January 30, 2025 • 27 mins
This week on the Jordan & Jake podcast, Jake Delhomme is joined by Jonathan Stewart to detail their respective experiences playing in the Super Bowl, share how they each delt with losing the Super Bowl, preview this years big game between the Eagles and Chiefs, and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Jordan and Jake.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You're good. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Ready to go.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Blom stops. He throws at a crossfield.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Guess who, Jeorge Gross. Here are your Panther Hall of
Honor remembers Jordan Gross and Jake Delone.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome to the Jordan and Jake Podcast with your host,
not Jordan Gross, Jake Delone.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Jordan Gross is just a little too busy for us
this week.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So I decided I was gonna take over the reins
and take over and be the host. And I wanted
a special special guest, and I got none. Only then
Jonathan Stewart Panther all time great running back, Jay Stu,
Jay Stuh, thanks for being on with us today.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Jake, thanks for having me dog.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, I appreciate it. Yeah, listen, let's just get it
out out the way. Jordan Gross, he didn't ditch us.
He didn't leave us high and dry.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Jordan, think he left you high and dry. I think
he did this on purpose, something that you said. He's
a little sensitive.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
He might be, but I think he might be hosting
tons of college recruiters this week.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
This might be one of the last weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And he has a young offensive lineman who is a
junior that's getting a ton of looks and around the
time we record is when they'll be coming in and
Jordan wanted to give them his full attention, so we'll
let him slide.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Okay, we're talking about recruiting.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm gonna ask you. You're a California kid right now.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm a Washington kid, Jake, Washington kids?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Sorry? Sorry? How? And why Oregon? Why not you? Dog?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Well that's a long story, but you know, I'm a
believer in Christ and I prayed about it. Long story short,
and God showed me a lot of cool signs along
the way. And one of those signs. I don't know
if you've ever been in Oregon or in Washington driving
on Interstate five, but any listener out there, if you're
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driving on Interstate five and you're going down to Eugene, Oregon,
there's a little hill as you're entering into Oregon, into Eugene, Oregon,
coming from Washington, and there's a cross on that hill.
And literally my mom was praying in the seat, and
after she got done praying, we're leaving Eugene going back
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to Washington. So that same hill with the cross on
the hill, there is a visual of this cross in
my rear view mirror as I'm driving, and that was
my sign to go to Oregon. So if you're ever
driving on Interstate five, look to your left as you're
going to Oregon, and if you're driving away from Eugene,
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it's on your right going back to Washington. There's a
cross on this hill. And that was the reason why
I went to Oregon.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Bro Man, I love hearing that. I love hearing stories
like that.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I mean, you know, you hear now it seems like
it's whatever money a kid's gonna get paid and things
like that.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
But yeah, I just I love hearing that. I think
that's great. So John, we're gonna switch gears a little bit.
We all know what season it is. It's Super Bowl season.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, and you and I were both lucky enough to
participate in the Super Bowl and we both came out second.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You know, That's how I like to look at it.
I think we second.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
How'd you deal with that, Jake? How'd you do it?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Jar?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I mean, John, it was tough. I'd be very honest,
But you know.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I think for me, I was very young at the time,
twenty eight twenty nine, my first year starting I mean,
young and starting, and there was no doubt in my
mind where we're gonna be back. I just watched Steve
Smith put on a show. He was finishing year three.
Usin Muhammad was coming back. He had finished year seven
or eight. Dan Morgan just had like nineteen or twenty
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solo tackles in the game.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
He was in year three.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Chris Jenkins, Julius Peppers, Jordan Gross was ay. You just
felt like, Okay, we're gonna be back. Yeah, you know,
Pamp was still a baby. It's just Ruck was still young,
and it hurt. Don't get me wrong, right. I had
a twelve hour drive home after we flew back from Houston,
got back to Charlotte, spent a day or two, and
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then I drove twelve hours back to Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And so you spent a lot of time thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But what flooded my memories was every win we had
that season, every fun time in the training room, the
locker room, the bus rides, the playing rides, every playoff win.
You start kind of thinking about those, and it just
that made me kind of have a little piece. I
guess you could say, I don't think you ever get
over it, because I still don't. Deep down inside, It's
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like I'm still thinking what I could have done better
to help the Panthers win. But listen, it's difficult. But
as time goes on. It's been twenty This is twenty
one years since we played in our super Bowl, super
Bowl thirty six, I mean thirty eight. And you know,
next week, especially during Super Bowl Week, I'll reminisce and
think of the good times. But gosh, you certainly think
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about if only we could have gotten the ball one
more time.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What about you?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
What's your feelings in regards to the Super Bowl? And
you know the tough outcome that that Panther.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Team had, Yeah, very similar to you. I was twenty
eight when I went to the Super Bowl, and again
I thought to myself, Man, we should be back here
because we had a really solid team, you know, great defense,
TD Kirk Coleman, Luke Keighley. I mean, we were solid
on defense, and I had no doubt in my mind
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if we were ever down, they would get the ball
back for us. Right, And so it haunts me knowing
that we left a lot of opportunities on that field.
And I think for a whole year I didn't even
take a glimpse at any football footage, right, even if
it came on TV like a replay or like a commercial.
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If it looked like it was the Super Bowl recap
of the Broncos celebrating their win, I would just turn
my head and just try not to look at the
screen or at my phone, right, or I'll just swipe away.
But as Tom has progressed, it is a feeling that
I absolutely, you know, have refined the gratitude that I
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have that I was able to participate in the Super Bowl.
