September 11, 2025 • 39 mins
Welcome back to The Vikings Tailgate - Presented by Ticketmaster - The official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings. Cy Amundson and Chad Daniels are back after surviving a crazy week 1 Vikings win in Chicago. This week, the Falcons are coming to town and stirring up old memories. Cy and Chad talk through their 1998 NFC Championship trauma, the 'adventures' navigating the Atlanta airport, Chad's fizzled dreams of being a rapper, and learning that Buckhead is not what you think. All of this and more is in episode 55 of The Vikings Tailgate - Presented by Ticketmaster - The official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings.
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Chad's on again this week.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We love it.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
We loved last week. This conversation was really fun. We're
talking Atlanta, which obviously means we are talking ninety eight Vikings,
and then we get into this week's matchup. I think
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
Baby turn here.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Hey, Viking fans, welcome back to another episode of the
tale Ogate. It's me Si Si Oninson. I'm your host,
your improbably one to zero. Minnesota Vikings are coming back
home a second straight week of primetime games. They're getting
the Atlanta Falcons and joining me and I get to
say the words as always joining me as always to
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discuss all things Atlanta. A man who watched Week one
on a cell phone. Ladies and gentlemen, the Great Chad Daniels.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Hello, thank you for having me back. This episode is
brought to you by It just kidding, because if it were,
you couldn't hear me right now. My internet was down.
And you wait, you watch all the games right all
the games Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and you go, this is
our night, and then you get a text that says, psych,
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your internet's down. So I didn't know what I was
gonna do. I also have a body carrier service, so
I wasn't able to get the game right away. And
I thought, am I going to have to be one
of those guys that walks to my neighbor's house and
just watches from a window. I considered it, I'm not
kidding you, But then I live in kind of a
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ritzy area.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
They we're gonna call the police if there's a guy
at the window area.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But I also live in an area where the homes
are owned by like CEOs, and you don't know what's
gonna happen. So I propped up my cell phone and
watched it, and my vision is waning. It was interesting.
I just kind of I basically listened to the call.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I assumed you had your mother goose glasses on this
morning because your eyes have been strained for days.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
That's very, very true.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, my brother Greg, so he didn't pay for any
streaming service. Like he didn't. They're one of these. It's
not that he doesn't like TV. Their family just doesn't
watch much. So he was doing this thing. They had
internet and to watch. Young people will know what this is.
But there's a lot of people on YouTube who just
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do play by play of the game, but you can't
see the game. So it's just like some guy named
Ricky in a garage like get through it and Delan
caught it and it was a catch. That's how Greg.
That's how he watched that Lions game last year in
Week eighteen, he watched one of the most important he had.
He invited the baby boy, my nephew Ethan over to
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his house, like you want to watch the game, didn't
tell him the untill he got there. It's YouTube Ricky
walking him through YouTube.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Ricky.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Here's the thing, like we have the thing that sucks
about this episode for you and I is we have
to look forward. That's our job. We're a Thursday show today,
we're looking forward. We are It was a Monday game,
and you and I aren't passed wanting to talk about
what happens, but we have to be because everybody's talked
about it already. But I will tell you two things
(04:01):
about that Monday game that jump off of last week's episode. Okay,
can we take a moment and just be proud of
me for how I acted in our group text thread
when when the first three quarters most of the state
was like, why did we draft this guy? You didn't
hear much from me? And then when he became a
superhero and the whole state was like put him in
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the Hall of Fame, you also like I was. I
was the even that I've never been, and I think
I just deserve a lot of text thread credit.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Well, I'm gonna tell you something that I walked into
probably the greatest strategy that's ever been. I'm gonna watch
every game on my cell phone so I don't have
to deal with the lunacy that takes place. Yeah, is
that why?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Because you weren't responding to me that I didn't have, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I turned off notifications because it kept ruining the screen
and it would take up half the screen. So I
turned off notifications, and then I get to go back
and review your text, Messa, and I can put a
haha by it when you're wrong. I can look back
with a perfect twenty twenty vision. So that's how I'm
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going to keep watching the game.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But it's like you're some horrible text message teacher grade
in my paper.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, well, you were the most tolerable you've been in
a while.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I will say that, and I think it paid off.
I think that was football karma, tolerable through the tough,
and we got rewarded with that big fourth quarter. I
told you last week that my dad calls it Bears
bye week whenever we play in Chicago. Right, he broke
his rule because it was the opening game of the season.
It's this new quarterback, and he did not He was
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not as chill in the first three quarters on text message.
But then it was interesting. It didn't seem like there
was going to be a moment for the Angs because
the first three quarters were hard, and then all of
a sudden, bam, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh
my gosh, now we're up ten there just wasn't You
didn't have time to process the angs. And then here
comes that last little drive with the and all that stuff,
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and my dad his Apple Watch like he got he
got the old school Viking stress and his Apple Watch
is like, hey, man, go outside, what's going on? We
have we have there's something wrong. Are you being chased
by four or five lions right now? What's happening? Bruce?
So he he had to take a little break at
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the most important moment of the game because his Apple
Watch was really worried about it.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh that's perfect. I will tell you. Another advantage of
watching on your phone with the quite possibly the worst
cellular carrier known to man is that it would be
like JJ McCarthy drops back, and then it would just
be a long pause and then be like the Vikings
decide to go for two. You're like, oh, they scored good.
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I didn't even have to stress through any of that.
It was perfect.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We have to so we have to move forward. Yes,
let's let's move forward to the Falcons.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And I think the tough thing for you and I is,
despite us being at very different ages, because you're twenty
to thirty years older than.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Me, that's absolutely not true, and it's mean and it's gross.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I think ninety eight was this formative year for both
of us. So like whenever anybody even says the word falcon,
I just go and it just it just hurts in
this way. It ruined for me. I'm a child of
ninth grade. At that point, there was this idea like
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you hadn't lived through forty fifty sixty years of sports,
you have, oh my gosh, here's Randy Mawson. It's gonna
this is forever, right, And that just crushed me and
ruined me. And for you, I know that was the year,
right that you came back to the fold, right, it was?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It was the year before that, Yeah, because Randall Cunningham
I followed him over from the Eagles and then he
went in for Brad Johnson. And I was at that
game and I'm like, I guess my eagle stuff gets
put in a little bin. And now now I'm full
on back.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You took a little you took a little born where
you're supposed to be born, took a little eagle detour.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Hey listen, I was, you know, trying my hardest to
be a professional rapper and Criss Cross was big back then,
and they were Eagles fans. What was I going to
do Motown Philly with you know, everybody else the boys
to men and so so I went over to Philly
because I thought that's where you could really start your
rap career. And then Cunningham comes over here, I follow
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him back boom bikes fans. Now I was driving home
because this is my first year I was doing professional
stand up. So I was living in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Drive back to Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
To like all successful rappers, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Of course, And as I'm driving, I did that Minnesota
Jinx thing where I go, I wonder when they give
us our Super Bowl money, what I'm going to spend
it on? And that's what I thought. The whole drive
I was thinking about. You know, they have to divvy
up the money to all the fans, right, so what
am I going to spend mine on? And then you
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know the kick and all of that stuff. So, yeah,
the Falcons, they're a team where you go, it's it's
great to beat them. It's great to beat them.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
There's a couple the fact that they call and I
never knew this until recently. They called the kick where
that kicked them into the Super Bowl, like we have
the kick Gary Anderson, they call the kick that got
made in overtime to they call it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
The kick and absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
My soul hates that so much I can't put words
into it. And I think also they robbed us, like
that game robbed us. Dan Soder told this great story
on the show last year of the year before. He
was at the Broncos AFC Championship game that same year
and when they flashed the score on the JumboTron, he said,
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people didn't even cheer as much as they were like,
oh thank God, oh man, like just this relief because
they all knew they dodged a bullet. I think it's
not just that we lost a chance at a Super Bowl.
