January 4, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the fallout from the Damar Hamlin story as NFL exec Troy Vincent disputes what Joe Buck said during the MNF broadcast, an update on Hamlin's recovery, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one of our radio show,
recorded off terrestrial radio and repackaged here in the podcast format,
and we begin our one with the big story involving
the fallout from the Monday night football game, the injury
to Buffalo Bill's safety Damar Hamlin. Toss up question. Toss
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up question, because you got the NFL spinning the story
saying they never issued the five minute five minute decree.
So who's telling the truth here, NFL big shot Troy
Vincent or longtime play by play announcer Joe Buck. And
what does ESPN's rebuttal to the NFL tell us about
this kur fluffle? And how is the recovery going. We'll
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get you the latest status update on Damar Hamlin. Is
he comes back. He's still in critical condition as we
were doing the overnight show. We'll talk about all that
and more right now in our number one. Here it is.
Let the finger pointing continue. Welcome, in the beginning of
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hour comes from the story that everyone's still hanging on
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every update to regard what happened in the Monday night
football game. And that is where our lead comes from
this hour, the fallout from what happened the postponement of
the game between the Bills and Cincinnati. Ben gals in
the sporting world continuing to run a muck on this story. Now,
the safety for the Bills, DeMar Hamlin, continuing to lay
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in critical condition at a Cincinnati area hospital there and
as he recovers from needing his heart to be restarted,
not once but twice. And while that's going on in
the front, in the back, you've got the adults who
work for the NFL who are at loggerheads. And that's
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the part of the story that I want to discuss
with you, right Now, Now, it's been a fascinating chain
of events here that has played out over the last
twenty four hours or so. And if you've not been
following on, perhaps you missed it. So I'll break it
all down, give you the nail recap for you. It's
a public service. So you have this executive VP, Troy Vincent,
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who played in the NFL. He's the big shot I
pick caahuna at the NFL, and he angrily told the
media in the middle of the poop storm that there
was never ever talk of a five minute warm up
period or any other time frame other than just making
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sure that the Bills and Bengals had proper time in
the locker room. Exact quote here from Vincent. He said,
it never crossed our mind to talk about warming up
to resume play. That's ridiculous, that's insensitive, Vincent scolding reporters
who brought up the issue. Now, all of this was
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sparked by reaction to Joe Buck, the ESPN commentator now
was doing the Moneyball game, and not once, not twice,
not three times, but how about four times? Joe Buck
on the broadcast while there was no football going on,
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said the teams had been given five minutes to warm up.
Five minutes to warm up, And just to prove that
I am not lying, as Warner Wolf would say, let's
go to the audio tape. Here's Joe Buck and is
a little vignette from the Monday night broadcast. The NFL
said this did not happen what you're about to hear.
But here's Joe Buck on the broadcast. The two head
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coaches you can see, got together and they'll have five
minutes to warm up. And Troy, I mean, played this
game for the majority of your life. And then after
that you've been calling these games. First of all, I've
never seen anything like this. And then at Lisa, as
we said, they've been given five minutes to quote unquote
get ready to go back to playing. That's the word
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we get from the league and the word we get
from down to the field. But nobody's moving. Then when
we got the date that within five minutes these players
were going to start playing football again, we saw Zach
Taylor live walk across the field to Sean McDermott. The
players were being told that they would have five minutes
to get back ready for play, and the players were
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standing around. We saw Zach Taylor walk across the field
and talk to Sean McDermott. All right, so that's the
audio from the Monday night feed on ESPN. But that
Troy Vincent again, he said it never crossed our mind
to talk about warming up to resume play. Now, the
story got even better earlier in the day on Tuesday,
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when ESPN responded to Troy Vincent in a prepared statement
by pointing out, this is a quote here. There was
constant communication in real time between ESPN and game officials.
As a result of that, the statement prepared statement reads,
we meaning ESPN reported that what we were told in
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the moment and immediately updated fans a new information was learned.
This was an unprecedented, rapidly evolving circumstance all night long.
We refrained from speculation. Close quote. So you know what
that means. Ah, this is right in my wheelhouse here.
This is batting practice, fastball. Someone is lying, someone is lying.
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So let's discuss the question. It's a toss up question.
Who's telling the truth in this kur fluffle, Troy Vincent
or Joe Buck. And this one's rather easy. I've got
barbershop foxhole and formulated and we will tie all of
these things together here, and we're gonna make the Baba
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ganoosh is what we're gonna make. So a any reasonable
human being is going to side with our X Fox
Comrade Joe Buck. It is straightforward here. Even if you're
open minded to bending reality, there is no rational human
being who's going to say, oh yeah, the NFL, they're
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absolutely right. They would never say five minutes. This one
is uncomplicated. And Joe Buck, we played the audio. Foya
sounded a little bit like Abraham Lincoln. He didn't say
four score and seven years ago, but he did state
on four separate occasions that the players were given five
minutes to get ready. It's honest, Abelike from Joe Puck.
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It's a clear situation. It's as clear as vodka is
what it is here. The NFL, I'm telling you I
know people that work on that side of the broadcast business.
The NFL monitors these television broadcast on a word by
word basis. They are very protective of their name, image
and likeness, and the fact checkers, the gatekeepers monitor everything.
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Big Brothers always watching and especially in a primetime game,
an island game like Monday Night game and at the
NFL barber shop. They have a fine tooth comb, okay,
that they use here to go over everything. Intellectual rights
are the end all be all. Had Joe Buck spoken
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out of class, let me tell you what would have happened. Okay,
he would have been censured immediately by someone working for
the NFL. And if you look at the timeline on this,
and people were writing down notes, Joe Buck first mentioned
resumed play after five minutes at roughly nine fifteen Eastern time,
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but nobody stepped in and said, hey, you made a mistake.
There's a that's a misspeak. And he said it again
and again and again, and they even showed Joe Burrow
warming up on the sidelines, Hello, Hello, And so Joe
Buck repeated that five minute thing as they were going
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off the air from the stadium at fifty four, so
almost an hour and a half had transpired from here
when he originally said the five minute thing, and nobody
stepped in from the NFL and attempted to censor that.
And it gets even better. But wait, there's more. Joe
Bucks said that he got that information from the rules
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expert John Perry, who got the information directly from the
NFL who goofed. I've got to know And as they
say in the world of chess, and as I was
told by William Shatner years ago, checkmate, checkmate. All right,
now part two of this brainbuster. What does the ESPN
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rebuttal tell us? Right? What does that tell us? The
rebuttal to the NFL? What does that tell us? So
it initially tells you no more, mister nice guy. And
if you follow these kind of stories and you plow
through them, all right, this is what's known as a dag, right,
said Dad? Get what? ESPN is a bed mate of
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the NFL? All right? They sleep together a couple nights
a week. They're in an arranged marriage. It's a pretty
nice marriage for the NFL. ESPN pays in the neighborhood
of two point six billion with a B like ben
for the domestic broadcast lights to Monday Night Football. That package.