You know, the percentage of guys that make it to
the NFL is slim, as it is to make it
to the super Bowl, to make it the playoffs, so
let alone, it's hard to do. Some people play their
whole careers ten plus years and never get to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And so my mind started to go into.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
This gratitude stage, which is, man, at least I got
to the you know, super Bowl, and I got a
chance to score in the Super Bowl. So I'm grateful
for that, and you know, obviously it still stings. I
there's a term that goes, I didn't die, but a
piece of me died when we lost.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That's that's so well said now you said something about
y'all felt that team of your you were the twenty
fifteen team, the fifteen and one team that y'all left
too much offense. Y'all left offense out on the field.
Were y'all tight going into the game? Did you did
you get a sense that you were in a tight
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football team or it was all systems go, We're lose.
This is how we practice, this is we're gonna put.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
On a show.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
My thought process going into that game was we were
trying to treat this like it was just an ordinary game.
And the problem is, Jake, that wasn't an ordinary game.
That was a super Bowl. You're not supposed to treat
the Super Bowl like it's just a regular week because
it's not a regular week. And I think we did
too much of that, trying to like, you know, play
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mind tricks ourselves to like dumb it down when we
should have actually like placed this opportunity on the pedestal,
and we would have and I think we did play
a little bit tight when it came to stepping on
the field. You know, the energy was weird. You know,
a lot of Broncos fans wasn't as okay.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So the energy was weird. Okay, that's interesting. I haven't
really heard that comment by someone before.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah, like the energy, like you know, the playoff, like
our playoff game that was the most electrifying moment in
all of my football life, you know. And obviously it's
a home game, right sure. And going to the super
Bowl there was a lot of orange in the stands,
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and when we came out, it was just quiet. I
didn't really it didn't feel like we were going out
and being introduced as you know, super Bowl you know people,
you know, Super Bowl team, right, and so it just
felt like we were just going out and you know,
going through a walk through them most kind of like that.
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You know, you can hear how how electrifying it is
to go out and being introduced, right. And I look
at actually, you know, the Patriots, when you guys played
the Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I look at how you guys were introduced.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Into that that environment that looked electric. Fye it man,
I didn't it didn't feel anything like that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'm floored hearing you talk that way because leading up
to the two weeks prior. Okay, so this week when
we're talking John Fox, right away, Hey, this is a
business trip.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Okay, this is not about parties. We are gonna this week.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You get all your tickets squared away, you get what
your family and everything, get that all squared away, and
we're gonna work hard. We're gonna put it the majority
of the game plan. And he had a couple of
players talk to us, and Ricky Prol was very instrumental
in talking to us, and he told the guys, goes, Listen,
when you warm up for that game, you're gonna feel
like you've never felt before. You're gonna feel like you're
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floating on air. Don't do too much. And Stu, he
was so right. I went out to warm up. I
used to go out about an hour and a half,
an hour and forty five minutes with Don Toner, we
catching passes and I'm in just my sweatsuit, my fleece,
and it used to take me a few throws to
get warmed up.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Right. Yeah, I'm telling you. The first pass that came
out in my hand.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I said, oh my gosh, I know exactly what he's saying.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I felt it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And you could just sense our warm ups. The nervous,
I say, nervous, that good energy. Well, Stu, when we
got introduced as a team. We're in the tunnel. The
majority of us are crying. I mean, like the emotions.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It's just and when we came out, I don't remember,
none of us do. We're just floating on air. So
that's that's so strange.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I wonder if it was in what Santa Clara was,
y'all super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
We were you sing? I don't know if the dome
being louder, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I think it could.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
It could have been the environment where you guys played,
where it was louder, and maybe you know where you
guys were staying in retrospect to where you guys played,
Like we stayed in was it San Jose? What's the
Blue and Yellow School? So so we practiced over there
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and we stayed in that area, and so it just
felt like we were so detached, you know what I'm saying.
So like never really felt like we were reminded every
day that we're, you know, gearing up for this special
moment and and and more.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So, like I was very eager to get out there
and play. I was very eager.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
But I just remember going out there as a team,
and I remember being in that in that tunnel.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I cried.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I had tears, and getting onto the sideline and looking
around and seeing you know, Jerry Rice and seeing all
these different you know, electrifying you know, Hall of famers
and and celebrities. I remember seeing all these moments, but
the like, the the electrifying feeling that I thought I
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was gonna have it was not there, and and and
and I don't know if I'm if I'm saying that
not in the way of I'm disappointed. It was just
something that you know, I kind of anticipated.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
So that's so that's that's that's so interesting to hear.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now, do you think your other teammates felt the same
way or was this particularly just you?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I don't we have like it's interesting. I like I
sit down with you know, Luke and t D.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Greg.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I sit down told Bert, you know, and we talk
all the time about like the Super Bowl, but we
always talk in a way of I still have not
watched the game.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We're all still disappointed. Yea.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
So so we never really get into the details about it.
But I think I think we should absolutely maybe that
can be an opportunity for us to do something in
New Orleans with some guys.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, that's that's an interesting take, you know, And I guess,
you know, I'm trying to remember. I'm assuming you guys
were a favorite in that Super Bowl because of the
fifteen and one season.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I just do know. But we went on that run.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
We were, you know, the Cardiac Cats, and our football
team was a team that we weren't supposed to be there.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So yes, we had the one playoff game at home.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Then we were road warriors, beating the number one seed
in Saint Louis, then gone to Philly and upsetting Philly
and Philly and we were I think double digit underdog.