I think that offense, like there have been better offenses since,
but it was not only did it set the scoring record,
and then of course the Rams did and the Patriots
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did and whatever, but people didn't throw the ball down
the field like that before that. It was almost like
setting the scoring record with a reinvention of dynamic, explosive offense, right.
And I think you can make the argument that that
season is viewed in the way that like the eighty
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five Bears. I think it's a top ten all time
National Football League team if we win that Super Bowl,
And that's what eats me alive, not just that we
didn't get the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I think that team is the reason there's a pitch clock.
I think is a reason there's a serve clock in tennis.
I think there's a reason that they took they for
the two pass line. I think I think watching that
team all other sports were like, we need to speed
it up and make this more interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
We need to Randy mossify.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yes, exactly, yeah, truly as.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Much as like, But the Falcons have never fallen into
that category for me. Of Packers, Saints, these teams that
I just ah right, can't even look like. That's why
I could never play fantasy like you could have the
best Packer receiver on the board, I'm just not taking them.
I just don't. I find no joy in that. But
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I think because Atlanta was the recipient of the loss
of in my opinion, the best Minnesota moment in decades
and decades and decades, where they're they're up three to
two in the World Series with the Braves, right, and
then we go Pucket crazy catch touch them all, Kirby Pucket,
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which I can still cry. You could play it right
now the audio and I will get misty, and then
I think, like the single arguably one of the single
greatest performances in the history of Minnesota sports, if not
all of professional sports. Ten shutout innings by black Jack Morris,
the no shut up, get out of the way, I'm
going back out there. Yeah, and we're rounding the bases
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in the tenth little Gene Larkin happiness. That to me,
I just I'm not gonna as much as I hate
that game, it hasn't fallen on Atlanta. I don't despise
Atlanta in the same way I do other places.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
They just played football. Our kicker who hadn't missed, missed,
and it's they weren't a villain in it. They just
played a game.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It's kind of that Santa Claus isn't real thing when
you realize, God damn, that's Uncle Doug under that beard.
It's Uncle Doug. That's what Gary Anderson was missing was
I could see Uncle Doug's I recognized one of his teeth.
I was like, that's a Doug tooth right there. You've
ruined my innocence.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, I played so a clause for a family and
didn't realize they could see my tattoos on my wrist
and the little boy goes, why does he have tattoos?
And I go, oh, this is my map, so I
know where to go, and the little boy was like,
oh cool, Yeah, so he's he's going to be extra mad.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
So last week, continuing down that vein, we did the
Love It, Hate It, which I think is a good
I think I'm going to keep that going. I think
that's a good thing for me to throw out some
things that I like so I can balance. Maybe that's
what led to me having such a nice text threat exchanges.
I really balanced out the way I was thinking. Because
here's the thing. Atlanta is one of my favorite cities.
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But there are things about it, namely getting there and
some of the shows I've done that like reverse like this,
but the city I really like a lot about it.
But from an organizational standpoint, there's a couple of things that, God,
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I just make me laugh so hard. So this is
probably one of the best fun facts I've learned doing
this show. So the NFL draft, obviously, when mel Kiper
came around, it started it became this big thing and
now it's an event beyond events. But there was a
point in time where it was done, like the coach
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just goes, I'll take Jimmy. You know, somebody called Jimmy's
mom and let him know that he needs to come
to camp. It wasn't always done that way. And so
Norm van Brocklin, he was a general manager and the
coach of the Falcons in seventy one.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That's how they used to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Dude, and Norm Van Brocklin all time personality. So he
he is bored by the draft process and just that sentence. Yeah,
it's like being it's like being a contractor who's bored
with with you know, framing houses, Like I understand that
this a while, but like you're the frame guy. You
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got to make sure this goes right.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's why it's confusing when people go, oh, man adhd,
that's a new thing. And then you find out Van
Brocklin was like, I'm bored by this draft process. Let
me let me change it to how I like it.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
What do we what do I need with all these players?
If we did it in a half hour, that'd be nice.
So he gets bored with the draft process and then
verbally calls out this is him and like and I
love a point when the coaches made the picks verbally
as well. But he calls out, do we want and
I'm quoting, do we want the roughest, toughest SOB in
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the draft. And then he tried to draft sixty four
year old actor John Wayne. That's amazing, and the commissioner,
Pete Roselle basically to back, no, No, he can't do that.
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One of the best things I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I love that. I would I would love to draft
Jackie Chan because then you could get all the fans.
Every time he tackles somebody, all the fans would be like,
that's actually him. He did that.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Can you imagine the I just somebody with just just
koc walking out and going all right, yes, speed is important.
We want somebody fast, you know, but we need somebody
who runs with anger and not just anger. I want
him to be I don't know, furious. We need somebody
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fast and furious. And he just drafts Vin Diesel. Now,
I know the Rock makes more sense as a draft
pick from the fast and the furious, but I think
I think Vin Diesel's the funnier pick.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I think he's the funnier pick, and I think he's
also more inspiring because he'll just like hands in with Emily.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I also think Ludacris has a sneaky wide Receiver three vibe.
He's got like a Kelly Campbell vibe to him.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That'd be the greatest back of a jersey ever. Chris
Ludacris bridges all the way down, starts at his waist,
rainbow's up down back to his waist.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Every once in a while, I remember that a Viking
existed and it just makes me smile. Last week that
was washwasirwanga. And I don't know how or why when
thinking about this, Kelly Campbell just popped into my head.
But I believe Kelly Campbell and j our producer can
tell me if this is right or not. But I
think he was part of AFROS America's fastest receivers on Sunday,
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led by Randy Moss. They had their own little it
was like it was like a real ww F vibe
where they had their own team more WCW. They were
like the nWo Wolfpack with inside that their own little
wide receiver gang. But if I recall correctly. Kelly Campbell
was the first guy who's like he did the weekend
at Bernie Dance after big catches or touchdowns and that's
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a thing now. But for him to pull that off
and what was that two thousand and three, two thousand
and four, something like that, that's an all time to
be the og on that.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It's pretty special.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Jay just texted me Moss, Kelly Campbell and Nate Burlason
were the Afros. Love it in terms of things I love.
This is a memory for me. This one cuts both
ways though. I remember watching with my dad when Michael
Vick got to the Falcons and he single handedly changed
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generations of Lambeau mystique where they would not lose there
in the winter, they would not lose there in the playoffs.
And then Mike Vick walked in and absolutely annihilated the
very good Packers I believe night games snow coming down,
and we just watched almost like you were you learned
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that your hero was broke and had been lying to
you the whole time. It was just like this destruction
of mythology. That was an all time kid football moment
for me, as somebody who doesn't like the Packers.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of old Packer fans
every time he ran the ball, just like you gotta
you gotta throw it. That's got to be illegal. Referee
in there and do something.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It does cut the other way, because that Mike Vick thing,
we are forever in the NFL rule book and on
the highlight film. He first season is a full time guy.
