November 12, 2024 • 33 mins
Number, Word and Song of the Day. Flip Top Story of the Day. Secret Textoso Roundup and Great Sports Talk
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. Little late start,
but that's because we had a nice long, in depth
conversation with our dear friend Don McLean in the first hour.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
And interaction with the listeners and talking about Bernard Backer.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
It's some Burnett Backer.
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If this special team's s.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Goodness is you got another three hours with us, a
full four hour show today. Flex alerts the rest of
the week two to four, two to five, two to four,
Bing Bang Boom, two Clippers, one Thursday night football game
and Friday when the Clippers and Rockets are playing, we'll
have UCLA football taken on Washington on AM eleven fifty.
The resurgent UCLA Bruins program, thought to possibly exit the
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twenty twenty four campaign with just a single win over Hawaii,
is now perhaps more relevant in the Big Ten than
it's cross town rival USC.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I think they are more relevant, and USC Ucla in
a couple of weeks are going to play because neither
of them are good.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
We're gonna settle this on the field.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
They're getting the old Petros papadakas USC UCLA slot of
seven point thirty kick and when SC I'm not I
thought you were saying, you're right, it's on Peacock, but
it's it's the Curtain.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Game only exactly Crosstown showdown stream, only it is locally.
They'll put it on ENVYC.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, they'll have to. It is the circumstance of when
I end up calling an SEUCLA game when they both suck,
and I think I've called maybe three four in my lifetime,
which isn't mad for for working in college football.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
And MISLA fans are very excited about that.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I think I'm very measured.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
They don't hear it that way.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
That's their problem. Carson, Swiss hate you. It's a real
double edged cutless of death. But I will say this,
Matt uh, when they kick at seven thirty, the likelihood
of a facial stabbing, the percentage.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Shoots thousand percent goes way up, thousand percent increase.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
In fact, I believe in two thousand and nine there
was a facial stabbing right there.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
On the golf course. And the golf course yeah, and
we heard about it was then a sandtrap. It's very
frustrating if you can't get out trying to get up
and down and keep swinging and swinging. The next thing,
you know, you take a I believe it was a stiletto.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Stiletto pumped to the face, the face, Matt, did you
see this? I guess this would be breaking news. What
do we got? Ti Oscar Hernandez is a Silver Slugger. Yes,
he won the Silver Slugger Award for the third time
in his career.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Ohtani won it as well. The silver Sluggers have been awarded.
I think the Dodgers had six guys, I want to
say six, six of them nominated at sho Heil Tani
let's see outfield. Here's your NL winners, ta Oscar Hernandez
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third base, no first base, no second base, no catcher.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
No.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
So there you go. Two those two. Otani for DH
and ta Oscar for outfield, and a lot of people
really really really mookie bets go.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well. Otani and Mookie bets are locked up, and a
lot of people hoping that ti Oscar Hernandez does return
as a Dodger real quick will do the word of
the day.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
His words the word of the day.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
The trend continues of robbing sports stars when they're playing
a game, rob her house, Yeah, because they know they're
at the arena, not Colorado at the Rose Bowl style
rob the locker.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Room right from last year high schoolers on a visit
from Rob the Locker.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Room from do you remember the town that the kids
were from that stole?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I believe it was Lexico, No, but Inland Beaumont, Beaumont,
our favorite matt On October seventh, on Monday Night football,
while the Chiefs were playing the Saints, somebody robbed Travis
Kelsey's house and Patrick Mahomes big giant mansion. The hell
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they getting in there? They don't have security.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
These are gigantic homes. The Leewood, Kansas mansion of Kelsey
was broken into after mahomes. And it was around midnight
on October sixth.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
They were on the road. They were in New Orleans
or something, maybe it doesn't matter. They were at Arrowhead.
Holy Hell, haven't weren't home yet, and they got robbed
and Kelsey never even went home. Him and Taylor Swift
went to the hotel. They went to a hotel and
were like this, I'm not going there. It's like, if
you're that rich and you're trying to protect the most
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famous woman in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Though she's very.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Gawky and awkward in my opinion, when she dances some
things she's cooking.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
She ain't cooking. You think you cooked, You didn't cook.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I'd be like a sous chef.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You, no, you're not cooking. But they got robbed.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah, I know. It's a real to do. When they
go out to dinner after they request that restaurants stay open,
they request that they keep their entire staff, they request
a private entrance.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I guess somebody they took twenty twenty g's in cash
and they blew up his back door.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Kelsey he got twenty grant and cash at home.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And by blowing up his back door. I don't mean
what you say, you know, I know he's changed his hair,
but no they they some property damage, that's all, okay.
So it's not just Yasiel Puig out of the conga
room waving it around four in the morning. Yeah, it's
not just uh, it's not just Miguel Rojas lamb Lambeau
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get robbed on, brought downtown skid row, took my mom's
purse on a Lambeau row in one in the morning.
I don't know what happened, but you live in these jobs.
I mean, these mansions can only be seen from helicopter shots,
so it had to be pretty elaborate.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I think they tunnel in. Really it's a boring project.
That's awesome, like the fantastic Mister Fox. That's so great exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You know, honestly, you know if I was going to
be a thief, that I'd get into the rob athletes
while they're playing and burrow.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Seems like you got a lot of dirt out of
your finger.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Now it's going on Grease Monkey. I like to work
on a car.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Dirty Jobs. I love that show.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I love it in micro time.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
For the number.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Number number of the day.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Your number of the day is eight as an eight
NBA Cup games tonight. The Lakers and Clippers will begin
their run at the NBA Cup on Friday. A refresher
to remind each of you what the hell we're talking about.
NBA Cup games are played every single Tuesday and Friday.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I can't wait. Starting today, the floor is gonna look
so cool. They've tried so hard to make the Laker
one cool. They tried so hard to make the Clipper
one generic, generic, and terrible.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
December third. It ends between now and December third. So
seven days of games Tuesday, Friday, Thursday, Friday, Thursday, Friday, Tuesday,
and then the quarterfinals the following week December tenth and eleventh,
and then the semis. See you'll roll your way to
the semis three days later, and then the final on Tuesday,
December seventeenth. Why bring it up? Why give it attention?
