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Dan Beyer and Monse Bolanos in for Covino and Rich as they talk about Caitlin Clark's decision to not participate in the WNBA's 3-pt contest at All-Star weekend. Dan, Monse and the crew talk about the number 8 and other notables numbers associated with athletes.  Dan and Monse take calls for the numbers game. 

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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crew here at Fox Sports Radio sitting in for Cabino
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(00:32):
for the weekend. Rre wee. Macclroy not going to stick
around for the weekend. Kaitlyn Clark will stick around for
the weekend, but not do as much as you thought.
Welcome in. It is a Friday. Our good buddy, Jason
Stewart is here today our executive producer. Hello Jason, Hello everybody. Iowa.
Sam is our technical producer. Today is Friday, and Nick

(00:54):
Cope is at the anchor desk, saluting you. Monty Belanos,
let's keep going.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
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Speaker 2 (01:16):
Treating at like Hulkogan tweeted his shirt last night at
the RNC. Is Trump still talking? Do we know? I'm
sure that joke has probably been said by eight thousand
other radio hosts today. That was a that was a
long speech last night.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
Queen Bay's gonna have a good team this year. Right
I went to bed, I was like, this guy's got
he's outlasting all of us.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, No, I was not watching it was.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
I watched for l like it was ninety two minutes. I
watched for probably over an hour, over an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I did not watch the entire ninety two minutes. There
was a point where I where I did duck out.
I would say probably forty minute. Mark did not realize
that it went on for ninety two minutes. There was
a point, I think, like many others that went back
and it was still going on and still talking, and
he was still talking and still talking and still talking.

(02:09):
But I did catch the shout out to the Wisconsin
delegation that, of course, why why fight stereotypes? Just embraced them.
Everybody with a cheesehead, right, that just everybody with a cheesehead?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
By the way, this wasn't a thing I would say
thirty some years ago. But now any place you go,
any airport you go. Doug was just here, Doug Gottlieber
at our Fox Sports radio studios. When I saw him
last week in Green Bay. We went and had lunch
at lambeau Field. Doug wasn't there, he was actually doing
his show at the time, but went to the pro shop.
There are cheesehead there were cheeseheads, there were cheese had footballs,

(02:46):
the whole deal. Why not lean into it, right?

Speaker 4 (02:48):
I secretly love it. I think it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
And I'll tell you what. You're the audience for it.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, even though I'm not a fan of that team,
I think it's awesome.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I'm into it.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Are you, Sam's a Packers fan? Are you for the cheesehead?
Do you like the cheesehead.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
At the convention? Anywhere, just anywhere? I like the cheesehead.
Iowa does, even though they're kind of stealing an idea
from the corn Huskers they do, like the corn cob head.
I used to have one of those. I think cheesead
is much more original. But like they do this now
where like if you're from Texas, you have to wear
a cowboy hat at the convention. If you're from Wisconsin,
put the cheese head on. Yeah, yeah, but that's like

(03:25):
makes you recognizable, correct, And that's that's I guess that's
just my issue with it. It's become so much of this
stereotype of Wisconsin that everybody wears a cheesehead as someone
from Wisconsin and with friends and family that don't have cheeseheads. Yeah,
I just feel like it's it's it's for all of you.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Right right now. So MANSI saying it makes me makes
me realize that it's not about me, It's about you guys.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Correct, Like if I showed up and put that on,
people are going to be like, oh, she's not from
around here.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
This is our first time busies.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, like yes, and there are rules. There are rules
at my local airport like do not like touch the
cheese head or put on the cheese head. Like I
think it's just grab and buy because they don't want
it ruins get stretched out rip.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Is it like spongy? Yeah, it's like spongy.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
I saw someone using it as a firm spongenge an
airplane pillow. I saw someone using it as an airplane
pillow once in a picture.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, that would be That would be pretty. Then you
really like your mattress and pillows firm, because it's not.
It needs to have some structure.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
By the way, Dan, one more thing. Sorry, the packers
are not even known for it's not they didn't pack cheese.
Is meat packing? So like the cheese thing, there we go.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
No, I know, but it's like maybe he thought that
Bob Newhart appeared on Mary Tyler Moore yesterday.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
Yes, Sam makes it up with another tidbit. Uh here, No,
you are correct. It is just a miss I think
it's a misconception. People think it's about pack cheese, but
it's about.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
I don't know how many I don't know how many
people actually realize that it was from a packing company.
I don't I don't even know how many people realize that.
I think they just think that. They call them the
packers for whatever reason, just like you would name a
team like the Bears. But I kid Sam I appreciate
that that tidbit bringing the knowledge here on Cavino and Rich.

(05:23):
Will Caitlin Clark wear a corn cob head in the
three point shootout at the w NBA's All Star Weekend?
When is the three point shootout?

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Mantci to be fine, Yes, it is today. Oh, it
is today at nine eastern.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Okay, nine eastern. Yes, I'm gonna say no because she's
not competing in it, So there's the answer. I don't
think that she will, and we have seen her hit
the red carpet, excuse me, orange carpet with the Versace,
the Tiffany.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeahs, she knows how to approach those carpets. It's not
her first time.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
And the Cardia. I don't think that a corn cob
head or hat would would fit fit in. But Caitlin
Clark has had a difficult time fitting in the WNBA,
a lot.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Of the haters forcing herself in there.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yes she is and her game nineteen assists most recently,
and that loss earlier this week to Dallas grabbed a
lot of headlines. But I think that time is starting
to heal all wounds. But sometimes wounds reopen. Yes, sometimes
scabs get ripped off, and when Caitlin Clark decided to
not compete in the three point shootout that is taking

(06:28):
place tonight, the Caitlyn Clark haters and detractors used it
as open season on all of those who supported Caitlin
Clark or wanted her on the US Olympic team. Now
it is. I don't want to say everyone, because it's
not everyone. But is that a fair assessment money?