So you know, I think that us against the world
mentality that we took on, that it just it made
for It just made for great theater and just everything
in our mind leading up to it, we just we
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just couldn't wait.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
It was just the and it, to be quite honest,
it was everything.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I think I thought it would be because I remember,
like you see in the celebrities when you're warming up
and John Fox did something and I'll never forget the
practice squad, guys, not the practice squad. You have so
many inactives, right, fifty three guys on the team, were
forty five dressed well when John.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Fox did, and I thought he was great.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
He, I think, petitioned the NFL and he asked, He goes, hey,
can I allow my guys that are inactive? Can they
dress out and come out for warm ups? He goes,
because you know, this is a reward for and the
NFL allowed it. So there was seven or eight guys
and Marco Battaglia. I'll never forget. He was a tight
end we picked up along the way late in the
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season seven or eight year in the league because we
had an injury to Mike Sideman and we're doing pat
and go and that's where the receivers would run and
the quarterback, you know, would throw like a fit eight. Marco,
we're in an all white uniform. He looks at me
and he goes overthrow me, and I said, one, he goes,
just overthrow me. He goes, I want to die. He goes,
I want grass on my Super Bowl uniform. And it's
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funny you think of it like that meant the world
to him.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
He was a guy that came in late.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
He wasn't gonna play, but he wanted to have grass
staines that he dressed out and so I thought that
was so awesome and you just think about that how
how great the super Bowl is and everything that it's
meant to be.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So as we're talking about the super Bowl, how.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Much do you think game planning wise you put in
the week prior before getting to Santa Clara.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
There's a lot of prep probably over prep more because
and uh and probably just from the standpoint of the
you know the plays that you know, the offensive coordinator Shula,
you know, great offensive mind, and we have Cam Newton
right like, you can do a lot of spectacular things.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Around a guy like that.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
So a lot of you know, mental study, I would
say more than the physical preparation, I think for myself
because I was going into that game with a foot injury.
I had broken my foot against this the Atlanta Falcons
like the week fifteen or sporteen or something like that,
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and so I was nursing an injury. So for me,
my preparation was a lot of mental like, Okay, make
sure you know you know certain plays that might get
called that usually never get called, and you know there's
a whole list of plays like that, or you know,
reverses and you know the the fake dive tossed back
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to the quarterback and launch it down the field type plays,
and you know, just kind of maintaining your composure with
all of the things that you might possibly run, and
also studying film on the guys.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
That you're playing against.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Right and you know, this being the Super Bowl, this
is the one team that you're playing. There's nobody else
after them, and this is the first time you were
really studying them because you didn't get to play. This
is a team that you didn't play in the regular
you know what I'm saying. So we're getting to know
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these guys for the very first time, and we don't
want to be wrong. And so there was a lot
of there's a lot of studying for sure, uh, in
that that one week, that one week off and then
going and being in California, it was more so lock
in on what we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You know, it's funny you say that.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So we did a lot of work in Charlotte also,
and then we flew out on the Sunday to Houston
and we practiced and our practice facility was at the
University of Houston, and I kid you not, we were
so ready to play, but it was almost like we
were overdone because there were almost fights at practice because
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everybody it was just it was time.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
It was time.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We were ready to go, and we were just tired
of seeing each other and it was ready to play.
And that was something that I always remembered. It just like,
can't it just get here soon enough? That's that's the
one that's always in my mind.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
That's the exact feeling that we actually had, like I'm
ready to play and I'm ready to not stay in
this hotel. I'm ready to go home with the super
Bowl like trophy. You know, that's I want to I
want to go play this game and I want to
be victorious. Now, let's do this now. I'm ready. Now,
if we wait any longer, I don't know what's going
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to happen to me. That's kind of like the final
the legit feeling that I had.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, you know, it's and it's so different.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
The super Bowl is so different than any other game
because of the loungevia all the popping circumstances before the game,
which is awesome, right, but then when you go to halftime,
it's like three times as.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Long as the normal halftime.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
And that was something that was just so different because
the normal NFL halftime is what like twelve minutes by
the time you get in, maybe use the restaurant, you
go over one or two things, there's a two minute.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Call and boom you're out. You're heading out.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Well, this is like it just takes forever and ever
until you finally go back out for the second half.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, who performed at your Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We were the legendary Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.
Oh yes, And to be honest, we knew about it
before we left the locker room. And this is two thousand,
This is February of two thousand and four.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
So let's just say the social media media really wasn't
happening at that time. I think text messaging was just
starting to come out. But the whole locker room knew.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
We all knew before we got out in the field
that there was an exposure to Janet Jackson's upper body conture.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
We came out in the.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Field, word traveled really fast. Well, we had Beyonce and
Bruno Mars and Coldplay. I would have loved to see that.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So Beyonce, Beyonce saying before the game for us and
I can't remember if he was the America, the Beautiful whatnot, Beyonce,
Toby Keith, Josh Grobin. Those are the ones that were
prior to the game. So man, it was just you
just think.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
About it, especially being in Houston, so many cool.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, yeah, and I think about it, like I remember,
and I talked about the warming up and John Riggins
was doing radio at the time, National Radio, And here's
John Riggins come and walk up to me and just
kind of shooting the ball with me while I'm tossing.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And I'm like this, this is John Riggins.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It just that those are the things that you think about. Now.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
One thing I want to shift and everybody talks about tickets.