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Is it because we were humiliated by Don McLain after
we said this sucks and he was like, I'm kind
of into it.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah that was bad. No, but it does suck.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
That's not why. Here's why. Never forget That's why. Because
never forget April twenty ninth, Lakers losing five to the
Nuggets after falling down zero three, winning game four to
make it a gentleman's sweep instead of a full sweep,
and our Mayor, the Honorable Karen Bass, wanting a piece
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of that Laker fandom as mayor of this city, tweets out, oh,
I yeah, tough season, but at least we won the
n season tournament.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You idiot.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Proud of our team at Lakers stayed up long enough
for the screen grabs before it was deleted, and my
great hope is it will in fact live on in perpetuity.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Forever, you idiot.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
The Lakers again. Tough season, oh, no doubt, no doubt
in my mind, but at least we won the n
season tournament. Proud of our team at Lakers. The Lakers
put up the banner, a banner for their NBA Cup championship,
and look it wasn't it is.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It's still there next to the Taylor Swift still there.
Heard you got robbed?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It is it is still there. We can scoff, we
can snark, we will, but we will point out you
pointed out five hundred grand per player a lot of
those end of the bench guys that were making like
four hundred grand for the year got five hundred grand
cool cash.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I'm gonna rob those guys in there.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I'm going to burrow but steal that cash and blow
up your door. Two hundred grand per player for the
runner up. So you bet your ass. Everybody was trying
to win, and the Lakers did it. And that's why,
like our mayor Karen Bass said, tough season, but at
least we won the n Sason Tournament.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
How much of our.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Ratings bump or whatever they give to politicians, did Mayor
buzz Cut get with the Dodgers winning the championship? Huge?
I mean I heard her favorability rating went up like
ten points.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
My homie had to walk across four lane. Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
They start Friday, the Clippers will play the Rockets on Wednesday,
and then on Friday they will play the Rockets again
in Houston. And you will notice the floor looks considerably different,
because that's how you know it's an NBA Cup game
by the floor. So good luck to all teams, and
may he the wishes of Karen Bass one of our
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two teams win it so she can boast tough season,
but at least we not the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
We we will handle it.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Won the nd season tournament.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I gotta say, Matt say, I say say, we will
handle them in La. It's not just the floor that
makes it distinctive. That's not the only reason you know
it's the NBA Cup. It's because Karen Bass hands out
caprice sons and orange slices.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
At the half. Yeah, right, not at the clipper. Make
sure everybody's sitting in the shade. Everybody, come on, get
some share.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Butts would hand out the the the caprice sons and
the orange slices. But he's sitting down apparently, and he
can't get up. Somebody who might be under that tesk.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Oh, no, god, you know. So the local politicians go
the spoils.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Running.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
This is the song of the day.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
A Fragile Thing is our song of the day from
The Cure and it's music from the new album titled
Songs of a Lost World, the fourteenth studio record and
first in sixteen years and a good one from Robert
Smith and the Boys from Crawley, with a darker LP,
reflecting on personal loss and the examination of one's mortality
through change in Despair with the darker undertones reminiscent of
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his sound from an earlier time in their career, and
you can see them live as they prepare for a
world tour coming to his city near you in twenty
twenty five. It's brand new music from the Cure.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Enjoy.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
This is gonna wrack the Ronnie. This is gonna wreck
the tour. What tour the world too? We'll return with
a flip top story of the day. Stay with us.
I did not have a new Cure album coming out.
I heard it's good, as Ronnie just said. I've heard
that it's excellent. That's what I want. Darkness and the
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exploration of my mortality all the way home. When the
sun goes down early in the terrible holiday traffic of
the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I'm gonna throw this.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
On and let pretty good about myself.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Goth Missus Doubtfire, take me deeper and deeper into despair.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Now sure you got a box of tissues with you.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
You yelled at me when I attacked his appearance, and
now you're gonna take your shot, Goth Missus Doubtfire.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I think he looks great.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Go un till seven o'clock tomorrow, not so much two
to four, but going until seven pm tonight. Remember an
opportunity for you in the charge for you to win
Chargers Bengals tickets on Sunday night at so far by
visiting on Instagram Instagram, and.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I saw Ronnie trying to call Don McLain. I thought
he was picking up the phone for a winner. Ah.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Social media is how they're doing it this time around.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
And LA Sports. Yeah, that's a way to the that's
a way of the future.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
They say, you know, vertical channels on YouTube, So they say,
you know.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You see the charts. Couldn't be anything.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Else, wouldn't be anything else.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
All right, man, it's time to play B sides. We'll
call this a flip top story of the day.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'll clip you out, I will look you up. This
is the FlipTop story of the day.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Well. A legendary college and pro football coach, especially in
this area, John Robinson passed away yesterday. He was eighty nine.
He lived in Louisiana at the end of his wife,
with the end of his life with his third wife,
and spent a lot of time with the LSU program.
At the end there and just a few things to
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talk about John Robinson. We talked about it a little
bit in the first segment. I played for him in
ninety six in the spring, and I was on the team,
and in ninety six but I didn't play. I was
transferred from CAL and I played for him in ninety seven,
and much like I did for Paul Hackett, I helped
get him fired, unfortunately. But the great John Robinson, Man.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I don't think you helped.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I mean I rode these guys. I really did. Man,
I knocked Withllndy on his neck. But what gets overlooked
most about John Robinson and what he accomplished at USC
was something that is almost impossible to do. And you
see Caylin de Boor going through it right now at Alabama.
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John Robinson successfully replaced a legend at USC. When John
McKay left USC for the NFL after the nineteen seventy
five season, the Trojans did not skip a beat with
John Robinson. The fact that he successfully replaced a legend
is so overlooked, and won a national championship right after
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McKay left, replacing one of the greatest college football coaches
of all time, and John McKay, the guy that developed
the West Coast identity and domination of USC football and
student body Wright and OJ and Charles White and Marcus
Allen and all those things you think about. Jay rob
replaced that and kept it going and extended it and
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created the USC football lore that were constantly bitching about
and always kind of trying to get back to the
men who replaced. Championship coaches. Ara Parsigen, Woody Hayes, Bear
Bryant and Lou Holtz never won a national championship, but
John Robinson did. And yeah, he inherited a treasure chest
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to talent at SC, but it was him who also
recruited Pro football Hall of famers Anthony Munnos, Marcus Allen,
Bruce and Clay Matthews and Roddy Lott and Matt You
talked about it, my dad was said out some photos.