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Of course it is, and you could just go on
ex Twitter and see that several people feel that way.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
All right. Should Kaitlin Clark have competed in the three
point shootout?

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Of course she should have. I think she should have.
But I also so put this on the league itself.
How is this not in the contract the minute she
joined the WNBA, not just her, but Sabrina Yunescu, both
of them.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
One hundred should should be participating in this. But again,
I put this more on the league. How did you
not put.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
This in pen and writing and have them sign we
are gonna do this even if you're gonna pay them.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
I don't care. How is this not set up weeks ago?

Speaker 2 (07:23):
I don't have an answer for that. I am not sure,
but I do agree with you that it is an
enormous miss. It is an enormous miss. I think that
there are there are opportunities. And Caitlin Clark used the
reverse situation in talking with the media in saying that, listen,
I've been playing basketball for nine months straight. I'm not

(07:46):
used to getting basketballs shooting basketballs out of Iraq, and
I just wanted to get some rest after not only
playing at Iowa for that entire season, but then also
beginning her WNBA career. I think all of that is understandable.
I still don't think that it makes up for her
not competing in the three point shootout. We're not If

(08:07):
Caitlyn Clark were to win it, okay, awesome, great. If
she were to lose it, the person who actually wins
it gets a boost. And guess what, you're probably watching it.
I'm probably watching it. I know Iowa, Sam and Jason
aren't watching it tonight because they are locked into Caitlin Clark.
So just by her being there and competing, it's not
about winning. It's not about rest. You have an entire

(08:29):
month off starting this weekend. Your season doesn't resume until
mid August because of the Olympics. That is why she
should be competing in the three point shootout. But in
saying that, it's also not the same energy of if
you felt that she should have been on the US
Olympic team. I don't think that you also then have
to say to her you then have to compete in

(08:50):
the three point shootout. I think that they are complete
apples and oranges when you're looking at the two situations.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
I couldn't agree more with that. It's not the same
at all.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
And also athetically, like if I'm Kaitlyn Clark, I'm just
saying how I would handle it. I'm not saying she
handled it like this, But you didn't put me on
the Olympic team. Yeah, maybe I don't want to participate
in a three point shooting contest. Even that's how I
know that sounds a little bit like she's, you know, salty, salty. Yes,

(09:20):
I'm saying I'm salty. I'm salty for her, not saying
Caitlyn is salty. I'm just saying I would be salty,
and I would be like, I'm not gonna participate in
the three point shooting contest, but you know what, I'm
gonna sit there and I'm gonna watch and I'll be there,
And I think that is even more interesting.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Is she gonna very interesting?

Speaker 6 (09:36):
I like that angle a lot. That's the you need
me more than I need you, and I like that.
I like that angle.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, but if nobody's watching her sit, what's the point.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
But it's still going to generate a story.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Maybe after the fact, we're gonna see the videos of
Kaitlyn at this event not participate.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
You just think crappy ratings will then show, Hey, WNBA,
you should have treated me better. Yeah, but but that's
the whole reason why we've gotten to this place. Like,
I don't mind Caitlyn Clark saying no, because she's practically
said yes to everything, But it just seems odd that

(10:14):
the reason why we want her in this contest is
the reason why we were so excited to see her
in this league is launching threes like this nineteen assist
game that she had revealed that she is much more
than just a scorer of the basketball, that she can
deliver the basketball as well. But the reason why we

(10:34):
wanted Caitlin Clark to take over the WNBA was because
of her shooting promise. And now in a scenario where
maybe she didn't have time to practice, so be it
just her being out there would bring enough attention, and
that's the reason of why we want to see it.
If she gets later on in her career, like guys
in the dunk contests, Hey, I don't want to compete
anymore because I'm just over that. I think that's something

(10:57):
that we can be accustomed to. But her prow missing
future years doesn't do much for me, because this is
the reason why we're watching the WNBA right now, wanting
to see her launch threes, wanting to see her hit
those shots, Sabrina, and ask you to the same point.
But she's not bringing in everybody, even though you'd ask
you is built for this competition. Maybe she wants to

(11:18):
take a break because of the Olympics and what she's
done previously. I don't think Caitlyn Clark has that sort
of leeway to I think she should be able to
say no, But I don't think she should have the
leeway of ducking out of this competition, since this is
the reason why we were so interested in watching her
play in this league.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
So the two things you just said, Sabrina Unescu, you're saying,
I hear what you're saying because she isn't.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
The gravitational poll that has been Caitlin.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Clark, but I still as the league, I would have
been like, you still have to participate because now that
the eyes are on the league, you are somebody that
people are paying attention to.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
You were also in the three point shooting contest with
Steph Curry.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Of course you have to be, which is why Caitlyn
Clark should be in it, because the whole thing is.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yeah for her one thousand percent. Again, I don't know
why she said no. If it's because she's salty, I'm
just saying I don't blame her, but she she it's
definitely a missed opportunity, and she strikes me as a
type that like I actually don't think she's worried about losing, Like,
I don't think that was the reason she didn't do it.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
I don't think she was like, Wow, what if I lose,
this is really going to ruin. No, it's not going
to do.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
That, Kayln Clark.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
She doesn't seem like the type to be worried about
that right now in her career, Like, there's so many
other things happening around her that I don't think she
said no, because she was like, well what if I lose?

