September 4, 2025 • 34 mins
Welcome back to the Vikings Tailgate presented by Ticketmaster - The official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings. We're kicking off the regular season and host Cy Amundson is making moves. Cy's brought in his good friend and diehard Vikings fan, Chad Daniels, to join the show throughout the 2025 season and man are they excited for the kickoff on Monday night. Chad and Cy discuss why they loved William 'The Refrigerator' Perry, the intensity of Chicago sports fans, what it's like getting street heckled in Chicago, and their optimism for Vikings Quarterback J.J. McCarthy. All of this and more is on episode 54 of the Vikings Tailgate presented by Ticketmaster - The official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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finally arrived. That means the Tailgate is back now a
little bit of a change, folks. You've gotten used to
me bringing on my comedic friends, celebrities, et cetera, talking
back and forth with an enemy. Essentially, somebody who's a
fan of the opposing team. Changed it up this year.
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Decided to con Chad Daniels into joining me nearly every
week so we can talk about who we're playing, the
city that that team exists in, and whatever else comes
across our brain. So, if you love Chad, you love comedy,
and you like me, I think you're gonna love another
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It'll really help us out enjoy the show. Everybody, Recket Reckett.
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Come on, I'm here, Hey, Viking fans, Welcome to another
season of The Tailgate, brought to you by Ticketmaster. I'm
your host Y Aminson, and we are starting out the
season against the hated Chicago Bears and their new look offense.
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And hey, speaking of new looks. For those of you
who've been fans of the show for the last couple
of years, you know what we do is each and
every week we bring on a famous comedian or entertainer
who is a fan of the opposing team. Well, this year,
I have conned one of my best friends into being
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the guest. I'm gonna say most of the weeks. Is
that fair? A lot of the weeks? I think it
is a lot of the weeks. Ladies and gentlemen, We're
not We're not our team against their team. Welcome for
the season to the program, the great Chad Daniels burn.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I am so excited for football I can't even hardly
stand it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I am both immensely pumped and concerned. The fact that
because you and I die hard Viking fans, friends for
a long day, right, but when put together, when allowed
to enjoy sports together. The fact that the team is
allowing us to have this show, which means we are
going to be at games together, to give us that
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sort of access as a pair, high level risk.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I think this is a bad idea. But what are
you gonna do? You want Swarts and you want Dumel,
you want the number three and four Vikings fans. That
sounds stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, come on, what are we doing? Let's let two
maniacs that I would say. Here's the thing. I think
a lot of people know who you are, and barely
anybody knows who I am. Give them a show, let them,
let them walk around the stadium, and let's let's see
what happens.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I can't wait, I.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Will say for all, because I don't know that we
enjoy games well together because of our mix of personality.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, it's basically your bad attitude, I don't, and then
your good attitude, and then your bad attitude. You are
so sibylish at games.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's unbelievable, the fact that you have to force words
like sibylish in as you introduce yourself to the audience.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Exactly, it's exactly the word you need to use.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You call me out for my bad attitude, and everybody
gives you a pass for your bad attitude.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Because myattitude, my bad attitude, is right. I call it
a battitude, and it's correct. That's why because every time
I say something negative, it turns out six years in
the future it's correct.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, that's fine, let's silver line in it. Okay, despite
what will happen between the two of us emotionally, as
we are more connected during football than we've ever been,
I will say when we are at events together, let's
talk that big final Twins game of that magical one
to sixty three year.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Guess who was sitting next to one another in the stadium.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's right, you and I.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
That big Niners win where Addison took that ball away
from the other guy ran it in big win, one
of the signature wins of that scene.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Incredible.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Guess who is on the field together before the game?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Uh? Huh? You and I.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And the last time that we watched a game together
was the first Josh Dobbs game. That absurd.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So I do think there's a chance that once this
season has ended and we're playing for the most important trophy,
that a lot of people will owe us a debt
of gratitude that we persevered our old man bickering in
order to provide the fan base with the victories they
so desperately need.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Sure, well, you need to know that I'm using this
show as a stepping stool to become the pregame DJ
yeah at us Bank Stadium. So as soon as soon
as I get that, that's over, bye bye. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It sucks that you think that the point is I'm pumped.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I'm so bumped.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I need you to respect me. More can't happen despite
what you just said, it can't happen. I need a
little bit of space to be who I am on
text messages this year. That's all I'm asking for. But
here's here's what I've decided for the show, because I
don't think anybody wants to hear you and I break
down how our backup tight.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Ends x'es and o's. Nobody wants x's and o's unless
the're hugs and kiss.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Here's how I think they're gonna utilize THEO Jackson this week.
Everybody click, let's let's turn anything else on. So I've
got a segment here that I'm calling love it, hate it? Okay,
cause you know me, I get pretty aggressive and you
get pretty aggressive going into games. So I thought I
would list out and we'll go. I'm gonna go back
and forth, give you one then the other kind of
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even it out. Okay, give you some things that I
love about the city of Chicago or the Bears, and
then I'm gonna I'm gonna blammel right next to it.
I'm gonna put some stuff that I very much don't love. Okay,
and I'll see where you land on it sounds good.
I love that the Chicago Bears had a streak of
thirty years where they did not have a Pro Bowl
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quarterback like that, like and I note, yes, you're saying,
like love it. I didn't know that these were going
to be like really, Caddy, you.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Know, Jabs, Yeah, I did think you were gonna say
something you actually loved. You're saying you love it because
they are the Bears and have had not great question.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Now, let me tell you I have some things that
I do really love that I do think is amazing
about their franchise. But I did want to start with
this one. And it's not even about them. I'm not
taking a jab at them, but it's like an all
time thing for us that we had Fran Tarkenton. And
I'm not saying we haven't had some good quarterbacks along
the way, but we haven't had the guy one of
the handful of like long career guys that is at
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the top of the league.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
We get the guys after they've had a long career.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah. I to me, it's not about criticizing the Bears.
What it's about is feeling good about myself at the
fault of others, which is also not a good thing.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It's not a great quality.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's like being thirty nine years old and single and
everybody wants to know when you're getting married, and you're
just you really don't feel good about yourself. And then
you go to that family wedding and an uncle sits
down next to you that you haven't seen in a while,
and he's been divorced four or five times and he's
got like all he talks about is gout. And you're like,
you know what, I got my whole life ahead of me.
I've been I've been doing great until the uric acid
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in my bones isn't even remotely at a concerning level. Right.
I love that streak makes me feel good about myself.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, I mean, here's what I love. I love and
this is like a this is a positive thing. There's
a story where the Bears were playing Oh man, was
it the Falcons. When Jerry Glanville was there, people started
throwing batteries at Soldier field, at the opposing players. And
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at least this is how I remember the story, haven't
I haven't fact checked it. But then Walter Payton comes
back out of the tunnel with all his pads off,
He's just in a T shirt. He puts his arm
around Jerry Glanville. I think that's who it was, and
walks him out. I think Walter Peyton, as much as
you know, growing up a Vikings fan and disliking the Bears,
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Walter Peyton was that guy that you kind of like.