I sent one on Twitter yesterday. I've been around John
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Robinson my whole life because he was a US head
football coach before I was born, and he would regularly
bring his teams into our family restaurant, and I vividly
remember all of those nights from Tim Ryan and his
handlebar mustache in there. Eric Affolter, who came to visit
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us not long ago at the Tarantula Hill with his
long dreadloss. Now and Rodney, of course our colleague here
at the station, and he might have been at the
restaurant more times than he's been here.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Uh Fred and Jonas today.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Oh, no doubt. And there were some great pictures of
John Robinson at the restaurant, dancing around and doing stuff.
But one of him given a toast, that's the best one.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And my brother Tasso, who ended up being one of
his first signees. When Jay rob got USC's job again
in nineteen ninety four ninety three, he took over USC
again and they beat Northwestern in that Rose Bowl with
Keishawn and all that. But my brother, who ended up
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playing for him, is like seven years old standing in
the background in his little Greek outfit staring up at
John Robinson. To actually get to play for him and
watch him teach run game and learn to be a
running back on his team was a real great honor.
I left Cal in the middle of camp in ninety five,
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and Robinson was in my corner to help me get
eligible finally at USC. As much as I tried to
screw it up in nineteen ninety seven, and he was very,
very covetous of the run game and how he taught
the run game and how the run game was to
be executed. And I'll never forget. At some point when
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I was there, I was running the ball and practice
and something and Mike Garrett, who was our athletic director
and the first Heisman winner from LA and all that,
you know, pulled me aside. He was like, here's what
I want you to do with the ball, and Robinson came,
you don't get away, and I was like, you know,
I don't think these guys get along.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Get away from my back.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I told this story last night to uh Tim Conway,
and it's a it's a fun story. Yeah baboo, Yes,
I was on that show for quite some time last night.
But it's a great Kennedy Polamalu story. Troy Polamlow's uncle. Kennedy,
as you know, was a huge star, moved from American
Samoa with a white family and went to modern day.
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It even happened back in the seventies, believe it or not,
or late seventies early eighties.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
They had their own plane up and bring you back.
They had shoes on the plane because Kennedy had no
shoes get used to these, but and.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
He pulled Aba lu Troy's uncle was a huge recruit
at a modern day. And they were visited at his
surrogate family or whatever's house uh in Anaheim or Santa
Anna or wherever, and John Robinson and a very famous
old us HE coach named Dave Levy uh came and
they're they're in the living room and while they're talking
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giving the spiel, Kennedy's sitting there and the phone rings
in the kitchen you know, back in the day, rotary
phone on the wall. Yeah, court, and uh, it's for
Dave Levy. Dave Levy goes in there and then he
comes back out and he goes, Coach, you got to
take this. Coach gets up and goes to the phone,
and Dave Levy goes and sits on the couch and
kind of stares into his hands and are folded. They go,
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what's up?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
He goes, well, you know it's a sad thing. But
Coach Robinson's got a brother and he's really he's dying.
He's dying in the hospital right now. And that's how
bad he wants you to be a trojan. Kennedy is
that he's here while his brother's dying. And of course Kennedy,
you know, seventeen eighteen year old kid from American Samoa,
famous football coach, and he commits right there, you know, signs, commits, signed, sealed, delivered.
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A couple months later, you know, Kennedy's toiling at USC
practice and you know, nobody likes you anymore once you signed,
and he goes to Levy. You know, whatever happened to
coach's brother, you know, did bury him or he doesn't
have a brother, you idiot, you fell for that.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Be pretty stupid right now.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
And my very first day at USC, my very first
day at SCU in nineteen ninety six, spring ninety six.
So they had just beaten Northwestern. Keishawn is going to
be number one over all, number one over He's not
on the team anymore, but he's around. We all went
to the House of Blues party where Coolio played. Everybody
threw up in a limo. We had to pay for it.
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The point is it was a very unruly you know,
everybody's in that meeting with Pete Carroll made famous with
the piano. It's not there anymore but Heritage Hall, and
there was unruly, everybody freaking out. Guy's almost fistfighting. Every
other word was the N word. And I'm sitting there like,
oh my god, you know. And John Robinson and he
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when he walked in, everybody went quiet. He didn't say
a word. Everybody just went quiet. And this is how
he dressed before practice, before he went and changed sands,
A belts up past the belly button because he had
a gut, flowery, some kind of schnyloony sort of shirt,
something sweet, buttons down, revealing chest, hair and chains, always
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a big gold watch, gold rings, Jesus, leathery sandals, huh
full pimp look, and just the place, hush a hush.
And the first word that came out of his mouth
addressing the team when I was on the USC football
team the ninety sixteen was if you.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Have a gun, leave it at home. I don't want
to see it. And I was just like, don what's
your gun on your locker? And I'm looking around like
has this been a problem, you know? And the guys
are like nodding like okay, all right, my bad, I
don't want to hear.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
It. Was just like I remember literally received asking myself
who's got a gun?
Speaker 4 (23:31):
What have I done? You know?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And he was amazing, like you never really knew, like
he was such a great communicator. He was able to
tell you nothing and then you You wouldn't realize that
until you're walking back down the stairs of his office,
you know. I remember him talking a whole bunch one week.
You get press on you're gonna run all and it's like,
you know what, I don't know what's going on. You know,
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I'm not in the press conferences and everybody's like, oh,
you can run the ball.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
This with you. I love to run with It's get
some run, all right, We get some run and get
some you know, I'm not just gonna be I'm not
just gonna be the wedge and the wedge breaker. You know.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Every week he kept saying I was gonna I was
gonna run the ball more, and it really wasn't happening,
you know. And I remember going up there once and
just kind of asking him like, is it the circumstance
of the game or is it a media guy that's
bugging you about it? Is it?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
You know? And I remember, no, it's your shoulder. I
was like, what's wrong with my shoulder? The shoulder don't
you know, I was like my children's fine. According to
the papers, haven't you been reading what they're writing.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
He was the head coach at UNLV for six seasons
ninety nine to two thousand and four, and during that
time he gave the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction
speech one of the best ever for Jackie Slater, for
the great ram legend, Jackie Slater, our friend, he's in
the College Football Hall of Fame. Went into two thousand
and nine and he was welcome come back into the
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USC family after Mike Garrett was fired summer of twenty
ten because you know, they didn't like each other. So
then he worked like as a fundraiser and an ambassador,
but SC kicked him out again when Lynn Swan took over,
But it was at Ogeron who hired him as a
special consultant in twenty nineteen when LSU had their perfect
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season at national championship. He was a players coach who
first and foremost loved football players, and I think he
loved USC more than USC loved him.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
He was a.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Special guy to be around in the football world and
his connection to everybody, you know, best friends for a
lifetime with John Madden born together in Daily City, Joe Gibbs,
Dave Wantstad, Don Corielle Norvel, I mean, all these guys,
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North Turner, I mean it just never stops, all the
different people that they were around. Not to make to
John McKay and uh, all those guys. So via condios
to the great John Robinson. He was a great football
man in Los Angeles. I don't know if we'll ever
have a h a USC coach that's that really embedded
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with the place ever again, you know, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I don't know if that's that. Don't te sip is
the same. I know, Jay Rob's not a California and
then you know, I mean he was from Oregon in
northern Calibers Thips.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It's just not the same.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Jay Rob would call mar Marcus Allen or Ronnie Lotte
to come talk to.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Us and called that redhead Oklahoma linebacker, that guy Dusty Devortune,
love that guy. Bang up job with our friend Danny Canal.