Speaker 4 (12:33):
No, girl, I don't think that.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I agree. I agree she doesn't come off like that, Yes,
but I also think like of her, of her sitting
out to stick it to USA basketball. I just I
understand your theory, and I know Jason loves it. I
just I can't connect the dots on that one. Like,
I just if if you're saying that I'm going to

(12:58):
play in the All Star Game because the fans voted
me in and that so I'm obligated to play in
that game against the team that I should have been
on M then that's and if you score twenty seven
against that Olympic team and you show them and stick
it to them, like, that's the way to stick it
to them, sitting out of an event that, to be
quite honest, I did not realize that they had a

(13:19):
three point shootout at the WNBA All Star Weekend. I
didn't realize that there was competitions. I don't know any
of the other competitions that are at this All Star
Weekend that are taking place tonight, so it's all new
to me. So her sticking it to them, I wouldn't
even have known about it. If if it wasn't the
story that it's it's become that she ended up saying, no,

(13:40):
I would have known about it if Street was in it,
And now I knew about it because she turned it down.
But it wasn't like I must see come and watch
this game when they had the All Star voting. I
just thought there was an All Star game and that
would be it.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
It's all new to me sticking it to them.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
I don't know if that I know I used salty
as how I would feel.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
I don't know if she's sticking it to them.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
But you know, imagine being told like, well, you're not
on the Olympic team because you whatever the ex stupid
reasons that you're not gonna play that much, that you
know you didn't.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Deserve it, all of that. So it's just kind of like, well,
if you feel like this about.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
The Olympic team, then the three point shooting contest shouldn't
be that important. So if I'm not on this and
I miss this, it should it shouldn't be that important.
If you don't think I should be on the Olympic team,
then the three point shooting contst should not be that important.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
No, yeah, there's I don't hear what you're saying. I
hear what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
There's a theory out there. Gottlieb just used it earlier
on Fox Sports Radio if you missed it, that because
she hasn't been shooting well, that maybe this just isn't
her cup of tea this time around, maybe she's running
out of gas. But again, if she were to shoot
three of twenty five, yeah, do you think? I don't know.
I just don't see collateral damage. I don't either, you know,

(14:53):
from it. I actually think people would be like, you
know what, she's played nine? You know what? That's actually
really naive of me, as I SAI say it out loud.
Who am I to think that somebody would give her
a break?

Speaker 4 (15:03):
Nobody?

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Is that that is? You know, in saying that out
loud to I guess to what Doug's point is now
in saying that nobody's gonna give her a break for
doing it. But I still think that you need to compete.
It's the reason why you came into the league. Yeah,
whether you go three of twenty five, maybe it hit
seventeen in a row and it becomes even more of
a legend.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Mm hm.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
You know that there's that opportunity.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's definitely a missed opportunity. And I really put it
more on the league itself that this was not handled.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Weeks ago, weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
And also if you knew she wasn't going to participate
weeks ago, then you should just shut that down from
the beginning. But they asked her a couple of weeks
ago and she just didn't even answer. She kind of
like was very vague about it.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
How do you here's the and I understand the TMOSA
is playing in the Middle East right now, so it's
not possible. But off the heels of that All Star
game that you had in mid February, and you see
how Sabrini and Escu stuck her neck out and honestly
Steph Curry did as well. How do you not have

(16:02):
Steph Curry at this All Star weekend?

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well I thought about that as well, or just any
Damian Lillard, just Dame time somebody like they could have
used them as like their coaches, like a one on
one they're going to be there as coaches.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Could have had the competition there, like if if Steph's
like returning the favor, yep, you know with it, And
I And the point is is I understand all Star
games are are set ahead of time. Maybe there's a
way not to, but couldn't you have figured out a
way to make this work before Team USA ends up
leaving town, before all of this happens. Maybe a move

(16:37):
up the All Star Game a week earlier if you can,
or to try to accommodate something like that. That's how
you also really cash in is you don't have it
just to crossover one way, you have it back the
other way.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
Have helped all of that. How are we blame? How
are we not more putting blame on the league? With
everything you just added? How is this not handled taken
care of? Planned?

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah? You know when you say the league, I just
think that there is I don't disagree with you in
that I don't know what the league could have done
to have avoided the backlash that she got from other
players and teams this season. And the reason I say
that is because I don't want to put this as

(17:21):
another thing that the WNBA messed up. Because they've put
all of her games basically on TV. Every game that
she plays is a home game, whether it's in Indiana
or on the road. The fans are cheering for her.
The backlash came from the other players and came from
the other coaches. The league did try to squeeze as
much out of that Orange as you could possibly get

(17:41):
to maximize her. And while this may be a misstep,
I have a tough time completely blaming them because I
don't think that they have been fully to blame for
a lot of the hate that has come her way
over the last two months.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
I don't think they're to blame for the hate. I
agree with you on that, but I don't. But I
don't think that they have handled her coming into the
league in the best way. I feel like there's been
several missteps that could have helped the league, could have
helped Caitlin, could have.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Helped Angel Reese.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
I just think the league was really not prepared for
the effect that Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese had coming
into the WNBA.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
I think they were ready to reap all the benefits
and were not prepared for any of the backlash.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
That's probably it.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Jason Stewart's our executive producer, Dan Monsey.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
I did what all good producers should do, Dan pose
the question five minutes ago. I don't even know what
the other skills are in these festivities. So I looked
it up and I found the competition for who can
rebound their own missus the.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Most stop and one of them yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
And then the other one is who could bitch the
loudest about a superstar coming into.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
The league.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Stop it.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
I heard that there are like forty two players competing
in that event tonight. That's why they gotta started early it. Yeah,
because there's so many.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Everyone volunteered for that event.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
What actually, what I honestly, what I think is cool
is they've gathered the w NBA coaches and they're like,
who can kick Caitlyn Clark off the Olympic team quick enough?
Quick enough? Like that's we're gonna We're gonna see maybe
maybe it will be the Links coach. Those are all
the great options that we can't wait to see for
w NBA All Star Weekend. Do we know what the
other competitions are? Like, there's gotta be like at.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
I'm gonna look it up.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
There's the skills and there's a three point that's it.