Every NFL player is allowed to purchase fifteen tickets. Correct,
did you get more than fifteen or did you get
just your allotment of fifteen?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I got like eight tickets.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Really, I was very reserved about who and selective about
who was coming to the Super Bowl. I actually did
not owe money after the game. A lot of guys
on our team owed a lot of money. Charles Hunton
was e ist. Oh gosh, you know, and and I
kind of had that in the back of my mind,
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like man if I just I just don't want to
pay for, you know, certain people to come watch me
play in the Super Bowl. I know the ones and
those are my day ones, and I had my day
ones come Solidify there. You know, their selection of the eight.
So what about you? How many tickets did you have?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Oh, Stueie, Stuee, Stewie. That's a tough one. So here
it is. I and I would do it again tomorrow.
We played in Houston. Houston is three hours from my hometown.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Okay, So we get on the plane in Philadelphia the
Sunday evening when we beat them, and I'll walk up
and I'll find Charlie Daton and Phil Yazi and I said, hey,
I want to buy a suite for the super Bowl
next week. I don't know if it's possible, I want
to purchase one. Don't get me wrong. Things are a
lot different than they are now. And I was able
to purchase one. And there was the main reason. My daughter,
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my oldest Lauren, was thirteen months old at the time,
and I didn't. I assumed there would be a zoo
with security and all this and that, and I'm like,
you know what, I want to get them up in
a suite, my parents, family and things like that.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So I was able to secure one. All right, so
that's true.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
How much does that cost?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Jay, I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
It was ninety thousand dollars and my mother was about
to have a heart attack.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
And I said, listen, mom, time out.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Like this is the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
My playoff money is going to this. I just signed
a two year deal for not a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I'm probably gonna get a big contract, so like, let's
just let's just let's just worry about winning.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
You don't worry about you were You were the man.
That's what you're doing. Like, yeah, we did to the
Super Bowl. I did this, but I'm about to get paid.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
So I got then I purchased my fifteen. But I
get a phone call on the Monday morning after the
NFC Championship game and the guy that he has passed
away now, his name is Philip Brugaier. He is a
mind minority owner of the Houston Texans. He is from
my neck of the woods. He grew up about twenty
minutes south of where I grew up. He was a
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graduate of my college and he is a minority owner.
And he said, Jake you don't know me. I'm so
and so I'm a minority owner. I have some tickets
if you would like to purchase, if you needed more
for your family. So I was able to purchase seven more,
certainly at face value, phenomenal tickets.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So, buddy, I ended up having a good amount of tickets.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And you know what, So which did you ever ask?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Did you ever ask the people that came to the
game who had the better experience the sweet tickets or
the seven additional tickets?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I think they all did. Nobody could play. Now, I
we will say my suite was pretty high. There's three
levels of suites in the NRG Stadium in Texas, Okay,
so there's the lower suite, then there's another level. Well,
they have some kind of top and that's how I
was able to get it.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
But they all had a great time.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
They had really really good seeds that were kind of
added about, and but they all had a great time,
and unfortunate, you know, it ended with us coming out second.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
So as we get close to wrapping up, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Get my prediction because Jordan and I will do that
next week. I want to know what Jonathan Stewart's prediction
is for another Kansas City Philadelphia Eagles rematch in the
Super Bowl next week in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Man.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
It's hard to bet against the Kansas City Chiefs, obviously,
that's the that's the title, right, It's hard to bet
against the Kannas City Chiefs because they are you know,
the the about the three peat, right. So, and Patrick
Mahomes is a fantastic player. Andy Reid's probably if he
continues to do what he's doing, he's gonna go down
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is probably, in my opinion, the best coach of all
time if he's able to repeat. But I'm gonna have
to go with the Philadelphia Eagles, and not because I
just want them to because of sake one Barkley being
a running back that is basically proving to the world,
into the football world, that you can actually get to
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the Super Bowl and win a Super Bowl with a
fantastic running game and great offensive line and a quarterback
that is a field general and a good defense.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
But I honestly think that they have more juice in
the tank. They remember what happened last time. There's some
guys on that team that remember what it felt like
to lose in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
So in my opinion, this is their payback right and
hopefully they are able to do it the right way
and come out victorious, unlike the Buffalo Bills with their rematches.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
So I'm going with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Well, I hear you and I'm listening, and I agree
with a lot of your points, and so maybe it'll
change my mind going in the next week.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
We'll see. But I did you you just tell us?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Did you just tell us your your super Bowl? Change
your mind?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
That's called a tease. That's called a tease. I don't know.
I am. I am pretty certain I.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Know who I'm gonna pick it, and then whatever will
happen when I change. I feel pretty certain about it,
and I felt pretty certain Sunday evening when I knew
both teams.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
But that'll be something we'll discuss next week.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah, So my job, my job will be to basically
before the Super Bowl, convince you to make sure that
you're picking the right team to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I feel pretty certain I'm gonna pick the right team.
There's no doubt. There's no doubt in my mind. That's
how confident I am.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
But you're gonna have to tune in tune in next
week for the Jordan and Jake podcast, But for this week,
this is Jake Dilome signing off. And I want to
thank the great Jonathan Stewart for filling in for Jordan
Groves this week.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
He was fabulous.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I could have kept going on and on about the
stories of the twenty fifteen team and that Super Bowl
run and hopefully, Stewie, we can be how being a
discussion on our podcast in a couple of years or
next year, whatever it may be, with the Carolina Panthers
making a run to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
How about that? That sounds good.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
That sounds that sounds great, Jake, So thanks for having
me on Man anytime.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Appreciate it. Have a great week two.
