February 15, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon react to the Eagles parade after winning the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, I got a feeling. Uh uh.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Steve de Sager's updates tonight are not gonna be very long.
No NBA, no NHL. We're good.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
We're good. We got Tollee buckets. That's it. A lot
of college basketball, that's where we're gonna have Division three,
you name it, from high school CIF playoffs all over
the place. Yeah, we we're gonna get deep into it.
Fake results from sports TV shows that are on. Hey,
AFC Richmond is tied right now. Well, I gotta think
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you know, at some point we can get back into
the prop bets from the celebrity game. You know, Drew
Ski go over under his point total or anything like that. Sure, dude,
did the general viewing public know who nine of those
people were? I'm gonna take the under uh and then
we go from there. Yeah. No, it's it's a perfect strategy.
(01:16):
It's a perfect strategy. Well, now we've got the Rising
Stars game. They just had Jeremy Lynn. He had like
four tone hair. It was great. Yeah, yeah, yeah, say
they had Jeremy strong on. He was Kendall Roy. He
was still well you're still hiding in the coffee beans,
be carefus.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
But with all of that going on, how about this
for a Friday night hitch between the eyes of something
open on a Friday night, how about this. Yeah, I'm
gonna give you a take that is undisputed, undisputed. You
the only way you're disagreeing with this is if you
just want to make an argument because there because I'm
gonna say it, and you're gonna say, oh no, that
is that is an absolute given, that is an absolute
(01:52):
You're right, can't.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We had the good Caitlin Clark take about All Star
Weekend and and her power that has gone viral. We
appreciate you all at how about a Prescott Swalling Dome
at Fox Sports Radio? Keep that going. Uh So, yeah,
you got something that's undisputed, that's undisputed generally not very
good for sports talk radio and debate.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But see, but I think it is good because it's
something that you can't disagree with, Like, wait, give me
something I can't disnoun if I say, like if I
even say, look, this is better than Michael Jordan is
the greatest basketball player becauseeam people are gonna find that
Jerry Rice is the greatest wide receiver.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
No, people are gonna be upset with that.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Uh, you know, Barry Bond's the greatest home run hitteror no,
not the You can disagree with stuff that seems like
it's it's it's gonna happen, like Joe DiMaggio's hitting Street
never be broken. No, someone gonna come around and do it. Oh,
Tani might be able to do it. No, this is
something that is absolutely there's no one because you can't
because you would say, well, oh no, no, you're you're right,
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you're right. You'll think about it for a second. You'll
think about it for a second, all right, but then
we're gonna copt it. Okay, you're right. Are you ready?
You ready for that?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Let's go. This is undisputed, undisputed disputed, can't can't can't discrrect,
can't is that is that a show?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, it's a great title for a show. I
should call FS one and see if they want to
buy that from me. Oh, by the way, you know,
just speaking of coming up with it with the title
for a show, do you know I came up with
the title for Beyond the Glory, that TV show that
was on Fox for so long where they it was
kind of behind the music, but for uh uh for athletes.
And I came up with it when I came into
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when I went to meet with uh the big executive
producer about the show, and I said, we can call
it Beyond the Glory. And I wound up working on
another show and they called it Beyond the Glory, and
I'm like, it show, that's my title. And I never
thought about it until after, like I should have done
something to get but all I would have gotten was
a producer credit, even though it mean you know, producer Jake,
because you know they used my type. But I'm like,
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I never went up because I never thought it was
worth anything. This is like the old the guys in
the in the the bands in the seventies and eighties
going I didn't know if we didn't have the name
of the band. We're gonna have trouble selling tickets. I
thought they were gonna come see us. The lead singers
got the name of the band. He sells out everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
We can't get anybody to come to the art concert. No,
but all I would have that guy off, by the way,
I would have got on with producer credit on it.
But I came up with the title for Beyond the Glory. Yeah,
to show how much resonance it had in my life.
That was the name of that Skip Bayless show, by
the way, showing how much it really permeated my brain. Anyway,
moving on.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Beyond the Glory, No, no, Beyond the Glory was no,
that wasn't Skip Bayless.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
No, no, no, I undisputed was it was Skip Bayless? Why
do I forget? Did it really take you that long
to come up that undisputed? Was? Really? No, it wasn't
a show. It wasn't it it was it was a show.
It was on along, it was on front. Yeah, but
that shows how many times I watched it, just coming
up with that that one. Oh, I can't no, no
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it it took me like four seconds that I waited
to get a pontific eate on your world. But it
was just more the in the in the because you
said I should be the name of a show, and
you know, in my head it was like, well, I'm
sure it was, but and then it's.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's why you brought it up, going that's your name.
It wink wink to you know the f s one undisputed.
I thought you were doing you with a wink wow
for a second, you thought I came up with another
incredible idea for the name.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Of No that would have been it would have been great.
I might have watched that one.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
All right, all right, it's undisputed. Came all right, Hey,
Jason Smith came up with undisputed. Uh, eight years after
it was.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
But here's the thing. You can relaunch it. It's time
for a reboot. Everything to you again.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Uh, here it is your undisputed. Take undisputed. Take no
fans in the history of sports mm hmm celebrate championships
at the level of Philadelphia Eagles fans and fine, one
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can't one. Here's the here's the problem. No problem, it's
no because because here's the problem with it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We don't live in the alternate universe like the Marvel
you know, Earth whatever, ninety eighty two where the Mets
or Knicks had won something substantive, because remember when the
Knicks won just a measly playoff series, I thought that
was it. Go to New York, I thought that was
the end of the city. In that evening, Guys bouncing
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up and down on cars, things are a blaze, all
of that stuff that like, all right, if they actually
want something, you know, real, this could get really bad.
But we haven't seen that.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
So it's all theoretical, especially okay for this world that
not not the non all the other Marvel Wars.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
This world. Yeah, you're thinking, that's where you had to go.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
That's where you had to go to find a way
to disagree with this take. I had to go to
an entirely fictional world.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
To disagree with you, and you were never actually going
to see it. So I at least give you that
moment of positivity. Let's see what else after after today?
Obil socker or anything.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
No, no no one, no, not Eagles fans I'm going
flares at each other or anything. I mean, it was
enough the first time around when they had to grease
the poles in downtown Philadelphia because the people were climbing
them and and cars were getting okay. But now today
this was just a different level. I I can't tell
you how much fun it was all day scrolling through
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social media going oh my god, this is real. Someone
did this at the at the parade for the Eagles today.
I mean, and it's it's great. All the player stuff
is great, like Jalen Hurts running up the Rocky steps.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
A couple of players who were were helping kids like
I saw that uh Nolan Smith uh put it took
a kid from the from the crowd and put him
on his shoulders and started walking around with him speaking
high five people.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Which at point that's really cool.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The other point, I'm like, if I'm the kid's parents
are going, how far you going with my kid?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Get? How far are you going?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I want that Saquon Barkley grabbing the ball boy from
the crowd sad come come march with us?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
How I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
The player stuff is great, right, but stuff like the
guy who was sitting on the top of the Citizens
Bank Park sign. I don't know how he got up there,
but he's sitting on the top of the Citizens Bank
Park sign. There is no support around him, and someone
chucks him a beer and he catches it behind his
head like he doesn't like catch it. He catches it
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behind his head, opens up and starts drinking. I'm like,
this is just this is dangerous and it's and it's crazy,
and I'm going, how did they do this? And it's
like watching magic tricks. I don't understand how this happens.
How Philadelphia is able to pull this stuff off.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, I mean, look, there were a lot of highs.
We got a couple of head wounds, right roseman with
the giant gash on his head.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
The GM gets hitting the head with a beer people
because they were throwing beer beer cans at players all day,
and one guy got a hogy thrown to him.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
They threw him a hogy. Oh hey, here, you won't
catch this and have this. I know you're getting beer,
but how about a little turkey and cheese sandwich, little chitter?
How about little saye? I got it? Wah wah, You're
all good? Right here he go.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Catch Oh he caught it. He caught the HOGI I
threw him out. I hope I don't see that on
eBay later.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, that's straight out of Happy Gilmore hitting the uh
the sandwich in the commercial. Right, you know, obviously they're
some serious stuff too. Right, we had a couple of shootings.
I don't want to take it down because obviously I
got what you're saying. There were a lot of there
were a lot of positives, right, so you know one
of those just you know, the reality that you know
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you do have, uh, the the lunatic fringe and knuckleheads
that get in. But the guy that was trying to
you know, scream along and sing along the Eagles in
the middle of throwing up like that was another viral
video that was kind of fun. Leave for this city.
I bleed for this good line. It's a good line
right there. There's a guy that his meal per diem.
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He gets to pocket that for the rest of his life,
like he will never have to write off another beer.
Takeout me, No, howie, you're the guy you bled for
the city. Just just take it now. So like if
I if I had any tangential ties to the Eagle,
if I played at any point, I would have been
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showing up to basking that because I would have been
getting free stuff and love I man like no other. Hey,
you remember me, I played wide receiver in the late eighties.
