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Talking about positivity. Thank you Chris Ballard, Thank you, Ballad
keeps coming over the top.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Man gift that keeps on givving. Yeah, everything sucks sucks
for him, It sucks for him. One thing that doesn't
suck Tonight the biggest headline of the night, and the
visuals from this are just outstanding. University Nebraska sets a
record today the most watched women's sporting event ever in person,
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not in the United States, not in the last decade,
not of this year, the women's event with the highest
attendance in the history of sports. Ninety two thousand and
three people at Memorial Stadium to watch Nebraska beat Omaha
in three in a row in volleyball. This was a
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story we knew was coming. We kind of knew that.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Hey, they've been building towards us Nebraska volleyball is a
really big deal. But to have ninety two thousand people
in amor Stadium to watch three games of volleyball, because
volleyball goes fast, right, volleyball goes fast? That I got
like a homecoming game, where how good.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Is almost your schedule? Well, they beat him, They beat
him in straight sets. They beat him twenty five fourteen,
twenty five to twelve, So it could have been that good. No,
I mean they got some points though, Yeah, well they did,
they did.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I mean, it's it's more than Nebraska did under Scott
from Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
More people come into the game, that's for sure. Better offense.
Nebraska women's volleyball. Nebraska under Scott Frost, more points per
more points per game. O Cham, Well, you played a
twenty five in volleyball, so they have to average close
to its twenty four? Do they average twenty four game?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Look it up?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
What how many points of Nebraska average under Scott Frost?
Which is crazy when you think there's only a certain
number you could get to volleyball because the game's gonna
be over games over twenty five games over whereas in
football score as much as you want, scored.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Much you want.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, but I mean there's a lot of videos, uh
cursing Scott Frost. Well, we'll find that number as we flow.
But we remember, Uh, they were the game in Ireland
and they blew a big lead last year to Northwestern
and that was the last win of Pat Fitzgerald's term. Uh,
and the last game of Scott Frost last year. I
found this is fan. I'm just better at you at
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the internet. No, Well, you stop listening to anything I
say because you got to get your tweet up. Well,
so you got really good at yeah, just deciding to
text instead of listening. They've been able to try to
just to just to tune you out or just got
a tune forever, and then all of a sudden there's
a point raised later. I'm like, you know, I said that,
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I'm just in the first down. I'm just better at Internet.
It's like ken, I my job is beach. I'm better
at internet. Just standing on the beach, really doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Nebraska last year average twenty two point six points per game.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
That's higher than I would have thought. Twenty two point six. Yeah, yeah,
around twenty Okay, all right, that's higher than I would
have expected. Okay, all right, well it was just a
tenure marked with utility, but I mean ninety two thousand. Yeah. Look, people,
the video of this is amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And what I really want to see and I haven't yet,
is video or a picture that someone's taken from the
top of Memorial Stadium. Yeah, because you know, you're at
the top of a football stadium and you watch.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
A football game. Okay, you can still watch a football game.
You still see the ball. Maybe you don't see a
fumble year the oh or you know, but you can
still see it. Can you really see the volleyball because
volleyballs the court.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Is much smaller. Yeah, and it's much smaller. Can you
really see the game?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Can you see that? Can you see the ball?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Go?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I mean you got jumbo trons.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I guess you know you're like at Jerry's palace where
you start watching the video board. I remember being there
for the Super Bowl and I took my my ex'es
dad and I kept having to like push his head.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Watch the field. Oh okay, stop watching the television. Watch
the field. I'm good seats, I'm seventy five.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I can watch. I want to watch. I want to
watch what I can see better. I'm gonna watch that.
I said, Man, here's here's some binoculars. I can't see
the field.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Let's go. I'm gonna watch the screen. But that might
be might have been the case here, and certainly we've
seen that from a lot of concerts. Right Metallica was
just here. It's so fine. People like, well, I couldn't
really see anything but listen to the bass. Who is that?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
On said, because you can't tell, like because there's five
guys playing guitar?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Is that Kirk Hammitt? Is that Kirk Hamitt? Is that?
Or is that Kirk Cabbot? Is that the road?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Because he's gotten down into his crab walk right there, Lars.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
There's only one drummer, so I know that's Lars Alrick.
All right, that's that's the guy there. But I mean,
I really I wanted to like because they showed the
shot of the one girl from the very top of
the stade with the sign going go and you volleyball going.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Can you even see that's? Yeah, that's the high power
camera is sure right? Care see the g I don't
know what happened to the ball.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
On there somewhere people are cheering. It's gotta look like
you know what look like to me? You know when
you when you go like you go to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
They do this when you go to Dodger Stadium and
they and they probably do is not in other parks
as well. I just know they do it in Dodger
Stadium when it comes time for the seventh inning stretch.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
And they put all the words on.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
The jumbo tron for the seventh in you stretch you
can sing along and it has that little white ball
that bounces from word to words so you know when
to hit it. Take me out to the But that's
got to be the equivalent to what it would look
like from the top of the sea. You just see
this little white ball bouncing around like you're gonna sing
a song.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And did it hit the ground? I don't even know.
Did it go over the net?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I don't even know. Everybody's cheering. It must have been
a point for Nebraska. That's good.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You got me wondering if at Dodger Stadium do they
make the cardinal sin of adding the S to Cracker Jack.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Uh? No, But I think people just do it anyway.
It's one of my pasts. They do it anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
They just say cry reis it's really bad. Yeah, it's
like the Stanley Cup Final in not Stanley Cup Finals.
It's the Stateley Cup Final, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup, Finn
Smart and Final, not Smart and Finals. Costco saving Costco,
not Costcos or Costco. No, but people say costcos and
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that's not Kay's. But I go to Costcos. No, it's Costco.
Ninety two thousand people Costco.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
And I mentioned in three. I don't forget those actually
six hundred more than I think.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
The prior record, Yeah, the prior the prior record. There
was a there was a it was there was there
was a UFA game in Europe that was close. That
was second, It was like ninety one thousand. And then
the United States record, uh game every a lot of
people remember was the World Cup Final in nineteen ninety
nine when the United States be China in penalties. Brandy
Chastain scores whipster shirt off and the United States wins.
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That was the That was the previous United States record
for a women's sporting event. And just the think about
that for in nineteen nine, you're talking about a generation ago,
twenty years ago that you needed the biggest rock stars
on the planet in women's sports, which is the women's
World Cup team, Julie ham Me of ham and Julie
Faudi and Michelle Akers and Brianna Scurry, all those great players.
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Christine Lilly heard about them, all the biggest rock stars
on the planet. Put ninety thousand people in the seats
in the Rose Bowl, right. I was there for that day.
It was amazing. It was so hot, Oh my god,
it was hot. And now here's a generation later, and
here's Nebraska women's volleyball is able to put ninety two
thousand people in the seats. You want to talk about
something that's progress, that's something that's just awesome. Just think
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about that. This wasn't the United States had to play
in the World Cup final against Spain, and this is
getting ninety five. You had Nebraska women's volleyball in one
of the smaller states. Nebraska is not a large state.
This is like three quarters of the population went to
this game today. Nebraska's not a large state and you
get ninety two thousand people coming. Even as big as
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with as as the brask of volleyball is, look, it's
still volley but it's not football. It's not basketball so well,
and to be able to do that, that's really something.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
That's a larger point.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And again going back, and I can tie this to
other subjects that we've talked about through the years, Like
you just talked about how hot it was where there
are a lot of fights on the pitch. You try
to talk about that during training times it was hot,
so hot, it was hot.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I remember Michelle Akers left the game, walked right by me, exhaustion,
walked out.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
She was loopy walking off the other being.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I mean, look chesstain and ripping off the kit and
the sports bra or whatever. What a big deal is
I mean, that's a Tuesday apparel for millions of people
walking around.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
That is not a big deal anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I mean, except like for the support stuff like Kyler
Murray and those guys have been sporting that that gets
everybody in an outrage on there. But I referenced it
before when we're talking about ninety two thousand people of
wondering if there was like some companion event. And it's
not to demean what they are at all. It's just
normally big events, like right, there's like a festival attached
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to it, or a concert or some performance Metallica playing after.
