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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. Fox Sports Radio,
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this Tuesday edition, Congratulations to the Denver Nuggets. We look
back on a world championship, the first for the city
of Denver as far as their basketball team goes, but
not the first when it comes to their owner. We'll explain.
We're also going to talk about parades, apparently Nikola Jokicic
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not a big fan of those, and we'll talk about
this hashtag heat culture garbage that we've been force fed
the past couple of weeks. We're also going to get
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How the hell we feel here on a Tuesday morning,
like a Denver nugget champ. That's right, Yeah, nugget of
a champ. Thank Christ, just put it away, get it done.
I will say this, that was one of the most
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entertaining bad basketball games I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
That's what you go.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
What an awful game.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That is funny. There was a lot of bad shooting turn, sloppy, yeah,
sloppy handling.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
The ball didn't feel like if Denver could just hit
like two or three threes, they were just gonna run
away with it. And and Miami kept hanging around and
kept hanging around. But Denver, I don't did. I don't
know that anybody really played all that well. Like they
couldn't hit a shot. They were one of fifteen the
first half from three jo kids. Wasn't even shooting no,
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Like it was weird. Like Mike Malone at one point
late in the game just told him, dude, slowed down,
Like they were just sloppy. They I don't know if
nerves were a factor, but everybody in the in the
audience and the crowd was just looking around, going, God,
if we could just put together two to three minutes
of good basketball, we're gonna run away with this thing.
But nonetheless, congratulations of the Denver Nuggets. They get it done.
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First title in the history of the franchise for those
Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
How about that? Yeah, they get first team outside of
a Kylo Fournia, Texas, And there's one other state I
believe that won the won the title out of the West.
It's like three states that win the title every year
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in the history of the NBA. That's messed up. Make
you wonder there's a lot of teams that aren't in
in those states. I forget the other one it's Texas Nexas.
You just you made a critical air, a critical mistake.
What was the critical.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So our Lord and savior Scott Shapiro, okay, diehard Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Fan, okay, one of they don't have none, one.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Of the great, Yes, that is, and he reminds everybody
on Twitter as often as he cans about how long
how long it's been since the Minnesota Timberwolves have won
in now they haven't, They've not come close to me.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
How long it's been since they've a.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Chance, well between them and the Vikings, And I mean
the Twins won a couple of times eighty seven and just.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Won a super Bowl Viking super Bowl, Yeah, the Sanship
or something right, Yeah, I don't know, I believe so
oh man.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, Minnesota's had it rough, and so our our friends
on the Yallo Horn of the Twin Cities K fan,
you are constantly reminded.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And I don't I don't think it was that you suck. Yeah,
I mean, listen any national titles wrestling maybe.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, wrestling probably, I would assume, but wrestling, yeah, but
when it comes to everything else, just not not.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
In basketball, no, no, not in football.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
The Minnesota wild.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, I believe the Minnesota North Stars from.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So I've been spoiled, man. Yeah, I got one in hockey,
I got I got a well, I got a whole
bunch in hockey, got a whole bunch in football. We're
like f basketball because we just win a whole bunch
and football and hockey. I believe we have one. What
didn't we win one with Willie Stargell? I think we
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won one with I think we have a world series
with Do we have a World series with the Pirates Eddie?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, I'm not quite sure. Did Willy Stargell win a
World Series Eddie?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah? In nineteen seventy nine. We are family. Yeah, there
you go. See, So just pour it on and Minnesota.
Coop just jumped in. Minnesota does have a championship. That's
what I thought.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, who Coop, let's hear purple people eaters.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
No, no, No, that wasn't.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
The nineteen sixty nine NFL championship game. The thirty seventh
and final championship game prior to the AFL NFL merger.
Joe Capp was the.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
So that's not modern day it's not. It's not the NFL.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, Coops, Coops, being a wise ass is what he is.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
No, but it's it's part of the history books. Though
I thought he was going to say the Minneapolis Lakers.
A lot of people don't know the La Lakers where.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, that should out.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I mean I used to always wonder why they called
it La Lakers the Lakers. It's a very good question.
I mean, you have oceans.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Here, why do they call them the Utah Jazz? I mean,
is there one jazz bar in the entire state of Utah?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Right? That makes sense?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Right, they came from New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Why were you leaving? Yeah, and keeping the name the same. Yeah,
it's just weird. It is weird Utah Jazz. It is weird.
It's weird.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You know, it's not weird. What the Denver Nuggets? You know,
it's not weird. What championship parades? Well accepted, you're except
if you're Nikola Jokic, because he was asked about the
championship parade for the Denver Nuggets coming up this week
and apparently he's not all that interested in partaking in
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this championship.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well, it's just going to be smoke.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
You said after the Lakers, when you said you were
surprised that you didn't feel more So, I'm curious what
you are feeling right now and if you're looking forward
to a parade coming up in Denver perris P Thursday Day.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
No, I need to go home, Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
We succeed in our jobs and we we we wanted,
we want the whole thing. It's a it's a it's
an amazing feeling. But like I said before, it's not
everything on the world. You know. I think I think
still if okay, I want it, Okay, I we want it,
but I think it's not the most important thing in
the world. Still. There's a bunch of things that that
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I like, that I like to do. I mean probably
that's no, that's a normal thing. You know. Nobody likes
his his job, or maybe they do, they're lying.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
He is not.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
U not a big fan of those parades, man, So
who knows.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We'll be there. But yeah, you got to get back
to the fans, man. Fans deserve to be able to
to enjoy a win for their city. You know. That's
that's that's definitely definitely important.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I would I would just urge him to be careful
on that. That's all because you don't want you don't
want to come across that, And he's right, there is
more to life that's more important. But also at the
same time, that is your job, and at the end
of the day, that's the pinnacle of your job. And
you never want to be one of those guys that's
like you just seem like you just don't care because
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just as soon as you know, just like people can
love you and care about you because of the feeling
that that they're left with. Like that's the one thing
that I always appreciated about being able to play sports
at a high level and matter to the fans is
that you also had special opportunities to make the fans feel,
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you know, have an experience, feel special about themselves. And
so I would just urge them to just have a
little bit take a little bit more time to think
about the fact that those people that will be lighting up,
smoking up inhale exhaling as as they do this parade,
that those are those are the people that support you.
