November 21, 2025 • 22 mins
Cy Amundson is joined by Chad Daniels for Vikings Tailgate!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Recket, Recket. Come here. Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode
of The Tailgate, brought to you by Ticketmaster. I'm your
host Siam Andson, sitting across from me as a guy
who criticizes my intro every week with his little smirk.
(00:26):
Ladies and gentlemen. The co host, Chad Daniels, Hello, everybody,
listen to me. I'm not in the mood.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I know you're not.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh, I know, I'm not in the mood.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Nobody is.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
As a Viking fan, I'm not in the mood. And
it's not just that we lost to the Bears last
week the way we did. It's that that happened. And
now it's Packer week, and I know you have a
lot of relationships with Packer fans. I don't know what's happening,
(00:57):
but the amount of trash talk early and often from
Packer fans is hitting me at a aggressive level.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Sure, I'm just gonna throw this out there.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I believe that the Packers and the Eagles should get
all their primetime games taken for the next seven years
because that was the worst game of football I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
By the way, you know how everyone's like right now
when the team's not doing as well as say they
were last year. It's interesting what happens to the fan base,
right Some people get really negative and really really critical.
Some people get really really defensive and really really homery.
You know. It's kind of like, Oh, I don't know
the American political system, and there's no gray area whatsoever,
(01:44):
right there is. We exist in it, but the gray
area doesn't get discussed. And the only thing I will
say about some of the I've heard some people who
are very positive and homery, who are really upset. And
I had one friend go like, I'm embarrassed. He was like,
I'm embarrassed by how dramatically we're reacting to some struggle.
And I go, let me tell you a little bit
(02:06):
about reacting to struggle in a fan base. A friend
of the program, Blake Wexler, lifelong Eagles die hard, sent
me this. There is an Instagram account right now whose
sole purpose is comparing a coach, an assistant coach on
(02:28):
the Eagles to Saddam Hussein. That's what's happening interesting over
in Eagle Land, where they're a Super Bowl favorite. So
I actually think we're doing okay.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I wonder if the person that started that account is
the same guy that ate the cop horse crap after
they won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That's the only way I could have done that to
his brain to make him do that.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Somebody's got worms.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But here's the thing, man, Like, I am a little
riled up because I've been getting just and I'm not
in the mood to engage. This isn't a fun year,
this or like or moment for Packer Week for me,
so like I want to win, I still dislike them,
and I shouldn't say it's not fun. It's like I
don't really have the ammo to go back, right, you know,
(03:13):
you can't quite go back as hard. So what I've
been doing, and I want you to tell me what
you think about this, I'm not engaging at all. I'm
only I'm not trash talking bast silent treatment.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, silent treatment, No.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Not quite all they trash talk me. If any of
the Packer fans trash talk me, I just send them
back a fact about their state that I think is absurd,
and then I do no matter what they say after that,
then they get silent treatment.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So for example, somebody said some really negative things to me,
some heavy duty trash talk, and all I wrote back
was Wisconsin once had two local towns argue over who
would get a thirty foot tall fiberglass badger statue so enjoy.
A Milwaukee resident legally changed his name to Count Justinian
(04:06):
de mort wore a cape daily, slept in a coffin
shaped bed, and petitioned the mayor to declare his birthday
vampire Appreciation Day. And I'd still rather hang with him
than talk football with you. That's the sort of stuff
that I'm sending back.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That's smart.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Wisconsin currently has seventeen hundred and sixty bridges that need
to be repaired, and I assume that's because your fans
keep walking on them. That is the sort of stuff.
It's It could be a heavy foot joke. I'm not
gonna let you paint it the way you wanted to
paint it. That's an interpret it however you want it.