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That's a lot, that's a big package, and they lose
money on it. So, needless to say, the Walt Disney
Company has a vested interest in looking out for the
NFL and vice versa. So it's obvious that the NFL's
Troy Vincent in a cya position cover your own ass
wanted to use the fledgling cable channel out of Bristol,
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Connecticut as a foe guy. I gotta have a fag,
have them run interference to cover for the league. It
was mistaked by Joe Bucket, was an honest, mistaken edit
bad job by him. But that ESPN said, no, that's
dirty pool, We're not playing that. And they stood in
the foxhole with Joe buck and they issued a counter attack.
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The gloves off squabbling ignited, and they chronicled how the
messaging was coming directly from league circles and when you
juxtapose that with the very real just vibe from watching
again Joe buck and he admitted this. He was really
out in the deep sea. He was floating away on
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a pontoon boat and there was a storm coming in here.
His voice was cracking. He struggled to go off the
script and say anything while this was playing out. He said,
his instinct was to not say anything. So when he
got the way I read it, when he got information
that came from the NFL, that's when he cut loose
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a little bit. They just kept repeating that, so I
said it four times. But this whole thing makes Troy
Vincent looked like a giant Bozo Bozo the clown. All right,
last word here, So let's move over to the recovery.
How is the recovery going from Damar Hamlin? As he
continues in critical condition in a hospital in Cincinnati, The
waiting game continues. The Bills issued another update on Hamlin's condition.
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They said he spent last night in the intensive care unit,
remains there today is the condition University of Cincinnati Medical Center,
and the Bill said they were grateful and thankful for
the outpouring of support. Blah blah, blah, blah blah. It's
not really a much of an update. It's a non
update update. Nothing had changed at the time the Bills
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set that out. From what we have read, that is
pretty standard stuff. The doctors are very methodical as they
follow the medical books here on how to deal with
this type of injury. And it's a formulated attack. And
you've you've got a from I've been reading online here
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and practicing medicine by reading medical websites, that you keep
the patients dated until they can breathe on their own.
And that doesn't happen right away, typically takes several days,
possibly a week, ten days and it could be a
long time here and as they monitor the vitals and
all that. Now, the scary part continues to be that
you don't know how much damage was actually done here
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until the person, the patient wakes up. So it's still
very much a touch and ghost situation. Depends on how
long the player, DeMar Hamlin went without oxygen getting to
his brain before he was revived, and since they started
CPR almost immediately, the hope is that, as we've talked
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about in previous episodes here we talked about this that
the hope is that the damage was extremely limited, but
you don't know what you don't know. Most likely it
will be several more days before we have any kind
of update on the full picture here. And I did
see Hamlin's uncle, someone named Dorian Glenn. He did an interview,
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this guy Glenn on the CNN and he said his
nephew had to be taken back from cardiac arrest twice,
resuscitated twice, according to the uncle on the fields. That's
the shot whenever on the bills was like, oh my god,
what are we doing here at that moment on the field,
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And then they brought him to the hospital and then
the second time when he got to the hospital. But
the uncle, the uncle says that DeMar Hamlin is training
upwards in a positive way. That was at least as
of a few hours ago. But we're here around the
clock and we will continue to talk about that. We
will talk about some other things as we go through
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the night. We're not gonna spend all four hours on this.
But if you want to comment on it, if you
have an opinion about something you want to talk about
in regarding this story, you are more than welcome to
join the festivus of talk and the lines will open
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Sports Radio Studio. It's Ben Maller. Yea, we begin to
night here ranting about the finger pointing contest between the
NFL and Joe Buck. I enjoyed that. Maybe you didn't
enjoy it, but I gotta kick out of it, Devin writes,
and he says the NFL is never going to admit fault.
They will continue to blame the Four Letter Network from Bristol.
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I don't believe anything Roger Goodella or Troy Vincent has said.
It's a cya operation on the NFL's part. Justin in Cincinnati,
who redeemed himself and his return to the Game shows yesterday, says,
I can't even hide or can't even side, ever side
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with Joe Buck. I'd consider siding with Poppy before Buck.
How about that? Shots fired? Justin says, Though, doesn't Troy
Vincent run around wanting people fired? Like the Dolphins neurologist
for one. But when he screws up and eyes, we
are just supposed to believe him because, yeah, that's that's
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pretty much it. That's kind of how that works. I
believe Nick writes in He says, Hey, if two hundred
dudes this is Nick in New Hampshire, you should know
Nick in New Hampshire. Come on, he's a legend. He says,
if two hundred dudes tell the group of five referees
f you, what makes you think the refs can make
them play? Yeah, Well, it's a's a numbers game. That's
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that's how that works here, Sour jay Daddy. And you
know this is going to be important if Sour Jay
Daddy says it. He says, what's your reaction to the
bozos on the Twitter app? They're showing no empathy to
the Damar Hamlin situation. Well, I haven't spent a lot
of time on there, Sour jay Daddy, And if you
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spent a lot of time on there, I recommend going
out and living your life and seeing the real world.
I'm on there during the show, I'm not on there
much during the day, and when I have been on
that particular app, I've seen a lot of love, I
haven't seen much negativity directed that that way. A Matt
the Warrior Raider rays fan writes and says ten out
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of ten on the Mallard monologue, A rare good job
by the Four Letter Network for backing their guy and
pushing back on Troy Vincent's comments. It's obvious the league
is trying damage control because they wanted to restart the
game five minutes later. You fee me from chicago'ss Mallard
four out of four slices of deep dish. Oh that's good.
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Pe that Chicago Deep Dish pizza on the monologue, even
though this play wasn't on special teams. You see the
NFL adding more rules and eliminating kickcoffs in the near future. Yeah,
let's a non sequitur. You fee me. But given enough time,
maybe if we could come back one hundred and fifty
(18:55):
years from now and assuming there's still football, I think
think about slowly. It's it's it's little by little things
are changing, and I go give it time. Every ten
years they take something away and they they dumb it
down a little bit, and then over time is you know,
I can think about one hundred and fifty years from now,
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what it's gonna be like it? Well, it'd be much different.
Can you believe how violently the NFL was in twenty
twenty three? I can't believe, just like people now are like,
can you believe how violently the NFL was back in
the in the nineties, Oh my god, the eighties? Holy
can only my goodness? All right? Eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox the number Now I mentioned a rocky
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road and we have quite a krafluffle playing out in
the television world if you buying us, And that's not
involving Joe Buck. This involves the number one show on
FS one, Skip Bayliss and Shannon Sharpe, who have been
debate buddies for a number of years there And let's
(20:05):
just say Skip did not have one of his good
nights the other night. He sent out a someone say,
an ill advised comment. He was very upset that the
NFL was considering postponing the game on Monday, and he
really wanted the game to be played because of postseason considerations,
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and he was very upset by that, and he sent
that out and people were gobsmacked. How could you do that?