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That's that's really the reason why you're able to make
the money that you make. That's the reason why your
wins are relevant because if no one cared, like think
about this, how many players and how many teams. Can
you name that have won a championship that are in
professional sports? And when and when did they happen?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Like, It's like there are some things that matter more
and they matter enough where people know what's happening and
what's going on with it. There are a lot of
sports where that doesn't exist, And you could easily have
been born differently and been in a situation where you're
doing amazing things, but people don't really care about what
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it is that you're doing in that sport. So I
would just say when you're when you're a figure like him,
someone should make sure he understands that the fans are
truly they're part of the trinogy, you know, the trinity.
Excuse me, trinity. You have the players in the game itself,
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you have the media, and you have the fans. That's
like the trinity of sports. So anyway, I mean, he
looks like he's enjoying his life. I mean, he looks
like he's got a beautiful family. His brothers support him.
He was holding his baby girl. I believe that was
a daughter. He put a hat on, yeah, but I
believe it's a daughter. So I mean, good for him
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for staying grounded. One's cool that he stays grounded, Jonas.
But I'll just say, don't don't forget about your fans,
because your fans. And one thing I've learned about giving
experiences to your fans, they never forget. They never forget, man,
And that's one of the coolest things is just having
somebody come up to you. I mean, I've been removed
from the game, and they're doing a bobblehead for me
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at at one of the minor league games in State
College for the Spikes baseball team.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Getting your own bobblehead.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, it's a LeVar Elite bibblehead.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Pick up another one autograph that I'll side on.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
eBay. I'm about to say I'll get you on, but yes,
but now I'm not going to get you on. That's right.
But just to know that, you know, I can run
into people. All these years later, it's the twenty fifth
anniversary of me making that play. Twenty five flipping years, man,
and people people still find it relevant. And people come
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up to me and people tell me about when they
met me when they were a kid and they're full
grown and they had their own family. Now makes you
feel really old, but it makes you feel really good
because that's so long ago, but people still appreciate you
and they remember the those moments. And I would just
urge him to not miss out, which he may not
even be into that anyway, but you know, just even
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for the fans sake, don't don't miss out on that
part of it.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
See, I feel like he already did his job. He
provided his fans with the memory of a world championship
that they never got. He also assaulted an owner during
this playoff Randitch, I feel like everybody's wanted to do
at some point or another in their in their job life,
and he accomplished that as well too. Put together a
hell of a run. He's got his trophy. He gave
them that championship experience. He's gonna give them the ability
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to raise a banner next year when they open up
the season. All of that parades are lame. I've been
to one. They're just nothing about It was interesting at all, but.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
They're kind of not for for the player, you know
what I mean. So like for you to say it's lame,
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's like, what do you see him riding around on
a float, Like, what's the point, like.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Not even on a float. You're you're on like some
type of a truck or a bus or a fire.
I've been a part of one parade and it was
flipping awesome because they're throwing you booze and all that stuff. Well,
I was in high school. We want to stay titled, okay,
but it gave maybe maybe icy like ice maybe, but
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it just again, the community was with us the entire city.
This is why I'm saying it. The community was with
us the entire season, right like you don't know what
and then list this is high school, so it's not
really comparable to pros, but I mean people donating food
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and making sure we had the materials that we needed,
and people contributing in so many different ways, and then
you win it all. They feel like they're just as
much a part of winning that championships as the players
and the coaches are, and they are they are. It's
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only the ones that go over the line that really
show why it's fanatic that kind of sometimes it questions
the whole idea of what yourrelevance is. But for the
most part, the people that play a major role in
the success of these teams. There's like look at it
this way. All the people that come there and walk
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people to their seats and direct them to where they're
supposed to see, all of the people that do security
on the court, and all of the people who are
serving drinks. Is it's not just the job. They're part
of the team too. They're part of the operation. And
that's one thing I learned a valuable lesson growing up
from the Steelers and the Rooney family. They always made
everything and everyone feel as relevant as and so did
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the Giants. Man. They made everyone feel as relevant as
everyone else matter. If you're the one putting on the
helmet to play the football game or putting on the
helmet to go up and fix the lights in the
facility and and clean up the facility, everybody's part is
just as vitally important to winning. And that's that's just
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as much to say about the fans as well. I mean,
COVID should have proven that, right, didn't COVID prove that
the fans matter?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Well, not to the NFL. They'll they'll just keep.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Empty games.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
The way they still put together a season. They still
got the games.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
And you put together a season, but it was different.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I get. I also think in high school, there's a
relationship between the community and that team that feels different,
like that Last Chance You show. That's I mean, that's
junior college football. But the relationship in those small towns
to the to the team.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Some guys are in and out. You're hearing gone, boom gone.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I feel like this one there's a there's a different
vibe to it, and the parade there's a different vibe
to it. Can I tell you my favorite this is
this might be my favorite World Championship story of all time.
So when the Cubs finally won the World Series and
first time since like sixteen thirty eight or whatever, however
long it had been since they had won a World
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Series one hundred eight years, the Cubs fans, I mean
were emotional. I grew up a Cub fan, and so
I knew what that meant to that fan base and
all that. And the parade was bonkers. Everybody was, you know,
I mean for miles upon miles never thought they'd see it.
You had people sobbing. And so they went to Wrigley
Field afterwards and they took chalk and they wrote tributes
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to all of their family members who couldn't witness them.