But here's a nebrass stay tuned after the game, Taylor Swift, everybody.
I don't know who went to Nebraska. Do they have
some musical artists that might have been a tame Trev
Alberts in ad Trev Alberts and the Cornhusker brats, I
don't know. Trev Alberts is gonna come out into the
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whiteboard and to show you what the offensive linemen are
supposed to be doing. Look, Tommy Frasier, nice, going all
the way back to nineteen ninety five, Scott Frost. They
still want to hate, but it's not to diminish any
of that. It's just normally even with all other sporting
events of this kind of size, like there there's something
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else beyond the sporting event that's being celebrated, right, football game, like, Hey,
we're brolcoming these guys back to campus. We're gonna do this.
This guy's gonna sing the national anthem, this guy's gonna
do this halftime performance here. And to see the statements
going back to when tickets went on sale in April
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that they sold eighty two thousand seats in three days.
I mean that just the size and scope of selling
that many tickets.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I was in the queue for WrestleMania tickets for Philadelphia
just for giggles.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I got shut out.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I got shut out, and that's ninety thousand people. But
it was like the same kind of metrics of how
fast can this stuff sell? And to think Nebraska women's volleyball,
they came out with the fog machine, the excitement of it,
and then they went and rolled.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
All right, I'll give you baha.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
They for Nebraska, right, same with Nebraska. The two most
famous Nebraska alumni are who and I'll give you a hint.
One is a former late night television host and one
is one of the richest people in the world right now.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
From Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Warren Buffett. Very good, he's the former late night host. Yes,
Warren Buffett from Nebraska. Uh, late night host, late night host.
It's someone I might have ever watched.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Oh, probably so many times. You know, Letterman was Ball State.
So it's not him. Yeah, No, it's certainly not him.
I'm too young for Carson. Really, No, you're not not
too young for Johnny Carson. He did a show till
ninety two.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I was eighteen, nineteen years old. I'm you never watched
the Night Show.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
You never watched Night Show to see anybody promote a
movie or to him to do Karnak the Magnificent.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You never watch anything suck really really, but I watch Man. Yeah,
you had to do it, do you? When you were there,
there was like eight channels. You had to watch Johnny Carson.
There was no other live programming.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Well, and that was we're watching TV. I didn't have
a TV in my TV. They weren't watching Johnny Carson.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Your dad wasn't saying, everybody work, everybody quiet, eleven thirty,
I'm watching Johnny Carson. No, No, your mom would say,
I'm watching my program. It's masterpiece theater. Whatever I'm watching
my program, the two eyebrow masterpiece theater would have been
too highbrow. From Johnny Carson Nebraska. There you go, Johnny
Carson Warren A good guess. I mean, I'll be honest, man,
(13:12):
I know the bits, I know the history. Obviously I
may resemble ed mcmahonon points in my life. But the
fact of the matter is, I can't say that I
watched it. I mean because but when he left, I
was only a freshman in college. But you still like
I watched when I was in high school and I
didn't watch any of that.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
You had to. I didn't. You had to. It was
up at six o'clock to go to school an hour
and a half. Yeah, did you? Oh you're going to
bed at nine o'clock getting up early for church every day? No,
but I wasn't one. How dare you? And what if
I was? I should sue you? You should?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
How could you were disparaging potentially my religious beliefs.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm saying, I'm up at five o'clock working in the field.
I'm getting it ready. It was, you know, we're canning peaches.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
For the long winter, to the middle of the night
and I'm going to church, and like I said, I
did not have a television and go to school.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Then I walk home with no shoes and I you know,
and then there's no tell I listened to the radio.
I did listen to the radio.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
The end of the Cubs game against the Cardinals, you'll
hit a home run to win the game.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
We lost. Un usual. How old do you think I am?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Because if I'm old enough for Musual, I'm old enough
for Johnny Carson.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
You're two most famous like there, yeah, everything, Jimmy Jimmy Carson,
Warren Buffett, Jimmy Carson, Warren Buffett, that's Wary Carson. Sorry,
Johnny car Jimmy Carking, Jimmy car Jimmy Carson who played
for the Kings. It's a nicety goal scorer for the kids.
I think Jimmy Carr was, uh yeah, there you go.
There are your two most famous ones from Well and
Tom Osborne also went to Nebraska. But those guys aren't
coming out to perform for you though.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
If you hear Osborne is performing after you, do you
think Tom Osborne or Ozzy Osbourne. I'd pray for oz
or you get both of them. You get both of them.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
You get Ozzy coming out to and bark at the moon,
and then tom Osborne comes out and just shreds the solo.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Wow wow wow wow wow wow. Way do you get
on a wow wow just shredding. We've got Ozzy and
tom Osborne.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Anybody want a AI video of that for me, of
them performing before ninety thousand people, that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Oh Twitter, and how about a Fresco Mike hand swollen
daw tell you that that Nebraska event looked like it
was so much fun.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Absolutely so much fun.
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Speaker 4 (16:36):
And this is a non Nix statement. Wow, this is
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It is a non Nick statement. Oh no, we are learning.
In the Feebleworld Championships, in the Feeble World Cup, the
best players for the United States are Anthony Edwards and
Austin Reeves.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Okay, big at all the headlines.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
That's those are the only two people you hear about
now is Austin Reeves and Anthony.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
That's all you hear about.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
It's very It's very true. I will say, I what
I love about this team is that for the most part,
it's uh it's success so far, and it's its attitude
is very non star like, it's very the national teams,
the US Team USA has become sort of a glorified
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All Star flash global promotional tool for the NBA in
terms of getting the biggest names out there. And I
really feel like there's there's there's a dramatic sea change
here in the way they built this team and the
way the team is playing. And maybe the biggest evidence
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of that is that in the last game for Jordan's
Brandon Ingram was moved out of the starting lineup for
Josh Hart. I can't adds in that ever, having purtval,
I can't imagine Josh Park being on a Team USA
from the previous US Team USA and then to put
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him in the starting lineup. And I will say, in
all seriousness, like what I love about seeing and I
think all teams, I think all our national teams should
be built this way. Even with the Olympics. They did
it with the World Cup because the top players are
you know, it's like, I want an Olympic gold medal,
World Cup gold medal. I don't really know what that is.
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I don't play soccer. It doesn't mean a whole lot
to be I want an Olympic gold medal. I know
what that is, and I want to add that to
my resume. And I think building teams with that sort
of approach is wrong headed at this point. That we
should be taking the young players who are going to
be better players as a result of this experience, and
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that's what I would expect, And what I find really
fascinating is seeing guys like Austin Reeves and Jalen Brunson
and Michale Bridges, guys that you probably wouldn't consider the
biggest names on this team being the ones that are,
without question, the most effective players in this international game.
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There's no question Anthony Edwards is the most dynamic player
on this team talent wise, but as far as understanding
how to play the international game, you can just see
it like he's so used to the NBA game where
it's I'm just going to go and attack my guy
and there's nobody who can handle me that way, and
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the international game is just different, and so he's having
he's having a learning experience. Jaren Jackson Junior is having
a learning experience. Brandon Ingham certainly is because he's not
in the starting lineup anymore. So I could I could
talk forever about this team because I've really I don't
think anybody's paying attention to it except me, But I
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I really, I really don't care, because I just I
have found it fascinating to see the players who are
capable of playing the international game and being really effective
and those that aren't. And it's the versatile players that
are having the most success. And it's just I've I've
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enjoyed seeing it. I don't know where this team's gonna go.
