The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz talk NFL Sunday Ticket, NBA Draft, & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
A.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 4 (00:52):
Good morning, my good brother.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Man, you said it, and we are in the dog
days right like dog days this week's hot dog eating contest.
I should say I was the sideline reporter of the
hot dog eating contest for three years, so I have
lived that thing up close and personal. No disrespect to it.
But when we are this obsessed over whether or not
Joey chestnuts eating wieners, and we know that, like man,
we are in straight up we need football mode, like

(01:17):
that's just what happened right now, That's where we are
like we even tried to make the NBA Draft a
big deal this week, and like I want the NBA
Draft to be a big deal, but it's a failed product.
There's no way you can get into it the way
you get into the NFL draft. And the whole time
I was watching, I was thinking, this is what happens
when you are desperate for a pig skin to go
flying in the air.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
That's where we are right now.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
We got it less of a month. Can't sit and
that's that's where we are.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
You're so right, you know, you know it's hysterical is
that I've realized that I'm watching way too much soccer.
And the reason why I'm watching way too In fact,
I was watching Brazil.

Speaker 5 (01:59):
Last night, right, and I'm watching Vinnie Junior go nuts,
and I make a mentioned of it were my text
I've been text chain with my buddies, right, and they go.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Soccer like that big question mark. And you know why
I like it? Besides it's a pretty game. You know
it sound's true and all or whatever, but it reminds
you it has the bigness of football. That that's really it, right,
Like it's got the bigness of football where you know,

(02:35):
it's got like pageantry, and maybe that little thing is
just kind of getting me through because you're right to
the NBA, trash stop.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
It's not the NFL, man, I know you want to
be the NFL.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
And there's Adam said, there's Adam Silver hugging everybody like
he's like Adell Light, and it's just nobody knows the
players right, like you don't handful of the players.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Like truthfully, the best player I saw.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
All all season last season went to the Lakers at seventeen.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Dalton connect Yeah, think about it.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
But here's the thing. It's not the NBA's fault. I
want to be clear here, like I'm not coming in
bashing the NBA. There is a pipeline of college football.
The second most popular sport in the world is college football.
So college football. I shouldn't say the world in the
US before everybody tweets me about the second most popular
sport in this country is college football. So your pipeline

(03:41):
is a bunch of guys that you've either heard of
their name or you've probably seen a highlight. Even if
you don't like college football. When you start getting ready
for the draft, you can go out and you're watching
a bunch of you know, YouTube stuff and listening to experts,
and like, you can at least get something out of
it that makes sense, you can put it all together.
What are you doing with a bunch of guys that, like, frankly,

(04:01):
a week ago nobody had ever heard of I was
sitting in a hotel in Jacksonville with a bunch of
people as we were doing a high school football event.
I was sitting with a bunch of people watching it,
and one of the guys looked at me and he's like,
who's this guy? Hell have I know? Like I do
this for a living, and I have no idea, Like,
how are we supposed to keep up with the bunch
of guys that we know nothing about? The entire process

(04:24):
coming into it, and then the fact that yet again
you've got to break down of a player why he's
gonna work great with Wemby and in the middle of
that woljbomb, he's not ever gonna play for that team.
Like the entire process. You can't even celebrate when your
favorite team drafts somebody. He's probably not gonna play for you.
So it just becomes this weird thing that took two
days for no good reason. That sort of everybody just

(04:45):
sat there and said, Yep, Brownie's gonna go to the Lakers,
and that'll be our drama. Like, that's so different than
what we experienced when people are arguing tooth and nail
over the eighteenth pick of the first round of the
NFL draft. It's just a much different experien It can't
be reputable. The NHL too tried this week doing it
at this sphere. Nobody cares.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
I will tell you it looked cool, like like it
looked big.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
But to your point, yeah, nobody cares. It's again, you can't.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
You can't make that a big deal because there's no recognition.
The other problem that the NBA has is it's to
make up of the team, right, you don't there's just
a finite amount of spots. You're also talking about a
draft that was probably the worst draft since the Anthony

(05:40):
Bennett Draft. Right, Like, there is football you need. It's like,
you know twenty two positions, not counting special teams.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
You need the college in flux.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
So you may not know an offensive tackle for Auburn
or a linebacker from Texas Tech, but you're able to
kind of deep dive into it a lot easier. It's
just and they're gonna probably make an impact. Right, there's

(06:16):
more of a chance just because of the math, there's
more of a chance that those drafts they just matter more.
It's like anything else. It's why football is king because
it just matters more. Right, every game matters more, every
moment matters more.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
It hads that feel to.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, the impact part of it is huge too, because
to your point, when you think about every other sport
other than the NFL, I mean, in the NHL, if
you're lucky, a top overall pick in the draft is
gonna get in the league in one or two years
and maybe start making a difference in two or three years.
And that's if you've got Connor McDavid right. For most
teams picking in the first round, it's well, they're gonna

(06:59):
go and Milwaukee for several years and then eventually they'll
get to Nashville and let's see if they have any
sort of skin in the game when they get there.
So you know, it can be years before somebody's playing
third line and you don't even know if it's worth it, right,
like major League Baseball, much the same we getting drafted
Sech believe they're even gonna go. We don't know, you know,
and you think about the NBA and how it's like, well,
they're gonna go to the G League and we'll just

(07:21):
see how it works out. The real argument that I
think is a smart one that supports drafting BROWNI is
it's the fifty fifth pick in the draft. Who cares
that guy never makes a difference. Well, that's a problem
for your draft because the fifty fifth guy is still
a second rounder in the NFL. And you want to
tell me that a fan base is like, ah, what
the hell, go take a shot on that guy's kid.

(07:41):
It's the second round doesn't make a difference. It's just
the immediacy and the urgency are different because the opportunity
for somebody to get on the field is just so
much tougher in every other sport. And that makes getting
into the whole draft broadcast just kind of blase.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Well a fitz he could you make that a two
day event?

Speaker 2 (08:02):
I mean, that's just silly that I do blame the
NBA for it's not a two day event.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
All right, How in.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
The world could you possibly talk about the second round
like it like it matters a little bit. You want
you talk about rolling dice, picking lottery tickets, that's all
the second round is.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
I mean, give me a break that you put that
two days. That's silly.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
I mean, that's that's just let me try to make
it like that is greed. I'm sorry, it's like that's
pushing it. It's a colossal mistake. It's a failure.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Let me ask you this, do you think next year
when there isn't the drama of Bronni, Like, there's just
part of me that feels like they took it to
two days because they knew Bronnie wasn't gonna be a
first round pick, but they figured he'd probably go in
the second round somewhere. So let's get him in. Let's
get that moment televised so that everybody can talk Lebron
and his kid playing on the same team. I wonder
next year if they run that back. It just it

(09:00):
does feel to your point. You know, even diehards can't
tell me that you were flocking and stopping all of
your plans to watch Day two of the NBA Draft.
I just can't believe there were that many people that
did it.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
No, I mean it was a rip off.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
I think you're You're completely right that they probably don't
run it back. They probably sit there and go, now, yeah,
I want to that was a mistake. We'll just to
capitalize it. And it probably wasn't one and done for
lebron for Bronnie. I gotta believe that there's no merit
to it. I don't know anybody that watched it, do you.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
No second day, not anybody like That's the the interesting
part of all of it is that I think consumers
have become smart enough to look at it and be like,
all right, fine, that's the way you wanted to do it.
You know, we're not stupid, And you know, Adam Silver
should know that. Part of this is just a reminder too.
And I'll say this now because the whole start of

(09:56):
this conversation with us laughing about the fact that we're
a month over football. I will away from football. I
will remind every single person right now that is going
to in August have something negative to say about preseason football.
I will remind you, all of all of you that
the preseason games in August will get better ratings than
the NBA drafted. The preseason games in August will get

(10:17):
better ratings than playoff games getting other sports, the preseason
games that everybody says or trash and nobody cares about
and they're worthless and the pointless to watch those preseason
games are going to do better than meaningful sporting events
in most other sports because we love football that much.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, like you brought it up, you know, or I
broughtup soccer and the you know you got us say
on Monday and the Euros and the Copa, the whole thing,
and you know, Fox is all in and it's great
and we're you know when when football comes all this

(10:54):
stuff baseball right like, and I love baseball right like
you all the summer all this like late spring summer
things that occur to fill the calendar. It all just
is it just feels like filler, right, It just feels
like until you get in a real deal. It's it's

(11:17):
unbelievable how that is. And listen again, I'm a sports fans,
right so I'm like genuine sports. So I watch baseball.
I told you I watched a soccer. I'll put on
the draft, you know, I'll put it all on. But reality,
I'm like, all, I all, I can't wait for is
Man when training cap comes around. The best time of

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the year is like close. And that's the truth.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
I feel like, cousin, you were just you're hanging back
and you are you know, you're opening a dating app
and you're not really like You're like, look, none of
this is going to actually be my relationship. But it's
Friday night. I got nothing else to do. Sure, I'll
right right on this one. That's like all right, you know, yeah,
I'll go grab a slice with this person.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Fire that.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Like, that's where it feels like the entire month of
July is. It's just based on this. Well, it's better
than nothing, sort of prison. I will add, like I'm
gonna throw cricket in here, but I'm gonna do it
only so I can ask you about a violation. I'm
flying back from Jacksonville. Right like I'm flying, I'm sitting
in my window seat. I'm a window seat guy. I'm
a little guy. I like to be able to sort
of adjust my body straight over to the windows so

(12:24):
that I'm making as little contact with anybody as possible.
I sort of bubble myself in there. I got a
guy that's sitting in the middle seat. He's watching cricket
on his phone, but it's not that he's watching cricket.
He's littler than I am, and i'm, you know, five
nine and a half hundred and sixty five pounds, I'm
a little guy. So like, he's littler than I am,
and he's scrunning and he's watching cricket on his phone.
He's got his wife in the aisle. But as he's watching,

(12:45):
he's doing the arm spread, all right, So now he's
taking both armrests. He's taking the one that's on his
wife's side, but also the only arm rest I have
available to me, which we all know is supposed to
be sort of split between the guy and the isle
and the guy in the middle, like let's have a
little respect. But he's spreading out so far that his
arm keeps rubbing against my arm, and I keep moving
my way further and further over while I'm watching cricket,

(13:06):
because I have no choice, because he's you know, he's
basically elbowing me the whole time. But it's not like
an elbow. It's like a less aggressive arm rubbing up
against my arm, which doesn't seem to bother him, but
it really bothers me, like when in a fight, am
I allowed to say, Man, do you not feel my arm?
Because I'm looking at him the whole time taking like
I'm over here like a sardine trying to just squish

(13:28):
my body in and I'm getting arm rubbs from the
guy next to me. I like, forearm to forearm is
not how I feel like I should be interacting with anybody.
It doesn't matter who they are in the middle seat.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
No, I'll tell you a stone violation.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
And you as someone who not you, but the cricket
man as the guy who you got to react to
what you feel like you can't touch.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
A stranger like that, like the touch is just no good.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
I'm with you, Like you know, flying nowadays is the worst,
Like the government really may I'm the last person to
answer the government to interview on anything. But these airlines
are so out of control with space it's ridiculous. Like
they charge you prefer square inch right, Like, oh, we

(14:21):
get you an exit row, we'll get an extra sixty
eight dollars, Like that's not right. Like they just banged
the NFL in the anti trust for the NFL ticket right,
Like they gotta go after these airlines for space, Like
there should be a fine night amount of seats for
an aircraft, and that's that. Stop squishing in seats, all right,

(14:46):
stop making it more.

Speaker 4 (14:48):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
They got to come in and pass the federal law
that there's that there's a finite amount of seats, a
respectable amount of room in between people, so.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
There's no rub going on. That guy is a violation.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
That guy he had a seg a violation too, And
I know this is a violation I agree with. By
the way, the factor were all crammed in like sardines.
I usually, especially like on a shorter flight, if I
got a tinkle, I got the bladder of a child.
But I will hold it to the point that I
even massive pain because I like the window and I
don't want to inconvenience everything. But I decided midway through
this flight, look, this guy's being a jerk. I'm just

(15:25):
gonna make him get up, so I'll go walk to
the bathroom. Ex gives me a reprieve, so I'm like,
all right, I got a tinkle, which is what I say,
and is an adult like I gotta tinkle. And his
wife gets out of her aisle seat to give me
room to get out. He refuses so he just looks
at me. He's like, you can step around, So I
have to do the walk over step around now it's
too small. It was like directly like he could have

(15:49):
even a good sniff. He was getting straight into my butt,
like I don't know what we're doing anymore.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Like this off. Ah, that's a that's your right day,
Like that's so bad.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Come on, he's got the rule nowadays, especially since there's
there's just no room. You gotta get up, all right,
you gotta get up and let the person through. We
all have experience that we all got to go to
the bathroom. You gotta do the neighborly thing, and you
gotta get up. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Just if more of us were nice when we flew,
flying would be a much nicer experience.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Yeah, no, you know what it is too, Like I'm
with you.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
There's a natural scheme of people, right, like you agree
with this right, Like you're talking about the touch, like
if you got if this guy's got one arm rest,
it's his wife's be grateful you got your You got
your arm rest. There's no reason why he's got to
conquer your arm rest too, Like its manifest destiny.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
And you're right about to the fact that, like it's
just gotten so bad because I've been lucky enough to
fly over the world, all over the world for years,
I've fun more than most people. It feels like the
average flyer now is less considerate than ever before. And
I don't I don't know when that happened. Like there
used to be a I'm not even talking about. Okay,

(17:18):
people used to get dressed and it look nicer when
they fly. I'm not even doing that, old man, get
off my lunch. I'm just saying, like, as a human being,
the way we get on planes, the way we act
on planes, the way we get off planes, the way
we are.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
The unport, it's not civil.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah. Yeah, it's like when did we all become a
bunch of savages trying to get on and off many
air Well.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
The part of it, too, is that there's an entitlement
that we have about flying, Like flying used to be
a big deal. Like I like you, in another life,
I was a sports writer and travel all around the world,
and I used to spend three hundred and fifteen nights
on the year on the road a year, And that's
what I did for about a decade and they're a

(17:57):
little less than and and I loved it. It was
pre nine to eleven for most part, and you know,
you were able to just kind of go and and
But as more and more people travel, the headache comes.
They all of a sudden, there's no civility. It's like
you get up in the air and civility goes out

(18:19):
the window. Although I do, I do think civility is
gone and all. I think social media tarnishes civility.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
I agree with that. Actually I post COVID especially there's
just no nobody's nice, there's.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
No respect, no not to be like like you said,
they get off by the long guy. But you're got
to show up some decency toward your fellow human being.
Like right away, everybody's got to criticize, everybody's got to
rip you, everybody's gonna come in. And it's because of
the que and social media. It's like people feel emboldened

(18:59):
right like to say things or to act a certain way.
Whereas back in the day your ass got knocked out
if you acted like that. I think they's to go
back to letting you knock somebody out. We got lots

(19:19):
to get to We got to talk about this NFL
NFL ticket thing because you made mention to it and
to the group. It's fascinating man. On what the future
of watching football is going to be. We'll get into that,
we'll talk some drafts. I'm dying to hear about your

(19:40):
Jacksonville excursion because I love the high school football stuff,
so I want to hear all about it. Where the
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Speaker 2 (20:50):
All right, welcome back, Fellas, Jason.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
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Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm real curious about your trip to Jacksonville where you
were at a big high school football event for the
top recruits of the country. Tell me all about this.
I love this stuff. I'll be honest with you, I'm
real interested in it.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Well, you know, for anyone that doesn't know my other
job obviously, as I work for Yahoo Sports and I
cover college and NFL mostly for Yahoo, and Yahoo is
part of Yahoo's Rivals. So Rivals is one of the
scouting services that goes out and ranks the high school
football players across the country. So over the weekend they

(21:38):
did a camp that they haven't done in about five
years called the Rivals five Star and then basically it's
one hundred players from across the country that are four
and five star players. They could be juniors, they could
be seniors. Mostly seniors came out and they Day one.
They do some cool like you know, media type stuff
they do you know, pictures, and they hang out and

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they kind of do that thing. Day two is all
about skills competition and then a seven on seven games.
So it was actually pretty amazing to get to watch.
You know, for example, Brandon Jacobs was coaching all of
the high school running backs, so they're running through all
these running backs as you know, they were doing the
same across the field. So the nice part of my

(22:21):
job is that it gave me up up close, you know,
personal sort of access to everything that they were doing
and seeing some of you know, what we can look for.
And I'll be honest, like especially because we obsess over quarterbacks,
but man like Tavian Saint Clair is a quarterback commit
that is he's going to Ohio State. And it was
incredible because we did an accuracy competition, so I watched

(22:43):
all that. You could see some of these high school
kids still struggle to throw across their body, but then
they just literally turned around and did like a long
ball throw and my guy, with no run up, no work,
no effort through the ball seventy yards in the air.
It landed seventy yards downfield. And he's a high school kid,
like one of the one of the defensive linemen that
was played is currently the size of Chris Jones of

(23:05):
the Kansas City Chief Superstar currently. So it's cool because
you know, we talk all the time about kids getting
drafted and how you have to figure out different levels
of competition and how it translates. This was really helpful
for a lot of the kids because you're competing at
these camps against other best of the best players in
these situations. So you might be great in the city
you're in, are you great against the best from other cities?