Danny Cane's getting pissed already, pure ho. Well he's getting
mad because they're already talking on ESPN. Like, I wouldn't
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rule out a three law SUC team. I wouldn't roll
that out at all. I'm not want to roll that out.
And Danny Cadell's on Twitter going.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
They're already trying, Lulu what they're doing. Well, thank you
for remembering coach with us, and we will be back
with more great sports talk.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Great sports talk.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Some Textoso's next. Yeah, I mean, I know the coach
just died, but his kate's already dressed for a funeral.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
I no, right, he's in black. He's nice haircut. That's
you're saying, money am five to seventy LA Sports a
lot heavier. Yeah, I see the boody going till seven.
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You missed it, Don McLean in the six o'clock hour
little top story the day. In the very next segment,
we heard.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Some nice words from Sam Farmer just now on the
Twitter machine. Sam Farmer a great article about John robinson
morning relationship with John Madden and how they grew up
in Daily City together and covered him with the Rams
and our dear friend Chris dufraine The late Chris Dufraane,
one of the great sports writers in the history of
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the City of la used to do an amazing soundless
John Robinson impression that like it was kind of just
he just moved his hands around like a new frame.
He really had it. That the the Chaucer of Chino.
Our dear friend Chris Dufraane. I think about Chris all
the time, and what a great, great sports writer he was.
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All Right, a couple of text alsos, Matt, here we go.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
The secret text does a fine brought to you by
your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
We make it easy deflecting balls. I know what kind
of balls Kate's likes to see deflected. He likes to
see eight balls of meth deflected. Yeah, it's gonna kill
you kids. Tim is very excited about UCLA and we
talked to Don McClain about it. Tim said that he's
gonna die on Ucla Hill. Ucla in the Final four hill,
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otherwise known as Deflection Hill. What's the guy's name, Jake
from State Farm.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yes. My father is like he's gained weight. I was like, okay,
I saw him in a game. He's pretty swollen. He's
actually like kind of chested and.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Not according to my dad.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
You can see it in his pants too. He's got
some quads going down there.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Look like sausage legs to me. I'm taking a work
trip to Hawaii. And I keep telling people I'm burning
it to a Loja hill. No one is responding to
this reference for some reason. What are you talking about?
Keep it going.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I knew the voice that almost forgotten the face.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
It's great, Cougar Norris, Cougar Norris.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
And you've no delinquent who straightened out a year ago.
I had helped with a straight name. He had been
around for months.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I'll come today.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Aha, Oh what I mean? Man?
Speaker 4 (29:56):
It's like, it's like great.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
To see shave here.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
How's everything? How's your weaventry?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
No sweat, no sweat?
Speaker 4 (30:01):
No? Say why I made the scene is you're burning
into a Lowville.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Like now, you're burning it to a loja Ville right now? Huh.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
You can have to play it over again, my crazy
crazy you're flying You're Hawaii tomorrow right.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Oh yeah, that's a translation.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I'm burning it to a loja Ville. I'm burning it
to a Lojaville.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
You're doing what you do? Shut up. I'll die with
you guys on one hill. The no condoms in porn Hill. Yeah,
I see a condom and porn, I turn, I hit,
I delete.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I don't know if I've ever seen a condom in porn.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
That's why it's wrong. I've seen it and it's wrong.
And you can't fool me with your super skinny lamb
skin either, I know. So I'm supposed to feel bad
for Kelsey getting robbed and he's out in a restaurant
forcing a staff to stay up late with his gawky
international pop star woman who's taken over all the NFL footage,
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and he's dumb enough to have twenty thousand dollars in
cash at home, not in a safe, all while having
a militant cut and a pedal stash. For shame, For shame,
I don't feel bad for Joy.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
I would imagine the staff is compensated for stay in late.
Now they mean not want to stay late, but I
would assume they threw a pretty tall stack of cash
for doing so. That would be my guess.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
At what cost when I had to stay up I
had to stay up late for Jilly and Barbara and
watch her go to the bathroom forty times at my
dad's restaurant? Did I get anything extra.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Because their bladder had she had bladder issues? Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I was at City Hall when Mayor Bass addressed the
Dodgers at the parade and she said, and I quote
too bad. It does not compare to the Lakers winning
the in season two tournament. Unquote. Woman's out of touch.
She does not understand this.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
She loves the n seasoned tournament.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
And I got I got a guy bad, some guy.
We were talking about numbers earlier, and we're gonna we're
gonna call out Old Carson sweashing Jordanic terrible forty nine
number when he comes on alone. But this is USC
number forty nine. Marvin Powell, the third you played with him,
he played in the NFL. Keep that number out of
your mouth. And I texted the guy back. He wore
thirty nine, you dumb ass, and he wrote, ass, you're right,
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I suckt bad. Yeah, you suck, dumb ass. You suckdumb ass, dombass.
Tell me about MP three out of Birmingham High.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
My bad, My bad, my bad.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Marvin Powell either hit the linebacker in front of you
that he was supposed to be blocking and literally knock
the guy's arms and legs off to where he'd have
to pick up his body to get back in the huddle,
or he would miss completely, like to where you couldn't
even imagine there was space to miss that bad and
then the guy would just blow you up. And now
(33:12):
you're picking your arms and LEGSA bad is right MA.