Speaker 5 (19:34):
No don competition, no done.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
No.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
I didn't think that there would be that'd be the
only Britney Grinder could do that probably, Yeah, maybe a.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Couple ers crazy layup, nothing like that Cones drill.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
That's probably within the Skills Channel.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Game of Lightning.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
If there was an assist thing, then Kitlyn Clark would
have to be in on that. You know, I don't
know how you do that.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, she should be like, she should compete in something.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
She should she should be a part of this and
not just in the game.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah, that's I think. I think that's the whole point.
We actually agree on that portion of it.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Oh, apparently are going to have a three on three
showcase ahead of the Olympics as well, because there's going
to be a three on three team.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, well, the camera brink was injured so she was
unable to. But Hayley van Lyth is one of the
members of the three team USA three and three squad
the former LSU think she's now at TCU ended up transferring.
So yeah, so that that ends up at least adding
to I guess some of the spotlight.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Brittany Griner is in the Skills Challenge.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Okay, all right, but again she would have been the
only one really in the dunk competition.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah, so she's you know, she again she wants to
participate in something.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
At least we know the names in these competitions, unlike
the dunk competition in the NBA. She's Manzi Belanio's.

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Speaker 2 (21:00):
Ah, Happy Friday to you can do it alone. Jason Stewart, Iowa.
Sam Nicope hanging out as well, trying to get you
to the weekend where we've got some golf, We've got
some WNBA All Star Action, and baseball's back. Monzie.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
You also just said that we are less than two
weeks away from a football game, which really made my
soul fall, Like, do you have to go to Christmas
shopping already?

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Speaker 2 (21:40):
There is drama in that National Football League. It has
nothing to do with the Texans and Bears, who will
open up the preseason in less than two weeks. In Canton, Ohio.
You have Baseball's Hall of Fame with enstriment ceremonies this weekend,
and then in two weeks they'll do it for the
Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. Speaking of Hall
of famers, one of the names that is in the

(22:01):
news is a Hall of famer. His name is Troy Aikman.
Aikman right now having beef with one two time MVP
and current quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens, Lamar Jackson, and
the beef is over the number eight. This is a

(22:23):
battle that is going on as both are trying to
use the number for their own branding purposes for their
own merchandise. Aikman has a beverage titled eight eight. Lamar
Jackson has his own brand apparel Era eight era the

(22:45):
number eight, and Lamar feels that there is now confusion
over the branding. If Troy Aikman wants to use all
of this stuff for his eight, that it takes away
from Lamar using the number eight, And as crazy as
it is, I will take the eight of ate that
is my eight. If I were to take the eight,

(23:07):
you would have no confusion ate, just like I ate
my leftover chicken wings earlier today, there is no fight
over that, but there is over the number eight. And
I actually really don't care on who gets what in
this sort of eight battle, but it does bring up
the conversation of who do you think of number eight more,

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Troy Aikman or Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
I don't know if this is a generational thing, but
I'm gonna say Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
For me, I would say I think Troy Aikman. For me,
I think I think of And honestly, it's difficult because
there's another number eight from Troy Aikman's generation that I
also think of. But I would actually side with Troy

(23:58):
Troy Aikman on this. Jason Stewart, you see the number
eight in the NFL with Lamar Jackson and Troy Aikman.
Who do you think is more more synonymous with the
number eight?

Speaker 6 (24:09):
Yeah, I think it's a Aikman. And think, to get
in Lamar's defense, I think he just hasn't played an
entire career. Yeah, we saw the entirety of Aikman's career,
and I think I know the other eight that you're
talking about, right, the other quarterback of that era?

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, I think so, Yes, Steve Young. Yeah, I think
about Kobe Bryant. Oh, they say, well, I think number.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
Eight, But I thought we were. But I agree with you.
If I'm thinking of one person for eight, it's Kobe.
But if I'm thinking right now football player, I think
I would go to Lamar.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Here's my problem with Kobe taking eight is he had
two numbers.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
He did have two numbers. But I would still give
him eight over twenty four. Me too, You wouldn't you
would give him the later number.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
I don't know. It's tough for me to give him
either number of it.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
You don't have a number.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
This is the number. This isn't. Actually so what we've
done here. Obviously we knew we're gonna talk about this conversation.
We didn't know what each person was going to say.
But we've all come up with certain numbers in sports,
don't we? Yep, that we are going to discuss on
on who gets what on the heels of this. Lamar Jackson,
Troy Aikman, battle, Nick Kope, you're at the news desk.

(25:21):
I did mention Steve Young in the number eight I
don't know if if as you as a forty nine
er fan, if that takes away from Troy Aikman or not.
But if it's Lamar versus Troy Aikman, and who has
the power of eight, who do you think who do
you say resonates more with that number?

Speaker 1 (25:37):
It's Troy Aikman.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yes, yeah, I think so too. I I do, Sam, Iowa, Sam.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
I don't think of really any sports person, thank you.
Anybody with eight doesn't come to mind. It's not a
number that resonates with me. Just being truthful, I'm sorry, No,
the first.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Number is one hundred per Kobe if it just eight.
But I thought we were sticking to you know, those two.
You know, Jason stole it from me. But yeah, eight
for me is Kobe and obviously Troy Igman. I'm not
gonna lie until this story came out.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
I just don't know how it can be your number
when you leave that number. Okay, there's like very there there's,
there's there's and we're gonna have an exercise through this
whole thing. So let's but like Kobe was like, all right,
I don't want eight anymore. I want twenty four. Yeah,
And so then he said good bye to eight. Yeah,

(26:29):
and so that would be like, all right, eight's up
for grabs.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
Eight is single go And I mean, yes, what you're
saying is very logical.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yes, But I think when I think of Kobe, like
I think of Kobe wearing the eight with the fro, like,
that's the image of Kobe that I have the most of.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Are you are anybody so it's Jason or Manzi and
on Kobe eight? Nick? Are you in on Kobe eight?
I think so yeah, Yeah, I don't know, I just
I know Iowa.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Sam doesn't have an opinion.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
There is the angle of.

