December 31, 2025 • 40 mins
Chris Plank and Executive Producer Justin Cooper talk about the insane prices of tickets for the NFL playoffs, how important New Years Eve is as a holiday, a preview of Texas Tech vs. Oregon, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And I see no problem with that. Lorena. Welcome in
to the Ben Malors Show. As a great big men
would say in the air everywhere on Fox Sports Radio,
I love the interaction with the Mallard militia. Chicky was
first in tonight on the x at Plank Show at
(00:25):
Fox Sports Radio. Hey, Chris, FYI, the militia doesn't like
NBA talk. Please don't go there, thank you. I don't
know if there is a sport that gets a more
visceral reaction when you try to talk about it than
the NBA. And I live in the market where the
(00:45):
defending champs reside, and I locally if I bring it up,
it's like, gosh, dude, enough, Like I just mentioned the
score of the game. The NBA, I still think has
an issue if you're and it's funny because there's diehards
that would tell you they have me at the logo.
It's amazing you're missing out all the fun of the
(01:07):
regular season. I'm like, I'm fine with that. I'm okay.
Stretches out too long, eighty two games probably too many.
They've got it's really outside of baseball, which is you know,
the longest season there is. It's got a load management issue.
I don't know. I'm with you, Chicky. Don't worry. There
won't be unless we get news tonight on Nikole Jokich's injury.
(01:31):
There will not I repeat, there will not be any
NBA talk tonight during this year very radio program. Nature Boy,
I'm not watching college football because I'm just sick of ESPN.
Maybe I'll watch the final game if it seems interesting,
(01:52):
Nature Boy, I don't think speaking of image problems, I
don't think I've ever seen a network that covers sports
twenty four having three sixty five that people seem to
have more disdain for than ESPN. I mean literally, it's
supposed to super serve us Ainos and Coupe Lourana. You're
both younger than me, much younger than me. I mean,
(02:13):
I remember a day when we didn't have ESPN. I
remember a day when we didn't have the ticker. I
remember a day when you know, for me, being a
fan of West Coast teams living in the Midwest, you
predate ESPN. I predate ESPN. Yeah wow, I mean, I'm fifty, bro.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It's what was it like when dinosaurs were still here?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It was wild man, you had to dodge him, and
you had the scariest thing in the footprints, you know,
whenever they those were larger than everyone thought. But more
than anything else, it's like, I'm I'm just kind of
grateful that sports gets the platform that it gets right now, Guys,
I predate sports radio. Okay, I mean I remember being
a kid and they had on Camo X and sat
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kids sit around, let's let's let's get around the campfire.
Let me tell you about the good old days. We
had a show on km OS and it was called
Sports Open Line and it was the only sports show
we had, and it was like three hours on a
Tuesday night, and if Joel Bushbomb was on, man I
was calling to get my NFL Draft questions in. So
there's this part of me maybe because I've lived in
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a world where I was having to watch a ticker
to see what a score was, or as a kid,
get the newspaper to find out what the score was
of the Doyer's game the night before. So I you know,
I maybe I'm a little bit old school, a little
bit a lot of bit old school on that front.
But ESPN seems to do everything it can to not
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cover sports, and that just blows my mind, like I
I'm not here to point fingers and dog on anyone's segment.
But as this show has kicked off tonight, I've got
Sports Center on and I saw the dumbest segment I've
ever seen in the history of TV where they try
to make it seem like the two hosts are I
(04:03):
don't know, having a nightcap drink or something, and they're
sitting on a couch and the female host his legs crossed,
you know, sitting on there like my daughter does, and
she's got an alleged mixed drink, and the male host
is all like the male host is all like laid
out on the couch like he's just coming back from
working a you know, an eighteen hour day where he
(04:24):
had to like grind, he's got to tie a little
bit messed up, and it's like, what are your favorite
part of the year. It's like, just it's show me highlights.
I don't need your stupid analysis on this, your Sports Center.
What's the score of the game? Anyway. I understand nature boy,
where you might be a little bit frustrated by that,
but to take it to the point where you're not
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watching games because of it, I don't know if I
can go that far. Jason B. Diamond is first in
on a memory of twenty twenty five. Here I see
my Dodgers go back to back with my favorite sports
moment of twenty twenty five and listening to Lorraine, how
about that of Salarainis needs more airtime during the top
of the hour break and then two more here real
(05:06):
quick that I wanted to get to Mike in the mountains. Man.
I love, are loved college football, but it is so
broke at this moment. Let me give you an example.
There's an Oklahoma State offensive lineman who's in the portal.
One of his four visits is Oklahoma State. Dude. I
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will say this with peace and love to any of
our friends that are listening in still Water or where
the Orange and Black. You have yourself A good coach,
Eric Morris is a hell of a hire, and I
think he's gonna do a great job. But whenever I
saw this week that an Oklahoma State offensive lineman one
of the top offensive tackles in the portal, which by
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the way, the portal doesn't even open until January second,
and there's already like three thousand players who have committed
a getting in the portal. It's like free agency. It's
like tampering. What are we doing there's the portal isn't
even open. It's like, oh, I've been the portal. It's
like you can't get in there until January second. Everybody
calm yourself down a little bit. But the story that
(06:14):
Mike and the Mountains is talking about an Oklahoma State
offensive lineman did the whole I'm in the portal and
had the I guess you could say image that had
his picture and had his four schools that he's going
to be visiting four and one of those was Oklahoma State,
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the team that he just played for. Make that make sense,
and I think everyone kind of had to do a
double take his name. By the way, the Oklahoma State
offensive lineman who's in the portal that is visiting Oklahoma
State is Grant Segrein, probably going to be an NFL
offensive lineman. He'll be taking a trip to Auburn, a
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trip to Northwestern hasn't announced the date of his trip
to art Saw but then we'll also be taking a
trip to the place that he played. So, yes, we
are a very dumb sport. The only thing maybe more
broken right now than college football is college basketball? Lefty
folk Shizzle playing three days in a row. I guess
(07:18):
Arnie didn't want to work tonight. Well, here's the funny
thing about the old stinking genius. Love him. The only
man that wants to tell you about all of his
picks that he's made, and wants to brag about all
of his picks, but yet never gambles like that, and
yet tries to say that he gambles. But you know,
if he actually got betting slips that proved he was right,
(07:39):
you would have them crammed down your face incessantly. Now
there's a part of me that thinks Arnie doesn't know
how to post things on Twitter every now and then.
I mean, the man still uses a notebook to write
down all of his topics and then screenshots said notebook
with his terrible handwriting, and that's supposed to be how
you're following the show.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
But I.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I'm of the understanding that he's the boss and he
runs this whole network and he doesn't work two nights
in a row. So there's that. And then spock'sweed is
so high already. He tagged Brian Finley on this tweet.
He said, I was gonna listen to Chris Plank, but
then I got high. When was the last time Brian worked?
Happy New Year, Brian, But I mean, Spock, you gotta
be pretty high to be tagging Brian Finley on tweets.
(08:22):
Man Sacre sit tonight on those updates, keep them coming
at Plank Show. Of course, Lorraina is at FSR Tech Queen,
and Coop is at you, h Bronco fan. With that
in mind, it's been mallad show. I'm Chris Plank sitting
in Coop. You asked me a question during our number
(08:42):
one that I said, I want to get into here
to kick off our number two because I find it fascinating.
First of all, congratulations to your Denver Broncos. Quite a run.
This might sound crazy coming from a Raiders fan, but
I don't think you're getting the respect that you deserve.
Thank you. I agree. Don't not just Coop personally and
the job that Justin Cooper does on this show, but
(09:04):
the Broncos. The Broncos hate on them, if you must,
but the style they play is the kind of style
that you look up and you're like, damn, they're going
to the super Bowl. It's very Seattle Seahawks esque during
its run whenever Pete Carroll knew how to coach. But
you had quite the dilemma pop up this week, didn't you.