You go, ah, the that we're playing the Bears, stupid bear.
But what But secretly you always had a crush on
Walter Pateon.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Let's just go down the likes because now we've launched,
I can go down all the likes because I think
you're an all time villain. And I'll bring this back
to Walter Payton, but you're an all time villain. If
you don't love the concept of William the Refrigerator Perry, right,
I mean, he would have to be the sole reason
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that might like and the only reason one hundred percent
of the reason that my favorite team didn't win a
Super Bowl. Like, and I was trying to think when
I was trying to find things that I could stomach.
Chicago on I was like, is that the greatest nickname
in sports history? The refrigerator?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, because even because you look at the Detroit Pistons
they stole, they were like, oh how about the ice box?
I mean, the refrigerator really started something.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I went on the internet and I was like, what
nick what are considered the greatest names? And the list
that I found, he was number ten, which did not
seem correct at all.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Gotta'd be some real good ones there.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, you just forget you forget that air Jordan at
one point that wasn't a name, and that Irvin was
never called magic, Like that is an actual nickname. And
I believe it's Walter Payton. Isn't Walter Payton sweetness?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Sweetness?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, I mean that is a top five. I forget
who the dude in the NBA is, But they called
him Microwave because he'd come in and he'd heat up
really quick. Oh funny, that's a great name. I think
kitchen appliance names are just real, real, real good.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I also love White Chocolate.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
White Chocolate, that was a good one. Absolutely. Have you
ever watched old highlights of Randy Moss and White Chocolate
were on the same high school basketball team. Dude, if
you think you love Randy Moss, already watch White Chocolate
throwing a behind the back alley loop to Randy Moss.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, really, really incredible. Now let's go back to Refrigerator
for just a second. I mean, not only was he great,
not only did he knock linebackers on their back, but
he also gave every little kid with a space in
between their two front teeth purpose.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah some hope. Yeah, the fridge out here given hope.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
This is way before Michael Strahan. You think Michael Strahan
smiles into a camera on Good Morning America or whatever
show he's on with that space in between his teeth.
If there wasn't for Refrigerator Perry, that would have gotten fixed.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Easy. Refrigerator Perry slowly walked so Michael Strahan could slowly run.
This is an easy one. The Super Bowl Shuffle. Now,
I don't need to spend a lot of time on
the Super Bowl Shuffle, but what I was thinking was,
if you had to pick and I think everybody does
ninety eight because everybody anytime you ask about a Viking team,
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everybody goes to ninety eight. But if you had to
pick any Vikings team from history that made their own
like eighties hip hop music video or rap video, do
you have a pick?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I mean, I want to ninety eight, of course is
probably the favorite pick. I'd like to go ninety seven
just to make sure Brad Johnson has a partner, just
to watch him do it.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I also think any of the years Tys was the coach,
Yeah you could see, I mean Tys feels like you're
like it's a hip hop video and here comes Mike
Tys with sunglasses and a you know, and a saxophone
around the corner, Like I didn't know they were gonna
have sacks in this one. I think two thousand and
nine would have been a good one. There was so
much personality on the team with Jared Allen, the Williams
yep ap far of the whole thing. But I also
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was trying to think just there was that run of years,
like because before before two thousand and nine, I think
we hadn't won a division in like nine years, and
I know we made the playoffs in four that was
the famous mooning game. There's there's a music video right
there that comes off of that moment. But there are
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some forgotten Vikings that I really love and the Vikings hold.
One of the all time names in NFL history Wasawas Sirwanga. Yeah,
and I think he was on a pretty bad team,
so I could sure go for a Vikings music video
called the waswas Sir Wanga shuffle?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Mm hmm. That's going to confuse some people.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I think that does it for me. But yeah, I'm
with you. I think the winner is probably anything that
involves Brad Johnson.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I think so too. Also. I mean, shut your eyes,
shut your eyes right now. I'm gonna say a name
and tell me what comes to your head. Darren Nelson
that you're way older than me.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Okay, let me give you one more thing I love
about last Love. There is a famous I'm a big,
big man touchdown guy. I love him, Okay, big rumbling,
stumbling you know, Garrett Bradberry. He didn't score, touch him,
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but seventy yards down the field with the ball. Love it.
The Bears have, in my opinion, one that's on Mount Rushmore.
If you're not familiar all you got to do is
put this name into the Google search and then come
back to the show. Keith Traylor like Tractor Trailer, a
big old man who got an interception off of Mark
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Brunel and ran it a pick six, ran it so
far and so funny that the announcers started riffing like
it was Mystery Science Theater three thousand. It's it's maybe
if you were like, give me the one hundred greatest
clips in NFL history. Yeah, you gotta have the miracle
and the catch and all these things. I think it
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makes it. It's have you seen that video?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm sure I've seen the actual thing.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, dude. And to just to be a he's three
hundred and forty or whatever pound man whose last name
is trailer, it's gonna be good unless you have a
guy named Jimmy semi truck Scoop six for like ninety yards,
that's gonna be a pretty hard one to be.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well, it take it took him so long to run
it back that they actually played an episode of Mystery
Science Thee to three thousand. I think that's what you're
thinking of.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Okay, can I give you my list of hates?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Ready?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I don't like going to Chicago. Why No, I don't
mean as a human. I mean as a team. I
don't know what it is about. I don't know if
other teams have it. But we could be fourteen and
zher and they could be zero and fourteen, and it's
gonna be a meat grinder. That's how it's been for
all my life and specifically my adult life. My dad,
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who I've talked about on this show, wh you know, well,
he gets worked up. Yeah, and so he he always
calls the in Chicago game. He calls it Bears bye
week because he can't watch it. He gets so stressed
out by what he thinks is gonna happen, and he
just he takes a walk or he goes pheasant hunting.
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He just now it's it's season opener. So I think
that's gonna be difficult for him. But I just never
like how my expectations are met with the reality of
a meat grinder in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah. I mean I've been there for the Vikes game.
I've been to Soldier Field and it was it was tough.
You're walking through the parking lot, You're getting stuff thrown
at you in your vikings Jersey and everybody's you know,
and it's hard. It's hard to take a threat seriously
when they sound like the detective from that Harrison Ford
movie where he goes, are you telling so one thing here?
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You say your wife was killed within a one armed man?
I mean, and they're like throwing that accent at you,
and you get what with beers and you go, what's
even happening? It doesn't make sense. So I'm so confused.
