January 2, 2026 • 39 mins
For the Final Hour of the Friday Football the PA voice of the Vikings and the Super Bowl Alan Roach Joins the show to talk about how he fell in love with the Vikings, and became the voice of the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There, ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please.
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We have secured the voice of Avalanche Hockey at Ballerina,
all the Super Bowls, NFL Europe games, EA's Madden, Yeah, yeah,
Madden the video game, and of course the voice of
US Bank Stadium. And it all started in Slayton, Minnesota.
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Can I get a witness in a raucous round of
applause for the vox of all boxes ever? The vox
Alan Roach, Ladies and gentlemen at Buffalo Wild Wings. Okay,
brace yourselves. Everybody be quiet. Everybody be quiet. Hi, Alan,
how are you? Thank you? Egan? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Read the room? Pa? How do you lead with on
the announcer for the Avalanche? Wait to get stuff thrown
at me? Get it out of the way.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Just get it out of the way in quick fire fashion.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Anybody's seen the Avalanche record. No, you're what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You're creating your own enemies here? What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Ladies and gentlemen, We need security right now to escort
the box of all boxes ever, the box back to
ball Arena. Like like you said here, it all started
in Slaton, Minnesota. He's from Slaton, Minnesota and the voice
now that I've talked to him, met your brother, you
guys came from. He's a limb on the voice tree.
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Holy Cowed's voice is unbelievable like yours. But for those
who don't know your Slatin days, your affinity and affirmation
and or love for Minnesota sports teams, like when did
that start? And you give all the credit to Slaton
Minnesota for what you're doing right now. Slat Minnesota. I
remember my first memories of the Vikings right. I can't
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look at you, man, because I just want to yell
yes every time in Slaton, Minnesota. I'm probably aged three
or four, and so we're talking nineteen sixty nine, nineteen seventy.
I remember watching games on the Mankato TV station. Land
was that y that was Save two falls? So it
was whatever the man Cato station that I think was
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the whoever had the NFC games. And I would sit
on the floor watching the Viking game with all of
my football cards. I would have the Carl Eller and
the Allen Page and the Jeff Seaman and the Roy
Winston and I would set the cards up the way
the players were lined up on the TV screen. And
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as the play would happen, I would run Chuck Foreman
around the right end, or I would run and Barren
Narrow up the middle, or Brand McClanahan and he'd fumble,
and then I'd tear his card in them. And that
that's what I remember, at age three or four, was
where my love for the Viking started. Now you'll notice
Alan has a purple and gold bucket with him if
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anybody wants him to do a voiceover for one hundred dollars,
just dropping in a bucket, like I put one hundred
in there, so he'll say. The white zone is for
loading and unloading of passengers. Only hold on, please, the
strain is departing.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Many just.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
All say how about that? I like, how about that? Hallelujah?
How about that?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's great? This is this is really cool. I get
a chance to listen to these. I live in Denver
now and I get a chance to listen to these
on the iHeart radio app every Friday. And you have
in your mind what does it look like? And I
guess this is pretty much yet. But it's very cool.
It's eight it's eight years. If you've done this fifteen
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o nine. Wow, yeah, sixteen years. I mean, whether it's Miller, course,
the Vikings, KFA and whatever, who like comes to three
at least three or four every time we've got you
got some got some break?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah we have.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
We have frequent Feast contributors. But whomever came up with
this idea into the two thousand and nine season with five,
that was way right. I've heard you say that somebody.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Else needs to ask a question other than me. When
did you know that the voice was going to be
the moneymaker?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I don't know. I don't think I ever did. I
started in radio. Was just telling my brother and my wife.
I started in radio in nineteen eighty two in Brainerd, Minnesota.
It was the summer before my junior year of high school. Wow,
so you hit puberty at age age.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That scenes Lap, he was a tenor until high school.
I can't look at him. I just want you to.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Read books like I'd love like almost you mentioned, you know,
starting in radio, like orson Well style War of the World.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I'd love for you just to read that to me.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, and you know what, you know how long it
takes to read a book. Now, I didn't have that too. No,
I don't have that kind of time.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Is there a difference, like when you're doing a hockey
game and when you're doing a football game.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Is there a difference? And what would it be?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, I mean from from an actual standpoint of what
I do football. I have to watch every play because
like Pa Pa does beautiful, flowery, wonderful play by play,
I do what's called I call skeleton play by play.