(09:25):
And you took advantage of it. So I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
But you go to the game when they play in
the playoffs. Me, that's the plan, that's the plan. I
discussed this a little bit on the show last night.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Oh so this is a repeat. Now, when did you
do it? Before I get yelled at for repeating the
same segments I was. I was debating doing it during
during the show last night. Oh okay, yeah that was
I was torn.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And then about five and a half hours after the
show ended is when I pulled the trigger and.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Sorry, no, I get this segment. Buddy, you tell everybody
about the great props you have next time you're filling in.
All right, So Coop you're going though, You're going to
the game.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
My wife and I are going to Denver.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
That's the plan.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Anyway. I mean, I don't want to like, I don't
want to.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Keep you keep kind of curbing this a little bit.
What's your worry about this?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, I don't want to jinx anything if the I
mean if I know it's Trey Lance, but you know,
any any given Sunday, right, So if the Broncos lose.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Oh, I see what you're saying. If they don't get
the one seed and there is a chance they could
lose before that divisional round game, yes, correct, and.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Then it's just an overpriced game that he bought tickets for.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Well, I get a refund if that happens. But I mean,
you know, part of the the part of the thing
is too is I wanted to go to the first
home playoff game in the last ten years in Denver,
like then you know, so if it's if they end
up falling to the wild card, then I have to think,
do I go bull, do I go to Denver BacT
(11:00):
to back weekends, or do I just sit there and
you know, risk them not making it and me not
going at all? You know, there's there's potential other dilemmas
to arise. Got to take care of business against Trey Lance.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
But with that said, there's two interesting dilemmas that I
found here. Now, this is gonna be a take that
comes from a position of privilege. I'm just gonna be
very clock not for you, coop for me. I cover
a lot of games, right, so if I'm not covering
a game, there is no way my wife is just
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gonna let me drop a couple grand on tickets to
a game. It's just not gonna happen because basically, if
I leave the house, I have to get paid for it,
which is why I don't get to leave the house.
We just went on a trip back home to see
my family, so literally that means I've got six months
of not getting to do anything because we took that
trip back home to see my family. Yeah, it's my life.
(12:02):
Welcome to with that in mine, with that in mind.
Number one, the wife's on board, right, she's down with it.
She wants to go to Denver and see the Broncos
with you in the playoffs. But your seats aren't next
to each other.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, yes, that is correct. We have seats one and
eleven in the row.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I didn't know it was that far apart. I like
one in seven, one and six, okay, what's one in eleven? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Nine, there are nine seats between us, and so I
just have to convince nine people, ask them nicely to
scoot over one so that my wife and I can
sit together. And you know hope that it's not any
fans of the opposing team right in that nine people,
(12:53):
But this is how I thought of it. Go ahead,
there's nine there's nine seats between us, but it's chances
are I can almost guarantee you they aren't nine individuals.
So you're talking at minimum two people together, maybe more.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
It's not like I'm gonna have to ask nine times, right,
I mean, so I'm only gonna have to get I'm
only gonna have to get like four or less groups
to say yes and agree to move over one seat.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Okay, every single time I think about having to fight
about seats for some reason, because my mind is still
in the holiday season. I watched Home Alone because I
have an eleven year old and it's her favorite Christmas movie.
I've watched it like twelve times, and whenever she's trying
to negotiate getting the flight, she goes, you can have
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this watch. It's a nice watch. Are you willing to
go that deep in negotiations? If it's buying beers, which
I guess would be the sports equivalent of a watch
to get a plane ticket? Right? How deep are you
willing to go in these negotiations to get closer to
your wives.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I think I'm willing to buy beers absolutely, because okay,
if if you look at it, look at it this way.
The seats that I got, the section that they're in,
like in the one hundred section right like it's towards
it's at the top of the one hundred section. These
were the face value tickets straight from ticket Master, you know,
the official price, and you know it was eight hundred
(14:27):
per ticket.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's all that was a leave coople loone. He's telling
a story right now, right, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
All that was available in the stadium were individual tickets.
Any pairs had been snapped up and were only on
you know, verified like resale or third party websites and
third party websites or resale tickets in that same area
that I bought those two tickets for are going for
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like fifteen hundred, oh my per ticket. And so I'm like, okay,
by doing these seats that are nine seats apart, I'm
saving like a you know, theoretically a thousand dollars, you know,
almost one thousand dollars per ticket. Nice, so I can
afford you know, a handful of twenty dollars beers or whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
They are.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
There's so many questions that I have, And then I
kind of think of it from a radio perspective, like
what's what's the cap? Like if you would have got
online and you're getting ready to buy these tickets and
you go to that checkout window and you see the price,
was there a number where you're like, we can't do
that because I gotta be honest, dude, that's just and
(15:36):
you got travel that's going to go into this too.
So we're talking about a rather lucrative weekend and I'm
not you know, maybe you drive, maybe you fly, whatever
it might be, but I mean that's was there a
number that you were like, Okay, we're not going to
be able to do this if so, if the price
was too high.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
So I booked all of the accommodations well over a
month ago, maybe.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Very smart.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I bought hotel refundable hotel and your credit refundable flights.
They don't just give you the money that you give
you the flight credit. But I bought that for both weekends,
like well over a month ago, and with the idea
that if they get the one seed, I'll cancel the
earlier one. If they don't, then I'll cancel the later one.
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So that's all set up as far as the price
that was gonna like tell me, no, I'm not going.
I think I'm going to the game. I'm going to
the game. So it's whether I want to spring for
like good seats or if I'm just paying whatever the
you know minimum is that I have to get in
and sitting in the highest seats in the place.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Is happening.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'm happy for you, number one. Thank you. Is this
the most that you've spent on a sporting event? Yes? Yeah,
by a margin. I would say, did you did he
mention the number? Do you want to mention the number?
You want to keep it low key, you don't have
to mention the number? Well, the one, the one that
I just spent on this Yeah, oh yeah, I mentioned
it already. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I said they're like eight hundred each, eight hundred each.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
My previous highest was five hundred dollars on an NBA
Finals game. That would see that seems like a deal now, yeah, yeah,
but I mean that was back in twenty oh nine.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Okay, so a lot of different things here, nature boy,
real quick before we get to the phones on this one.
At eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven, nine, nine,
sixty six, three sixty nine. Nature Boy Eddie writes Coop
should use the do you know who I Am? Approached
to get better seats? Now, have you thought about that,
like you're trying to get closer to your wife and
(17:46):
trying to get where you guys can sit next to
each other. Have you thought of the well in case
you don't know, I'm I'm Coop from the Ben Malors Show.
Do you think that would help it all in this instance?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Or no?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
No, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Unless unless you wind up next to like a member
of the Malord militia or something.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Right, Yeah, I mean then then a liar liar card,
Oh you know I am?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Do you know who I am?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
All right, do it?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Lorraina thoughts. You think he's going to be able to
get next to her? You think people are going to
be jerks on that row and not let him get
closer to each other.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I am in pretty good spirits that people are going
to be in a great mood full of beer and
they're just going to be like, you know what, Heck, yeah,
I can move down a seat I'd love it if
you could sit by your wife and I told them,
if they don't then be super obnoxious between each other, like.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Pass me the hut right exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
And throwing stuff at each other.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
You can be an overly nerdish, problematic person if no
one trades with you. Yeah, right, you can make that.
You can make that person's life. Hell, I will say.
I mean I realized that if I were to try
to go and I'm not like dogging on my family
or my wife, but if I were to try to
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go to my wife and say, hey, for eight hundred bucks,
I can go to a Raiders game, I would be
laughed out of the building. I mean it would be like,
for eight hundred bucks, you compare us, he wouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I don't even let you finish your sentence.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It's like, what, alright, we gotta break. It's the beIN
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What other playoff game? Let's talk a little bit about
Texas Tech at Oregon, maybe the least talked about playoff
game right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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what has been the suggestion so far from the Malor militia,
Any any good advice that you can take advantage of,
or mostly just crazy people that are getting through the
night I'm taking as a ladder, I will say I've
never had any success at a sporting event or a
concert in trying to get somebody to either move a seat,
(21:41):
especially now. Listen, I go to a lot of games
where there's not people like every seat taken, so you
don't have to worry about being forced gump walking down
the bus. Seats taken, you don't have to worry about that.