Them winning a World Series, and so they write all
of this, you know these these I love you, I
wish you were here. You're here in spirit. I mean
all over the brick outside Wrigley Field, I mean thousands
upon thousands of messages. And about a week later, the
city came by and the host all over, Hey, dear Grandpa,
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love you, miss you, wish you were here.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But the memory of it is still there. The memory
of it is still there.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, and what have they done since? Nothing, not a
damn thing. And people still go to the stadium. That's
all that matters. If they can go in there and
have a good time, that's all that matters. But Yokich's
going to be at this parade, He's going to have
a good time. He's going to celebrate it, and then
he'll probably disappear and he'll make the rounds this offseason.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
He strikes me as somebody who may let himself go
a little bit in the off season. He does strike
me as somebody who might do that. I would love
to get a where's.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Gods like him become major celebrities just because of how
nonchalant they are success.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You're doing the circuit right, you're doing the car wash.
I mean he's going to be pulling directions he probably
doesn't want to partaken, but I.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Mean he's going to become a star, a celebrity. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, he's awesome man. And the Denver Nuggets get it done.
So congratulations to Denver their fan base, Mike Malone, Jamal Murray,
who's gone through a rough patch with his injury and
not being able to play in the playoffs the past
couple of years. DeAndre Jordan won an NBA championship. Jeff
Green guy had open heart surgery in twenty twelve. There
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was some thought that he would never play again, and
here he is an NBA champion. So a lot of
great stories that came out of last night and the
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SO LaVar Arrington. We have been monitoring, we have been
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tracking the whereabouts of DeAndre Hopkins, Old d Hop making
the rounds. Talked about the New England Patriots being stopped
number two, apparently in stop number one, though the Tennessee
Titans are showing him a little bit of love, I thought.
Mike Rabel said that they weren't going to be recruiting,
that that wasn't going to be part of.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
The probably we had to since rethink that, okay, because
that's okay rethinking things, you say.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
So, they sent a car to pick him up, and
when they when the vehicle picked him up, apparently there
was a custom screen saying welcome to Nashville, DeAndre Hopkins.
He also said that, you know, I mean, was there
a briefcase or duffel bag? I mean, damn a screen,
there was a custom screen. I believe there was a
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days a country music festival or or a concert.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
That was going on. Was the what the Country Music
Awards was going on the CMAS?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, yeah, I believe. So who knows. I'm not up to.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Speaking on the country were well, you know I am.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah Big Conway Twitty guy who Conway Twitty?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, I don't know who that is. I know who
my man is that that's saying shallow? I know that.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, that's not considered country, is it? Bradley Cooper and
Lady Gaga? That's the country song? Oh yeah, I just
thought it was a bad song. Can we play that
back in from the break?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Please? Shallows, thank you please.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I really loved that song, man, but but my favorite.
But nonetheless, I mean, this may be part of the
course you know, for a celebrity like you, you hop
in a car and they've got to welcome to the city.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Stop, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But but for the for the common man, the hard
hat lunch pail guy like myself.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
You said they were showing a lot of love. I mean,
is that a lot of you seen what these colleges
do for these players now they do and it ain't
no money involved. So they say what they do back
in the day into that I'll never tell. I just
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know this. If I would have went to the school
that offered me the most versus the school that I
wanted the most, it would have been vastly different, was
the difference. It was different. It was way different. And
I just never felt the urge because I guess I
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was so well taken care of by my parents. I
never felt the urge to bag chase. I was not
a bag chaser. And so pause, by the way, yeah,
I mean like what was in the bag? Yeah, like
not anyway? Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean there's that
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too too. Believe you me that that too. But yeah,
I mean, as a pro you know, I had an
opportunity to be a free agent and and do the
whole the dance you know, the Ponies show and dance.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I went to Green Bay. I visited New York. What
Green Bay do for you? I got offer you a
platter of cheese curds.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It was a nice It was a nice visit. It
was very business slight, and it wasn't like New York.
We went out to dinner, nice place to eat. It
was just New York. The way they the way they
court it or or entertained was really it was really cool.
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Can you take me through that?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
But look, so where'd you go to dinner in New York?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
What are the giants? I forget? I forget, honestly did
the restaurant?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Did the packers take you to dinner?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I mean the packers didn't take you to dinner.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
No they didn't.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
It's got a where'd they go? Bowling alley?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Play? Couples stayed out of casino and they were recruiting
a picket, dude, big picket. And they gave me a
room key that was to his room. He was sitting.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Now.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I had, you know, I had my people with me,
you know what I mean, truth with me. And we
opened up the door and picket is is it Kenny Picket.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
No, I don't believe he.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Was around back then. Yeah, I well know, Oh god,
who was it?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Hey, Lee, you're you're a Packers, uh fanboy?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Who's on on? It was Ryan Pickett? Ryan Pickett?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Okay, let me look this up. And so Ryan, you
got Ryan Pickett's room and.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I got his room key. Yeah, Kenny Picket isn't definitely not.
That's the quarterback, yeah, Ryan, the big d lineman, right Lee. Yeah.
So he's sitting there in his boxer shorts. We opened
the door. He's like, oh, oh man, And I mean
he had he had about three four five like plates
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from room service on his table. He was comfortable as
hell getting his eat on. I was like, god, six
the door. My heads. I was like, god, dang and
not dang. I ain't say dang. And I was like,
my bad, my gen closed the door. I went. I
went to the front door, and they had somebody escort
and escorting us, and they were like, oh my god, gosh,
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I'm so sorry, Da dad, this, that and the other.
We got your rooms mixed up. I had a better room,
by the way, I did have a much I had
a much better room. I must have been and it's
so crazy because that was the year Charles Woodson signed
to the Green Bay Packers, I believe as well, and
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me and wood were talking about thinking about going there together,
but I ended up, you know, like Plexico and Antonio Pearce,
we were really tight and really closed. So it was
just it was just a it was a great, great
experience when I went on my trip to New York.