I say Aaron Jones and ball carrier gain him two
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second down and eight and so I have to watch
every play to say all of that stuff. Whereas in hockey,
you know, you can be doom scrolling that word from
my daughter yesterday, doom scrolling, and then they score a goal.
Everybody cheers, so you look, oh okay, and then they
give you who scored the goal, and then you say
it and that's all there is in hockey. So it's
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it's much different. I like announcing football a lot better
for that reason because I'm always engaged.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
How did you get through the last one?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Because I got a rare Alan roach text early in
the game, you know, because Alan will come to the
box box at us Bank Stadium and he'll see me
on my binoculars with the roster in front of me,
and I'm memorizing numbers and body types for for the
other team, so hopefully I can go quick twitch on it.
Alan does a lot of the same stuff. Texted me
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about five minutes into the game. What was the Texas
the Detroit game? Right? Yeah? I said, I cannot see
a single number on the Detroit line uniforms, right, the
black uniforms, the blue numbers. Box problems see a single number?
No idea?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
How'd you guys get over that?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Why he's got binoculars I have. I have a spotter
that I just relied on more. And I asked the
spotter who caught it, who threw it, who ran it,
who tackled who? I should just give him the mic?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
What do you like about living in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
The weather's pretty amazing we have and probably here too,
anywhere across the United States. This time of year, you
watch National News and they'll show seven feet of snow
and a snow plow going up the mountains, and you know,
the snow is high just outside of Denver. So people
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think that's what Denver is. Denver's a desert. You know
what the temperature was on Christmas Day in Denver? Seventy geez.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
We had in the month of December sixteen days above
sixty degrees this December. That's what Denver is. All Right,
it'll get snow and we have three hundred and twenty
days of sunshiny years.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I'm moving Denver, so is everybody else.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And that's over the last ten years. The housing prices
and stuff like that. Who I lived there, I've lived
there thirty years. When I got there, the metro was
two million. It's almost five million now. All right. Conversely,
what do you not like about living in Colorado? The roads?
They never built roads in Colorado. And that's we're just
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kind of what we're talking about. In the last thirty years,
it's gotten more than twice the size, twice the population.
All they do is, let's build houses, Let's build hospitals,
lot Fitzkills, low Fitfielder, let's build it. Oh we need
some roads. Wow, just kind of curl a road around here,
you'll be fine. We have no freeways. We have a
freeway that goes this way and a freeway that goes
that way, and that's it. So good luck getting from
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the southwest to the northeast. Despite your Minnesota vikings not
making the playoffs this season, correct me if I'm wrong here,
Vox of all boxes ever to box you always enjoy
when they beat Green Bay and you're on the microphone, right,
I think, yes, absolutely? And what is there an opening
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a lambo coming up hated the shiny yellow pants and
going all the way back to four years old with
the football cards on the floor. I think, wasn't the
first game I ever did in US Stadium? The first
game that was the Packers? Right? It was so it
couldn't gotten any better. Do you have any idea what
our record is against the Packers in the US Bank Stadium.
I don't know. I'm going to guess seven and two,
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donnison three.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well, find they won in twenty twenty two. You got
to go back to sixteen, twenty twenty three loss.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
They won in.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Sixteen, they won in seventeen.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I would guess it's it's it's a winning record and
by more than just one. They played nine. So and
to close this segment, then we'll chat about the vikings.
Get a little nosalgic with some of these Super Bowls
that Allen is boxed as the voice of the Super
Bowl like in the stadium, Man, it's super cool. I
thought there was an outside chance he was going to
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be here. I don't think he's here unless he's hiding.
But our boss with the Vikings and the Vikings Entertainment Network,
Brian Harper, is departing for the Las Vegas Golden Knights.