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And it's a real opportunity to show that. So it
was cool. Like kid that won fastest run ran a
four three six forty. It's what kids are doing right
now in high school is unbelievable to me.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, listen, I got a son who my oldest is
about to go in the play high school football. Like
he just started workouts all season workouts with his high school.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
It will be an incoming.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Freshmen, and it's just it's a fascinating world, man, you
know what it is. These kids are so much more
talented today than they've ever been, certainly more than when
I when I played, Like you know, I mean it's
not even close.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
These kids are just skilled, they're stronger, they've been working
out they've been you know, like like it's so funny.
I think back to it. You know when I was
in eighth grade going to high school and you know,
you start lifting weights right you're and all you're really
doing is you're you know, benching and curls right like

(24:36):
you just going glad muscles. You didn't you didn't work
out properly like nowadays, Like you see what these kids
are doing. It's strength training and jolty training like my
kid goes. It's strength and agility training. Like it's unbelievable
what we're kind of athletes that were producing.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
And I say with my little one, my eleven year old.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Baseball, like Fitzy, these kids are so skilled. Like I
watched an eleven U baseball game, travel baseball game, and
I'm watching a good get like decent game make they
make all the plays.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
You know, they're not the ball around the field.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
You know you'll see some decent pitching, You'll see good
hitting Situationally, they know what they're doing. It's amazing. The
training and the practicing. I hate the you know, dive
into one sport. You got to pick your one sport
at nine years old. I think it's a disservice. The
one thing I will say is that when these kids

(25:36):
do focus on the sport they're they're really, really good.
You know, across the board. They're way better than I
think athletes have ever been.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
It's interesting to your point. By the way, the kid
that put up the most bench press to twenty five,
just like the Sky and Combine put it up twenty
seven times, and he's a junior in high school. So
the training that they're doing is incredible. To your point
point about focusing on one sport. One thing that I
really walked away from out of this was the realization
and it is something in the music business we've talked

(26:07):
about for years, but like a lot of people set
out to be great at this thing that they love
and then they wake up one day and realize that
they become a CEO and that's real. You might be
the best singer in the world, and all of a sudden,
you get a record deal and you start touring. You
just want to sing songs, Well, you don't do that anymore.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Now.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
You employ one hundred and fifty people that all make
their livelihood based on your decisions every single year and
touring and it's a really strange thing, especially as kids
become more and more successful. Social media influencers become more
and more successful as kids kids now are CEOs, the
really great ones are having to do this right away.
The number of these kids that you know, frankly are

(26:43):
already worth over a million dollars that are high school players.
The number of these kids that are getting paid to
take visits to different schools, The number of these kids
that have deals in place with schools that when you
start hearing people talk behind the scenes about what NIL
looks like and some of the deals that are being
instruct for some of these kids, you understand why. Like,
if I was a parent, I'd have a hard time

(27:04):
wanting my tenth grader that really wants to play four
sports do it. If I know that, man, well, we're
already getting offers that are for a million plus dollars
for you to go play college football, Like what are
you doing?

Speaker 2 (27:14):
You know?

Speaker 3 (27:14):
And so I agree with you. I think it's a
disservice to the kid. The hardest part is that I'm
not sure they're kids anymore. Like when you get to
this point where you're a five part.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
Making choose it at nine, ten years old.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, that's fair, and that's that's fair. I think it's
it's difficult because now it used to be you played,
you know, high school football because you love it. You
played college football because it got you to the NFL,
and you played the NFL for money. That that's if
you were great at this, if you were lucky enough
to be the one percent, that's what you did. Now
it genuinely feels like by the time you get to

(27:47):
junior senior year, if you don't have a monetizing plan
in front of you, like, then you're behind everybody else.
If you don't have offers that are changing your entire
families lives, then you're behind everybody else. And that's that's
daunting to think of, what, especially for these quarterbacks, like
the amount of pressure that's on these kids to play quarterback,
that play quarterback, to make these decisions. It's already hard

(28:09):
to figure out where you want to play college football. Now,
imagine how many people are in your ear if they
know that you've got an offer from somewhere that's going
to pay you, you know, a guarantee of half a
million dollars a year, plus first class fights for your
entire family, plus a suite at every game and you're
trying to weigh that option versus this one over here
that might only be four hunder k, but you know
they're giving you more. You like this coaching staff better,

(28:31):
Like are you allowed to do that now? Like that's
that's what really becomes wild to me when you look
at the decision making.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Dude, it's insane.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Like I had this whole discussion about reclassifying, like my boys, right,
because reclassifies everything. Now everybody does it, and it's a
way to cheat the system out of a year. But
think about it, right, if you reclassify out of out
of eighth grade, so you through eighth grade and then

(29:01):
you repeat eighth grade somewhere else, Right, It's it's a
way to allow and it's such a huge advantage. But
it just helps you because there's a big difference between
a seventeen year old senior and a nineteen year old senior.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
I mean, these angles are everywhere I see it.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
I mean I'm in the middle of it, right, So
I seen these parents. Like in high school football, I
remember playing We had a game last year for our
youth league. It was you know, we basically eighth graders
and we're playing kids that we're sixteen years old, like

(29:44):
who had gone through puberty or the other all the
way on the other side of puberty.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Right, Like, I mean, they look like us.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
There were men at you know, sixteen, like you're just around,
you were at this five star camp. You see these
kids in sixteen, So now imagine them gets eighth graders now.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Well, and even I was taking Mac Jones now with
the Jags. Former Patriots quarterback came by because rivals camps
were a big deal to him, so he was just
come by and talking to everybody and hanging out. And
he and I were standing on the sideline watching some
of the drills, and Mac, who was only drafted a
few years ago, even acknowledged in our conversation. He's like, man,
they weren't built like this when I was in high school.

(30:23):
And you think about how much bigger everybody's getting, and
I think that in part that's because of the training,
and part of it is because of things like the
classification that are happy, Like you start thinking about how
large these kids are. It's just such a different it's
a different world, and they're grasp on everything. I mean.
Keelan Russell is another quarterback. He's commit to Alabama and

(30:44):
his command and understanding of exactly like he first of all,
he looks like he's thirty, and then he just he
flings the ball like he's you know, played three years
of college football and is absolute understanding of the concepts.
Like watching the seven on seven where the coach staff,
you know, they've got plays drawn up and they're taking
ten seconds to explain this play and he's got it

(31:05):
executing it. And then he had some plays in the
seven on seven that he just baited the defense in
ways that the best players in the country weren't ready
to handle. And you looked at it and he said, man,
this isn't a kid playing quarterback. This is a grown
ass man playing a kid's game. And like that's that's it.
It's real and it's and then, like I said, you
start hearing some of the offers and I don't want
to like throw anybody under the bus, but like the

(31:28):
numbers were rampant everywhere, and start thinking about, Okay, you're
a kid and you're trying to figure out where to go,
and you got schools offering signing bonuses that are upwards
of hundreds of thousands of dollars on top of an
annual nil on top of the new popular thing truly
is a travel allotment for your family so they can
fly first class to every game, and a travel allotment

(31:50):
for you so you can fly home first class whenever
you need to. Like, these are all real things that
are now being negotiated, and they're being negotiated for kids
and buy It's like, it's just I don't even know
how they have the space to figure out what to
do in normal life, given how much is on them
in the world of like, hey, these gams matter because
God forbid, you have a bad day. You have a

(32:11):
bad day, you might drop, and if you drop, your
costing your whole family money.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Like it's weird, man, Yeah, it is weird.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
And you know it's like, I think we all agree
that it's way too much.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
It's too much. Kids are too young to be experiencing this.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
It is like he that's where the parent needs to
kind of step in and shield them from a little bit.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
Now you see it.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
And I want to quick on that. Like for years
I've said I want to be consistent. For years I've
said nobody worried about the fact that justin Timberlake didn't
finish high school. So I'm not sitting here saying that,
you know, all of these things can't be worked out. Like, look,
I was as a kid. I was earning money when
I was ten years old as a classical violinist. Like,
so I understand, Yeah, you're a proud is something that's

(33:00):
already existing, right, I understand that. But let's also remember
they had to go in For anyone that doesn't remember
in the eighties, they had to go in and they
had to change the laws around parents and what they
could do with their kids' money because there were so
many child actors that were finding out they were broke
when they turned eighteen because mom and dad spent it all.
So like when we say the parents got to step in,

(33:21):
you got to hope that there's a parental structure. Like
I don't know what the right answer is, but there
needs to be some sort of system in place that
protects the kids.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah, now, listen, there is You're right, Yeah, not everybody,
you know, not all parents are are equipped themselves to
step in and handle this kind of business. You know,
buddy mine is a GM in big time college football,
and I mean he's already telling me it's so crazy.

(33:50):
And all these universities are hiring general managers now to
and they need general managers because they need to treat
their roster with salary caps and everything else. It's completely wild.
All right, we got to take quick time out. We'll
come back in just a moment. The fella is hanging
right here Fox Sports Radio fellas Jason Fits Anthony Gargana.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
So I gotta ask you a question.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
When you're down there, and let's look at the quarterbacks,
because you were talking about some of these high school quarterbacks.
It's amazing how polished they are, right like that was
that The biggest thing that stood out is, you know,
the seven on seventh skill thing is blowing up right

(34:46):
like they you know, it's flag football, it's the seven
on seven stuff. But what it does is it makes
the skill people, certainly just the quarterback and the receivers,
so much more elevated than they ever been. Right, Like,
these quarterbacks now their concepts, they study the position.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
It's funny. I always thought Peyton started it right.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Peyton started real quarterbacks really study the studying the position
and seeing like where they were. Peyton was at oc
on the field, and that trend kind of started with
Kim and now, guys, you know you have to be
you have to be prepared to run that to play

(35:34):
that position.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah. I think the the intellect, you know, the football
smarts of all the guys was certainly on display, especially
in the seven on seven and they were they were
being asked to execute a lot quickly running clock. For
anyone that's never seen this, it was seven on seven. Uh,
the corners couldn't get straight up and bumped, so they
had to have a two yard cushion between the corner

(35:56):
and the dB until they got to within I think
the ten yard line. So it gives a little bit
of a reaction, but the coaches are barking out quick plays,
quick processing and forcing everybody to do it. And you know,
so the three things that really stood out was the processing,
the size, and the footwork for a lot of these guys,
and you know that was pretty I mentioned Tavian Saint

(36:17):
Clair earlier, who again he's a high school kid committed
to Ohio State that right now today is a little
taller and a little bigger than Jayden. You know, so
we talk about Jaden Daniels, he's very comparable, Like if
you looked at his body, you would think that he's Jayden,
he's just a little bit bigger. But also Achille Smith Junior,
which makes me feel old. Wow, he's a man amongst

(36:38):
boys like Junior.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
Oh that's wow. Wow, what a story.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
He's huge now. It was interesting his brain is ahead
of what his body's ready to do, you know, Like
there were a couple of times that he found something
through something and you were it's just everybody sort of gasped,
was like, that's great. He's got to get a little
bit more accuracy. I think, like but and there were
a couple of times the coaches were parking at him,
you know, use your feet, and when he would use
his feet, all of a sudden everything was solved. So

(37:07):
it's a reminder that these kids still have a little
bit to work on, but they're being asked to process.
So like and Juju Lewis is a kid that's committed
to usc that he's tiny, like honestly cousin, Like, he's
smaller than I am. And then you watch him get
out there and play and you're like, my god. It's
just some of these guys athletically and their ability to

(37:29):
figure out who's doing what, where, when and how why.
It's it just speaks to the fact that you've got
kids that are spending more time than ever in and
around playbooks, in and around coaches, in and around you know,
people that help them learn the skill of the game better.
It just doesn't feel like high school football felt like
even ten years ago, where you have a bunch of
kids that are a little bit lost that are going

(37:50):
out there trying to do the thing. Now, it's just
if all these kids felt like they were part of
the system.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yeah, that's a great way to play the system. It's
a different it's like this new thing that it's like
kind of formed and yeah, yeah, I I totally you
feel you like the wow, it's amazing. You mentioned a
Killy Smith junior. I was gonna bring up Donovan Donovan
McNabb with Donovan was coming out of Syracuse like he

(38:23):
was a terrific athlete. He had a big arm, you know,
just the reason why Andy Reid picked him over Achille
Smith and a couple of other guys that was supposed
to be a great quarterback draft. But the thing with
with Donovan, I remember Andy telling me like he's not Peyton,

(38:44):
right or not? And he's not Brady. Those guys are
rare in that their role in their offense. They're like
OC's on the field and and he's like DOWNAV is
not that type.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
Of quarterback, and nobody really is. So here you.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Have like the two thousands, like they like twenty to
twenty ten. Your only quarterbacks that are are that OC
on the field that understood every nuance of offense was
Peyton and Brady, And now they all have to right

(39:22):
like now ten year, let's go ten years later, from
twenty fourteen to twenty twenty four every quarterback has to
have that same Brady or Manning brain, how they're wired
to understand the complexity of that position.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
But that also is partially because of the way the
system works now, right like, you have less time than
ever to show that you can actually play. I used
to say that I wanted an adjustment period for freshmen
because you know, come on, think they went from worrying
about a promposal to suddenly play in front of eighty
thousand people. These group of seniors that I just I
saw up close, they're not what high school football players

(40:04):
were a few years ago. There is a higher expectation
that you're gonna come in, You're gonna conquer right away,
Like you don't have a couple of years to figure
out the position and the playbook and the coaching staff anymore.
So it just feels like all of this means you
must be smarter when you walk in the door.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a great point. I don't know, I
find the I'm fast dayd by it. I really am
uh it's it's so interesting. All right, we got lots
to get to. I want to talk about how we
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did you see this we're talking about. We just got

(41:26):
talking about this high school football and everything that I guess.
There's an under twenty World football kind of tournament and
we lost to Japan. USA. Now, how could we ever
lose in football? Like soccer? I get right now. Of course,

(41:51):
Monday tmusa lot on the line. I want to get
to you. I want to ask you about this, But
how do we lose? Did you pan in football? The
rest of the world's catching up in basketball, maybe even
some state or passed us, and now we're gonna lose football.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
That's impossible.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Yeah, let that happen. And then all of a sudden,
what's gonna happen is somebody's gonna hear that, start funding
that program, get better players in there, and we'll go
back to dream team status right Like it's wild. I
think there are certain sports that you know, just are
the way they are. And you know, as much as
we I mentioned cricket earlier, come on, we pulled off
like some historic upset earlier USA did in cricket. So

(42:34):
you know, I'm sure that when that happens the other way,
other countries react the same way. They'll figure that out,
especially with football now, becoming you know, flag football now
becoming part of the Olympics. You just got to feel
like all of these different types of football are going
to get tons of investment because we as a country
refuse to lose in our sport. That's just the way
it's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Well, I would say that, but basketball, and I like
the global conversation on first because I think it's interesting.
We just had the NBA draft and the top two
players are from France and you look around and you go, wow,
the European invasion into the NBA is very real.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
And not only.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
That, but they've become almost leaders on how the game
should be played.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
So and to that end, that's because the NBA has
spent decades working on globalization and the NFL is now
doing that. So yeah, I think there is you know,
if the NFL does what they want to do effectively
in global marketing and sport, you and I are both
We both shared the belief that there's going to the
International Series, love it or hate it, is going to
continue to grow. Part of their goal has to be

(43:46):
at that point that football becomes so popular that people
are playing it in Germany and they're playing it in London,
and they're playing it in Tokyo and all these other
places will eventually if that happens, if people become football
fans growing up, you're going to see more and more
international talent over the place. And you know, in a
few generations, the globalization of what the NFL hopes to
accomplish will mean that we no longer dominate flag football

(44:08):
the same way, or that NFL players will have to
get involved with it. So you know that, I think
that's the inevitability of global success, is that you can
no longer just dominate the sport that you love.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
So let me ask you the flag thing.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Because it's easier to market flag football and seven on
seven than it is real football, right, Like, it's just
easier for people to understand the concept, the concepts of it,
right conceptually, it's easier to kind of do it.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
Do you like that?