What are you doing dumb? Dumb? He started attacking him,
and somebody from management clearly got ahold of Skip by
listen said hey, Skip, you might want to clean this
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up here. This one's it's not good for us. And
so he did issue kind of an apology. But that's
not the story here. The story is that the allegation
bouncing around the echo chamber here is that Shannon Sharpe,
who has done that show with Skip Bayless for a
number of years now, Undisputed, is so upset, so ups
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it's such a rocky road for the former Bronco tight
end that Shannon Sharpe is supposedly contemplating leaving the show.
He's that upset, and he didn't show up to work.
He was not on Undisputed. If you're watching on Tuesday morning,
he was not there. Skip Bayless was on the show
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and Shannon was not. And so I guess Skip was
debating himself, but he was, he was, He was there
doing his thing, and Shannon's not going up. Do I
believe that Shannon Sharpe is going to actually leave Undisputed? No,
it's a great job. It's it's you talk about straight cash, Homie.
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I don't know how much exactly he's making. I think
it's over five million dollars to sit on television for
a couple hours a day and debate the issues of
the day in sports. Okay, it's and you've got eight
thousand producers and you've got everything you could possibly need
on these television shows. It's unbelievable. So that's a gig.
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You don't give up. You don't give up that gig.
And if he did give it up, there'd be a
line around the building from people who'd like, Oh yeah,
I'd love to debate Skip Bayliss every day on dispute.
Are you kidding me? Come on, man, sign me up
for that. I can make NFL money and I don't
have to worry about getting hit. I don't have to
worry about running sprints or any of that stuff. I
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just have to worry about going to the makeup chair
an hour before the show. Get my makeup on. That's it,
Come on, all right, it is the Ben Maller Show.
Will keep an eye on that. But I would be
stunned if Shannon Sharpe actually quits that show. It's you know,
he will protest, right, He'll take a day off he'll
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be bad, He'll be back. Be sure to catch live
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Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Back to tomorrow, Hamlin.
You know you mentioned this yesterday, but the go fund
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Me page for his charity donations continue to grow over
five million dollars now and including a lot of big
names celebrities who did put their name on it. I
feel about that, Eddie, you know how I feel about that.
Tom Brady, Russell Wilson and Sierra Sarra whatever her name is,
ye and others donating to the charity there for Damar Hamlin.
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Yeah you got Ama. Well now it's you gotta do
it right. If you're a famous person, you gotta do it.
How much have you donated put ten grain in? You know?
I believe Eddie the charity? Oh you were an anonymous
ten thousand dollar donation. Oh absolutely, Well here's when you
when you announce you're doing charity, it cheapens the act
of charity. So all those celebrities, Matthew Stafford, Tom Brady,
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Robert Kraft, I all, I looked down at all of
them because they did that for the attention. Shame on them.
Bad job by them. A good mitzvah does not. You
don't need to get attention for it. It's by far
the worst take of his career. I agree. I terrible
job by Skip Bayliss on that take on. No, no,
I'm talking about you. I'm talking about you. Yeah. No,
it's a douchey move. And you were you were raised inappropriately,
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coop if you feel otherwise. Charity should not be done
to gain attention. It's embarrassing these famous people that are
doing that and shame on them. All right, it is
the Ben Mallish. Let's go to the phones and we'll
say hello to uh. Let's see here. I believe it's
Sorgia in Boston. Hello, Sorgia. Well, Sorgia. Going on, mister Allen,
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how are you doing, Sergia? If I was any better,
I'd be sleeping. But I'm not. I'm talking, which is fine.
I'm okay with that. What's what's going on, Sorgia? Yeah,
just driving the rain, going to pick someone up, and uh,
because I drive for Uber and I thought i'd give
you a quick calm. And the thing is, I just
wanted to touch on the uh, the Hamlet situation, you know,
(25:36):
with Skip. The real issue is is like if I
kind of you know, I had a very emotional reaction
when I first saw Sweet, and then I kind of
tried to, you know, look at it after the fact
and kind of give it a you know, twenty four hours,
and you know what he's really saying is like, you know,
obviously that this game is the rescheduling of the game
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or whatever, it's going to have an effect on the
entire league. But he has to be smarter than that,
you know what I mean? And that's what I really
am upset at. Right, is that you have you've been
how long has he been doing this? Right? You have
to be smarter and just seeing the visceral reaction of
everyone you know. But listen, Okay, so he had an
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opinion you don't agree with and he was insensitive. Son, Okay,
what do you what do you do with that? Okay? Fine,
I mean, big deal, you move on. It's not the
end of the world. But I'm really but then the
non apology too, I don't like. But um, the other
thing I wanted to ask is why wait wait wait
wait wait wait, Sorge. This is why I always say
famous people should never apologize, because you can never apologize enough.
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You can't. Well, people criticize the apology. They're like, well,
you didn't apologize the way I wanted you to apologize,
so scrow you. So why bother apologize because it didn't
meet your standard? Sword you you didn't approve of the apology.
It wasn't up to your level. Listen, man, I try
to be fair. If someone is truly sincerely apologetic, I
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give I always try to give him the benefit of hell. Well,
I'm not gonna give you the oh, I'm I'm apologized
that you took it the wrong way when you clearly
said something that was insensitive. But you know again, I
think that that Skip Bayless's job is to give opinions, right,
He's in the opinion business that he gets paid a
lot of money. He's the highest paid guy doing that.
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It's right there with neck and neck with Stephen A.
Smith and they go back and forth and how much
they make giving hot takes and all that. So that's
what they do. More importantly though, Sorgier, So you're you're
an uber driver? Is that your gig? There? Yeah? Actually,
I actually am. Yeah. How's that going? Well? Yeah, yeah,
you're from the Masters of the Area, right, Ben, or
you grew up in mass Well no, I've I've spent
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some time doing that in radios dot from here but here,
but Sorgia here, I'm from La. But here's the thing, Sorgier,
Now you have you picked up anyone famous in your
in your uber? Okay? So I'm here. Now we're getting
a good story. Now we're getting a good story. Here
we go. Yeah, I I Ben, I could give you
three hours of story squat, I'll make it quick. So um,
(28:08):
I'm actually I don't know if you know, the great
town of Nati in Massachusetts. So I'm going to Nati
to pick someone out. And I actually once dropped off.
This is not tonight, but it was a couple of
weeks ago in the summer. I dropped off the girlfriend
of a practice squad player on the Patriots. I DMed
him on Instagram and I think he said thank you,
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and it was the cool spirit. I thought, well, there
you go. Tweet that out, coop. The girlfriend of a
practice squad player for the Patriots is being in Sorgiers.
That is big. That is big. All right, I love that.
All right, thank you Sorgi. I gotta go. It doesn't
get bigger than that. It's it's like the president. I
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give Sworgier credit though. He's like, yeah, I'll tell you this.
I got a story, right, I'll here to you this.