But that is how I am just I'm just taking
(04:47):
shots at Wisconsin culture in response to the football trash
talk I'm receiving.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, that's a smart way to do it. I mean,
there are a lot of those.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I've been to Wisconsin several times, so have you to
perform live stand up co and you know that's.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Actually the origin of our friendship. I don't know. I
don't know how many people know that our friendship not
the birth birth, but I think the growth of our flourishing.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
When it flourished.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You want to tell it, you want to tell the people.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, we were in Appleton, Wisconsin, which is just south
of Green Bay, and we were working at the Skyline
Comedy Cafe and year, what year do.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
We think this is? Back in twenty was the far
of year? What year was far two thousand and nine?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Okay, so we're there.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
And we're doing We used to do this decathlon thing
where we would do ten events that were somewhat athletic, right,
it was like wiffleball, home.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Run, derby point contest.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, just stuff like that that wasn't the actual game game,
but it was derivative of it. So we would do
that and then on the and then we were playing
cribbage at the club for I think it was the
tenth event.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And then it's.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Funny how the athleticism started with the athletics and whittled
down to let's play cards and move toothpicks.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Well towards towards the end, of the week.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
You don't have access, right, you can't like quick run
to the r YMCA in between sets. But what you
can do is right before a set is you can
put on a Vikings Brett Favre jersey like you did.
And then I heard you get introduced, and then I
heard just thick booing without you having said anything.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Now, it was right before the first game that Brett
fav played the Packers as a Viking. It was the
Saturday night before that was going to happen, I think,
on a Monday.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And the people were I'm gonna go with less than.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Pleased, yeah, And so that's when I thought to myself, like, yeah,
I think that he and I have a pretty similar brain.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The way I know we have similar brain is because
you might not remember this. So I went up on stage. Cliff,
who ran the club, pulled the lights up because and
I quote he was pretty sure somebody was going to
throw a glass at me because I was doing the
Hulk Hogan like bump up up, like hand to the
ear motion over and over. And then you ran to
(07:17):
the booth and as I was going up, played the
Monday night football theme music. That's the one thing that
I remember, and here we are years later with the
team letting us be involved, which.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's right, and our friendship barely hanging on.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Jay the producer just said that people threw pool balls
on the field at players during that game. During the
Lambeau game when Farv went back there for the first
time and had signs comparing Farv to Fredo from The Godfather, So.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I knew it was you. I knew it was you.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I didn't get the pool balls, but you could. You know,
you could feel that that would probably be the react
in that room night, because I believe Appleton is where
the opposing team stay. So Appleton, they're not just pack Evans.
I think they feel like they're really a part of it.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, because I went to a Vike's Packer game Lambeau
and Brett Farv was still a quarterback Dante Culpeppers for US.
Dante Culpepper was getting murdered. I'm saying, straight up murdered,
and Brett Favre would get touched on the shoulder. It
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would be like you wouldn't even know if he was
down playing touch football and they'd throw a flag.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
So I start freaking out.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I'm screaming down the field and the section around me right,
just a couple rows started chanting all before I know it,
within the minute, the entire stadium. Here's the crazy thing
about this stadium is they don't have to know, they
don't have to have witnessed what happened. They just know
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if somebody sends out the back signal, we have to
join in.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And so this entire stadium was chanting that.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And then we were at the bar afterwards back in Appleton,
because we were staying at the same hotel that the
Vikes are staying at, and we're at the bar right
next door, and then this Packer fan comes in. He goes, oh, man, somebody,
somebody from Minnesota really got it tonight because everybody was chanting.
And my buddy goes, he's right here, this guy. And
(09:27):
I really didn't even do anything to deserve it other
than yelling. Because remember when Farv and even even Rogers
that that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
The Packers got a lot of calls. They were the chiefs. Yeah,
they were the chiefs of the early two thousands, so
it was tough.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Can I ask you a question about Lambeau please, because begrudgingly,
I think we can both admit such a cool place.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, are you when was the last time you were
at a game in Lambeau? Was it that one you
got boot at or have you been to one since.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I went to one since?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
So my uncle, who my great uncle, He had the
high school rushing record in Green Bay, I think into
the nineties and this is my great uncle, and so
when he was little, he used to sneak in to
practice under a fence all him and his friends could watch.