But just to get back to the idea of what
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I mean, having a customized screen that says welcome to Nashville,
that might have not even been to Tennessee Titans that
did that. That might have been the car service that
did that. I mean, just being honest.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I mean also, I'll tell you this, the green had
How would the Green Bay Packers had to have done
to get you to go to Green Bay?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Because I had Brett Farv called me while I was
in New York, which that's what he did, That's what
he did, and I almost I almost did it. I
almost did it. And I was used to cold weather,
so it wasn't like I was going to have a
problem with going into cold weather and being there. Plus,
I was like, you know, the contracts they actually offered
(26:27):
me more than what the New York Giants did, so
the contract would have hit harder being in a market
like Green Bay versus getting the money I was going
to get to go to New York because of all
the taxes I was going to pay. But you know what,
I just I just really enjoyed my time in New York,
and Green Bay dodged a bullet. I mean, I blew
(26:48):
my achilles tending the first first uh first season there,
and I missed the you know, basically the remainder of
the season that I was there, and then I retired
after that. So then they went to Super Bowl the
next year. The Giants won the Super Bowl the next year,
but well, and also the Packers and Giants were in
(27:10):
the NFC title Game. Okay, so then what makes you
feel even better about your You get to choose versus
you get drafted. My two choices came down to I
turned down a lot of visits and only took the
Green Bay and Giant visit, and the Green Bay Packers,
I believe, won the Super Bowl the very next season.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
They won in two thousand and ten twenty eleven. A
couple of years later, Ryan Pickos was it a couple
he was on that team.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
He was on that team. I thought it was maybe
a year or so after.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
No, it went when the Giants one, right, and then
God who did it? And I felt like the Packers one.
It was a couple of years later. It was a
couple of years either way.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
It would have been under my contract term to win
a Super Bowl with the Packers and under my full
contract term with with with the Giants, I would have
won two Super Bowls. I would have got two, so
i'd have had I would have had three three Pro
Bowls to two second team All Pros and two Super Bowls.
(28:15):
I might have had a bit.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, it was Giants. The Steelers beat the Cardinals in
that classic Super Bowl, and then it was the Saints
beating the Indianapolis Colts, and then the Packers one. So
it was a couple of years in between, but none
on I.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Even realized that selective memory though, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You called your shot. That was the Packers and Giants
were in the very next conference championship game. I would
have had to wait a whole lot longer to get
that one with the Packers. I didn't even realize it
was that much longer. Yeah, but DeAndre Hopkins getting uh
getting a car service to put his name.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah, I don't. I think the car I think the
car service did that. But I think the country music
concert definitely was the you know, was the Titans. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I don't like if I was a free agent, though,
I feel like I'd get a little bit of heartburn,
you know, Like.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I feel like I went to some kind of tree
music festival and was at the music. Let me tell
you something, depending on where DeAndre Hopkins is in his
life and in his lifestyle, that might have sold me.
That might have sold me really, yeah, because I like
that type of living man, I really do. Like that's
(29:18):
like my like, at some point, I'm probably gonna go
to like Wyoming or somewhere and get me like some
acres and just breathe clean air and go fishing and
mow my lawn and and sit out at my pool
and drink lemonade like oh God, in my cowboy boots
(29:45):
with my cowboy hat.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, that cowboy vibe. Going Wyoming changed you. That giant
bell buckle, you know, it didn't change me.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
It was just it was just further confirmation I'm going
going back to I think I'm gonna take off to
do it this year, Like I don't. I don't want
to have to worry about doing radio when I go
do it.
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Much that there's a whole pavilion. Uh, that's that's a
hospital in Annapolis. You know he's in an Annapolis, dude.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
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Million, that's not a lot what for all that time?
Speaker 6 (35:52):
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Speaker 3 (35:54):
Ago, so I mean forty one years seventy five billion.
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first three plus decades.
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I mean sure, I would have thought it would be
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hell of a gig. Man.
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And as far as like the how do they you're
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Do they just they film for what like two three weeks?
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Yeah, it's one of the best gigs you could get.
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Yeah.
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You might even have more than that, and you just
keep rattling them through and then.
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And you do that a few times a year and
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you air them later on. Oh yeah, far seventy five
million for that?
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it'd have been more.
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That is very disturbing. That is the truth, though, So
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Though.
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It was diapers and and that's what that was my job.
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the role in the schedule you got.
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Sign I understand that. I'm just saying I thought it
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Van why like people's main source it was him, or
it was Bob Barker that was your main source of
or Alex Trebetti.
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Yeah, Bob Barker seems like he'd be uh fun at
parties though like he uh.
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Well, I mean, by the way, I found the details
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other Thursday and Friday. They barrel through production on six
shows a day, four days of filming a month a month.
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How the hell we feel here on a Tuesday morning,
like a Denver nugget champ. That's right, Yeah, nugget of
a champ. Thank Christ, just put it away, get it done.
I will say this, that was one of the most
(01:55):
entertaining bad basketball games I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
That's what you go.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
What an awful game.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That is funny. There was a lot of bad shooting turn, sloppy, yeah,
sloppy handling.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
The ball didn't feel like if Denver could just hit
like two or three threes, they were just gonna run
away with it. And and Miami kept hanging around and
kept hanging around. But Denver, I don't did. I don't
know that anybody really played all that well. Like they
couldn't hit a shot. They were one of fifteen the
first half from three jo kids. Wasn't even shooting no,
(02:29):
Like it was weird. Like Mike Malone at one point
late in the game just told him, dude, slowed down,
Like they were just sloppy. They I don't know if
nerves were a factor, but everybody in the in the
audience and the crowd was just looking around, going, God,
if we could just put together two to three minutes
of good basketball, we're gonna run away with this thing.
But nonetheless, congratulations of the Denver Nuggets. They get it done.
(02:50):
First title in the history of the franchise for those
Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
How about that? Yeah, they get first team outside of
a Kylo Fournia, Texas, And there's one other state I
believe that won the won the title out of the West.