Jordan and Jake.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You're good. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Ready to go.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Blom stops. He throws at a crossfield.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Guess who, Jeorge Gross. Here are your Panther Hall of
Honor remembers Jordan Gross and Jake Delone.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome to the Jordan and Jake Podcast with your host,
not Jordan Gross, Jake Delone.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Jordan Gross is just a little too busy for us
this week.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So I decided I was gonna take over the reins
and take over and be the host. And I wanted
a special special guest, and I got none. Only then
Jonathan Stewart Panther all time great running back, Jay Stu,
Jay Stuh, thanks for being on with us today.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Jake, thanks for having me dog.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, I appreciate it. Yeah, listen, let's just get it
out out the way. Jordan Gross, he didn't ditch us.
He didn't leave us high and dry.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Jordan, think he left you high and dry. I think
he did this on purpose, something that you said. He's
a little sensitive.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
He might be, but I think he might be hosting
tons of college recruiters this week.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
This might be one of the last weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And he has a young offensive lineman who is a
junior that's getting a ton of looks and around the
time we record is when they'll be coming in and
Jordan wanted to give them his full attention, so we'll
let him slide.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Okay, we're talking about recruiting.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm gonna ask you. You're a California kid right now.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm a Washington kid, Jake, Washington kids?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Sorry? Sorry? How? And why Oregon? Why not you? Dog?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Well that's a long story, but you know, I'm a
believer in Christ and I prayed about it. Long story short,
and God showed me a lot of cool signs along
the way. And one of those signs. I don't know
if you've ever been in Oregon or in Washington driving
on Interstate five, but any listener out there, if you're
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driving on Interstate five and you're going down to Eugene, Oregon,
there's a little hill as you're entering into Oregon, into Eugene, Oregon,
coming from Washington, and there's a cross on that hill.
And literally my mom was praying in the seat, and
after she got done praying, we're leaving Eugene going back
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to Washington. So that same hill with the cross on
the hill, there is a visual of this cross in
my rear view mirror as I'm driving, and that was
my sign to go to Oregon. So if you're ever
driving on Interstate five, look to your left as you're
going to Oregon, and if you're driving away from Eugene,
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it's on your right going back to Washington. There's a
cross on this hill. And that was the reason why
I went to Oregon.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Bro Man, I love hearing that. I love hearing stories
like that.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I mean, you know, you hear now it seems like
it's whatever money a kid's gonna get paid and things
like that.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
But yeah, I just I love hearing that. I think
that's great. So John, we're gonna switch gears a little bit.
We all know what season it is. It's Super Bowl season.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, and you and I were both lucky enough to
participate in the Super Bowl and we both came out second.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You know, That's how I like to look at it.
I think we second.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
How'd you deal with that, Jake? How'd you do it?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Jar?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I mean, John, it was tough. I'd be very honest,
But you know.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I think for me, I was very young at the time,
twenty eight twenty nine, my first year starting I mean,
young and starting, and there was no doubt in my
mind where we're gonna be back. I just watched Steve
Smith put on a show. He was finishing year three.
Usin Muhammad was coming back. He had finished year seven
or eight. Dan Morgan just had like nineteen or twenty
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solo tackles in the game.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
He was in year three.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Chris Jenkins, Julius Peppers, Jordan Gross was ay. You just
felt like, Okay, we're gonna be back. Yeah, you know,
Pamp was still a baby. It's just Ruck was still young,
and it hurt. Don't get me wrong, right. I had
a twelve hour drive home after we flew back from Houston,
got back to Charlotte, spent a day or two, and
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then I drove twelve hours back to Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And so you spent a lot of time thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But what flooded my memories was every win we had
that season, every fun time in the training room, the
locker room, the bus rides, the playing rides, every playoff win.
You start kind of thinking about those, and it just
that made me kind of have a little piece. I
guess you could say, I don't think you ever get
over it, because I still don't. Deep down inside, It's
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like I'm still thinking what I could have done better
to help the Panthers win. But listen, it's difficult. But
as time goes on. It's been twenty This is twenty
one years since we played in our super Bowl, super
Bowl thirty six, I mean thirty eight. And you know,
next week, especially during Super Bowl Week, I'll reminisce and
think of the good times. But gosh, you certainly think
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about if only we could have gotten the ball one
more time.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What about you?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
What's your feelings in regards to the Super Bowl? And
you know the tough outcome that that Panther.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Team had, Yeah, very similar to you. I was twenty
eight when I went to the Super Bowl, and again
I thought to myself, Man, we should be back here
because we had a really solid team, you know, great defense,
TD Kirk Coleman, Luke Keighley. I mean, we were solid
on defense, and I had no doubt in my mind
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if we were ever down, they would get the ball
back for us. Right, And so it haunts me knowing
that we left a lot of opportunities on that field.
And I think for a whole year I didn't even
take a glimpse at any football footage, right, even if
it came on TV like a replay or like a commercial.
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If it looked like it was the Super Bowl recap
of the Broncos celebrating their win, I would just turn
my head and just try not to look at the
screen or at my phone, right, or I'll just swipe away.
But as Tom has progressed, it is a feeling that
I absolutely, you know, have refined the gratitude that I
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have that I was able to participate in the Super Bowl.