(10:19):
And it was just this really cool experience to get
to bring him to a Packer game. And it was
the game that Adrian Peterson ran wild on them, so
it was really really fun to see. But I've got
to bring him into the little museum, the Packer Hall
of Fame, and he started crying and I was like, oh,
(10:41):
this dude was tough. So it was a really interesting
fun moment. So the juxtaposition of having that chant happen
at one game with my buddies and then getting to
watch this guy like really have a great time was
very fun.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I think that's a great place to take to break.
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everybody to the tailgate. Psim Ands and Chad Daniels, we're
talking Packer week. Let's get into the game itself. Yeah,
growing up like you're you're thirty years older than me,
so we you experienced this as a later stage adult
while I was experiencing it as a child. But I
think some younger fans think, like Lambeau is this for
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ever iconic and it's not. They had split their games
with Milwaukee before ninety five, and in ninety five they
go full lambeau Field. From that point on, they go
on an absurd twenty five because it coincides with the
rise of farb they go on a twenty five consecutive
(12:20):
regular home season win streak. I think it's the second
largest in NFL history. I think the Dolphins had like
twenty seven. And that streak ends ladies and gentlemen. With
the Randy Moss game boo yeah, ninety five to the
(12:40):
Randy Moss game September seventeenth of ninety five to October
fifth of ninety eight, they did not lose a home game,
and then the winter thing still persisted. They were twelve
and zero all time in home playoff games. And then
do you remember when Vic shattered that. You remember when
he came in and that two thousand and three playoff game,
(13:02):
he was like twenty two years old and just throttled
them in a way where everybody went, what that's not right?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Right, You're up like.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Twenty four zero. So I don't know if home field
advantage has changed for the entire league, if people are
more prepared for weather and the elements, if just the
technology and advancements of being an NFL team have changed that.
But we I do remember a time where it's like
go to Green Bay lose. Yeah, for sure, it's very
nice that that is not that way. Anymore.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, because it used to be well, you know, it
would get so cold so early. And that's what I
love about that stadium is it's a lot of bleachers
and so you are smushed together. It's you are surviving
because of a stranger's body heat.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It's it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I do.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I really like that stadium, but I really like to
watch them lose in that stadium New York Giants.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'd like to watch them lose. I think if they
do lose, normally we do game previews, but I wanna
can we do a player spotlight as a dude I've
been talking about all year and I can't stop talking
about him, and I don't think even though other people
are talking about him, the credit is anywhere near where
it should be. And I think it really clicked last
(14:14):
game Bears game, Tom Brady said, Brian Flores told them
that Jalen Redman has been our best defensive lineman. I
totally agree, and I think this guy is not only
doing that right now, but like, if you're looking for hope,
if you're looking for enthusiasm, he's a place to put
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a ton of it because not only is he like
this unique story, but I didn't understand this. So he
grew up in a place called Midwest City, Oklahoma, which
is the funniest name. It's like being from town. Yeah,
I'm from town, Illinois.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Hey, we need a name for our city? Well, where
is it?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Pretty south near Texas? All a Midwest city? Brother, Midwest City, Okahomer.
So he didn't play varsity football his first two years
of high school. He was just a basketball player. And
I know there's like basketball players in college who went
on to play football in the pros, and I guess
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maybe some of them never played high school football. But
the first time this dude ever touched a football he
was a junior in high school. First year high school,
eighty two tackles, fourteen sacks. They played nine games in
high school. Dude, his senior year, listen to this second
year ever playing football. His senior year starts. He's only
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been in the sport for a year. Eighty seven tackles,
thirty four for a loss, nineteen and a half sacks,
and he becomes the number sixteenth nationally ranked player. Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Now I have some stats here too.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
From his high school sophomore year, basketball scored one hundred
and sixty four points eighteen dunks, one shattered backboard, fourteen tackles,
and that's why they asked him to move to football.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Dude, think about going from never touching a football to
the sixteenth ranked prospect in a sport that everybody desperately
wishes they were a prospect in in two years. Like
that's I think they should take the Jalen Redmond story
and show it to you know, when a bunch of
eighth graders are going to play basketball or football for
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the first time, they should set everybody down and go,
ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to talk about Jalen Redmond
and they should tell all this and then they go.