It's like three states that win the title every year
(03:15):
in the history of the NBA. That's messed up. Make
you wonder there's a lot of teams that aren't in
in those states. I forget the other one it's Texas Nexas.
You just you made a critical air, a critical mistake.
What was the critical.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So our Lord and savior Scott Shapiro, okay, diehard Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Fan, okay, one of they don't have none, one.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Of the great, Yes, that is, and he reminds everybody
on Twitter as often as he cans about how long
how long it's been since the Minnesota Timberwolves have won
in now they haven't, They've not come close to me.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
How long it's been since they've a.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Chance, well between them and the Vikings, And I mean
the Twins won a couple of times eighty seven and just.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Won a super Bowl Viking super Bowl, Yeah, the Sanship
or something right, Yeah, I don't know, I believe so
oh man.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, Minnesota's had it rough, and so our our friends
on the Yallo Horn of the Twin Cities K fan,
you are constantly reminded.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And I don't I don't think it was that you suck. Yeah,
I mean, listen any national titles wrestling maybe.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, wrestling probably, I would assume, but wrestling, yeah, but
when it comes to everything else, just not not.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
In basketball, no, no, not in football.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
The Minnesota wild.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, I believe the Minnesota North Stars from.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So I've been spoiled, man. Yeah, I got one in hockey,
I got I got a well, I got a whole
bunch in hockey, got a whole bunch in football. We're
like f basketball because we just win a whole bunch
and football and hockey. I believe we have one. What
didn't we win one with Willie Stargell? I think we
(05:08):
won one with I think we have a world series
with Do we have a World series with the Pirates Eddie?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, I'm not quite sure. Did Willy Stargell win a
World Series Eddie?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah? In nineteen seventy nine. We are family. Yeah, there
you go. See, So just pour it on and Minnesota.
Coop just jumped in. Minnesota does have a championship. That's
what I thought.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, who Coop, let's hear purple people eaters.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
No, no, No, that wasn't.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
The nineteen sixty nine NFL championship game. The thirty seventh
and final championship game prior to the AFL NFL merger.
Joe Capp was the.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
So that's not modern day it's not. It's not the NFL.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, Coops, Coops, being a wise ass is what he is.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
No, but it's it's part of the history books. Though
I thought he was going to say the Minneapolis Lakers.
A lot of people don't know the La Lakers where.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, that should out.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I mean I used to always wonder why they called
it La Lakers the Lakers. It's a very good question.
I mean, you have oceans.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Here, why do they call them the Utah Jazz? I mean,
is there one jazz bar in the entire state of Utah?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Right? That makes sense?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Right, they came from New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Why were you leaving? Yeah, and keeping the name the same. Yeah,
it's just weird. It is weird Utah Jazz. It is weird.
It's weird.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You know, it's not weird. What the Denver Nuggets? You know,
it's not weird. What championship parades? Well accepted, you're except
if you're Nikola Jokic, because he was asked about the
championship parade for the Denver Nuggets coming up this week
and apparently he's not all that interested in partaking in
(06:40):
this championship.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well, it's just going to be smoke.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
You said after the Lakers, when you said you were
surprised that you didn't feel more So, I'm curious what
you are feeling right now and if you're looking forward
to a parade coming up in Denver perris P Thursday Day.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
No, I need to go home, Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
We succeed in our jobs and we we we wanted,
we want the whole thing. It's a it's a it's
an amazing feeling. But like I said before, it's not
everything on the world. You know. I think I think
still if okay, I want it, Okay, I we want it,
but I think it's not the most important thing in
the world. Still. There's a bunch of things that that
(07:34):
I like, that I like to do. I mean probably
that's no, that's a normal thing. You know. Nobody likes
his his job, or maybe they do, they're lying.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
He is not.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
U not a big fan of those parades, man, So
who knows.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We'll be there. But yeah, you got to get back
to the fans, man. Fans deserve to be able to
to enjoy a win for their city. You know. That's
that's that's definitely definitely important.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I would I would just urge him to be careful
on that. That's all because you don't want you don't
want to come across that, And he's right, there is
more to life that's more important. But also at the
same time, that is your job, and at the end
of the day, that's the pinnacle of your job. And
you never want to be one of those guys that's
like you just seem like you just don't care because
(08:35):
just as soon as you know, just like people can
love you and care about you because of the feeling
that that they're left with. Like that's the one thing
that I always appreciated about being able to play sports
at a high level and matter to the fans is
that you also had special opportunities to make the fans feel,
(08:57):
you know, have an experience, feel special about themselves. And
so I would just urge them to just have a
little bit take a little bit more time to think
about the fact that those people that will be lighting up,
smoking up inhale exhaling as as they do this parade,
that those are those are the people that support you.
(09:18):
That's that's really the reason why you're able to make
the money that you make. That's the reason why your
wins are relevant because if no one cared, like think
about this, how many players and how many teams. Can
you name that have won a championship that are in
professional sports? And when and when did they happen?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Like, It's like there are some things that matter more
and they matter enough where people know what's happening and
what's going on with it. There are a lot of
sports where that doesn't exist, And you could easily have
been born differently and been in a situation where you're
doing amazing things, but people don't really care about what
(10:06):
it is that you're doing in that sport. So I
would just say when you're when you're a figure like him,
someone should make sure he understands that the fans are
truly they're part of the trinogy, you know, the trinity.
Excuse me, trinity. You have the players in the game itself,
(10:27):
you have the media, and you have the fans. That's
like the trinity of sports. So anyway, I mean, he
looks like he's enjoying his life. I mean, he looks
like he's got a beautiful family. His brothers support him.
He was holding his baby girl. I believe that was
a daughter. He put a hat on, yeah, but I
believe it's a daughter. So I mean, good for him
(10:47):
for staying grounded. One's cool that he stays grounded, Jonas.