But I whenever I've been at cardinal games and things
of that and nature, I've never had any luck whatsoever
with people moving around, so you might want to pl
the card. Do you know who I am? In my work?
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A couple of notes that we've been monitoring tonight here
on Fox Sports Radio. Number one, you add three bowl
games today, two of them are really good. You had
walk off wins for the University of Illinois beating Tennessee
and TCU upsets USC. There is a lot of buzz
about USC and the Notre Dame fight. You have I think,
(22:25):
like two distinct groups here. You have the group that
wants to point the finger at Lincoln Riley, who basically
when he first took this job, wanted to talk about,
you know, the greatness of USC and how everything is
in place to win now. But now you know, going
on his fifth year heading in the next year and
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one a damn thing, including a Bowl game tonight. But
you have people in this USC Notre Dame fight that
are carrying the water for USC and are like, yeah,
they should have to worry about playing Notre Dame. They
offer them to play what allegedly week zero and mech
Ago and well Notre Name they did not are They're
saying they'll play us anytime, anywhere, which is I don't know, man,
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it seems kind of short sighted on the side of USC.
But I also get it to where if i'm USC,
I'm like, hey, you guys aren't in a conference. You're
sitting here beating your chest telling everyone about how you're
going to be in the playoffs next year if you're
in the top twelve, regardless of what the playoff rankings say,
so bleep you. It'll be fascinating to see how that
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plays out for US college football diehards. Meanwhile, the Dallas
Cowboys to night have released Stefan Diggs. Oh I'm Sorry'm
getting my digs confused here. Trayvon Diggs, the corner who
had just signed a massive deal two years ago, five year,
ninety seven million dollar contract. He has battled injuries, so
he's done in Dallas and we'll await what the Patriots
(23:51):
decide to do involving one Stefan Diggs, who has charges
pending against him. So obviously a lot on the NFL
battery side of things that we're keeping an eye on
the police blotterer side of things. All right, at the
bottom of every hour, I've promised a quick preview of
the college football playoff games. If you missed last hour.
(24:12):
We went in depth on what to expect intonight's game.
That's Ohio State and Miami and the Cotton Bowl should
be a fun. One number hasn't moved. It's nine and
a half. Meanwhile, the other big game, I'm real excited
about Texas Tech and Oregon Number one. I haven't seen
a lot of Texas Tech this year. I live in
and lived past tense in Big twelve country right now.
(24:35):
Big twelve not near the top of that depth chart
for a lot of college football fans. But man, Joy
McGuire and Texas Tech have something special cooking and tomorrow night,
I guess we can say now since it's officially New
Year's Eve, they've got to find a way to slow
down the unique and challenging running game of Oregon.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Here's Joey McGwire is they're very creative. You know, Will
Stein does a great job. I know Will very well,
excited for him getting a Kentucky job. And then one
of the old line coaches is Max little brother, you know,
and he's going with him in Kentucky, and I think
he has a lot to do with what they do
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run game wise. But they're one of the teams that
we actually throughout the year in the offseason study because
they are so creative in the in the run game,
you know, the biggest thing whenever we've talked about it
and will continue to talk about it throughout the game.
But what we have to do on defense is we
have to set edges. We have to do a good
job of taking on half a man and and try
(25:34):
to push the ball where we wanted to go versus
where they wanted to go.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So I would say, of the four games that we
have coming up, Oregon Texas Tech might be the least
anticipated game of all of them, right, I mean, I
do think Ohio State and Miami. I mean, we can
we can debate and discuss that that that might be
number one. Maybe Alabama Indiana to miss Georgia at three
(26:01):
just because it's a rematch. But Oregon and Texas Tech
probably fourth in interest unless you're Jeff Schwartz and you're
an Oregon alum, or unless you're the great Cody Campbell
and you're spending all this money to have Texas Tech
where they are right now. But it's also to me
the most fascinating game because of the storylines involving what
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Oregon doesn't have. Both their offensive and defensive coordinators are
still coaching and are still preparing Oregon for the playoffs,
but both have new jobs. Dan Lanning talked about that
process in getting ready for Tomorrow night with two coaches
that are probably mentally already moving on to their next job.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
One thing I'll give great credit to coach Stein and
coach Lapoi. They've worked their tails off. You wouldn't know
a difference that they're taking other jobs. They're spend a
lot of time at night working on the job that
they're about to go into, but they's spent a lot
of time during the day on the job that they
have and the job that they feel responsible for Towards
our players. They've worked extremely hard, and the players around
him have prepared really, really hard, which has been awesome
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to see.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I can't even imagine what it would be like to
have the excitement of a team that you've Will Wilstein
is the guy that I've covered quite a bit. He's
the offensive coordinator at Oregon. You heard him mention he's
taken on the Kentucky head coaches job. I can't even
imagine what it's like to be getting ready for a
playoff game, your blood, your sweat, your tears, your fight,
you scratch your claw, and you finally get to the playoffs,
(27:28):
You finally get to the cusp of potentially playing for
a national championship. And what happens, Well, you get another
job and you finally reach the pinnacle of being a
head coach. And for both of these coordinators in Power
four leagues, burning the candle of both in pretty much
what we're doing here on Fox Sports Radio. So there
(27:49):
is I think the least in depth of preview that
you're going to get on any of the games tonight.
Ryan Fowler is going to join us in the final hour.
Talk to him last night. Help give us a little
bit more of a preview now, question LORRAINA, I don't
know if Coop's back around. Is your care level minimal?
Or where are you with the college football playoffs right now?
Like if you were to say NBA versus college football playoffs?
(28:13):
Like is a college football playoffs very low on the
depth chart for you of care of the big events
this week?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Well, to be honest with you, Chris, sports in general
is very low on my list of care don't But
when it comes to college you know, I do have
the two pro shows, so LeVar or Brady's teams are
in it. I feel like I'd be like, oh, let's
go right right right, like we're out this season, you know, but.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
You know, NBA still going strong.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
We got some good stuff going on. Okay, all right,
it's kind of exciting.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Coop.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Where do you stand on the college football playoffs? Am
I just treading water and doing these updates tonight? Or
you getting something from him? Do you care at all?
Speaker 7 (28:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Either way? You're a UCLA guy? What you a c guy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I do.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I was a USC fan growing up. But do I
care about it?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Not?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Necessarily. I keep an eye on it. I don't really.
I'm not watching the games, but you know, I'm always
kind of just kind of keeping an eye on what's
going on in sports, and so when it comes to playoffs,
I'll check, you know, the apps and see what the
scores are. When I know the game's on and if
it's you know, fourth quarter, three minutes left and it's
(29:25):
a close game, that'll that'll turn it on just to
see if I'm gonna, you know, see anything awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Now I'm trying tonight, I'm trying to generate that excitement
for the college football playoffs, it seems like it's falling
on deaf ears here with the Mallard Militia, Coop and
Loraina Tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I really dedicate all of Sunday to football, So you know,
there's got to be there's got to be a balance
a weekend day that my wife doesn't have to deal
with football all day long.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It's kind of funny because I have to do the
exact opposite, working in a in a college market and
being a part of a college football broadcast. Because if
you guy, if I counted the over under on the
number of times that I'm like, hey, You're gonna be
on your phone all day and the response of yes
I am, it's pretty special.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I've become very creative in the ways that I can
still find because I got a show on Sunday Night
here on Fox Sports Radio. So I got to be informed, right,
I got to help the people know that's right. All right,
let's go speaking of the phones, Let's go to the
phones at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight
seven seven nine ninety six six three six night. Coop.