We'll be back with more great sports talk on a
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
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A lifetime of maction. Is that the quote? If you wait,
all that happens is you get older?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
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Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. Little late start,
but that's because we had a nice long, in depth
conversation with our dear friend Don McLean in the first hour.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
And interaction with the listeners and talking about Bernard Backer.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
It's some Burnett Backer.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
If this special team's s.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Goodness is you got another three hours with us, a
full four hour show today. Flex alerts the rest of
the week two to four, two to five, two to four,
Bing Bang Boom, two Clippers, one Thursday night football game
and Friday when the Clippers and Rockets are playing, we'll
have UCLA football taken on Washington on AM eleven fifty.
The resurgent UCLA Bruins program, thought to possibly exit the
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twenty twenty four campaign with just a single win over Hawaii,
is now perhaps more relevant in the Big Ten than
it's cross town rival USC.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I think they are more relevant, and USC Ucla in
a couple of weeks are going to play because neither
of them are good.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
We're gonna settle this on the field.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
They're getting the old Petros papadakas USC UCLA slot of
seven point thirty kick and when SC I'm not I
thought you were saying, you're right, it's on Peacock, but
it's it's the Curtain.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Game only exactly Crosstown showdown stream, only it is locally.
They'll put it on ENVYC.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, they'll have to. It is the circumstance of when
I end up calling an SEUCLA game when they both suck,
and I think I've called maybe three four in my lifetime,
which isn't mad for for working in college football.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
And MISLA fans are very excited about that.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I think I'm very measured.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
They don't hear it that way.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
That's their problem. Carson, Swiss hate you. It's a real
double edged cutless of death. But I will say this,
Matt uh, when they kick at seven thirty, the likelihood
of a facial stabbing, the percentage.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Shoots thousand percent goes way up, thousand percent increase.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
In fact, I believe in two thousand and nine there
was a facial stabbing right there.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
On the golf course. And the golf course yeah, and
we heard about it was then a sandtrap. It's very
frustrating if you can't get out trying to get up
and down and keep swinging and swinging. The next thing,
you know, you take a I believe it was a stiletto.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Stiletto pumped to the face, the face, Matt, did you
see this? I guess this would be breaking news. What
do we got? Ti Oscar Hernandez is a Silver Slugger. Yes,
he won the Silver Slugger Award for the third time
in his career.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Ohtani won it as well. The silver Sluggers have been awarded.
I think the Dodgers had six guys, I want to
say six, six of them nominated at sho Heil Tani
let's see outfield. Here's your NL winners, ta Oscar Hernandez
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third base, no first base, no second base, no catcher.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
No.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
So there you go. Two those two. Otani for DH
and ta Oscar for outfield, and a lot of people
really really really mookie bets go.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well. Otani and Mookie bets are locked up, and a
lot of people hoping that ti Oscar Hernandez does return
as a Dodger real quick will do the word of
the day.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
His words the word of the day.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
The trend continues of robbing sports stars when they're playing
a game, rob her house, Yeah, because they know they're
at the arena, not Colorado at the Rose Bowl style
rob the locker.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Room right from last year high schoolers on a visit
from Rob the Locker.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Room from do you remember the town that the kids
were from that stole?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I believe it was Lexico, No, but Inland Beaumont, Beaumont,
our favorite matt On October seventh, on Monday Night football,
while the Chiefs were playing the Saints, somebody robbed Travis
Kelsey's house and Patrick Mahomes big giant mansion. The hell
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they getting in there? They don't have security.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
These are gigantic homes. The Leewood, Kansas mansion of Kelsey
was broken into after mahomes. And it was around midnight
on October sixth.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
They were on the road. They were in New Orleans
or something, maybe it doesn't matter. They were at Arrowhead.
Holy Hell, haven't weren't home yet, and they got robbed
and Kelsey never even went home. Him and Taylor Swift
went to the hotel. They went to a hotel and
were like this, I'm not going there. It's like, if
you're that rich and you're trying to protect the most
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famous woman in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Though she's very.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Gawky and awkward in my opinion, when she dances some
things she's cooking.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
She ain't cooking. You think you cooked, You didn't cook.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I'd be like a sous chef.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You, no, you're not cooking. But they got robbed.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah, I know. It's a real to do. When they
go out to dinner after they request that restaurants stay open,
they request that they keep their entire staff, they request
a private entrance.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I guess somebody they took twenty twenty g's in cash
and they blew up his back door.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Kelsey he got twenty grant and cash at home.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And by blowing up his back door. I don't mean
what you say, you know, I know he's changed his hair,
but no they they some property damage, that's all, okay.
So it's not just Yasiel Puig out of the conga
room waving it around four in the morning. Yeah, it's
not just uh, it's not just Miguel Rojas lamb Lambeau
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get robbed on, brought downtown skid row, took my mom's
purse on a Lambeau row in one in the morning.
I don't know what happened, but you live in these jobs.
I mean, these mansions can only be seen from helicopter shots,
so it had to be pretty elaborate.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I think they tunnel in. Really it's a boring project.
That's awesome, like the fantastic Mister Fox. That's so great exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You know, honestly, you know if I was going to
be a thief, that I'd get into the rob athletes
while they're playing and burrow.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Seems like you got a lot of dirt out of
your finger.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Now it's going on Grease Monkey. I like to work
on a car.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Dirty Jobs. I love that show.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I love it in micro time.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
For the number.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Number number of the day.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Your number of the day is eight as an eight
NBA Cup games tonight. The Lakers and Clippers will begin
their run at the NBA Cup on Friday. A refresher
to remind each of you what the hell we're talking about.
NBA Cup games are played every single Tuesday and Friday.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I can't wait. Starting today, the floor is gonna look
so cool. They've tried so hard to make the Laker
one cool. They tried so hard to make the Clipper
one generic, generic, and terrible.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
December third. It ends between now and December third. So
seven days of games Tuesday, Friday, Thursday, Friday, Thursday, Friday, Tuesday,
and then the quarterfinals the following week December tenth and eleventh,
and then the semis. See you'll roll your way to
the semis three days later, and then the final on Tuesday,
December seventeenth. Why bring it up? Why give it attention?