Would you have been the voice of US Bank Stadium
without Harper being like, well, mister wilf And and mister
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Warren and everybody else, you say you want the best
in your most visible spots or whatever or period, we
got to go get this guy.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Is that how it went down?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yes, And I met Brian Harper, who has been with
the Vikings for twenty two years. He worked as a
you know, a contract employee with the company that produced
the post game Super Bowl show where they give away
the trophy. And so it's kind of funny when you
whenever you look back at the postgame trophy presentations, you know,
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there's Terry Bradshaw, there's the commissioner. You can always see
Brian Harper's face in there somewhere too. That was his job,
was to make sure people in the right spot on
that stand. Well, when I met him sixteen years ago
and learned that he was with the Minnesota Vikings. Every
time our group would go to dinner on Friday night,
and I'd seem only once a year, every time our
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group would go to dinner on Friday night, there'd be
twenty people. I would always sit right next to Brian
Harper and just say, man, I would love to be
the voice of the Minnesota Viking one day. And then
when when the new stadium came around, there was an opportunity,
and yeah, Hart made it happen.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, he's I'm gonna miss I miss him already, man.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah you know he yeah, Well, what he's created, I
don't I don't know, and I know I've talked about
this on your show before. What happens inside the Minnesota
Viking Stadium is different than anywhere else that you will
go in the National Football League, and it's because of
Brian Harper and the people that he has brought in.
Every year, UH, sports teams or sports organizations had this
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big conference called the Idea Conference. So NBA teams, college
sports teams, NHL teams, baseball teams, they all come to
this conference and of course there's lots of this going on,
lots of beers at night. But then they have you know,
little breakout sessions where you learn about the newest technologies
and whatever. Well, all of these teams submit videos of
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what they do in their stadiums, whether it's baseball or
hockey or whatever. So then they go, okay, everybody, let's
vote on the best hockey program, and so that gets
an award. Let's bet on the best baseball program, and
then they have let's bet on the best overall program.
Well I don't know the exact numbers, but I think
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this is pretty close. In football, the Vikings have won
the best overall program seven of the last nine years,
and they've won the best football program seven of nine,
and they've won the best overall program in all of
sports like two of the last five years the Minnesota
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what you see in the stadium is not what everyone
else gets. And one of the things that's so amazing,
and it stuck out to me as soon as I
got here. And you probably don't notice this, but when
you walk into US Bank Stadium for a Vikings game
and you're there for three and a half hours, you
are not sold as single thing. There is not a
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commercial anywhere. It's interesting and if you go to almost
any other stadium for instance, I came from the Denver Broncos.
I did the Broncos for sixteen years. I read I'm
not kidding, at least seventy commercials a game. Wow fans,
be sure you get the official tire of the Denver
Broncos fans. When you need a personal interro attorney, be
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sure to get the personal terry attorney to the Denver fans.
Be sure to drink Pepsi. It's the good.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Constantly during the timeouts, I'm reading commercials at the Vikings game.
The Vikings and Brian Harper did this. Ye appreciate the
money you are spending and the reason you are there.
And it's sure as hell is not to find out
who the personal injury attorney is of the Minnesota Biking
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and I love.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
That personal injury stray.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I was gonna ask you something a bit off topic though,
in terms of not just what you've built and been
able to be a part of here in Minnesota, but
e intros all the other things that you've gotten to
be a part of as part of your career. What
is what would you say the most special event that
you've gotten to voice. I mean, whether it's Olympics and
Super Bowls, of course, maybe you know World Cup soccer.
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You think about all the things that are on your resume,
either now or so certainly still to come.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
What what has been the most special thing that you've
been a part of?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And that's what's really cool about my job? Is there?
How do you? How do you is doing? Like picking
your is doing twelve World Cup games in Moscow cooler
than doing the Super Bowl where David Tyree caught the
ball in his helmet? I mean, what what's better?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
It's I I can't pick. I get to ask that
all the time. What's the best? I will say one?
And this is, you know what, I'm not even going
to say it, not even gonna what do you mean?
One of the things that always comes to mind one
of the most special moments, and it's not the most special,
but one of the most special moments that always comes
out of my mouth when I'm asked, is in two thousand,
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I'm sitting here's the glass on the ice at the
Avalanche game, and I'm sitting at the red line with
the microphone and I say, ladies and gentlemen, the Stanley Cup,
and the commissioner comes out with a Stanley Cup hands
it to Joe Sakic, who immediately turns around and hands
it to Ray Bork in his twenty second year, winning
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his first Stanley Cup. Yeah, that moment is one of
the most iconic ever in the NHL. And I was
as far away as the bar from them, and your
voice began to crack because you're either crestfallen from the
moment a quarter century later or your concerned. Three quarters
of Buffalo Wild Wings, Hegan has just turned on you
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because we're the state of hockey. Hey, that's alan roach,
Ladies and gentlemen. He's gonna stick around for another segment.