I'll leave this up to you. Where do you want
to start tonight. Oh geez, yeah, no pressure. Well you
(30:32):
know what, let's do. Butcher's in Florida and he's talking
ticket prices. Right, isn't that kind of where the focus
of the show has been this hour?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
That's perfect, perfect, Yeah, they'll they'll get mad at me
then if I find right.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
I'm sorry, So listen. Jed Dre Mojo Rising. Guys, this
was my call trying to stay on topic because there's
no one here talking college football playoffs. So Butcher in Florida.
Welcome to Fox Sports Radio. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Thanks Chris Tylerana goop. He First of all, that USC
game was food. I love you that you ASSU is
my favorite football team in it ever and I'm sixty
and that loss was not good.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
See, And some people will say things like, oh, it's
the Alamobile. Why do you care because we don't have
college football for six more months?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
This is the lasting thing you have. This is the
taste in your mouth for six freaking months before we
finally get back to the season. So I feel you
on that.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Oh man, oh it was it sucked they had it.
But anyway, so the anyway, great show, you do a
really good chill in I hear you probably like once
or twice a week. I know, you know, I'm later
too much, but I listened to I listened to Coop
and Ben and Lorena like four nights a week. But anyway,
(31:48):
the ticket price thing nineteen ninety I believe it was
June of ninety six, because I think it was the
ninety five Stanley Cup. Was the Colorado Avalanche and the
Corda Panthers, and I was I was living in Colorado.
I paid thirty five dollars for almost on the ice
(32:13):
seats and at the time, that was a lot of money. Jesus,
thirty five bucks and Coops talking about paying eight hundred
for a game. Holy cow.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, And here was the thing. Where did you get
those tickets? How did you go about getting those tickets?
You go to the box office to buy them? Do
you have to go to it to like a we
used to go. I grew up in Saint Louis. It's
gonna sound so so old. We used to have to
go to like the box office.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
Was that a J. C.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Penny or a famous ball? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah, I'm old enough to to, okay. I used to
have to buy concert tickets at Warehouse music.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, records. No, No, I had to I had to
go to some store hu and like walk in the
back and then and I think it ended up being ticketmaster.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
But yeah, yeah, it was a ticket master.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
The box office because I didn't want to wait to
the box office and not get a seat. It's the
old I think it was called the mc nichols Arena.
Patrick waw Actually actually after the game, uh, Patrick Wall
bought me a beer.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Patrick, after the ninety six Stanley Cup game, brought you
a beer?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yes, me and my friend we we we just randomly
walked into him and he said, he's kind of like
he's French Canadian he you know, kind of thing. And
then we went to a bar with him and he
paid for our drinks. Huh.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Damn that that French Canadian actual impersonation was spot on.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
That was that was nails. All right, man, I'll talk
to you against So thanks for the kind words. Yeah,
here's here's my biggest complaint. All right, this is my
this is my If I were president of sports, this
would be something that I would say. He talked about
thirty five dollars that you paid for tickets to get
into a Stanley Cup playoff game where and I mean
(34:14):
never and I do mean ever going to be in
a situation where I think that's going to become a
reality again. But I would say there was always a
cheaper option. Like whenever I was a kid back in
the nineteen hundreds, you could get like bleacher seats or
you know, upper deck seats, and they weren't eight hundred bucks.
(34:37):
Those don't even exist anymore. You can pay like twenty bucks.
We get in line and say at the old Bush
Stadium and you could get bleacher seats for like sixteen bucks.
It was great. We got to get back to that.
I mean, it's just taking a family of four to
a sporting event is like a non start. And I
know guys like Mike Harmon would fight with you and say, well,
(34:58):
you don't have to do all this and get all
the accouterment, and you're right, but it's still expensive as
hell to get those tickets. You know, it's still you know,
you don't have to buy the nachos or drink the beer.
Is in a game, you can still enjoy it. But
then also part of being at a game is doing that.
Like I don't want to take my kids to a
game and say no, you can't have nachos. No, you can't.
I want you to be No, you can't have a beer.
(35:20):
I want them to be able to enjoy it. So
it's just it's tough, man. It's I'm so happy for you,
Coop that you get to go to this game, but
it's still one of those who you're like, Damn, that's
a lot to spin to go to a football game whenever.
I mean, listen, I'm not gonna be that guy. Well,
you just don't know right now, right, I mean, there
is that there's always that lingering chance that that might
(35:43):
not happen. All right, the lines are jammed up. We're
just taking your calls when we come back, so hang
in there. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox We're
gonna head alas, We're gonna head everywhere when we come back,
including Jed who fled, So Jed, don't flee the phone
lines because I'm kicking off with you. Next, and the
Ben Malor Show on Foxports Radio.
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win one thousand dollars. Jed, who fled? Welcome to Fox
Sports Radio. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Jed?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
How are you all right?
Speaker 9 (37:09):
I tell you, I'm just like that man you're talking
about other I can't remember the name, facing criminal charges
and everything it must be he must speak, zill rayed.
Going into the new year totally and completely new beginning.
As Loraina said, the charge is probably gonna be dropped
and he said that if that don't happen, he gets
he gets to collect two hundred dollars for passing gun
on the monopoly board.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Is how good is that?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I'll think this is how it works. But I do
like posativity.
Speaker 9 (37:35):
Yeah, I heard a crack him of writing just ince.
I'm gonna say, that's probably during your during your year,
whatever you were saying, that's not time to trying to
be disrespectful or condescending. You know it actually happened. But
Duke talked about jinxing earlier, and I did more jigs.
The Denver football team didn't guarantee on the air the
nine people in between him his life, he's gonna be
(37:57):
able to sit beside her.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Dude, I guarantee that that's about Tea Yead.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
I don't want to take the team. He's not concerned
about a senior Angels. That's funny. I was not letting,
but he said, what what's that about? It's a cousin
of like understell over delivered. I've done a lot of
understelling in life. Dude, teams should put me as the
diffrestation because I would having all the expectations.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Really love I play, so have on drugs.
Speaker 9 (38:25):
We got couple of going to rehab, you know that
sort of thing. I don't know. Field of team come
come Sunday and then you know you you're they're not ready.
They're probably playing golf something like that. That sounds that
really really really brings them. You want to be a
playboy play commentary for Oklahoma one day because we were
listening to you or heard this season and you're on
the your your name's meech, You like, I know something?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Right? Guy? Man?
Speaker 9 (38:43):
You should have seen the face of incredulousness, increasi incredulous
and increduous incredulity talking about not believe that.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Thanks j writing what he's at. I hear the whole call. Yeah,
you don't understand him. Hold on, I'm I'm working on it. Right,
You have certain because you talk to Jed a lot.
Jed didn't call me on Friday nights, so I didn't
get a lot of the jet who fled, So it
takes me second. There was somewhere in the middle where
he said you guaranteed you were gonna get through those
(39:14):
nine seats, right, He did say that that's not true,
though I did not care he didn't guarantee it, and
then he talked about hearing me on a radio broadcast
and that someday I want to be on the Sooner
radio broadcast that is my nine to five. So yeah,
I like Jedi Fled. I think my favorite part of
the Jed Who Fled calls is like the debrief afterwards.
(39:35):
It's like, what do you say, Robin? You know, I
feel like Howard Stern when Eric the actor would call I.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Have no idea, but Ben still can't understand him. Really yeah,
well he's been calling Ben for like a decade, he has,
but I have a good Jet ear. Okay, I will
say I like the idea of thinking that Stefan Diggs
got his crime in under the Wire, I lunch crime
in under the Wire, and that he's able to.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
What to sleep clean in twenty twenty four. He's like,
hey man, hey passed go. He collected two out of box,
so he gets to wipe this thing from his record
going forward.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
I don't think that's how that works. I don't think
that's how this works. You said, Loraina New Beginnings.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
No, no, no, that doesn't mean.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I have a eleven year old and everything is literal.