So when you get mad at your coach for not
playing your son correctly, which by the way, he's just
a dad and he's volunteering, when you do that, I
want you to ask yourself, yes, could my kids start
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playing football at sixteen and be a nationally ranked recruit
by eighteen? And if your answer is no, maybe take
a breath, change your tone, and refocus.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Because this high school was in Oklahoma, so many dads
had to be screaming about this basketball player turned football
player starting to get all these things. And then after
one game. This is my impersonation of so many dads
in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
He so he goes to college, he ends up having
a medical issue in college, he doesn't get drafted, right
despite his combine. It's like he has the second best
forty yard dash time among interior defensive linemen's second best
ten yard split, and the best broad jump and vertical jump.
Like he's an off the charts athlete and he's still Oh,
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by the way, only been playing football significantly less than
a decade, So he's undrafted, signs with the Panthers, plays
in the XFL. Everybody knows this part of the story.
But man, what's he gonna look like in two years?
I don't think he's at his ceiling? Are you? Are
you all of a sudden going what have we found
ourselves here? And with the way I think Donovan Jackson
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is playing on the offensive line, the whole talk in
the offseason was we've got to fix the trenches, right,
we got to fix the interior trenches. And they went
and got a couple of big name free agents on
both sides, and then I think the Donovan Jackson draft pick,
even though it was a number one pick and this
Jalen Redmond thing which happened the year before. They kind
of flew under the radar, and right now if you're
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looking at the future of those interiors, I feel really
good about it because I think both these guys have
a chance to be incredible studs. We should move to
the game preview. We should do that part of the show,
because that is I could have just talked I could
have just talked Jalen Redmond the whole time, but we
do have to preview the game. That's an important part
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of our job. Okay, let me give you two things
to feel good about, and then let's do our prediction. Okay, Okay.
Aaron Jones is returning to Lambeau. This is take two
for that journey last year. Pretty good Week four twenty
two carries ninety three yards, four receptions forty six yards.
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He's done very well against the Packers on the whole,
with one hundred and forty total rushing yards seventy six
receiving yards. But in addition, our wide receivers have done
exception really well. Jefferson and Addison combined for in Week
four one hundred and fifty seven yards and two touchdowns.
And then Jefferson, Addison and Naylor in week sixteen combine
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for two hundred and forty two yards and two touchdowns.
So this is a This is a group of weapons
that has had success against the Packers. And if for
no other reason that I have a bunch of unfinished
trash talk chats in my phone right now, hm, I
(20:02):
would love to see that continue. What do you got
for prediction.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Score is listen. I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I got up at three point thirty in the morning
to fly home from Washington, DC to watch the same
mistakes being made over and over and never taking a
chance to fix them. I'm going Viking six, Packers three.
I'm in a negative headspace right now.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I also think the Packers are going to score three
Vikings one hundred and twenty seven. And I think this
is a breakout week for my boy Jalen Redmond. I
highlighted him on the show, and if that happens, I
will convince myself that I played a role in it,
and then we might have to do a player segment
highlight thing on every show. Because I deal with obsessive
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compulsive disorder and I believe in a lot of silly stuff.
I'm very superstitious those aren't the same thing. I just
happen to have both of them coexisting in my brain.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
For my player prediction, I'm gonna go Aaron Jones gets
a Lambeau Leap Purple.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Edition, Purple e dicion. Let me give you a pitch
because we're both in a little bit of a negative headspace.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I think if and when they allow us to keep
doing this show next year, which I can't imagine why
anyone would, given who you and I are as like
people like the closer they let us, the more insane
we become. But I think Chatty Daddy in CI recording
from Lambeau next year. Yeah, sure, we'll do it on
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the fan. Absolutely will help with the pregame show. How
about you have the We're the you know how you
wake up and you're like, what time's Colin Coward on?
But there's that other show that's on in the morning
that keeps switching, like the breakfast Ball or whatever. Give
us make us breakfast Ball to the pregame show. Put
Cy and Chatty Daddy out in Lambeau and let's just
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see what comes back.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, not Chad and Ci. We don't come back in
body bags. Maybe that's going to do it for.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
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Recket, Recket. Come here. Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode
of The Tailgate, brought to you by Ticketmaster. I'm your
host Siam Andson, sitting across from me as a guy
who criticizes my intro every week with his little smirk.