(08:35):
Is it because we were humiliated by Don McLain after
we said this sucks and he was like, I'm kind
of into it.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah that was bad. No, but it does suck.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
That's not why. Here's why. Never forget That's why. Because
never forget April twenty ninth, Lakers losing five to the
Nuggets after falling down zero three, winning game four to
make it a gentleman's sweep instead of a full sweep,
and our Mayor, the Honorable Karen Bass, wanting a piece
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of that Laker fandom as mayor of this city, tweets out, oh,
I yeah, tough season, but at least we won the
n season tournament.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You idiot.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Proud of our team at Lakers stayed up long enough
for the screen grabs before it was deleted, and my
great hope is it will in fact live on in perpetuity.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Forever, you idiot.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
The Lakers again. Tough season, oh, no doubt, no doubt
in my mind, but at least we won the n
season tournament. Proud of our team at Lakers. The Lakers
put up the banner, a banner for their NBA Cup championship,
and look it wasn't it is.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
It's still there next to the Taylor Swift still there.
Heard you got robbed?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It is it is still there. We can scoff, we
can snark, we will, but we will point out you
pointed out five hundred grand per player a lot of
those end of the bench guys that were making like
four hundred grand for the year got five hundred grand
cool cash.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I'm gonna rob those guys in there.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I'm going to burrow but steal that cash and blow
up your door. Two hundred grand per player for the
runner up. So you bet your ass. Everybody was trying
to win, and the Lakers did it. And that's why,
like our mayor Karen Bass said, tough season, but at
least we won the n Sason Tournament.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
How much of our.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Ratings bump or whatever they give to politicians, did Mayor
buzz Cut get with the Dodgers winning the championship? Huge?
I mean I heard her favorability rating went up like
ten points.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
My homie had to walk across four lane. Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
They start Friday, the Clippers will play the Rockets on Wednesday,
and then on Friday they will play the Rockets again
in Houston. And you will notice the floor looks considerably different,
because that's how you know it's an NBA Cup game
by the floor. So good luck to all teams, and
may he the wishes of Karen Bass one of our
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two teams win it so she can boast tough season,
but at least we not the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
We we will handle it.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Won the nd season tournament.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I gotta say, Matt say, I say say, we will
handle them in La. It's not just the floor that
makes it distinctive. That's not the only reason you know
it's the NBA Cup. It's because Karen Bass hands out
caprice sons and orange slices.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
At the half. Yeah, right, not at the clipper. Make
sure everybody's sitting in the shade. Everybody, come on, get
some share.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Butts would hand out the the the caprice sons and
the orange slices. But he's sitting down apparently, and he
can't get up. Somebody who might be under that tesk.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Oh, no, god, you know. So the local politicians go
the spoils.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Running.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
This is the song of the day.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
A Fragile Thing is our song of the day from
The Cure and it's music from the new album titled
Songs of a Lost World, the fourteenth studio record and
first in sixteen years and a good one from Robert
Smith and the Boys from Crawley, with a darker LP,
reflecting on personal loss and the examination of one's mortality
through change in Despair with the darker undertones reminiscent of
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his sound from an earlier time in their career, and
you can see them live as they prepare for a
world tour coming to his city near you in twenty
twenty five. It's brand new music from the Cure.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Enjoy.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
This is gonna wrack the Ronnie. This is gonna wreck
the tour. What tour the world too? We'll return with
a flip top story of the day. Stay with us.
I did not have a new Cure album coming out.
I heard it's good, as Ronnie just said. I've heard
that it's excellent. That's what I want. Darkness and the
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exploration of my mortality all the way home. When the
sun goes down early in the terrible holiday traffic of
the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I'm gonna throw this.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
On and let pretty good about myself.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Goth Missus Doubtfire, take me deeper and deeper into despair.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Now sure you got a box of tissues with you.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
You yelled at me when I attacked his appearance, and
now you're gonna take your shot, Goth Missus Doubtfire.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I think he looks great.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Go un till seven o'clock tomorrow, not so much two
to four, but going until seven pm tonight. Remember an
opportunity for you in the charge for you to win
Chargers Bengals tickets on Sunday night at so far by
visiting on Instagram Instagram, and.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I saw Ronnie trying to call Don McLain. I thought
he was picking up the phone for a winner. Ah.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Social media is how they're doing it this time around.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
And LA Sports. Yeah, that's a way to the that's
a way of the future.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
They say, you know, vertical channels on YouTube, So they say,
you know.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You see the charts. Couldn't be anything.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Else, wouldn't be anything else.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
All right, man, it's time to play B sides. We'll
call this a flip top story of the day.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'll clip you out, I will look you up. This
is the FlipTop story of the day.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Well. A legendary college and pro football coach, especially in
this area, John Robinson passed away yesterday. He was eighty nine.
He lived in Louisiana at the end of his wife,
with the end of his life with his third wife,
and spent a lot of time with the LSU program.
At the end there and just a few things to
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talk about John Robinson. We talked about it a little
bit in the first segment. I played for him in
ninety six in the spring, and I was on the team,
and in ninety six but I didn't play. I was
transferred from CAL and I played for him in ninety seven,
and much like I did for Paul Hackett, I helped
get him fired, unfortunately. But the great John Robinson, Man.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I don't think you helped.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I mean I rode these guys. I really did. Man,
I knocked Withllndy on his neck. But what gets overlooked
most about John Robinson and what he accomplished at USC
was something that is almost impossible to do. And you
see Caylin de Boor going through it right now at Alabama.
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John Robinson successfully replaced a legend at USC. When John
McKay left USC for the NFL after the nineteen seventy
five season, the Trojans did not skip a beat with
John Robinson. The fact that he successfully replaced a legend
is so overlooked, and won a national championship right after
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McKay left, replacing one of the greatest college football coaches
of all time, and John McKay, the guy that developed
the West Coast identity and domination of USC football and
student body Wright and OJ and Charles White and Marcus
Allen and all those things you think about. Jay rob
replaced that and kept it going and extended it and
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created the USC football lore that were constantly bitching about
and always kind of trying to get back to the
men who replaced. Championship coaches. Ara Parsigen, Woody Hayes, Bear
Bryant and Lou Holtz never won a national championship, but
John Robinson did. And yeah, he inherited a treasure chest
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to talent at SC, but it was him who also
recruited Pro football Hall of famers Anthony Munnos, Marcus Allen,
Bruce and Clay Matthews and Roddy Lott and Matt You
talked about it, my dad was said out some photos.