Speaker 6 (27:09):
The reason why he chose a different number, and I
think maybe it's a little foggy now looking back, but
I want to say that he rebranded after the whole
Eagle Colorado thing. It was kind of like a restart
to his brand and he became kind of the villain
at that point. If you don't remember, he ran Shack

(27:29):
out of town and it was a couple of years
still from winning those back to back titles alone. So
the twenty four has an edge to it for sure,
because I think that that's is that where you're going
with that, or you just don't think he should deserve
either number because he changed numbers.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Oh yeah, I just I just have a I have
a difficult time when he split his career with two
numbers of being like and I know the Lakers is
a franchise and be like, well, we retired both. But
you can't do that throughout all of sports. And the
the problem that we're having with it is that we
can't think of a lot of number eights in sports

(28:07):
that would maybe top someone of the name of Kobe Bryant.
There's another that comes to mind outside of of of football,
but that's who it is. Yea, did you say that
on the air or did you say it in my ear?
Sam said it in my ear? Cal Roken, Junior Baltimore Orioles?

Speaker 4 (28:22):
Yeah? Do you feel like that about other players that
have switched numbers?

Speaker 2 (28:25):
So that's the dilemma, right, So, and this is and
we're gonna throw these and numbers out there. We're gonna
go around and we'll discuss some of these head to
head matchups that we have. I don't want to steal
anybodies away, but like Lebron's scenario of twenty three and
six of going back and forth, well, you can't top

(28:48):
twenty three, and so like that's impossible. And I don't
know if I really attribute number six to him.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
No, why is six retired? Bill Russ exactly?

Speaker 4 (29:01):
But I don't think of lebron A's twenty three.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
No, everybody thinks of Michael Jordan. Yeah, that's like, that's
that's the other part of it. And Jordan switched numbers.
So that's why I can't say, like, because you switch numbers,
you're not allowed. But Jordan only did it for two years,
didn't win in those years, And the twenty three is
the twenty three. But Kobe knowingly switching numbers and doing so,

(29:26):
and I think he got you know, emojis. This may
sound absurd, but because of our use of emojis and
the infinity sign, you get a lot more mileage out
of the number eight than you did twenty and thirty
years ago. So now so so with Kobe, and obviously
of his untimely death, it becomes a bigger sort of

(29:48):
deal because of that. Yes, But at the you know,
at the time and when we were looking of him
at his career, I actually would take Steve Young and
Troy Aikman and tie them to the number eight more
than I would Kobe Bryant. Interesting, yeah, because it just
it's and maybe I'm more of a football guy as well,

(30:08):
so like I lean more towards football.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
I still think that says a lot.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Even though you lean more football, just because Kobe is
such a huge name, you're not saying as somebody else.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
So it's just interesting that you would still pick that.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah, the twenty four plays into it. You know you're
seeing them and I know he won titles in eight.
You know in number eight you won the last two
and twenty four correct, yep? So so and then you're
setting the records and your final games in twenty four.
I just yeah, it's just from the I think it's
from the era that I came from. What about twenty four?

(30:42):
What all right? Player? First comes to mind? That starts
as anybody here, Sam, I don't know if you got
any music that you can strike up to make this
thing move a little. But Nick Coe pro opposed this question,
so let's just serve it up to Nick. So Nick,
you will have you started out twenty four? Did anybody
else have twenty four as the number three?

Speaker 3 (30:59):
You and I have two separate for twenty four because
I kept them with the same sport.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
All right, okay, all right, so Nick you started off Manzi,
you can add yours if they're not with Nick has So.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, twenty four. You got Kobe, you got Willie Mays,
Ken Griffy Junior, and you got to throw in the
Rainbow Warrior himself, Jeff Gordon number twenty four.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
I agree, Yeah, I'm going I my generation. Who I
am Ken Griffrey Junior twenty four.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
So I agree that it is Ken Griffy Junior. I
didn't put him on the list because I think that's
the answer.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
So I put two twenty four's that are a little
bit more comparable, right to see who you.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Would think of. But I agree, I think it's Ken
Griffy junr. Twenty four.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Miguel Cabrera or Manny Ramirez Many Ramirez, Manny Ramirez.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
Interesting, See that's another guy. When when Manny came to
the Dodgers, remember what his number.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
Was, ninety nine?

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ninety nine. Yeah, I'm totally just going
against my rule. Ye immediately, but immediately I thought, I
thought I saw the Boston red side.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yeah that's what you see.

Speaker 6 (32:03):
Yeah, but you have to you have to give a caveat.
If you change teams and change number, that's more forgivable
than doing it the same team.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
That's a good point. That's a good point.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
I got another twenty four because this one is in football.
Darryl Revis Marshawn Lynch.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
You know, as a Seahawks fan, I think Darrel Revis.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Wow, Yeah, yeah, Revis side.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Here, Here's here's another. Here's another reason. This is completely
This may go way inside and only Iowa Sam knows
what I'm talking about. One of my favorite all time
Ohio State Buck guys was Sean Springs, who wore number
twenty four. He was the first round pick of the
Seahawks in nineteen ninety seven in war number twenty four.
So when I see number twenty four, I think of
my favorite player, Sean Springs, always wearing the Seahawks twenty four.