He's the box of all boxes ever to box.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Very nice. He came out to Buffalo Wild Wings real quick.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, well real quick, we have you would ask who
goes to three or more feasts over the course of
the season, and behind us we have some lovely ladies
who basically go to every feast all year.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
One of them we.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Heard her asking Mike Florio a question, and so we
appreciate Katie and everybody involved, but they had asked. Given
the final of the feast, we won't have a feast
next week, but on Tuesday we're throwing birthday shout outs,
and everybody's turning the corner, and the calendar is opening
up on Tuesday, January sixth, This next Tuesday, the host
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of nine to Noon, the voice of the Minnesota Vikings,
is turning sixty years old.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Aw shucks, cheers, thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And so they asked that in lieu of a feast
next week, that we just give it. We give a
good shout out to the host tonight to do and
give him a round applause. Turn then another decade, we
got a cake in the midst here.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
The banker he took the jacket off so he could
bring you the cake.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
If the banker's bringing up the cake, does that mean
there's like a vault like a.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Five twenty nine or some kind of four oh one
k in there?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Wait, he's shuttle, but your attention. Please direct your attention
to the birthday cake. Can sing Happy birthday up, pay.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
What's your rooms? Happy birthday, Hapy, birthday to you, Happy.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Birthday, dear Paul, have you birthday to you? Love you guys,
thank you, happy sixty brother, thank you, thank you. Helload
out ready, hey ma'am, thank you guys. We'll be right
back Hey, Buffalo Wild Wings. Buffalo Wild Wings egan for
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the final football Giovanni fitz Simmons. Right here is twelfth birthday.
Happy birthday, my brother, Giovanni fitz Simmons.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
We got all his albums.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Give me some cake. Happy birthday, Yeah, good day. We
got some cake. Back.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
There's j taking Jay Dobbs. Kay, I hope yourself right
there with some birthday cake for you.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Okay, all right, Alan Roach at mile high Roach via
the tweet machine, voice of US Bank Stadium, and much more.
He'll he'll be on the microphone Sunday beginning at nine
to thirty.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Forget the rehearsal part like for.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
The like gates open in attention, US Bank Stadium. Gates
will open in one minute. Yes, nobody gets to hear that.
I hear it all the time here. You gotta hear
it every week thirty of fifteen a one. And then
they come rolling in and then the box does this thing.
Who is our Who is the Minnesota Viking starting quarterback
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next season? JJ McCarthy, Kirk Cousins, Joe Burrow or other
JJ McCarthy. Why he's five and four as a starter.
He is growing as a quarterback biggest concern with JJ
mccar arthy is he's got a state healthy and gotta
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play kid, And let's hope that this is a one
off and it's going to be another eight years before
he misses five or six games in a season, and
that happens with players. Who knows, And maybe these are
all freak injuries, but that right now, I have much
more concern about staying healthy than I do about becoming
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a good quarterback. Where's Giovanni Fitzsimmons, I got a k
fan sure for you?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Here is a birthday Okay, go ahead continue.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Harrison Smith returning or not returning in your fan loving mind,
not that you're in the meeting room or you're a
decision maker in this regard. What do you think about
number two to two, the career that he's had, the
chance you've gotten to watch him since the opening a
US Bank Stadium nearly a decade ago.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That's where you at with Hitman.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I think that is going to go to who the
defensive coordinator is going to be. I do not think
that Harrison's myth will come back to be part of
a new defense. I think it will be hard for
Harrison Smith to come back as a player in the defense.
If B Flow is not there, why would be Flow
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not be there? I heard you guys talking about Pittsburgh.
Here's I think, uh with with B Flow going to Pittsburgh,
that's the one that makes the most sense. But the
two things I think that we as Viking fans have
going for us. And it's not like we're rooting against
B Flow. He deserves everything. No wait, wait, wait, sorry,
we'd say it. It's not like we're birds or lizards.