I don't know if they're gonna win at all, but
I've I'm seeing growth and and and that's been a
lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Well, if they can beat Michael Jordan today as bad
as they beat him he only scored sixty two that,
I think that's be pretty good the rest of the way.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
You know what, you know, what's crazy is seeing these
guys like Eric Gordon I think is playing for the Bahamas,
and Hollis Jefferson's like Hollis Jefferson, I'm I'm stepping I'm
like a little outside of my comfort zone here by
saying this, I don't think that he's ever been inside
the country of Jordan's maybe wrong about that, okay, but
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my guess is he's never seen the inside of Jordan,
the country. And uh now, if if they trained there
and he went there for training, then then I stand corrected.
But I find it fascinating that we're seeing some of
these guys that are are you know, full blooded American,
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but have a connection to international countries and are and
are and are going to play. This isn't you know,
in the Olympics, to have the Olympic experience, this is
this is in the World Cup. And again, I think
it's great. I think it's great that that we're seeing.
This is such a twist, isn't it Like we're seeing
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American players playing internationally and playing for somebody other than
the United States and playing knowing that they're probably not
going to meddle or I'm not going to be like
they're not They're not to get a lot of they're
not going to be rolling over teams, and yet they're
going and playing. And again, I my hat is off
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to them, because look, this is their all, this is
their off seasons. I don't know what they're necessarily gaining
out of this other than the experience and the opportunity
to play during the off season. So I'm I respect
all of that.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Maybe a little bit of brand building. Maybe you sell
sneakers and jerseys. I mean, look, because you're gonna go
and the next time you're you're yelling on speak, I mean,
you're going to talk about how criminally undervalued Austin Reeve
was in that contract he signed with the Lawyers.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Sure, yeah, I mean that fifty three millions is a pittance.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah, well, honestly, I mean and you think he's got
a shoe.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Deal, now, yeah, he's got a Lemon auto insurance thing
on the highway here, right, if you got Lemon, like
the lawyers, that will come after you. And he's the smokesman.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Yeah, all those things and.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Well and I will see, like of all the guys
on this team. And again, this is just kind of
the flavor of this team. Like once upon a time,
if like Christian Latner was that was on the Dream Team,
was the player who was mocked, right, I mean it
was he was kind of he was made fun of.
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Austin Reeves is the most popular. If you if you've
watched any of these games. The crowd goes nuts anytime
he touches the ball. And I mean, obviously Lakers Nation,
Laker Nation travels, Laker Nation is is you know, worldwide
and all of that. But I love seeing a global
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appreciation for a guy who plays like Austin Reeves, which
is really he you know, I mean, it's it's it's
a it's a fundamental game. He's high basketball. Like you
watching him and Paulo ben Caro come off the bench
and play and and feed each other and play them
off of each other like this is a as a hoophead,
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it is. This is it's just fun. It is fun
for me to see kind of like these guys that
don't necessarily get a lot of shine or that aren't
in the headlines, like showing that they've got some game
and and and doing it in the team USA uniform.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Jalen Brunson Sure, yeah, no, all those guys, No I got,
uh now, because you know, I had to get Jayleen Brenston.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
So of course you did. Hey, I got. I gave
you Josh Hart Come on.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
You did, did John? And I like that?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
In what world does Josh Harden start for Brandon Ingram
apparently this one.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Uh look, you know what, you know what, I'm really
pissed about the team USA didn't pick up Dante's Defncenzo,
Let's go, let's go.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yeah, got any other former teammates you'd like us to
sign it?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Just Julius Randall of Bridge too Far?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Yeah? Yeah, all right?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
So Hey, speaking of a Bridge too Far, you have
a bit of this up on your social media page
on Twitter, the James Hardens from guys playing for the
joy of the game and playing to James Harden. So
you talked about this and we talked last week. Hey,
I said, how does it end for James Harden? And
you said, look, eventually it's going to wind up. Do
you like to think eventually some point and it's the
(25:24):
La Clippers. Has anything moved you off that in the
last week, because you know, now we're starting to hear
hey reports and rumors why James Harden is so mad
with the Sixers and money that was promised to him
he's not getting because you said that was a nuclear button.
Once we start hearing James Harden and what he was
promised by Darryl Moury, that's going to make things happen
a lot faster.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Well that and that's what makes this such a delicious
game of chicken. I'm what I'm off of is that
I don't know that Darryl Mory can have the same
patience that he had with Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons letting
them know at the beginning of the year, I'm not
going to play for you. I want out, and he
waited until the trade deadline to move him. I don't
think he can afford to do that with James Harden
(26:05):
because of that nuclear button, which is, at what point
did James Harden say, Look, this is what Daryl Morey
promised me? He said to this point. Well, the reason
that I was mad and the reason that I called
him a liar was because, you know, he said that
he promised that he would trade me, and he got
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banged one hundred thousand dollars for that. But that's not
the same and what most people around the league that
I've talked to executives are not buying that. That's the
reason he called him a liar, and that that's why
he's mad. Because let's keep in mind when he first
asked for the trade request, it was June twenty ninth,
and that's when he opted in to the second year
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of his contract. And that was never the expectation. Going
back to when he signed this signed this deal, it
was he's signing this two year, sixty million dollar deal.
He's rejecting. Now, keep in mind, he could have made
forty seven million dollars this past year. He opted out
(27:13):
of that and instead signed a two year, sixty four
million dollar deal. You don't have to be a genius
to know that he gave up. He gave up money
for the benefit of the team short term in order
for them to sign PJ. Tucker. He gave up fifteen
million dollars. No player I know of does that without
the promise that, well, you're going to take care of
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me on the back end. So the expectation was that
this summer he wasn't gonna he was gonna he wasn't
going to exercise the opt in on the second year,
played for thirty of whatever million this year, and then
he was going to be rewarded with the MAX extension.
When the MAX extension wasn't coming, that's when he presumably
opted in, and that's when he got mad and said,
(27:56):
I want to be traded. So that's why everybody around
the league is looking at and going, wait a minute,
the timing doesn't work. The idea that he got mad
because they said he was going to trade him like
the first domino that fell was he didn't get the
contract extension that everybody expected him to get, and that's
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what the promise was supposedly. And so the question is
if he comes out and says he gets to a
point where he's like, well, screw it, they're making me
sit the whole year. I might as well make Daryl
sit the whole year too. I'm going to I'm going
to tell the league he promised me, he promised me
(28:39):
a contract extension. This is what he promised me. That
would be sacked a cap circumvention, and that would mean
that both Darryl and presumably James, because I don't see
how he I mean, the only other wrinkle that I
can see here is somehow it leaks out. Somehow the
text messages that James has, or that his agent has
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or somebody has of Daryl promising this thing. Somehow they
get leaked out and Harden's able to avoid the indication
that it came from him. Then it would put it
all on Darryl, and I would expect that Darryl hefty
fine and suspension, year, suspension or whatever as a result
(29:22):
of cap circunvention. The league will come down very, very
hard on that, much harder than they did on the
publicly saying I want to be I want I want
to be traded. But the question is at what point
does James decide that he's willing to do that, and
can he do that without implicating himself, because then if
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he does, if he implates himself, then they're both going
to be They're going to both be suspended. So the
real question is, like, is Hard At what point is
hard and willing to burn down his own house potentially
in order to burn down Daryl Morris.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
He's on.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Twitter at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Now you're just picturing James Hard with a big gas
can and the big flaming Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
I'm sorry, but I always picture James Harden walking around
with a gas can and a lighter.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Twitter at Rick Buker. Rick is always buddy, appreciated man.
We'll talk to you next week. Have fun, see Rick,
great stuff is always I always picture.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I got that light I want to light it on
the I want to burn it all down. I'm ready.