You know, the percentage of guys that make it to
the NFL is slim, as it is to make it
to the super Bowl, to make it the playoffs, so
let alone, it's hard to do. Some people play their
whole careers ten plus years and never get to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And so my mind started to go into.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
This gratitude stage, which is, man, at least I got
to the you know, super Bowl, and I got a
chance to score in the Super Bowl. So I'm grateful
for that, and you know, obviously it still stings. I
there's a term that goes, I didn't die, but a
piece of me died when we lost.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
That's that's so well said now you said something about
y'all felt that team of your you were the twenty
fifteen team, the fifteen and one team that y'all left
too much offense. Y'all left offense out on the field.
Were y'all tight going into the game? Did you did
you get a sense that you were in a tight
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football team or it was all systems go, We're lose.
This is how we practice, this is we're gonna put.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
On a show.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
My thought process going into that game was we were
trying to treat this like it was just an ordinary game.
And the problem is, Jake, that wasn't an ordinary game.
That was a super Bowl. You're not supposed to treat
the Super Bowl like it's just a regular week because
it's not a regular week. And I think we did
too much of that, trying to like, you know, play
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mind tricks ourselves to like dumb it down when we
should have actually like placed this opportunity on the pedestal,
and we would have and I think we did play
a little bit tight when it came to stepping on
the field. You know, the energy was weird. You know,
a lot of Broncos fans wasn't as okay.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So the energy was weird. Okay, that's interesting. I haven't
really heard that comment by someone before.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah, like the energy, like you know, the playoff, like
our playoff game that was the most electrifying moment in
all of my football life, you know. And obviously it's
a home game, right sure. And going to the super
Bowl there was a lot of orange in the stands,
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and when we came out, it was just quiet. I
didn't really it didn't feel like we were going out
and being introduced as you know, super Bowl you know people,
you know, Super Bowl team, right, and so it just
felt like we were just going out and you know,
going through a walk through them most kind of like that.
(09:08):
You know, you can hear how how electrifying it is
to go out and being introduced, right. And I look
at actually, you know, the Patriots, when you guys played
the Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I look at how you guys were introduced.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Into that that environment that looked electric. Fye it man,
I didn't it didn't feel anything like that.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'm floored hearing you talk that way because leading up
to the two weeks prior. Okay, so this week when
we're talking John Fox, right away, Hey, this is a
business trip.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Okay, this is not about parties. We are gonna this week.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You get all your tickets squared away, you get what
your family and everything, get that all squared away, and
we're gonna work hard. We're gonna put it the majority
of the game plan. And he had a couple of
players talk to us, and Ricky Prol was very instrumental
in talking to us, and he told the guys, goes, Listen,
when you warm up for that game, you're gonna feel
like you've never felt before. You're gonna feel like you're
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floating on air. Don't do too much. And Stu, he
was so right. I went out to warm up. I
used to go out about an hour and a half,
an hour and forty five minutes with Don Toner, we
catching passes and I'm in just my sweatsuit, my fleece,
and it used to take me a few throws to
get warmed up.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Right. Yeah, I'm telling you. The first pass that came
out in my hand.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I said, oh my gosh, I know exactly what he's saying.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I felt it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And you could just sense our warm ups. The nervous,
I say, nervous, that good energy. Well, Stu, when we
got introduced as a team. We're in the tunnel. The
majority of us are crying. I mean, like the emotions.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It's just and when we came out, I don't remember,
none of us do. We're just floating on air. So
that's that's so strange.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I wonder if it was in what Santa Clara was,
y'all super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
We were you sing? I don't know if the dome
being louder, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I think it could.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
It could have been the environment where you guys played,
where it was louder, and maybe you know where you
guys were staying in retrospect to where you guys played,
Like we stayed in was it San Jose? What's the
Blue and Yellow School? So so we practiced over there
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and we stayed in that area, and so it just
felt like we were so detached, you know what I'm saying.
So like never really felt like we were reminded every
day that we're, you know, gearing up for this special
moment and and and more.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So, like I was very eager to get out there
and play. I was very eager.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
But I just remember going out there as a team,
and I remember being in that in that tunnel.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I cried.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I had tears, and getting onto the sideline and looking
around and seeing you know, Jerry Rice and seeing all
these different you know, electrifying you know, Hall of famers
and and celebrities. I remember seeing all these moments, but
the like, the the electrifying feeling that I thought I
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was gonna have it was not there, and and and
and I don't know if I'm if I'm saying that
not in the way of I'm disappointed. It was just
something that you know, I kind of anticipated.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
So that's so that's that's that's so interesting to hear.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now, do you think your other teammates felt the same
way or was this particularly just you?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I don't we have like it's interesting. I like I
sit down with you know, Luke and t D.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Greg.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I sit down told Bert, you know, and we talk
all the time about like the Super Bowl, but we
always talk in a way of I still have not
watched the game.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We're all still disappointed. Yea.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
So so we never really get into the details about it.
But I think I think we should absolutely maybe that
can be an opportunity for us to do something in
New Orleans with some guys.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, that's that's an interesting take, you know, And I guess,
you know, I'm trying to remember. I'm assuming you guys
were a favorite in that Super Bowl because of the
fifteen and one season.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I just do know. But we went on that run.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
We were, you know, the Cardiac Cats, and our football
team was a team that we weren't supposed to be there.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So yes, we had the one playoff game at home.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Then we were road warriors, beating the number one seed
in Saint Louis, then gone to Philly and upsetting Philly
and Philly and we were I think double digit underdog.