I go into the game. There's a group of people
that everyone loves in the stadium and they are in
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front of us by the goalpost, and that I am
standing up because Dante Culpeper is getting murdered and they're
not calling anything, and so I stand up and I
start screaming, and this guy from this group turns around
yells at me, and then I yell something and I'm
gonna tell you something home game so funny, so incredibly
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funny that I cannot say on this show. But everyone
starts booing me. I mean, and I'm telling you it
is death threats. I have changed their accents. Now they
are very they're talking very seriously to me about what
I've just said, to the point where I'm getting threats,
and so I go up and I have I sign
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up for a Chicago Bears visa card so I can
get the free gift, which is a Chicago Bear's fleece
throw blanket so I can wrap myself up in that
so I don't get murdered. And the Bears end up winning.
And then here's what happens in the Midwest at games.
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When your team wins, then all of the all of
the violence can stop. And so now we're walking back
to our car through the parking lot after the game,
and people are walking up handing us a beer, going,
hey man, you probably need this. It's like what has happened.
It's like going to a game with you listening to
your back and forth.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I don't need that. But I agree with you. Every
Chicago sporting and that's my number two on that don't
love it list, is every Chicago sporting event I've ever
gone to has ended really poorly for me. It's and
I don't and I agree with you. It's hard to
It's hard to have a guy who looks like he
quit his like his independent minor league baseball managerial job,
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to sell beef jerky for a startup. It's hard to
have a guy who, yeah, you like this, That is
a hard thing for you to just take and then
not go back at. But Chicago's one of those cities
Mike Tys to Mike Tys references in this podcast or
any theme, Mike Tys calls it tough guy town, and
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those people believe it. So when they say something funny
and then you say something funny back, yours was not funny, partner,
and I have a problem with you. And uh, I'm
I'm oh. For every Chicago game I've ever gone, leaving
and going that was that rocked, it's always we gotta
get to the car. We gotta get to the car.
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I will also say I can't go to Chicago without
somebody accurately and meanly street hackling me.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Last time I did Zanies, I was walking from the
hotel to Zany's and somebody called me a ghost cowboy.
I'm pretty skinny right now. I wasn't wearing a cowboy hat.
I was like, ghost cowboy, what's that? And then I
went I got into the club and I went to
the bathroom and I looked at myself in the mirror
and I was like, oh, no, ghost cowboy. So that city.
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It is a tough guy town, and I think I'm
a soft boy. I think that's my last thing about
Chicago is when I have to go there, I'm a
soft boy and a tough guy town, and it doesn't
it's not good for me.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm going to tell you one more thing I like
about it. I went there once and I was walking
into uh, I can't remember the name of the place,
Deep Dish Pizza, famous for it, Gino zi'st that's what's
And this guy has a little milk crate and some
shoe shining stuff and he goes, hey, I'd like to
shine your shoes, and I go, oh, thinks anyways, man,
He goes, well, how about this. He goes, if it's
twenty bucks. If I'm going to tell you a rid.
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If you get it right, then I'll shine him for free.
If you get it wrong, you pay me forty for
the shine. And I go, I like riddles, Okay, well
completely burned me right, So I pay him forty bucks,
and I won't let him shine my shoes because I
hate that so much. Yeah, I hate having another person
doing that kind of work for me absolutely, And so
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I just lost forty bucks. But I did love it,
because what a hard burn.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I love a good Yeah. If more of Chicago, if
you just treated all of Chicago like, oh, you got
to go into Walgreens, here's a here's just a little,
a little tiny little hey, hey, you want to get
in the door, here's your riddle. I don't know what
accent that was. I think I think I.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Shifted Gangs of New York save it for the Giants episode.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I think I should. I think I shifted if Chicago
was accessed all over the place by riddle riddle laden
men who looked like they were on the Mike Ditka sketch.
Yes on SNL. I'm way back in on that sit.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Here's what I would love for a rule in Chicago
at Bears games, no Bears hats. You can wear Bears jerseys.
You can wear Bears zubas and god do you I
know they do it. Yeah, but here is what I
think you should have to do. You should have to
wear either your White Sox hat or your Cubs hat.
Oh that way, I know who I can beat up
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in a film, and that is what I would love
to do. Hey, White Sox fan, you want to throw
that beer at me? That's fine. But if I get
hit with a hot dog by a guy in a
Cubs hat, Oh it's on, baby.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
We're about to wrestle on a stairwell.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
All right, Let's let's talk about the game a little
bit because we do again. We're not going to break
it down. That's not what you We'll just talk about
it as fans. This is the first time the Vikings
have gone on the road to face the Bears in
the regular season opener since two thousand and two. That
game actually not played in the stadium. It was at
the University of Illinois in champ Compangna because of the
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renovations being done to Soldier Field. Everybody's talking about a
lot of stuff. I am the number one talker is
JJ JJ McCarthy. I'm in, but I'm not in in
the way other people are in. You have people exalting
this dude. You have people like he's the friend, Like
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I'm just in because of the possibility. I have this
sports rule that I stole from our friend Kevin Boseman.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
OK.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
And it's that I am not smart enough or talented
enough to make decisions like I'm not an owner who
is smart enough to hire a coach or a GM just.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
A second, Hey, Jay, can we clip that last thing?
Not smart enough and talented enough?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Jay, Let's go ahead and unclip that last.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Thing that's gonna be my text tune.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Let's unclip it. Uh. I Just so, I think our
coach who we talked about this, look what he did
with Josh Dobbs look at like, yeah, whatever he decides
at quarterback. If he came out at a press conference,
he's like, Hey, I attached a magnetic wiggle arm to
the printer in my office, and you should see this
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thing throw a slant route. I'd be like, I bet
he knows what he's talking about. He he has earned this.
Let's see what happens with the guy that he believes in.
So the fact that he's in on JJ, I'm very innunt,
but I'm in on the possibility, don't. I don't want
to say he's gonna be great. I don't want all
these people who are predicting all these things. I just
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like that the first half of the season and potentially
the whole season, we are gonna find out. We talked
about that Bears streak. We're gonna find out if we
possibly have a guy and that feeling because I don't
think you ever felt it with Ponder, I don't think
you ever felt it with Tavares Jackson. I don't think
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we have truly felt Teddy. I could say you probably
felt it a little bit about everybody loves Teddy, but
it wasn't when Dante started and he was part of
that powerful offense within a couple of years, and then
all of a sudden, he's an MVP candidate, second place
in the voting, Like that's the last time we've felt like, whoa,
Maybe it's finally our turn for a top three, top
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five guy, And I just think the possibility of that
is fun. So I'm going to enjoy that potential.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah, I mean speaking on Koc's ability to be and
you know he has been coined the quarterback Whisperer. It's
a fresh start. We're not going after this quarterback that's
been great on another team for so many years and
paying him this one year contract. We are saying, dude,
we're committing to you, commit to us. And I love
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that kind of relationship and I'm excited to see what.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Happens if you had to pick a non JJ McCarthy
addition that you're most pumped about because there are a
lot of changes. You got the O line, the middle
of the D line, the new cornerback, the running back kid.