Someone wants a party.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Let's talk to a guy right now who would burn
it all down if he could. It's Brian Finley with
what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Oh so kind of you to say that.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
By the way, speaking of a party, it was one
big party ninety two thousand and three showing up to
watch Nebraska volleyball play at their Huskers Football Stadium in
a match against Omaha. This marked this is super significant
because it is the most attended women's sporting event ever
and as Jon said, an hour one, two and three ever, ever, ever,
(31:06):
Just to make sure that we got that. As far
as what else is going ever, ever, ever and ever,
yes and ever, God, we're almost done with every Major
League baseball game, there is one that is still up
and running that.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Waiting for the Padres to lose. Oh.
Speaker 8 (31:24):
Sorry, well that's that's low hanging fruit. So maybe get
some newer material. Oh it was a total bird, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
So, So you just gave your one liner and reinforced it,
and then had to reinforce it again by saying it
was a burn No no, with a big reaction.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I need that clipped off.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Yeah, I mean it wasn't quite Paul Bearer, but you
were kind of creeping down that roll bear.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
The wrestlers know.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
The reason you took a second to respond is because
you're riding up one of your tweets and it took
you was second to register what I was saying, and that.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
Was the cause for the delay.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I'm registering my complaint to Fox Sports Radio about subpar updates.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Official, really, it says enthusiast. Wait, that's Taylor Swift's Wait,
your last name spelled e y at the end, right,
e y.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
F E n l e Y.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Okay, very good, Okay, Yeah, not to be confused with
Chuck Finley, Steve Finley or Michael Finley.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
You're the only fail I know the same way.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Yeah, well that's why it's cool.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
There was actually a Fenley who was a Boston Celtic
in the forties, nineteen forties for like one year.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
So that's the greatest I just.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Found out today. Not not to interrupt you, but I
just found out today. Just try today.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Because for some reasonekway we were somehow we got to
talk about Jenni Fisher from The Office, okay, right, And
I was like, boy, she just fell off the face
of the earth, like she.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
She had that run when she was Pam.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
She was walked to a couple of movies and now
she's been doing now she hosts The Office podcast. Right,
She's like proved my theory the world is flat because
she's fallen off the face of it. I just found
out today today, me who watched The Office religiously for
all the day.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Beasley. There's no een near the end. It's b E
E s L y Beasley does not have an E
after the L what not? Like Coleby Beasley. This should
be ey. Well, it knows that makes more sense. Spelled
it differently. He spelled Beasley. Maybe they misspelled it and
it never changed how you spelled Beasley.
Speaker 7 (33:29):
Unbelievab found that out today.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Just an angry guy about random. I just found it
out today. You're like channeling your your brother in crime, Frank. Oh, not,
come on that. That's one tonight. It was a good
night tonight. It's all good.
Speaker 8 (33:40):
And they won in very Mets fashion six to five
against the Rangers in ten a hit by pitch situation
with basses juiced in the bottom of the tenth and
that was what sealed it. Unbelievable there. Meanwhile, the brave
Steake care of the Rocky seven to three. That one
is a final in ten innings. In Miami, the All
over the Marlins three to nothing. Randy eros Arena got
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the offense going in the tenth to spark things for
Tampa as their thirty games over five hundred. The Mariners
acts the Athletics five to four. Now nineteen games over
five hundred is Seattle. The Astros win a fifth straight
as they tattoo the Red Sox seven to four, a
win for the Cubs over the Brewers three to two,
Mike Carmon's White Sox three home runs and a ten
(34:26):
to five suplexing of the Oreos.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
Yeah, I think that was fair. Well, you give me, okay,
I do know.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Suplex is fine.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
Okay, that's the nicest.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
Thing you've ever said to me as a compliment, that.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
What you just said was fine. Yeah, Yes, that was fine.
And I'll leave you with this.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
Guys.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
We have the Angels winning ten to eight against the Phillies,
three hundred home runs, the three hundredth hit by Bryce Harper.
In the Game Show with Tony drove in one run.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
Now to two.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Clean up hitters. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Brian Finley coming up next, Boy, do we get a
big story out of the NFL one team really upset
how they've been portrayed and hard not And it's not
the Jets that's coming up next.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is my best
friend Mike Harmon, Sir. And it's taken all the way
till the end of the preseason, but we finally have
a Hard Knocks controversy, only one. Well it's the first
big one. Well, Rogers has been great. What else do
you want?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Well, I mean, is it a controversial that suddenly he's
you know, likable and he seems to like people.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
No, no, no, no, no, Well he doesn't like the
Giants apparently. Now we brought you this audio last night
because there's a big part to it today Giants and
one Giant specifically not happy with how he and the
team were portrayed in this scene in Hard Knocks Now
last night episode Jets play the Giants. Remember, there's a
lot made of Rogers getting in the face of Jihad
(37:05):
Ward defensive lineman for the Giants. After he threw a
touchdown to Garrett Wilson, he was asked after the game
was over, Hey, what happened there, and he goes, ah,
gotta wait for hard knocks. I gave it some good material,
like he see, he knows I'm gonna sell hard knocks here.
So this was the audio that made it out last night.
This is the play before he throws the touchdown to
Garrett Wilson. Rogers is unhappy. He gets a late hit
(37:27):
from gehad.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Ward pro that goes in respect, well, come on that
five damn sick.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I know you are, bro I don't.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Know what you do. You know I'll never heard you.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
Rops back Brock left high lod it is hot.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Garrett Wilson. Jeff sut O ComBar, I'm not heard of
you now.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
I gave him the line that's on comeback with a
bulls and I said, I don't even know who you are.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
And he said, he said, I don't know who you are.
I said, of course you know who I am. I'm
Aaron Rodgers man. I got like, uncomeback with a bull
it's uncomeback with the ble, uncomeback with uh so that
made it made its round last night and today, and
(38:17):
everybody's laughing at it today.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Though.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
The Giants were upset, specifically ge hod Ward, who was
the guy who got into it with Aaron Rodgers. Yes,
he did late hit Aaron Rodgers, but he gave a reason,
saying he was upset because of how they were poor trayed.
Because what happened was the Giants were mad for an
illegal block by Randall Cobb previously in the episode, and
they detail that and they were mad that was an
illegal block from Randall Cobb. Aaron Rodgers was mad at
(38:42):
him too, so he was mad about that, and that's
why he went out and gave Rogers a little bit extra,
and so he was mad that that's how they were
poor trayed. He says, they wanted to do like that
in the preseason. That's all good. It's cool.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
That's how they roll.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
I think we play them soon. It is what it
is now. Normally I would sit here and go, dah whatever, man,
just take it. You got beat by the goat, you
got beat by Rogers. But I'm old enough to remember
the last time the Jets decided to get all chesty
with the Giants and talk a lot of smack and
that was Victor Cruz's ninety nine yard touchdown catch, and
(39:20):
the Jets turned a nine and four season into nine
and seven and missing the playoffs. It was the end
of the era. I never want to piss off the
Giants because things just don't go well. And things always
go bad for the Jets when they start getting too chesty.
And now the Jets are a little bit chesty. And
this is what makes me nervous.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
So you think I'm okay with all this, but I
go no, No, I know, bride go with before the fall.
That's been the Jets for forty some odd years. Now,
this scares me a little bit.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
No, and it should. I mean you also, you know,
cut Jerome Cas.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
You're supposed to say. It's not supposed to scare you.
Everything's fine, No, no, you should. Everything was going smoothly,
and now you've got a bump. I don't see the
way when they go beat Randall cobbs ass. Why are
they gonna late to hit Aaron?