Speaker 3 (44:44):
I mean, I think there's a place like it's video
game football. It's fun, but like you mentioned, easier. I
think it's also because it's more accessible. Without size, you
can't have an offensive line. I mean, you just you
got to have a ten fat guys that can get
out there and move right, And we've been doing the
show together for almost a year, and in the process

(45:06):
of that, I think I've said probably a million times
I do not believe that there are thirty two starting
caliber left and right tackles in the NFL right now.
There's not enough quality offensive lineman. If you want to
globalize the sport truly, I think you have to have
some sort of a flag mindset to do it, because
where are you going to find more offensive linemen? Like
it's just so hard to handle the beef, right, So

(45:29):
if that's the way it's going to be, then for
globalization purposes, having essentially the NBA JAM version. Like, look,
when I play video games, I like to play video
games that are simulations. So I like to play Madden,
you know, like it's a real football program. Like it's
a real football game. I like to run the ball
three yards at a time and bore my opponent. But
that's okay. I enjoy the way football is played, and

(45:51):
that's what the way that game is. You can change
the settings for anyone that doesn't know. You can make
it more or less real. I want it to be
as real as possible. I enjoy playing basketball video games.
There's real as possible, But I also like playing NFL
blitz an NBA jam where you just go out and
absolutely decimate people.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
Right.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
So that's what flag football is going to become. It's
the counterprogramming of like, how do we just you know,
put up seventy eighty points. That's the glorious spot that
the Arena Football League could have been in if they'd
figured out how to not just absolutely bots twoude like people.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Dude, So spot on, so spot on with the Arena
Football League, the two leagues, it's amazing that should have
had better success the World League of American Football.

Speaker 4 (46:36):
Right that.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
I watched it all the time as a kid.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
So did I, dude, I love That's funny you said
that I loved it.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
I thought it was great. I really did. I thought
it was great.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
And the owners, who were usually so brilliant, so smart,
they didn't keep it going because it cost them each
like two and a half million bucks, that's all.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
It cost them a.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Few million bucks, like as an investment in the future.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
And they were there.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
They were there in the late nineties, early two thousands,
they were already in Europe, and they bound How dumb
was that?

Speaker 3 (47:18):
How much different would the international thing that they're growing now.
Look if they'd continued to spend that money. And it's
one of those things. I remember the first time we
went over on tour to Europe. I was talking at
the time, I think we were on the Rascal Flats tour,
and I was talking to the Flask guys about Europe
in general, and they were saying, hey, it's smart to
start tour in Europe when you're what they call a

(47:38):
baby act, when you're a new act, because the hard
part for really established acts is if you're here in
America and you can make you half a million dollars
a night play in a show, but then you got
to go over to Europe and you might in Europe
only play a small club where you're making ten to
fifteen grand. Why would you do that? Why is it
worth making less money? And that's such a short sighted

(47:59):
way to look at that. If you want to be global,
if you want to globalize your audience, right, you got
to spend the money from day one of Okay, this
is how we want to do it. If the NFL
kept spending that two and a half million dollars a year,
they'd have a much larger stranglehold on all of what
they're trying to accomplish now with the International Series. So
it was short sighted.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yeah, big time, big time, And they were making some
headway too, like they really were. They had a lot
of players from there on coaches, and you know, I
wanted to see my boy Steve Spagnola, who was the
defensive coordinator for Chiefs, a friend of mine.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
He he's down the shore.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
I want to go see him at the at the
seashore we call it on the East coast UH this
week and he came. He was in he was in
in Germany, UH, making his bones. He was in Barcelona.
A lot of great coaches made their made their bones
in that league young players.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
It was a feeding system to that point.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
They've talked so much about the fact that hiring head
coaches in the NFL is more difficult than ever because
it's such a different skill set to being a coordinator.
And we all know that there's been a huge push
on how do we get qualified minority candidates more opportunities
to showcase what they can do as a head coach.
Wouldn't having kept the World League have accomplished a lot
of that cold You can watch coordinators without taking real

(49:23):
time off of their actual coordinating jobs, even could go over.
They could coach through a mini portion of the season.
They could get some head coaching reps. Essentially, they can
get some tape on that. Essentially they can learn who
they want to be as a head coach and then
come back to their regular job at the NFL. Like
that that only would have only made sense to me.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
Yeah, that's a great point. That's a great point.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
West where I'll also say becausin That's where I constantly
say the NFL if they really wanted to, I still
support that the NFL could make spring football work and
a heartbeat if they simply made a minor league system,
Like if you created spring football where the team and
Marino affiliate it's with the Raiders, and the team in
Memphis affiliates with Tennessee, and the team in Hartford affiliates

(50:05):
with you know, New York and all, like, you could
give markets that don't have NFL football NFL love. And
as a Raiders fan, you think I wouldn't watch every
you know, Renal Pirates game every single week just to
see what it looks like for who the future practice
squad guys could be. Hell yeah, I would like if
the NFL wanted to do that, model's right there. They
just don't want to spend the money.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
Well, I guess they look at like this too.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
The bulk of your minor league system would have to
be non college guys because and they're looking at it like, hey, listen,
I have a free minor league system called college football.
Why would I want to get involved in that business?

Speaker 4 (50:46):
Now?

Speaker 2 (50:47):
I think having a spring league overseas for the hey,
the fringe college kids, maybe the guy that's been out
undrafted free agents, that makes sense doing it in Europe
because you're growing a.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
Game and you have a pool of players.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
But you know they're gonna be like, we're not creating
any kind of minor league system because we have one
in place right now.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
I just think that if you had, even if you
did it in Europe and you affiliated it with actual teams,
now you get guaranteed viewership. Like how many people right
now if there was an opportunity in May to watch
a you know, if you're a diehard Chiefs fan and
you know the German team affiliates with the Chiefs, you'd

(51:36):
watch that in May. You're like, yeah, let's go see
these guys that you know, let's see if anybody wins
a roster spot. Let's see if there's any exemption to
the practice squad for one of these guys, and the
guys get more reps.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
I mean, I love that idea. I do.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
My only problem would be I can't have thirty teams
right now.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
That is difficult. There's no doubt that that would be.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
I mean, I love the concept because you're like, oh, man,
I if I'm a cheat, You're right, Because if I'm
a Raiders fan and it's the Barcelona Raiders, I'm automatically in.
All right, I'm automatically eight because I do. You're right,
I want to see it. Problem is, I just don't
know how you get around thirty teams. The lack of

(52:19):
players is kind of what's going to get you, right,
because there's only a finite amount of these kids that
you can get before the game is just not good.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Yeah, absolutely, And putting players all over doesn't work. Like
I don't. I'm not gonna watch eighteen of these games
because there's a guy that's affiliated with the Raiders on
this team and versus the guy affiliated with the Raiders
on that team. They have to be on one team.
It is a It is an interesting, you know process,
and you, as we all know, as we you know,
brace for the release of the EA Sports College Football game.

Speaker 4 (52:52):
You're, oh, dude, mostrageous man.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
I have never seen a sports video game this. I
don't know, I've ever seen a video game this hype.
And they've done a brilliant job of like, let's tell
everybody who the best offenses are, which is just creating
the Peyton argument around the game. Now, the best defense
is to Peyton argument around the game. Top teams.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
So I got to ask you, all right, I want
to coming up. Maybe I'll come up. We'll bring it up.
But they listed the top best stadiums, like the top
where you got home field advantage. I got to talk
to you about this because I'm like, really, I don't
know about it.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
Well, I want to. I want to run it by you,
all right.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
And the other thing I needed to talk to you
about too is Monday is the USA Soccer men's soccer
right to get out of the group stage of the
COPA Tournament.

Speaker 4 (53:51):
They lost to Panama. There was a red card.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
The kid punched the other kid in the face, you know,
United States kid punch Patamini player in the faiths and
got the red card. They should still have won, but
they lose, and all all you hear is, oh my god,
Like they have to win on Monday, and they have
a tough match because they're going to have to play Uruguay.

(54:23):
Thank you, who's really good? Who just came off a
score and whenever it was four or five goals? Where
are you at with this whole state of USA soccer?
It feels like and again I'm not the biggest like
on a soccer man like in that sense, but I
hear it's like the same story every year.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
Oh it's the year, it's the year, and it's over
the year.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
Yeah, And I think that's why this one hurts, because
the first two matches were both set up to be
so easy. USA takes care of business in the first
match they win to nil, but like the interesting part
of that is it could have been six or seven,
like it wasn't. Yes, you talk to the soccer community,
they'll tell you that first game was not impressive enough,

(55:10):
but everybody sort of qualified it. And then in the
second match, they come out, they score an early goal
and you think they have all the momentum, but then
you know obviously they review it to take the goal
off the board, and then you get the red card,
and it just felt like the team deflated. And even
with the red card, they were still faster, better struggling
than that. They were the better team. That you win

(55:31):
that you have to and now you're in a difficult
match situation. I don't know. I think this is a
pretty epic failure for men's soccer, and this is why
it becomes so difficult for fans. I think to everybody
always talks about, well, soccer's blown up, soccer's blown up.
Fine in America, I should say, fine, I get all that.
It just feels like Charlie Charlie Brown running up to

(55:52):
kick the football. We fall for this every few years
and it's like, oh no, this is the time, this
team is really good and all this home own talent
is really good, and then you go out and you
lose that Like it just it makes an unbelieving world
even more of unbelievers.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
Yeah, now, I think that's spot on. Man.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
I think it's spot on because I look at it
and go, how many times are we gonna hear about this?

Speaker 4 (56:17):
Now you could.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
See to your point, you could see their talent level,
like they look different than they have kind of ever looked.
But you know, you can't lose that match, and now
you can't not get to the to the next night.
Here all kinds of stories. Oh they don't like the coach.

(56:39):
That's no excuse to lose, to not get out of
group stage. I mean, that's that's not that's that's it
is a colossal failure, especially with US host in that tournament,
the tournaments in the United States.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Yeah, And the other part of it is, and I
think this is interesting, is that Uruguay, who is the
favorite coming into this for the for the group, they
haven't clinched their spot, so they actually have something to
play for. So everything has gone the wrong way for
America at this point, Like because you're Aguay has to
go out and they gotta go out and play lights out,

(57:15):
so they're gonna bring everything. It's not like they're just
gonna mail this one in and the US can advance
without a win. So it's just I you're right too,
it's an epic disaster. Anytime the home country is irrelevant
in a in a tournament, it's bad for the tournament overall.
It's just gonna be bad for the crowds. It's gonna
be bad for the energy, it's a bad look. It's
going to cause a global conversation again about why US

(57:36):
soccer can't keep up and all of these different things
like yeah, it's it's it's an epic fail.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
And it comes on the heels that the next big
thing in two years is the World Cups. You know,
two summers from now, the World Cup will be here
and that will be a monster, Like that's gonna be
a big deal throughout this country.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
And what has this team shown so far in this
tournament to make anybody believe that the World Cup is
going to go different like that? Right, That's the hardest
part about it is that, you know, a strong run here,
even if it had resulted in nothing but a strong
run of great competitiveness against the best teams in the
world and a little bit of domination, would have given

(58:17):
everybody that just that little little bit of hope, that
little ember of burning hope where it's like, yeah, but
just wait to the World Cup when this young team
has a couple of years to come together, and that's
that's not at all the narrative now. And if they
get beat on Monday night, it's just gonna be all right, Well,
let's just wait and see if things get fixed by
the World Cup. That's such a different hype energy. It's
it's really unfortunate for the sport, for the country, for

(58:38):
the team, for everybody.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
Now you're spot on, all right, coming up.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
I got to ask you because we got to do
this NFL ticket thing so it keeps.

Speaker 4 (58:50):
People don't realize the.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
The NFL got sued about the NFL Sunday ticket on
Direct TV. They've in order to pay you know, several
billion dollars, Dave, They're gonna peel it.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
But it's going to.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
Change the way we watch television and we watch the NFL.
All the streaming evolved. I gotta get into it with
it because I'm fascinated by the whole TV aspect of
it all. All right, where the fella is right here
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(01:00:04):
like you know, hook a brother upright. We love you,
so make sure you give us some love back. We
appreciate that. So let me ask you, Fitzy this week
you were down, When you were down at Rivals, the
story broke. I didn't hear about it until you texted
me or Figgie and I and you let us know

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about this whole thing.

Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
And I'm like, wow, man, that was a bombshell.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
And I answer said, so, how do you think this
plays out? Because this is a big deal when it
comes to sports television.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Yeah. So the jury finding in favor of the case
against the NFL Sunday ticket in an astronomical amount, and
I mean I think the final was like four point
seven billion dollars. And then because of anti trust rules
and the way that that works, that that verdict actually
gets tripled to what end up costing the NFL thirteen
fourteen billion dollar when this thing is all said and

(01:01:01):
done as it sits now is substantial because look, they're
going to go through appeals and everybody's talking about that.
Maybe money isn't paid out for years, maybe another court
changes something, But as of right now, the main portion
of the ruling is that the NFL essentially knowingly put
their product behind a pay system that created a monopoly

(01:01:21):
and allowed them to overcharge for it and all of
these different things. Now, the NFL argued that it was
a premier product and they had the right to do that,
but the jury found that that's not the case. And
so the whole crux of the lawsuit was the NFL
knowingly put it only available to certain people and then
charged too much for it. Essentially, they didn't allow fair
market competition. So it immediately creates a conversation even about

(01:01:45):
right now what to do because the NFL lost his lawsuits.
So and if the number stayed where it is today,
you'd be talking about I think it's you'd be talking
about up to three thousand dollars people could be getting
that had some Sunday ticket as a check back for overcharging.
So the NFL has to decide.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Now, let me ask your question, how do I get
my money? Because I've been I was in a Sunday
ticket person forever.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
So if you had Sunday ticket from twenty eleven to
twenty twenty three. That's the window there were twenty twenty two.
That's the window that was covered in this lawsuit. They
already have your email, so it'll go back like you'll
get the notification from how you signed up, but everybody
automatically is opted in, so there'll be a time where
you have to click a box basically to be like, yes,

(01:02:32):
I want my check. But what's interesting is the whole
part of this is that the NFL argued, well, we
show local games in local markets, so we're not really
doing the wrong thing. The lawsuit argued that they could
have and should have made different packages available that were
more affordable, and that they should have been able to

(01:02:52):
people should be able to do different things. I experienced
this fifteen years ago on the road. I was stunned
in England when I looked for the NFL Sunday ticket
and I found out that over there you can buy
just one week of the ticket, for example, or you
can buy and it's the same product as the NFL
Sunday ticket, you can buy one week of it, or
if you're just a Raiders fan, you can buy just
the raiders options that we don't have in America.