But I'll just say, don't don't forget about your fans,
because your fans. And one thing I've learned about giving
experiences to your fans, they never forget. They never forget, man,
And that's one of the coolest things is just having
somebody come up to you. I mean, I've been removed
from the game, and they're doing a bobblehead for me
(11:10):
at at one of the minor league games in State
College for the Spikes baseball team.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Getting your own bobblehead.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, it's a LeVar Elite bibblehead.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Pick up another one autograph that I'll side on.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
eBay. I'm about to say I'll get you on, but yes,
but now I'm not going to get you on. That's right.
But just to know that, you know, I can run
into people. All these years later, it's the twenty fifth
anniversary of me making that play. Twenty five flipping years, man,
and people people still find it relevant. And people come
(11:44):
up to me and people tell me about when they
met me when they were a kid and they're full
grown and they had their own family. Now makes you
feel really old, but it makes you feel really good
because that's so long ago, but people still appreciate you
and they remember the those moments. And I would just
urge him to not miss out, which he may not
even be into that anyway, but you know, just even
(12:07):
for the fans sake, don't don't miss out on that
part of it.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
See, I feel like he already did his job. He
provided his fans with the memory of a world championship
that they never got. He also assaulted an owner during
this playoff Randitch, I feel like everybody's wanted to do
at some point or another in their in their job life,
and he accomplished that as well too. Put together a
hell of a run. He's got his trophy. He gave
them that championship experience. He's gonna give them the ability
(12:34):
to raise a banner next year when they open up
the season. All of that parades are lame. I've been
to one. They're just nothing about It was interesting at all, but.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
They're kind of not for for the player, you know
what I mean. So like for you to say it's lame,
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
It's like, what do you see him riding around on
a float, Like, what's the point, like.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Not even on a float. You're you're on like some
type of a truck or a bus or a fire.
I've been a part of one parade and it was
flipping awesome because they're throwing you booze and all that stuff. Well,
I was in high school. We want to stay titled, okay,
but it gave maybe maybe icy like ice maybe, but
(13:25):
it just again, the community was with us the entire city.
This is why I'm saying it. The community was with
us the entire season, right like you don't know what
and then list this is high school, so it's not
really comparable to pros, but I mean people donating food
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and making sure we had the materials that we needed,
and people contributing in so many different ways, and then
you win it all. They feel like they're just as
much a part of winning that championships as the players
and the coaches are, and they are they are. It's
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only the ones that go over the line that really
show why it's fanatic that kind of sometimes it questions
the whole idea of what yourrelevance is. But for the
most part, the people that play a major role in
the success of these teams. There's like look at it
this way. All the people that come there and walk
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people to their seats and direct them to where they're
supposed to see, all of the people that do security
on the court, and all of the people who are
serving drinks. Is it's not just the job. They're part
of the team too. They're part of the operation. And
that's one thing I learned a valuable lesson growing up
from the Steelers and the Rooney family. They always made
everything and everyone feel as relevant as and so did
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the Giants. Man. They made everyone feel as relevant as
everyone else matter. If you're the one putting on the
helmet to play the football game or putting on the
helmet to go up and fix the lights in the
facility and and clean up the facility, everybody's part is
just as vitally important to winning. And that's that's just
(15:17):
as much to say about the fans as well. I mean,
COVID should have proven that, right, didn't COVID prove that
the fans matter?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Well, not to the NFL. They'll they'll just keep.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Empty games.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
The way they still put together a season. They still
got the games.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
And you put together a season, but it was different.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I get. I also think in high school, there's a
relationship between the community and that team that feels different,
like that Last Chance You show. That's I mean, that's
junior college football. But the relationship in those small towns
to the to the team.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Some guys are in and out. You're hearing gone, boom gone.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I feel like this one there's a there's a different
vibe to it, and the parade there's a different vibe
to it. Can I tell you my favorite this is
this might be my favorite World Championship story of all time.
So when the Cubs finally won the World Series and
first time since like sixteen thirty eight or whatever, however
long it had been since they had won a World
(16:19):
Series one hundred eight years, the Cubs fans, I mean
were emotional. I grew up a Cub fan, and so
I knew what that meant to that fan base and
all that. And the parade was bonkers. Everybody was, you know,
I mean for miles upon miles never thought they'd see it.
You had people sobbing. And so they went to Wrigley
Field afterwards and they took chalk and they wrote tributes
(16:43):
to all of their family members who couldn't witness them.
Them winning a World Series, and so they write all
of this, you know these these I love you, I
wish you were here. You're here in spirit. I mean
all over the brick outside Wrigley Field, I mean thousands
upon thousands of messages. And about a week later, the
city came by and the host all over, Hey, dear Grandpa,
(17:07):
love you, miss you, wish you were here.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But the memory of it is still there. The memory
of it is still there.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, and what have they done since? Nothing, not a
damn thing. And people still go to the stadium. That's
all that matters. If they can go in there and
have a good time, that's all that matters. But Yokich's
going to be at this parade, He's going to have
a good time. He's going to celebrate it, and then
he'll probably disappear and he'll make the rounds this offseason.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
He strikes me as somebody who may let himself go
a little bit in the off season. He does strike
me as somebody who might do that. I would love
to get a where's.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Gods like him become major celebrities just because of how
nonchalant they are success.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You're doing the circuit right, you're doing the car wash.
I mean he's going to be pulling directions he probably
doesn't want to partaken, but I.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Mean he's going to become a star, a celebrity. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, he's awesome man. And the Denver Nuggets get it done.
So congratulations to Denver their fan base, Mike Malone, Jamal Murray,
who's gone through a rough patch with his injury and
not being able to play in the playoffs the past
couple of years. DeAndre Jordan won an NBA championship. Jeff
Green guy had open heart surgery in twenty twelve. There
(18:28):
was some thought that he would never play again, and
here he is an NBA champion. So a lot of
great stories that came out of last night and the
Denver Nuggets. It is two pros and a cup of Joe.