I think I think the number was one hundreds. That's
that famous game where he's in overtime. He split the defense,
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ran it for fifty whatever yards for a touchdown, then
just threw the ball and ran into the tunnel and
went home in one of the coolest walk off moves.
A fifty plus yard QB touchdown run to win the game,
and he pieces out unbelievable one hundred and seventy three.
Still to this day, I don't know, even with Lamar
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and some other guys, I don't know that a quarterback
ever touches one seventy three.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Again, that's so many yards.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It's so many yards. Let's do a little bit of
the bad. Okay, there is no place that sucks on
earth like the Atlanta Airport.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Well, see, I was gonna give you I cannot when
we're talking about Atlanta. Love hate, I love and hate
things equally there, right, Like I love that there is
a place called Buckhead. Oh I love that. You hear
somebody say that in the Atlanta accent and they go, hey, y'all,
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we're going to Buckhead, and you go, I'm about to
ride a mechanical bull And then you get there and
it's just a sea of thousands of finance bros. And
it sucks.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, you think you're walking into like the theme park
that the great Jeff Foxworthy started, Like, come on down
to Buckheads and get you a bb gun and see
how many of these bullfrogs you can kill.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
If you wanted to shoot clay pigeons on a roller coaster,
well you might want to come to Buckhead.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yes, we can't do it. If we can't do it,
it'll be the whole show. If you like water slides
that land in a puddle of ice.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Cold brew, come on down.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
To Buckhead all day. It could just be the rest
of the show and everybody be like, what happened to
those two hosts from last week?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, yeah, I'll be done.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
But I also you keep doing that impression. The Vikings
are gonna not let you come to the next home game.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So I you talk about the Atlanta Airport, I it's
it's maddening because you have to walk underneath the airport
and it's always somehow one hundred and fifty percent humidity.
It smells like wet. It sucks. But then you walk through.
If you actually walk to the different thing, there's the
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art down there, is unbelievable. So love hate I also
love doing stand up in Atlanta. But the last time
I was there, I was at a club that's connected
to like a let's just call it like a Perkins,
like that kind of a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Pastry diner. Last time, it's every time. It's the only
place any of us play when we go there, And.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
They were shooting a rap video where they kept getting
it wrong, so they had to start the song over
a hundred times. It was unbelievable. And then typical Atlanta
rap scene, the guys come over, we meet them, they
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meet us, We're having a great time, and then the
guy goes he goes, hey, are you familiar with this rap?
And I go absolutely, and he goes, all right, you
should come next door, and I was like, is he there?
And he goes no, no, no, no, no, no no.
His cousin's friend is over there, and I was like, Okay,
I love and hate this.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
The idea of you having your show ruined by a
rap video being shot, but also knowing how deeply you
believe you could have been a white wrapper, like those
two emotions flowing inside of you at the same time,
stuck in that club slash pastry diner. That's good imagery
for me. I like it.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
It was tough for me to not walk over there
and demand a spot in the video.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, get a little bit of CD White in there. Absolutely, Yeah,
And I'm gonna put I'm just gonna cap this thing
off because I do think the best thing about Atlanta,
one of the best things, is the great Jeff Foxworthy. Dude.
He was so good, dude, he was so good on
the show last year. And I think I think, since
we're both in the range of friendly with him, I
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do think we should pitch him Jeff fox Worthy's Buckhead.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I'm into it.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I think take it's time to take Buckhead back. Yes,
And I don't know enough about Buckhead that if that's
gonna be really not great thing to have said, because
we're taking it from people. My bad, but it's time.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Let's time taking it from finance bros. I'm gonna tell
you that's the bars, the bars and Buckhead sell out
of vodka SODA's by seven pm.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Let's let's put the buck back in Buckhead. Yeah, okay,
Let's talk about the game. A game that I am,
A game that I am worried about now that should
not surprise you in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
That's all you do. It's all you do is worry.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
And I'm good at it. Okay. I would say I'm
the koc of worrying about whether or not we will
perform well in this next game. I could be that
of the year. Uh, but I don't like how the
Falcons lost last week. They had every their their reliable kicker,
missus a kick they you know they and and Raheem
(25:03):
Morris has been there. This is a big year for him.
I think they are going to to go zero and
two is not great down there. It's been a long
time since they've had a winning season. They've got a
lot of weapons, They've got a lot put on that team.
I think this is gonna be a kitchen sink game.
And last year, God, they did that thing where they
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came out and were not great in Week one, lost
and then they went to easily the best team in
football who ended up being the Super Bowl champions, the
Philadelphia Eagles, in prime time and throddled them. So it's
not like this is a team that's gonna go, oh no,
we and now we have to go and pray they're
coming to our place in prime time.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'm just worried. This is like, you know, it's like
one of those dogs that like hasn't had food in
a while, and then for some reason, your pocket like
is full. You know, why is there a sandwich in
your pocket near this dog? That's how I feel right.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Now, because I love sandwiches. But here's what's gonna I
think that they know that they were close. They know
that two things happening differently changed the entire outcome of
that game. Two things really right. But I am so
excited to watch these two young quarterbacks go back and forth. Obviously,
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JJ great amazing fourth quarter ride that into this game.
Pennix Junior did something I tried to do for six years.
Very impressive, and so they're gonna be throwing haymakers at
each other back and forth. I think this is going
to be such a good game. And then not to
mention the fact that Jared Allen enters the ring of
(26:51):
Ring of Fame.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
The Ring of well, no, he's in the Ring of Honor,
but he got he's getting his There's gonna be a
Hall of Fame ceremony for him, which is going to
be excellent.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
That's what it is. Even better, Okay, great.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I love it. I love how you tried to get
there and almost got there.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I like to combine a bunch of things I don't
know much about and just hope.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
But if you say it right and you're a charming guy,
it really lands. Right now, let me before we get
to Jared Allen, because we can talk about Jared Allen here,
but let's talk for a minute about how right the
daddies were last week. All we did was tell you
how pumped we were about Jordan Mason, and all he
did was thunder rumble important runs in week one, Chad,
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not only am I pumped about obviously how intelligent you
know we said we're not going to do x's and o's.
Maybe that was a mistake. Goddamn with how great we
were with this Jordan Mason discussion last week. Sure, but
I will say one of the things that I thought
was really promising from week one going into week two
is kind of the forced or non forced depth success where.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Eric Wilson have two words for you, Eric Wilson.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yes, and Cashman when he went out last year, we
really had a hard time with that. So having some
depth there where that guy played so great excellent. Having
Thelan play well and clearly continuing to develop his rapport
with JJ excellent. The Jordan Mason thing, just the idea
that when when Aaron Jones was able to come in
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on that touchdown route and that big run late for
nine yards and be immensely fresh like I saw in
week one Week fourteen of those two guys, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
H it was incredible. When THELAN dropped a pass and
I saw on his face as he was running off,
I go, I don't think he'll drop a pass the
rest of the year. He had that look week fourteen.
I don't know, Super Bowl game, whatever you want to
talk about, but.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
What's however deep you want to go, How fun is
it to like this is the first year I was like,
oh yeah, punt returners can go forward.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
This punt returner kid.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Dude. I think I saw in in uh Kot's postgame
speech that he had like over one hundred, one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Seven and seventeen yards.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
One hundred and seventeen return yards and they were all huge, right,
they were so like I remember, I'm a little bit
of buddies with Marcus Chryls from back in the day.