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Yeah, no, that's that's not the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
No, you don't take it out of the quarterback because
the other team will take it out on your quarterback.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
Correct you don't do it that way, correct. Go after
Randall Cobb. He's in his final year.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
We'll have more Rogers and more on another big NFL
story coming up next Right here. This is Jason Smith
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Talking about positivity. Thank you Chris Ballard, Thank you, Ballad
keeps coming over the top.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Man gift that keeps on givving. Yeah, everything sucks sucks
for him, It sucks for him. One thing that doesn't
suck Tonight the biggest headline of the night, and the
visuals from this are just outstanding. University Nebraska sets a
record today the most watched women's sporting event ever in person,
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not in the United States, not in the last decade,
not of this year, the women's event with the highest
attendance in the history of sports. Ninety two thousand and
three people at Memorial Stadium to watch Nebraska beat Omaha
in three in a row in volleyball. This was a
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story we knew was coming. We kind of knew that.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Hey, they've been building towards us Nebraska volleyball is a
really big deal. But to have ninety two thousand people
in amor Stadium to watch three games of volleyball, because
volleyball goes fast, right, volleyball goes fast? That I got
like a homecoming game, where how good.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Is almost your schedule? Well, they beat him, They beat
him in straight sets. They beat him twenty five fourteen,
twenty five to twelve, So it could have been that good. No,
I mean they got some points though, Yeah, well they did,
they did.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I mean, it's it's more than Nebraska did under Scott
from Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
More people come into the game, that's for sure. Better offense.
Nebraska women's volleyball. Nebraska under Scott Frost, more points per
more points per game. O Cham, Well, you played a
twenty five in volleyball, so they have to average close
to its twenty four? Do they average twenty four game?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Look it up?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
What how many points of Nebraska average under Scott Frost?
Which is crazy when you think there's only a certain
number you could get to volleyball because the game's gonna
be over games over twenty five games over whereas in
football score as much as you want, scored.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Much you want.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, but I mean there's a lot of videos, uh
cursing Scott Frost. Well, we'll find that number as we flow.
But we remember, Uh, they were the game in Ireland
and they blew a big lead last year to Northwestern
and that was the last win of Pat Fitzgerald's term. Uh,
and the last game of Scott Frost last year. I
found this is fan. I'm just better at you at
(03:29):
the internet. No, Well, you stop listening to anything I
say because you got to get your tweet up. Well,
so you got really good at yeah, just deciding to
text instead of listening. They've been able to try to
just to just to tune you out or just got
a tune forever, and then all of a sudden there's
a point raised later. I'm like, you know, I said that,
(03:50):
I'm just in the first down. I'm just better at Internet.
It's like ken, I my job is beach. I'm better
at internet. Just standing on the beach, really doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Nebraska last year average twenty two point six points per game.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
That's higher than I would have thought. Twenty two point six. Yeah, yeah,
around twenty Okay, all right, that's higher than I would
have expected. Okay, all right, well it was just a
tenure marked with utility, but I mean ninety two thousand. Yeah. Look, people,
the video of this is amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And what I really want to see and I haven't yet,
is video or a picture that someone's taken from the
top of Memorial Stadium. Yeah, because you know, you're at
the top of a football stadium and you watch.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
A football game. Okay, you can still watch a football game.
You still see the ball. Maybe you don't see a
fumble year the oh or you know, but you can
still see it. Can you really see the volleyball because
volleyballs the court.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Is much smaller. Yeah, and it's much smaller. Can you
really see the game?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Can you see that? Can you see the ball?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Go?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I mean you got jumbo trons.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I guess you know you're like at Jerry's palace where
you start watching the video board. I remember being there
for the Super Bowl and I took my my ex'es
dad and I kept having to like push his head.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Watch the field. Oh okay, stop watching the television. Watch
the field. I'm good seats, I'm seventy five.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I can watch. I want to watch. I want to
watch what I can see better. I'm gonna watch that.
I said, Man, here's here's some binoculars. I can't see
the field.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Let's go. I'm gonna watch the screen. But that might
be might have been the case here, and certainly we've
seen that from a lot of concerts. Right Metallica was
just here. It's so fine. People like, well, I couldn't
really see anything but listen to the bass. Who is that?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
On said, because you can't tell, like because there's five
guys playing guitar?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Is that Kirk Hammitt? Is that Kirk Hamitt? Is that?
Or is that Kirk Cabbot? Is that the road?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Because he's gotten down into his crab walk right there, Lars.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
There's only one drummer, so I know that's Lars Alrick.
All right, that's that's the guy there. But I mean,
I really I wanted to like because they showed the
shot of the one girl from the very top of
the stade with the sign going go and you volleyball going.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Can you even see that's? Yeah, that's the high power
camera is sure right? Care see the g I don't
know what happened to the ball.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
On there somewhere people are cheering. It's gotta look like
you know what look like to me? You know when
you when you go like you go to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
They do this when you go to Dodger Stadium and
they and they probably do is not in other parks
as well. I just know they do it in Dodger
Stadium when it comes time for the seventh inning stretch.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
And they put all the words on.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
The jumbo tron for the seventh in you stretch you
can sing along and it has that little white ball
that bounces from word to words so you know when
to hit it. Take me out to the But that's
got to be the equivalent to what it would look
like from the top of the sea. You just see
this little white ball bouncing around like you're gonna sing
a song.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And did it hit the ground? I don't even know.
Did it go over the net?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I don't even know. Everybody's cheering. It must have been
a point for Nebraska. That's good.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You got me wondering if at Dodger Stadium do they
make the cardinal sin of adding the S to Cracker Jack.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Uh? No, But I think people just do it anyway.
It's one of my pasts. They do it anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
They just say cry reis it's really bad. Yeah, it's
like the Stanley Cup Final in not Stanley Cup Finals.
It's the Stateley Cup Final, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup, Finn
Smart and Final, not Smart and Finals. Costco saving Costco,
not Costcos or Costco. No, but people say costcos and
(07:21):
that's not Kay's. But I go to Costcos. No, it's Costco.
Ninety two thousand people Costco.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
And I mentioned in three. I don't forget those actually
six hundred more than I think.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
The prior record, Yeah, the prior the prior record. There
was a there was a it was there was there
was a UFA game in Europe that was close. That
was second, It was like ninety one thousand. And then
the United States record, uh game every a lot of
people remember was the World Cup Final in nineteen ninety
nine when the United States be China in penalties. Brandy
Chastain scores whipster shirt off and the United States wins.
(07:55):
That was the That was the previous United States record
for a women's sporting event. And just the think about
that for in nineteen nine, you're talking about a generation ago,
twenty years ago that you needed the biggest rock stars
on the planet in women's sports, which is the women's
World Cup team, Julie ham Me of ham and Julie
Faudi and Michelle Akers and Brianna Scurry, all those great players.
(08:17):
Christine Lilly heard about them, all the biggest rock stars
on the planet. Put ninety thousand people in the seats
in the Rose Bowl, right. I was there for that day.
It was amazing. It was so hot, Oh my god,
it was hot. And now here's a generation later, and
here's Nebraska women's volleyball is able to put ninety two
thousand people in the seats. You want to talk about
something that's progress, that's something that's just awesome. Just think
(08:38):
about that. This wasn't the United States had to play
in the World Cup final against Spain, and this is
getting ninety five. You had Nebraska women's volleyball in one
of the smaller states. Nebraska is not a large state.
This is like three quarters of the population went to
this game today. Nebraska's not a large state and you
get ninety two thousand people coming. Even as big as
(08:59):
with as as the brask of volleyball is, look, it's
still volley but it's not football. It's not basketball so well,
and to be able to do that, that's really something.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
That's a larger point.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And again going back, and I can tie this to
other subjects that we've talked about through the years, Like
you just talked about how hot it was where there
are a lot of fights on the pitch. You try
to talk about that during training times it was hot,
so hot, it was hot.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I remember Michelle Akers left the game, walked right by me, exhaustion,
walked out.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
She was loopy walking off the other being.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I mean, look chesstain and ripping off the kit and
the sports bra or whatever. What a big deal is
I mean, that's a Tuesday apparel for millions of people
walking around.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
That is not a big deal anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I mean, except like for the support stuff like Kyler
Murray and those guys have been sporting that that gets
everybody in an outrage on there. But I referenced it
before when we're talking about ninety two thousand people of
wondering if there was like some companion event. And it's
not to demean what they are at all. It's just
normally big events, like right, there's like a festival attached
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to it, or a concert or some performance Metallica playing after.