Good to see it, are.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
You, Kenny Jackson? Yeah, all right, day, thanks me here
for today.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I am. Let's go you and cops doing the gritty. Oh,
I'm watching chewing cigars through the cops are doing the gritty,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
They were one guy was beating up a Kermit doll.
And then I saw one my friend sent me one video.
Somebody had a pig roast and they had the pig
and they had a number fifteen on the pig. I'm like,
oh my goodness, is all right? This is now a
little bit. Let's let's check mak far. Yeah, but let's
make sure.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Let's make sure. But like the one guy on.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
The top of the on the top of the street
light drinking whiskey or whatever out of a snifter, like
he's just drinking straight out of a snifter, like this
is in No one celebrates championships like Eagles and nobody
in the story of sports.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Nobody. Yeah, those guys by the museum, they're waving the flag.
They climbed up there like there was just all these
little snippets and it was funny because you know, the
the girls this avenue we went and saw the uh,
the Captain America movie. And then afterwards, you know, because
phones are buzzing and whatever they get they gotta get
on and they're like, yeah, it's nothing but Eagles stuff
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on my timeline. I just started laughing. It's like, I
don't know if my phone and my content infected yours
or if somehow you guys just got on board of
sports sports kick. But they're like, it's nothing but Eagles
parade highlights one after the other. It's like, what the hell?
Like sweet, I mean, so I do clear victory. I
(12:00):
almost climbed up on top of the the AMC structure
and started waving a flag. I one, damn it my
Super Bowl today.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Uh, I mean I think I think when I saw
the cops doing the gritty, that's when I said, Okay,
this is just this is this is a party that
I want to be at, Like this is this is
a party that you could walk and every five feet
see something where you go, oh you never see that again? Ope, nope,
never see that again. Oh I'm never gonna see that again.
I never see that again, guarantee, guarantee.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But just I mean the Saquon Barkley one was the
one that that hits you first, but then uh, Jalen
hurts being compared to nine thousand different movie characters and
being put an inserted and photoshop into so many different
historical moments while smoking a cigar and running around with
the super Bowl trophy. Uh you mentioned the Rocky steps,
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which I mean his love Hurts hoodie is awesome. That
was good.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
If I was an Eagles fan, I would I would
I would have went out and said how much is
that I'm buying it today?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Like the love Comma Hurts? Like that's I mean, that's
a great hoodie. Man, that is fantastic. I mean that's
straight out of to sir with love Comma hurts, I
mean grammatically correct. Too good for him.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
C J.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Gardner Johnson continuing the the stuff with the Swifties and
Travis Kelsey. We're not going to talk about it on
air because it's we're not safe harbor to read his shirt.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And I know and I know you're also a swifty too,
and you're in a family of Swifties. I understand, I understand.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
No, no, no, I mean, look, I I take no
offense to it. I mean, hopefully gets a couple of
sales and they do some good with the money. So
that was good. I mean, but you are a swifty
I know you're a swift Oh no, I'm in I
you know, she's she's she's gotten plenty of my my
ear time. And uh, you went to ire money to go.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
We did her, We did, you went to Ireland.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah that was great. Yeah, bracelets we we we traded bracelets.
We made a lot of friends. We might have found
some more people in a pub that were ready to
hang out and be swifties with us and sing along. No,
it was great. I mean we really had a good
time with it. So yeah, Look CJ. Gardner Johnson though,
I mean, he's been known to talk trash and and
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get in people's heads, so you know where he could
get his extra five minutes during a parade that was
celebrating so many Look Dowid Roseman though man MVP. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
But here's the thing though, when you when that's something
like that, like you know that's like, hey, now that
this is I got free publicity now on this.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But everybody's gonna say, what a great guy as long.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
As as long as I'm fine, as long as I
had an Eagles doctor come and look at him and
say Okay, you're good.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
We'll get your stitched up at some point.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
No, no, I'm walking this parade, madam. Okay, Like everybody's
gonna love the guy and your shit. He's the best
GM in sports. He's the best. He's got three teams
of the Super Bowl with different coaching staffs, different talent,
different players at big positions, three times in the last
six years. Like, how do you do that? He is
the best GM in sports.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But that's the thing. He's been able to cycle all
these guys out of different players. We talked about the defense,
eight different starters than the Super Bowl team of just
a couple of years ago. Uh, He's like, I can
never be replaced. You'll have to clone me. Cause not
only did I have I done this for the city. Man,
look at what we're celebrating here. I bled for you. Yeah.
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I took a can to the head and a couple
of near misses. Man, when folks started chucking stuff at
the buses, you saw a couple of people duck like,
all right, you got you gotta lobb it. It's an
underhand lob what are we doing? But I'm still you're
throwing it in like a cannon, like it's uh, you know,
Aaron Rodgers fire.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And it really was enjoyable though, seeing the guys catch
these catch these beers thrown them like easy, like it's
not like hey, they caught like it's like it's going
They got like they would flick their hands out at
the last second, like a lizard when it catches a fly,
like it's like, wow, that's a great catch.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
How did you catch that? That's that's really good.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
But I mean, look, I mean, if you had to
ask my favorite part though, I mean, look, I loved
a but man, I would love to be part of
a part of a parade and someone throws me a
sandwich like that that.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Really is next level right there, to throw you a sandwich.
Everybody else you get a beer, right you're going from
the thirty packs and just kind of chucking them up,
maybe a cigar, and we saw a lot of chomping
of cigars all over the place. And then and then
you got the HOGI you got the Hogy. A couple
other guys that you know, decided to go a little
stronger than beers. Uh, and certainly people on the parade route.
(16:28):
I don't know how how trusting I am of anybody
handing me something off the parade route, that's just me.
That's fine, I'll eat it. But but also just hey,
here's here's an open bottle of something. I'm out, I'm out. Yeah,
I'm with you. I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Although if I hadn't seen people actually do it at
Fox Sports Radio, I would say it's a little weird.
But now seen people do that. Hey, where does this
food come from? I don't know, and people just start
eating it. Where does this food come from? In the
cara radio? People's gonna start eating it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It's gonna start just a radio people. It HiT's that
that area in the kitchen. It's the old law building salvage.
If it's not chained down, it's free.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
No one parties like the Eagles undisputed. Undisputed Eagles fans
are unrivaled in that exit.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Two minutes though, of the hype, you know, the hypothetical
you had to go alternate.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I mean, if you had to go alternate Earth, I
could tell that's how far you had to go for
that week.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You find someone that put up uh, the Vancouver connuction
and destruction. Okay, that was that was not about. That
was not celebration.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That was a little okay, okay, okay, exit out about
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Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, here we are NBA All Star Weekend getting set.
There are I believe fourteen game scheduled Sunday for the
All Star Game with the different teams. It starts at
eight am and finishes at midnight, so we do have
a big Sunday to look forward to. But I'm gonna
ask you a big question before you get into the
get into All Star Weekend. Now, it's tough for you
(19:33):
because you've already gone to see it. But if I
said to you. You can only see one thing this weekend.
It's an either or one thing this weekend. You can
either watch NBA All Star Sunday. Can't say the All
Star Game because of the way it is this year
with a different teams playing at cho the Championship. So
NBA All Stars Sunday, which are the games that are
(19:54):
starting at eight o'clock and finishing around eleven. NBA All
Star Sunday or Captain America.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Brave New World. What are you doing this weekend? I
may go see Brave New World again? Oh right?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Oh wow, So you've gone to see it once you
liked it that much and have a choice to see
that a second time or the All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You would pick Brave New World? Yeah? Is it a
perfect movie? No? Is it a movie that's better than
the fifty two percent or whatever it was on Rotten
Tomatoes the last I looked. Yeah, it's better than that.
There's some pretty good moments, and I mean spoiler alert.
You know, Harrison Ford hulking out is pretty fun. So
(20:35):
let's get after it. If you haven't seen it, you
evidently have not watched a sporting event or anything else
at this point to know that that exists, but it
was good enough that I'd go back for seconds some
of the one liners and interactions. How about that, because
I know what I'm getting on All Star Sunday.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
No, well, yeah, well you don't really know because this
is a new format. But every year is something new
with the All Star format. You don't we don't really know. Well,
I would say, I would say this. I would say,
if I had to pick, I would do I'm doing Brave.
We're going tomorrow so we don't have to get the choice.
But if I had to pick one, I'd go see
Brave New World. Right, because the All Star Weekend, it
(21:15):
is what it is, and I love how many people
still kind of fake care about All Star Weekend.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I gotta get really mad at it. They've ruined the sanctity.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
The players have to really try. The players', dude, watch
the All Star Game or don't. Man, it's the All
Star Game, right, I mean that's what it is. Watch
it or don't watch it. This is not suddenly where Hey,
the NBA All Star Game is the Decline and Fall
of Western Civilization Part three?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Like it's an All Star game? Right? All upset?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
The players don't try, the don't why would you want
them to take it? So it's an all Star game, right,
I mean, I don't understand. All Star games have seen
their day, man, I don't know why people think that, hey,
all Star games, we're gonna find a way that we're not.