I just remember the feeling every time a punt got
thumped up into the air, you went, who knows right?
And I feel that that is that is gonna be
(29:39):
one of my big watchers for the first six weeks
was that first game. You know, you get what you
or are we are we gonna work into this era
of like, oh my god, we might get a couple
of return touchdown.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
That kid can scoot man man.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And it just it just seemed like the way he
caught the ball, assesses and then makes a directional change,
like where so often you've seen a guy like okay,
he ran his five yards. Now he gets hit and
then and he's gone another seventeen excellent. Yeah. The other thing,
speaking of the Pennix and JJ thing, you know, very
(30:19):
close and picks, I think a lot of people thought
you know, the Falcons thing didn't happen. They were going
to be the two guys on the board. The Vikings
were going to be choosing between the thing that I
heard Aaron Jones say to I believe Ben Lieber after
the end of so and this is not you know,
(30:39):
this is a guy who's been one of the better
players in the league for a long time, played with
Aaron Rodgers, has played with some significant football players and leaders.
He said, in the fourth quarter, when they were down
seventeen to six or whatever, they're all huddling up, and
clearly JJ's the guy who's been struggling. It's not like
I don't think anyone in the stadium or on the
(31:01):
field didn't understand that. Not that everybody wasn't playing a role,
but I think everybody knew that's what was happening. He said.
He came into the huddle, looked around at everybody and goes, hey,
is there any place you'd rather be? Like the sort
of thing, wow, the sort of thing that somebody would
have to say to a young quarterback to get them going,
(31:22):
And the way he spoke about it in that interview
didn't feel cliche. It's like all these things we've heard
behind closed doors about this kid having like the special
genuine leadership. It was just it was interesting to see
Aaron Jones speak about that in a non fake way.
(31:42):
And then I'll be like, I don't know as anticipated
as Week one was, given how odd that game finished,
I think this is going to be the most anticipated
Viking quarterback start since Brett and before that. I think
this is above Dante's first. I think I don't know
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how far you have to go back, probably to Tarkenton.
Maybe I'm not as.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Old because this is this is a huge prove it moment.
This is a we got to see something really special.
But now you know we're still Minnesota sports fans, so
you go prove it.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, well we're damaged.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Save us. Yeah, looking looking around at all these veterans
and you're the new guy, and you go, is there
any place you'd rather be? That's something I would see
in a movie that would make me talk in a
movie theater, like I would get up and throw some
liquors at the screen and be like, there is no
other place I would want to be, and everybody be
like shit, am I no, you shut up? We're here.
(32:48):
I mean, that's that is that jacks me up.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
It jacks me up. I'm very jacked up. Now, before
we do predictions, Before we do predictions, let's talk Jared Allen. So,
speaking of guys who jack you up, yeh boy goes
into the Hall of Fame this summer and they are
doing a halftime ceremony celebrating his Hall of Fame induction.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Ring of fame they call it. It's a new thing.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
You keep doing that. There's a ring of honor. You're
you're all over the mat, man, and I need you
to get in the map and on the map.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I just want it to be right. I want to
say it enough until it's right.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, but I do think that's how things seem to
work in our society, So I would keep pushing that.
I the we were lucky enough if we did a
documentary on him that's coming out If this is Thursday,
it's coming out Friday tomorrow, about him and his father
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and his grandfather, and like, you know, so much of
the stuff that's done about Jared Allen is about this big,
gregarious personality about you know, he was on Jackass and
he's funny and all these commercials. He's just just this
really lovable guy. But the story is about his family
lineage and how the role that it played in guiding
(34:11):
and changing and helping his life at the most important
moment in his career, and what it turned him into
as a man. It's called the Allen Name. It's on YouTube.
But it was really interesting to get to spend time
with him and his dad and see that side. When
you know, my whole life, you're just used to the
(34:31):
funniest maniac like on Field maniac of all time.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, I don't know that there's
anyone within our age range that didn't. You know, if
if you ever were running through an airport and somebody
ran into you and they fell down, you had to
get down in hog time, you had to. There was
(34:57):
no other way around it. And so you know, he's
inspired an entire generation of hog tires. And I just
think that, you know, you have this documentary coming out
about his grandfather and his father and what really as
a dad. What got to me was when he does
say it, basically say.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
It, are you doing the reveal? Are you telling what's happening?
Were you going to ruin the movie?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
No, I was going to talk about his induction speech.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Oh yeah, great, So what are you talking about? When
he talks about his kids in his induction speech.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
He looks right at his daughters and he basically tunes
everybody else out and just talks to them, And I
thought that was really cool.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
It's it was, It's a really really great speech. We
also in the process learned that he is so the
year that he almost broke the sack record, the NFL
took a sack away from him where they called it
a muff and a team sack, and Aaron Rodgers went
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on record on camera in a video did about him,
you know, just right before the Hall of Fame, saying nope,
I wasn't going to throw it. You tackle me. It
was a sack. So technically I am of the belief
that Jared Allen is the all time NFL sack leader.
You can you can find that video on YouTube as well,
really pushing stuff, really really plugging. Towards the end of
(36:20):
that show, let's do let's do predictions. We'll do a
team a player and you. That's how we're doing him
this year. Team prediction, a player prediction and you. Now
last week you took feeling and he didn't get the touchdown.
But he did have a huge two point conversion, so
you gotta feel good about that one. And I think
(36:42):
I took Jordan Mason, didn't I? And if not, I
want to pretend I did to have a good game.
But let's let's what are you thinking?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Okay, team Viking win. Okay by ten it's a Viking
win by ten points. I'm going to go player, I'm
gonna go. Hawkinson goes for over eighty and has a touchdown,
and then personally, I'm going to I'm going to enjoy
(37:14):
every time the camera guy cuts to the sideline. How
about you?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Here's the just such a such a non descript petty individual.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
So I'm not a petty do it? I know?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
And I shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I know. That's Those are my predictions.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
You ask for your predictions, Those are your predictions. I
I got Vikings one hundred and twenty seven, Falcons nine
to fourteen, somewhere in that range. They might get up
to seventeen. I'm not exactly sure. You know, the quarterback
Jean Robinson's very good. I am gonna go. I'm gonna
go that we are going to get a much more
(37:57):
significant ground game from Aaron Jones. I think we're gonna
keep people on their heres. They go, oh my god,
we gotta worry about Jordan Mason. Then blamo, oh, here
comes Aaron Jones with a bunch of nine yard runs.
And then I just think you never never know what
you're gonna get. And then from a personal prediction standpoint,
I think there's no way I keep up my chill
attitude from week one.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
No chance.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
And I'm gonna have to stay off of all social
media because I think if and when JJ plays more
like the fourth quarter than the first three quarters, I
think our state and community is going to They've already
lost it. They've already the place is ballistic right now,
and I think I think if I get caught up
(38:40):
in that and I'm texting with you, I just think
that could put me in a really unhealthy communication place
on Sunday where I just get too pumped and then
too devastated, and then too pumped and too devastated.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
So I just well, I have a great solution for you, Okay,
get it.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I will not be doing that, but thanks again Chad
for joining the show. We will see you next week.