But here's a nebrass stay tuned after the game, Taylor Swift, everybody.
I don't know who went to Nebraska. Do they have
some musical artists that might have been a tame Trev
Alberts in ad Trev Alberts and the Cornhusker brats, I
don't know. Trev Alberts is gonna come out into the
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whiteboard and to show you what the offensive linemen are
supposed to be doing. Look, Tommy Frasier, nice, going all
the way back to nineteen ninety five, Scott Frost. They
still want to hate, but it's not to diminish any
of that. It's just normally even with all other sporting
events of this kind of size, like there there's something
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else beyond the sporting event that's being celebrated, right, football game, like, Hey,
we're brolcoming these guys back to campus. We're gonna do this.
This guy's gonna sing the national anthem, this guy's gonna
do this halftime performance here. And to see the statements
going back to when tickets went on sale in April
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that they sold eighty two thousand seats in three days.
I mean that just the size and scope of selling
that many tickets.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Right.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I was in the queue for WrestleMania tickets for Philadelphia
just for giggles.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I got shut out.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I got shut out, and that's ninety thousand people. But
it was like the same kind of metrics of how
fast can this stuff sell? And to think Nebraska women's volleyball,
they came out with the fog machine, the excitement of it,
and then they went and rolled.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
All right, I'll give you baha.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
They for Nebraska, right, same with Nebraska. The two most
famous Nebraska alumni are who and I'll give you a hint.
One is a former late night television host and one
is one of the richest people in the world right now.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
From Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Warren Buffett. Very good, he's the former late night host. Yes,
Warren Buffett from Nebraska. Uh, late night host, late night host.
It's someone I might have ever watched.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Oh, probably so many times. You know, Letterman was Ball State.
So it's not him. Yeah, No, it's certainly not him.
I'm too young for Carson. Really, No, you're not not
too young for Johnny Carson. He did a show till
ninety two.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I was eighteen, nineteen years old. I'm you never watched
the Night Show.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
You never watched Night Show to see anybody promote a
movie or to him to do Karnak the Magnificent.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
You never watch anything suck really really, but I watch Man. Yeah,
you had to do it, do you? When you were there,
there was like eight channels. You had to watch Johnny Carson.
There was no other live programming.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Well, and that was we're watching TV. I didn't have
a TV in my TV. They weren't watching Johnny Carson.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Your dad wasn't saying, everybody work, everybody quiet, eleven thirty,
I'm watching Johnny Carson. No, No, your mom would say,
I'm watching my program. It's masterpiece theater. Whatever I'm watching
my program, the two eyebrow masterpiece theater would have been
too highbrow. From Johnny Carson Nebraska. There you go, Johnny
Carson Warren A good guess. I mean, I'll be honest, man,
(13:12):
I know the bits, I know the history. Obviously I
may resemble ed mcmahonon points in my life. But the
fact of the matter is, I can't say that I
watched it. I mean because but when he left, I
was only a freshman in college. But you still like
I watched when I was in high school and I
didn't watch any of that.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
You had to. I didn't. You had to. It was
up at six o'clock to go to school an hour
and a half. Yeah, did you? Oh you're going to
bed at nine o'clock getting up early for church every day? No,
but I wasn't one. How dare you? And what if
I was? I should sue you? You should?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
How could you were disparaging potentially my religious beliefs.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm saying, I'm up at five o'clock working in the field.
I'm getting it ready. It was, you know, we're canning peaches.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
For the long winter, to the middle of the night
and I'm going to church, and like I said, I
did not have a television and go to school.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Then I walk home with no shoes and I you know,
and then there's no tell I listened to the radio.
I did listen to the radio.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
The end of the Cubs game against the Cardinals, you'll
hit a home run to win the game.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
We lost. Un usual. How old do you think I am?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Because if I'm old enough for Musual, I'm old enough
for Johnny Carson.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
You're two most famous like there, yeah, everything, Jimmy Jimmy Carson,
Warren Buffett, Jimmy Carson, Warren Buffett, that's Wary Carson. Sorry,
Johnny car Jimmy Carking, Jimmy car Jimmy Carson who played
for the Kings. It's a nicety goal scorer for the kids.
I think Jimmy Carr was, uh yeah, there you go.
There are your two most famous ones from Well and
Tom Osborne also went to Nebraska. But those guys aren't
coming out to perform for you though.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
If you hear Osborne is performing after you, do you
think Tom Osborne or Ozzy Osbourne. I'd pray for oz
or you get both of them. You get both of them.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
You get Ozzy coming out to and bark at the moon,
and then tom Osborne comes out and just shreds the solo.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Wow wow wow wow wow wow. Way do you get
on a wow wow just shredding. We've got Ozzy and
tom Osborne.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Anybody want a AI video of that for me, of
them performing before ninety thousand people, that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Oh Twitter, and how about a Fresco Mike hand swollen
daw tell you that that Nebraska event looked like it
was so much fun.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Absolutely so much fun.
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all the big news in the NBA. We always like
to start with a big, bold statement with Rick Buker.
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, Fox Sports One, NBA
Insider and Rick, I'm gonna say something now, I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
And this is a non Nix statement. Wow, this is
a non stament.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
It is a non Nick statement. Oh no, we are learning.
In the Feebleworld Championships, in the Feeble World Cup, the
best players for the United States are Anthony Edwards and
Austin Reeves.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Okay, big at all the headlines.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
That's those are the only two people you hear about
now is Austin Reeves and Anthony.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
That's all you hear about.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
It's very It's very true. I will say, I what
I love about this team is that for the most part,
it's uh it's success so far, and it's its attitude
is very non star like, it's very the national teams,
the US Team USA has become sort of a glorified
(17:26):
All Star flash global promotional tool for the NBA in
terms of getting the biggest names out there. And I
really feel like there's there's there's a dramatic sea change
here in the way they built this team and the
way the team is playing. And maybe the biggest evidence
(17:49):
of that is that in the last game for Jordan's
Brandon Ingram was moved out of the starting lineup for
Josh Hart. I can't adds in that ever, having purtval,
I can't imagine Josh Park being on a Team USA
from the previous US Team USA and then to put
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him in the starting lineup. And I will say, in
all seriousness, like what I love about seeing and I
think all teams, I think all our national teams should
be built this way. Even with the Olympics. They did
it with the World Cup because the top players are
you know, it's like, I want an Olympic gold medal,
World Cup gold medal. I don't really know what that is.
(18:30):
I don't play soccer. It doesn't mean a whole lot
to be I want an Olympic gold medal. I know
what that is, and I want to add that to
my resume. And I think building teams with that sort
of approach is wrong headed at this point. That we
should be taking the young players who are going to
be better players as a result of this experience, and
(18:53):
that's what I would expect, And what I find really
fascinating is seeing guys like Austin Reeves and Jalen Brunson
and Michale Bridges, guys that you probably wouldn't consider the
biggest names on this team being the ones that are,
without question, the most effective players in this international game.
(19:18):
There's no question Anthony Edwards is the most dynamic player
on this team talent wise, but as far as understanding
how to play the international game, you can just see
it like he's so used to the NBA game where
it's I'm just going to go and attack my guy
and there's nobody who can handle me that way, and
(19:39):
the international game is just different, and so he's having
he's having a learning experience. Jaren Jackson Junior is having
a learning experience. Brandon Ingham certainly is because he's not
in the starting lineup anymore. So I could I could
talk forever about this team because I've really I don't
think anybody's paying attention to it except me, But I
(20:00):
I really, I really don't care, because I just I
have found it fascinating to see the players who are
capable of playing the international game and being really effective
and those that aren't. And it's the versatile players that
are having the most success. And it's just I've I've
(20:23):
enjoyed seeing it. I don't know where this team's gonna go.