Speaker 4 (01:03:15):
Yea, why I didn't know that that's wild.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Internationally, they've always had just buy. You can buy the
whole season, the whole league. You can buy one week,
or you can buy the whole season for one team.
So and in fact, like buying a week was like
ten bucks or fifteen bucks. So like when I was
on tour, I would just buy the week every week
at a time and then watch it that way. So
what's wild is that, you know, in Pro Football Talk

(01:03:39):
talked a little bit about this yesterday. Because they've been
found guilty in this process, they could dig their heels
in and say, well, we're gonna wait till appeal, but
there's so much money on the line. The question is
right now, even this year, will they now quickly change
with the YouTube TV and at least allow people the
opportunity to buy just a team so that they're not

(01:04:01):
creating future liability because if they appeal this, there's already
a suit, Like there's already been another class action file
that covers twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four. So
like every year that they continue to let this go,
if they lose, they're going to lose more money. So
it is interesting because the whole model of how we
watch TV is about to change, Like are they going

(01:04:22):
to make it available on other platforms of their services?
Are they going to make individual teams available? Are they
going to make it all cheaper? Like? What are they
going to do? And they may have to make that
decision as soon as right now if they want to
limit future liability.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Well that's wild. It's funny. I never knew that about Europe.
But you know, you always wonder why they never did
it that way where you know you could buy, like
if you just wanted one game one week, you know,
you know, here's a dollar ninety nine and I'll watch
a game, right like like they should offer everything almost

(01:04:59):
to a la carte and kind of build your own burger,
right Like you know we've all been to the build
your own burger place, right, you know, I want onions
and blue cheese and jalapenos or whatever, like you should
be able to build your own package. Like I'll buy
this game because I'm home this weekend and I want

(01:05:20):
to watch this game, So I want to buy this
game for a dollar ninety nine or I'm a Raider
fan living in you know, Philadelphia, and I'll buy the
Raiders package, Like you should be.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
Able to do all that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
I think the reason they never did it, though, is
because they knew and they know, like, I'm gonna get
Sunday ticket this year, right, like I get it every year. Well,
they know that I'm not gonna say no to it.
And it doesn't like it's a job requirement. But it's
also I'm a diehard Raiders fan and when you're living
in different parts of the country, it's hard to find
a spot where you can always watch those games. And

(01:05:55):
you know, I yell a lot during the game. Do
I want to be out and about I don't know,
you know, So it's but it has become so expensive
because it's almost five hundred bucks this year, right, So
you know when you start thinking about that, I've actually
done the cost analysis, if you will. At times of thinking, okay, well,
what if I went to the same bar every Sunday
and at least sat you know, like maybe I could

(01:06:16):
talk to the bar at the beginning of the year
and say hey, and I this sounds crazy, but hear
me out. If you are an out of found fan,
out a town fan of a team. I bet you've
done this at some point. You go into a bar
at the beginning of the year and you're like, hey,
I'm gonna be here every every week, can you put
the Raiders on this TV? I've done that in the
past of other places. Like is it coming? Is it
becoming cheaper to just go to a bar and have

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your cause you're still gonna buy food at home. You're
still gonna have like, you're still gonna eat and drink
something while you're watching the game. It's still gonna cost
you a little there. And when you start factoring in, okay,
seventeen games five they want, you know, almost five hundred
bucks for it this year. That's a lot of money
per game. And we're getting to the spot where if
it's five hundred bucks divided by seventeen, that's twenty nine
bucks a week. It's thy bucks a weekend just to

(01:07:01):
have Sunday ticket if you want to watch games at home.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
So here's the thing, right, it's a great exercise, but
it's still worth it because if you went to the
bar every week, you're spending a hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
Yeah, I think I am. I you're because also, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Things are expensive now like now, like going out like
you might if this was a corner bar ten years ago,
you might have something right, but now it's so expensive,
like you could have a regular burger like one of
those mid chain places or whatever, and you're spending big money.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
Like inflation is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
So whack that it's you're it's so out of whack
that you're it kills you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
And the other side of it is I personally would
never feel I never have felt good about like, you
know what, I'm gonna sit at this seat for the
next three and a half hours in this packed bar,
or if I'm watching all the games for the next
eight hours in this pack bar, and what I'm really
gonna try to do while I'm here is spend as
little as possible, Like that is such a prime piece
of real estate in that bar that day, for that

(01:08:19):
server and for that bar.

Speaker 4 (01:08:20):
Oh yeah, yeah, I can't do that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
Yeah, it's like all right, books, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:08:29):
You got to take care of yourself. Let's take care
of your server.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Ladies and gentlemen like you bar said you gotta make
sure come on like so, no, I'm with you, But
to your point, it's I mean, it's like it's insane,
like five hundred bucks a lot of money to go
and you know, like this is my Sunday ticket, like
you know that Enjoy.

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
That doesn't that doesn't include Yahoo did the breakdown a
few months ago and this year to watch every single game,
if you really want that, it's going to cost you
eight hundred and eighty five dollars in services, right, So
that's what it costs now, Like if you want every
you got to make sure you have and that's just
to have Peacock the month's Peacock have a game, and
just to have Netflix the months Netflix have a game. Now,
I realize a lot of people already have Netflix so

(01:09:15):
like it. Maybe it's not added on, they already have
things like that. Maybe it's not added on, but it's real.
It's so expensive at this point just to sit at
home and watch that. You know, people decided they'd had enough.
And it is an interesting economics argument that I'm not
smart enough to understand, because the NFL made it very
clear that they feel like they should be able to

(01:09:37):
price a premium product. However, they want to price a
premium product, and I don't necessarily hate that logic for them,
Like I choose to spend that money on Sunday ticket.
But you know, obviously there's a reason that we have
the laws that we have to prevent, you know, people
from over charging on things like this, so they lose
the case. And it was a jury, you know, a

(01:09:57):
jury of people that decided that on that number of
four point seven ish billion dollars, and that's that's just
that's an insane amount of money because of the way
anty trust laws and work and the tripling of it
and all of this stuff. Like you're talking about revenue
that would actually impact the NFL. Like when you're talking
about a thirteen or fourteen or fifteen billion dollar judgment,
which is what we're talking about, you are literally talking

(01:10:20):
about the type of judgment that will impact every NFL
owner's bottom line, every team, Like you're talking about substantial
money to every single one of these guys.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Yeah, now you're no, it's wild, man, It really is.
It's it's it's it's wild. I have what's your what's
your favorite way to watch just to consume football?

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
Awesome sports bar, great vibe, early afternoon games because there's
always so many games going on right there, like it stinks,
you know, and as a Raiders fan, you know, Eastern
for whatever, four twenty five Eastern. When that game kicks off,
the bars emptied out by then. That's part of why
I'm the one guy in America that doesn't really love

(01:11:05):
Sunday night football. To me, it's like the vibes just
sort of down at that point. I love early afternoon.

Speaker 4 (01:11:11):
You like to be out though. That's what's interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
As long as there's not the Raiders game. I want
to be out. Yeah. I like to be like sportsbook,
sports bar where people are yelling and screaming, Oh give
it to me.

Speaker 4 (01:11:22):
Wow, it's fascinating. See.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
ID like to be home, like Sunday is my is
my day, Like just to be home. College football, I
prefer still want.

Speaker 4 (01:11:36):
I prefer watching home, but I'll watch I can watch that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
We used to there was a local bar we used
to hang at and we would do the eleven thirty.
We'd meet there eleven thirty a m. Watch the noon
game three thirty. There's all Eastern time noon three thirty,
and then you're into the night game, right Like. There
was always like a pretty big SCC game on it
seven and then you had your national game at eight,

(01:12:03):
and we would do the whole shift but you know,
sometimes we would sometimes we'd stay and watch the Sunday
night game. I mean it's Saturday night game, and but
we loved it like it was. It was a great
it was fun. It was college football all thing. But
there's something about the NFL that and Sunday, like Sunday,
I need to be home. It's interesting you like to
be out on a Sunday amongst people.

Speaker 3 (01:12:28):
Because I want the especially when I'm trying to watch
all the games and once like, look, I'm not a
red zone guy. I'm the first to admit it. I
know a lot of me I am not.

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
I'm not either red zone.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
I feel like red zone doesn't you know it's fine?
Really give me. Yeah, it doesn't give me too much
of a sense of what's going on. When you're in
the bar and you're watching all the games at once,
you're just sort of floating around and then all of
a sudden you hear a bunch of people screaming and yelling.
I love having that. Like I'm an energy guy, so
I love capturing other people's energy. You know, if I
could have a dream situation, I've never found this, but

(01:12:58):
if I could have a dream situation, I would actually
just have a wall of TV's at my place, and
I would have like twenty guys over every Sunday, and
my place would become the NFL Sunday ticket watch party place.
The problem with that is, like that's a great idea
early in the season, and then everybody starts figure out
their team sucks and they start to stop coming, you know.
So like early in the yes, it's such a vibe

(01:13:19):
at your house. By like by week twelve, everybody's like, nah, man,
I got other stuff I gotta do today. And I'm like, well,
your team stinks, but aren't you still gonna watch them?
Like I don't. I've never understood it, but certainly the
vibe in week twelve is different than the vibe in
week two.

Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
Do you like to watch games at all by yourself?

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
Raiders games? Yeah, I like to watch Raiders games by myself.
I watch a lot of college football by myself too.
I think that's just proximity, Like there just aren't I
hate going to a sports bar, especially all the time
in Connecticut. You go into a sports bar where nobody
cares about college football, which is very true up there.
Then like you walk in and it's a dead vibe
and the bar is playing music instead of audio.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
From Ah, that's the worst. I hate a music dude.
If I'm going to your you're a sports bar, let's see,
you're just a regular bar. You're just looking for a
you know, ambiance and vibe whatever. But if you're a
sports bar, stove violation. You gotta have the sound. But

(01:14:18):
I want to hear the announcers. I don't want to
hear music, Bob.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
It's like a vibe. Like, so there's this there's this
dive sports bar in Connecticut right down from the house
over there and it's called the Bar on Seater and
no free shoutouts with free shoutout uh, they've got like
but it's a good dive bar. Like the food's good,
the servers are all nice like that. It's it's like
it's sort of an older crowd a lot of times,
but everybody's hanging out. It's good vibe. But like every

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single time if there's not a New England based sporting
event going on, they've got like one of those touch
tunes sort of things that is just it's it's loud.
It's loud, and they are cranking some sort of loud
obnoxious music the entire time, and even I asked him
one time during a playoff game. I was like, can
we turn the audio from the game on? They're like, no, man,
and that's it. And so you know I can't. I

(01:15:06):
can't take that risk on a game name. I can't
take that risk.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
I'm with you, fellas, stay right there, stay right here
with us, hanging Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back, fellas, Jason
Fitz Anthony Gargano hanging out from the tiraq dot com studios.

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All right, so you mentioned college You mentioned EA College
Football twenty five, which is unbelievable. I cannot wait for it.
I Uh have my Massimo who's eleven. He and I
played these games together, so he's a sports head. Like
so he and I played this sports games together. So
I can't wait to get the game. Man, Like, dude,

(01:15:54):
we're gonna go. We're gonna have a lot of fun
this summer with the UH with the college football twenty five.
So they ranked the top twenty five toughest places to play.

Speaker 4 (01:16:08):
You want to see if you get the top ten.
Have you seen it?

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
So I've seen I saw it and immediately rolled my eyes.
I mean I rolled my eyes from the absolute first,
first top of the list, the very top of the list.
I rolled my eyes too.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
I we'll go discussed. Yeah, well, let's discuss that. So
let's start. I'll start from twenty five to one. All right,
so real quick. Davis Waite, Stateia, Mississippi State, Albertson Stadium,
Boise the Blue Field is twenty four, Arkansas's twenty three,

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Michigan State twenty two. Notre Dame is twenty one. What
do you think of that?

Speaker 4 (01:16:54):
Low?

Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
Yeah, oh no, that definitely seems low. Like right, that
seems low, especially you know when you start comparing it
to where Sparty is with that, like Michigan State and
Notre Dame. I do not think of the same when
I think of home field advantage at all. Like nobody's
sitting there saying, oh my god, but you got to
figure out how to win at night, you know, Michigan State,
but they do say that, you know about Notre Dame.
So yeah, I thought I was a little surprised by that.

Speaker 4 (01:17:18):
Kimmick Stadium, Iowa comes in at.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
Twenty again, the fact that we're putting that ahead of
Notre Dame. I've been to games at Iowa and like
it's it's good, it's fine. It's a nice little environment.
I would not have put that above Notre.

Speaker 4 (01:17:33):
Dame, Texas nineteen.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
Hmm, I mean right, yeah, eighteen is uh Utah.

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
Utah is that I've never been.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
I've been to Provo for BYU, but I've never covered
a game in Utah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
I've never covered a game at Utah. I hear it
is incredible. I will say that I've heard incredible things.

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
All right now.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
I know Blacksburg is nasty like like, especially back in
the day when it was Beamer Ball. I mean when
it was when you had you know, VA Tech was
was crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
Yeah. I feel like Lane Stadium would be higher than
seventeen if the team were still good like historically. That's
low currently, that's probably accurate because you know, it's just
not an imposing team right now.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
Well back right, because back in the day when it
was Beamer Ball, you remember how crazy it was. You
got a Thursday night, like a Thursday night VA Tech game.
It was awesome. It was tough, so dude, but this
is nuts. The big House sixteen.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
That to me, it was probably the biggest surprise for
a low ranking, the fact that the big House is
at sixteen. If that's the sixteenth best atmosphere, I want
them to keep that same energy this year when we
get any game at Michigan right, Like, it's just because
it doesn't feel like that, just that feels gross. For
point of reference, Oklahoma's much higher. I don't understand. I

(01:19:22):
don't understand why Michigan is getting sold that far down.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
I mean, I'm stunned by that. Stunned.

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
Now Williams Price Stadium, South Carolina comes in at fifteen.

Speaker 4 (01:19:38):
I mean, good atmosphere, but over the Big House.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Yeah it's loud and obnoxious, but it doesn't have the
same daunting feel to me that the Big House has.

Speaker 4 (01:19:46):
For sure exactly. Jordan Hare Auburn fourteen.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
Yeah, again, I would have put Michigan above Jordan Hair.
Auburn's a very good environment. But what did we say
a minute go about Virginia Tech? Like, so we're talking
about current Auburn environment. Like are people sitting there saying,
oh my god, how are we going to win that? Yeah?
I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:20:08):
Oh no, that's your That's the point.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
You can't have v Tech all we down there and
Auburn at fourteen when currently Auburn's terrible. I think you're right.
Thirteen is Neeland, Tennessee, Rocky Top. We'll continue the conversation

(01:20:31):
coming up. But I'm stunned by all this. Fellas on
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Speaker 4 (01:20:52):
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Speaker 4 (01:21:09):
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Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
And we were talking about the release of College Football
twenty five. The video game is going to be incredible.
We can't wait until they did the whole thing about
the toughest place to play and you know the uh,
all the best players, the best teams, the whole thing.

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So we're kind of going over the stadiums and it
just in case you just told you just tuned in,
we get we'll give you a run down, but real quick, FITZI,
there's nothing like it.

Speaker 4 (01:22:05):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
That game has been has disappeared with disappear for a bit,
and it's come back and people are freaking out over it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
Yeah, I mean, because it's been taken away for so long.
This is one of those moments where you know, we've
gotten so used to what Madden is, and at this point,
Madden is just every year. It's easy to just dump
on it, you know what I mean. It's easy to
sit around and say, well, the game stinks, they never
changed anything, blah blah blah blah blah. They've had so

(01:22:35):
long to get this college football thing together because of
the gap and the lawsuits and all of these things.
It's just been taken from everybody. We haven't seen it
on a modern platform like the juice we're all feeling
for July nineteenth or July sixteenth, if you have the
pre sale is absolutely wild. And the fact that there
are people, I mean in my social circle, there are

(01:22:55):
people already hit me up saying I'm taking the day
off and let's play the game all day, Like that's
what's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (01:23:01):
And you know, that's a great day. Oh my God, let's.

Speaker 2 (01:23:07):
Take the day off and like college football, that means awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
Just what I'm gonna do. I'm not gonna lie like
a cousin. That's my plan that day. Like I'm a
I'm a get up. I'm gonna'll get up to the
to the to the big TV in the living room
and just gonna sit back and you know, maybe maybe
an edible or two, and then I'm gonna start my
dynasty as U n l V and just to watch
watch Out World, not to see the Rebels are gonna
win the national championship on the game.

Speaker 4 (01:23:35):
I freaking love it. That is cool.

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
I may have to take the ride one day, man.
I mean I'm only you know whatever, four hours so
from you. Yeah, I might have to take the ride. Man,
It's that's awesome. I actually do that. That was one
of the great bonding you know, just like your freight,
you and your buddies. Like when a new game came out, Man,

(01:24:02):
you blow off today. Oh my god. I had a buddy,
my teuc Right, so Tuoch I would go over to
Tucca's house like a new gate, like the new Mad
and would come out and.

Speaker 4 (01:24:14):
I'll never forget like we would be up all night.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
His wife would be coming down to go to work,
right and we're still on the living room floor play
the game, and she would just look at she shake
her head.

Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
You guys are a holes.

Speaker 3 (01:24:37):
You know. The great thing is now we're old enough
to know better, and I still don't care.