I hope you get to watch this one. No, you're
gonna be at the stadium. Chad's gonna be at the
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Chad's on again this week.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
We loved last week. This conversation was really fun. We're
talking Atlanta, which obviously means we are talking ninety eight Vikings,
and then we get into this week's matchup. I think
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
Baby turn here.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Hey, Viking fans, welcome back to another episode of the
tale Ogate. It's me Si Si Oninson. I'm your host,
your improbably one to zero. Minnesota Vikings are coming back
home a second straight week of primetime games. They're getting
the Atlanta Falcons and joining me and I get to
say the words as always joining me as always to
(01:21):
discuss all things Atlanta. A man who watched Week one
on a cell phone. Ladies and gentlemen, the Great Chad Daniels.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Hello, thank you for having me back. This episode is
brought to you by It just kidding, because if it were,
you couldn't hear me right now. My internet was down.
And you wait, you watch all the games right all
the games Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and you go, this is
our night, and then you get a text that says, psych,
(01:55):
your internet's down. So I didn't know what I was
gonna do. I also have a body carrier service, so
I wasn't able to get the game right away. And
I thought, am I going to have to be one
of those guys that walks to my neighbor's house and
just watches from a window. I considered it, I'm not
kidding you, But then I live in kind of a
(02:17):
ritzy area.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
They we're gonna call the police if there's a guy
at the window area.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But I also live in an area where the homes
are owned by like CEOs, and you don't know what's
gonna happen. So I propped up my cell phone and
watched it, and my vision is waning. It was interesting.
I just kind of I basically listened to the call.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I assumed you had your mother goose glasses on this
morning because your eyes have been strained for days.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
That's very, very true.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, my brother Greg, so he didn't pay for any
streaming service. Like he didn't. They're one of these. It's
not that he doesn't like TV. Their family just doesn't
watch much. So he was doing this thing. They had
internet and to watch. Young people will know what this is.
But there's a lot of people on YouTube who just
(03:08):
do play by play of the game, but you can't
see the game. So it's just like some guy named
Ricky in a garage like get through it and Delan
caught it and it was a catch. That's how Greg.
That's how he watched that Lions game last year in
Week eighteen, he watched one of the most important he had.
He invited the baby boy, my nephew Ethan over to
(03:29):
his house, like you want to watch the game, didn't
tell him the untill he got there. It's YouTube Ricky
walking him through YouTube.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Ricky.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Here's the thing, like we have the thing that sucks
about this episode for you and I is we have
to look forward. That's our job. We're a Thursday show today,
we're looking forward. We are It was a Monday game,
and you and I aren't passed wanting to talk about
what happens, but we have to be because everybody's talked
about it already. But I will tell you two things
(04:01):
about that Monday game that jump off of last week's episode. Okay,
can we take a moment and just be proud of
me for how I acted in our group text thread
when when the first three quarters most of the state
was like, why did we draft this guy? You didn't
hear much from me? And then when he became a
superhero and the whole state was like put him in
(04:23):
the Hall of Fame, you also like I was. I
was the even that I've never been, and I think
I just deserve a lot of text thread credit.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Well, I'm gonna tell you something that I walked into
probably the greatest strategy that's ever been. I'm gonna watch
every game on my cell phone so I don't have
to deal with the lunacy that takes place. Yeah, is
that why?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Because you weren't responding to me that I didn't have, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I turned off notifications because it kept ruining the screen
and it would take up half the screen. So I
turned off notifications, and then I get to go back
and review your text, Messa, and I can put a
haha by it when you're wrong. I can look back
with a perfect twenty twenty vision. So that's how I'm
(05:08):
going to keep watching the game.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But it's like you're some horrible text message teacher grade
in my paper.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, well, you were the most tolerable you've been in
a while.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I will say that, and I think it paid off.
I think that was football karma, tolerable through the tough,
and we got rewarded with that big fourth quarter. I
told you last week that my dad calls it Bears
bye week whenever we play in Chicago. Right, he broke
his rule because it was the opening game of the season.
It's this new quarterback, and he did not He was
(05:40):
not as chill in the first three quarters on text message.
But then it was interesting. It didn't seem like there
was going to be a moment for the Angs because
the first three quarters were hard, and then all of
a sudden, bam, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh
my gosh, now we're up ten there just wasn't You
didn't have time to process the angs. And then here
comes that last little drive with the and all that stuff,
(06:03):
and my dad his Apple Watch like he got he
got the old school Viking stress and his Apple Watch
is like, hey, man, go outside, what's going on? We
have we have there's something wrong. Are you being chased
by four or five lions right now? What's happening? Bruce?
So he he had to take a little break at
(06:24):
the most important moment of the game because his Apple
Watch was really worried about it.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh that's perfect. I will tell you. Another advantage of
watching on your phone with the quite possibly the worst
cellular carrier known to man is that it would be
like JJ McCarthy drops back, and then it would just
be a long pause and then be like the Vikings
decide to go for two. You're like, oh, they scored good.
(06:49):
I didn't even have to stress through any of that.
It was perfect.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We have to so we have to move forward. Yes,
let's let's move forward to the Falcons.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And I think the tough thing for you and I is,
despite us being at very different ages, because you're twenty
to thirty years older than.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Me, that's absolutely not true, and it's mean and it's gross.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I think ninety eight was this formative year for both
of us. So like whenever anybody even says the word falcon,
I just go and it just it just hurts in
this way. It ruined for me. I'm a child of
ninth grade. At that point, there was this idea like
(07:36):
you hadn't lived through forty fifty sixty years of sports,
you have, oh my gosh, here's Randy Mawson. It's gonna
this is forever, right, And that just crushed me and
ruined me. And for you, I know that was the year,
right that you came back to the fold, right, it was?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It was the year before that, Yeah, because Randall Cunningham
I followed him over from the Eagles and then he
went in for Brad Johnson. And I was at that
game and I'm like, I guess my eagle stuff gets
put in a little bin. And now now I'm full
on back.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You took a little you took a little born where
you're supposed to be born, took a little eagle detour.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Hey listen, I was, you know, trying my hardest to
be a professional rapper and Criss Cross was big back then,
and they were Eagles fans. What was I going to
do Motown Philly with you know, everybody else the boys
to men and so so I went over to Philly
because I thought that's where you could really start your
rap career. And then Cunningham comes over here, I follow
(08:36):
him back boom bikes fans. Now I was driving home
because this is my first year I was doing professional
stand up. So I was living in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Drive back to Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
To like all successful rappers, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Of course, And as I'm driving, I did that Minnesota
Jinx thing where I go, I wonder when they give
us our Super Bowl money, what I'm going to spend
it on? And that's what I thought. The whole drive
I was thinking about. You know, they have to divvy
up the money to all the fans, right, so what
am I going to spend mine on? And then you
(09:12):
know the kick and all of that stuff. So, yeah,
the Falcons, they're a team where you go, it's it's
great to beat them. It's great to beat them.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
There's a couple the fact that they call and I
never knew this until recently. They called the kick where
that kicked them into the Super Bowl, like we have
the kick Gary Anderson, they call the kick that got
made in overtime to they call it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
The kick and absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
My soul hates that so much I can't put words
into it. And I think also they robbed us, like
that game robbed us. Dan Soder told this great story
on the show last year of the year before. He
was at the Broncos AFC Championship game that same year
and when they flashed the score on the JumboTron, he said,
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people didn't even cheer as much as they were like,
oh thank God, oh man, like just this relief because
they all knew they dodged a bullet. I think it's
not just that we lost a chance at a Super Bowl.