We're just the all Star game in sports, whether it's baseball, basketball,
the NHL, you know, NFL now has the Pro Bowl
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weekend where they just do all kinds of crazy flag football.
Let's hit a target from eighty yards away and then
we're gonna play dodgeball, and then we're gonna play Johnny
on the pony, and then we're gonna, you know, play
you know, I don't know, some some sort.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Of athlete Jeopardy like it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's it's it's had its day, right, it's had a
great Just because something's always always been around doesn't mean
it's always going to be around. We see that now.
I mean it's a I mean, no matter. Well, but
Toys r Us has been around now, Toys r Uss
is gone. Man, it's gone. It's gone. It's not coming back.
And all these things all this year, no not coming back.
The All Star Game has seen its day, and all
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leagues are doing now is trying to frantically stunt cast
the All Star Game from year to year to get
people excited. Maybe and maybe we'll strike something that will
bring a lot of people to the table, right, maybe
they will. Maybe maybe this year with this crazy format
of smaller games and different teams, everybody's.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Gonna watch exciting. Hey, we're gonna do it again next year? Okay, great?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Right, which be the biggest thing because then whoever's in
charge of the NBA All Star Game, whatever executives could go,
who I could take the next year off and not
to worry because I'm stressed, man, because I keep having
to come up with.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
All these crazy ass ideas.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Right that this is what all Star weekends and All
Star are for all sports. It's let's find a way
to just get people to keep coming in, right, like
bars that keep trying to find a way to get
you to come in. Well, Wednesday is ladies Night, Thursday
is two for one night, Friday is happy Hour, Saturday
is seniors drink half price, Sunday is every day is.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Something to get people to come to the bar.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Right, But then you realize are you going there because
you like it or he's going there because you're saving
money right, and Okay, yeah, I'm gonna go there once,
But then am I really gonna go back that I
love it so much I'm gonna go back.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
No, I'm gonna go there once because.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It was a thing I like, like a bunch of
us went to ten cent Wing Night or now it's
like fifty cent Wing Night. Like fifty cent Wing Night.
We went too on Mondays. You know, we haven't gone
back in a few months, but that was kind of fun.
Like that's the All Star Game. They're just hoping to
find something to bring it coming back. But it's the
days of Oh the NBA players are just absolutely ruining stuff.
It's the bleepin All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Man, watch it. Don't watch it right, We play that.
We played the drop all the time. If you don't
like it, don't watch watch it done. It doesn't matter.
It's the NBA All Star Game. It's not a stain
on the league. Just be real about it.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Even if the players cared, let's just say the players
came in and were like suddenly knocking you to the floor.
All Star games of the past, Kobe Bryant waving off
Karl Malone and hitting free throws when they told him
to miss him because Michael Jordan wants to win his
last All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Even if that came back, that's not getting you the TV.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
It's not something Oh well, hey, they all care now
because they're committing fouls.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I'm gonna go, they're playing harder.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I'm gonna know that's That's not something that's gonna suddenly
get people back.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I get it. You're wistful for the for the old days.
That's fine, man, It's fine.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
To go look at videos of NBA All Star Games
from the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
But just get that this is the new normal. And
to get upset about something, there's many other things to
get upset about, more than just the sanctity of the
NBA All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Look, we like to hold on to things in the past,
and you mentioned the videos of All Star games of
yesteryear and certainly the last forty eight hours. You know,
some of the greats recounting stories. Right. You mentioned the
well we had to you know, we're supposed to tank
for Jordan and all these things. I mean, those are fun,
little little pieces of lore, and you know how much
(25:25):
is real and reinvented and reimagined. You don't know, but
you know the Chris Haynes report of the league and
the Union are gonna meet prior to the All Star
Game to stress the importance of competing for fans and
for the business. And that's what it's become, right, I mean,
it's it's that's gonna be a meet. That's gonna be
a meeting.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Like when when when you're on a conference call and
you're like, oh, I can I can be on mute
the whole time and do something else while while while
someone is telling me something great, I don't really need
to pay super pay attention to this. So I'll be
on mute and I'll answer emails while you're telling me
about how important whatever this thing is. Like that, that's
what this meeting is going to be. It's a teacher
lecturing you, Hey, is this on the test? No, we
(26:04):
just thought you should know it. Yeah, I'm done. Yeah, yeah,
great for my information. Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
So all of that to say, you know, it's now
become a week's convention of shaking hands, kissing babies, sponsorsh
the New Television Partners, apparel brand, you name it right.
You saw the giant drones show that that the Jordan
Brandt put out that's more interesting than anything you're gonna
see on the court. UNEs put out a show. Really
(26:31):
yes he did. Wow, But like I'm sitting here watching
you know, the Rising Stars game, like that was great.
Dalton connect hit a shot, by the way. He looked
kind of happy to be there, so that was good.
He felt included and uh wanted.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
But hey, sorry, dude, we here's your jersey. We had
a Horneis jersey ready for you. We don't have a
Can you just wear the hornet?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
We don't have anything else ready, We can't get it
in top. Can you just wear the Horness jersey? You
know that Lakers jersey that you kept and you ship
back to your home base, you know, for your memorabilia collection.
Can you get that back out? Can you? Can you
do that? But it's just the idea of we're at
the convention phase of it, right, show up for it,
(27:13):
and maybe you do some cursory work, right, Hey, look
at us out of practice, yay, and now we're gonna
do some interviews. But it's the thing that plagues it
for a long time. It's the greatness of the expansion
of our ability to watch to hear audio, to watch video,
to watch these guys play every damn night. It's not
(27:34):
just the game of the week. It's not this week
in baseball or in rewind. And when we had a
mad Rashot and will Obey getting after it on a
Saturday morning, and you got to see some highlights of
guys you were never gonna see except when they played
your team, right, if they were out of the conference. Right,
you're playing the Western Conference, right as grown up as
(27:56):
a bulls guy, you got to see the Lakers. They
can't they came to town one, you played them twice
a year otherwise national games and then the playoffs and finals. Well,
we get to watch everything we want for a couple
of bucks more, you got every game, every player. You've
been able to analyze and criticize everything they do. So
when they meet up on an All Star court, is
(28:17):
it exciting? No, because these guys have all teamed together
at some point too. Hey, look who's on the All
Star team together? Yeah, you know what those three played
together there? That guy was with those other two guys. See,
we're not even playing six degrees a Kevin Bacon with
this stuff. These guys have all played together. So the
All Star Game is not some unique combination of players. Yeah,
(28:40):
you get the first timers that come in in their
fresh face and they want to put their stamp on it,
and that's great. The rest of the guys are like,
all right, I played my eight minutes. I'm sitting down. Wait,
what's the format? I got to it says I gotta
play again. And if Jerry Rice hit some magical button,
what the hell does that mean? I don't even know anymore. So, yeah,
it's it's it's just not special. It doesn't have that hold.
(29:04):
And if they start hand checking, like unless it becomes
an obstacle course, like it's Indiana Jones, Right, you got
darts flying, you got you know, booby traps, all of
those things. You got nothing. You got nothing.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
We've seen it, watch it or don't like that. Like,
this is not on the players to make this an
incredible week.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
It's the All Star Game.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, there's gonna be lack of defense, There's going to
be This is the All Star Game, man, what do
you want it to be?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
What do you expect it to be? You put it
in the middle of the season and these guys are
supposed to go out and kill themselves.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Look, and I'm gonna sayes forty minutes, whatever time we're
putting on it, especially when we're already complaining about how
many games people miss due to injury. Yeah, let's go
see a guy get get wrecked going to the hoop.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
That's what you know, what you need to do, honestly,
because this is the way to do it right, because
Baseball All Star. Because I'm gonna be positivity and give
you a solution on Friday, right, manna be positivity.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
The way the way it should work is this is
that the way it works in Major League Baseball is
great because what happens the guys go hard and they
play a very short amount of time. Right, Like you
get guys like Otani that people want to see. Yeah,
he'll get two or three at bats and he comes
out of the game in the sixth inning. Right, But
most guys play an inning, get one at bat, pitch
(30:21):
one inning, and they're done, right, so they can Hey,
I can bring it and I can play hard for
one in I don't want to get embarrassed, right, Pitchers
don't want to get lit up, Guys don't want to
strike out. But I have a very small amount of
time where I have to have go time, right, And
that seems to work because you see the competition continues
to roll from there because you're not asking guys to
play so much. If you had a little bit bigger
(30:43):
roster and you had guys play, Okay, you guys are
playing the first quarter, then you're out of the game.