Like if you had to pick one non j that
because I think often with football teams, if you get
a jump up somewhere, Andrew van Ginkle from last year
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is a great example. I think people expected Andrew van
Gingkle to be a player. No one expected what we got.
When you get that jump up there and then you
get a jump up from Darnold, all of a sudden,
you're fourteen and three.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah. I mean, obviously defense is as a whole looks great.
We've filled some spots on the offensive line, but the
jump up I am most excited about. Mason. I had
this kid. I picked him up on Fantasy last year
after McCaffrey got injured. And because of that, I watch
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this guy play who normally I wouldn't have and boy,
oh boy, can this kid scoot?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah? And if he's and that it creates kind of
like it's almost like now with the two offensive linemen
in the middle. I think this is the most autonomy
of or like freedom of decision. The KOC will have
as a coach where he's like, hey, I now have
two running backs. I now have a center of if
if the new alignment workout, you just have pieces everywhere
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with theland coming back that you go, oh, I think
he's now in a position to do kind of whatever
he wants and that's fun.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I think so too. I mean, you could put him
out both at the same time. You could. I mean,
these defenses are going to have a hard enough time
in the secondary figuring out who they're gonna.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Double right, absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So yeah, I'm a man. I'm stoked about all of
it because it gives Jones a little time to relax,
in time to catch his breath without feeling like you're
putting in u you know, a secondary back.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I mean, I'm gonna throw a pipe dream one at you,
like a by low Sell high one that no one's
talking about because Jeff Akuda, who got drafted by the
Lions and just hasn't had the career people thought he
was gonna have. I have that thing in the back
of my head that's like, but what what is what if?
Because at one point everybody's like, this is the dude, right,
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what if? What if he gets in there? With Flores.
What if let me ask you this. I was at
the facility last week. I can't remember his Tuesday or Thursday,
and somebody set a sentence to me that I had
to stop and laugh at. Okay, if you'd have given
me ten thousand guesses at weird sentences, I would have
heard in the Vikings facility this year. I don't think
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before the season started I would have heard the sentence
we just got done with the Carson Wentz, Adam Thielen
and Max bros mur Presso.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, I mean talk about Homerville, right, Yeah, it's great.
I mean, so you know, I grew up Fergus Falls,
lived there forever raising kids, so I got to watch
I mean, we didn't have the Minneapolis channels, we had
the Fargo channels. So I'm always watching this guy play.
Was doing well before he got injured, and I'm so
stoked to have him back. I'm stoked to have feeling
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back to field. I mean this, you know, everyone goes,
oh man, thelen uh coming back. He's Detroit Lake's guy,
which gets me in my fields because I my grandparents Frasey, you.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Know, my dad's my dad grew up in Detroit Lakes
but they do you get any here's a question living
up there, because we both live up there and near there.
So this is a very different person because Adam Thelen
is so wonderful and so likable. But you know who's
also from where we're from, brock Lesner. That's true, former
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former preseason Viking brock Lesner.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
But people also wonderful.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
People up there are so jacked that he's from there.
Like during the prime of his career, I remember like
on fight nights, you wouldn't even go to a gas
station because guys would just be an inappropriate amount of
jacked up.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, and they were.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
They were. They were too proud, they were too proud
of brock Lesner being from there. I think we've got
a nice level of Adam Thelen grew up in this
Ara pride. It doesn't there's not like a feeling storefront, right,
you know, it's it's a calm level. So I'm I'm
pump I'm pumped for it as well.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, brock Lesner, his daughter used to skate against my
daughter in figure skating. Oh really, Yeah, now you know
his daughter's obviously Olympian because you know, oh I didn't know.
Besides on the Yeah she throws for Colorado State. She
throws a shot put.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh yeah, because she throws the I thought you meant
as a figure.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh yeah, No, beg your pardon. She shifted gears in
the most incredible way, except they're spinning involved in both.
So you take what you learned as a child and
you bring it into your collegiate career.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Other than wins and losses, there's the last question I
have for you, because you know, I think it'll be interesting.
Ben Johnson new look offense and as an offensive coordinator.
I think that dude was like five and one against us,
including when we were good. These first two games the
Bears and the Falcons. As you look ahead in the
schedule gets really hard in October, I think these first
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two games are going to be I think these are
two really desperate teams to prove themselves and show up
big early. I think you're gonna have like a crazy
fight on your hands. But let's talk broadly before we
do predictions other than wins and losses. What's the thing
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that and it can it also can't be JJ Okay,
so I know I already asked you for a prep
but is there anything and it doesn't even have to
necessarily be gameplay specific. But do you have something you're
most looking forward to for the season other than how
well we do and how well JJ does well.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I don't know if this falls in that category, but
beating the Chiefs in the Super Bowl clearly is what
I'm looking forward to because I'm so tired of them.
I'm tired. I'm like, enough is enough.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Let's do. Here's how I want to do predictions this year. Okay,
I want to do a game prediction. Okay, so we're
calling it game player. You so give me a game prediction,
a player that you think is going to play really well,
and give me a Chad Daniel's prediction, and what's gonna
happen for you during the game.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Okay, So game prediction win by double digits.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Player prediction. I'm gonna go with Theland having just a
humongous game.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Dad, you took mine. I had a touchdown for him.
Mine was a touchdown from them.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
But I'm gonna say, whoever has him in a PPR
league buckle up, because I think it's gonna be I
don't think it's gonna be like a lot of long
routes I think it's gonna be short under routes, and
I think he's gonna just rack up the points. And
then a Chad prediction, what's gonna happen with me? I
know it's gonna be quiet because the last time the
Vikings played the Bears, the Vikings were up by eleven
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with a minute and a half to go, and I
my my girlfriend said hey, congratulations they won and then
it went to overtime and they won by a field goal.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I I will I'm gonna go Vitan one hundred and
twenty seven Bears nineteen?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Love it? Yeah? Is it? Rushing yards?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Took? You took my feeling, So I am. I'm going
to I'm gonna say it's the return of the Hawk. Yeah,
I'm gonna say, you know, Hawk came back last year
you played. But I think we're gonna this might be
the game right out the gate that we go, oh yeah,
he's like way good at this.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
So I'm going player prediction, I'm going to Return of
the Hawk. And then personal prediction. I'm gonna say that
I'm gonna have to spend because it's a Monday night game, right,
so it's gonna be the evening you're gonna have had
a long day, and I can't always guarantee stuff goes
great for you in a long day. So I think
part of my night is going to be dedicated to
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arguing with you to let me feel my feelings throughout
the season. Opener, I think you're not gonna let me
be negative when I want to be negative and then
just all of a sudden, be positive again. So that's
my prediction. I think I think our text threat you
me and the baby boy, my nephew Ethan. I think
our text threat is going to be intense on Monday night.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I think so too. And I'm gonna like to make
one more prediction, and it's of the pizza delivery driver
when he comes to my door and he goes hi,
third time this week?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Huh, that's gonna do it? Folks, come back listen to
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going to be here almost all the weeks. When he's
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Thank you well you're here. Give us a good review.
