indianapolis this weekend, and I think it's good the Colts
are not at home.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I think there would be booze. I think fans are upset.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I mean, the Vikings losing their all world left tackle
is a really big issue, especially against that started defensive line.
Would I'll be curious. I think Hockinson should be back?
What will be? They have ran seemingly as a guy
who admittedly knows nothing about how football is actually played,
they seem to have succeeded with such long developing plays
(36:54):
throughout the season. The line has done such a good job,
and they've gotten some guys so far down the field.
I think with TJ. Hockinson back being a release valve
underneath and actually being able to get some separation, maybe
that some of the other tight ends can't. I will
be curious if they come out and you see them
early quick drop, quick throw slants, you know, check downs
(37:17):
and marching down the field. I will get real confident,
real quick if if we are going to try to
hold up against I think you hit it on the
head your defensive line for longer developing plays. That worries
me because if when Jonathan Taylor plays for your football team,
they are just as much as everybody wants to devalue
(37:38):
the running back position. We know it here. Whatever the
money is for these guys, when you take your superstar
guy who and this is the thing with Aaron Jones.
When Aaron Jones is out, it's not just that he
can run and catch. There is nobody, I don't think
in the league who picks up up the middle pass
protection like Aaron Jones. And so when these guys are out,
(38:01):
you just almost don't even look like the same football team.
So I would like to get a lead. I would
not like, I don't want your running back and your
defensive line to control the tempo of the game or
that gets real scary, real quick in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Yeah, even hearing you describe like the short plays, I'm like, yeah,
you the cultural miss tackles, you know, mis Tackler two.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
I have two birthday parties this Sunday, two kids' birthday party,
so I may be yelling on my phone. Yeah, while
while a blippy impersonators there.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Well, thank you for doing this. I told you this
off air. I'm going to say it on air. I
love your podcast with you and Rachel and Sarah so
I was on her last year. You guys are fantastic. Everybody.
We will plug it at the beginning, we'll plug it
at the end. Please download Megan's show and thank you
so much. For doing this, and I hope you have
a wonderful season, not counting this coming week. Do you
(38:59):
want to give a prediction or do you wanna Do
you want to stay away from that? I don't. Here's
the thing. I always make people give a prediction, but
your I don't feel like I want to put you
through those emotions, given what I recognizing you as a fan.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I want everyone to have a nice time and I
don't want anyone to get hurt. And I also will
say to the people of Minnesota. I went to the
Patriots Eagles Super Bowl there and I remember landing and
I'm from an Indian Indianapolis host to a Super Bowl,
(39:33):
and you and the Vikings had lost the NFC championship, heartbreaking,
and I remember being like, I don't know that we
should even be going to these people's city. This feels inhumane.
And I landed and everyone was so kind, so lovely,
in a level of maturity that I myself would not
(39:53):
be able to have. If I had volunteered for that
Super Bowl, I'd have been like, burn my name tag,
I'm not coming.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
I hope it's a failure.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
I hope the stadium collapses like it would have not
been like, Hi, do you need any help with directions?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
I was shocked.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
I was like, Wow, Minnesota's are a good stock. So
I do wish you all well and always beat the Bears.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah, I think we can all agree on that that
nobody needs that team to succeed, No one.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Needs those fans. They've had enough.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
They've had enough.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
So yeah, I hope you guys make it into the playoffs.
I think you will well.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
I wish the best for you as well. Thank you,
go Cults. Thanks again to Megan Gaily for joining the show,
and thank you for listening to our podcast feed while
you're here. Give it a like, give it a subscribe. Also,
a big shout out to Ticketmaster, the official ticket marketplace
of the Minnesota Vikings, for helping make this show happen.
(40:52):
We will see you all again next week.
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