You're done, right, you're playing the first quarter or the
first eight minutes, and you're done, and then somebody else
is playing the next eight minute where then okay, great, right,
then okay, then you're done, We're done. Hey, we're gonna play.
You know, the three three players from this team are
gonna play together for this eight minutes because it's a
lot of fun. Hey great, if you could find a
(31:05):
way to do that, to tell players that and then
you're done for the day. Okay, great, Like you'll find
guys will play hard for eight minutes if they're coming
out of the game. I'm coming out of the game
right now.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I'm good. I'm resting on all of this.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
So yeah, So you get those rosters up to fifteen,
which they should be, which makes no sense to not
I mean, you have fifteen person rosters now, that's what
you can carry. It should be fifteen. Why do you
want to not have a couple more people that get snubbed? Yeah,
so then you could play we'll play you five together,
you five together. You want to play around with the
format and play less minutes and make it a ten
(31:37):
minute cr Yeah, okay, great, whatever it is. But if
you could do that, and hey, you play play hard,
you're coming out of the game, all right, then okay,
that's all.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
That's all I'm playing today. Play in ten minutes and
I'm done.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
And if, obviously, if something happens, there's an injury or something,
you can go back in the game obviously, but know
the full well that when you're out, you're out, and
and that's all you're gonna have to worry about.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Like, I think that helps.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I think that would get guys to play a little
bit harder, a little more together, a little bit more fun. Hey,
guys get to play with their bet hey, with their
best friends or players on their team or former teammates
that they get to play with, Like that would be
really cool. You can set it up that way and
just plan it Like that's a big solution that I
think people would like to see and and and you
would You would get a more competitive game, and that
would stop people from complaining that.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Ah, I don't play hard enough. You could do that
solving problems. I like that, right, get guys to buy in.
Here's your brief period on the stage. But are we
going all Shakespearean now? All right? Fre you know, get
your fifteen minutes and uh four hour.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Upon the stage following that sound and fury signifying nothing. Yeah,
absolutely nicely done. It's impressive finish of Shakespeare. I don't know, buddy, no, see,
I had it. I might have missed a word or two,
but I'm there with you. I certainly studied way too
much of that. Somehow that's still in my brain. But well,
some other things fell to the wayside.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's been a long, hard run, as it were, and
sometimes you just kind of say, I don't need that
anymore yet some you know, the memory remains, see what
I did there? But for this, yeah, I mean incentivizing guys, right,
if all of a sudden there's a ton of money,
if they're on an island with what's his name, Joe
mangan Manganello out there leading the chart. I don't know.
(33:21):
Fear factor kind of events. Otherwise, Yeah, we've seen it,
We've done it, and guys don't care. They're they're worried
about the eighty two plus what another fifty? If you
have a playoff front of any consequence, a lot of
basketball to be played, whether they show out on an
All Star game, you know, the Sunday after the Super Bowl.
(33:44):
I don't I don't think you're suddenly going to convince
these guys that they're picking up some great cause exit.
How about a Fresco exit?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
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Speaker 1 (34:03):
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Speaker 4 (34:07):
Yes, but Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
NBA Rising Stars games are tonight. Is All Star weekend
going on in San Francisco. They already had the Celebrity Game.
By the way, Team Barry Bonds beat Team Cherry Rice,
and now Team Chris Mullen is in the Rising Stars
Final after beating Team Tim Hardawage Senior and Yes G
(34:28):
leaguers are in this final tonight after beating Tim Richmond's team,
even though Team Mitch shot over sixty percent from the
floor forty to thirty nine. The final All Star Saturday
Night will include Spurs rookie Stefan Castle in the Slam
Dunk Contest. Three point Contest Tomorrow will include Damian Lillard,
the two time defending champ. The actual All Star Game
(34:48):
is Sunday Night in San Francisco, and yes, it's now
a four teen mini tournament. Each team will have eight players.
Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard are finalists for the Basketball
Hall of Fame, as our coaches Mark Few and Billy Donnov.
The Basketball Hall of Fame gave out a few of
the Kirk Gaudy Awards for Electronic Media, including to Clark Kellogg,
who's been a college basketball analyst for over thirty years.
(35:10):
We had college basketball on Fox TV tonight. UCLA holds
on for victory at Indiana seventy two to seventy. The
Bruins record now nineteen and seven.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Sunday set was mc cronan after the game, was he
still really mad?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I didn't see after the game, but of course during
the game, it seems like they're always losing.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Dad, I hate everybody, true, and the refs.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Don't forget the Big ten refs absolutely sure. Sunday's Daytona
five hundred TV coverage will start an hour early due
to the weather forecast. The race will begin at two
pm Eastern Time on Fox TV. The Royals re signed
pitcher Cole Reagan's to a three year extension, and the
Miami Dolphins release running back Raheem Moster, clearing nearly three
million dollars in cap space.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
How about livethetirerac dot com studios. Big news from the
NFL today. As now we are turning the page from
the Super Bowl into the NFL Draft. At the combine,
Travis Hunter, Heisman Trophy winner is going to be listed
(36:43):
as a defensive back. Now, why this is a big
deal because this is the position that he is being
looked at as the NFL as the main position he
will play when he gets to the league. Right, it's
a dB over a wide receiver, even though look, you've
seen dual threats before, but you know his numbers is
a wide receiver. Come on, the guy's a thousand yard receiver.
(37:05):
He's gonna play a little bit more offensively than that
because he's that good. But coming in as a defensive back,
that's where everybody sees him.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
And I don't care where you go.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I don't care if Abdual Carter is getting all kinds
of run in Vegas. Is starting to take some bets
on him going number one. Overall, the Titans are either
A going to take Travis Hunter or B they're gonna
trade out of the number one pick. Right, we already
saw Mike Porganzi the new GM. There you know coming
over from Kansas City, he's gonna wind up taking Travis
Hunter because these are decisions that get you fired, right,
(37:41):
And when you're a new GM coming in, it's not
great to have the number one pick when there's not
a sure fire number one quarterback that you want to take,
or a or a transcendent guy that you like just
because he plays a different position. It sucks, right, But
this is when you have the number one pick. So okay,
I get wanting to trade out, that's fine, but and
(38:01):
you're picking number one. Travis Hunter is the guy. We
haven't seen someone play like this in college football in
over twenty years. And he was better offensively than Charles
Woodson ever was. Charles Woodson wins the Heisman Trophy in
ninety seven and he had a cup of coffee on offense.
Travis Hunter's playing every bleep and snap of the game.
I don't get how his special dude noess is being
(38:25):
discounted when we get to this next level of the NFL.
He is a great defensive back, he is a great receiver.
He is the Heisman Trophy winner. I don't understand it.
And if you don't take him number one overall, you're
opening yourself up to being fired. Because if you take
Travis Hunter and let's just say somehow he's a bust, right,
he's not going to be he's too good, but let's
just say he's a bust, right, Okay, Well he was
(38:47):
the guy you're supposed.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
To take number one.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
So all right, we understand if you take up Dual
Carter number one and he's a bust. Whoa, whoa whoa,
that gets you fired in a couple of years. Because
all Travis Hunter is able to drop down a number four.
They so and so took him here. Now he's superstar.
You don't want to make a draft pick that's gonna
get you fired. I get being risky and gutsy, and
if it involved a quarterback, I would say, yeah, go ahead.
(39:09):
If you love Shador Sanders or cam Ward that much
at number one, go take those guys there.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
What's a quarterback? Man? Though I agree with cam Ward,
I will with cam Newton.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
I will affect the game way more than you ever
will time as Hunter. But if you're if you're saying
we're gonna track, we're gonna take an alignment instead of
instead of tray, what are you really doing I mean, really,
if you if you're if you want to keep your job,
you take Travis Hunter number one. In the end, I
think cooler heads will prevail, He'll go number one overall.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
What's been the curious thing is you go back a
few weeks and the public statement was, well, we're not
gonna pass on a generational guy. And in the moment
you decide, well, which for me, he's at the fork
in the road, which path is he taken?
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
The old Yogi bearra if you see you come to
the fork in the road, take it. But no, you
gotta take one layer or the other. And in the
moment it was, well does he think that Carter is
that guy? Or is it in fact Travis Hunter? And
you know that's when we get into the debates and
trying to fight through the noise of competition him versus
(40:10):
the world, because that's what's happening to Schadour, Well he
only played against these guys, those guys, the other guys
and dismissing it and kind of parsing it out. And
when we look at Travis Hunter, if he's going as
a corner, Will Blackman, right, who worked with us for
years at Fox, now working over at Boston College and
does some media stuff. Still, he was talking about how
(40:33):
he went as a wide receiver and then took extra
drills as a cornerback. Guess what he was on a
Super Bowl team. He was around for a while as
a corner exit out a bout a Fresca exit swollen dome.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, I got a feeling. Uh uh.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Steve de Sager's updates tonight are not gonna be very long.