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Decided to con Chad Daniels into joining me nearly every
week so we can talk about who we're playing, the
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Come on, I'm here, Hey, Viking fans, Welcome to another
season of The Tailgate, brought to you by Ticketmaster. I'm
your host Y Aminson, and we are starting out the
season against the hated Chicago Bears and their new look offense.
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And hey, speaking of new looks. For those of you
who've been fans of the show for the last couple
of years, you know what we do is each and
every week we bring on a famous comedian or entertainer
who is a fan of the opposing team. Well, this year,
I have conned one of my best friends into being
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the guest. I'm gonna say most of the weeks. Is
that fair? A lot of the weeks? I think it
is a lot of the weeks. Ladies and gentlemen, We're
not We're not our team against their team. Welcome for
the season to the program, the great Chad Daniels burn.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I am so excited for football I can't even hardly
stand it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I am both immensely pumped and concerned. The fact that
because you and I die hard Viking fans, friends for
a long day, right, but when put together, when allowed
to enjoy sports together. The fact that the team is
allowing us to have this show, which means we are
going to be at games together, to give us that
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sort of access as a pair, high level risk.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I think this is a bad idea. But what are
you gonna do? You want Swarts and you want Dumel,
you want the number three and four Vikings fans. That
sounds stupid.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, come on, what are we doing? Let's let two
maniacs that I would say. Here's the thing. I think
a lot of people know who you are, and barely
anybody knows who I am. Give them a show, let them,
let them walk around the stadium, and let's let's see
what happens.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I can't wait, I.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Will say for all, because I don't know that we
enjoy games well together because of our mix of personality.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, it's basically your bad attitude, I don't, and then
your good attitude, and then your bad attitude. You are
so sibylish at games.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's unbelievable, the fact that you have to force words
like sibylish in as you introduce yourself to the audience.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Exactly, it's exactly the word you need to use.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You call me out for my bad attitude, and everybody
gives you a pass for your bad attitude.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Because myattitude, my bad attitude, is right. I call it
a battitude, and it's correct. That's why because every time
I say something negative, it turns out six years in
the future it's correct.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, that's fine, let's silver line in it. Okay, despite
what will happen between the two of us emotionally, as
we are more connected during football than we've ever been,
I will say when we are at events together, let's
talk that big final Twins game of that magical one
to sixty three year.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Guess who was sitting next to one another in the stadium.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's right, you and I.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
That big Niners win where Addison took that ball away
from the other guy ran it in big win, one
of the signature wins of that scene.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Incredible.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Guess who is on the field together before the game?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Uh? Huh? You and I.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And the last time that we watched a game together
was the first Josh Dobbs game. That absurd.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So I do think there's a chance that once this
season has ended and we're playing for the most important trophy,
that a lot of people will owe us a debt
of gratitude that we persevered our old man bickering in
order to provide the fan base with the victories they
so desperately need.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Sure, well, you need to know that I'm using this
show as a stepping stool to become the pregame DJ
yeah at us Bank Stadium. So as soon as soon
as I get that, that's over, bye bye. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It sucks that you think that the point is I'm pumped.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I'm so bumped.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I need you to respect me. More can't happen despite
what you just said, it can't happen. I need a
little bit of space to be who I am on
text messages this year. That's all I'm asking for. But
here's here's what I've decided for the show, because I
don't think anybody wants to hear you and I break
down how our backup tight.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Ends x'es and o's. Nobody wants x's and o's unless
the're hugs and kiss.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Here's how I think they're gonna utilize THEO Jackson this week.
Everybody click, let's let's turn anything else on. So I've
got a segment here that I'm calling love it, hate it? Okay,
cause you know me, I get pretty aggressive and you
get pretty aggressive going into games. So I thought I
would list out and we'll go. I'm gonna go back
and forth, give you one then the other kind of
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even it out. Okay, give you some things that I
love about the city of Chicago or the Bears, and
then I'm gonna I'm gonna blammel right next to it.
I'm gonna put some stuff that I very much don't love. Okay,
and I'll see where you land on it sounds good.
I love that the Chicago Bears had a streak of
thirty years where they did not have a Pro Bowl
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quarterback like that, like and I note, yes, you're saying,
like love it. I didn't know that these were going
to be like really, Caddy, you.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Know, Jabs, Yeah, I did think you were gonna say
something you actually loved. You're saying you love it because
they are the Bears and have had not great question.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Now, let me tell you I have some things that
I do really love that I do think is amazing
about their franchise. But I did want to start with
this one. And it's not even about them. I'm not
taking a jab at them, but it's like an all
time thing for us that we had Fran Tarkenton. And
I'm not saying we haven't had some good quarterbacks along
the way, but we haven't had the guy one of
the handful of like long career guys that is at
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the top of the league.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
We get the guys after they've had a long career.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah. I to me, it's not about criticizing the Bears.
What it's about is feeling good about myself at the
fault of others, which is also not a good thing.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
It's not a great quality.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's like being thirty nine years old and single and
everybody wants to know when you're getting married, and you're
just you really don't feel good about yourself. And then
you go to that family wedding and an uncle sits
down next to you that you haven't seen in a while,
and he's been divorced four or five times and he's
got like all he talks about is gout. And you're like,
you know what, I got my whole life ahead of me.
I've been I've been doing great until the uric acid
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in my bones isn't even remotely at a concerning level. Right.
I love that streak makes me feel good about myself.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, I mean, here's what I love. I love and
this is like a this is a positive thing. There's
a story where the Bears were playing Oh man, was
it the Falcons. When Jerry Glanville was there, people started
throwing batteries at Soldier field, at the opposing players. And
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at least this is how I remember the story, haven't
I haven't fact checked it. But then Walter Payton comes
back out of the tunnel with all his pads off,
He's just in a T shirt. He puts his arm
around Jerry Glanville. I think that's who it was, and
walks him out. I think Walter Peyton, as much as
you know, growing up a Vikings fan and disliking the Bears,
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Walter Peyton was that guy that you kind of like.
You go, ah, the that we're playing the Bears, stupid bear.
But what But secretly you always had a crush on
Walter Pateon.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Let's just go down the likes because now we've launched,
I can go down all the likes because I think
you're an all time villain. And I'll bring this back
to Walter Payton, but you're an all time villain. If
you don't love the concept of William the Refrigerator Perry, right,
I mean, he would have to be the sole reason
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that might like and the only reason one hundred percent
of the reason that my favorite team didn't win a
Super Bowl. Like, and I was trying to think when
I was trying to find things that I could stomach.