Speaker 4 (01:24:41):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
It's just one of those things where like it's such
a special moment, like the fact that they've turned around
and tried to put in so many of the experiences, right,
the fact that they put in so much of the
energy from the crowd and moments from the crowd. The
only regret that I have in this game already is
that some bands Cough Metallica, didn't want their songs to

(01:25:03):
be House of Pain, didn't want their songs to be included.
They charged too much to LIKEE kill them. And I
look at those moments, I'm like, I get it, I
get that your art has value. But I would say this,
nobody is buying the game specifically to hear Sandman or
to hear jump Around. It's just an added bonus to
the game. These are the moments where sometimes I think

(01:25:25):
people get they just take themselves too seriously. You got
to step back as a musician, and you've got to
step back and say, hey, you know what, I just
want to be part of this cool, historic moment, so
I will lower my usual astronomical fee and instead instead
of giving people something that sounds close to and are
sad man, which is what they're gonna do, we're close
to jump around. It can't randle, you know. So it's

(01:25:46):
that's the only downfall with the game so far. But yeah,
the opportunity to take the college football love you have
and try and take a program that's non traditional and
get them all the way to the top is absolutely incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:25:57):
Yeah, that's awesome, man, that is And you're spotting on
talking about being short sighted. Come on, what are you doing, guys?
Ridiculous anyway, So they did the thing. The top twenty
five toughest places to play. So if you missed the
end of the last segment, twenty five Mississippi State, twenty four,

(01:26:18):
Boise the Bluefield, twenty three, Arkansas twenty two, Michigan State
twenty one, notre Game, which we think is low twenty
Iowa nineteen, Texas eighteen, Utah seventeen, Virginia Tech sixteen.

Speaker 4 (01:26:36):
Coming in the low sixteen.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
The big House, Auburn is fourteen and Rocky Top thirteen. Now,
I love Rocky Top Checkered Field. You know, that was
a great atmosphere to play.

Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
I've been to Rocky Top a bunch of times when
I was living in Nashville, obviously. Yeah, and it's it's
an incredibly fun, cool environment. It's special, it's beautiful, it's amazing.
I don't think of it as being the same level
of intimidation as some of the places we're about to
get to that it's it's not quite that same vibe

(01:27:17):
to me, But I think that it's one of the
most special atmospheres. Like I want to be clear here,
These are all incredible atmospheres we're talking about here. I
love what Nayland Stadium is. I love you know, the
walk before, I love everything about the experience on Saturdays.

Speaker 4 (01:27:33):
There about thrust, the Smoky Mountains.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
Oh god, yeah. I just don't necessarily think of it
as the same level of intimidation or home field advantage
that I think of, for example, from Florida that we
haven't gotten to yet.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
Yeah, yeah, now, I'm I'm with you, man, I feel
the same way. Clemson is twelve. Let's you know, touch
the Clemson is twelve. What do you think.

Speaker 3 (01:28:03):
I have never been to a game at Clemson, so
I I in Clemson fans remind me of that often
I've never actually been there. I've heard amazing things if.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
I've covered me. Yeah, it's it's awesome. It's yeah, it
really is. It's it's a great it's a great experience. Really,
it's a great experience. I love it. And it's intimidating,
and yeah, it's got all that is woud like it's

(01:28:32):
it's it's impressive.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
That's all I've ever heard on it. And it feels low.
Twelve feels low for Clemson.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
I felt the same thing now Oregon got I tell
you it's good, but I got it. I think that's
a little high.

Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
That's way high Oregon at eleven, Yeah, way high. Like again,
it's a cool atmosphere, but man like it's it's not
shaking in your boots. That the fact that that we're
talking about Oregon and we're about to talk about a
school that has a home home field experience that I
don't know I've experienced much like like Oregon is not

(01:29:10):
in that same realm. Oregon's a really great college football atmosphere,
but it's not. Frankly, I wouldn't have put Oregon above
the big House. I wouldn't have put Oregon Virginia Tech.
When Virginia Tech it's good. I don't know that I
would have put Oregon ahead of notre name. So I
think it's it seems high to me.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
I think you're spot on, man, I think you're spot
on after that coming in top ten, number ten. The
swap Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
So let me let me tell you a Florida story.
The year I traveled with game Day, I hosted a
digital show countdown to game Day the first year that
it existed, and so we went to every game Day spot.
That year was one of the coolest years I've ever
had in my life or my career. And I remember
we were at game Day. He was at the Swamp.
It was the worst atmosphere I'd ever been to for

(01:30:04):
Game Day. Nobody came out, nobody cared, and so I
really walked into that stadium that that afternoon thinking this
is going to be lame, right Like, I just didn't
think it was gonna be great. I have never felt
my feet actually shake from crowd noise when I'm standing
on solid ground like that was. I will never forget
the vibrations in my feet of listening to the Swamp

(01:30:26):
go crazy. It was actually like it felt like it
was making my heart race, like my body was jiggling
because of it. It was the most insane first ten
minutes of a football game I think I've ever experienced.
And I remember working at one point with aj Mccaerron
and he was talking about when he was the quarterback
at Alabama and how they're opening drive. They had a

(01:30:47):
couple of false starts and they had to go. They
burned a time out and he went to the sideline
and the coach looked at him at the time, and
Saban looked at him at the time and said, if
we don't get a touchdown on this drive, we will
lose this game. Because of the crowd, that's how loud
it is on the field. You literally cannot hear yourself.
Think I was standing next to a bunch of people
we were trying to talk during the game. You couldn't

(01:31:07):
do it the Swamp. That's why I have a hard
time with Oregon being eleven in the Swamp being ten,
because there's no way I've been to games at Oregon too.
It does not compare to what that environment is like
in the swamp.

Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
Yeah, no, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
I covered the back of the deck covered of Florida
Florida State game and it was like a big game too.
I think war done. I'm trying to remember the circumstances
it was, but that whole scene with Florida Florida State
at the swamp is unbelievable. Man, I just remember now,

(01:31:42):
the pregame, the tailgate, the gator pit, all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:31:47):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:31:48):
It was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
And then you're right about describing what it was like
on game day in that building. Man, it was nasty.

Speaker 4 (01:31:59):
Now, I you're right, all you're spot on.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
Coming in number nine speaking of Florida State, Doke Campbell Stadium,
Florida State. Talahazzi comes in at number nine.

Speaker 3 (01:32:14):
That's way too high. I understand that there was a
period where Florida State was that, and certainly I got
to give Norvell a lot of credit for what he's recreated.
But I keep thinking about, over the course of even
the rerise of novels, the first couple of years when
everybody thought he might get fired. My buddy, that's a

(01:32:34):
booster at Florida State was sending me pictures of a
stadium that was half empty, and last year when it
was finally back to like yes, he was sending me
pictures saying we're back.

Speaker 4 (01:32:44):
Baby.

Speaker 3 (01:32:44):
You can't be the ninth best or the ninth most
toughest place to play if you're just barely back to me,
like it wasn't tough to play when your team stunk. Man,
I think that's way too high for Florida State?

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
Now is it high because of the chant like it
was like is it still? Are they just going from
a picture of nineteen ninety pick the year six, seven, eight, whatever,
and you're here and the shit right and you know

(01:33:24):
that whole like it was menacing during those moments. But
to your point, and it's top bid that way for
a long time. And if you're gonna have Blacksburg all
the way down in Virginia Tech alway that low, then
can you have Florida State that high?

Speaker 3 (01:33:43):
I mean to me, if you just take everything else
away and you say this year, let's say this year
we get to the college Football Playoff. They expanded college
football Playoff and I always got to go on the road,
or we'll use the team of the competent offense comeing
into this year, We'll say Michigan has to go on
the road, Right, Michigan's going on the road. If they're
going to Florida, take on the swamp the whole week,

(01:34:03):
it's gonna be. Man, they got to go to Florida
to the swamp and they got to win. Are we
gonna say the same thing about well, they got to
go to Florida State. Like, it's just to me that
they flip flop where Florida State is and where the
Big House is, Because if Florida State was traveling to Michigan,
people be like, oh my god, got to go into
the Big House and when that football game. This is

(01:34:23):
a legacy ranking to me to have Florida State at
number nine.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
So number eight, gay lord oak Glahhoma. Let's go to
Norman at number eight. Very very cool place to play,
great atmosphere. I think it's a I think it's slightly high.

Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
Yeah, I mean it's one of those because I agree
with you. It feels about right. I wouldn't be offended
if it was ten, but like, it feels about right,
and you're right, it is a great atmosphere to play. Yeah,
for sure. It's it's a very cool spot. I don't
sit in fear if I'm a fan of another team, thinking,
but you gotta go to Oklahoma the same way I

(01:35:09):
do it for some of the best of the best.

Speaker 4 (01:35:11):
Yeah, yeah, ye, accurate, accurate.

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
I uh coming in at number seven, Camp Randall, Wisconsin, Ah, dude,
Camp Randall, good, good spot.

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
But I mean that's way high.

Speaker 3 (01:35:35):
It's also the list doesn't say coolest college football traditions.
And that's where I think this is. Like, we all
love jump around, and so we love what that looks like.
And certainly Wisconsin, I've had some of the best party
days of my life on that campus. That campus, like
it's a beautiful place to play, Like, I love that area.

(01:35:57):
I'm all in on it. I just don't think it
belongs anywhere near this portion of this list. You can't
tell me that. You can't tell me that Florida would
struggle more to play a normal weather game in Wisconsin
then Wisconsin would struggle to play in the swamp. I
just I refuse to believe that. I think Wisconsin in
the teens.

Speaker 4 (01:36:18):
Yes, yes, yes, number six.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
I mean I think it's definitely a top five, top
six place is Beaver Stadium, Penn's State. The white out.
It's a nasty place to play. When they're good, they're nasty.
That's it's one hundred and ten thousand strong.

Speaker 3 (01:36:46):
Yeah, when it's if it's just a regular game at
Penn State, six feels right. If it's a white out game, Oh,
you're going to struggle to find six places that are
tougher to play than that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:56):
Like, I agree.

Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
I went to the white out game and it was just,
oh god it it hits different like the white out
to me would probably be number three. So like, but
number six feels right overall.

Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
Yeah, six for a noon start and you know, three
for the white out other than the lights.

Speaker 4 (01:37:18):
Yes, right, So with you here.

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
Number five Santanford Stadium, Mathins, Georgia.

Speaker 3 (01:37:29):
Feels right right. I mean number five feels about right
for George. Yeah, it's just it's an intimidating place to play,
and then it's intimidating team to play. Four in that
crowd right now is as fired up as any in
college football. So like we're looking at right now, I think, yeah,
it's definitely one of the toughest places to play. So
five feels about right.

Speaker 4 (01:37:46):
Number four. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
We'll save the next four, right, and we'll do the
top four coming up is the best Man top already
get like geeked up, salivating over it, talking about, you know,
going to these historic places. No, I'm in Oklahoma, Like

(01:38:11):
there's nothing like it, right, Blacksburg. Fantastic fellas hanging on
a late June Saturday, Eyes to the Fall, Fox Sports Radio,
Welcome Back Fellas from the tai iraq dot com studios.

(01:38:40):
Jason Fitz Anthony Argana, Are you a big Fourth of
July guy?

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
So you know, not really. I think most of.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
Them, like I I spent most of the cues, now
you know that.

Speaker 3 (01:38:58):
Yeah, for most of my adult life, I was touring
during the In the music business, you're working all summer
and you always take a Fourth of July kick, so
you know there's a good money. So I feel like
I always worked on the fourth. And then after I
got to ESPN, I was the sideline reporter for the
Hot Dog Eating Contest for several years, so I was
always working on the Fourth of July there too, So

(01:39:20):
I haven't really I've always had to work the fourth,
So I don't think I really have a lot of
tradition that seeps in on the fourth There isn't like
this big ooh, oh my god, I need to do
this on the fourth of July thing. Well what about you?

Speaker 2 (01:39:33):
No, normally No, i'man usually you know, I like to
travel over the fourth July cause you get to you know,
the holiday, and so it's a good time to travel
because like in my neck of the woods in the
Philadelphia area, a lot of people have homes at the shore,

(01:39:54):
at the beach, and if you don't have a home
at the beach, it's really not fun because it's blazing hot,
and you know who wants to be for forever I
lived in the city and now I'm in the suburbs.
Like it's you know, it's it's not fun, right unless you're,
know I at the beach or whatever. So I usually

(01:40:16):
like to travel, So I'm not one that's the big
I'm not a big cookout guy to begin with. So no,
to be answered, it's your question to me. This is
the whole world shuts down. Like I got like a
bunch of projects. I'm trying to hustle and get through
and all stuff, and you know, and like you good
luck getting anybody's attention.

Speaker 4 (01:40:37):
In August, I mean in July and August. It's just
like dead.

Speaker 3 (01:40:41):
It's interesting too, because as you just mentioned, cookouts and everything, like, look,
people love fireworks. Fireworks are fine. I watch fireworks. I'
ms go, that was cool, but I don't have to.
It's big great, Oh my god, we have to go
watch it. And as you know we've talked about over
the course of the last couple of months, I'm on
the super restrictive diet plan right now, like trying to
get my apps to have ABS. So I'm only eating

(01:41:02):
exactly what I'm told to eat when I eat, and
I'm only drinking water. And now I've finally got to
the point where I can add an unsweetened iced tea
or a black iced coffee every day I can add
one of those. So like, what what am I supposed
to do on the fourth Like that, that's a real
I realized this when I was flying back from Jacksonville.
I got stranded in the airport because of some flight

(01:41:23):
issues on my return and I was sitting there saying, Okay, well,
what do you do when you're stuck in an airport
and you can't or drink, Like, what do you do
on the fourth of July. If it's like, all right, well,
you know, I'm I'm gonna go to the gym and
then I'm just gonna sort of I mean, I'll go
and hang out with some some buddies. But like even
hanging out I have I have learned to accept in

(01:41:44):
the last few months. When I hang out, I'm usually
the mostly sober like because I'm not drinking, so I'm
the sober guy with everybody else.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
Let me ask you a question on your diet. Can
you do like, uh, are you a vodka guy or
a gym guy?

Speaker 3 (01:41:58):
Now, I usually there's usually my okay, I.

Speaker 4 (01:42:01):
Like gin, right, so you're your vokra gin.

Speaker 2 (01:42:04):
So could you do vodka and like diet tonic with
like like no.

Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
I hired him in May. I hired my trainer guy
in May, and he put all this in the app
for me. Rule number one, no alcohol for six months.
Rule number two, no diet anything, so like I can't
have so all the people are like, oh, I have
a diet coke. Well, I love diet soda and diet
energy drinks. But even those little squirt like when people
are like, well, just put a little flavoring in your
water that has this. Most of those have the same

(01:42:36):
chemicals that diet soda has. So my option is like
water or plain unsweetened soda water, so you can get
like a you know, a lemon soda water that uses
the natural flavors or whatever. But nothing, no superlos, no
artificial sweeteners, no alcohol, no any know, anything other than
straighten you know, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:42:56):
How come you? How come me out?

Speaker 2 (01:42:57):
Because you because the calories they're a low one calories
is just the uh you know, you just don't not
just to compound in your body.

Speaker 4 (01:43:07):
Is that what he wants you to stay away from?

Speaker 3 (01:43:08):
It basically throttles down your metabolism so your metabolism doesn't
burn everything else as efficiently because it's been tricked by
having to burn the alcohol. So you know, yes, for
everybody that's like, oh my god, moderation, moderation is where
I will eventually get to. But I think what we
what we all forget when you go through any of
these processes, is that, like, to get to moderation, sometimes

(01:43:30):
you have to sacrifice as much as you indulged. Right,
So if I spent not that I've ever been a
big guy, but if I've spent the last, you know,
several months eating cake and NonStop. I don't then just
go to moderation and get the results I want. I
have to go. You know, the pendulum has to swing
both ways.

Speaker 2 (01:43:46):
Yeah, no, I listen, I admire you. I you know,
it's funny. I'm just thinking the same thing. I'm like,
when am I going to ask FITZI for his guy
to do this?

Speaker 4 (01:43:59):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
I like, so, well, how will you have to do
this for six months?

Speaker 3 (01:44:08):
Well, so my goal was to have like, you know,
abs on abs on ABS, and I've never accomplished actually
having like I'm I've got abs like that guy, And
so that was the goal. So he said, yeah, I
give him about six months and I should get to
two abs. And then he said, if I gave him
six months diligent and did all of my dude like,
did it the right way, by the end of six months,

(01:44:29):
I should be where I want ish, you know, And
then from then on I should be in a situation
where as long as I'm eating right five six eighty
twenty principle, as long as I'm eating right five six
days a week, I can have cake one day a week,
every every week and it won't matter I just got
to get to that point first, so you know, just
trying to trying to.