I sent one on Twitter yesterday. I've been around John
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Robinson my whole life because he was a US head
football coach before I was born, and he would regularly
bring his teams into our family restaurant, and I vividly
remember all of those nights from Tim Ryan and his
handlebar mustache in there. Eric Affolter, who came to visit
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us not long ago at the Tarantula Hill with his
long dreadloss. Now and Rodney, of course our colleague here
at the station, and he might have been at the
restaurant more times than he's been here.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Uh Fred and Jonas today.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Oh, no doubt. And there were some great pictures of
John Robinson at the restaurant, dancing around and doing stuff.
But one of him given a toast, that's the best one.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And my brother Tasso, who ended up being one of
his first signees. When Jay rob got USC's job again
in nineteen ninety four ninety three, he took over USC
again and they beat Northwestern in that Rose Bowl with
Keishawn and all that. But my brother, who ended up
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playing for him, is like seven years old standing in
the background in his little Greek outfit staring up at
John Robinson. To actually get to play for him and
watch him teach run game and learn to be a
running back on his team was a real great honor.
I left Cal in the middle of camp in ninety five,
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and Robinson was in my corner to help me get
eligible finally at USC. As much as I tried to
screw it up in nineteen ninety seven, and he was very,
very covetous of the run game and how he taught
the run game and how the run game was to
be executed. And I'll never forget. At some point when
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I was there, I was running the ball and practice
and something and Mike Garrett, who was our athletic director
and the first Heisman winner from LA and all that,
you know, pulled me aside. He was like, here's what
I want you to do with the ball, and Robinson came,
you don't get away, and I was like, you know,
I don't think these guys get along.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Get away from my back.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I told this story last night to uh Tim Conway,
and it's a it's a fun story. Yeah baboo, Yes,
I was on that show for quite some time last night.
But it's a great Kennedy Polamalu story. Troy Polamlow's uncle. Kennedy,
as you know, was a huge star, moved from American
Samoa with a white family and went to modern day.
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It even happened back in the seventies, believe it or not,
or late seventies early eighties.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
They had their own plane up and bring you back.
They had shoes on the plane because Kennedy had no
shoes get used to these, but and.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
He pulled Aba lu Troy's uncle was a huge recruit
at a modern day. And they were visited at his
surrogate family or whatever's house uh in Anaheim or Santa
Anna or wherever, and John Robinson and a very famous
old us HE coach named Dave Levy uh came and
they're they're in the living room and while they're talking
(20:22):
giving the spiel, Kennedy's sitting there and the phone rings
in the kitchen you know, back in the day, rotary
phone on the wall. Yeah, court, and uh, it's for
Dave Levy. Dave Levy goes in there and then he
comes back out and he goes, Coach, you got to
take this. Coach gets up and goes to the phone,
and Dave Levy goes and sits on the couch and
kind of stares into his hands and are folded. They go,
(20:45):
what's up?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
He goes, well, you know it's a sad thing. But
Coach Robinson's got a brother and he's really he's dying.
He's dying in the hospital right now. And that's how
bad he wants you to be a trojan. Kennedy is
that he's here while his brother's dying. And of course Kennedy,
you know, seventeen eighteen year old kid from American Samoa,
famous football coach, and he commits right there, you know, signs, commits, signed, sealed, delivered.
(21:11):
A couple months later, you know, Kennedy's toiling at USC
practice and you know, nobody likes you anymore once you signed,
and he goes to Levy. You know, whatever happened to
coach's brother, you know, did bury him or he doesn't
have a brother, you idiot, you fell for that.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Be pretty stupid right now.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
And my very first day at USC, my very first
day at SCU in nineteen ninety six, spring ninety six.
So they had just beaten Northwestern. Keishawn is going to
be number one over all, number one over He's not
on the team anymore, but he's around. We all went
to the House of Blues party where Coolio played. Everybody
threw up in a limo. We had to pay for it.
(21:54):
The point is it was a very unruly you know,
everybody's in that meeting with Pete Carroll made famous with
the piano. It's not there anymore but Heritage Hall, and
there was unruly, everybody freaking out. Guy's almost fistfighting. Every
other word was the N word. And I'm sitting there like,
oh my god, you know. And John Robinson and he
(22:18):
when he walked in, everybody went quiet. He didn't say
a word. Everybody just went quiet. And this is how
he dressed before practice, before he went and changed sands,
A belts up past the belly button because he had
a gut, flowery, some kind of schnyloony sort of shirt,
something sweet, buttons down, revealing chest, hair and chains, always
(22:45):
a big gold watch, gold rings, Jesus, leathery sandals, huh
full pimp look, and just the place, hush a hush.
And the first word that came out of his mouth
addressing the team when I was on the USC football
team the ninety sixteen was if you.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Have a gun, leave it at home. I don't want
to see it. And I was just like, don what's
your gun on your locker? And I'm looking around like
has this been a problem, you know? And the guys
are like nodding like okay, all right, my bad, I
don't want to hear.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
It. Was just like I remember literally received asking myself
who's got a gun?
Speaker 4 (23:31):
What have I done? You know?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And he was amazing, like you never really knew, like
he was such a great communicator. He was able to
tell you nothing and then you You wouldn't realize that
until you're walking back down the stairs of his office,
you know. I remember him talking a whole bunch one week.
You get press on you're gonna run all and it's like,
you know what, I don't know what's going on. You know,
(23:52):
I'm not in the press conferences and everybody's like, oh,
you can run the ball.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
This with you. I love to run with It's get
some run, all right, We get some run and get
some you know, I'm not just gonna be I'm not
just gonna be the wedge and the wedge breaker. You know.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Every week he kept saying I was gonna I was
gonna run the ball more, and it really wasn't happening,
you know. And I remember going up there once and
just kind of asking him like, is it the circumstance
of the game or is it a media guy that's
bugging you about it? Is it?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
You know? And I remember, no, it's your shoulder. I
was like, what's wrong with my shoulder? The shoulder don't
you know, I was like my children's fine. According to
the papers, haven't you been reading what they're writing.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
He was the head coach at UNLV for six seasons
ninety nine to two thousand and four, and during that
time he gave the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction
speech one of the best ever for Jackie Slater, for
the great ram legend, Jackie Slater, our friend, he's in
the College Football Hall of Fame. Went into two thousand
and nine and he was welcome come back into the
(25:00):
USC family after Mike Garrett was fired summer of twenty
ten because you know, they didn't like each other. So
then he worked like as a fundraiser and an ambassador,
but SC kicked him out again when Lynn Swan took over,
But it was at Ogeron who hired him as a
special consultant in twenty nineteen when LSU had their perfect
(25:21):
season at national championship. He was a players coach who
first and foremost loved football players, and I think he
loved USC more than USC loved him.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
He was a.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Special guy to be around in the football world and
his connection to everybody, you know, best friends for a
lifetime with John Madden born together in Daily City, Joe Gibbs,
Dave Wantstad, Don Corielle Norvel, I mean, all these guys,
(25:54):
North Turner, I mean it just never stops, all the
different people that they were around. Not to make to
John McKay and uh, all those guys. So via condios
to the great John Robinson. He was a great football
man in Los Angeles. I don't know if we'll ever
have a h a USC coach that's that really embedded
(26:15):
with the place ever again, you know, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I don't know if that's that. Don't te sip is
the same. I know, Jay Rob's not a California and
then you know, I mean he was from Oregon in
northern Calibers Thips.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It's just not the same.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Jay Rob would call mar Marcus Allen or Ronnie Lotte
to come talk to.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Us and called that redhead Oklahoma linebacker, that guy Dusty Devortune,
love that guy. Bang up job with our friend Danny Canal.