I don't know if they're gonna win at all, but
I've I'm seeing growth and and and that's been a
lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Well, if they can beat Michael Jordan today as bad
as they beat him he only scored sixty two that,
I think that's be pretty good the rest of the way.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
You know what, you know, what's crazy is seeing these
guys like Eric Gordon I think is playing for the Bahamas,
and Hollis Jefferson's like Hollis Jefferson, I'm I'm stepping I'm
like a little outside of my comfort zone here by
saying this, I don't think that he's ever been inside
the country of Jordan's maybe wrong about that, okay, but
(21:02):
my guess is he's never seen the inside of Jordan,
the country. And uh now, if if they trained there
and he went there for training, then then I stand corrected.
But I find it fascinating that we're seeing some of
these guys that are are you know, full blooded American,
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but have a connection to international countries and are and
are and are going to play. This isn't you know,
in the Olympics, to have the Olympic experience, this is
this is in the World Cup. And again, I think
it's great. I think it's great that that we're seeing.
This is such a twist, isn't it Like we're seeing
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American players playing internationally and playing for somebody other than
the United States and playing knowing that they're probably not
going to meddle or I'm not going to be like
they're not They're not to get a lot of they're
not going to be rolling over teams, and yet they're
going and playing. And again, I my hat is off
(22:08):
to them, because look, this is their all, this is
their off seasons. I don't know what they're necessarily gaining
out of this other than the experience and the opportunity
to play during the off season. So I'm I respect
all of that.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Maybe a little bit of brand building. Maybe you sell
sneakers and jerseys. I mean, look, because you're gonna go
and the next time you're you're yelling on speak, I mean,
you're going to talk about how criminally undervalued Austin Reeve
was in that contract he signed with the Lawyers.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Sure, yeah, I mean that fifty three millions is a pittance.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah, well, honestly, I mean and you think he's got
a shoe.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Deal, now, yeah, he's got a Lemon auto insurance thing
on the highway here, right, if you got Lemon, like
the lawyers, that will come after you. And he's the smokesman.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Yeah, all those things and.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Well and I will see, like of all the guys
on this team. And again, this is just kind of
the flavor of this team. Like once upon a time,
if like Christian Latner was that was on the Dream Team,
was the player who was mocked, right, I mean it
was he was kind of he was made fun of.
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Austin Reeves is the most popular. If you if you've
watched any of these games. The crowd goes nuts anytime
he touches the ball. And I mean, obviously Lakers Nation,
Laker Nation travels, Laker Nation is is you know, worldwide
and all of that. But I love seeing a global
(23:44):
appreciation for a guy who plays like Austin Reeves, which
is really he you know, I mean, it's it's it's
a it's a fundamental game. He's high basketball. Like you
watching him and Paulo ben Caro come off the bench
and play and and feed each other and play them
off of each other like this is a as a hoophead,
(24:05):
it is. This is it's just fun. It is fun
for me to see kind of like these guys that
don't necessarily get a lot of shine or that aren't
in the headlines, like showing that they've got some game
and and and doing it in the team USA uniform.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Jalen Brunson Sure, yeah, no, all those guys, No I got,
uh now, because you know, I had to get Jayleen Brenston.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
So of course you did. Hey, I got. I gave
you Josh Hart Come on.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
You did, did John? And I like that?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
In what world does Josh Harden start for Brandon Ingram
apparently this one.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Uh look, you know what, you know what, I'm really
pissed about the team USA didn't pick up Dante's Defncenzo,
Let's go, let's go.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yeah, got any other former teammates you'd like us to
sign it?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Just Julius Randall of Bridge too Far?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Yeah? Yeah, all right?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
So Hey, speaking of a Bridge too Far, you have
a bit of this up on your social media page
on Twitter, the James Hardens from guys playing for the
joy of the game and playing to James Harden. So
you talked about this and we talked last week. Hey,
I said, how does it end for James Harden? And
you said, look, eventually it's going to wind up. Do
you like to think eventually some point and it's the
(25:24):
La Clippers. Has anything moved you off that in the
last week, because you know, now we're starting to hear
hey reports and rumors why James Harden is so mad
with the Sixers and money that was promised to him
he's not getting because you said that was a nuclear button.
Once we start hearing James Harden and what he was
promised by Darryl Moury, that's going to make things happen
a lot faster.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Well that and that's what makes this such a delicious
game of chicken. I'm what I'm off of is that
I don't know that Darryl Mory can have the same
patience that he had with Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons letting
them know at the beginning of the year, I'm not
going to play for you. I want out, and he
waited until the trade deadline to move him. I don't
think he can afford to do that with James Harden
(26:05):
because of that nuclear button, which is, at what point
did James Harden say, Look, this is what Daryl Morey
promised me? He said to this point. Well, the reason
that I was mad and the reason that I called
him a liar was because, you know, he said that
he promised that he would trade me, and he got
(26:27):
banged one hundred thousand dollars for that. But that's not
the same and what most people around the league that
I've talked to executives are not buying that. That's the
reason he called him a liar, and that that's why
he's mad. Because let's keep in mind when he first
asked for the trade request, it was June twenty ninth,
and that's when he opted in to the second year
(26:50):
of his contract. And that was never the expectation. Going
back to when he signed this signed this deal, it
was he's signing this two year, sixty million dollar deal.
He's rejecting. Now, keep in mind, he could have made
forty seven million dollars this past year. He opted out
(27:13):
of that and instead signed a two year, sixty four
million dollar deal. You don't have to be a genius
to know that he gave up. He gave up money
for the benefit of the team short term in order
for them to sign PJ. Tucker. He gave up fifteen
million dollars. No player I know of does that without
the promise that, well, you're going to take care of
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me on the back end. So the expectation was that
this summer he wasn't gonna he was gonna he wasn't
going to exercise the opt in on the second year,
played for thirty of whatever million this year, and then
he was going to be rewarded with the MAX extension.
When the MAX extension wasn't coming, that's when he presumably
opted in, and that's when he got mad and said,
(27:56):
I want to be traded. So that's why everybody around
the league is looking at and going, wait a minute,
the timing doesn't work. The idea that he got mad
because they said he was going to trade him like
the first domino that fell was he didn't get the
contract extension that everybody expected him to get, and that's
(28:17):
what the promise was supposedly. And so the question is
if he comes out and says he gets to a
point where he's like, well, screw it, they're making me
sit the whole year. I might as well make Daryl
sit the whole year too. I'm going to I'm going
to tell the league he promised me, he promised me
(28:39):
a contract extension. This is what he promised me. That
would be sacked a cap circumvention, and that would mean
that both Darryl and presumably James, because I don't see
how he I mean, the only other wrinkle that I
can see here is somehow it leaks out. Somehow the
text messages that James has, or that his agent has
(29:01):
or somebody has of Daryl promising this thing. Somehow they
get leaked out and Harden's able to avoid the indication
that it came from him. Then it would put it
all on Darryl, and I would expect that Darryl hefty
fine and suspension, year, suspension or whatever as a result
(29:22):
of cap circunvention. The league will come down very, very
hard on that, much harder than they did on the
publicly saying I want to be I want I want
to be traded. But the question is at what point
does James decide that he's willing to do that, and
can he do that without implicating himself, because then if
(29:44):
he does, if he implates himself, then they're both going
to be They're going to both be suspended. So the
real question is, like, is Hard At what point is
hard and willing to burn down his own house potentially
in order to burn down Daryl Morris.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
He's on.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Twitter at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Now you're just picturing James Hard with a big gas
can and the big flaming Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
I'm sorry, but I always picture James Harden walking around
with a gas can and a lighter.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Twitter at Rick Buker. Rick is always buddy, appreciated man.
We'll talk to you next week. Have fun, see Rick,
great stuff is always I always picture.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I got that light I want to light it on
the I want to burn it all down. I'm ready.