Speaker 4 (01:44:46):
No, dude, I listen, I I want out my.

Speaker 3 (01:44:49):
Body fat down to like single digits is the real dream.
I'll never get there, but maybe like twelve thirteen percent.
If I get down to twelve thirteen percent, I'm gonna
feel real good about it.

Speaker 4 (01:44:57):
Ah, May God blessed. Dude.

Speaker 2 (01:44:59):
That's fantasm. I give you a ton of credit. It's
it's so difficult, man. I you know, I'm trying in
my own way, not as with with especially with kids,
and now we eat it's like you got kids, and
you know it's pizza twice a week and whatever else
Chick fil a and you know.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
Well, and I'm the first to admit, dude, it's a
luxury that I work a schedule that allows me one
day a week to spend five six hours food prepping
for the week, you know. And then I'm the type
of personality that doesn't mind, you know, just throwing the
same food on and eating the same things every day.
A lot of people can never do that. So I
don't think, no, you.

Speaker 2 (01:45:37):
Have to be really rigid. No's that's an incredible thing. Now,
I'm thinking about and go, huh, like, I like, I
like the holidays too much to do it over the holidays.

Speaker 4 (01:45:49):
So I'm thinking, well, do you just do you.

Speaker 2 (01:45:52):
Know, do your role January just go you know, go spartan,
because you gotta go spart its point, you gotta go smart,
and that's your doing when you put the good time
and summertime, it's a good time to go smart. And
because you do, you are outdoors, you're doing things, and
you're not necessarily mine's not on fruit. It's the drinking

(01:46:13):
thing that is. I like my alcohol, not a lot,
but you know, in moderation, but I like it. I
like my gen and tonics, my happy hours and you
know whatever a couple could years.

Speaker 3 (01:46:25):
You know, the right time to do it is like
February March, Like that's the right time. I just I
missed that time. So then it was okay, do I
wait all the way until next February? Do I just
start it in the summer instead? And for you know,
you and I share this also, like I would rather.
I'm hoping that by being that, maybe I'll get a
little ahead of schedule and maybe by the time we
hit fall. It's like, yeah, man, you can let loose

(01:46:46):
a little bit on Sundays, so well, I'm watching the Raiders.
You know I can do that. That's, you know, a
big part of why I decided to start it now.
But certainly, you know, I'm also it for summer. It doesn't,
like I said, so much of my life, I worked
so hard in the summer. I don't associate summer the
same way a lot of people do. So it's not
that big a deal. It is weird socializing. That is

(01:47:08):
the one thing I've I've definitely learned is that summer's
the time when everybody, like every night of the week,
somebody's texting you. It's like, hey, let's go grab a
drink somewhere. And I was like, yeah, I'll sit with
you while you drink. That's uh, you know, we'll catch
up and I'll just have an unsweetened tea at the bar.

Speaker 2 (01:47:22):
Oh god, oh man, that's great. God bless you, buddy.
Let's get to the top four of the toughest places
to play.

Speaker 4 (01:47:33):
This is EA College Football twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
So number four is the shoe, the horseshoe going to
Ohio State Columbus number four. I'm with you, listen, it's
a nasty place. It's great, it's a great atmosphere. I
will tell you that ped State under the lights greater than.

Speaker 4 (01:48:01):
The shoe.

Speaker 2 (01:48:03):
White, greater than Shoe now, shoe better at noon than
Beaver Stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:48:11):
I think you're right. I think that. Like so, if
we're looking at the whole of all of this, then
putting them at four feels right. But if we're just
talking about the white out, the white out certainly goes
ahead of it. Also, EA is telling you they think
that Ohio State's home field advantage is far more sizable
than Michigan's home field advantage. And I just I keep
going back to that because I find that to be shocking,

(01:48:33):
so shocking to think that EA has now told you
very clearly that Ohio State is the the daunting Oh
my god, and then after that Penn State's a little
under it, and then Wisconsin's more daunting than the big House.

Speaker 4 (01:48:47):
I got, Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:48:48):
I'm ranking all of that doesn't make a lot of
sense to me.

Speaker 2 (01:48:52):
No, I agree, number three would be my number one,
coming in at number three. Tom Rouge Death Valley Lsu.
I always thought that that was just.

Speaker 4 (01:49:09):
Going to.

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
A true hellish spot on Earth on a Saturday night
under the lights.

Speaker 4 (01:49:17):
You give me baton rouge under the lights. That's timid dating.

Speaker 3 (01:49:22):
I've never seen anything like it. I just I still
think about being at LSU and watching a game there
as an experience that I've never had in any other sport,
in any other environment. We played. They do a country
music festival there that we played long before. Was in
college football covering it and we played with the band.

(01:49:44):
It was us and Luke Bryan and headlining. This huge
football stadium was full, and I remember at one point
they thought my keyboard that I had on my riser
that I was standing on I was playing the fiddle,
had a keyboard sitting there and the keyboard was shaking
so hard from the crowd jumping up and down that
they thought it was gonna fall off the riser. That's

(01:50:04):
how That's how loud it gets in there. Like I
I've never as a as a musician, I don't know
that I ever experienced a festival that was more wild
than the one that was inside that stadium. And traveling
with game day when I did, I never I mean
it was LSU Bama. I realized how much that game meant,
But I just walked like it was so emotional that

(01:50:25):
my hair never stopped standing up on end like it
just the vibe on that floor. It LSU would have
been my number one, And frankly, I don't even think
it's close.

Speaker 4 (01:50:35):
It's funny and I agree, man, we both said it.
But our number one, I.

Speaker 2 (01:50:40):
Man, it's it's special, man, batarm Rouge is a special,
special place.

Speaker 4 (01:50:46):
Number ten.

Speaker 2 (01:50:47):
I mean, you can't argue with Alabama, as you know
in the top five, Bright Denny, it's you know, it's classic,
it's you know, loud, the it's it's you know, into it,
it's you know, iconic. So it's got it checks all
those boxes.

Speaker 3 (01:51:07):
Yeah, I had no problem with that. That one made sense.
I read it there Again, I would have put LSU
ahead of it, but I understand why they had it.
Were well, that just felt like the right spot for it,
for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:51:18):
And listen, you know the twelfth Man and it's definitely
loud and it's a cool place to play.

Speaker 4 (01:51:27):
I don't know, it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:51:28):
I don't think it's number one, but it's it's a
great you know, it's gotta it's it's built out a
great niche in a lot of ways, Kyle Field, Texas,
A and M.

Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
My initial reaction when they posted on Twitter x top
ten toughest places to play. My first reaction when I
read it, honestly was did the person that made the
graphics screw up and accidentally mean to go ten to one?
Like I wouldn't have been surprised if ex A and
M had been ten to put A and M at

(01:52:03):
number one ahead of LSU. Just it didn't make a
lot of sense to me. It's not saying it's not
a great atmosphere. It is a great atmosphere. Absolutely, it
is a special place to play. But I don't understand
how that that came in at number one above some
of the things. Again, I would have put LSU ahead
of it. I would have put Georgia and Bama ahead

(01:52:26):
of it. I certainly would have put Penn State and
the White Out ahead of it. I had to put
to Ohio State ahead of it. I mean, it's just
I wouldn't have had a problem if they put the
Big House ahead of it. So I think that that
was jarring to me. I read that and my first
thought was like, did they do it wrong or did
they just want a.

Speaker 4 (01:52:43):
Bunch of clicks?

Speaker 3 (01:52:43):
An engagement on this.

Speaker 4 (01:52:44):
You know now I felt the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:52:46):
I didn't get it, like I get then the third
quarter and the whole thing and it's good stuff. Like
it's just not yo, I don't think it's top five
at all. And I'm with you, you know, ten to
twelve to thirteen, like the swamp is more menacing to play,

(01:53:07):
and you got like, like, I still think Notre Dave
is way low. It's a great place to watch a game.
It's it's it's pretty tough. Those people are legit.

Speaker 3 (01:53:18):
Notre Dame being in the twenties in Texas a and
m being one. Just I don't understand it. I don't
understand it at all. And the funny thing is for
anyone that doesn't know this, with the video game, the
rankings do matter because what happens on the modern games
in general, and what will be a feature in this
game is that in big moments, the suddenly the screen

(01:53:39):
will start to move, your controller starts to vibrate. It's
their way of trying to affect you as a player,
the same way the stadium. So they put a lot
of thought and energy into making sure that they give
the appropriate sort of love to home field advantage, into
momentum and all of these adrenaline for quarterback. They put

(01:54:00):
it all into the game. So this wasn't just a
willy nilly list. I'm just surprised. I wonder who they
consulted to come up with Texas A and M at
number one.

Speaker 4 (01:54:09):
Yeah, lit'sten.

Speaker 2 (01:54:10):
It's to your point, it's your control of shakes and
you're trying to look at the place of the play shaking,
so you're having a tough time processing and reading the play.
I mean, it's really cool how they do it. Here's
here's one that I'm shocked not in the top twenty five. Nebraska.
That's a spectacle.

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
They have the.

Speaker 2 (01:54:32):
Longest they have the longest sellout streak and all of
college football. I guess it goes back to sixty six
maybe something like that. Something crazy, and they're not they
didn't make it top twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:54:50):
I will admit that I am I am too biased
for how great the experience was in Nebraska to not
put them in the twenty five. I think it's too
it'ssolutely incredible experience.

Speaker 4 (01:55:02):
Yeah, I think I was a big miss.

Speaker 2 (01:55:04):
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Speaker 4 (01:55:27):
All right, welcome back, fellas.

Speaker 2 (01:55:30):
All right, so let's dive into Lebron a little bit,
all right and the whole Bronni James stuff at people
going nuts, and I hear it's nepotism. It's nepotism, And
my answer is, yeah, so what right?

Speaker 4 (01:55:49):
Like, of course it is. Everybody knows despotism.

Speaker 2 (01:55:52):
Everybody understands Lebron's relationship with the NBA and why the
Lakers would a roster spot with it for his son,
draft him and stash him. I mean, uh, it's almost
a non story. I think it's a great story, a
father and a son playing on the same team in

(01:56:14):
the NBA.

Speaker 4 (01:56:14):
Even the son is not really worthy of.

Speaker 2 (01:56:17):
It, you know, if you manufacture a little bit, so
what I don't I don't see the big deal in it,
to be honest with you, how about you, Oh my man,
FITZI is uh is get some has some tech issues.
I mean in my in my idea, I don't, I

(01:56:39):
know everybody's freaking out over it.

Speaker 4 (01:56:41):
Bronnie brownie Brownie.

Speaker 2 (01:56:44):
Uh, you know, like when you're the best player on
the on the planet, you have been one of the
greatest all time players top three with him and Wilt
and Jordan. Through certain spoils that you get and you deserve,
you should get and that's having your son get drafted
in the second round.

Speaker 3 (01:57:05):
Where do you think Fitzi as also? I mean, it's
the second round draft pick. Who really cares? Honest to god,
we're making this huge deal out of a second round
draft pick. Can anybody tell me who was dealt or
who was picked fifty five in any of the last Well.

Speaker 2 (01:57:25):
I don't think you just evaporated again, No, but Fitzi's
points correct. Which is it is? It's a second round pick? Like,
what's the here you go? He's back now I.

Speaker 3 (01:57:38):
Must be having like I guess there's gremlins in my
in my prophone. What are the Lakers doing? They're not
any closer right now to winning a championship than they
were a month ago. They're not a team that anyone's
going to take seriously in the West. If you had to,
if you had to right now, bet your house on
if the Lakers can win a championship. In the next one,
three or five years. Would you place that bet on? Yes,

(01:58:00):
I wouldn't like.

Speaker 2 (01:58:03):
First of all, during a terrible situation, because you have
the end of Lebron and Anthony Davis.

Speaker 4 (01:58:13):
There's no bridge to the other side.

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
I mean, Anthony Davis a great ballplayer, but you know
the older he gets, the more injury pron he's going
to get. Right, He's already a guy that's going to
miss time. I mean, you have no bridge to the
other side.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
There is a The Lakers are judged on the theory
of championships, right, and that or the premise that they
should be contending for championships every single year. I don't
see how with Lebron they're going to contend for championships.

Speaker 2 (01:58:41):
So the only thing, No, it went out again fits
he You definitely have gremlins. No, they're not going to
contend for a title. I don't sit barring barring another.

(01:59:02):
You know they need another moved. I mean, this is
not We've seen it last year. I don't know how
this is a title team. I just think again, I
don't understand all the NEPO hate that's going Bronni's way.
I mean, you know this happened you know, throughout the

(01:59:24):
course of time. And I don't even think it's a
bad thing, Like in the sense that if Lebron James,
who's who made his way? You want to talk about
self made?

Speaker 4 (01:59:37):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:59:38):
You know the kid from Akron who becomes this amazing player,
this incredible businessman, right, Like who's a model athlete? I
mean we just said, I don't care what anybody says.
Lower You don't have to be a fan. You can
think Jordan's better or whatever. The one thing the guy

(02:00:01):
holds himself in the most exemplary way, like just god,
all I may respect everything he does, he does well,
he does.

Speaker 4 (02:00:16):
In a way of respect.

Speaker 2 (02:00:19):
And so you look at this thing and you go,
so what that that the Lakers drafted Brownie?

Speaker 3 (02:00:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:00:28):
Yeah, If I'm Lebron, I want you to draft little Land, right.
I mean, come on, I think we all as parents
would do the same thing. All right, Where the fellas
be back in a moment, Sports radio, all right, fellas

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Speaker 4 (02:01:49):
Been through it all.

Speaker 2 (02:01:50):
So the NBA Draft, we did a little bubble on
that and the idea that like this is one of
those drafts where.

Speaker 4 (02:02:01):
You just don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:02:02):
It could be the one of the worst ones that
they're projecting as the Anthony Bennett draft. It could be
that we'll see if the French we can develop into
some impact players. Something tells me that there's going to
be two or three kids that come from this draft,

(02:02:23):
and it's usually the way it works where you just
don't spot it. It's such a difficult process. Now, the
NFL draft so easy, you have a basis not easy,
but compared to the NBA, you have a body of work, right,
Like you have three years of normally of playing college

(02:02:46):
football most of the time four you have.

Speaker 4 (02:02:53):
Because it's weights broken up.

Speaker 2 (02:02:55):
You have all the testing, the physical stuff, how it
relates with the position and the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (02:03:02):
So it's so much.

Speaker 2 (02:03:04):
Easier the way I look at it in the NFL
to look at players than in the NBA. Where the NBA,
you know again, you're you're half baked pies coming out
of school. Really, you got a lot of foreign kids,
you got G League kids. The league loves to draft
young players, right, so they don't draft don't Connect because

(02:03:27):
Connect is twenty three. They rather go with an eighteen
ninety year old. I loved it for the Lakers to
get Connected to is to me, a tremendous.

Speaker 4 (02:03:37):
Talent who got blitzed.

Speaker 2 (02:03:41):
Best player on his team and still scored despite getting
doubled and triple the times we got FITZI back fits
a yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:03:50):
And here's the thing that I love about Dalton Connect
talking to him last year going into the tournament. You know,
he had the opportunity to go several places when he
was figuring out where to transfer for his last year,
and when I asked him why Tennessee. He said, straight up,
without hesitation, my defense stinks, and I knew I needed
to go someplace too. It helped me get better at that.

(02:04:11):
And I think that's just a level of self awareness
to the process that I love for a kid that's
going into the NBA. Right, Like, to your point that
they're all half big pies, you better have somebody that
knows they're half baked, that knows that they need work,
that knows that they need improvement and is willing to
make those improvements. That's that's tough to find because a
lot of these kids come through they don't realize the

(02:04:31):
deficiencies in his game. I think Connect was actually a
really smart pick by the Lakers. As much as we're
talking about Bronnie, we should be talking about Connect because
he might actually get some playing time and might make
a difference.

Speaker 2 (02:04:42):
Yeah, I gotta tell you, I loved him. I thought
I thought he played. He's a good athlete. He could
shoot the bull and score all three levels. And again,
like I love having a kid that is your best
player on your team and you're they're constantly being doubled
and you're still scoring, right, Like I look at that

(02:05:05):
I look at that, that to me, at six four
and a half is what the wing player's supposed to be.
And I don't quite frankly care that he's twenty three.
I know that's that's a negative. That doesn't bother me.