Chicago on I was like, is that the greatest nickname
in sports history? The refrigerator?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, because even because you look at the Detroit Pistons
they stole, they were like, oh how about the ice box?
I mean, the refrigerator really started something.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I went on the internet and I was like, what
nick what are considered the greatest names? And the list
that I found, he was number ten, which did not
seem correct at all.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Gotta'd be some real good ones there.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, you just forget you forget that air Jordan at
one point that wasn't a name, and that Irvin was
never called magic, Like that is an actual nickname. And
I believe it's Walter Payton. Isn't Walter Payton sweetness?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Sweetness?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, I mean that is a top five. I forget
who the dude in the NBA is, But they called
him Microwave because he'd come in and he'd heat up
really quick. Oh funny, that's a great name. I think
kitchen appliance names are just real, real, real good.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I also love White Chocolate.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
White Chocolate, that was a good one. Absolutely. Have you
ever watched old highlights of Randy Moss and White Chocolate
were on the same high school basketball team. Dude, if
you think you love Randy Moss, already watch White Chocolate
throwing a behind the back alley loop to Randy Moss.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, really, really incredible. Now let's go back to Refrigerator
for just a second. I mean, not only was he great,
not only did he knock linebackers on their back, but
he also gave every little kid with a space in
between their two front teeth purpose.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah some hope. Yeah, the fridge out here given hope.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
This is way before Michael Strahan. You think Michael Strahan
smiles into a camera on Good Morning America or whatever
show he's on with that space in between his teeth.
If there wasn't for Refrigerator Perry, that would have gotten fixed.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Easy. Refrigerator Perry slowly walked so Michael Strahan could slowly run.
This is an easy one. The Super Bowl Shuffle. Now,
I don't need to spend a lot of time on
the Super Bowl Shuffle, but what I was thinking was,
if you had to pick and I think everybody does
ninety eight because everybody anytime you ask about a Viking team,
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everybody goes to ninety eight. But if you had to
pick any Vikings team from history that made their own
like eighties hip hop music video or rap video, do
you have a pick?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I mean, I want to ninety eight, of course is
probably the favorite pick. I'd like to go ninety seven
just to make sure Brad Johnson has a partner, just
to watch him do it.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I also think any of the years Tys was the coach,
Yeah you could see, I mean Tys feels like you're
like it's a hip hop video and here comes Mike
Tys with sunglasses and a you know, and a saxophone
around the corner, Like I didn't know they were gonna
have sacks in this one. I think two thousand and
nine would have been a good one. There was so
much personality on the team with Jared Allen, the Williams
yep ap far of the whole thing. But I also
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was trying to think just there was that run of years,
like because before before two thousand and nine, I think
we hadn't won a division in like nine years, and
I know we made the playoffs in four that was
the famous mooning game. There's there's a music video right
there that comes off of that moment. But there are
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some forgotten Vikings that I really love and the Vikings hold.
One of the all time names in NFL history Wasawas Sirwanga. Yeah,
and I think he was on a pretty bad team,
so I could sure go for a Vikings music video
called the waswas Sir Wanga shuffle?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Mm hmm. That's going to confuse some people.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I think that does it for me. But yeah, I'm
with you. I think the winner is probably anything that
involves Brad Johnson.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I think so too. Also. I mean, shut your eyes,
shut your eyes right now. I'm gonna say a name
and tell me what comes to your head. Darren Nelson
that you're way older than me.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Okay, let me give you one more thing I love
about last Love. There is a famous I'm a big,
big man touchdown guy. I love him, Okay, big rumbling,
stumbling you know, Garrett Bradberry. He didn't score, touch him,
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but seventy yards down the field with the ball. Love it.
The Bears have, in my opinion, one that's on Mount Rushmore.
If you're not familiar all you got to do is
put this name into the Google search and then come
back to the show. Keith Traylor like Tractor Trailer, a
big old man who got an interception off of Mark
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Brunel and ran it a pick six, ran it so
far and so funny that the announcers started riffing like
it was Mystery Science Theater three thousand. It's it's maybe
if you were like, give me the one hundred greatest
clips in NFL history. Yeah, you gotta have the miracle
and the catch and all these things. I think it
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makes it. It's have you seen that video?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm sure I've seen the actual thing.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, dude. And to just to be a he's three
hundred and forty or whatever pound man whose last name
is trailer, it's gonna be good unless you have a
guy named Jimmy semi truck Scoop six for like ninety yards,
that's gonna be a pretty hard one to be.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well, it take it took him so long to run
it back that they actually played an episode of Mystery
Science Thee to three thousand. I think that's what you're
thinking of.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Okay, can I give you my list of hates?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Ready?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I don't like going to Chicago. Why No, I don't
mean as a human. I mean as a team. I
don't know what it is about. I don't know if
other teams have it. But we could be fourteen and
zher and they could be zero and fourteen, and it's
gonna be a meat grinder. That's how it's been for
all my life and specifically my adult life. My dad,
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who I've talked about on this show, wh you know, well,
he gets worked up. Yeah, and so he he always
calls the in Chicago game. He calls it Bears bye
week because he can't watch it. He gets so stressed
out by what he thinks is gonna happen, and he
just he takes a walk or he goes pheasant hunting.
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He just now it's it's season opener. So I think
that's gonna be difficult for him. But I just never
like how my expectations are met with the reality of
a meat grinder in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah. I mean I've been there for the Vikes game.
I've been to Soldier Field and it was it was tough.
You're walking through the parking lot, You're getting stuff thrown
at you in your vikings Jersey and everybody's you know,
and it's hard. It's hard to take a threat seriously
when they sound like the detective from that Harrison Ford
movie where he goes, are you telling so one thing here?
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You say your wife was killed within a one armed man?
I mean, and they're like throwing that accent at you,
and you get what with beers and you go, what's
even happening? It doesn't make sense. So I'm so confused.
I go into the game. There's a group of people
that everyone loves in the stadium and they are in
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front of us by the goalpost, and that I am
standing up because Dante Culpeper is getting murdered and they're
not calling anything, and so I stand up and I
start screaming, and this guy from this group turns around
yells at me, and then I yell something and I'm
gonna tell you something home game so funny, so incredibly
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funny that I cannot say on this show. But everyone
starts booing me. I mean, and I'm telling you it
is death threats. I have changed their accents. Now they
are very they're talking very seriously to me about what
I've just said, to the point where I'm getting threats,
and so I go up and I have I sign
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up for a Chicago Bears visa card so I can
get the free gift, which is a Chicago Bear's fleece
throw blanket so I can wrap myself up in that
so I don't get murdered. And the Bears end up winning.
And then here's what happens in the Midwest at games.
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When your team wins, then all of the all of
the violence can stop. And so now we're walking back
to our car through the parking lot after the game,
and people are walking up handing us a beer, going,
hey man, you probably need this. It's like what has happened.