(32:53):
So I would likely every Seahawks fan would probably say
Marshawn Lynch in the scenario. It's just different for me
because of Sean Springs. That's why. Maybe, and I've always
wanted a white twenty four Seahawks jersey of Sean Springs. Yeah,
for the last twenty five plus years. The throwback, Yeah,
just was what. It's what I always wanted, you know,

(33:15):
in college, but the jerseys weren't readily available. I'd go
to Ral Revs on that one. You guys good with that? Yeah?
You guys, Revs Lynch, where are you at?

Speaker 5 (33:24):
Oh, that's a good one, I guess I. Uh, no
one's going to pick this one. But there are only
two numbers that are retired in Iowa football history, and
one of them is Nile Kinnick, who won the Heisman
in nineteen thirty nine, and he was a twenty four.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah we all knew that.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah, we all knew that number twenty four. Now Kinnick.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
I don't think we would know the number, but we
obviously know the name.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
It's only it's only there's only two numbers retired in
at Iowa, so he was one of them. So I
just happened to know that off the top of my head.
I can't think of any others, honestly.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
All right, what about if I gave you guys number
nine Tony Romo versus Matthew stafford Ooh? Oh, anyone? Pop?
I think Romo for me? Who would win that battle?
For me?

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Too?

Speaker 1 (34:10):
And that's only because it's the Cowboys I think that's
the power of the star.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
And then this will put a test to it because
since Tony Romo won that battle Tony Romo versus Drew
Brees me but not as easy for Manci. That's the
power of the star.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
Yes, that is the power of the star.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, it's Breeze won something. Yeah, well he deserves it
and so many and set passing records at the time
as well.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
He was obviously. But if you think of the number nine,
do you immediately think of Drew Brees.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
No, you want to know who I thought of, Steve
McNair o.

Speaker 6 (34:55):
Good one. I go baseball with number nine, And this
is controversial. Do you give do you go Roger Marris
or Ted Williams, Ted Williams.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Probably, Ted Williams probably, it's too many. I mean, he's
he's the he's the Red Sox. Yeah, yeah, I go, yeah, yeah,
I have to go with that one. That's a good one, though,
that's a that's a that's a good one. You got
another one on?

Speaker 4 (35:23):
Yeah, I got another one. I got notes, got notes? Sorry, Okay,
what about number one? Number one? Tracy McGrady or Penny Hardaway.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Penny Hardaway, Penny Hardaway, Yes, because of the penny, it's
worth one.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
But all I think of is Tracy McGrady. When I
think of the number one, I go, I think.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
This is the generational divide in the studios here because
I agree, yeah, te mat m, Yeah, it's but my
but our general was much more right when T mac was. Yeah,
that was right when Montsey and I were were very

(36:08):
much at that age to take in the NBA, and
they were early two thousands.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Did do you think I was gonna say McGrady because
of my son's basketball uniform? Me so, because because Brody
loves dinosaurs, I bought him a Tracy McGrady Old Raptors
jersey that I found and it's been one hundred degrees
and we still haven't put it on him because it's
so heavy and thick. And then it made me think,
why would a kid have an authentic NBA jersey that

(36:34):
is four T but it is a number one Tracy McGrady.
I did. I did get that one, but I still
think the penny the one cent.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Behind fifth, I get that. I get that, but yeah,
from you would be T mac for sure?

Speaker 2 (36:48):
All right? Is intern Dean anywhere around? Because this one
he made?

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Well, that we can add Derek Rose to and see
what he says between the three.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
What about this one generation number twenty one Ladanian, Tomlinson,
d On Sanders who wins?

Speaker 7 (37:03):
I huh?

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Dion and Jason saying it? As a Chargers fan, I
think that that's yeah, yeah, I would go with that one.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
All right, got another one if you want another one.
This one crosses sports a bit though. Okay, what about
number three Ai Alan Iverson or Alex Rodriguez.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
In that scenario? Alan Iverson, Yeah, that's what I.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Think as well too, even though though Alex Rodriguez I
think was more liked when he wasn't thirteen on the Yankees.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Yes, you know, like so that's what he was better.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
He was a star, yes, and you know why he
wasn't number three on the Yankees.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
Right because of what's his face?

Speaker 2 (37:50):
The what's his face?

Speaker 1 (37:54):
That's what we got it?

Speaker 5 (37:55):
We got it, We got his face, but we got it,
we got it.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
How about this, Babe Ruth or Dale Earnhardt Senior number three,
Babe Ruth? Wait no, no, that is not a come on.
That is not a come on. I couldn't have you
just call them what's his face? And there's a whole
generation of Earnhardt fans who still will hold up the
number three. Who's ever driving that car? Cope? Are you

(38:23):
with me?

Speaker 1 (38:24):
I'm with you because I couldn't have told you five
minutes ago what number Babe Ruth wore.

Speaker 6 (38:30):
So that's the difference, right between me and y'all. I
mean baseball numbers, that's my thing.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
So I feel like, out of the three major sports
were primarily talking here. I feel like baseball numbers, you
just lease, you're less likely to associate a number with
the name.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
I don't know if that's you don't.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
For me is because they don't wear the names on
their back. So it's just like I don't even know
what number they are.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
That's just my experience. You get so many pitchers that
that have one lineman numbers.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
That is true, You're right about that, and just so
many more players and the numbers are all over the place.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
What you're saying.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
I know Iowa Sam is tapped out on some of these.
Can you weigh in on Babe Ruth versus Dale or
an art senior? Can you weigh in on this? Do
you have an opinion either way? Who's the number three?
You associate number three more with.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
I mean, i'd just go with I'd probably go with
Babe Ruth.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
All right, okay, you went with Babe Ruth.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
I don't even think it, like cars have numbers like
in you know, stock car racing, But I don't even
think about the numbers, to tell you the truth, because
I don't really can.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
They're giants, the giant.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Fans do this right in honor of dale Or But yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
Also there's a bunch of advertisements on the cars and
I'm just like you, and they're going so fascinating.