Speaker 3 (02:05:22):
Yeah, especially the way teams are built now, on the
way contracts are built, are we really that worried about
somebody being twenty three twenty four? I think we find
stupid things to worry about when it comes to drafting.
We find like there was a there was a kid
at the Rivals camp that I was at Franklin. I
don't even know who he was because I was downstairs
at the time. It was playing the piano and was

(02:05:44):
playing beautifully, like he is obviously an accomplished piano player
as a kid. I don't know which kid was. Sorry,
I can't get him love here, but he was absolutely
playing beautifully. And I was in a meeting that was
right below it happening, and somebody said, man, that's so cool,
and I said, yeah, but we are in a world
world where NFL teams the wars they use that against kids.
They're like, well, he's got other interests, Like that's a

(02:06:06):
real thing. Kids felt like if they admitted that they
like doing other things, you know what I mean. So
we find stupid reasons to dock kids when they're coming
into the league, when realistically, if you can play, you
can play, and if you can play right now, and
you can make a difference to the Lakers right now
for the next three or four or five years, let's
worry about the fact that you're too old coming out
when the time is right to do that. But my god,

(02:06:27):
that even then that you won't feel the repercussions of
age being part of this conversation for at least five
to seven years. So what do we do it?

Speaker 4 (02:06:35):
Dude? I agree. I mean I thought that Sixer should
have took him at sixteen.

Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
I was like, wow, he's a gift, like sitting there
because you need a wing plier.

Speaker 4 (02:06:47):
And they take Jarret McCain. Who's say. I mean, I
like him.

Speaker 2 (02:06:51):
I think he could shoot the basketball. He's undersize, he's
really a two, not a one, and he's kind of underside.
Like listen, I think he I think he'll he'll play
in the league. I could have some success. My thing
is you're already having undersize too. In Maxie and I
don't know how they fit. If and you look at

(02:07:13):
the playoffs, Max, he's going to play forty minutes a game,
forty four.

Speaker 4 (02:07:17):
Minutes a night. So I don't know, I don't know
how that and.

Speaker 2 (02:07:20):
You're trying to win now like you're trying to win
now within beats. I didn't see that where that made
any sense.

Speaker 3 (02:07:26):
Here's the thing. I love your analysis of it. By
the way, he's a great kid. I think that's part
of why so many people are here to see him go.
He's a great kid. If he fails because he's undersized
or because it's not a great system fit, that's fine.
But can we just stop talking about whether or not
somebody's on TikTok as a reason they should or shouldn't
be drafted. Oh yeah, some of that conversation like oh, well,

(02:07:48):
you know, he paints his fingernails and he's on TikTok
monetizing And I'm like, okay, so he's got like his
own sense of who he is and he's already figured
out how to monetize his entrepreneuriality. I'm going to make
that word. I don't know if it's really.

Speaker 2 (02:08:02):
He's so bright, I mean's he's a sweetheart of a
kid too. He's got a great he's got a smile.
I mean, God bless him. I mean from a million ways.
In fact, I have a you know, you know, I
do my deal, my five for you, where I do
five questions every week and one of the questions is

(02:08:25):
off of McKain.

Speaker 4 (02:08:27):
I'll give it to you.

Speaker 2 (02:08:28):
So we're gonna play the game where I give five
questions called the Five. I give everybody five questions and
you gotta answer, and there's no wrong answers, but it's
they're five e collected questions. So FITZI, we'll have Mighty
Mark and we'll have Brianna play. All right, our production team.
He usually figure's in, but figure he's out today he's not.

Speaker 4 (02:08:51):
He's not there.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
But the question is, give me an athlete who had
his own unique and almost unpopular to the uh May
old school kind of harsh view of the way sports.
So the example is, back in the day that predates us,

(02:09:16):
Joe Namath was wearing a fur coat, did a pante
hoose commercial and he was they had long hair, hanging
out with you know, with all kinds of models and actresses.
When he was he came after Johnny Unitas, who was
like all Americans, straight laced, buzz cut.

Speaker 4 (02:09:40):
So that's kind of the athlete.

Speaker 2 (02:09:42):
And the other one that I'll give you an example
is Alan Iverson when AI came to Philly, like they
made a big deal over you know, he had ink,
he had neck tattoos, right, he had rose. He didn't
wear his suit like I heard at all, And I'm like,
that's just style, man. Now It's interesting because you know

(02:10:06):
all the ache sleeves and everything else came into fashion.

Speaker 4 (02:10:10):
You know, he basically ushered it in.

Speaker 2 (02:10:13):
And it's ridiculous that we look at players because they
have a flair for something to judge them over that.

Speaker 4 (02:10:20):
But anyway, that's that's the question. Number one FITSI.

Speaker 3 (02:10:26):
All right, So there's a very obvious answer, but I'm
gonna give that one yet. I'll see who else goes
to this one. But the first first name that popped
into my head, as you said it would be for
my childhood, would be Jim McMahon, Like Jim McMahon everything
and a headband and having the battles with the league
and people getting all sorts of worked up about his

(02:10:46):
attitude with that Bears team. When I think somebody that
just didn't fit into the norm, but just had this
thing about him that everybody gravitated to. McMahon in the
in what in the mid eighties was that was just
if you were a kid, I didn't matter what your favoring.
I'm obviously been a Raiders fan my whole life. There
was no way I was rooting against the Bears and
Jim mcman because he was just so cool like that.

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That's so McMahon is my answer.

Speaker 2 (02:11:10):
That's a great answer. All right, let's go to Mighty Mark.
Give me an athlete who marched to his own drum beat.

Speaker 8 (02:11:19):
I think the guys was he was a Dallas guy.
Think of Hollywood Henderson.

Speaker 4 (02:11:24):
What that's a bust out old school Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:11:28):
He didn't invent the touchdown celebration in the end zone, so.

Speaker 8 (02:11:33):
He was he was an outcast for Dallas being you know,
Landry had strict rules about how to be a Dallas cowboy,
and Hollywood was gonna be his own thing because his
name was Hollywood. So he kind of had his own
rules about how he wanted to celebrate and how he played,
how he tackled, how he.

Speaker 9 (02:11:55):
Was gonna just be Hollywood. Henderson that's a.

Speaker 2 (02:11:58):
Great is that's a great answer. He invented the touchdown celebration.
Pre first of all, great job, welcome to the show,
welcome to the fellas. You are a great fella.

Speaker 10 (02:12:13):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:12:16):
So, Bri, give me an athlete that march to their
own drunk.

Speaker 10 (02:12:24):
I'm gonna go Dennis Rodman.

Speaker 4 (02:12:26):
Just oh, that's a great one.

Speaker 10 (02:12:28):
I knew that the one was gonna say.

Speaker 11 (02:12:30):
Yeah, dyeing the hair, the whole Madonna things, skipping practice
to go to like a wrestling thing. I think like
in w CW.

Speaker 10 (02:12:39):
I think back in the day. I remember that story.
So I'm gonna go with Dennis Rodman.

Speaker 2 (02:12:44):
That's a great answer. Excellent answer, Brie. By the way,
speaking of the athletes that painted their nails, right, the
male athletes, there was a guy named Bill Polsover pits
for the Mets and then nine right, so he painted
his nails black. And the manager at the time was

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a guy named Dallas Green. Do you remember him, Fitteen,
remember the name? Did we lose Fitty again?

Speaker 3 (02:13:17):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:13:17):
No, Anyway, Dallas was the manager. That was a great guy.
But Dallas was He was about six ' five, had
a mane of white hair and he was John Wayne,
like this John Wayne figure old school. He was an
older man and like he just didn't understand it.

Speaker 4 (02:13:42):
And it was it was, it was always.

Speaker 2 (02:13:45):
And that was the nineties, all right. Question number two
of the five we talked about the NFL ticket, right,
what is your ultimate FL experience?

Speaker 4 (02:14:03):
Who? When?

Speaker 2 (02:14:04):
How do you consume NFL football? Mark start with you.

Speaker 8 (02:14:14):
I would just sit in front of a TV, maybe
go over to a buddy's house to watch the game.
But I don't mind sitting by myself because during the game,
I'm gonna channel Surfer then come back to the game
from by myself.

Speaker 9 (02:14:28):
That's what's gonna happen. I'll watch the game.

Speaker 8 (02:14:31):
I'll get upset at the referees if it's a team
that I like, But if I'm just watching a Sunday
night game, hope, you know, hopefully it's a good game,
and I'll just watch.

Speaker 4 (02:14:43):
Because what's your optimum time to watch a game? Is
it early? Is it the fours or the later game
the afternoon games?

Speaker 9 (02:14:52):
Well, being out here, i will, I'll, you know, I'll
watch the game one after ten, right.

Speaker 8 (02:14:58):
And then I'll you know, when that one ends, I'll
slide into the one o'clock game, if you know, for
for Sunday afternoon, and then because it's you know, California,
we'll get the Sunday night game. So there's like three
games that we can get, you know, after the hype
of whatever channel it's on a CBS game or Fox. Right,

(02:15:21):
you watch the hype people first, and then there's the
ten am game, and then there's the one o'clock game,
and then there's the Sunday night game. So you get
all the networks involved. So I'll just sit and watch
it in front of my in front of the TV.

Speaker 4 (02:15:35):
All a true way.

Speaker 2 (02:15:36):
All right, Brianna, give me your NFL Sunday ticket.

Speaker 4 (02:15:42):
What does it encompass?

Speaker 11 (02:15:43):
I love like the early morning games, like so like
it's like ten o'clock over here. So I love having
like a breakfast burrito, having the air conditioning on like
really really like you know, like sixty five degrees, and.

Speaker 10 (02:15:55):
My coffee and my breakfast burrito.

Speaker 11 (02:15:57):
And and I actually have three TVs in my house,
so I have two on my wall and then one
fifty five, so I try to get all situated.

Speaker 10 (02:16:06):
That's kind of how I have it.

Speaker 4 (02:16:07):
Oh, sure you have your own NFL room.

Speaker 10 (02:16:10):
It's like a bree cave. Not a man cave, but
like a bree cave.

Speaker 2 (02:16:12):
I love a pre cave. That sounds awesome. Oh, that
sounds great.

Speaker 3 (02:16:17):
That's the first I heard of that.

Speaker 4 (02:16:18):
That's very cool, and I.

Speaker 2 (02:16:19):
Is pre cave. That's impressive. Man, good, that's very cool.
That's that's awesome.

Speaker 4 (02:16:27):
What is that? Who's your squad?

Speaker 10 (02:16:30):
I'm a Saints fan, so like, who'da.

Speaker 2 (02:16:34):
Oh really, now, how did you become that? You grew
up in southern California? How did you become a Saints fan?

Speaker 11 (02:16:38):
Reggie Bush got drafted there and then so I just
kind of had to follow and kind of go against
my dad, and he was like a Cowboys fan, and
I just I couldn't do it.

Speaker 10 (02:16:48):
I couldn't do it.

Speaker 4 (02:16:50):
Well, you made the right choice. You don't want to
be a Cowboys fan.

Speaker 10 (02:16:53):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:16:54):
No, you don't want to be everybody's a Cowboys fan.
You don't want to be a Cowboys fan saying the
Saints are whole franchise.

Speaker 4 (02:17:01):
So you made the right choice.

Speaker 10 (02:17:03):
I agree. I agree.

Speaker 2 (02:17:05):
That's great. Do we have fizy backers? You're still trying
to figure this out? All right, let's do that. Let's
take a quick time out, we'll come back. We'll continue
playing the five. Got some mother odds and then stuff
to go over before we get out of here. Where
the Fellas Jason Fitz Anthony Gargana right here on Fox
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(02:18:11):
right here on Fox Sports Radio. So we got fits
you on the phone. We're doing our play the game
the five Fitsy. I'll ask you and kind of touched
on this, but question number two of the five is,
how are you your favorite way to consume NFL football?

(02:18:35):
Is your own NFL ticket? What would your own the
fits the NFL ticket look like.

Speaker 3 (02:18:44):
My NFL ticket for everybody or just for me? Like you?

Speaker 4 (02:18:47):
No, just you just your own personal NFL ticket.

Speaker 3 (02:18:52):
Okay. So look, if I was in charge of the
Sunday ticket, so one thing, like, here's what I would do.
I would create. I would change the whole display screen.
I would give me one big screen in the middle
and then little boxes all around it instead of right now,
anyone that has a Sunday ticket knows day Quad box,
but they decide what four games are in there. So
you can't always decide. Sometimes you can't, but you can.

(02:19:12):
You got to get four games going on at once.
It's painted butt. If I want to watch the Raiders,
I want them to be on a big TV, but
I want to see the other things that are going
on around me. So if I could make my own
Sunday ticket, I'd let me put one game that I choose,
like even in the package, like make me a Raiders fan. Fine,
I get the Raiders game on the big screen, and
then all the way around it, like an edge, are
little screens with other games. I could press a button

(02:19:33):
and I can go from one of those to the other,
and then I would invite all my friends. Although it
doesn't I'm going to tell you like this is this
is a first world thing, and I'm saying, all there.
I saw this ad the other day for this, you know,
like we all have TV mounts on our walls. I
saw an ad the other day for a TV mount
that attaches to your to your ceiling in your room
and a flat screen on it, and it makes the

(02:19:56):
TV sort of sit on the ceiling. Now I'm rethinking
this because then you have a remote, you press the
button that that TV drops from the like it's you know,
flat up against the ceilings. You see it there, but
it doesn't take any room. You press the remote and
then it hangs down like a TV does. I might
install one of those, so then I have like two
TV options without having that fifty two TVs like that.

(02:20:17):
That's my new first world. But although I'm not good
at installing things, so you know, I have this fear
that my whole ceiling is just gonna rip down in
my living room because my TV ends up there. But
I think that might become my new thing this fall.

Speaker 4 (02:20:29):
I love that. That's a great idea.

Speaker 2 (02:20:32):
Did you hear about I don't know, because you were
you were AVINGE some issues. Did you hear that our
producer Brie has our own pre cave with three televisions.

Speaker 3 (02:20:45):
Oh see, that's that's well. Like that is well, though,
is the bre cave upstairs or downstairs? Brown? And that's
the first question.

Speaker 10 (02:20:51):
It's upstairs. And I just have a one bedroom apartment, so.

Speaker 11 (02:20:54):
I have two small TVs on my wall and then
one fifty five inch TV.

Speaker 3 (02:20:58):
See that's that's a smart way to do it. Like
last year, I was going to get my basement remodeled.
This is again first world things. I was going to
remodel the basement to make it the perfect basement to
watch games. But before I did that, because I'm cheap,
I decided I would hang four TVs in the basement.
They were all like side by side by side. And
what I was thinking of doing was getting one of
those controllers that will let the whole all four TVs

(02:21:20):
together become one massive screen, or you can use them
as four individual TVs. That was my grandiose idea. But
what I found out last year is it because it's
in the basement, basement's kind of dark. I don't really
like the fact that it's like I got no windows
in the basement, I got no way to get natural light.
I don't really love the way that looks so I
found myself actually not using the cave that I was

(02:21:41):
going to build because I don't like being downstairs when
the actions going on. I need like natural light and
energy coming in during the day when I'm watching games.

Speaker 4 (02:21:49):
Well, that's interesting, So you need the lights.

Speaker 2 (02:21:54):
You got to have the light and you have to
feel see what about my time get like the Sunday
night game.

Speaker 3 (02:22:02):
Well, the Sunday night game is fine, Like I'll watch
the Sunday night game upstairs, but especially like when you
start to get into November December, you know, when it
starts getting dark at three point thirty in the afternoon
in New England, Like I don't want to be downstairs
in a quiet, dark basement all day. Like that's just
not you know that that's just not as much fun,
unless unless you've got like a loud group of obnoxious,

(02:22:25):
drunk friends with you. I do think it gets too
isolating there. I like it.

Speaker 4 (02:22:29):
I like that You're right, I got you.

Speaker 2 (02:22:32):
And there is something about like I'm on the East
coast and there's something about the uh like that a
tumnal feel outside, so you see the autumnal feel like
and then ye and then as the sun starts to set, early.
It's all part of the football ambiyonce. I'm with you,

(02:22:54):
all right, Question number three. We just had the NBA Draft,
the NHL Draft. I'm going to start with your give
me your number one pick in the all time crush draft. So, Mark,

(02:23:14):
who did you have a crush on? Your number one
celebrity crush pick?

Speaker 9 (02:23:22):
Crush pick? Crush pick?

Speaker 2 (02:23:25):
She had a crush on an actress or you know
anybody a famous person who would your crush be.

Speaker 9 (02:23:34):
Let's start with Jacqueline Smith.