Jet who Fled. Lorraina was not literally saying you get
a whole new start from all your crimes. It's Fox
Sports Radio.
And I see no problem with that. Lorena. Welcome in
to the Ben Malors Show. As a great big men
would say in the air everywhere on Fox Sports Radio,
I love the interaction with the Mallard militia. Chicky was
first in tonight on the x at Plank Show at
(00:25):
Fox Sports Radio. Hey, Chris, FYI, the militia doesn't like
NBA talk. Please don't go there, thank you. I don't
know if there is a sport that gets a more
visceral reaction when you try to talk about it than
the NBA. And I live in the market where the
(00:45):
defending champs reside, and I locally if I bring it up,
it's like, gosh, dude, enough, Like I just mentioned the
score of the game. The NBA, I still think has
an issue if you're and it's funny because there's diehards
that would tell you they have me at the logo.
It's amazing you're missing out all the fun of the
(01:07):
regular season. I'm like, I'm fine with that. I'm okay.
Stretches out too long, eighty two games probably too many.
They've got it's really outside of baseball, which is you know,
the longest season there is. It's got a load management issue.
I don't know. I'm with you, Chicky. Don't worry. There
won't be unless we get news tonight on Nikole Jokich's injury.
(01:31):
There will not I repeat, there will not be any
NBA talk tonight during this year very radio program. Nature Boy,
I'm not watching college football because I'm just sick of ESPN.
Maybe I'll watch the final game if it seems interesting,
(01:52):
Nature Boy, I don't think speaking of image problems, I
don't think I've ever seen a network that covers sports
twenty four having three sixty five that people seem to
have more disdain for than ESPN. I mean literally, it's
supposed to super serve us Ainos and Coupe Lourana. You're
both younger than me, much younger than me. I mean,
(02:13):
I remember a day when we didn't have ESPN. I
remember a day when we didn't have the ticker. I
remember a day when you know, for me, being a
fan of West Coast teams living in the Midwest, you
predate ESPN. I predate ESPN. Yeah wow, I mean, I'm fifty, bro.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It's what was it like when dinosaurs were still here?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It was wild man, you had to dodge him, and
you had the scariest thing in the footprints, you know,
whenever they those were larger than everyone thought. But more
than anything else, it's like, I'm I'm just kind of
grateful that sports gets the platform that it gets right now, Guys,
I predate sports radio. Okay, I mean I remember being
a kid and they had on Camo X and sat
(02:55):
kids sit around, let's let's let's get around the campfire.
Let me tell you about the good old days. We
had a show on km OS and it was called
Sports Open Line and it was the only sports show
we had, and it was like three hours on a
Tuesday night, and if Joel Bushbomb was on, man I
was calling to get my NFL Draft questions in. So
there's this part of me maybe because I've lived in
(03:16):
a world where I was having to watch a ticker
to see what a score was, or as a kid,
get the newspaper to find out what the score was
of the Doyer's game the night before. So I you know,
I maybe I'm a little bit old school, a little
bit a lot of bit old school on that front.
But ESPN seems to do everything it can to not
(03:42):
cover sports, and that just blows my mind, like I
I'm not here to point fingers and dog on anyone's segment.
But as this show has kicked off tonight, I've got
Sports Center on and I saw the dumbest segment I've
ever seen in the history of TV where they try
to make it seem like the two hosts are I
(04:03):
don't know, having a nightcap drink or something, and they're
sitting on a couch and the female host his legs crossed,
you know, sitting on there like my daughter does, and
she's got an alleged mixed drink, and the male host
is all like the male host is all like laid
out on the couch like he's just coming back from
working a you know, an eighteen hour day where he
(04:24):
had to like grind, he's got to tie a little
bit messed up, and it's like, what are your favorite
part of the year. It's like, just it's show me highlights.
I don't need your stupid analysis on this, your Sports Center.
What's the score of the game? Anyway. I understand nature boy,
where you might be a little bit frustrated by that,
but to take it to the point where you're not
(04:46):
watching games because of it, I don't know if I
can go that far. Jason B. Diamond is first in
on a memory of twenty twenty five. Here I see
my Dodgers go back to back with my favorite sports
moment of twenty twenty five and listening to Lorraine, how
about that of Salarainis needs more airtime during the top
of the hour break and then two more here real
(05:06):
quick that I wanted to get to Mike in the mountains. Man.
I love, are loved college football, but it is so
broke at this moment. Let me give you an example.
There's an Oklahoma State offensive lineman who's in the portal.
One of his four visits is Oklahoma State. Dude. I
(05:33):
will say this with peace and love to any of
our friends that are listening in still Water or where
the Orange and Black. You have yourself A good coach,
Eric Morris is a hell of a hire, and I
think he's gonna do a great job. But whenever I
saw this week that an Oklahoma State offensive lineman one
of the top offensive tackles in the portal, which by
(05:54):
the way, the portal doesn't even open until January second,
and there's already like three thousand players who have committed
a getting in the portal. It's like free agency. It's
like tampering. What are we doing there's the portal isn't
even open. It's like, oh, I've been the portal. It's
like you can't get in there until January second. Everybody
calm yourself down a little bit. But the story that
(06:14):
Mike and the Mountains is talking about an Oklahoma State
offensive lineman did the whole I'm in the portal and
had the I guess you could say image that had
his picture and had his four schools that he's going
to be visiting four and one of those was Oklahoma State,
(06:35):
the team that he just played for. Make that make sense,
and I think everyone kind of had to do a
double take his name. By the way, the Oklahoma State
offensive lineman who's in the portal that is visiting Oklahoma
State is Grant Segrein, probably going to be an NFL
offensive lineman. He'll be taking a trip to Auburn, a
(06:56):
trip to Northwestern hasn't announced the date of his trip
to art Saw but then we'll also be taking a
trip to the place that he played. So, yes, we
are a very dumb sport. The only thing maybe more
broken right now than college football is college basketball? Lefty
folk Shizzle playing three days in a row. I guess
(07:18):
Arnie didn't want to work tonight. Well, here's the funny
thing about the old stinking genius. Love him. The only
man that wants to tell you about all of his
picks that he's made, and wants to brag about all
of his picks, but yet never gambles like that, and
yet tries to say that he gambles. But you know,
if he actually got betting slips that proved he was right,
(07:39):
you would have them crammed down your face incessantly. Now
there's a part of me that thinks Arnie doesn't know
how to post things on Twitter every now and then.
I mean, the man still uses a notebook to write
down all of his topics and then screenshots said notebook
with his terrible handwriting, and that's supposed to be how
you're following the show.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
But I.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I'm of the understanding that he's the boss and he
runs this whole network and he doesn't work two nights
in a row. So there's that. And then spock'sweed is
so high already. He tagged Brian Finley on this tweet.
He said, I was gonna listen to Chris Plank, but
then I got high. When was the last time Brian worked?
Happy New Year, Brian, But I mean, Spock, you gotta
be pretty high to be tagging Brian Finley on tweets.
(08:22):
Man Sacre sit tonight on those updates, keep them coming
at Plank Show. Of course, Lorraina is at FSR Tech Queen,
and Coop is at you, h Bronco fan. With that
in mind, it's been mallad show. I'm Chris Plank sitting
in Coop. You asked me a question during our number
(08:42):
one that I said, I want to get into here
to kick off our number two because I find it fascinating.
First of all, congratulations to your Denver Broncos. Quite a run.
This might sound crazy coming from a Raiders fan, but
I don't think you're getting the respect that you deserve.
Thank you. I agree. Don't not just Coop personally and
the job that Justin Cooper does on this show, but
(09:04):
the Broncos. The Broncos hate on them, if you must,
but the style they play is the kind of style
that you look up and you're like, damn, they're going
to the super Bowl. It's very Seattle Seahawks esque during
its run whenever Pete Carroll knew how to coach. But
you had quite the dilemma pop up this week, didn't you.