It's like going to a game with you listening to
your back and forth.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I don't need that. But I agree with you. Every
Chicago sporting and that's my number two on that don't
love it list, is every Chicago sporting event I've ever
gone to has ended really poorly for me. It's and
I don't and I agree with you. It's hard to
It's hard to have a guy who looks like he
quit his like his independent minor league baseball managerial job,
(18:07):
to sell beef jerky for a startup. It's hard to
have a guy who, yeah, you like this, That is
a hard thing for you to just take and then
not go back at. But Chicago's one of those cities
Mike Tys to Mike Tys references in this podcast or
any theme, Mike Tys calls it tough guy town, and
(18:28):
those people believe it. So when they say something funny
and then you say something funny back, yours was not funny, partner,
and I have a problem with you. And uh, I'm
I'm oh. For every Chicago game I've ever gone, leaving
and going that was that rocked, it's always we gotta
get to the car. We gotta get to the car.
(18:50):
I will also say I can't go to Chicago without
somebody accurately and meanly street hackling me.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Last time I did Zanies, I was walking from the
hotel to Zany's and somebody called me a ghost cowboy.
I'm pretty skinny right now. I wasn't wearing a cowboy hat.
I was like, ghost cowboy, what's that? And then I
went I got into the club and I went to
the bathroom and I looked at myself in the mirror
and I was like, oh, no, ghost cowboy. So that city.
(19:27):
It is a tough guy town, and I think I'm
a soft boy. I think that's my last thing about
Chicago is when I have to go there, I'm a
soft boy and a tough guy town, and it doesn't
it's not good for me.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm going to tell you one more thing I like
about it. I went there once and I was walking
into uh, I can't remember the name of the place,
Deep Dish Pizza, famous for it, Gino zi'st that's what's
And this guy has a little milk crate and some
shoe shining stuff and he goes, hey, I'd like to
shine your shoes, and I go, oh, thinks anyways, man,
He goes, well, how about this. He goes, if it's
twenty bucks. If I'm going to tell you a rid.
(20:00):
If you get it right, then I'll shine him for free.
If you get it wrong, you pay me forty for
the shine. And I go, I like riddles, Okay, well
completely burned me right, So I pay him forty bucks,
and I won't let him shine my shoes because I
hate that so much. Yeah, I hate having another person
doing that kind of work for me absolutely, And so
(20:20):
I just lost forty bucks. But I did love it,
because what a hard burn.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I love a good Yeah. If more of Chicago, if
you just treated all of Chicago like, oh, you got
to go into Walgreens, here's a here's just a little,
a little tiny little hey, hey, you want to get
in the door, here's your riddle. I don't know what
accent that was. I think I think I.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Shifted Gangs of New York save it for the Giants episode.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I think I should. I think I shifted if Chicago
was accessed all over the place by riddle riddle laden
men who looked like they were on the Mike Ditka sketch.
Yes on SNL. I'm way back in on that sit.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Here's what I would love for a rule in Chicago
at Bears games, no Bears hats. You can wear Bears jerseys.
You can wear Bears zubas and god do you I
know they do it. Yeah, but here is what I
think you should have to do. You should have to
wear either your White Sox hat or your Cubs hat.
Oh that way, I know who I can beat up
(21:23):
in a film, and that is what I would love
to do. Hey, White Sox fan, you want to throw
that beer at me? That's fine. But if I get
hit with a hot dog by a guy in a
Cubs hat, Oh it's on, baby.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
We're about to wrestle on a stairwell.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
All right, Let's let's talk about the game a little
bit because we do again. We're not going to break
it down. That's not what you We'll just talk about
it as fans. This is the first time the Vikings
have gone on the road to face the Bears in
the regular season opener since two thousand and two. That
game actually not played in the stadium. It was at
the University of Illinois in champ Compangna because of the
(22:03):
renovations being done to Soldier Field. Everybody's talking about a
lot of stuff. I am the number one talker is
JJ JJ McCarthy. I'm in, but I'm not in in
the way other people are in. You have people exalting
this dude. You have people like he's the friend, Like
(22:23):
I'm just in because of the possibility. I have this
sports rule that I stole from our friend Kevin Boseman.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
OK.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
And it's that I am not smart enough or talented
enough to make decisions like I'm not an owner who
is smart enough to hire a coach or a GM just.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
A second, Hey, Jay, can we clip that last thing?
Not smart enough and talented enough?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Jay, Let's go ahead and unclip that last.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Thing that's gonna be my text tune.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Let's unclip it. Uh. I Just so, I think our
coach who we talked about this, look what he did
with Josh Dobbs look at like, yeah, whatever he decides
at quarterback. If he came out at a press conference,
he's like, Hey, I attached a magnetic wiggle arm to
the printer in my office, and you should see this
(23:10):
thing throw a slant route. I'd be like, I bet
he knows what he's talking about. He he has earned this.
Let's see what happens with the guy that he believes in.
So the fact that he's in on JJ, I'm very innunt,
but I'm in on the possibility, don't. I don't want
to say he's gonna be great. I don't want all
these people who are predicting all these things. I just
(23:30):
like that the first half of the season and potentially
the whole season, we are gonna find out. We talked
about that Bears streak. We're gonna find out if we
possibly have a guy and that feeling because I don't
think you ever felt it with Ponder, I don't think
you ever felt it with Tavares Jackson. I don't think
(23:51):
we have truly felt Teddy. I could say you probably
felt it a little bit about everybody loves Teddy, but
it wasn't when Dante started and he was part of
that powerful offense within a couple of years, and then
all of a sudden, he's an MVP candidate, second place
in the voting, Like that's the last time we've felt like, whoa,
Maybe it's finally our turn for a top three, top
(24:14):
five guy, And I just think the possibility of that
is fun. So I'm going to enjoy that potential.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah, I mean speaking on Koc's ability to be and
you know he has been coined the quarterback Whisperer. It's
a fresh start. We're not going after this quarterback that's
been great on another team for so many years and
paying him this one year contract. We are saying, dude,
we're committing to you, commit to us. And I love
(24:43):
that kind of relationship and I'm excited to see what.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Happens if you had to pick a non JJ McCarthy
addition that you're most pumped about because there are a
lot of changes. You got the O line, the middle
of the D line, the new cornerback, the running back kid.
Like if you had to pick one non j that
because I think often with football teams, if you get
a jump up somewhere, Andrew van Ginkle from last year
(25:08):
is a great example. I think people expected Andrew van
Gingkle to be a player. No one expected what we got.
When you get that jump up there and then you
get a jump up from Darnold, all of a sudden,
you're fourteen and three.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah. I mean, obviously defense is as a whole looks great.