So you know, I think that us against the world
mentality that we took on, that it just it made
for It just made for great theater and just everything
in our mind leading up to it, we just we
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just couldn't wait.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
It was just the and it, to be quite honest,
it was everything.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I think I thought it would be because I remember,
like you see in the celebrities when you're warming up
and John Fox did something and I'll never forget the
practice squad, guys, not the practice squad. You have so
many inactives, right, fifty three guys on the team, were
forty five dressed well when John.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Fox did, and I thought he was great.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
He, I think, petitioned the NFL and he asked, He goes, hey,
can I allow my guys that are inactive? Can they
dress out and come out for warm ups? He goes,
because you know, this is a reward for and the
NFL allowed it. So there was seven or eight guys
and Marco Battaglia. I'll never forget. He was a tight
end we picked up along the way late in the
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season seven or eight year in the league because we
had an injury to Mike Sideman and we're doing pat
and go and that's where the receivers would run and
the quarterback, you know, would throw like a fit eight. Marco,
we're in an all white uniform. He looks at me
and he goes overthrow me, and I said, one, he goes,
just overthrow me. He goes, I want to die. He goes,
I want grass on my Super Bowl uniform. And it's
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funny you think of it like that meant the world
to him.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
He was a guy that came in late.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
He wasn't gonna play, but he wanted to have grass
staines that he dressed out and so I thought that
was so awesome and you just think about that how
how great the super Bowl is and everything that it's
meant to be.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So as we're talking about the super Bowl, how.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Much do you think game planning wise you put in
the week prior before getting to Santa Clara.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
There's a lot of prep probably over prep more because
and uh and probably just from the standpoint of the
you know the plays that you know, the offensive coordinator Shula,
you know, great offensive mind, and we have Cam Newton
right like, you can do a lot of spectacular things.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Around a guy like that.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
So a lot of you know, mental study, I would
say more than the physical preparation, I think for myself
because I was going into that game with a foot injury.
I had broken my foot against this the Atlanta Falcons
like the week fifteen or sporteen or something like that,
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and so I was nursing an injury. So for me,
my preparation was a lot of mental like, Okay, make
sure you know you know certain plays that might get
called that usually never get called, and you know there's
a whole list of plays like that, or you know,
reverses and you know the the fake dive tossed back
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to the quarterback and launch it down the field type plays,
and you know, just kind of maintaining your composure with
all of the things that you might possibly run, and
also studying film on the guys.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
That you're playing against.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Right and you know, this being the Super Bowl, this
is the one team that you're playing. There's nobody else
after them, and this is the first time you were
really studying them because you didn't get to play. This
is a team that you didn't play in the regular
you know what I'm saying. So we're getting to know
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these guys for the very first time, and we don't
want to be wrong. And so there was a lot
of there's a lot of studying for sure, uh, in
that that one week, that one week off and then
going and being in California, it was more so lock
in on what we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You know, it's funny you say that.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So we did a lot of work in Charlotte also,
and then we flew out on the Sunday to Houston
and we practiced and our practice facility was at the
University of Houston, and I kid you not, we were
so ready to play, but it was almost like we
were overdone because there were almost fights at practice because
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everybody it was just it was time.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
It was time.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We were ready to go, and we were just tired
of seeing each other and it was ready to play.
And that was something that I always remembered. It just like,
can't it just get here soon enough? That's that's the
one that's always in my mind.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
That's the exact feeling that we actually had, like I'm
ready to play and I'm ready to not stay in
this hotel. I'm ready to go home with the super
Bowl like trophy. You know, that's I want to I
want to go play this game and I want to
be victorious. Now, let's do this now. I'm ready. Now,
if we wait any longer, I don't know what's going
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to happen to me. That's kind of like the final
the legit feeling that I had.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, you know, it's and it's so different.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
The super Bowl is so different than any other game
because of the loungevia all the popping circumstances before the game,
which is awesome, right, but then when you go to halftime,
it's like three times as.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Long as the normal halftime.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
And that was something that was just so different because
the normal NFL halftime is what like twelve minutes by
the time you get in, maybe use the restaurant, you
go over one or two things, there's a two minute.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Call and boom you're out. You're heading out.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Well, this is like it just takes forever and ever
until you finally go back out for the second half.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, who performed at your Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We were the legendary Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.
Oh yes, And to be honest, we knew about it
before we left the locker room. And this is two thousand,
This is February of two thousand and four.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
So let's just say the social media media really wasn't
happening at that time. I think text messaging was just
starting to come out. But the whole locker room knew.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
We all knew before we got out in the field
that there was an exposure to Janet Jackson's upper body conture.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
We came out in the.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Field, word traveled really fast. Well, we had Beyonce and
Bruno Mars and Coldplay. I would have loved to see that.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So Beyonce, Beyonce saying before the game for us and
I can't remember if he was the America, the Beautiful whatnot, Beyonce,
Toby Keith, Josh Grobin. Those are the ones that were
prior to the game. So man, it was just you
just think.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
About it, especially being in Houston, so many cool.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, yeah, and I think about it, like I remember,
and I talked about the warming up and John Riggins
was doing radio at the time, National Radio, And here's
John Riggins come and walk up to me and just
kind of shooting the ball with me while I'm tossing.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And I'm like this, this is John Riggins.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It just that those are the things that you think about. Now.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
One thing I want to shift and everybody talks about tickets.