Danny Cane's getting pissed already, pure ho. Well he's getting
mad because they're already talking on ESPN. Like, I wouldn't
(26:59):
rule out a three law SUC team. I wouldn't roll
that out at all. I'm not want to roll that out.
And Danny Cadell's on Twitter going.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
They're already trying, Lulu what they're doing. Well, thank you
for remembering coach with us, and we will be back
with more great sports talk.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Great sports talk.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Some Textoso's next. Yeah, I mean, I know the coach
just died, but his kate's already dressed for a funeral.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
I no, right, he's in black. He's nice haircut. That's
you're saying, money am five to seventy LA Sports a
lot heavier. Yeah, I see the boody going till seven.
(27:47):
You missed it, Don McLean in the six o'clock hour
little top story the day. In the very next segment,
we heard.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Some nice words from Sam Farmer just now on the
Twitter machine. Sam Farmer a great article about John robinson
morning relationship with John Madden and how they grew up
in Daily City together and covered him with the Rams
and our dear friend Chris dufraine The late Chris Dufraane,
one of the great sports writers in the history of
(28:14):
the City of la used to do an amazing soundless
John Robinson impression that like it was kind of just
he just moved his hands around like a new frame.
He really had it. That the the Chaucer of Chino.
Our dear friend Chris Dufraane. I think about Chris all
the time, and what a great, great sports writer he was.
(28:35):
All Right, a couple of text alsos, Matt, here we go.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
The secret text does a fine brought to you by
your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
We make it easy deflecting balls. I know what kind
of balls Kate's likes to see deflected. He likes to
see eight balls of meth deflected. Yeah, it's gonna kill
you kids. Tim is very excited about UCLA and we
talked to Don McClain about it. Tim said that he's
gonna die on Ucla Hill. Ucla in the Final four hill,
(29:05):
otherwise known as Deflection Hill. What's the guy's name, Jake
from State Farm.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yes. My father is like he's gained weight. I was like, okay,
I saw him in a game. He's pretty swollen. He's
actually like kind of chested and.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Not according to my dad.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
You can see it in his pants too. He's got
some quads going down there.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Look like sausage legs to me. I'm taking a work
trip to Hawaii. And I keep telling people I'm burning
it to a Loja hill. No one is responding to
this reference for some reason. What are you talking about?
Keep it going.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I knew the voice that almost forgotten the face.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
It's great, Cougar Norris, Cougar Norris.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
And you've no delinquent who straightened out a year ago.
I had helped with a straight name. He had been
around for months.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I'll come today.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Aha, Oh what I mean? Man?
Speaker 4 (29:56):
It's like, it's like great.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
To see shave here.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
How's everything? How's your weaventry?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
No sweat, no sweat?
Speaker 4 (30:01):
No? Say why I made the scene is you're burning
into a Lowville.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Like now, you're burning it to a loja Ville right now? Huh.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
You can have to play it over again, my crazy
crazy you're flying You're Hawaii tomorrow right.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Oh yeah, that's a translation.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I'm burning it to a loja Ville. I'm burning it
to a Lojaville.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
You're doing what you do? Shut up. I'll die with
you guys on one hill. The no condoms in porn Hill. Yeah,
I see a condom and porn, I turn, I hit,
I delete.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I don't know if I've ever seen a condom in porn.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
That's why it's wrong. I've seen it and it's wrong.
And you can't fool me with your super skinny lamb
skin either, I know. So I'm supposed to feel bad
for Kelsey getting robbed and he's out in a restaurant
forcing a staff to stay up late with his gawky
international pop star woman who's taken over all the NFL footage,
(31:07):
and he's dumb enough to have twenty thousand dollars in
cash at home, not in a safe, all while having
a militant cut and a pedal stash. For shame, For shame,
I don't feel bad for Joy.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
I would imagine the staff is compensated for stay in late.
Now they mean not want to stay late, but I
would assume they threw a pretty tall stack of cash
for doing so. That would be my guess.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
At what cost when I had to stay up I
had to stay up late for Jilly and Barbara and
watch her go to the bathroom forty times at my
dad's restaurant? Did I get anything extra.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Because their bladder had she had bladder issues? Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I was at City Hall when Mayor Bass addressed the
Dodgers at the parade and she said, and I quote
too bad. It does not compare to the Lakers winning
the in season two tournament. Unquote. Woman's out of touch.
She does not understand this.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
She loves the n seasoned tournament.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
And I got I got a guy bad, some guy.
We were talking about numbers earlier, and we're gonna we're
gonna call out Old Carson sweashing Jordanic terrible forty nine
number when he comes on alone. But this is USC
number forty nine. Marvin Powell, the third you played with him,
he played in the NFL. Keep that number out of
your mouth. And I texted the guy back. He wore
thirty nine, you dumb ass, and he wrote, ass, you're right,
(32:37):
I suckt bad. Yeah, you suck, dumb ass. You suckdumb ass, dombass.
Tell me about MP three out of Birmingham High.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
My bad, My bad, my bad.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Marvin Powell either hit the linebacker in front of you
that he was supposed to be blocking and literally knock
the guy's arms and legs off to where he'd have
to pick up his body to get back in the huddle,
or he would miss completely, like to where you couldn't
even imagine there was space to miss that bad and
then the guy would just blow you up. And now
(33:12):
you're picking your arms and LEGSA bad is right MA.
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