I got a story for you, man. Can you name
anyone for ten thousand dollars, Eddie, can you name anyone
on the Patriot practice squad right now? He's shaking his head, Um, no, don't, zappy, Bailey, zappy.
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Now he's the backup quarterback. He's not on the practice squad.
He's a backup, bat you up by you? Well, you
name somebody on the practice squad, then I'm the one
challenging you. I'm turning the tables on you. I'm trying
to Joe Blow is a right guard. Joe Blow is
a good player. Let's go to sir scratch Off. Now
(29:37):
it's about to get real here, Eddie, sir scratch off
by ways of Arkansas. Maybe he also picked up a
practice squad player for the Dallas Cowboys or his girlfriend
on his truck hitchhiking through the backwoods of Arkansas. Hello,
sir scratch off, what's going on? I'm don't tell you.
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Put old Skip Barance and old Manning Twins and old
Joe Buck. You know, Swinder pulled a two foot of water.
They all growns. That's how stupid they are. And I
can only imagine what would happened Thursday night. They'd have
had that game and the Manning brothers would have been
up there doing that game. No tell them that, they said, Well,
benefit us would have been got there playing. You know.
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But this thing has just gone overboard. It's been got crazy.
So this stuff been saying. But Joe Buck, he did
say that cramp last night. I need to get to
there on TV and he's pretty stupid. Who what did
Joe Buck? Who wrong? If he was told by somebody
from the NFL they got five minutes to warm up?
And he repeated it, How is he the bad guy? Yeah?
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I don't hunt. I know you don't like him. I
get that you don't like him, but still you shouldn't
you love the Saint Louis Cardinals and Joe Bucks old
man Jack Buck a Saint Louis icon from when you
were a little kid. His dad. They know Jack. It
ain't his old man, that's respect. It was your father.
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But anyway, what are you doing? I dare you? I
remember when he used to talk about the Cardinals when
the Yankees them going at it, and I'm like, I thought,
she's supposed to be like a Cardinal fan with your dad.
He's sitting there bragg on the Yankees, and I'm like, dude,
what's your problem? Bro? You know your dad swear by
the Cardinals. You know you want you were upset your
(31:23):
grudge with Joe Buck as he was not a big
enough Cardinal hunk. That's your grudge. But Joe Buck and
we used to have mom when I did the show
with Looney on the weekends, we'd have Buck on every Sunday,
on every Sunday, but every and can't believe we still
have that. But but Buck, he had the He was
like a chameleon because every team he'd do a Yankee,
(31:44):
like a Yankee Dodger game in Italyague game, and the
Yankee fans thought he was a Dodger fan. The Dodger
fans were convincing like the Yankees. He had the ability
and he still does Joe to piss off the entire fan.
But every fan base watching believes that Joe Buck is
against their team. It's a wild thing, it really is. Yeah,
but he just I don't know, man, I just say,
a big Joe Buck fan. You know you've made that
(32:06):
perfectly clear. You said he would not survive any two
inches of water. I believe it's something you said. Yeah,
that's your way. It goes. Man. It's clear at her night, dude,
brains falling. Let up. We got like six inches And
I tell you what, it's a whole out third out
to night, dry weather and stuff. I can hear y'all
lout clear and old justin since that he make you
look good last night man, he come out and won
(32:27):
that battle. That is a very smart dude right there.
He's good at sports trivia. Does that make you smart?
If you're good at sports trivia, it makes you affect
on the game shows. But I don't know that you'd
win any other contest other than sports trivia. Now, it
makes you know, we watched We listen to this stuff
(32:48):
every night, you know. But but I don't tell you
something that right now? I got it, all right? Oh yeah, yeah,
look at that. You ran over a landmine. Unbelievable. Kaboom.
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to the NFL? I know, we'll talk more about that
as we go through the overnight. Here's the who am
I game? New York Jets Royal bust Zach Wilson. He
is going to finish the season with the worst passer
rating in the NFL. He's the first quarterback since me
to have had the worst passer rating in the NFL
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Zach Wilson is going to finish the year with the
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since me to have the worst passer rating in the
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so I'm good going to game. Rag, Eddie, there's no
need to brag. I'm just being factual. It's not bragging.
You're bragging, so humble, bragg. You're saying I'm better than
you because I went to three games. What games did
(35:40):
you go to? It? I know the Rose Bowl? What
else do you go? With? Charge of game? You're charge
of fame. And then Saturday was the King's Flyers. Yeah,
I saw Rob Parker was at that game. Our friend
Rob Parker, professor, Rob, Rob Parker. I love it. I
love that Rob's would professor. That's great. How do I
get one of those jobs? That's a great You get
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you don't do birthday shout outs. That is right, Chris,
We cannot wish you a happy birthday. I'm sorry. I
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Not all heroes where it clearly you're one there. Furg
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(37:09):
with me on the charity. Thinks so thank you. Take that? Cool?
All right? Jets bust quarterback Zach Wilson. He's gonna finish
the year with the worst passer raiding in the NFL.
He's the first quarterback since me to have the worst
passer raiding in the NFL in multiple seasons. Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer? And Herman
(37:32):
Munster guess by the Cowboy Killer Joe Theismann and his
Birdie leg from Nick in New Hampshire, Our Lord and
Savior Tim Tebow from Milkman Mike in Colorado, Lauren Bobbitt
from Jason in Denver, bo Callahan from Yafeeme in Chicago,
Bruce Bocchi from mister nice guy there in the Bay Area,
(37:57):
Kyle Boller from Oscar that's his as Eddie. Do you
have an answer, Eddie, it's it's not Queen Roxanne guess
by the Mallardtown Podcast. I certainly do. It's former Tennessee
Titans legend Zach Mettenberger. Zach Mettenberger. No, that is incorrect.
With a good name. The answer is another good name,
norm Sneed you remember that name? He's still alive, Eddie
(38:18):
norm Z. Back in the seventies and the sixth long
ago sne
Hello and welcome. It's our number one of our radio show,
recorded off terrestrial radio and repackaged here in the podcast format,
and we begin our one with the big story involving
the fallout from the Monday night football game, the injury
to Buffalo Bill's safety Damar Hamlin. Toss up question. Toss
(00:24):
up question, because you got the NFL spinning the story
saying they never issued the five minute five minute decree.
So who's telling the truth here, NFL big shot Troy
Vincent or longtime play by play announcer Joe Buck. And
what does ESPN's rebuttal to the NFL tell us about
this kur fluffle? And how is the recovery going. We'll
(00:48):
get you the latest status update on Damar Hamlin. Is
he comes back. He's still in critical condition as we
were doing the overnight show. We'll talk about all that
and more right now in our number one. Here it is.