(00:26):
Ladies and gentlemen. The co host, Chad Daniels, Hello, everybody,
listen to me. I'm not in the mood.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I know you're not.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh, I know, I'm not in the mood.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Nobody is.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
As a Viking fan, I'm not in the mood. And
it's not just that we lost to the Bears last
week the way we did. It's that that happened. And
now it's Packer week, and I know you have a
lot of relationships with Packer fans. I don't know what's happening,
(00:57):
but the amount of trash talk early and often from
Packer fans is hitting me at a aggressive level.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Sure, I'm just gonna throw this out there.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I believe that the Packers and the Eagles should get
all their primetime games taken for the next seven years
because that was the worst game of football I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
By the way, you know how everyone's like right now
when the team's not doing as well as say they
were last year. It's interesting what happens to the fan base,
right Some people get really negative and really really critical.
Some people get really really defensive and really really homery.
You know. It's kind of like, Oh, I don't know
the American political system, and there's no gray area whatsoever,
(01:44):
right there is. We exist in it, but the gray
area doesn't get discussed. And the only thing I will
say about some of the I've heard some people who
are very positive and homery, who are really upset. And
I had one friend go like, I'm embarrassed. He was like,
I'm embarrassed by how dramatically we're reacting to some struggle.
And I go, let me tell you a little bit
(02:06):
about reacting to struggle in a fan base. A friend
of the program, Blake Wexler, lifelong Eagles die hard, sent
me this. There is an Instagram account right now whose
sole purpose is comparing a coach, an assistant coach on
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the Eagles to Saddam Hussein. That's what's happening interesting over
in Eagle Land, where they're a Super Bowl favorite. So
I actually think we're doing okay.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I wonder if the person that started that account is
the same guy that ate the cop horse crap after
they won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
That's the only way I could have done that to
his brain to make him do that.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Somebody's got worms.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But here's the thing, man, Like, I am a little
riled up because I've been getting just and I'm not
in the mood to engage. This isn't a fun year,
this or like or moment for Packer Week for me,
so like I want to win, I still dislike them,
and I shouldn't say it's not fun. It's like I
don't really have the ammo to go back, right, you know,
(03:13):
you can't quite go back as hard. So what I've
been doing, and I want you to tell me what
you think about this, I'm not engaging at all. I'm
only I'm not trash talking bast silent treatment.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, silent treatment, No.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Not quite all they trash talk me. If any of
the Packer fans trash talk me, I just send them
back a fact about their state that I think is absurd,
and then I do no matter what they say after that,
then they get silent treatment.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So for example, somebody said some really negative things to me,
some heavy duty trash talk, and all I wrote back
was Wisconsin once had two local towns argue over who
would get a thirty foot tall fiberglass badger statue so enjoy.
A Milwaukee resident legally changed his name to Count Justinian
(04:06):
de mort wore a cape daily, slept in a coffin
shaped bed, and petitioned the mayor to declare his birthday
vampire Appreciation Day. And I'd still rather hang with him
than talk football with you. That's the sort of stuff
that I'm sending back.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That's smart.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Wisconsin currently has seventeen hundred and sixty bridges that need
to be repaired, and I assume that's because your fans
keep walking on them. That is the sort of stuff.
It's It could be a heavy foot joke. I'm not
gonna let you paint it the way you wanted to
paint it. That's an interpret it however you want it.