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LeVar Arrington, Jonas Knox with you here coming up in
we'll call it about twenty minutes from now from the
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on that again twenty minutes from now here on FSR
SO LaVar Arrington. We have been monitoring, we have been
(19:35):
tracking the whereabouts of DeAndre Hopkins, Old d Hop making
the rounds. Talked about the New England Patriots being stopped
number two, apparently in stop number one, though the Tennessee
Titans are showing him a little bit of love, I thought.
Mike Rabel said that they weren't going to be recruiting,
that that wasn't going to be part of.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
The probably we had to since rethink that, okay, because
that's okay rethinking things, you say.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
So, they sent a car to pick him up, and
when they when the vehicle picked him up, apparently there
was a custom screen saying welcome to Nashville, DeAndre Hopkins.
He also said that, you know, I mean, was there
a briefcase or duffel bag? I mean, damn a screen,
there was a custom screen. I believe there was a
(20:22):
days a country music festival or or a concert.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
That was going on. Was the what the Country Music
Awards was going on the CMAS?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, yeah, I believe. So who knows. I'm not up to.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Speaking on the country were well, you know I am.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah Big Conway Twitty guy who Conway Twitty?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, I don't know who that is. I know who
my man is that that's saying shallow? I know that.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, that's not considered country, is it? Bradley Cooper and
Lady Gaga? That's the country song? Oh yeah, I just
thought it was a bad song. Can we play that
back in from the break?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Please? Shallows, thank you please.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I really loved that song, man, but but my favorite.
But nonetheless, I mean, this may be part of the
course you know, for a celebrity like you, you hop
in a car and they've got to welcome to the city.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Stop, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
But but for the for the common man, the hard
hat lunch pail guy like myself.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
You said they were showing a lot of love. I mean,
is that a lot of you seen what these colleges
do for these players now they do and it ain't
no money involved. So they say what they do back
in the day into that I'll never tell. I just
(21:43):
know this. If I would have went to the school
that offered me the most versus the school that I
wanted the most, it would have been vastly different, was
the difference. It was different. It was way different. And
I just never felt the urge because I guess I
(22:05):
was so well taken care of by my parents. I
never felt the urge to bag chase. I was not
a bag chaser. And so pause, by the way, yeah,
I mean like what was in the bag? Yeah, like
not anyway? Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean there's that
(22:29):
too too. Believe you me that that too. But yeah,
I mean, as a pro you know, I had an
opportunity to be a free agent and and do the
whole the dance you know, the Ponies show and dance.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I went to Green Bay. I visited New York. What
Green Bay do for you? I got offer you a
platter of cheese curds.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It was a nice It was a nice visit. It
was very business slight, and it wasn't like New York.
We went out to dinner, nice place to eat. It
was just New York. The way they the way they
court it or or entertained was really it was really cool.
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Can you take me through that?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
But look, so where'd you go to dinner in New York?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
What are the giants? I forget? I forget, honestly did
the restaurant?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Did the packers take you to dinner?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I mean the packers didn't take you to dinner.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
No they didn't.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
It's got a where'd they go? Bowling alley?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Play? Couples stayed out of casino and they were recruiting
a picket, dude, big picket. And they gave me a
room key that was to his room. He was sitting.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Now.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I had, you know, I had my people with me,
you know what I mean, truth with me. And we
opened up the door and picket is is it Kenny Picket.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
No, I don't believe he.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Was around back then. Yeah, I well know, Oh god,
who was it?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Hey, Lee, you're you're a Packers, uh fanboy?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Who's on on? It was Ryan Pickett? Ryan Pickett?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Okay, let me look this up. And so Ryan, you
got Ryan Pickett's room and.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I got his room key. Yeah, Kenny Picket isn't definitely not.
That's the quarterback, yeah, Ryan, the big d lineman, right Lee. Yeah.
So he's sitting there in his boxer shorts. We opened
the door. He's like, oh, oh man, And I mean
he had he had about three four five like plates
(24:37):
from room service on his table. He was comfortable as
hell getting his eat on. I was like, god, six
the door. My heads. I was like, god, dang and
not dang. I ain't say dang. And I was like,
my bad, my gen closed the door. I went. I
went to the front door, and they had somebody escort
and escorting us, and they were like, oh my god, gosh,
(25:00):
I'm so sorry, Da dad, this, that and the other.
We got your rooms mixed up. I had a better room,
by the way, I did have a much I had
a much better room. I must have been and it's
so crazy because that was the year Charles Woodson signed
to the Green Bay Packers, I believe as well, and
(25:22):
me and wood were talking about thinking about going there together,
but I ended up, you know, like Plexico and Antonio Pearce,
we were really tight and really closed. So it was
just it was just a it was a great, great
experience when I went on my trip to New York.
But just to get back to the idea of what
(25:43):
I mean, having a customized screen that says welcome to Nashville,
that might have not even been to Tennessee Titans that
did that. That might have been the car service that
did that. I mean, just being honest.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I mean also, I'll tell you this, the green had
How would the Green Bay Packers had to have done
to get you to go to Green Bay?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Because I had Brett Farv called me while I was
in New York, which that's what he did, That's what
he did, and I almost I almost did it. I
almost did it. And I was used to cold weather,
so it wasn't like I was going to have a
problem with going into cold weather and being there. Plus,
I was like, you know, the contracts they actually offered
(26:27):
me more than what the New York Giants did, so
the contract would have hit harder being in a market
like Green Bay versus getting the money I was going
to get to go to New York because of all
the taxes I was going to pay. But you know what,
I just I just really enjoyed my time in New York,
and Green Bay dodged a bullet. I mean, I blew
(26:48):
my achilles tending the first first uh first season there,
and I missed the you know, basically the remainder of
the season that I was there, and then I retired
after that. So then they went to Super Bowl the
next year. The Giants won the Super Bowl the next year,
but well, and also the Packers and Giants were in
(27:10):
the NFC title Game. Okay, so then what makes you
feel even better about your You get to choose versus
you get drafted. My two choices came down to I
turned down a lot of visits and only took the
Green Bay and Giant visit, and the Green Bay Packers,
I believe, won the Super Bowl the very next season.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
They won in two thousand and ten twenty eleven. A
couple of years later, Ryan Pickos was it a couple
he was on that team.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
He was on that team. I thought it was maybe
a year or so after.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
No, it went when the Giants one, right, and then
God who did it? And I felt like the Packers one.