No NBA, no NHL. We're good.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
We're good. We got Tollee buckets. That's it. A lot
of college basketball, that's where we're gonna have Division three,
you name it, from high school CIF playoffs all over
the place. Yeah, we we're gonna get deep into it.
Fake results from sports TV shows that are on. Hey,
AFC Richmond is tied right now. Well, I gotta think
(00:55):
you know, at some point we can get back into
the prop bets from the celebrity game. You know, Drew
Ski go over under his point total or anything like that. Sure, dude,
did the general viewing public know who nine of those
people were? I'm gonna take the under uh and then
we go from there. Yeah. No, it's it's a perfect strategy.
(01:16):
It's a perfect strategy. Well, now we've got the Rising
Stars game. They just had Jeremy Lynn. He had like
four tone hair. It was great. Yeah, yeah, yeah, say
they had Jeremy strong on. He was Kendall Roy. He
was still well you're still hiding in the coffee beans,
be carefus.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
But with all of that going on, how about this
for a Friday night hitch between the eyes of something
open on a Friday night, how about this. Yeah, I'm
gonna give you a take that is undisputed, undisputed. You
the only way you're disagreeing with this is if you
just want to make an argument because there because I'm
gonna say it, and you're gonna say, oh no, that
is that is an absolute given, that is an absolute
(01:52):
You're right, can't.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We had the good Caitlin Clark take about All Star
Weekend and and her power that has gone viral. We
appreciate you all at how about a Prescott Swalling Dome
at Fox Sports Radio? Keep that going. Uh So, yeah,
you got something that's undisputed, that's undisputed generally not very
good for sports talk radio and debate.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But see, but I think it is good because it's
something that you can't disagree with, Like, wait, give me
something I can't disnoun if I say, like if I
even say, look, this is better than Michael Jordan is
the greatest basketball player becauseeam people are gonna find that
Jerry Rice is the greatest wide receiver.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
No, people are gonna be upset with that.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Uh, you know, Barry Bond's the greatest home run hitteror no,
not the You can disagree with stuff that seems like
it's it's it's gonna happen, like Joe DiMaggio's hitting Street
never be broken. No, someone gonna come around and do it. Oh,
Tani might be able to do it. No, this is
something that is absolutely there's no one because you can't
because you would say, well, oh no, no, you're you're right,
(02:52):
you're right. You'll think about it for a second. You'll
think about it for a second, all right, but then
we're gonna copt it. Okay, you're right. Are you ready?
You ready for that?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Let's go. This is undisputed, undisputed disputed, can't can't can't discrrect,
can't is that is that a show?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, it's a great title for a show. I
should call FS one and see if they want to
buy that from me. Oh, by the way, you know,
just speaking of coming up with it with the title
for a show, do you know I came up with
the title for Beyond the Glory, that TV show that
was on Fox for so long where they it was
kind of behind the music, but for uh uh for athletes.
And I came up with it when I came into
(03:28):
when I went to meet with uh the big executive
producer about the show, and I said, we can call
it Beyond the Glory. And I wound up working on
another show and they called it Beyond the Glory, and
I'm like, it show, that's my title. And I never
thought about it until after, like I should have done
something to get but all I would have gotten was
a producer credit, even though it mean you know, producer Jake,
because you know they used my type. But I'm like,
(03:49):
I never went up because I never thought it was
worth anything. This is like the old the guys in
the in the the bands in the seventies and eighties
going I didn't know if we didn't have the name
of the band. We're gonna have trouble selling tickets. I
thought they were gonna come see us. The lead singers
got the name of the band. He sells out everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
We can't get anybody to come to the art concert. No,
but all I would have that guy off, by the way,
I would have got on with producer credit on it.
But I came up with the title for Beyond the Glory. Yeah,
to show how much resonance it had in my life.
That was the name of that Skip Bayless show, by
the way, showing how much it really permeated my brain. Anyway,
moving on.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Beyond the Glory, No, no, Beyond the Glory was no,
that wasn't Skip Bayless.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
No, no, no, I undisputed was it was Skip Bayless? Why
do I forget? Did it really take you that long
to come up that undisputed? Was? Really? No, it wasn't
a show. It wasn't it it was it was a show.
It was on along, it was on front. Yeah, but
that shows how many times I watched it, just coming
up with that that one. Oh, I can't no, no
(04:52):
it it took me like four seconds that I waited
to get a pontific eate on your world. But it
was just more the in the in the because you
said I should be the name of a show, and
you know, in my head it was like, well, I'm
sure it was, but and then it's.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's why you brought it up, going that's your name.
It wink wink to you know the f s one undisputed.
I thought you were doing you with a wink wow
for a second, you thought I came up with another
incredible idea for the name.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Of No that would have been it would have been great.
I might have watched that one.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
All right, all right, it's undisputed. Came all right, Hey,
Jason Smith came up with undisputed. Uh, eight years after
it was.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
But here's the thing. You can relaunch it. It's time
for a reboot. Everything to you again.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Uh, here it is your undisputed. Take undisputed. Take no
fans in the history of sports mm hmm celebrate championships
at the level of Philadelphia Eagles fans and fine, one
(05:57):
can't one. Here's the here's the problem. No problem, it's
no because because here's the problem with it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We don't live in the alternate universe like the Marvel
you know, Earth whatever, ninety eighty two where the Mets
or Knicks had won something substantive, because remember when the
Knicks won just a measly playoff series, I thought that
was it. Go to New York, I thought that was
the end of the city. In that evening, Guys bouncing
(06:26):
up and down on cars, things are a blaze, all
of that stuff that like, all right, if they actually
want something, you know, real, this could get really bad.
But we haven't seen that.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
So it's all theoretical, especially okay for this world that
not not the non all the other Marvel Wars.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
This world. Yeah, you're thinking, that's where you had to go.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
That's where you had to go to find a way
to disagree with this take. I had to go to
an entirely fictional world.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
To disagree with you, and you were never actually going
to see it. So I at least give you that
moment of positivity. Let's see what else after after today?
Obil socker or anything.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
No, no no one, no, not Eagles fans I'm going
flares at each other or anything. I mean, it was
enough the first time around when they had to grease
the poles in downtown Philadelphia because the people were climbing
them and and cars were getting okay. But now today
this was just a different level. I I can't tell
you how much fun it was all day scrolling through
(07:27):
social media going oh my god, this is real. Someone
did this at the at the parade for the Eagles today.
I mean, and it's it's great. All the player stuff
is great, like Jalen Hurts running up the Rocky steps.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
A couple of players who were were helping kids like
I saw that uh Nolan Smith uh put it took
a kid from the from the crowd and put him
on his shoulders and started walking around with him speaking
high five people.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Which at point that's really cool.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The other point, I'm like, if I'm the kid's parents
are going, how far you going with my kid?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Get? How far are you going?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I want that Saquon Barkley grabbing the ball boy from
the crowd sad come come march with us?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
How I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
The player stuff is great, right, but stuff like the
guy who was sitting on the top of the Citizens
Bank Park sign. I don't know how he got up there,
but he's sitting on the top of the Citizens Bank
Park sign. There is no support around him, and someone
chucks him a beer and he catches it behind his
head like he doesn't like catch it. He catches it
(08:26):
behind his head, opens up and starts drinking. I'm like,
this is just this is dangerous and it's and it's crazy,
and I'm going, how did they do this? And it's
like watching magic tricks. I don't understand how this happens.
How Philadelphia is able to pull this stuff off.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, I mean, look, there were a lot of highs.
We got a couple of head wounds, right roseman with
the giant gash on his head.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
The GM gets hitting the head with a beer people
because they were throwing beer beer cans at players all day,
and one guy got a hogy thrown to him.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
They threw him a hogy. Oh hey, here, you won't
catch this and have this. I know you're getting beer,
but how about a little turkey and cheese sandwich, little chitter?
How about little saye? I got it? Wah wah, You're
all good? Right here he go.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Catch Oh he caught it. He caught the HOGI I
threw him out. I hope I don't see that on
eBay later.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, that's straight out of Happy Gilmore hitting the uh
the sandwich in the commercial. Right, you know, obviously they're
some serious stuff too. Right, we had a couple of shootings.
I don't want to take it down because obviously I
got what you're saying. There were a lot of there
were a lot of positives, right, so you know one
of those just you know, the reality that you know
(09:29):
you do have, uh, the the lunatic fringe and knuckleheads
that get in. But the guy that was trying to
you know, scream along and sing along the Eagles in
the middle of throwing up like that was another viral
video that was kind of fun. Leave for this city.
I bleed for this good line. It's a good line
right there. There's a guy that his meal per diem.
(09:54):
He gets to pocket that for the rest of his life,
like he will never have to write off another beer.
Takeout me, No, howie, you're the guy you bled for
the city. Just just take it now. So like if
I if I had any tangential ties to the Eagle,
if I played at any point, I would have been
(10:15):
showing up to basking that because I would have been
getting free stuff and love I man like no other. Hey,
you remember me, I played wide receiver in the late eighties.