But that is how I am just I'm just taking
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shots at Wisconsin culture in response to the football trash
talk I'm receiving.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, that's a smart way to do it. I mean,
there are a lot of those.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I've been to Wisconsin several times, so have you to
perform live stand up co and you know that's.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Actually the origin of our friendship. I don't know. I
don't know how many people know that our friendship not
the birth birth, but I think the growth of our flourishing.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
When it flourished.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You want to tell it, you want to tell the people.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, we were in Appleton, Wisconsin, which is just south
of Green Bay, and we were working at the Skyline
Comedy Cafe and year, what year do.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
We think this is? Back in twenty was the far
of year? What year was far two thousand and nine?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Okay, so we're there.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
And we're doing We used to do this decathlon thing
where we would do ten events that were somewhat athletic, right,
it was like wiffleball, home.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Run, derby point contest.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, just stuff like that that wasn't the actual game game,
but it was derivative of it. So we would do
that and then on the and then we were playing
cribbage at the club for I think it was the
tenth event.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And then it's.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Funny how the athleticism started with the athletics and whittled
down to let's play cards and move toothpicks.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Well towards towards the end, of the week.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
You don't have access, right, you can't like quick run
to the r YMCA in between sets. But what you
can do is right before a set is you can
put on a Vikings Brett Favre jersey like you did.
And then I heard you get introduced, and then I
heard just thick booing without you having said anything.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Now, it was right before the first game that Brett
fav played the Packers as a Viking. It was the
Saturday night before that was going to happen, I think,
on a Monday.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And the people were I'm gonna go with less than.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Pleased, yeah, And so that's when I thought to myself, like, yeah,
I think that he and I have a pretty similar brain.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The way I know we have similar brain is because
you might not remember this. So I went up on stage. Cliff,
who ran the club, pulled the lights up because and
I quote he was pretty sure somebody was going to
throw a glass at me because I was doing the
Hulk Hogan like bump up up, like hand to the
ear motion over and over. And then you ran to
(07:17):
the booth and as I was going up, played the
Monday night football theme music. That's the one thing that
I remember, and here we are years later with the
team letting us be involved, which.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's right, and our friendship barely hanging on.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Jay the producer just said that people threw pool balls
on the field at players during that game. During the
Lambeau game when Farv went back there for the first
time and had signs comparing Farv to Fredo from The Godfather, So.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I knew it was you. I knew it was you.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I didn't get the pool balls, but you could. You know,
you could feel that that would probably be the react
in that room night, because I believe Appleton is where
the opposing team stay. So Appleton, they're not just pack Evans.
I think they feel like they're really a part of it.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, because I went to a Vike's Packer game Lambeau
and Brett Farv was still a quarterback Dante Culpeppers for US.
Dante Culpepper was getting murdered. I'm saying, straight up murdered,
and Brett Favre would get touched on the shoulder. It
(08:29):
would be like you wouldn't even know if he was
down playing touch football and they'd throw a flag.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
So I start freaking out.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I'm screaming down the field and the section around me right,
just a couple rows started chanting all before I know it,
within the minute, the entire stadium. Here's the crazy thing
about this stadium is they don't have to know, they
don't have to have witnessed what happened. They just know
(08:58):
if somebody sends out the back signal, we have to
join in.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And so this entire stadium was chanting that.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And then we were at the bar afterwards back in Appleton,
because we were staying at the same hotel that the
Vikes are staying at, and we're at the bar right
next door, and then this Packer fan comes in. He goes, oh, man, somebody,
somebody from Minnesota really got it tonight because everybody was chanting.
And my buddy goes, he's right here, this guy. And
(09:27):
I really didn't even do anything to deserve it other
than yelling. Because remember when Farv and even even Rogers
that that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
The Packers got a lot of calls. They were the chiefs. Yeah,
they were the chiefs of the early two thousands, so
it was tough.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Can I ask you a question about Lambeau please, because begrudgingly,
I think we can both admit such a cool place.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, are you when was the last time you were
at a game in Lambeau? Was it that one you
got boot at or have you been to one since.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I went to one since?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
So my uncle, who my great uncle, He had the
high school rushing record in Green Bay, I think into
the nineties and this is my great uncle, and so
when he was little, he used to sneak in to
practice under a fence all him and his friends could watch.
(10:19):
And it was just this really cool experience to get
to bring him to a Packer game. And it was
the game that Adrian Peterson ran wild on them, so
it was really really fun to see. But I've got
to bring him into the little museum, the Packer Hall
of Fame, and he started crying and I was like, oh,
(10:41):
this dude was tough. So it was a really interesting
fun moment. So the juxtaposition of having that chant happen
at one game with my buddies and then getting to
watch this guy like really have a great time was
very fun.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I think that's a great place to take to break.