Every NFL player is allowed to purchase fifteen tickets. Correct,
did you get more than fifteen or did you get
just your allotment of fifteen?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I got like eight tickets.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Really, I was very reserved about who and selective about
who was coming to the Super Bowl. I actually did
not owe money after the game. A lot of guys
on our team owed a lot of money. Charles Hunton
was e ist. Oh gosh, you know, and and I
kind of had that in the back of my mind,
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like man if I just I just don't want to
pay for, you know, certain people to come watch me
play in the Super Bowl. I know the ones and
those are my day ones, and I had my day
ones come Solidify there. You know, their selection of the eight.
So what about you? How many tickets did you have?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Oh, Stueie, Stuee, Stewie. That's a tough one. So here
it is. I and I would do it again tomorrow.
We played in Houston. Houston is three hours from my hometown.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Okay, So we get on the plane in Philadelphia the
Sunday evening when we beat them, and I'll walk up
and I'll find Charlie Daton and Phil Yazi and I said, hey,
I want to buy a suite for the super Bowl
next week. I don't know if it's possible, I want
to purchase one. Don't get me wrong. Things are a
lot different than they are now. And I was able
to purchase one. And there was the main reason. My daughter,
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my oldest Lauren, was thirteen months old at the time,
and I didn't. I assumed there would be a zoo
with security and all this and that, and I'm like,
you know what, I want to get them up in
a suite, my parents, family and things like that.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
So I was able to secure one. All right, so
that's true.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
How much does that cost?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Jay, I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
It was ninety thousand dollars and my mother was about
to have a heart attack.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
And I said, listen, mom, time out.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Like this is the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
My playoff money is going to this. I just signed
a two year deal for not a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I'm probably gonna get a big contract, so like, let's
just let's just let's just worry about winning.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
You don't worry about you were You were the man.
That's what you're doing. Like, yeah, we did to the
Super Bowl. I did this, but I'm about to get paid.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
So I got then I purchased my fifteen. But I
get a phone call on the Monday morning after the
NFC Championship game and the guy that he has passed
away now, his name is Philip Brugaier. He is a
mind minority owner of the Houston Texans. He is from
my neck of the woods. He grew up about twenty
minutes south of where I grew up. He was a
(23:08):
graduate of my college and he is a minority owner.
And he said, Jake you don't know me. I'm so
and so I'm a minority owner. I have some tickets
if you would like to purchase, if you needed more
for your family. So I was able to purchase seven more,
certainly at face value, phenomenal tickets.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So, buddy, I ended up having a good amount of tickets.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And you know what, So which did you ever ask?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Did you ever ask the people that came to the
game who had the better experience the sweet tickets or
the seven additional tickets?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I think they all did. Nobody could play. Now, I
we will say my suite was pretty high. There's three
levels of suites in the NRG Stadium in Texas, Okay,
so there's the lower suite, then there's another level. Well,
they have some kind of top and that's how I
was able to get it.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
But they all had a great time.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
They had really really good seeds that were kind of
added about, and but they all had a great time,
and unfortunate, you know, it ended with us coming out second.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
So as we get close to wrapping up, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Get my prediction because Jordan and I will do that
next week. I want to know what Jonathan Stewart's prediction
is for another Kansas City Philadelphia Eagles rematch in the
Super Bowl next week in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Man.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
It's hard to bet against the Kansas City Chiefs, obviously,
that's the that's the title, right, It's hard to bet
against the Kannas City Chiefs because they are you know,
the the about the three peat, right. So, and Patrick
Mahomes is a fantastic player. Andy Reid's probably if he
continues to do what he's doing, he's gonna go down
(24:46):
is probably, in my opinion, the best coach of all
time if he's able to repeat. But I'm gonna have
to go with the Philadelphia Eagles, and not because I
just want them to because of sake one Barkley being
a running back that is basically proving to the world,
into the football world, that you can actually get to
(25:06):
the Super Bowl and win a Super Bowl with a
fantastic running game and great offensive line and a quarterback
that is a field general and a good defense.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
But I honestly think that they have more juice in
the tank. They remember what happened last time. There's some
guys on that team that remember what it felt like
to lose in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
So in my opinion, this is their payback right and
hopefully they are able to do it the right way
and come out victorious, unlike the Buffalo Bills with their rematches.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
So I'm going with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Well, I hear you and I'm listening, and I agree
with a lot of your points, and so maybe it'll
change my mind going in the next week.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
We'll see. But I did you you just tell us?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Did you just tell us your your super Bowl? Change
your mind?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
That's called a tease. That's called a tease. I don't know.
I am. I am pretty certain I.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Know who I'm gonna pick it, and then whatever will
happen when I change. I feel pretty certain about it,
and I felt pretty certain Sunday evening when I knew
both teams.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
But that'll be something we'll discuss next week.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah, So my job, my job will be to basically
before the Super Bowl, convince you to make sure that
you're picking the right team to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I feel pretty certain I'm gonna pick the right team.
There's no doubt. There's no doubt in my mind. That's
how confident I am.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
But you're gonna have to tune in tune in next
week for the Jordan and Jake podcast, But for this week,
this is Jake Dilome signing off. And I want to
thank the great Jonathan Stewart for filling in for Jordan
Groves this week.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
He was fabulous.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I could have kept going on and on about the
stories of the twenty fifteen team and that Super Bowl
run and hopefully, Stewie, we can be how being a
discussion on our podcast in a couple of years or
next year, whatever it may be, with the Carolina Panthers
making a run to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
How about that? That sounds good.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
That sounds that sounds great, Jake, So thanks for having
me on Man anytime.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Appreciate it. Have a great week two.
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