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We're kings. How about that. That's that's on the That
was a that was that was quote? But grant, Yeah,
that's that's on the screen every week in the in
the opening. Okay, it's not like we're lizards or reptile
or birds or reptiles. But if I don't want to
root against B Flow, but that's kind of what you
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have to do, right in order to be selfish as
a Viking fan. The Pittsburgh Steelers have had a defensive
head coach for what nineteen years in a row or whatever,
and even Cower was before that in the in your
face and so you I would think that Pittsburgh needing
a quarterback is going to look more for someone who's
going to develop a young quarterback. And then we go
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to the whole two at Tanga Bloa comments of two
years ago, and who knows whether Hey, either that's sour
grapes or whatever. That only you dropping the mic only
happens at ball Arena. It never happens in US Bank Stadium,
So I don't I don't think the Pittsburgh Steelers are
going to be in the market for well Brian Flores,
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So I think that means both he and hit Man
will be back next year.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I'd love that if that happens.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
My question, and during a season like this, when you're
like on the mic for some of these games, is
it hard to keep the emotion out of it?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Or do you want do you want the emotion in it?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Like?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
How do you navigate that?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I think for the first few years, I had to
monitor the emotion and not the mad emotion, the angry
emotion when an interception or a loss, because I goten
used to that for no matter what team I've announced
for for twenty years before that. I knew that you
have to remain professional, but I kind of tried to
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temper the excitement a little bit and bring it down
and make sure that I but over the last four
or five years, I'm like, no, let it ride. Look
at the stadium and the fans in this place hard
how they react. I came home last week and told
my wife, this sounds ridiculous because the Vikings are not
in the playoffs and this game meant nothing. I had
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seriously more fun announcing last week's game than I've ever
had announcing any game anywhere. Really, I was more into
last week's game than any other game I've ever announced
in my thirty eight plus years. So I think and
and Alex picked up on this too. The joy in
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the building was palpable. I mean you could just feel
the happiness and the joy within the fan base. And
it was you know, it's first down and the crowd's
going crazy, and it's a two yard loss on a
running play. Now the crowd is louder. Now it's the
seven yard sacked. The crowd is even louder. Now it's
third and nineteen and the place is going crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
It was.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Also it was also like you didn't know what time
it was in there was like dark, so you kind
of just felt the snoop fit was the bomb.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It was like Snoop, the Country Lady, and then Opera
guy at the end. I left it being like, but
Kelly with Kelly, that's right. I left it being like,
just do that at the super Bowl as opposed to
and Honey or what it might be the box.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
It was unbelievable. That was phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I was like, this, Okay, what is the first super
Bowl you voxed?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And what was that?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Like? First super Bowl was februare well, probably January of
two thousand and six. It was the Steelers and the Seahawks.
Oh at fort Field, Ben Roethlisberger versus Assis. It was
the very last game for Jerome bettis Antwine Randelel threw
a touchdown pass be high Ward, Yes he did. And
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the Super Bowl halftime show, Ladies and gentlemen, the Rolling Stone.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
That's good, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Amazing super I dropped the mic after that, Danta, I'll
never do anything cooler than this, and I've done seventeen
more so it's pretty amazing. Super Bowl fifty two at
US Bank Stadium, Billy beats New England, two weeks after
your fait well, three weeks after the Minneapolis miracle, two
weeks after your favorite team takes a seven zero lead
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a Lincoln Financial then gets outscored like thirty eight zero.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Like? You see the shirt I'm wearing right now? Well, no,
it's radio. How would you introduce the player like if
you was going, I'm during my nineteen seventy five throwback
Allen Page jersey. The first day I wore this jersey
on a game day was the NFC Championship game against
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the Eagles Barnett. Yeah, and so now go back to
the Spurgeon win. I brought it back one time last
year because I'm like, we're going to get through this.
Guess which game I wore it last year? The Arizona
game one one week before that. Oh, Detroit can't wear
that everty, So I thought i'd be safe wearing it
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here and maybe it would be cleansed during Yeah. Oh
good idea exercise. So you're the consummate professional relying on
mailbox money, So therefore your personal prom livitys and or
adoration for a team, and what happened two weeks previous
you So, ladies and gentlemen, Phildelph Eagles quarterback Nick Foles,
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you still got to bring it right, I'll be honest
of all the Super Bowls I've done, I had less
memories of that one than any other, right because I
was here in town the whole week leading up to it.