Let the finger pointing continue. Welcome, in the beginning of
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hour comes from the story that everyone's still hanging on
(01:57):
every update to regard what happened in the Monday night
football game. And that is where our lead comes from
this hour, the fallout from what happened the postponement of
the game between the Bills and Cincinnati. Ben gals in
the sporting world continuing to run a muck on this story. Now,
the safety for the Bills, DeMar Hamlin, continuing to lay
(02:21):
in critical condition at a Cincinnati area hospital there and
as he recovers from needing his heart to be restarted,
not once but twice. And while that's going on in
the front, in the back, you've got the adults who
work for the NFL who are at loggerheads. And that's
(02:43):
the part of the story that I want to discuss
with you, right Now, Now, it's been a fascinating chain
of events here that has played out over the last
twenty four hours or so. And if you've not been
following on, perhaps you missed it. So I'll break it
all down, give you the nail recap for you. It's
a public service. So you have this executive VP, Troy Vincent,
(03:07):
who played in the NFL. He's the big shot I
pick caahuna at the NFL, and he angrily told the
media in the middle of the poop storm that there
was never ever talk of a five minute warm up
period or any other time frame other than just making
(03:29):
sure that the Bills and Bengals had proper time in
the locker room. Exact quote here from Vincent. He said,
it never crossed our mind to talk about warming up
to resume play. That's ridiculous, that's insensitive, Vincent scolding reporters
who brought up the issue. Now, all of this was
(03:50):
sparked by reaction to Joe Buck, the ESPN commentator now
was doing the Moneyball game, and not once, not twice,
not three times, but how about four times? Joe Buck
on the broadcast while there was no football going on,
(04:10):
said the teams had been given five minutes to warm up.
Five minutes to warm up, And just to prove that
I am not lying, as Warner Wolf would say, let's
go to the audio tape. Here's Joe Buck and is
a little vignette from the Monday night broadcast. The NFL
said this did not happen what you're about to hear.
But here's Joe Buck on the broadcast. The two head
(04:33):
coaches you can see, got together and they'll have five
minutes to warm up. And Troy, I mean, played this
game for the majority of your life. And then after
that you've been calling these games. First of all, I've
never seen anything like this. And then at Lisa, as
we said, they've been given five minutes to quote unquote
get ready to go back to playing. That's the word
(04:54):
we get from the league and the word we get
from down to the field. But nobody's moving. Then when
we got the date that within five minutes these players
were going to start playing football again, we saw Zach
Taylor live walk across the field to Sean McDermott. The
players were being told that they would have five minutes
to get back ready for play, and the players were
(05:15):
standing around. We saw Zach Taylor walk across the field
and talk to Sean McDermott. All right, so that's the
audio from the Monday night feed on ESPN. But that
Troy Vincent again, he said it never crossed our mind
to talk about warming up to resume play. Now, the
story got even better earlier in the day on Tuesday,
(05:39):
when ESPN responded to Troy Vincent in a prepared statement
by pointing out, this is a quote here. There was
constant communication in real time between ESPN and game officials.
As a result of that, the statement prepared statement reads,
we meaning ESPN reported that what we were told in
(06:01):
the moment and immediately updated fans a new information was learned.
This was an unprecedented, rapidly evolving circumstance all night long.
We refrained from speculation. Close quote. So you know what
that means. Ah, this is right in my wheelhouse here.
This is batting practice, fastball. Someone is lying, someone is lying.
(06:22):
So let's discuss the question. It's a toss up question.
Who's telling the truth in this kur fluffle, Troy Vincent
or Joe Buck. And this one's rather easy. I've got
barbershop foxhole and formulated and we will tie all of
these things together here, and we're gonna make the Baba
(06:46):
ganoosh is what we're gonna make. So a any reasonable
human being is going to side with our X Fox
Comrade Joe Buck. It is straightforward here. Even if you're
open minded to bending reality, there is no rational human
being who's going to say, oh yeah, the NFL, they're
(07:08):
absolutely right. They would never say five minutes. This one
is uncomplicated. And Joe Buck, we played the audio. Foya
sounded a little bit like Abraham Lincoln. He didn't say
four score and seven years ago, but he did state
on four separate occasions that the players were given five
minutes to get ready. It's honest, Abelike from Joe Puck.
(07:30):
It's a clear situation. It's as clear as vodka is
what it is here. The NFL, I'm telling you I
know people that work on that side of the broadcast business.
The NFL monitors these television broadcast on a word by
word basis. They are very protective of their name, image
and likeness, and the fact checkers, the gatekeepers monitor everything.
(07:54):
Big Brothers always watching and especially in a primetime game,
an island game like Monday Night game and at the
NFL barber shop. They have a fine tooth comb, okay,
that they use here to go over everything. Intellectual rights
are the end all be all. Had Joe Buck spoken
(08:14):
out of class, let me tell you what would have happened. Okay,
he would have been censured immediately by someone working for
the NFL. And if you look at the timeline on this,
and people were writing down notes, Joe Buck first mentioned
resumed play after five minutes at roughly nine fifteen Eastern time,
(08:35):
but nobody stepped in and said, hey, you made a mistake.
There's a that's a misspeak. And he said it again
and again and again, and they even showed Joe Burrow
warming up on the sidelines, Hello, Hello, And so Joe
Buck repeated that five minute thing as they were going
(08:56):
off the air from the stadium at fifty four, so
almost an hour and a half had transpired from here
when he originally said the five minute thing, and nobody
stepped in from the NFL and attempted to censor that.
And it gets even better. But wait, there's more. Joe
Bucks said that he got that information from the rules
(09:19):
expert John Perry, who got the information directly from the
NFL who goofed. I've got to know And as they
say in the world of chess, and as I was
told by William Shatner years ago, checkmate, checkmate. All right,
now part two of this brainbuster. What does the ESPN
(09:43):
rebuttal tell us? Right? What does that tell us? The
rebuttal to the NFL? What does that tell us? So
it initially tells you no more, mister nice guy. And
if you follow these kind of stories and you plow
through them, all right, this is what's known as a dag, right,
said Dad? Get what? ESPN is a bed mate of
(10:06):
the NFL? All right? They sleep together a couple nights
a week. They're in an arranged marriage. It's a pretty
nice marriage for the NFL. ESPN pays in the neighborhood
of two point six billion with a B like ben
for the domestic broadcast lights to Monday Night Football. That package.
(10:29):
That's a lot, that's a big package, and they lose
money on it. So, needless to say, the Walt Disney
Company has a vested interest in looking out for the
NFL and vice versa. So it's obvious that the NFL's
Troy Vincent in a cya position cover your own ass
wanted to use the fledgling cable channel out of Bristol,
(10:51):
Connecticut as a foe guy. I gotta have a fag,
have them run interference to cover for the league. It
was mistaked by Joe Bucket, was an honest, mistaken edit
bad job by him. But that ESPN said, no, that's
dirty pool, We're not playing that. And they stood in
the foxhole with Joe buck and they issued a counter attack.
(11:12):
The gloves off squabbling ignited, and they chronicled how the
messaging was coming directly from league circles and when you
juxtapose that with the very real just vibe from watching
again Joe buck and he admitted this. He was really
out in the deep sea. He was floating away on
(11:34):
a pontoon boat and there was a storm coming in here.