It was a couple of years later. It was a
couple of years either way.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
It would have been under my contract term to win
a Super Bowl with the Packers and under my full
contract term with with with the Giants, I would have
won two Super Bowls. I would have got two, so
i'd have had I would have had three three Pro
Bowls to two second team All Pros and two Super Bowls.
(28:15):
I might have had a bit.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, it was Giants. The Steelers beat the Cardinals in
that classic Super Bowl, and then it was the Saints
beating the Indianapolis Colts, and then the Packers one. So
it was a couple of years in between, but none
on I.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Even realized that selective memory though, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You called your shot. That was the Packers and Giants
were in the very next conference championship game. I would
have had to wait a whole lot longer to get
that one with the Packers. I didn't even realize it
was that much longer. Yeah, but DeAndre Hopkins getting uh
getting a car service to put his name.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah, I don't. I think the car I think the
car service did that. But I think the country music
concert definitely was the you know, was the Titans. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I don't like if I was a free agent, though,
I feel like I'd get a little bit of heartburn,
you know, Like.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I feel like I went to some kind of tree
music festival and was at the music. Let me tell
you something, depending on where DeAndre Hopkins is in his
life and in his lifestyle, that might have sold me.
That might have sold me really, yeah, because I like
that type of living man, I really do. Like that's
(29:18):
like my like, at some point, I'm probably gonna go
to like Wyoming or somewhere and get me like some
acres and just breathe clean air and go fishing and
mow my lawn and and sit out at my pool
and drink lemonade like oh God, in my cowboy boots
(29:45):
with my cowboy hat.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, that cowboy vibe. Going Wyoming changed you. That giant
bell buckle, you know, it didn't change me.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
It was just it was just further confirmation I'm going
going back to I think I'm gonna take off to
do it this year, Like I don't. I don't want
to have to worry about doing radio when I go
do it.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Wow, what goes on there? It's just a ton of fun,
a lot of good food, a lot of good food. Yeah,
probably need like something in case you any heartburn.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
That's right, they have you know's I know. You know
it's interesting about uh they have walleye there, you know,
and if you know about fishing, you know that walleye
is good. But if you do happen to run up
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I was hoping you'd say no, really yeah, kind of
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Speaker 3 (32:11):
Well, there you go. Yeah, I was just being a hater. Yeah,
that's what we do her on this show. I apologize
I had I had a weak moment. It's all good.
I'll do better next segment. Nah, I said, next segment.
I'll tap you up next segment because I'm a hater
this segment. So I'm gonna dap you up next segment.
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I mean we're gonna take that, Mark, We're gonna have
that's acceptable here, Mark, Mark. Yeah, Mark, I mean yes,
I feel like that's deserved. I mean reached my hand out.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Oh wow, very much. I didn't know that was still around.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
Interesting, Mark, I thought a lot of things got put
the bid put the rest of Well, something may have
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up on for years and years, apparently is going to
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How much money has he made in forty one years
of doing so.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Much that there's a whole pavilion. Uh, that's that's a
hospital in Annapolis. You know he's in an Annapolis, dude.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I think he was also in sports radio or sports TV,
I want to say, or he was like a news guy,
like that's where he initially got his start. I want
to say. I could have that right. If I have
that wrong, we'll take it out of the podcast. But
he's got to have made If you get five million,
seventy five.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Million, that's not a lot what for all that time?
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Yeah, but he started forty one years.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Ago, so I mean forty one years seventy five billion.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
But you don't think I mean, he's probably making a
lot more these days than he ever was for those
first three plus decades.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I mean sure, I would have thought it would be
more than that. Yeah, I mean that's a that's a
hell of a gig. Man.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
And as far as like the how do they you're
in entertainment, you've got family and entertainment. How does it work?
Do they just they film for what like two three weeks?
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Yeah, it's one of the best gigs you could get.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Uh, I'm not exactly sure, but I believe you come
in and you film about three or four episodes a day,
maybe even more like you and obviously just have costume changes.
You might even have more than that, and you just
keep rattling them through and then.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
And you do that a few times a year and
then you just throw those in the can and then
you air them later on. Oh yeah, far seventy five
million for that?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Are you serious? I mean, I just I just thought
it'd have been more.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
I made five sixty five an hour to clean the
tampon drawer at Toys r US as a maintenance guy.
That is very disturbing. That is the truth, though, So
for seventy five million dollars and he does that on
that schedule, it's a TapIt disturbed. It's the truth.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Though.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
It was diapers and and that's what that was my job.
I was the janitor at Toys r US. So you
mean to tell me for seventy five million dollars that's
the role in the schedule you got.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Sign I understand that. I'm just saying I thought it
would have been more. I mean, sorry, And I think
Van why like people's main source it was him, or
it was Bob Barker that was your main source of
or Alex Trebetti.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, Bob Barker seems like he'd be uh fun at
parties though like he uh.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Well, I mean, by the way, I found the details
on the filming schedule, four days a month, filming every
other Thursday and Friday. They barrel through production on six
shows a day, four days of filming a month a month.
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Speaker 1 (38:03):
That is man?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
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Speaker 1 (38:06):
Good for him.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
I'm not mad at it. I'm just saying I just
thought it would have been more.
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know they're she's.
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