Speaker 6 (39:50):
Star.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
You mentioned Jeff Gordon earlier. The twenty four. Richard Petty's
forty three is obviously synonymous.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Junior number eight.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah, yeah, and Jimmy Johnson had forty. Like those are
the numbers. And I know that there are the Rusty
Wallace drove two, but I don't think it's I don't
want to get two down the rabbit hole. But I'm sorry.
Three is one of the top two numbers in NASCAR,
I think in all time, and aside from number forty three,
and I think that he is warranted on this list
anybody out of any other number one, I have a

(40:18):
right cool one you want to get into okay.

Speaker 6 (40:20):
Number thirty two, Yeah, this is a tough one, all right,
Magic Johnson or OJ Simpson.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
Magic Johnson.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Now, OJ would probably kill you for saying.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
That's fine, That's perfectly fine. He's not around.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Also Number thirty two, Sandy Kofax.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Sandy Kofix, I go Magic Magic. I would two over
Sandy Kofax as well.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Yes, I have I've got I've got one more as well.
Number forty five Archie Griffin versus Michael Jordan Archie Griffin
the only two time Heisman Trophy winner from Ohio State.
Or when you look at forty five, do you also
think of the two seasons Michael Jordan wore forty five.

(41:06):
I could have said, Chuck person, I think he also
worked forty five, but I thought Archie Griffin was the better,
better foe in this like Ohio State retired forty five.
I think we go with MJ. I think I go MJ.
I don't.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
I don't think of forty five and MJ. I don't.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
You were born in like ninety three or whatever, so
it doesn't even matter. It's may not be exact, but
you get but growing up in the showtime, you know
forty five? Anyone forty five showtime wikers Ac Green, that's
the that's the first person I think about. Really, I
think forty five La Centric and what's his face? Babe Ruth?

(41:44):
Was that ever?

Speaker 4 (41:45):
But I got it? I said at the same time
as you, Babe.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Ruth were dunks, but he worked. Georgian warned by Babe
Ruth were not dunks, all right?

Speaker 4 (41:55):
Talking smack.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Mark Davies tweeted in with Earnhardt versus Bryce Harper it
with number three. Sorry, Arnhart wins it. Yeah, that's the case.
If you have any more number battles, feel free. I
do have a couple more left.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
We's done the whole hour.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
I'm going to leave it.

Speaker 6 (42:15):
Off to our executive producer. Well, Sam turned the music off,
so he's just done with those five minutes ago.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Never wore twenty four. I knew that Sam was done.
We could do it after the break and maybe take
some calls or something. What did Ricky Stanzy wear at IOWA?
What number was that was? Twelve? Okay? Tom Brady or
Ricky stands your opinion. She's Monty Belano, So I'm dan Byer.
Jason Stewart's here, Nick Cope is here, Iowa Sam's here.

(42:45):
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Speaker 4 (43:09):
It's all rid, but.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
We do have to kind of put a bow on
our numbers game. Here. It is Covino and Rich. She's
Monty Blaios, I'm Dan Byer hanging out. Nikope is at
the news desk. He's going to give us an update
and a bit. Jason Stewart's here, Iowa Sam is here.
We just had a few more number battles to get
to this. On the heels of Lamar Jackson and Troy
Aikman having a battle over the number eight because both

(43:32):
of them want to use the number in their licensing
and branding deals. Lamar for his Era eight stuff. Troy
Aikman with his eighth drink where it's spelled out eight.
You don't want to have that confusion. Although maybe if
they team up and be like Shark Tank, it's like
two sharks are better than one. Maybe they can end
up making a whole big thing from it. Who knows,

(43:54):
But we started to debate when you're talking about the
great jersey numbers in all of sports, and it's not
the top of the top sometimes like the Romo Stafford
battle for number nine, even though most of you guys
thought Drew Brees at number nine. But when you think
of Romo ors Stafford, who do you give it to?
It's kind of the you know, a little bit of
the same thing with number eight because, as Sam pointed

(44:15):
out Cay Ripkin Jr. Like if you are thinking about
a number eight in baseball, Cal Ripkin Junior's number pops up.
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The way tire buying should be all right? Who did
you leave out? What numbers did you leave out that
you wanted to get to? Manzi Milanios. I know Jason's
got one or two. I've got one or two still
left in our numbers battle.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
So I think a number that's used a lot is
number seven in sports. And when you think of just seven,
like if I didn't give you a player, who would
you think of?

Speaker 4 (45:22):
Seven?

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Is used across And I could give you somebody that
one made me really like, huh, I go Lway, you
go elway.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
I have him on my list.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Uh huh, yeah, I know Ron Jaworski is not there.
I would say Ben Roethlis.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
That's all I would think of.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
But the problem is is Ben Roethlisberger is on record
as saying he Whear's number seven for l Way, So
that would then I think give it to I did
not know that.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
I did not know that Carmelo Anthony was seven, and
I feel like I don't know if I think of
another seven in basketball, I think of mellow is fifteen.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yeah, so yeah number right? Yeah, yeah, yes he did.
Then college you wore fifteen, So yeah, that's where I
think of him.

Speaker 6 (46:02):
Seven is a weird number if you just think about
the way it looks on a jersey is strange. That's
probably why there hasn't been many great sevens.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Yeah, that's that's a that's a good that's a good pull.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
What's his name, Mickey Mantle?