(09:25):
And you took advantage of it. So I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
But you go to the game when they play in
the playoffs. Me, that's the plan, that's the plan. I
discussed this a little bit on the show last night.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Oh so this is a repeat. Now, when did you
do it? Before I get yelled at for repeating the
same segments I was. I was debating doing it during
during the show last night. Oh okay, yeah that was
I was torn.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And then about five and a half hours after the
show ended is when I pulled the trigger and.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Sorry, no, I get this segment. Buddy, you tell everybody
about the great props you have next time you're filling in.
All right, So Coop you're going though, You're going to
the game.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
My wife and I are going to Denver.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
That's the plan.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Anyway. I mean, I don't want to like, I don't
want to.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Keep you keep kind of curbing this a little bit.
What's your worry about this?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, I don't want to jinx anything if the I
mean if I know it's Trey Lance, but you know,
any any given Sunday, right, So if the Broncos lose.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Oh, I see what you're saying. If they don't get
the one seed and there is a chance they could
lose before that divisional round game, yes, correct, and.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Then it's just an overpriced game that he bought tickets for.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Well, I get a refund if that happens. But I mean,
you know, part of the the part of the thing
is too is I wanted to go to the first
home playoff game in the last ten years in Denver,
like then you know, so if it's if they end
up falling to the wild card, then I have to think,
do I go bull, do I go to Denver BacT
(11:00):
to back weekends, or do I just sit there and
you know, risk them not making it and me not
going at all? You know, there's there's potential other dilemmas
to arise. Got to take care of business against Trey Lance.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
But with that said, there's two interesting dilemmas that I
found here. Now, this is gonna be a take that
comes from a position of privilege. I'm just gonna be
very clock not for you, coop for me. I cover
a lot of games, right, so if I'm not covering
a game, there is no way my wife is just
(11:39):
gonna let me drop a couple grand on tickets to
a game. It's just not gonna happen because basically, if
I leave the house, I have to get paid for it,
which is why I don't get to leave the house.
We just went on a trip back home to see
my family, so literally that means I've got six months
of not getting to do anything because we took that
trip back home to see my family. Yeah, it's my life.
(12:02):
Welcome to with that in mine, with that in mind.
Number one, the wife's on board, right, she's down with it.
She wants to go to Denver and see the Broncos
with you in the playoffs. But your seats aren't next
to each other.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, yes, that is correct. We have seats one and
eleven in the row.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I didn't know it was that far apart. I like
one in seven, one and six, okay, what's one in eleven? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Nine, there are nine seats between us, and so I
just have to convince nine people, ask them nicely to
scoot over one so that my wife and I can
sit together. And you know hope that it's not any
fans of the opposing team right in that nine people,
(12:53):
But this is how I thought of it. Go ahead,
there's nine there's nine seats between us, but it's chances
are I can almost guarantee you they aren't nine individuals.
So you're talking at minimum two people together, maybe more.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
It's not like I'm gonna have to ask nine times, right,
I mean, so I'm only gonna have to get I'm
only gonna have to get like four or less groups
to say yes and agree to move over one seat.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Okay, every single time I think about having to fight
about seats for some reason, because my mind is still
in the holiday season. I watched Home Alone because I
have an eleven year old and it's her favorite Christmas movie.
I've watched it like twelve times, and whenever she's trying
to negotiate getting the flight, she goes, you can have
(13:49):
this watch. It's a nice watch. Are you willing to
go that deep in negotiations? If it's buying beers, which
I guess would be the sports equivalent of a watch
to get a plane ticket? Right? How deep are you
willing to go in these negotiations to get closer to
your wives.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I think I'm willing to buy beers absolutely, because okay,
if if you look at it, look at it this way.
The seats that I got, the section that they're in,
like in the one hundred section right like it's towards
it's at the top of the one hundred section. These
were the face value tickets straight from ticket Master, you know,
the official price, and you know it was eight hundred
(14:27):
per ticket.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's all that was a leave coople loone. He's telling
a story right now, right, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
All that was available in the stadium were individual tickets.
Any pairs had been snapped up and were only on
you know, verified like resale or third party websites and
third party websites or resale tickets in that same area
that I bought those two tickets for are going for
(14:53):
like fifteen hundred, oh my per ticket. And so I'm like, okay,
by doing these seats that are nine seats apart, I'm
saving like a you know, theoretically a thousand dollars, you know,
almost one thousand dollars per ticket. Nice, so I can
afford you know, a handful of twenty dollars beers or whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
They are.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
There's so many questions that I have, And then I
kind of think of it from a radio perspective, like
what's what's the cap? Like if you would have got
online and you're getting ready to buy these tickets and
you go to that checkout window and you see the price,
was there a number where you're like, we can't do
that because I gotta be honest, dude, that's just and
(15:36):
you got travel that's going to go into this too.
So we're talking about a rather lucrative weekend and I'm
not you know, maybe you drive, maybe you fly, whatever
it might be, but I mean that's was there a
number that you were like, Okay, we're not going to
be able to do this if so, if the price
was too high.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
So I booked all of the accommodations well over a
month ago, maybe.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Very smart.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I bought hotel refundable hotel and your credit refundable flights.
They don't just give you the money that you give
you the flight credit. But I bought that for both weekends,
like well over a month ago, and with the idea
that if they get the one seed, I'll cancel the
earlier one. If they don't, then I'll cancel the later one.
(16:27):
So that's all set up as far as the price
that was gonna like tell me, no, I'm not going.
I think I'm going to the game. I'm going to
the game. So it's whether I want to spring for
like good seats or if I'm just paying whatever the
you know minimum is that I have to get in
and sitting in the highest seats in the place.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Is happening.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'm happy for you, number one. Thank you. Is this
the most that you've spent on a sporting event? Yes? Yeah,
by a margin. I would say, did you did he
mention the number? Do you want to mention the number?
You want to keep it low key, you don't have
to mention the number? Well, the one, the one that
I just spent on this Yeah, oh yeah, I mentioned
it already. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I said they're like eight hundred each, eight hundred each.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
My previous highest was five hundred dollars on an NBA
Finals game. That would see that seems like a deal now, yeah, yeah,
but I mean that was back in twenty oh nine.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Okay, so a lot of different things here, nature boy,
real quick before we get to the phones on this one.
At eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven, nine, nine,
sixty six, three sixty nine. Nature Boy Eddie writes Coop
should use the do you know who I Am? Approached
to get better seats? Now, have you thought about that,
like you're trying to get closer to your wife and
(17:46):
trying to get where you guys can sit next to
each other. Have you thought of the well in case
you don't know, I'm I'm Coop from the Ben Malors Show.
Do you think that would help it all in this instance?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Or no?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
No, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Unless unless you wind up next to like a member
of the Malord militia or something.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Right, Yeah, I mean then then a liar liar card,
Oh you know I am?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Do you know who I am?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
All right, do it?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Lorraina thoughts. You think he's going to be able to
get next to her? You think people are going to
be jerks on that row and not let him get
closer to each other.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I am in pretty good spirits that people are going
to be in a great mood full of beer and
they're just going to be like, you know what, Heck, yeah,
I can move down a seat I'd love it if
you could sit by your wife and I told them,
if they don't then be super obnoxious between each other, like.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Pass me the hut right exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
And throwing stuff at each other.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
You can be an overly nerdish, problematic person if no
one trades with you. Yeah, right, you can make that.
You can make that person's life. Hell, I will say.
I mean I realized that if I were to try
to go and I'm not like dogging on my family
or my wife, but if I were to try to
(19:08):
go to my wife and say, hey, for eight hundred bucks,
I can go to a Raiders game, I would be
laughed out of the building. I mean it would be like,
for eight hundred bucks, you compare us, he wouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I don't even let you finish your sentence.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
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what has been the suggestion so far from the Malor militia,
Any any good advice that you can take advantage of,
or mostly just crazy people that are getting through the
night I'm taking as a ladder, I will say I've
never had any success at a sporting event or a
concert in trying to get somebody to either move a seat,
(21:41):
especially now. Listen, I go to a lot of games
where there's not people like every seat taken, so you
don't have to worry about being forced gump walking down
the bus. Seats taken, you don't have to worry about that.