I think that offense, like there have been better offenses since,
but it was not only did it set the scoring record,
and then of course the Rams did and the Patriots
(10:19):
did and whatever, but people didn't throw the ball down
the field like that before that. It was almost like
setting the scoring record with a reinvention of dynamic, explosive offense, right.
And I think you can make the argument that that
season is viewed in the way that like the eighty
(10:40):
five Bears. I think it's a top ten all time
National Football League team if we win that Super Bowl,
And that's what eats me alive, not just that we
didn't get the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I think that team is the reason there's a pitch clock.
I think is a reason there's a serve clock in tennis.
I think there's a reason that they took they for
the two pass line. I think I think watching that
team all other sports were like, we need to speed
it up and make this more interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
We need to Randy mossify.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yes, exactly, yeah, truly as.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Much as like, But the Falcons have never fallen into
that category for me. Of Packers, Saints, these teams that
I just ah right, can't even look like. That's why
I could never play fantasy like you could have the
best Packer receiver on the board, I'm just not taking them.
I just don't. I find no joy in that. But
(11:34):
I think because Atlanta was the recipient of the loss
of in my opinion, the best Minnesota moment in decades
and decades and decades, where they're they're up three to
two in the World Series with the Braves, right, and
then we go Pucket crazy catch touch them all, Kirby Pucket,
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which I can still cry. You could play it right
now the audio and I will get misty, and then
I think, like the single arguably one of the single
greatest performances in the history of Minnesota sports, if not
all of professional sports. Ten shutout innings by black Jack Morris,
the no shut up, get out of the way, I'm
going back out there. Yeah, and we're rounding the bases
(12:17):
in the tenth little Gene Larkin happiness. That to me,
I just I'm not gonna as much as I hate
that game, it hasn't fallen on Atlanta. I don't despise
Atlanta in the same way I do other places.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
They just played football. Our kicker who hadn't missed, missed,
and it's they weren't a villain in it. They just
played a game.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It's kind of that Santa Claus isn't real thing when
you realize, God damn, that's Uncle Doug under that beard.
It's Uncle Doug. That's what Gary Anderson was missing was
I could see Uncle Doug's I recognized one of his teeth.
I was like, that's a Doug tooth right there. You've
ruined my innocence.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, I played so a clause for a family and
didn't realize they could see my tattoos on my wrist
and the little boy goes, why does he have tattoos?
And I go, oh, this is my map, so I
know where to go, and the little boy was like,
oh cool, Yeah, so he's he's going to be extra mad.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
So last week, continuing down that vein, we did the
Love It, Hate It, which I think is a good
I think I'm going to keep that going. I think
that's a good thing for me to throw out some
things that I like so I can balance. Maybe that's
what led to me having such a nice text threat exchanges.
I really balanced out the way I was thinking. Because
here's the thing. Atlanta is one of my favorite cities.
(13:38):
But there are things about it, namely getting there and
some of the shows I've done that like reverse like this,
but the city I really like a lot about it.
But from an organizational standpoint, there's a couple of things that, God,
(13:59):
I just make me laugh so hard. So this is
probably one of the best fun facts I've learned doing
this show. So the NFL draft, obviously, when mel Kiper
came around, it started it became this big thing and
now it's an event beyond events. But there was a
point in time where it was done, like the coach
(14:22):
just goes, I'll take Jimmy. You know, somebody called Jimmy's
mom and let him know that he needs to come
to camp. It wasn't always done that way. And so
Norm van Brocklin, he was a general manager and the
coach of the Falcons in seventy one.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That's how they used to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Dude, and Norm Van Brocklin all time personality. So he
he is bored by the draft process and just that sentence. Yeah,
it's like being it's like being a contractor who's bored
with with you know, framing houses, Like I understand that
this a while, but like you're the frame guy. You
(15:02):
got to make sure this goes right.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's why it's confusing when people go, oh, man adhd,
that's a new thing. And then you find out Van
Brocklin was like, I'm bored by this draft process. Let
me let me change it to how I like it.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
What do we what do I need with all these players?
If we did it in a half hour, that'd be nice.
So he gets bored with the draft process and then
verbally calls out this is him and like and I
love a point when the coaches made the picks verbally
as well. But he calls out, do we want and
I'm quoting, do we want the roughest, toughest SOB in
(15:39):
the draft. And then he tried to draft sixty four
year old actor John Wayne. That's amazing, and the commissioner,
Pete Roselle basically to back, no, No, he can't do that.
(16:00):
One of the best things I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I love that. I would I would love to draft
Jackie Chan because then you could get all the fans.
Every time he tackles somebody, all the fans would be like,
that's actually him. He did that.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Can you imagine the I just somebody with just just
koc walking out and going all right, yes, speed is important.
We want somebody fast, you know, but we need somebody
who runs with anger and not just anger. I want
him to be I don't know, furious. We need somebody
(16:35):
fast and furious. And he just drafts Vin Diesel. Now,
I know the Rock makes more sense as a draft
pick from the fast and the furious, but I think
I think Vin Diesel's the funnier pick.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I think he's the funnier pick, and I think he's
also more inspiring because he'll just like hands in with Emily.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I also think Ludacris has a sneaky wide Receiver three vibe.
He's got like a Kelly Campbell vibe to him.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That'd be the greatest back of a jersey ever. Chris
Ludacris bridges all the way down, starts at his waist,
rainbow's up down back to his waist.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Every once in a while, I remember that a Viking
existed and it just makes me smile. Last week that
was washwasirwanga. And I don't know how or why when
thinking about this, Kelly Campbell just popped into my head.
But I believe Kelly Campbell and j our producer can
tell me if this is right or not. But I
think he was part of AFROS America's fastest receivers on Sunday,
(17:40):
led by Randy Moss. They had their own little it
was like it was like a real ww F vibe
where they had their own team more WCW. They were
like the nWo Wolfpack with inside that their own little
wide receiver gang. But if I recall correctly. Kelly Campbell
was the first guy who's like he did the weekend
at Bernie Dance after big catches or touchdowns and that's
(18:05):
a thing now. But for him to pull that off
and what was that two thousand and three, two thousand
and four, something like that, that's an all time to
be the og on that.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It's pretty special.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Jay just texted me Moss, Kelly Campbell and Nate Burlason
were the Afros. Love it in terms of things I love.
This is a memory for me. This one cuts both
ways though. I remember watching with my dad when Michael
Vick got to the Falcons and he single handedly changed
(18:36):
generations of Lambeau mystique where they would not lose there
in the winter, they would not lose there in the playoffs.
And then Mike Vick walked in and absolutely annihilated the
very good Packers I believe night games snow coming down,
and we just watched almost like you were you learned
(18:58):
that your hero was broke and had been lying to
you the whole time. It was just like this destruction
of mythology. That was an all time kid football moment
for me, as somebody who doesn't like the Packers.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, a lot of a lot of old Packer fans
every time he ran the ball, just like you gotta
you gotta throw it. That's got to be illegal. Referee
in there and do something.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It does cut the other way, because that Mike Vick thing,
we are forever in the NFL rule book and on
the highlight film. He first season is a full time guy.
I think I think the number was one hundreds. That's
that famous game where he's in overtime. He split the defense,
(19:44):
ran it for fifty whatever yards for a touchdown, then
just threw the ball and ran into the tunnel and
went home in one of the coolest walk off moves.
A fifty plus yard QB touchdown run to win the game,
and he pieces out unbelievable one hundred and seventy three.