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Yeah, then there you go.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
What's his name?

Speaker 1 (46:19):
That's that's That's gonna be my preface for any baby
great her.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
That's why she knows him as herman. George. Isn't it
George Herman? Babe Ruth? Isn't that the full name? Iowa
Sam at the backup on that one, Thank Sam? How
about this twenty one? I think we did football before.
What about this? For the NBA? Tim Duncan versus Kevin Garnett.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Tim, I'm gonna say Tim Duncan. But that's a good one.
That's a good one.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
That's about as.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Good as can Give it to Duncan for the titles.
But also then Garnett switched numbers when he went to Boston.
He did, so you kind of again give up that right.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
But he did move teams and he made his name
with twenty one.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Yes, but they did retire number five in Boston for him. Well, yeah,
I know it's it's it's a trick. It's it's very,
very very tricky. I get it. I completely understand it.
I would go no Duncan for sure, but yeah, I
think I would go Duncan as well. I had one more.
I don't think it's really a contest, but I just
had it on here. Number thirty Steph Curry versus Terrell Davis.

(47:29):
I'm a football guy. Yeah, so thirty pops in, but
it's probably Steph crazy. I think Nolan Ryan on Oh
what's his face? Ryan? Yeah? For me, Yeah, the guy
that throws really hard. He also had thirty four as
well for a while. Yes, he was on the Rangers.
He was thirty four one. Yeah, yeah, I believe in

(47:51):
Houston as well, but I think in the the other stops,
it was tell you what baseball reference is coming through?
Like money. We were having a Marshawn Lynch commerce station.
Marshall Lynch was twenty three in Buffalo, you know, so
like of him carrying over twenty four in Seattle, where
obviously he made you know, his biggest uh you know,
biggest stop or biggest place in his career for sure,

(48:13):
but again had a different number somewhere else, and I do.

Speaker 4 (48:16):
Just associate him more as a Seahawk.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, yeah, fair enough. All right, that's it.
That's our numbers game.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
That's fine.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Yeah, that was Oh we do okay, all right, who
do we got because I don't have the computer up
to Okay, Nick in Virginia. Nick in Virginia. Nick's going
old guys, Happy Friday, Happy.

Speaker 8 (48:39):
Friday to you. Which TV do you like better? TV twelve?
Brad Shall or Brady.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Oh it's gotta be Brady, because I even thought like,
can you have an Aaron Rodgers conversation with Brady head
to head? But now Rogers has switched to eight with
the Jets him forfeitting that. Yeah, I'm going with Brady
on this one.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
Oh yeah, when you say TV twelve, it's Brady.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Manny's in Al Paso. You got another numbers game you
want to throw at us?

Speaker 8 (49:12):
H Yeah. As far as the twelves, I'm a Cowboys fan,
so I got to go Roger Stauback.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Yeah, good point. I think that actually would also challenge
the Bradshaw portion of it.

Speaker 8 (49:21):
Now number seven. Of course, I'm a Yankee fan Nicky Mantle.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
Yes, yeah, we got that. Yeah, that one's a good one.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (49:28):
My debate. My debate is I'm also a huge Laker fan.
So do we associate Kobe with the eight or the
twenty four?

Speaker 3 (49:35):
We actually spoke about that, and most of us, I think,
said eight, but Dan Bayer did not.

Speaker 8 (49:43):
He thought it was twenty twenty four.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
You go with the twenty four.

Speaker 8 (49:46):
Yes, why I love Kobe because that's when he was
most challenged. That's when he did it on his own,
when Shack was already gone. Remember on the interviews that
he did with Shack that check at them where you
upset that I wanted a championship. Well, absolutely, I wanted to.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Go win one.

Speaker 8 (50:00):
And that's when he was already going into the twenty
four figs. That's when Kobe took over and became the
Kobe the Killer. That's when he was running through Paul
Gasalzov Chess in the Olympics and so forth. That's that's
how I I loved him a number eight, but I
love him more than twenty four.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
I'm the only reason.

Speaker 8 (50:17):
The only reason I say that is because I'm also
a big NASCAR fan. So number eight I associate with
Dyalen Hard Jr.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Sure, Yeah, absolutely, he had He had the eighty eight
car with the Mountain dew in the eight had eight.

Speaker 8 (50:30):
With Budweiser and eighty eight with Yeah always guys, thanks
for taking my call. I appreciate you guys enjoying your Friday.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Yeah, me too. Man he's got a tough life Yankees,
Cowboys and Lakers fan. He's only celebrated ninety two championships
in his lifetime.

Speaker 6 (50:47):
Who that's a podcast when you could just have manny somehow.
But we talked about all hour. That was amazing. He's
in on every single one of them.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
H Cope, was that where you were getting at Dale
Andhart with Budweiser in the eighth I was only associated
in that. It's my bad. I just was associating the
eighty eight with the Mountain Deukar, but I.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Believe that is when he changed teams and he went
to Hendrick Ye and he got the eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Yeah, because each of these teams, that's the thing that
people that don't know and NASCAR teams own the Yes. Yes,
So that's why you don't carry it over if you
go to a new team, because each of the team
owns it.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
Someone's gonna go smashing into a kiosk if they go to.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
One exist without the other. It's a symbiotic relationship.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
You can score and buy knockoff cologne in the same motion.
That's great stuff.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
Is this just fifty yards?

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Yes? Yes, Well the end zones make it a little
bit longer, right because it's the fifty yard playing field,
and then you have and by the way, the announcer
is on the field with the coach.

Speaker 7 (51:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
Well the end zones are actually an entrance to Abercrombie
and Fitch and a mom is wandered onto the field
looking for the bathrooms for her kids. She's Monte Milanio.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
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