But I whenever I've been at cardinal games and things
of that and nature, I've never had any luck whatsoever
with people moving around, so you might want to pl
the card. Do you know who I am? In my work?
(22:04):
A couple of notes that we've been monitoring tonight here
on Fox Sports Radio. Number one, you add three bowl
games today, two of them are really good. You had
walk off wins for the University of Illinois beating Tennessee
and TCU upsets USC. There is a lot of buzz
about USC and the Notre Dame fight. You have I think,
(22:25):
like two distinct groups here. You have the group that
wants to point the finger at Lincoln Riley, who basically
when he first took this job, wanted to talk about,
you know, the greatness of USC and how everything is
in place to win now. But now you know, going
on his fifth year heading in the next year and
(22:46):
one a damn thing, including a Bowl game tonight. But
you have people in this USC Notre Dame fight that
are carrying the water for USC and are like, yeah,
they should have to worry about playing Notre Dame. They
offer them to play what allegedly week zero and mech
Ago and well Notre Name they did not are They're
saying they'll play us anytime, anywhere, which is I don't know, man,
(23:06):
it seems kind of short sighted on the side of USC.
But I also get it to where if i'm USC,
I'm like, hey, you guys aren't in a conference. You're
sitting here beating your chest telling everyone about how you're
going to be in the playoffs next year if you're
in the top twelve, regardless of what the playoff rankings say,
so bleep you. It'll be fascinating to see how that
(23:28):
plays out for US college football diehards. Meanwhile, the Dallas
Cowboys to night have released Stefan Diggs. Oh I'm Sorry'm
getting my digs confused here. Trayvon Diggs, the corner who
had just signed a massive deal two years ago, five year,
ninety seven million dollar contract. He has battled injuries, so
he's done in Dallas and we'll await what the Patriots
(23:51):
decide to do involving one Stefan Diggs, who has charges
pending against him. So obviously a lot on the NFL
battery side of things that we're keeping an eye on
the police blotterer side of things. All right, at the
bottom of every hour, I've promised a quick preview of
the college football playoff games. If you missed last hour.
(24:12):
We went in depth on what to expect intonight's game.
That's Ohio State and Miami and the Cotton Bowl should
be a fun. One number hasn't moved. It's nine and
a half. Meanwhile, the other big game, I'm real excited
about Texas Tech and Oregon Number one. I haven't seen
a lot of Texas Tech this year. I live in
and lived past tense in Big twelve country right now.
(24:35):
Big twelve not near the top of that depth chart
for a lot of college football fans. But man, Joy
McGuire and Texas Tech have something special cooking and tomorrow night,
I guess we can say now since it's officially New
Year's Eve, they've got to find a way to slow
down the unique and challenging running game of Oregon.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Here's Joey McGwire is they're very creative. You know, Will
Stein does a great job. I know Will very well,
excited for him getting a Kentucky job. And then one
of the old line coaches is Max little brother, you know,
and he's going with him in Kentucky, and I think
he has a lot to do with what they do
(25:12):
run game wise. But they're one of the teams that
we actually throughout the year in the offseason study because
they are so creative in the in the run game,
you know, the biggest thing whenever we've talked about it
and will continue to talk about it throughout the game.
But what we have to do on defense is we
have to set edges. We have to do a good
job of taking on half a man and and try
(25:34):
to push the ball where we wanted to go versus
where they wanted to go.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So I would say, of the four games that we
have coming up, Oregon Texas Tech might be the least
anticipated game of all of them, right, I mean, I
do think Ohio State and Miami. I mean, we can
we can debate and discuss that that that might be
number one. Maybe Alabama Indiana to miss Georgia at three
(26:01):
just because it's a rematch. But Oregon and Texas Tech
probably fourth in interest unless you're Jeff Schwartz and you're
an Oregon alum, or unless you're the great Cody Campbell
and you're spending all this money to have Texas Tech
where they are right now. But it's also to me
the most fascinating game because of the storylines involving what
(26:21):
Oregon doesn't have. Both their offensive and defensive coordinators are
still coaching and are still preparing Oregon for the playoffs,
but both have new jobs. Dan Lanning talked about that
process in getting ready for Tomorrow night with two coaches
that are probably mentally already moving on to their next job.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
One thing I'll give great credit to coach Stein and
coach Lapoi. They've worked their tails off. You wouldn't know
a difference that they're taking other jobs. They're spend a
lot of time at night working on the job that
they're about to go into, but they's spent a lot
of time during the day on the job that they
have and the job that they feel responsible for Towards
our players. They've worked extremely hard, and the players around
him have prepared really, really hard, which has been awesome
(27:03):
to see.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I can't even imagine what it would be like to
have the excitement of a team that you've Will Wilstein
is the guy that I've covered quite a bit. He's
the offensive coordinator at Oregon. You heard him mention he's
taken on the Kentucky head coaches job. I can't even
imagine what it's like to be getting ready for a
playoff game, your blood, your sweat, your tears, your fight,
you scratch your claw, and you finally get to the playoffs,
(27:28):
You finally get to the cusp of potentially playing for
a national championship. And what happens, Well, you get another
job and you finally reach the pinnacle of being a
head coach. And for both of these coordinators in Power
four leagues, burning the candle of both in pretty much
what we're doing here on Fox Sports Radio. So there
(27:49):
is I think the least in depth of preview that
you're going to get on any of the games tonight.
Ryan Fowler is going to join us in the final hour.
Talk to him last night. Help give us a little
bit more of a preview now, question LORRAINA, I don't
know if Coop's back around. Is your care level minimal?
Or where are you with the college football playoffs right now?
Like if you were to say NBA versus college football playoffs?
(28:13):
Like is a college football playoffs very low on the
depth chart for you of care of the big events
this week?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Well, to be honest with you, Chris, sports in general
is very low on my list of care don't But
when it comes to college you know, I do have
the two pro shows, so LeVar or Brady's teams are
in it. I feel like I'd be like, oh, let's
go right right right, like we're out this season, you know, but.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
You know, NBA still going strong.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
We got some good stuff going on. Okay, all right,
it's kind of exciting.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Coop.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Where do you stand on the college football playoffs? Am
I just treading water and doing these updates tonight? Or
you getting something from him? Do you care at all?
Speaker 7 (28:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Either way? You're a UCLA guy? What you a c guy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I do.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I was a USC fan growing up. But do I
care about it?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Not?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Necessarily. I keep an eye on it. I don't really.
I'm not watching the games, but you know, I'm always
kind of just kind of keeping an eye on what's
going on in sports, and so when it comes to playoffs,
I'll check, you know, the apps and see what the
scores are. When I know the game's on and if
it's you know, fourth quarter, three minutes left and it's
(29:25):
a close game, that'll that'll turn it on just to
see if I'm gonna, you know, see anything awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Now I'm trying tonight, I'm trying to generate that excitement
for the college football playoffs, it seems like it's falling
on deaf ears here with the Mallard Militia, Coop and
Loraina Tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I really dedicate all of Sunday to football, So you know,
there's got to be there's got to be a balance
a weekend day that my wife doesn't have to deal
with football all day long.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It's kind of funny because I have to do the
exact opposite, working in a in a college market and
being a part of a college football broadcast. Because if
you guy, if I counted the over under on the
number of times that I'm like, hey, You're gonna be
on your phone all day and the response of yes
I am, it's pretty special.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I've become very creative in the ways that I can
still find because I got a show on Sunday Night
here on Fox Sports Radio. So I got to be informed, right,
I got to help the people know that's right. All right,
let's go speaking of the phones, Let's go to the
phones at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight
seven seven nine ninety six six three six night. Coop.