Good to see it, are.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
You, Kenny Jackson? Yeah, all right, day, thanks me here
for today.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I am. Let's go you and cops doing the gritty. Oh,
I'm watching chewing cigars through the cops are doing the gritty,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
They were one guy was beating up a Kermit doll.
And then I saw one my friend sent me one video.
Somebody had a pig roast and they had the pig
and they had a number fifteen on the pig. I'm like,
oh my goodness, is all right? This is now a
little bit. Let's let's check mak far. Yeah, but let's
make sure.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Let's make sure. But like the one guy on.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
The top of the on the top of the street
light drinking whiskey or whatever out of a snifter, like
he's just drinking straight out of a snifter, like this
is in No one celebrates championships like Eagles and nobody
in the story of sports.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Nobody. Yeah, those guys by the museum, they're waving the flag.
They climbed up there like there was just all these
little snippets and it was funny because you know, the
the girls this avenue we went and saw the uh,
the Captain America movie. And then afterwards, you know, because
phones are buzzing and whatever they get they gotta get
on and they're like, yeah, it's nothing but Eagles stuff
(11:37):
on my timeline. I just started laughing. It's like, I
don't know if my phone and my content infected yours
or if somehow you guys just got on board of
sports sports kick. But they're like, it's nothing but Eagles
parade highlights one after the other. It's like, what the hell?
Like sweet, I mean, so I do clear victory. I
(12:00):
almost climbed up on top of the the AMC structure
and started waving a flag. I one, damn it my
Super Bowl today.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Uh, I mean I think I think when I saw
the cops doing the gritty, that's when I said, Okay,
this is just this is this is a party that
I want to be at, Like this is this is
a party that you could walk and every five feet
see something where you go, oh you never see that again? Ope, nope,
never see that again. Oh I'm never gonna see that again.
I never see that again, guarantee, guarantee.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But just I mean the Saquon Barkley one was the
one that that hits you first, but then uh, Jalen
hurts being compared to nine thousand different movie characters and
being put an inserted and photoshop into so many different
historical moments while smoking a cigar and running around with
the super Bowl trophy. Uh you mentioned the Rocky steps,
(12:51):
which I mean his love Hurts hoodie is awesome. That
was good.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
If I was an Eagles fan, I would I would
I would have went out and said how much is
that I'm buying it today?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Like the love Comma Hurts? Like that's I mean, that's
a great hoodie. Man, that is fantastic. I mean that's
straight out of to sir with love Comma hurts, I
mean grammatically correct. Too good for him.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
C J.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Gardner Johnson continuing the the stuff with the Swifties and
Travis Kelsey. We're not going to talk about it on
air because it's we're not safe harbor to read his shirt.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And I know and I know you're also a swifty too,
and you're in a family of Swifties. I understand, I understand.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
No, no, no, I mean, look, I I take no
offense to it. I mean, hopefully gets a couple of
sales and they do some good with the money. So
that was good. I mean, but you are a swifty
I know you're a swift Oh no, I'm in I
you know, she's she's she's gotten plenty of my my
ear time. And uh, you went to ire money to go.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
We did her, We did, you went to Ireland.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah that was great. Yeah, bracelets we we we traded bracelets.
We made a lot of friends. We might have found
some more people in a pub that were ready to
hang out and be swifties with us and sing along. No,
it was great. I mean we really had a good
time with it. So yeah, Look CJ. Gardner Johnson though,
I mean, he's been known to talk trash and and
(14:11):
get in people's heads, so you know where he could
get his extra five minutes during a parade that was
celebrating so many Look Dowid Roseman though man MVP. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
But here's the thing though, when you when that's something
like that, like you know that's like, hey, now that
this is I got free publicity now on this.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But everybody's gonna say, what a great guy as long.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
As as long as I'm fine, as long as I
had an Eagles doctor come and look at him and
say Okay, you're good.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
We'll get your stitched up at some point.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
No, no, I'm walking this parade, madam. Okay, Like everybody's
gonna love the guy and your shit. He's the best
GM in sports. He's the best. He's got three teams
of the Super Bowl with different coaching staffs, different talent,
different players at big positions, three times in the last
six years. Like, how do you do that? He is
the best GM in sports.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But that's the thing. He's been able to cycle all
these guys out of different players. We talked about the defense,
eight different starters than the Super Bowl team of just
a couple of years ago. Uh, He's like, I can
never be replaced. You'll have to clone me. Cause not
only did I have I done this for the city. Man,
look at what we're celebrating here. I bled for you. Yeah.
(15:18):
I took a can to the head and a couple
of near misses. Man, when folks started chucking stuff at
the buses, you saw a couple of people duck like,
all right, you got you gotta lobb it. It's an
underhand lob what are we doing? But I'm still you're
throwing it in like a cannon, like it's uh, you know,
Aaron Rodgers fire.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And it really was enjoyable though, seeing the guys catch
these catch these beers thrown them like easy, like it's
not like hey, they caught like it's like it's going
They got like they would flick their hands out at
the last second, like a lizard when it catches a fly,
like it's like, wow, that's a great catch.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
How did you catch that? That's that's really good.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
But I mean, look, I mean, if you had to
ask my favorite part though, I mean, look, I loved
a but man, I would love to be part of
a part of a parade and someone throws me a
sandwich like that that.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Really is next level right there, to throw you a sandwich.
Everybody else you get a beer, right you're going from
the thirty packs and just kind of chucking them up,
maybe a cigar, and we saw a lot of chomping
of cigars all over the place. And then and then
you got the HOGI you got the Hogy. A couple
other guys that you know, decided to go a little
stronger than beers. Uh, and certainly people on the parade route.
(16:28):
I don't know how how trusting I am of anybody
handing me something off the parade route, that's just me.
That's fine, I'll eat it. But but also just hey,
here's here's an open bottle of something. I'm out, I'm out. Yeah,
I'm with you. I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Although if I hadn't seen people actually do it at
Fox Sports Radio, I would say it's a little weird.
But now seen people do that. Hey, where does this
food come from? I don't know, and people just start
eating it. Where does this food come from? In the
cara radio? People's gonna start eating it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
It's gonna start just a radio people. It HiT's that
that area in the kitchen. It's the old law building salvage.
If it's not chained down, it's free.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
No one parties like the Eagles undisputed. Undisputed Eagles fans
are unrivaled in that exit.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Two minutes though, of the hype, you know, the hypothetical
you had to go alternate.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I mean, if you had to go alternate Earth, I
could tell that's how far you had to go for
that week.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You find someone that put up uh, the Vancouver connuction
and destruction. Okay, that was that was not about. That
was not celebration.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
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Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, here we are NBA All Star Weekend getting set.
There are I believe fourteen game scheduled Sunday for the
All Star Game with the different teams. It starts at
eight am and finishes at midnight, so we do have
a big Sunday to look forward to. But I'm gonna
ask you a big question before you get into the
get into All Star Weekend. Now, it's tough for you
(19:33):
because you've already gone to see it. But if I
said to you. You can only see one thing this weekend.
It's an either or one thing this weekend. You can
either watch NBA All Star Sunday. Can't say the All
Star Game because of the way it is this year
with a different teams playing at cho the Championship. So
NBA All Stars Sunday, which are the games that are
(19:54):
starting at eight o'clock and finishing around eleven. NBA All
Star Sunday or Captain America.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Brave New World. What are you doing this weekend? I
may go see Brave New World again? Oh right?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Oh wow, So you've gone to see it once you
liked it that much and have a choice to see
that a second time or the All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You would pick Brave New World? Yeah? Is it a
perfect movie? No? Is it a movie that's better than
the fifty two percent or whatever it was on Rotten
Tomatoes the last I looked. Yeah, it's better than that.
There's some pretty good moments, and I mean spoiler alert.
You know, Harrison Ford hulking out is pretty fun. So
(20:35):
let's get after it. If you haven't seen it, you
evidently have not watched a sporting event or anything else
at this point to know that that exists, but it
was good enough that I'd go back for seconds some
of the one liners and interactions. How about that, because
I know what I'm getting on All Star Sunday.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
No, well, yeah, well you don't really know because this
is a new format. But every year is something new
with the All Star format. You don't we don't really know. Well,
I would say, I would say this. I would say,
if I had to pick, I would do I'm doing Brave.
We're going tomorrow so we don't have to get the choice.
But if I had to pick one, I'd go see
Brave New World. Right, because the All Star Weekend, it
(21:15):
is what it is, and I love how many people
still kind of fake care about All Star Weekend.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I gotta get really mad at it. They've ruined the sanctity.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
The players have to really try. The players', dude, watch
the All Star Game or don't. Man, it's the All
Star Game, right, I mean that's what it is. Watch
it or don't watch it. This is not suddenly where Hey,
the NBA All Star Game is the Decline and Fall
of Western Civilization Part three?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Like it's an All Star game? Right? All upset?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
The players don't try, the don't why would you want
them to take it? So it's an all Star game, right,
I mean, I don't understand. All Star games have seen
their day, man, I don't know why people think that, hey,
all Star games, we're gonna find a way that we're not.