Someone wants a party.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Let's talk to a guy right now who would burn
it all down if he could. It's Brian Finley with
what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Oh so kind of you to say that.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
By the way, speaking of a party, it was one
big party ninety two thousand and three showing up to
watch Nebraska volleyball play at their Huskers Football Stadium in
a match against Omaha. This marked this is super significant
because it is the most attended women's sporting event ever
and as Jon said, an hour one, two and three ever, ever, ever,
(31:06):
Just to make sure that we got that. As far
as what else is going ever, ever, ever and ever,
yes and ever, God, we're almost done with every Major
League baseball game, there is one that is still up
and running that.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Waiting for the Padres to lose. Oh.
Speaker 8 (31:24):
Sorry, well that's that's low hanging fruit. So maybe get
some newer material. Oh it was a total bird, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
So, So you just gave your one liner and reinforced it,
and then had to reinforce it again by saying it
was a burn No no, with a big reaction.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I need that clipped off.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Yeah, I mean it wasn't quite Paul Bearer, but you
were kind of creeping down that roll bear.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
The wrestlers know.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
The reason you took a second to respond is because
you're riding up one of your tweets and it took
you was second to register what I was saying, and that.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
Was the cause for the delay.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I'm registering my complaint to Fox Sports Radio about subpar updates.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Official, really, it says enthusiast. Wait, that's Taylor Swift's Wait,
your last name spelled e y at the end, right,
e y.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
F E n l e Y.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Okay, very good, Okay, Yeah, not to be confused with
Chuck Finley, Steve Finley or Michael Finley.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
You're the only fail I know the same way.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Yeah, well that's why it's cool.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
There was actually a Fenley who was a Boston Celtic
in the forties, nineteen forties for like one year.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
So that's the greatest I just.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Found out today. Not not to interrupt you, but I
just found out today. Just try today.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Because for some reasonekway we were somehow we got to
talk about Jenni Fisher from The Office, okay, right, And
I was like, boy, she just fell off the face
of the earth, like she.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
She had that run when she was Pam.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
She was walked to a couple of movies and now
she's been doing now she hosts The Office podcast. Right,
She's like proved my theory the world is flat because
she's fallen off the face of it. I just found
out today today, me who watched The Office religiously for
all the day.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Beasley. There's no een near the end. It's b E
E s L y Beasley does not have an E
after the L what not? Like Coleby Beasley. This should
be ey. Well, it knows that makes more sense. Spelled
it differently. He spelled Beasley. Maybe they misspelled it and
it never changed how you spelled Beasley.
Speaker 7 (33:29):
Unbelievab found that out today.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Just an angry guy about random. I just found it
out today. You're like channeling your your brother in crime, Frank. Oh, not,
come on that. That's one tonight. It was a good
night tonight. It's all good.
Speaker 8 (33:40):
And they won in very Mets fashion six to five
against the Rangers in ten a hit by pitch situation
with basses juiced in the bottom of the tenth and
that was what sealed it. Unbelievable there. Meanwhile, the brave
Steake care of the Rocky seven to three. That one
is a final in ten innings. In Miami, the All
over the Marlins three to nothing. Randy eros Arena got
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the offense going in the tenth to spark things for
Tampa as their thirty games over five hundred. The Mariners
acts the Athletics five to four. Now nineteen games over
five hundred is Seattle. The Astros win a fifth straight
as they tattoo the Red Sox seven to four, a
win for the Cubs over the Brewers three to two,
Mike Carmon's White Sox three home runs and a ten
(34:26):
to five suplexing of the Oreos.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
Yeah, I think that was fair. Well, you give me, okay,
I do know.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Suplex is fine.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
Okay, that's the nicest.
Speaker 8 (34:36):
Thing you've ever said to me as a compliment, that.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
What you just said was fine. Yeah, Yes, that was fine.
And I'll leave you with this.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
Guys.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
We have the Angels winning ten to eight against the Phillies,
three hundred home runs, the three hundredth hit by Bryce Harper.
In the Game Show with Tony drove in one run.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
Now to two.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Clean up hitters. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
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big story out of the NFL one team really upset
how they've been portrayed and hard not And it's not
the Jets that's coming up next.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is my best
friend Mike Harmon, Sir. And it's taken all the way
till the end of the preseason, but we finally have
a Hard Knocks controversy, only one. Well it's the first
big one. Well, Rogers has been great. What else do
you want?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Well, I mean, is it a controversial that suddenly he's
you know, likable and he seems to like people.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
No, no, no, no, no, Well he doesn't like the
Giants apparently. Now we brought you this audio last night
because there's a big part to it today Giants and
one Giant specifically not happy with how he and the
team were portrayed in this scene in Hard Knocks Now
last night episode Jets play the Giants. Remember, there's a
lot made of Rogers getting in the face of Jihad
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Ward defensive lineman for the Giants. After he threw a
touchdown to Garrett Wilson, he was asked after the game
was over, Hey, what happened there, and he goes, ah,
gotta wait for hard knocks. I gave it some good material,
like he see, he knows I'm gonna sell hard knocks here.
So this was the audio that made it out last night.
This is the play before he throws the touchdown to
Garrett Wilson. Rogers is unhappy. He gets a late hit
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from gehad.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Ward pro that goes in respect, well, come on that
five damn sick.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I know you are, bro I don't.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Know what you do. You know I'll never heard you.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
Rops back Brock left high lod it is hot.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Garrett Wilson. Jeff sut O ComBar, I'm not heard of
you now.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
I gave him the line that's on comeback with a
bulls and I said, I don't even know who you are.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
And he said, he said, I don't know who you are.
I said, of course you know who I am. I'm
Aaron Rodgers man. I got like, uncomeback with a bull
it's uncomeback with the ble, uncomeback with uh so that
made it made its round last night and today, and
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everybody's laughing at it today.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Though.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
The Giants were upset, specifically ge hod Ward, who was
the guy who got into it with Aaron Rodgers. Yes,
he did late hit Aaron Rodgers, but he gave a reason,
saying he was upset because of how they were poor trayed.
Because what happened was the Giants were mad for an
illegal block by Randall Cobb previously in the episode, and
they detail that and they were mad that was an
illegal block from Randall Cobb. Aaron Rodgers was mad at
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him too, so he was mad about that, and that's
why he went out and gave Rogers a little bit extra,
and so he was mad that that's how they were
poor trayed. He says, they wanted to do like that
in the preseason. That's all good. It's cool.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
That's how they roll.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
I think we play them soon. It is what it
is now. Normally I would sit here and go, dah whatever, man,
just take it. You got beat by the goat, you
got beat by Rogers. But I'm old enough to remember
the last time the Jets decided to get all chesty
with the Giants and talk a lot of smack and
that was Victor Cruz's ninety nine yard touchdown catch, and
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the Jets turned a nine and four season into nine
and seven and missing the playoffs. It was the end
of the era. I never want to piss off the
Giants because things just don't go well. And things always
go bad for the Jets when they start getting too chesty.
And now the Jets are a little bit chesty. And
this is what makes me nervous.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
So you think I'm okay with all this, but I
go no, No, I know, bride go with before the fall.
That's been the Jets for forty some odd years. Now,
this scares me a little bit.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
No, and it should. I mean you also, you know,
cut Jerome Cas.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
You're supposed to say. It's not supposed to scare you.
Everything's fine, No, no, you should. Everything was going smoothly,
and now you've got a bump. I don't see the
way when they go beat Randall cobbs ass. Why are
they gonna late to hit Aaron?
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Yeah, no, that's that's not the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
No, you don't take it out of the quarterback because
the other team will take it out on your quarterback.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
Correct you don't do it that way, correct. Go after
Randall Cobb. He's in his final year.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
We'll have more Rogers and more on another big NFL
story coming up next Right here. This is Jason Smith
and Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio
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