His voice was cracking. He struggled to go off the
script and say anything while this was playing out. He said,
his instinct was to not say anything. So when he
got the way I read it, when he got information
that came from the NFL, that's when he cut loose
(11:54):
a little bit. They just kept repeating that, so I
said it four times. But this whole thing makes Troy
Vincent looked like a giant Bozo Bozo the clown. All right,
last word here, So let's move over to the recovery.
How is the recovery going from Damar Hamlin? As he
continues in critical condition in a hospital in Cincinnati, The
waiting game continues. The Bills issued another update on Hamlin's condition.
(12:19):
They said he spent last night in the intensive care unit,
remains there today is the condition University of Cincinnati Medical Center,
and the Bill said they were grateful and thankful for
the outpouring of support. Blah blah, blah, blah blah. It's
not really a much of an update. It's a non
update update. Nothing had changed at the time the Bills
(12:40):
set that out. From what we have read, that is
pretty standard stuff. The doctors are very methodical as they
follow the medical books here on how to deal with
this type of injury. And it's a formulated attack. And
you've you've got a from I've been reading online here
(13:01):
and practicing medicine by reading medical websites, that you keep
the patients dated until they can breathe on their own.
And that doesn't happen right away, typically takes several days,
possibly a week, ten days and it could be a
long time here and as they monitor the vitals and
all that. Now, the scary part continues to be that
you don't know how much damage was actually done here
(13:24):
until the person, the patient wakes up. So it's still
very much a touch and ghost situation. Depends on how
long the player, DeMar Hamlin went without oxygen getting to
his brain before he was revived, and since they started
CPR almost immediately, the hope is that, as we've talked
(13:45):
about in previous episodes here we talked about this that
the hope is that the damage was extremely limited, but
you don't know what you don't know. Most likely it
will be several more days before we have any kind
of update on the full picture here. And I did
see Hamlin's uncle, someone named Dorian Glenn. He did an interview,
(14:06):
this guy Glenn on the CNN and he said his
nephew had to be taken back from cardiac arrest twice,
resuscitated twice, according to the uncle on the fields. That's
the shot whenever on the bills was like, oh my god,
what are we doing here at that moment on the field,
(14:27):
And then they brought him to the hospital and then
the second time when he got to the hospital. But
the uncle, the uncle says that DeMar Hamlin is training
upwards in a positive way. That was at least as
of a few hours ago. But we're here around the
clock and we will continue to talk about that. We
will talk about some other things as we go through
(14:48):
the night. We're not gonna spend all four hours on this.
But if you want to comment on it, if you
have an opinion about something you want to talk about
in regarding this story, you are more than welcome to
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Sports Radio Studio. It's Ben Maller. Yea, we begin to
night here ranting about the finger pointing contest between the
NFL and Joe Buck. I enjoyed that. Maybe you didn't
enjoy it, but I gotta kick out of it, Devin writes,
and he says the NFL is never going to admit fault.
They will continue to blame the Four Letter Network from Bristol.
(16:20):
I don't believe anything Roger Goodella or Troy Vincent has said.
It's a cya operation on the NFL's part. Justin in Cincinnati,
who redeemed himself and his return to the Game shows yesterday, says,
I can't even hide or can't even side, ever side
(16:41):
with Joe Buck. I'd consider siding with Poppy before Buck.
How about that? Shots fired? Justin says, Though, doesn't Troy
Vincent run around wanting people fired? Like the Dolphins neurologist
for one. But when he screws up and eyes, we
are just supposed to believe him because, yeah, that's that's
(17:03):
pretty much it. That's kind of how that works. I
believe Nick writes in He says, Hey, if two hundred
dudes this is Nick in New Hampshire, you should know
Nick in New Hampshire. Come on, he's a legend. He says,
if two hundred dudes tell the group of five referees
f you, what makes you think the refs can make
them play? Yeah, Well, it's a's a numbers game. That's
(17:27):
that's how that works here, Sour jay Daddy. And you
know this is going to be important if Sour Jay
Daddy says it. He says, what's your reaction to the
bozos on the Twitter app? They're showing no empathy to
the Damar Hamlin situation. Well, I haven't spent a lot
of time on there, Sour jay Daddy, And if you
(17:50):
spent a lot of time on there, I recommend going
out and living your life and seeing the real world.
I'm on there during the show, I'm not on there
much during the day, and when I have been on
that particular app, I've seen a lot of love, I
haven't seen much negativity directed that that way. A Matt
the Warrior Raider rays fan writes and says ten out
(18:11):
of ten on the Mallard monologue, A rare good job
by the Four Letter Network for backing their guy and
pushing back on Troy Vincent's comments. It's obvious the league
is trying damage control because they wanted to restart the
game five minutes later. You fee me from chicago'ss Mallard
four out of four slices of deep dish. Oh that's good.
(18:33):
Pe that Chicago Deep Dish pizza on the monologue, even
though this play wasn't on special teams. You see the
NFL adding more rules and eliminating kickcoffs in the near future. Yeah,
let's a non sequitur. You fee me. But given enough time,
maybe if we could come back one hundred and fifty
(18:55):
years from now and assuming there's still football, I think
think about slowly. It's it's it's little by little things
are changing, and I go give it time. Every ten
years they take something away and they they dumb it
down a little bit, and then over time is you know,
I can think about one hundred and fifty years from now,
(19:17):
what it's gonna be like it? Well, it'd be much different.
Can you believe how violently the NFL was in twenty
twenty three? I can't believe, just like people now are like,
can you believe how violently the NFL was back in
the in the nineties, Oh my god, the eighties? Holy
can only my goodness? All right? Eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox the number Now I mentioned a rocky
(19:39):
road and we have quite a krafluffle playing out in
the television world if you buying us, And that's not
involving Joe Buck. This involves the number one show on
FS one, Skip Bayliss and Shannon Sharpe, who have been
debate buddies for a number of years there And let's
(20:05):
just say Skip did not have one of his good
nights the other night. He sent out a someone say,
an ill advised comment. He was very upset that the
NFL was considering postponing the game on Monday, and he
really wanted the game to be played because of postseason considerations,
(20:27):
and he was very upset by that, and he sent
that out and people were gobsmacked. How could you do that?
What are you doing dumb? Dumb? He started attacking him,
and somebody from management clearly got ahold of Skip by
listen said hey, Skip, you might want to clean this
(20:50):
up here. This one's it's not good for us. And
so he did issue kind of an apology. But that's
not the story here. The story is that the allegation
bouncing around the echo chamber here is that Shannon Sharpe,
who has done that show with Skip Bayless for a
number of years now, Undisputed, is so upset, so ups
(21:14):
it's such a rocky road for the former Bronco tight
end that Shannon Sharpe is supposedly contemplating leaving the show.
He's that upset, and he didn't show up to work.