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everybody to the tailgate. Psim Ands and Chad Daniels, we're
talking Packer week. Let's get into the game itself. Yeah,
growing up like you're you're thirty years older than me,
so we you experienced this as a later stage adult
while I was experiencing it as a child. But I
think some younger fans think, like Lambeau is this for
(12:00):
ever iconic and it's not. They had split their games
with Milwaukee before ninety five, and in ninety five they
go full lambeau Field. From that point on, they go
on an absurd twenty five because it coincides with the
rise of farb they go on a twenty five consecutive
(12:20):
regular home season win streak. I think it's the second
largest in NFL history. I think the Dolphins had like
twenty seven. And that streak ends ladies and gentlemen. With
the Randy Moss game boo yeah, ninety five to the
(12:40):
Randy Moss game September seventeenth of ninety five to October
fifth of ninety eight, they did not lose a home game,
and then the winter thing still persisted. They were twelve
and zero all time in home playoff games. And then
do you remember when Vic shattered that. You remember when
he came in and that two thousand and three playoff game,
(13:02):
he was like twenty two years old and just throttled
them in a way where everybody went, what that's not right?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Right, You're up like.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Twenty four zero. So I don't know if home field
advantage has changed for the entire league, if people are
more prepared for weather and the elements, if just the
technology and advancements of being an NFL team have changed that.
But we I do remember a time where it's like
go to Green Bay lose. Yeah, for sure, it's very
nice that that is not that way. Anymore.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, because it used to be well, you know, it
would get so cold so early. And that's what I
love about that stadium is it's a lot of bleachers
and so you are smushed together. It's you are surviving
because of a stranger's body heat.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It's it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I do.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I really like that stadium, but I really like to
watch them lose in that stadium New York Giants.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'd like to watch them lose. I think if they
do lose, normally we do game previews, but I wanna
can we do a player spotlight as a dude I've
been talking about all year and I can't stop talking
about him, and I don't think even though other people
are talking about him, the credit is anywhere near where
it should be. And I think it really clicked last
(14:14):
game Bears game, Tom Brady said, Brian Flores told them
that Jalen Redman has been our best defensive lineman. I
totally agree, and I think this guy is not only
doing that right now, but like, if you're looking for hope,
if you're looking for enthusiasm, he's a place to put
(14:36):
a ton of it because not only is he like
this unique story, but I didn't understand this. So he
grew up in a place called Midwest City, Oklahoma, which
is the funniest name. It's like being from town. Yeah,
I'm from town, Illinois.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Hey, we need a name for our city? Well, where
is it?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Pretty south near Texas? All a Midwest city? Brother, Midwest City, Okahomer.
So he didn't play varsity football his first two years
of high school. He was just a basketball player. And
I know there's like basketball players in college who went
on to play football in the pros, and I guess
(15:16):
maybe some of them never played high school football. But
the first time this dude ever touched a football he
was a junior in high school. First year high school,
eighty two tackles, fourteen sacks. They played nine games in
high school. Dude, his senior year, listen to this second
year ever playing football. His senior year starts. He's only
(15:40):
been in the sport for a year. Eighty seven tackles,
thirty four for a loss, nineteen and a half sacks,
and he becomes the number sixteenth nationally ranked player. Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Now I have some stats here too.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
From his high school sophomore year, basketball scored one hundred
and sixty four points eighteen dunks, one shattered backboard, fourteen tackles,
and that's why they asked him to move to football.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Dude, think about going from never touching a football to
the sixteenth ranked prospect in a sport that everybody desperately
wishes they were a prospect in in two years. Like
that's I think they should take the Jalen Redmond story
and show it to you know, when a bunch of
eighth graders are going to play basketball or football for
(16:36):
the first time, they should set everybody down and go,
ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to talk about Jalen Redmond
and they should tell all this and then they go.