We've filled some spots on the offensive line, but the
jump up I am most excited about. Mason. I had
this kid. I picked him up on Fantasy last year
after McCaffrey got injured. And because of that, I watch
(25:40):
this guy play who normally I wouldn't have and boy,
oh boy, can this kid scoot?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah? And if he's and that it creates kind of
like it's almost like now with the two offensive linemen
in the middle. I think this is the most autonomy
of or like freedom of decision. The KOC will have
as a coach where he's like, hey, I now have
two running backs. I now have a center of if
if the new alignment workout, you just have pieces everywhere
(26:07):
with theland coming back that you go, oh, I think
he's now in a position to do kind of whatever
he wants and that's fun.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I think so too. I mean, you could put him
out both at the same time. You could. I mean,
these defenses are going to have a hard enough time
in the secondary figuring out who they're gonna.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Double right, absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So yeah, I'm a man. I'm stoked about all of
it because it gives Jones a little time to relax,
in time to catch his breath without feeling like you're
putting in u you know, a secondary back.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I mean, I'm gonna throw a pipe dream one at you,
like a by low Sell high one that no one's
talking about because Jeff Akuda, who got drafted by the
Lions and just hasn't had the career people thought he
was gonna have. I have that thing in the back
of my head that's like, but what what is what if?
Because at one point everybody's like, this is the dude, right,
(27:04):
what if? What if he gets in there? With Flores.
What if let me ask you this. I was at
the facility last week. I can't remember his Tuesday or Thursday,
and somebody set a sentence to me that I had
to stop and laugh at. Okay, if you'd have given
me ten thousand guesses at weird sentences, I would have
heard in the Vikings facility this year. I don't think
(27:27):
before the season started I would have heard the sentence
we just got done with the Carson Wentz, Adam Thielen
and Max bros mur Presso.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, I mean talk about Homerville, right, Yeah, it's great.
I mean, so you know, I grew up Fergus Falls,
lived there forever raising kids, so I got to watch
I mean, we didn't have the Minneapolis channels, we had
the Fargo channels. So I'm always watching this guy play.
Was doing well before he got injured, and I'm so
stoked to have him back. I'm stoked to have feeling
(27:59):
back to field. I mean this, you know, everyone goes,
oh man, thelen uh coming back. He's Detroit Lake's guy,
which gets me in my fields because I my grandparents Frasey, you.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Know, my dad's my dad grew up in Detroit Lakes
but they do you get any here's a question living
up there, because we both live up there and near there.
So this is a very different person because Adam Thelen
is so wonderful and so likable. But you know who's
also from where we're from, brock Lesner. That's true, former
(28:31):
former preseason Viking brock Lesner.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
But people also wonderful.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
People up there are so jacked that he's from there.
Like during the prime of his career, I remember like
on fight nights, you wouldn't even go to a gas
station because guys would just be an inappropriate amount of
jacked up.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, and they were.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
They were. They were too proud, they were too proud
of brock Lesner being from there. I think we've got
a nice level of Adam Thelen grew up in this
Ara pride. It doesn't there's not like a feeling storefront, right,
you know, it's it's a calm level. So I'm I'm
pump I'm pumped for it as well.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, brock Lesner, his daughter used to skate against my
daughter in figure skating. Oh really, Yeah, now you know
his daughter's obviously Olympian because you know, oh I didn't know.
Besides on the Yeah she throws for Colorado State. She
throws a shot put.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh yeah, because she throws the I thought you meant
as a figure.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh yeah, No, beg your pardon. She shifted gears in
the most incredible way, except they're spinning involved in both.
So you take what you learned as a child and
you bring it into your collegiate career.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Other than wins and losses, there's the last question I
have for you, because you know, I think it'll be interesting.
Ben Johnson new look offense and as an offensive coordinator.
I think that dude was like five and one against us,
including when we were good. These first two games the
Bears and the Falcons. As you look ahead in the
schedule gets really hard in October, I think these first
(29:58):
two games are going to be I think these are
two really desperate teams to prove themselves and show up
big early. I think you're gonna have like a crazy
fight on your hands. But let's talk broadly before we
do predictions other than wins and losses. What's the thing
(30:18):
that and it can it also can't be JJ Okay,
so I know I already asked you for a prep
but is there anything and it doesn't even have to
necessarily be gameplay specific. But do you have something you're
most looking forward to for the season other than how
well we do and how well JJ does well.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I don't know if this falls in that category, but
beating the Chiefs in the Super Bowl clearly is what
I'm looking forward to because I'm so tired of them.
I'm tired. I'm like, enough is enough.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Let's do. Here's how I want to do predictions this year. Okay,
I want to do a game prediction. Okay, so we're
calling it game player. You so give me a game prediction,
a player that you think is going to play really well,
and give me a Chad Daniel's prediction, and what's gonna
happen for you during the game.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Okay, So game prediction win by double digits.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Player prediction. I'm gonna go with Theland having just a
humongous game.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Dad, you took mine. I had a touchdown for him.
Mine was a touchdown from them.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
But I'm gonna say, whoever has him in a PPR
league buckle up, because I think it's gonna be I
don't think it's gonna be like a lot of long
routes I think it's gonna be short under routes, and
I think he's gonna just rack up the points. And
then a Chad prediction, what's gonna happen with me? I
know it's gonna be quiet because the last time the
Vikings played the Bears, the Vikings were up by eleven
(31:40):
with a minute and a half to go, and I
my my girlfriend said hey, congratulations they won and then
it went to overtime and they won by a field goal.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I I will I'm gonna go Vitan one hundred and
twenty seven Bears nineteen?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Love it? Yeah? Is it? Rushing yards?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Took? You took my feeling, So I am. I'm going
to I'm gonna say it's the return of the Hawk. Yeah,
I'm gonna say, you know, Hawk came back last year
you played. But I think we're gonna this might be
the game right out the gate that we go, oh yeah,
he's like way good at this.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
So I'm going player prediction, I'm going to Return of
the Hawk. And then personal prediction. I'm gonna say that
I'm gonna have to spend because it's a Monday night game, right,
so it's gonna be the evening you're gonna have had
a long day, and I can't always guarantee stuff goes
great for you in a long day. So I think
part of my night is going to be dedicated to
(32:45):
arguing with you to let me feel my feelings throughout
the season. Opener, I think you're not gonna let me
be negative when I want to be negative and then
just all of a sudden, be positive again. So that's
my prediction. I think I think our text threat you
me and the baby boy, my nephew Ethan. I think
our text threat is going to be intense on Monday night.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I think so too. And I'm gonna like to make
one more prediction, and it's of the pizza delivery driver
when he comes to my door and he goes hi,
third time this week?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Huh, that's gonna do it? Folks, come back listen to
Chad and I I'm gonna say most of the weeks, he's
going to be here almost all the weeks. When he's
not here, we will have other great friends that you
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Thank you well you're here. Give us a good review.
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