He was not on Undisputed. If you're watching on Tuesday morning,
he was not there. Skip Bayless was on the show
(21:34):
and Shannon was not. And so I guess Skip was
debating himself, but he was, he was, He was there
doing his thing, and Shannon's not going up. Do I
believe that Shannon Sharpe is going to actually leave Undisputed? No,
it's a great job. It's it's you talk about straight cash, Homie.
(21:56):
I don't know how much exactly he's making. I think
it's over five million dollars to sit on television for
a couple hours a day and debate the issues of
the day in sports. Okay, it's and you've got eight
thousand producers and you've got everything you could possibly need
on these television shows. It's unbelievable. So that's a gig.
(22:16):
You don't give up. You don't give up that gig.
And if he did give it up, there'd be a
line around the building from people who'd like, Oh yeah,
I'd love to debate Skip Bayliss every day on dispute.
Are you kidding me? Come on, man, sign me up
for that. I can make NFL money and I don't
have to worry about getting hit. I don't have to
worry about running sprints or any of that stuff. I
(22:38):
just have to worry about going to the makeup chair
an hour before the show. Get my makeup on. That's it,
Come on, all right, it is the Ben Maller Show.
Will keep an eye on that. But I would be
stunned if Shannon Sharpe actually quits that show. It's you know,
he will protest, right, He'll take a day off he'll
(22:59):
be bad, He'll be back. Be sure to catch live
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You know you mentioned this yesterday, but the go fund
(23:41):
Me page for his charity donations continue to grow over
five million dollars now and including a lot of big
names celebrities who did put their name on it. I
feel about that, Eddie, you know how I feel about that.
Tom Brady, Russell Wilson and Sierra Sarra whatever her name is,
ye and others donating to the charity there for Damar Hamlin.
(24:06):
Yeah you got Ama. Well now it's you gotta do
it right. If you're a famous person, you gotta do it.
How much have you donated put ten grain in? You know?
I believe Eddie the charity? Oh you were an anonymous
ten thousand dollar donation. Oh absolutely, Well here's when you
when you announce you're doing charity, it cheapens the act
of charity. So all those celebrities, Matthew Stafford, Tom Brady,
(24:30):
Robert Kraft, I all, I looked down at all of
them because they did that for the attention. Shame on them.
Bad job by them. A good mitzvah does not. You
don't need to get attention for it. It's by far
the worst take of his career. I agree. I terrible
job by Skip Bayliss on that take on. No, no,
I'm talking about you. I'm talking about you. Yeah. No,
it's a douchey move. And you were you were raised inappropriately,
(24:53):
coop if you feel otherwise. Charity should not be done
to gain attention. It's embarrassing these famous people that are
doing that and shame on them. All right, it is
the Ben Mallish. Let's go to the phones and we'll
say hello to uh. Let's see here. I believe it's
Sorgia in Boston. Hello, Sorgia. Well, Sorgia. Going on, mister Allen,
(25:15):
how are you doing, Sergia? If I was any better,
I'd be sleeping. But I'm not. I'm talking, which is fine.
I'm okay with that. What's what's going on, Sorgia? Yeah,
just driving the rain, going to pick someone up, and uh,
because I drive for Uber and I thought i'd give
you a quick calm. And the thing is, I just
wanted to touch on the uh, the Hamlet situation, you know,
(25:36):
with Skip. The real issue is is like if I
kind of you know, I had a very emotional reaction
when I first saw Sweet, and then I kind of
tried to, you know, look at it after the fact
and kind of give it a you know, twenty four hours,
and you know what he's really saying is like, you know,
obviously that this game is the rescheduling of the game
(25:57):
or whatever, it's going to have an effect on the
entire league. But he has to be smarter than that,
you know what I mean? And that's what I really
am upset at. Right, is that you have you've been
how long has he been doing this? Right? You have
to be smarter and just seeing the visceral reaction of
everyone you know. But listen, Okay, so he had an
(26:19):
opinion you don't agree with and he was insensitive. Son, Okay,
what do you what do you do with that? Okay? Fine,
I mean, big deal, you move on. It's not the
end of the world. But I'm really but then the
non apology too, I don't like. But um, the other
thing I wanted to ask is why wait wait wait
wait wait wait, Sorge. This is why I always say
famous people should never apologize, because you can never apologize enough.
(26:41):
You can't. Well, people criticize the apology. They're like, well,
you didn't apologize the way I wanted you to apologize,
so scrow you. So why bother apologize because it didn't
meet your standard? Sword you you didn't approve of the apology.
It wasn't up to your level. Listen, man, I try
to be fair. If someone is truly sincerely apologetic, I
(27:03):
give I always try to give him the benefit of hell. Well,
I'm not gonna give you the oh, I'm I'm apologized
that you took it the wrong way when you clearly
said something that was insensitive. But you know again, I
think that that Skip Bayless's job is to give opinions, right,
He's in the opinion business that he gets paid a
lot of money. He's the highest paid guy doing that.
(27:25):
It's right there with neck and neck with Stephen A.
Smith and they go back and forth and how much
they make giving hot takes and all that. So that's
what they do. More importantly though, Sorgier, So you're you're
an uber driver? Is that your gig? There? Yeah? Actually,
I actually am. Yeah. How's that going? Well? Yeah, yeah,
you're from the Masters of the Area, right, Ben, or
you grew up in mass Well no, I've I've spent
(27:47):
some time doing that in radios dot from here but here,
but Sorgia here, I'm from La. But here's the thing, Sorgier,
Now you have you picked up anyone famous in your
in your uber? Okay? So I'm here. Now we're getting
a good story. Now we're getting a good story. Here
we go. Yeah, I I Ben, I could give you
three hours of story squat, I'll make it quick. So um,
(28:08):
I'm actually I don't know if you know, the great
town of Nati in Massachusetts. So I'm going to Nati
to pick someone out. And I actually once dropped off.
This is not tonight, but it was a couple of
weeks ago in the summer. I dropped off the girlfriend
of a practice squad player on the Patriots. I DMed
him on Instagram and I think he said thank you,
(28:29):
and it was the cool spirit. I thought, well, there
you go. Tweet that out, coop. The girlfriend of a
practice squad player for the Patriots is being in Sorgiers.
That is big. That is big. All right, I love that.
All right, thank you Sorgi. I gotta go. It doesn't
get bigger than that. It's it's like the president. I
(28:53):
give Sworgier credit though. He's like, yeah, I'll tell you this.
I got a story, right, I'll here to you this.
I got a story for you, man. Can you name
anyone for ten thousand dollars, Eddie, can you name anyone
on the Patriot practice squad right now? He's shaking his head, Um, no, don't, zappy, Bailey, zappy.
(29:14):
Now he's the backup quarterback. He's not on the practice squad.
He's a backup, bat you up by you? Well, you
name somebody on the practice squad, then I'm the one
challenging you. I'm turning the tables on you. I'm trying
to Joe Blow is a right guard. Joe Blow is
a good player. Let's go to sir scratch Off. Now
(29:37):
it's about to get real here, Eddie, sir scratch off
by ways of Arkansas. Maybe he also picked up a
practice squad player for the Dallas Cowboys or his girlfriend
on his truck hitchhiking through the backwoods of Arkansas. Hello,
sir scratch off, what's going on? I'm don't tell you.