So when you get mad at your coach for not
playing your son correctly, which by the way, he's just
a dad and he's volunteering, when you do that, I
want you to ask yourself, yes, could my kids start
(16:56):
playing football at sixteen and be a nationally ranked recruit
by eighteen? And if your answer is no, maybe take
a breath, change your tone, and refocus.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Because this high school was in Oklahoma, so many dads
had to be screaming about this basketball player turned football
player starting to get all these things. And then after
one game. This is my impersonation of so many dads
in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
He so he goes to college, he ends up having
a medical issue in college, he doesn't get drafted, right
despite his combine. It's like he has the second best
forty yard dash time among interior defensive linemen's second best
ten yard split, and the best broad jump and vertical jump.
Like he's an off the charts athlete and he's still Oh,
(17:53):
by the way, only been playing football significantly less than
a decade, So he's undrafted, signs with the Panthers, plays
in the XFL. Everybody knows this part of the story.
But man, what's he gonna look like in two years?
I don't think he's at his ceiling? Are you? Are
you all of a sudden going what have we found
ourselves here? And with the way I think Donovan Jackson
(18:14):
is playing on the offensive line, the whole talk in
the offseason was we've got to fix the trenches, right,
we got to fix the interior trenches. And they went
and got a couple of big name free agents on
both sides, and then I think the Donovan Jackson draft pick,
even though it was a number one pick and this
Jalen Redmond thing which happened the year before. They kind
of flew under the radar, and right now if you're
(18:34):
looking at the future of those interiors, I feel really
good about it because I think both these guys have
a chance to be incredible studs. We should move to
the game preview. We should do that part of the show,
because that is I could have just talked I could
have just talked Jalen Redmond the whole time, but we
do have to preview the game. That's an important part
(18:55):
of our job. Okay, let me give you two things
to feel good about, and then let's do our prediction. Okay, Okay.
Aaron Jones is returning to Lambeau. This is take two
for that journey last year. Pretty good Week four twenty
two carries ninety three yards, four receptions forty six yards.
(19:17):
He's done very well against the Packers on the whole,
with one hundred and forty total rushing yards seventy six
receiving yards. But in addition, our wide receivers have done
exception really well. Jefferson and Addison combined for in Week
four one hundred and fifty seven yards and two touchdowns.
And then Jefferson, Addison and Naylor in week sixteen combine
(19:41):
for two hundred and forty two yards and two touchdowns.
So this is a This is a group of weapons
that has had success against the Packers. And if for
no other reason that I have a bunch of unfinished
trash talk chats in my phone right now, hm, I
(20:02):
would love to see that continue. What do you got
for prediction.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Score is listen. I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I got up at three point thirty in the morning
to fly home from Washington, DC to watch the same
mistakes being made over and over and never taking a
chance to fix them. I'm going Viking six, Packers three.
I'm in a negative headspace right now.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I also think the Packers are going to score three
Vikings one hundred and twenty seven. And I think this
is a breakout week for my boy Jalen Redmond. I
highlighted him on the show, and if that happens, I
will convince myself that I played a role in it,
and then we might have to do a player segment
highlight thing on every show. Because I deal with obsessive
(20:49):
compulsive disorder and I believe in a lot of silly stuff.
I'm very superstitious those aren't the same thing. I just
happen to have both of them coexisting in my brain.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
For my player prediction, I'm gonna go Aaron Jones gets
a Lambeau Leap Purple.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Edition, Purple e dicion. Let me give you a pitch
because we're both in a little bit of a negative headspace.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I think if and when they allow us to keep
doing this show next year, which I can't imagine why
anyone would, given who you and I are as like
people like the closer they let us, the more insane
we become. But I think Chatty Daddy in CI recording
from Lambeau next year. Yeah, sure, we'll do it on
(21:32):
the fan. Absolutely will help with the pregame show. How
about you have the We're the you know how you
wake up and you're like, what time's Colin Coward on?
But there's that other show that's on in the morning
that keeps switching, like the breakfast Ball or whatever. Give
us make us breakfast Ball to the pregame show. Put
Cy and Chatty Daddy out in Lambeau and let's just
(21:53):
see what comes back.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, not Chad and Ci. We don't come back in
body bags. Maybe that's going to do it for.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Us today on the tailgate, thank you guys for listening. Hey,
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