We're just the all Star game in sports, whether it's baseball, basketball,
the NHL, you know, NFL now has the Pro Bowl
(22:06):
weekend where they just do all kinds of crazy flag football.
Let's hit a target from eighty yards away and then
we're gonna play dodgeball, and then we're gonna play Johnny
on the pony, and then we're gonna, you know, play
you know, I don't know, some some sort.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Of athlete Jeopardy like it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's it's it's had its day, right, it's had a
great Just because something's always always been around doesn't mean
it's always going to be around. We see that now.
I mean it's a I mean, no matter. Well, but
Toys r Us has been around now, Toys r Uss
is gone. Man, it's gone. It's gone. It's not coming back.
And all these things all this year, no not coming back.
The All Star Game has seen its day, and all
(22:41):
leagues are doing now is trying to frantically stunt cast
the All Star Game from year to year to get
people excited. Maybe and maybe we'll strike something that will
bring a lot of people to the table, right, maybe
they will. Maybe maybe this year with this crazy format
of smaller games and different teams, everybody's.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Gonna watch exciting. Hey, we're gonna do it again next year? Okay, great?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Right, which be the biggest thing because then whoever's in
charge of the NBA All Star Game, whatever executives could go,
who I could take the next year off and not
to worry because I'm stressed, man, because I keep having
to come up with.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
All these crazy ass ideas.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Right that this is what all Star weekends and All
Star are for all sports. It's let's find a way
to just get people to keep coming in, right, like
bars that keep trying to find a way to get
you to come in. Well, Wednesday is ladies Night, Thursday
is two for one night, Friday is happy Hour, Saturday
is seniors drink half price, Sunday is every day is.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Something to get people to come to the bar.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Right, But then you realize are you going there because
you like it or he's going there because you're saving
money right, and Okay, yeah, I'm gonna go there once,
But then am I really gonna go back that I
love it so much I'm gonna go back.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
No, I'm gonna go there once because.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It was a thing I like, like a bunch of
us went to ten cent Wing Night or now it's
like fifty cent Wing Night. Like fifty cent Wing Night.
We went too on Mondays. You know, we haven't gone
back in a few months, but that was kind of fun.
Like that's the All Star Game. They're just hoping to
find something to bring it coming back. But it's the
days of Oh the NBA players are just absolutely ruining stuff.
It's the bleepin All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Man, watch it. Don't watch it right, We play that.
We played the drop all the time. If you don't
like it, don't watch watch it done. It doesn't matter.
It's the NBA All Star Game. It's not a stain
on the league. Just be real about it.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Even if the players cared, let's just say the players
came in and were like suddenly knocking you to the floor.
All Star games of the past, Kobe Bryant waving off
Karl Malone and hitting free throws when they told him
to miss him because Michael Jordan wants to win his
last All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Even if that came back, that's not getting you the TV.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
It's not something Oh well, hey, they all care now
because they're committing fouls.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I'm gonna go, they're playing harder.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I'm gonna know that's That's not something that's gonna suddenly
get people back.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I get it. You're wistful for the for the old days.
That's fine, man, It's fine.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
To go look at videos of NBA All Star Games
from the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It's great.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
But just get that this is the new normal. And
to get upset about something, there's many other things to
get upset about, more than just the sanctity of the
NBA All Star Game.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Look, we like to hold on to things in the past,
and you mentioned the videos of All Star games of
yesteryear and certainly the last forty eight hours. You know,
some of the greats recounting stories. Right. You mentioned the
well we had to you know, we're supposed to tank
for Jordan and all these things. I mean, those are fun,
little little pieces of lore, and you know how much
(25:25):
is real and reinvented and reimagined. You don't know, but
you know the Chris Haynes report of the league and
the Union are gonna meet prior to the All Star
Game to stress the importance of competing for fans and
for the business. And that's what it's become, right, I mean,
it's it's that's gonna be a meet. That's gonna be
a meeting.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Like when when when you're on a conference call and
you're like, oh, I can I can be on mute
the whole time and do something else while while while
someone is telling me something great, I don't really need
to pay super pay attention to this. So I'll be
on mute and I'll answer emails while you're telling me
about how important whatever this thing is. Like that, that's
what this meeting is going to be. It's a teacher
lecturing you, Hey, is this on the test? No, we
(26:04):
just thought you should know it. Yeah, I'm done. Yeah, yeah,
great for my information. Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
So all of that to say, you know, it's now
become a week's convention of shaking hands, kissing babies, sponsorsh
the New Television Partners, apparel brand, you name it right.
You saw the giant drones show that that the Jordan
Brandt put out that's more interesting than anything you're gonna
see on the court. UNEs put out a show. Really
(26:31):
yes he did. Wow, But like I'm sitting here watching
you know, the Rising Stars game, like that was great.
Dalton connect hit a shot, by the way. He looked
kind of happy to be there, so that was good.
He felt included and uh wanted.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
But hey, sorry, dude, we here's your jersey. We had
a Horneis jersey ready for you. We don't have a
Can you just wear the hornet?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
We don't have anything else ready, We can't get it
in top. Can you just wear the Horness jersey? You
know that Lakers jersey that you kept and you ship
back to your home base, you know, for your memorabilia collection.
Can you get that back out? Can you? Can you
do that? But it's just the idea of we're at
the convention phase of it, right, show up for it,
(27:13):
and maybe you do some cursory work, right, Hey, look
at us out of practice, yay, and now we're gonna
do some interviews. But it's the thing that plagues it
for a long time. It's the greatness of the expansion
of our ability to watch to hear audio, to watch video,
to watch these guys play every damn night. It's not
(27:34):
just the game of the week. It's not this week
in baseball or in rewind. And when we had a
mad Rashot and will Obey getting after it on a
Saturday morning, and you got to see some highlights of
guys you were never gonna see except when they played
your team, right, if they were out of the conference. Right,
you're playing the Western Conference, right as grown up as
(27:56):
a bulls guy, you got to see the Lakers. They
can't they came to town one, you played them twice
a year otherwise national games and then the playoffs and finals. Well,
we get to watch everything we want for a couple
of bucks more, you got every game, every player. You've
been able to analyze and criticize everything they do. So
when they meet up on an All Star court, is
(28:17):
it exciting? No, because these guys have all teamed together
at some point too. Hey, look who's on the All
Star team together? Yeah, you know what those three played
together there? That guy was with those other two guys. See,
we're not even playing six degrees a Kevin Bacon with
this stuff. These guys have all played together. So the
All Star Game is not some unique combination of players. Yeah,
(28:40):
you get the first timers that come in in their
fresh face and they want to put their stamp on it,
and that's great. The rest of the guys are like,
all right, I played my eight minutes. I'm sitting down. Wait,
what's the format? I got to it says I gotta
play again. And if Jerry Rice hit some magical button,
what the hell does that mean? I don't even know anymore. So, yeah,
it's it's it's just not special. It doesn't have that hold.
(29:04):
And if they start hand checking, like unless it becomes
an obstacle course, like it's Indiana Jones, Right, you got
darts flying, you got you know, booby traps, all of
those things. You got nothing. You got nothing.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
We've seen it, watch it or don't like that. Like,
this is not on the players to make this an
incredible week.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
It's the All Star Game.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, there's gonna be lack of defense, There's going to
be This is the All Star Game, man, what do
you want it to be?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
What do you expect it to be? You put it
in the middle of the season and these guys are
supposed to go out and kill themselves.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Look, and I'm gonna sayes forty minutes, whatever time we're
putting on it, especially when we're already complaining about how
many games people miss due to injury. Yeah, let's go
see a guy get get wrecked going to the hoop.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
That's what you know, what you need to do, honestly,
because this is the way to do it right, because
Baseball All Star. Because I'm gonna be positivity and give
you a solution on Friday, right, manna be positivity.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
The way the way it should work is this is
that the way it works in Major League Baseball is
great because what happens the guys go hard and they
play a very short amount of time. Right, Like you
get guys like Otani that people want to see. Yeah,
he'll get two or three at bats and he comes
out of the game in the sixth inning. Right, But
most guys play an inning, get one at bat, pitch
(30:21):
one inning, and they're done, right, so they can Hey,
I can bring it and I can play hard for
one in I don't want to get embarrassed, right, Pitchers
don't want to get lit up, Guys don't want to
strike out. But I have a very small amount of
time where I have to have go time, right, And
that seems to work because you see the competition continues
to roll from there because you're not asking guys to
play so much. If you had a little bit bigger
(30:43):
roster and you had guys play, Okay, you guys are
playing the first quarter, then you're out of the game.