(30:00):
Put old Skip Barance and old Manning Twins and old
Joe Buck. You know, Swinder pulled a two foot of water.
They all growns. That's how stupid they are. And I
can only imagine what would happened Thursday night. They'd have
had that game and the Manning brothers would have been
up there doing that game. No tell them that, they said, Well,
benefit us would have been got there playing. You know.
(30:21):
But this thing has just gone overboard. It's been got crazy.
So this stuff been saying. But Joe Buck, he did
say that cramp last night. I need to get to
there on TV and he's pretty stupid. Who what did
Joe Buck? Who wrong? If he was told by somebody
from the NFL they got five minutes to warm up?
And he repeated it, How is he the bad guy? Yeah?
(30:42):
I don't hunt. I know you don't like him. I
get that you don't like him, but still you shouldn't
you love the Saint Louis Cardinals and Joe Bucks old
man Jack Buck a Saint Louis icon from when you
were a little kid. His dad. They know Jack. It
ain't his old man, that's respect. It was your father.
(31:02):
But anyway, what are you doing? I dare you? I
remember when he used to talk about the Cardinals when
the Yankees them going at it, and I'm like, I thought,
she's supposed to be like a Cardinal fan with your dad.
He's sitting there bragg on the Yankees, and I'm like, dude,
what's your problem? Bro? You know your dad swear by
the Cardinals. You know you want you were upset your
(31:23):
grudge with Joe Buck as he was not a big
enough Cardinal hunk. That's your grudge. But Joe Buck and
we used to have mom when I did the show
with Looney on the weekends, we'd have Buck on every Sunday,
on every Sunday, but every and can't believe we still
have that. But but Buck, he had the He was
like a chameleon because every team he'd do a Yankee,
(31:44):
like a Yankee Dodger game in Italyague game, and the
Yankee fans thought he was a Dodger fan. The Dodger
fans were convincing like the Yankees. He had the ability
and he still does Joe to piss off the entire fan.
But every fan base watching believes that Joe Buck is
against their team. It's a wild thing, it really is. Yeah,
but he just I don't know, man, I just say,
a big Joe Buck fan. You know you've made that
(32:06):
perfectly clear. You said he would not survive any two
inches of water. I believe it's something you said. Yeah,
that's your way. It goes. Man. It's clear at her night, dude,
brains falling. Let up. We got like six inches And
I tell you what, it's a whole out third out
to night, dry weather and stuff. I can hear y'all
lout clear and old justin since that he make you
look good last night man, he come out and won
(32:27):
that battle. That is a very smart dude right there.
He's good at sports trivia. Does that make you smart?
If you're good at sports trivia, it makes you affect
on the game shows. But I don't know that you'd
win any other contest other than sports trivia. Now, it
makes you know, we watched We listen to this stuff
(32:48):
every night, you know. But but I don't tell you
something that right now? I got it, all right? Oh yeah, yeah,
look at that. You ran over a landmine. Unbelievable. Kaboom.
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(33:32):
hiring season. As Michigan man Jim Harbaugh who says I'm
not leaving the Wolverines, well, he had a conversation with
the Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper, and the Panthers made
sure to leak that out so everyone's aware that they're
interested in Jim Harball as their coach. So it is Harball?
Is this a play by Harball to get more money
(33:53):
out of Michigan or is he actually going to go
to the NFL? I know, we'll talk more about that
as we go through the overnight. Here's the who am
I game? New York Jets Royal bust Zach Wilson. He
is going to finish the season with the worst passer
rating in the NFL. He's the first quarterback since me
to have had the worst passer rating in the NFL
(34:16):
in multiple seasons. Again, Zach Wilson of the Jets. Suck, Suck, Suck.
Zach Wilson is going to finish the year with the
worst passer rating in the NFL. He's the first quarterback
since me to have the worst passer rating in the
NFL multiple seasons. Who am I? The answer? We'll get
(34:36):
to it and your calls will do it. Next, you're
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humble sidekick, the voice of reason. You're announcer guy. I'm
at Eddie on Fox. Let's go to a game together.
That is some old audio right there, and Ali from
(35:18):
the entire ract dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller. You don't want to go to a game, Eddie. No,
I am fine going to a game. I went to
three games in three days over the Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
so I'm good going to game. Rag, Eddie, there's no
need to brag. I'm just being factual. It's not bragging.
You're bragging, so humble, bragg. You're saying I'm better than
you because I went to three games. What games did
(35:40):
you go to? It? I know the Rose Bowl? What
else do you go? With? Charge of game? You're charge
of fame. And then Saturday was the King's Flyers. Yeah,
I saw Rob Parker was at that game. Our friend
Rob Parker, professor, Rob, Rob Parker. I love it. I
love that Rob's would professor. That's great. How do I
get one of those jobs? That's a great You get
the kid's your buddy. Did he come to the Ugly
(36:02):
Sweater Party? Uh? No, he was out of town. He
went to the Halloween party, but he didn't go to
the uglist. He was usually good for some free food. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
he would have liked it. We had pretty good spread
at the Ugly Sweater Party. Anyway. Listen, we are pressing
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I've been I've left the boring cornfields of Iowa to
go to Sedona, Arizona, to celebrate my birthday. But last
(36:47):
you don't do birthday shout outs. That is right, Chris,
We cannot wish you a happy birthday. I'm sorry. I
hope you understand. Uh. Furd Doug says, I'd like to
publicly announced I donated one dollar to the Damar Hamlin charity.
Not all heroes where it clearly you're one there. Furg
Dog Alex Sinekle says, we're jokes back this week. They
are back this week. Profar writes in says he agrees
(37:09):
with me on the charity. Thinks so thank you. Take that? Cool?
All right? Jets bust quarterback Zach Wilson. He's gonna finish
the year with the worst passer raiding in the NFL.
He's the first quarterback since me to have the worst
passer raiding in the NFL in multiple seasons. Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer? And Herman
(37:32):
Munster guess by the Cowboy Killer Joe Theismann and his
Birdie leg from Nick in New Hampshire, Our Lord and
Savior Tim Tebow from Milkman Mike in Colorado, Lauren Bobbitt
from Jason in Denver, bo Callahan from Yafeeme in Chicago,
Bruce Bocchi from mister nice guy there in the Bay Area,
(37:57):
Kyle Boller from Oscar that's his as Eddie. Do you
have an answer, Eddie, it's it's not Queen Roxanne guess
by the Mallardtown Podcast. I certainly do. It's former Tennessee
Titans legend Zach Mettenberger. Zach Mettenberger. No, that is incorrect.
With a good name. The answer is another good name,
norm Sneed you remember that name? He's still alive, Eddie
(38:18):
norm Z. Back in the seventies and the sixth long
ago sne
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