I'll leave this up to you. Where do you want
to start tonight. Oh geez, yeah, no pressure. Well you
(30:32):
know what, let's do. Butcher's in Florida and he's talking
ticket prices. Right, isn't that kind of where the focus
of the show has been this hour?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
That's perfect, perfect, Yeah, they'll they'll get mad at me
then if I find right.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
I'm sorry, So listen. Jed Dre Mojo Rising. Guys, this
was my call trying to stay on topic because there's
no one here talking college football playoffs. So Butcher in Florida.
Welcome to Fox Sports Radio. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Thanks Chris Tylerana goop. He First of all, that USC
game was food. I love you that you ASSU is
my favorite football team in it ever and I'm sixty
and that loss was not good.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
See, And some people will say things like, oh, it's
the Alamobile. Why do you care because we don't have
college football for six more months?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
This is the lasting thing you have. This is the
taste in your mouth for six freaking months before we
finally get back to the season. So I feel you
on that.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Oh man, oh it was it sucked they had it.
But anyway, so the anyway, great show, you do a
really good chill in I hear you probably like once
or twice a week. I know, you know, I'm later
too much, but I listened to I listened to Coop
and Ben and Lorena like four nights a week. But anyway,
(31:48):
the ticket price thing nineteen ninety I believe it was
June of ninety six, because I think it was the
ninety five Stanley Cup. Was the Colorado Avalanche and the
Corda Panthers, and I was I was living in Colorado.
I paid thirty five dollars for almost on the ice
(32:13):
seats and at the time, that was a lot of money. Jesus,
thirty five bucks and Coops talking about paying eight hundred
for a game. Holy cow.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, And here was the thing. Where did you get
those tickets? How did you go about getting those tickets?
You go to the box office to buy them? Do
you have to go to it to like a we
used to go. I grew up in Saint Louis. It's
gonna sound so so old. We used to have to
go to like the box office.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
Was that a J. C.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Penny or a famous ball? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah, I'm old enough to to, okay. I used to
have to buy concert tickets at Warehouse music.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, records. No, No, I had to I had to
go to some store hu and like walk in the
back and then and I think it ended up being ticketmaster.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
But yeah, yeah, it was a ticket master.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
The box office because I didn't want to wait to
the box office and not get a seat. It's the
old I think it was called the mc nichols Arena.
Patrick waw Actually actually after the game, uh, Patrick Wall
bought me a beer.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Patrick, after the ninety six Stanley Cup game, brought you
a beer?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yes, me and my friend we we we just randomly
walked into him and he said, he's kind of like
he's French Canadian he you know, kind of thing. And
then we went to a bar with him and he
paid for our drinks. Huh.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Damn that that French Canadian actual impersonation was spot on.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
That was that was nails. All right, man, I'll talk
to you against So thanks for the kind words. Yeah,
here's here's my biggest complaint. All right, this is my
this is my If I were president of sports, this
would be something that I would say. He talked about
thirty five dollars that you paid for tickets to get
into a Stanley Cup playoff game where and I mean
(34:14):
never and I do mean ever going to be in
a situation where I think that's going to become a
reality again. But I would say there was always a
cheaper option. Like whenever I was a kid back in
the nineteen hundreds, you could get like bleacher seats or
you know, upper deck seats, and they weren't eight hundred bucks.
(34:37):
Those don't even exist anymore. You can pay like twenty bucks.
We get in line and say at the old Bush
Stadium and you could get bleacher seats for like sixteen bucks.
It was great. We got to get back to that.
I mean, it's just taking a family of four to
a sporting event is like a non start. And I
know guys like Mike Harmon would fight with you and say, well,
(34:58):
you don't have to do all this and get all
the accouterment, and you're right, but it's still expensive as
hell to get those tickets. You know, it's still you know,
you don't have to buy the nachos or drink the beer.
Is in a game, you can still enjoy it. But
then also part of being at a game is doing that.
Like I don't want to take my kids to a
game and say no, you can't have nachos. No, you can't.
I want you to be No, you can't have a beer.
(35:20):
I want them to be able to enjoy it. So
it's just it's tough, man. It's I'm so happy for you,
Coop that you get to go to this game, but
it's still one of those who you're like, Damn, that's
a lot to spin to go to a football game whenever.
I mean, listen, I'm not gonna be that guy. Well,
you just don't know right now, right, I mean, there
is that there's always that lingering chance that that might
(35:43):
not happen. All right, the lines are jammed up. We're
just taking your calls when we come back, so hang
in there. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox We're
gonna head alas, We're gonna head everywhere when we come back,
including Jed who fled, So Jed, don't flee the phone
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Sports Radio. What's going on?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Jed?
Speaker 1 (37:08):
How are you all right?
Speaker 9 (37:09):
I tell you, I'm just like that man you're talking
about other I can't remember the name, facing criminal charges
and everything it must be he must speak, zill rayed.
Going into the new year totally and completely new beginning.
As Loraina said, the charge is probably gonna be dropped
and he said that if that don't happen, he gets
he gets to collect two hundred dollars for passing gun
on the monopoly board.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Is how good is that?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
I'll think this is how it works. But I do
like posativity.
Speaker 9 (37:35):
Yeah, I heard a crack him of writing just ince.
I'm gonna say, that's probably during your during your year,
whatever you were saying, that's not time to trying to
be disrespectful or condescending. You know it actually happened. But
Duke talked about jinxing earlier, and I did more jigs.
The Denver football team didn't guarantee on the air the
nine people in between him his life, he's gonna be
(37:57):
able to sit beside her.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Dude, I guarantee that that's about Tea Yead.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
I don't want to take the team. He's not concerned
about a senior Angels. That's funny. I was not letting,
but he said, what what's that about? It's a cousin
of like understell over delivered. I've done a lot of
understelling in life. Dude, teams should put me as the
diffrestation because I would having all the expectations.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Really love I play, so have on drugs.
Speaker 9 (38:25):
We got couple of going to rehab, you know that
sort of thing. I don't know. Field of team come
come Sunday and then you know you you're they're not ready.
They're probably playing golf something like that. That sounds that
really really really brings them. You want to be a
playboy play commentary for Oklahoma one day because we were
listening to you or heard this season and you're on
the your your name's meech, You like, I know something?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Right? Guy? Man?
Speaker 9 (38:43):
You should have seen the face of incredulousness, increasi incredulous
and increduous incredulity talking about not believe that.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Thanks j writing what he's at. I hear the whole call. Yeah,
you don't understand him. Hold on, I'm I'm working on it. Right,
You have certain because you talk to Jed a lot.
Jed didn't call me on Friday nights, so I didn't
get a lot of the jet who fled, So it
takes me second. There was somewhere in the middle where
he said you guaranteed you were gonna get through those
(39:14):
nine seats, right, He did say that that's not true,
though I did not care he didn't guarantee it, and
then he talked about hearing me on a radio broadcast
and that someday I want to be on the Sooner
radio broadcast that is my nine to five. So yeah,
I like Jedi Fled. I think my favorite part of
the Jed Who Fled calls is like the debrief afterwards.
(39:35):
It's like, what do you say, Robin? You know, I
feel like Howard Stern when Eric the actor would call I.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Have no idea, but Ben still can't understand him. Really yeah,
well he's been calling Ben for like a decade, he has,
but I have a good Jet ear. Okay, I will
say I like the idea of thinking that Stefan Diggs
got his crime in under the Wire, I lunch crime
in under the Wire, and that he's able to.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
What to sleep clean in twenty twenty four. He's like,
hey man, hey passed go. He collected two out of box,
so he gets to wipe this thing from his record
going forward.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
I don't think that's how that works. I don't think
that's how this works. You said, Loraina New Beginnings.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
No, no, no, that doesn't mean.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I have a eleven year old and everything is literal.
Jet who Fled. Lorraina was not literally saying you get
a whole new start from all your crimes. It's Fox
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