Still to this day, I don't know, even with Lamar
(20:05):
and some other guys, I don't know that a quarterback
ever touches one seventy three.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Again, that's so many yards.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It's so many yards. Let's do a little bit of
the bad. Okay, there is no place that sucks on
earth like the Atlanta Airport.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Well, see, I was gonna give you I cannot when
we're talking about Atlanta. Love hate, I love and hate
things equally there, right, Like I love that there is
a place called Buckhead. Oh I love that. You hear
somebody say that in the Atlanta accent and they go, hey, y'all,
(20:39):
we're going to Buckhead, and you go, I'm about to
ride a mechanical bull And then you get there and
it's just a sea of thousands of finance bros. And
it sucks.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, you think you're walking into like the theme park
that the great Jeff Foxworthy started, Like, come on down
to Buckheads and get you a bb gun and see
how many of these bullfrogs you can kill.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
If you wanted to shoot clay pigeons on a roller coaster,
well you might want to come to Buckhead.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yes, we can't do it. If we can't do it,
it'll be the whole show. If you like water slides
that land in a puddle of ice.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Cold brew, come on down.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
To Buckhead all day. It could just be the rest
of the show and everybody be like, what happened to
those two hosts from last week?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, yeah, I'll be done.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
But I also you keep doing that impression. The Vikings
are gonna not let you come to the next home game.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So I you talk about the Atlanta Airport, I it's
it's maddening because you have to walk underneath the airport
and it's always somehow one hundred and fifty percent humidity.
It smells like wet. It sucks. But then you walk through.
If you actually walk to the different thing, there's the
(22:11):
art down there, is unbelievable. So love hate I also
love doing stand up in Atlanta. But the last time
I was there, I was at a club that's connected
to like a let's just call it like a Perkins,
like that kind of a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Pastry diner. Last time, it's every time. It's the only
place any of us play when we go there, And.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
They were shooting a rap video where they kept getting
it wrong, so they had to start the song over
a hundred times. It was unbelievable. And then typical Atlanta
rap scene, the guys come over, we meet them, they
(22:53):
meet us, We're having a great time, and then the
guy goes he goes, hey, are you familiar with this rap?
And I go absolutely, and he goes, all right, you
should come next door, and I was like, is he there?
And he goes no, no, no, no, no, no no.
His cousin's friend is over there, and I was like, Okay,
I love and hate this.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
The idea of you having your show ruined by a
rap video being shot, but also knowing how deeply you
believe you could have been a white wrapper, like those
two emotions flowing inside of you at the same time,
stuck in that club slash pastry diner. That's good imagery
for me. I like it.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
It was tough for me to not walk over there
and demand a spot in the video.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, get a little bit of CD White in there. Absolutely, Yeah,
And I'm gonna put I'm just gonna cap this thing
off because I do think the best thing about Atlanta,
one of the best things, is the great Jeff Foxworthy. Dude.
He was so good, dude, he was so good on
the show last year. And I think I think, since
we're both in the range of friendly with him, I
(23:58):
do think we should pitch him Jeff fox Worthy's Buckhead.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I'm into it.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I think take it's time to take Buckhead back. Yes,
And I don't know enough about Buckhead that if that's
gonna be really not great thing to have said, because
we're taking it from people. My bad, but it's time.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Let's time taking it from finance bros. I'm gonna tell
you that's the bars, the bars and Buckhead sell out
of vodka SODA's by seven pm.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Let's let's put the buck back in Buckhead. Yeah, okay,
Let's talk about the game. A game that I am,
A game that I am worried about now that should
not surprise you in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
That's all you do. It's all you do is worry.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
And I'm good at it. Okay. I would say I'm
the koc of worrying about whether or not we will
perform well in this next game. I could be that
of the year. Uh, but I don't like how the
Falcons lost last week. They had every their their reliable kicker,
missus a kick they you know they and and Raheem
(25:03):
Morris has been there. This is a big year for him.
I think they are going to to go zero and
two is not great down there. It's been a long
time since they've had a winning season. They've got a
lot of weapons, They've got a lot put on that team.
I think this is gonna be a kitchen sink game.
And last year, God, they did that thing where they
(25:23):
came out and were not great in Week one, lost
and then they went to easily the best team in
football who ended up being the Super Bowl champions, the
Philadelphia Eagles, in prime time and throddled them. So it's
not like this is a team that's gonna go, oh no,
we and now we have to go and pray they're
coming to our place in prime time.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'm just worried. This is like, you know, it's like
one of those dogs that like hasn't had food in
a while, and then for some reason, your pocket like
is full. You know, why is there a sandwich in
your pocket near this dog? That's how I feel right.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Now, because I love sandwiches. But here's what's gonna I
think that they know that they were close. They know
that two things happening differently changed the entire outcome of
that game. Two things really right. But I am so
excited to watch these two young quarterbacks go back and forth. Obviously,
(26:26):
JJ great amazing fourth quarter ride that into this game.
Pennix Junior did something I tried to do for six years.
Very impressive, and so they're gonna be throwing haymakers at
each other back and forth. I think this is going
to be such a good game. And then not to
mention the fact that Jared Allen enters the ring of
(26:51):
Ring of Fame.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
The Ring of well, no, he's in the Ring of Honor,
but he got he's getting his There's gonna be a
Hall of Fame ceremony for him, which is going to
be excellent.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
That's what it is. Even better, Okay, great.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I love it. I love how you tried to get
there and almost got there.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I like to combine a bunch of things I don't
know much about and just hope.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
But if you say it right and you're a charming guy,
it really lands. Right now, let me before we get
to Jared Allen, because we can talk about Jared Allen here,
but let's talk for a minute about how right the
daddies were last week. All we did was tell you
how pumped we were about Jordan Mason, and all he
did was thunder rumble important runs in week one, Chad,
(27:38):
not only am I pumped about obviously how intelligent you
know we said we're not going to do x's and o's.
Maybe that was a mistake. Goddamn with how great we
were with this Jordan Mason discussion last week. Sure, but
I will say one of the things that I thought
was really promising from week one going into week two
is kind of the forced or non forced depth success where.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Eric Wilson have two words for you, Eric Wilson.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yes, and Cashman when he went out last year, we
really had a hard time with that. So having some
depth there where that guy played so great excellent. Having
Thelan play well and clearly continuing to develop his rapport
with JJ excellent. The Jordan Mason thing, just the idea
that when when Aaron Jones was able to come in
(28:31):
on that touchdown route and that big run late for
nine yards and be immensely fresh like I saw in
week one Week fourteen of those two guys, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
H it was incredible. When THELAN dropped a pass and
I saw on his face as he was running off,
I go, I don't think he'll drop a pass the
rest of the year. He had that look week fourteen.
I don't know, Super Bowl game, whatever you want to
talk about, but.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
What's however deep you want to go, How fun is
it to like this is the first year I was like,
oh yeah, punt returners can go forward.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
This punt returner kid.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Dude. I think I saw in in uh Kot's postgame
speech that he had like over one hundred, one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Seven and seventeen yards.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
One hundred and seventeen return yards and they were all huge, right,
they were so like I remember, I'm a little bit
of buddies with Marcus Chryls from back in the day.
I just remember the feeling every time a punt got
thumped up into the air, you went, who knows right?