Speaker 4 (02:23:40):
Wow, Jacqueline Smith. That's awesome. She was at Charlie's Angel right, Yes,
she is. I like it. I like it. That's fabulous.

Speaker 2 (02:23:56):
All right, three, give me you know your first pick
in your all time celebrity crush list.

Speaker 11 (02:24:05):
Yikes, because I feel like there's like athlete, there's like singer,
and then there's like actor.

Speaker 4 (02:24:10):
Your number one pick?

Speaker 11 (02:24:11):
Oh man, oh man. I'll go with Kyle Korver. I
don't know, that's my old Krver.

Speaker 4 (02:24:17):
Wow, you gotta be kidding me. That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (02:24:23):
Kyle kk he played for the Sixers. I got to
know Kyle h. He's a great dude. That's awesome. Kyle
korverra I.

Speaker 11 (02:24:33):
Love Kyle Korver that Ashton Kutcher has has nothing on
Kyle Korber Korver's number.

Speaker 2 (02:24:38):
One, Brianna, That's sensational. That is absolutely sensational. Classic. All right, FITZI,
who is your who is your number one pick in
your all time celebrity crush Draft?

Speaker 3 (02:24:59):
So this it's tough because you know, I think if
I'm gonna go number one, it's got to be somebody
that I had a crush on as a kid like that.
That's because you always remember those primarily. So it really
comes down to a couple of different But you know
when I got my first two I got when I
was get my first dog, right, this is, you know,
twenty years ago whatever, I'm getting my first dog as
an adult, and I got two sisters. I adopted two

(02:25:23):
dogs that were like, you know, sort of farm dogs.
They were stranded in a litter and one of them
couldn't stop. She wouldn't stop whining when I was in
the car with her, and so I just choked. I
was like, she's whining so much. I'm gonna name her
Winnie after Winnie Cooper, because you know, I remember where
I was as a kid when I saw the Wonder
Years for the first time. The dogs were named appropriately

(02:25:44):
Winny and Sam as Samantha from Who's the Boss. I
named them after my two childhood crushes, So and I
would also throw you know.

Speaker 2 (02:25:52):
You usually right there, Witty and Savanda.

Speaker 4 (02:25:57):
Wow, that's tremendous.

Speaker 3 (02:25:59):
Yeah, so Winni, Cooper, Danic and McKellar called me. I
still love you to this day, so you know, there,
there we go.

Speaker 9 (02:26:07):
If fitzget too, then I want to add Linda.

Speaker 4 (02:26:10):
Carter, Linda Carter, wonder Woman.

Speaker 9 (02:26:14):
That's right, buddy, Oh that's fabulous.

Speaker 4 (02:26:22):
Oh my god, I love it.

Speaker 2 (02:26:24):
Great, great answers and Bree coming in with a Coyle
Corr action.

Speaker 4 (02:26:28):
Oh that's great, all right.

Speaker 2 (02:26:31):
Question number four, Well, FITZI said this earlier, right, So
he was the sideline reporter for the hot dog eating contest.

Speaker 4 (02:26:45):
That was a big deal, like that was a monster.

Speaker 2 (02:26:48):
That was actually a big assignment because everybody watched that thing.
So off of that, Mark, give me a food item
that you can eat in volume, because I love how
people can eat hot folks and volume. I just the
thought of it makes makes my stomach queasy. So Mark,

(02:27:11):
what's a food that you can eat in volume?

Speaker 8 (02:27:16):
My grandfather taught me about there was a TV show
it was Blondie and Dagwood.

Speaker 9 (02:27:23):
There used to be a sandwich that he would call.

Speaker 8 (02:27:27):
A Dagwood, and then he used to make for me
the Blondie, which was a smaller version basically lettuce tomato.
I would put boloney on my sandwich.

Speaker 9 (02:27:37):
I would. I could eat tons and tons of boloney.

Speaker 2 (02:27:40):
Okay, look at that, all right, you got your cold
cuts man, Yes, all right, yes, Bree, give me your
food item that you can eat in volume.

Speaker 11 (02:27:55):
Oh, I guess I'll go with tacos. I can eat
like a ton of tacos.

Speaker 3 (02:28:02):
The taco is a great now that's hard soft taco,
chicken tacosco.

Speaker 10 (02:28:08):
It has to be like.

Speaker 11 (02:28:09):
I don't know, it has to be a little specific,
like the street tacos like you know, and like with
the like this the shady van in the corner, and
then like a picnic table.

Speaker 10 (02:28:18):
But they're like making.

Speaker 11 (02:28:19):
It like like in La we have a lot of
those types of places. So I could probably eat. I
could probably take down at least like one hundred and fifty.
If you give me like five hours, I could probably
do like thirty tacos an hour for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:28:31):
Wow, that's now are you like fits ants? Which which
taco do you do? You like the fish taco?

Speaker 10 (02:28:38):
Do you like the like the Asda like Carnessata taco?
They like the soft taco.

Speaker 11 (02:28:43):
With like the cilantro and the onion and the little
saltell on the side.

Speaker 10 (02:28:46):
They also make.

Speaker 11 (02:28:47):
Keto tacos now, so like they like, they fry the
anaheim chili and then they throw the cheese and the
meat on there, so then that's like less carbs. So
I could probably do like half of those.

Speaker 2 (02:28:57):
So that's a good value too with the adeheid chili. Yeah,
because I like a little heat to my taco.

Speaker 10 (02:29:06):
Same so the soul said too, yeah all that.

Speaker 2 (02:29:08):
Yeah, that's that's good at the taco. At the taco,
you could do volume fitsy with the taco. The hot dog. Listen,
I bring this up to you. Before you give us
your answer, you got to tell us about what it's
like to watch these people eat that many hot dogs.
And it's actually like gross watching it.

Speaker 3 (02:29:32):
So the first year that I did it was COVID,
and because it was COVID, they brought us inside and
only the people that have been tested could be inside
in the room and the competitors roll next to each other,
and this is no exaggeration here. They had speakers set
up for our our you know, for me to commentate

(02:29:55):
and things like that for the guys to do their work.
But as they started, the actual noise of Joey Chestnut
like gulping those hot dogs and buns down, it was
no stomach turning. Somebody in the room was like, we
got to get we got to turn music off. There's
got to be something because the whole rook here here going.

(02:30:15):
Oh it was. It was the most and it was
actually distracting the other eaters from being able to maintain
their pace because everybody could hear what Joey Chestnut was doing.
It was. It was unreal. And like when I tell you,
there's a smell to all of it, Like when.

Speaker 4 (02:30:35):
You're right, I was going to ask you, yes.

Speaker 3 (02:30:38):
Like there is this weird smell. And they got to
get the hot dogs from where they're cooked to the
actual room where they're being eaten, and to the actual
stage where they're being eaten. So that makes it huge
for all you guys that love to bet, there's certain
things that you can keep an eye on for the
hot dog eating contest like anything that keeps like if
it turns out to be that the hot dogs where

(02:31:00):
they had to make a bunch of them and they
sat for a while. Like if it's a colder day,
sometimes the hot dogs get a little sticky, they don't
go down as fast. Like if it's a humid day
that's really hot, the dogs themselves catch a little of
that moisture, they go down faster. Like these are all
things that are real when these guys do the numbers,
But my god, when you actually see what they have

(02:31:22):
to do to contort their bodies, Like I think Nick
Weary's gonna win this week, and Nick deserves it, He's
worked really hard for a long time. But my god,
like what he puts his body through to just be
able to train for it's, y'all, at the level of disgusting.
I never realized that, But you're right, cause, like I
would do that, and my phone will blow up for
that more than it did for everything else confined that
I was.

Speaker 2 (02:31:42):
It's unbelievable, man, I remember saying you, what was the fitsy?

Speaker 4 (02:31:49):
Like do they I mean they swamp? Like how do
you swallow that stuff?

Speaker 2 (02:31:54):
Like I don't understand it, Like like their style of
eating is all, oh, I don't know how you can
do it. Like, listen, we all like a hot dog, right,
you do a hot talk. You can't do more than
two hot thos, maybe do three or four. It's dollar
dog night at a park, all right, But that's it,

(02:32:14):
Like that's a that's an item that's got.

Speaker 4 (02:32:18):
More than anything. There's a there's a finite that mat
you can eat.

Speaker 3 (02:32:24):
No, I totally agree. Like, and it's it's interesting to
watch the way they train for it is the bite
and gulp sort of thing and dunking the bread and
trying to get.

Speaker 4 (02:32:33):
The break down.

Speaker 3 (02:32:34):
It's just they all afterwards, for hours afterwards, they all
just they're just colored. They don't look like the people
that compete don't look right. For a long time, the
one interesting, you know, everybody talked about Joey's dominance rightfully said,
but when you talk to the competitors, they'll tell you,
like most almost every one of those competitors has a
regular job, so you know, they're a school teacher or whatever,

(02:32:56):
and they train as best they can with the time
they have. Joey, for the longest time, was the only
one on the circuit that his full time job was
just training for that. My guy like just trains for
that all the time. That's just that's what he lives
his life for. So gave him such an advantage that
most guys just don't have because they don't make enough
money to do an these outebts to be able to
do it the way Joey does. So you know, I'm

(02:33:18):
excited for somebody else to step up. But it is just, oh,
it's it's disgusting.

Speaker 2 (02:33:24):
So give me your food that when you are eating
that you can eat in value.

Speaker 3 (02:33:32):
No, this one's easy. I mean, I spent I've said
this before, but when I was a little kid, my
dad would go get a dozen donuts every week and
we would watch the Raiders game and we would eat
a dozen donuts. And then you know, as I was
on the road, I would send somebody out every week
when I was touring, and every Sunday I'd come up
and there'd be a dozen double chocolate Dunkin Donuts sitting
there for me, and I'd eat all twelve during the

(02:33:53):
Raiders game. And that doesn't include you know, the lunch
and whatever else I'm eating and drinking while I'm doing it.
So I mean if I was really put my mind
to it, how many donuts could have house I'm sure
I could get through forty or fifty during a Raiders
came pretty easily.

Speaker 2 (02:34:07):
Wow, fifty chocolate donuts and you do the double the
chocolate and the chocolate is your favorite.

Speaker 3 (02:34:14):
Yeah, Yeah, it's like, Look, I'm a cake donut guy,
like you know, unless they're sponsored of this show, in
which case I love them. I'll tell you right now.
Like I missed me with Krispy Green. So when they
have like the Hot and Ready or whatever, the Hot
and Fresh, like, I don't want. I don't want my
donut hoot. I like cake donuts and I like like
the frosting on top of it, like the icing on
top of it. So yeah, can be like a traditional

(02:34:35):
cake donut, chocolate, chocolate. I don't really do any of
the donuts so like, I don't really like je jelly fills.
But other than that, I'll eat any donuts. Like donuts
one of my favorite foods. But yeah, I feel pretty
confident in a three and a half hour Raiders game,
I'd say fifty is the right number if that's the
only thing I'm eating.

Speaker 2 (02:34:54):
Yeah, I love it. Man, that's fantastic. That's she's great,
that's just awesome. All right, let's take a quick time out.
We'll come back and wrap up this show where the
Fellas Jason Fitz Anthony Garganta hang.

Speaker 4 (02:35:07):
With you right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (02:35:13):
Ah, welcome back Fellas hanging out Jason Fitz Anthony Gargano.
You know what's funny, I'd met that Joey Chestnut once
or before before the Hot Talk. I used to work
for a radio station in Philadelphia that did Wing Bowl
and it was like the first competitive eating kind of thing,

(02:35:37):
and they did it with chicken wings like wings, and
it was it was wild, like that Joey Chestnut would
eat like three hunt wings in like twenty minutes.

Speaker 3 (02:35:49):
Yeah, I mean, what he's capable of is unreal, and
you know, it's it's truly what he trains for. It's
funny because the time I did it a couple of
years ago, I'd done some some betting analysis going into it,
and I really felt like, you know, hammered me over
because I've been talking to Joey a little bit. He
was training his tailoffice and then he shows up that

(02:36:13):
that was the year he showed up and his foot
was in a boot and I was like, well, what
did you do? And he'd ended up having to like
have a procedure done on his foot, and he immediately
said to me, in this twenty four hours before the contest,
He's like, yeah, my number is going to be low
because I used my feet so much in the process,
because he bounces a certain way with his feet and
he couldn't do that. I'm like, that just shows you
when everybody says, look, I'm not saying that Joey Chestnut

(02:36:35):
is some great athlete in the same way that so
many what we think of the word athlete. But he
does train with a very specific routine in mind to
how he does what he does. So it's a wild
world when you put that that much work into figuring
out how to eat a bunch of potato skins or
pizza bikes, or you know, pretzels or you know that

(02:36:55):
hot buns.

Speaker 4 (02:36:58):
It's great, that's great.

Speaker 2 (02:37:00):
We all think it's funny because we all go, I
can eat, I can eat a ton of those until
you actually sit down. You go even when you're hungry,
like you cannot eat all day, and then you have like,
I know, I can eat whatever you order.

Speaker 4 (02:37:14):
A pizza.

Speaker 2 (02:37:16):
You're you're for slices in You're already getting full, Like
you think you're starving, but you really those guys are
are are a different beasts.

Speaker 3 (02:37:27):
Yeah, well, and you're right, like you think you're getting starved.
The amount that you have to just shut off, you know,
the noise and and your brain to do this. It's like,
doesn't matter if my brain's telling me full, I'm full.
I've trained enough for this. I know I can take
eat more of these. It's like, that's just I can't
imagine the thought of being like, oh man, only twelve
hot dogs to go in the next thirty seconds. I mean,

(02:37:48):
good God, yeah, no.

Speaker 4 (02:37:51):
I feel you. I feel it's it's insane.

Speaker 2 (02:37:54):
Hey, I got one question for you and then I'll
give you the I'll give everybody a fifth question. But
this night, Jeremy Payney from the Astros, it was an
Apple TV game. He was miked up and he dropped
a pop up while he.

Speaker 4 (02:38:10):
Was being interviewed. And that's the second time.

Speaker 2 (02:38:14):
This year that a ballplayer was miked up for Apple
TV and dropped a pop up. Now they get paid,
They get paid like ten grand to be miked up,
to be interviewed during the game. I got a question,
At what point do you go, no, you're not miked up.

(02:38:35):
It's too distracting.

Speaker 3 (02:38:38):
Right now. I mean, the first time you could say, well,
that's once twice in close proximity to it hasn't been
that long since the first time happened. Now you're looking
at it and saying no, man Like, Ultimately, the ten
K you're paid is nowhere near what we're paying you
to actually play this sport, and we need to be
at our past. So I think I think it's pretty
stunning that it's happened twice in this amount of time.

(02:39:00):
So to me, if I'm a team, even if the
player wants it, if I'm a team, I'm blocking their
access to it immediately.

Speaker 4 (02:39:07):
Yeah, I mean, it's no good. I'm with you, all right.

Speaker 2 (02:39:10):
The fifth question of the five is off of the
movie Jaws. Give me your favorite movie creature. Your favorite
movie creature off of Jaws, the Shark. It's amazing that
that movie still holds up even though it's a The
Shark was mechanical and everything, but it still holds up

(02:39:33):
to this day. So I'll start with you, Mighty Mark,
give me your favorite movie creature.

Speaker 9 (02:39:42):
I'm gonna go with the t Rex at Jurassic Park.

Speaker 2 (02:39:46):
Ah, dude, that's a great answer. The t recks very good.
All right, Brianna, give me your your favorite movie creature.

Speaker 10 (02:39:59):
The velociraptor from Jurassic Park.

Speaker 3 (02:40:04):
Wow, you all had some dinosaurs over.

Speaker 2 (02:40:06):
There, all right, FITCHI your favorite movie creature?

Speaker 3 (02:40:15):
Whatever? That that dragon horse thing was that the kid
rode in the Never Ending Story. Oh you know what
I'm talking about, that big like white, gangly thing that
the kid was riding on, like holding on to his
ears while he was riding around on him then And.

Speaker 4 (02:40:33):
I remember it, Yes, I did, I do remember it.

Speaker 2 (02:40:37):
Yeah, I could see I could see you doing that
Fitz on the back of that thing.

Speaker 3 (02:40:42):
You know, some people we'll do fellas promo.

Speaker 4 (02:40:45):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (02:40:45):
Have a great week, my brother, Love you, buddy, everybody,
thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:40:49):
We'll see you next Saturday.

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