You're done, right, you're playing the first quarter or the
first eight minutes, and you're done, and then somebody else
is playing the next eight minute where then okay, great, right,
then okay, then you're done, We're done. Hey, we're gonna play.
You know, the three three players from this team are
gonna play together for this eight minutes because it's a
lot of fun. Hey great, if you could find a
(31:05):
way to do that, to tell players that and then
you're done for the day. Okay, great, Like you'll find
guys will play hard for eight minutes if they're coming
out of the game. I'm coming out of the game
right now.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I'm good. I'm resting on all of this.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
So yeah, So you get those rosters up to fifteen,
which they should be, which makes no sense to not
I mean, you have fifteen person rosters now, that's what
you can carry. It should be fifteen. Why do you
want to not have a couple more people that get snubbed? Yeah,
so then you could play we'll play you five together,
you five together. You want to play around with the
format and play less minutes and make it a ten
(31:37):
minute cr Yeah, okay, great, whatever it is. But if
you could do that, and hey, you play play hard,
you're coming out of the game, all right, then okay,
that's all.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
That's all I'm playing today. Play in ten minutes and
I'm done.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
And if, obviously, if something happens, there's an injury or something,
you can go back in the game obviously, but know
the full well that when you're out, you're out, and
and that's all you're gonna have to worry about.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Like, I think that helps.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I think that would get guys to play a little
bit harder, a little more together, a little bit more fun. Hey,
guys get to play with their bet hey, with their
best friends or players on their team or former teammates
that they get to play with, Like that would be
really cool. You can set it up that way and
just plan it Like that's a big solution that I
think people would like to see and and and you
would You would get a more competitive game, and that
would stop people from complaining that.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Ah, I don't play hard enough. You could do that
solving problems. I like that, right, get guys to buy in.
Here's your brief period on the stage. But are we
going all Shakespearean now? All right? Fre you know, get
your fifteen minutes and uh four hour.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Upon the stage following that sound and fury signifying nothing. Yeah,
absolutely nicely done. It's impressive finish of Shakespeare. I don't know, buddy, no, see,
I had it. I might have missed a word or two,
but I'm there with you. I certainly studied way too
much of that. Somehow that's still in my brain. But well,
some other things fell to the wayside.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's been a long, hard run, as it were, and
sometimes you just kind of say, I don't need that
anymore yet some you know, the memory remains, see what
I did there? But for this, yeah, I mean incentivizing guys, right,
if all of a sudden there's a ton of money,
if they're on an island with what's his name, Joe
mangan Manganello out there leading the chart. I don't know.
(33:21):
Fear factor kind of events. Otherwise, Yeah, we've seen it,
We've done it, and guys don't care. They're they're worried
about the eighty two plus what another fifty? If you
have a playoff front of any consequence, a lot of
basketball to be played, whether they show out on an
All Star game, you know, the Sunday after the Super Bowl.
(33:44):
I don't I don't think you're suddenly going to convince
these guys that they're picking up some great cause exit.
How about a Fresco exit?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
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Speaker 1 (34:03):
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Speaker 4 (34:07):
Yes, but Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
NBA Rising Stars games are tonight. Is All Star weekend
going on in San Francisco. They already had the Celebrity Game.
By the way, Team Barry Bonds beat Team Cherry Rice,
and now Team Chris Mullen is in the Rising Stars
Final after beating Team Tim Hardawage Senior and Yes G
(34:28):
leaguers are in this final tonight after beating Tim Richmond's team,
even though Team Mitch shot over sixty percent from the
floor forty to thirty nine. The final All Star Saturday
Night will include Spurs rookie Stefan Castle in the Slam
Dunk Contest. Three point Contest Tomorrow will include Damian Lillard,
the two time defending champ. The actual All Star Game
(34:48):
is Sunday Night in San Francisco, and yes, it's now
a four teen mini tournament. Each team will have eight players.
Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard are finalists for the Basketball
Hall of Fame, as our coaches Mark Few and Billy Donnov.
The Basketball Hall of Fame gave out a few of
the Kirk Gaudy Awards for Electronic Media, including to Clark Kellogg,
who's been a college basketball analyst for over thirty years.
(35:10):
We had college basketball on Fox TV tonight. UCLA holds
on for victory at Indiana seventy two to seventy. The
Bruins record now nineteen and seven.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Sunday set was mc cronan after the game, was he
still really mad?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I didn't see after the game, but of course during
the game, it seems like they're always losing.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Dad, I hate everybody, true, and the refs.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Don't forget the Big ten refs absolutely sure. Sunday's Daytona
five hundred TV coverage will start an hour early due
to the weather forecast. The race will begin at two
pm Eastern Time on Fox TV. The Royals re signed
pitcher Cole Reagan's to a three year extension, and the
Miami Dolphins release running back Raheem Moster, clearing nearly three
million dollars in cap space.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
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big news. When it comes to the NFL Draft, I'm
pretty sure even after today, I can guarantee you who's
going number one overall. That's next, Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
How about livethetirerac dot com studios. Big news from the
NFL today. As now we are turning the page from
the Super Bowl into the NFL Draft. At the combine,
Travis Hunter, Heisman Trophy winner is going to be listed
(36:43):
as a defensive back. Now, why this is a big
deal because this is the position that he is being
looked at as the NFL as the main position he
will play when he gets to the league. Right, it's
a dB over a wide receiver, even though look, you've
seen dual threats before, but you know his numbers is
a wide receiver. Come on, the guy's a thousand yard receiver.
(37:05):
He's gonna play a little bit more offensively than that
because he's that good. But coming in as a defensive back,
that's where everybody sees him.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
And I don't care where you go.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I don't care if Abdual Carter is getting all kinds
of run in Vegas. Is starting to take some bets
on him going number one. Overall, the Titans are either
A going to take Travis Hunter or B they're gonna
trade out of the number one pick. Right, we already
saw Mike Porganzi the new GM. There you know coming
over from Kansas City, he's gonna wind up taking Travis
Hunter because these are decisions that get you fired, right,
(37:41):
And when you're a new GM coming in, it's not
great to have the number one pick when there's not
a sure fire number one quarterback that you want to take,
or a or a transcendent guy that you like just
because he plays a different position. It sucks, right, But
this is when you have the number one pick. So okay,
I get wanting to trade out, that's fine, but and
(38:01):
you're picking number one. Travis Hunter is the guy. We
haven't seen someone play like this in college football in
over twenty years. And he was better offensively than Charles
Woodson ever was. Charles Woodson wins the Heisman Trophy in
ninety seven and he had a cup of coffee on offense.
Travis Hunter's playing every bleep and snap of the game.
I don't get how his special dude noess is being
(38:25):
discounted when we get to this next level of the NFL.
He is a great defensive back, he is a great receiver.
He is the Heisman Trophy winner. I don't understand it.
And if you don't take him number one overall, you're
opening yourself up to being fired. Because if you take
Travis Hunter and let's just say somehow he's a bust, right,
he's not going to be he's too good, but let's
just say he's a bust, right, Okay, Well he was
(38:47):
the guy you're supposed.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
To take number one.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
So all right, we understand if you take up Dual
Carter number one and he's a bust. Whoa, whoa whoa,
that gets you fired in a couple of years. Because
all Travis Hunter is able to drop down a number four.
They so and so took him here. Now he's superstar.
You don't want to make a draft pick that's gonna
get you fired. I get being risky and gutsy, and
if it involved a quarterback, I would say, yeah, go ahead.
(39:09):
If you love Shador Sanders or cam Ward that much
at number one, go take those guys there.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
What's a quarterback? Man? Though I agree with cam Ward,
I will with cam Newton.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
I will affect the game way more than you ever
will time as Hunter. But if you're if you're saying
we're gonna track, we're gonna take an alignment instead of
instead of tray, what are you really doing I mean, really,
if you if you're if you want to keep your job,
you take Travis Hunter number one. In the end, I
think cooler heads will prevail, He'll go number one overall.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
What's been the curious thing is you go back a
few weeks and the public statement was, well, we're not
gonna pass on a generational guy. And in the moment
you decide, well, which for me, he's at the fork
in the road, which path is he taken?
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
The old Yogi bearra if you see you come to
the fork in the road, take it. But no, you
gotta take one layer or the other. And in the
moment it was, well does he think that Carter is
that guy? Or is it in fact Travis Hunter? And
you know that's when we get into the debates and
trying to fight through the noise of competition him versus
(40:10):
the world, because that's what's happening to Schadour, Well he
only played against these guys, those guys, the other guys
and dismissing it and kind of parsing it out. And
when we look at Travis Hunter, if he's going as
a corner, Will Blackman, right, who worked with us for
years at Fox, now working over at Boston College and
does some media stuff. Still, he was talking about how
(40:33):
he went as a wide receiver and then took extra
drills as a cornerback. Guess what he was on a
Super Bowl team. He was around for a while as
a corner exit out a bout a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
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Speaker 1 (40:48):
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Speaker 2 (40:49):
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