And I feel that that is that is gonna be
(29:39):
one of my big watchers for the first six weeks
was that first game. You know, you get what you
or are we are we gonna work into this era
of like, oh my god, we might get a couple
of return touchdown.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
That kid can scoot man man.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And it just it just seemed like the way he
caught the ball, assesses and then makes a directional change,
like where so often you've seen a guy like okay,
he ran his five yards. Now he gets hit and
then and he's gone another seventeen excellent. Yeah. The other thing,
speaking of the Pennix and JJ thing, you know, very
(30:19):
close and picks, I think a lot of people thought
you know, the Falcons thing didn't happen. They were going
to be the two guys on the board. The Vikings
were going to be choosing between the thing that I
heard Aaron Jones say to I believe Ben Lieber after
the end of so and this is not you know,
(30:39):
this is a guy who's been one of the better
players in the league for a long time, played with
Aaron Rodgers, has played with some significant football players and leaders.
He said, in the fourth quarter, when they were down
seventeen to six or whatever, they're all huddling up, and
clearly JJ's the guy who's been struggling. It's not like
I don't think anyone in the stadium or on the
(31:01):
field didn't understand that. Not that everybody wasn't playing a role,
but I think everybody knew that's what was happening. He said.
He came into the huddle, looked around at everybody and goes, hey,
is there any place you'd rather be? Like the sort
of thing, wow, the sort of thing that somebody would
have to say to a young quarterback to get them going,
(31:22):
And the way he spoke about it in that interview
didn't feel cliche. It's like all these things we've heard
behind closed doors about this kid having like the special
genuine leadership. It was just it was interesting to see
Aaron Jones speak about that in a non fake way.
(31:42):
And then I'll be like, I don't know as anticipated
as Week one was, given how odd that game finished,
I think this is going to be the most anticipated
Viking quarterback start since Brett and before that. I think
this is above Dante's first. I think I don't know
(32:05):
how far you have to go back, probably to Tarkenton.
Maybe I'm not as.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Old because this is this is a huge prove it moment.
This is a we got to see something really special.
But now you know we're still Minnesota sports fans, so
you go prove it.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, well we're damaged.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Save us. Yeah, looking looking around at all these veterans
and you're the new guy, and you go, is there
any place you'd rather be? That's something I would see
in a movie that would make me talk in a
movie theater, like I would get up and throw some
liquors at the screen and be like, there is no
other place I would want to be, and everybody be
like shit, am I no, you shut up? We're here.
(32:48):
I mean, that's that is that jacks me up.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
It jacks me up. I'm very jacked up. Now, before
we do predictions, Before we do predictions, let's talk Jared Allen. So,
speaking of guys who jack you up, yeh boy goes
into the Hall of Fame this summer and they are
doing a halftime ceremony celebrating his Hall of Fame induction.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Ring of fame they call it. It's a new thing.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
You keep doing that. There's a ring of honor. You're
you're all over the mat, man, and I need you
to get in the map and on the map.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I just want it to be right. I want to
say it enough until it's right.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, but I do think that's how things seem to
work in our society, So I would keep pushing that.
I the we were lucky enough if we did a
documentary on him that's coming out If this is Thursday,
it's coming out Friday tomorrow, about him and his father
(33:49):
and his grandfather, and like, you know, so much of
the stuff that's done about Jared Allen is about this big,
gregarious personality about you know, he was on Jackass and
he's funny and all these commercials. He's just just this
really lovable guy. But the story is about his family
lineage and how the role that it played in guiding
(34:11):
and changing and helping his life at the most important
moment in his career, and what it turned him into
as a man. It's called the Allen Name. It's on YouTube.
But it was really interesting to get to spend time
with him and his dad and see that side. When
you know, my whole life, you're just used to the
(34:31):
funniest maniac like on Field maniac of all time.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, I don't know that there's
anyone within our age range that didn't. You know, if
if you ever were running through an airport and somebody
ran into you and they fell down, you had to
get down in hog time, you had to. There was
(34:57):
no other way around it. And so you know, he's
inspired an entire generation of hog tires. And I just
think that, you know, you have this documentary coming out
about his grandfather and his father and what really as
a dad. What got to me was when he does
say it, basically say.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
It, are you doing the reveal? Are you telling what's happening?
Were you going to ruin the movie?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
No, I was going to talk about his induction speech.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Oh yeah, great, So what are you talking about? When
he talks about his kids in his induction speech.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
He looks right at his daughters and he basically tunes
everybody else out and just talks to them, And I
thought that was really cool.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
It's it was, It's a really really great speech. We
also in the process learned that he is so the
year that he almost broke the sack record, the NFL
took a sack away from him where they called it
a muff and a team sack, and Aaron Rodgers went
(35:57):
on record on camera in a video did about him,
you know, just right before the Hall of Fame, saying nope,
I wasn't going to throw it. You tackle me. It
was a sack. So technically I am of the belief
that Jared Allen is the all time NFL sack leader.
You can you can find that video on YouTube as well,
really pushing stuff, really really plugging. Towards the end of
(36:20):
that show, let's do let's do predictions. We'll do a
team a player and you. That's how we're doing him
this year. Team prediction, a player prediction and you. Now
last week you took feeling and he didn't get the touchdown.
But he did have a huge two point conversion, so
you gotta feel good about that one. And I think
(36:42):
I took Jordan Mason, didn't I? And if not, I
want to pretend I did to have a good game.
But let's let's what are you thinking?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Okay, team Viking win. Okay by ten it's a Viking
win by ten points. I'm going to go player, I'm
gonna go. Hawkinson goes for over eighty and has a touchdown,
and then personally, I'm going to I'm going to enjoy
(37:14):
every time the camera guy cuts to the sideline. How
about you?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Here's the just such a such a non descript petty individual.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
So I'm not a petty do it? I know?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
And I shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I know. That's Those are my predictions.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
You ask for your predictions, Those are your predictions. I
I got Vikings one hundred and twenty seven, Falcons nine
to fourteen, somewhere in that range. They might get up
to seventeen. I'm not exactly sure. You know, the quarterback
Jean Robinson's very good. I am gonna go. I'm gonna
go that we are going to get a much more
(37:57):
significant ground game from Aaron Jones. I think we're gonna
keep people on their heres. They go, oh my god,
we gotta worry about Jordan Mason. Then blamo, oh, here
comes Aaron Jones with a bunch of nine yard runs.
And then I just think you never never know what
you're gonna get. And then from a personal prediction standpoint,
I think there's no way I keep up my chill
attitude from week one.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
No chance.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
And I'm gonna have to stay off of all social
media because I think if and when JJ plays more
like the fourth quarter than the first three quarters, I
think our state and community is going to They've already
lost it. They've already the place is ballistic right now,
and I think I think if I get caught up
(38:40):
in that and I'm texting with you, I just think
that could put me in a really unhealthy communication place
on Sunday where I just get too pumped and then
too devastated, and then too pumped and too devastated.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
So I just well, I have a great solution for you, Okay,
get it.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I will not be doing that, but thanks again Chad
for joining the show. We will see you next week.
I hope you get to watch this one. No, you're
gonna be at the stadium. Chad's gonna be at the
stadium for this one. Thank you to all you guys
for listening to our podcast feed while you're here. Make
sure you give us a good review. It sure would
help us out a lot. Finally, a huge shout out
(39:21):
to Ticketmaster, the official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings,
for help making the show, help making, helping make I
did it. There we go, the show happen, enjoy the game,
everybody
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