And the twenty five people that are in my crew,
whether it's cameraman or or you know, computer operators or
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the DJ or whoever the group is that deals with
the in game entertainment seven times a day. They would
look at me and I would just be pouting in
the corner and I would say, you guys, can't imagine
what today would be like if the Vikings were in
this Super Bowl. I mean it was it was six
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below zero and there were twenty five thousand people at
the corner of tenth and Nickel it dancing in the street,
and they're like, this is unbelievable. Can you believe how
many people are out there? And I said, if the
Vikings were here, every corner in downtown, man would look
like this.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Remember doing Radio Row that week?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Yeah, I mean just I mean, you got, hey, it's
Marcus Marietta brought to you by Spam, and then Golden
Tates walking around with a Hershey's chocolate jersey. Just the
money game and we're sitting you want to talk about pouting,
sitting in radio row with him in charge for an
entire week, having to watch the glee and the love
and the beauty of what was to come for two teams,
and we were right there at the doorstep and we
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completely bleeped it.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Up until it on Tuesday or Wednesday, it popped. The
Kansas City Chiefs are moving on for Alex Smith. He's
going to become the Washington Redskins quarterback. And then like
three hours later, we're wrapping up nine to noon third
form all of America. We're at a break and I nor,
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don't I turn around and where you are compared to
where we are, Well, there's Kirk Cousins sitting at our table,
you know, doing some kind of an inner be right
there and talking about like Minnesota and like what options
could be. And I got to digest all this stuff
like that that became my never top defense.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Were just a quarterback away Vikings fans, and Kirk's going
to be available. Hey you took a little discount and
did you choose us over the Jets?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
This is the best super Bowl? Or Boss Kark's like,
I feel bad watching you guys my postgame as at
Super Bowl watch Monday night.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Super Bowl got over at you know whatever, eight thirty
eight pm or at some local time. I suppose by
about an hour. It took me to wrap up my
stuff and get out of the stadium. The traffic was
so bad that I just walked back to my hotel.
I was staying at the Crown Plaza, like at Seventh
of Market or something. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, they're won right by Rix Cabaret.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yeah, actually it is. And I walked back to my
hotel in you know, zero degree weather, and I had
to pack because I had to leave my hotel at
three point thirty in the morning to catch a flow
to Chicago to then catch a flight to pyeong Chang
for the Olympics. So I was on an airplane for
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like seventeen hours and they're still the bomb doing that. So
are you going to Milan? I am going, well, yes, wow, yeah,
he's going to be the voice of the Olympics. Are
you kidding me again? Same thing at San Francisco. Yeah,
And I'm trying to trying to get a flight right
out of San Francisco at nine to thirty pm to
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get to Munich to then go to But I don't
think I'm going to get that flight. That super Bowl
won't get over till seven thirty California time. I can't
make it from San Jose to San Francisco two hours
after the super Bowl. There's Fox problems. No way.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Are you in the mix for World Cup games too?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah? All the World Cup games next summer.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yet so for Team USA where they seattle in LA
maybe on the West coast, you're going to get to
do that.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
There's like sixteen cities in North America. Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Was just curious if it specific to the Americans.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
No, they they haven't. I haven't signed anyels, but I've
been talking with all Right, that's awesome freaking to do
World Cup stuff. I would It would be really cool
if I could bounce around, you know, do do a
game in Vancouver, and do a game in LA and
do a game in Chicago, and you know, that's that's
the way I hope it would go. But I don't
get picked.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
What would you like when you're getting into radio, what
would that self have thought of what you've been able
to see and do well?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And when I got into radio, I was I was
a music guy for twenty the first twenty something years
of radio, I played music. I played country for the
first nine months, and that was like, Okay, I'm gonna
quit and never do this again because I hate country music.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Why didn't you like the nitty gritty dirt man.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yeah, yeah, it was I could not stand it. But
then I got into classic rock, right when classic rock
stations started popping the ball over the country. Yeah, I
was right at the beginning of that. And so for
twenty years I played led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones, Freeburg, yep.
And I did that forever and ever. And you know,
there's only like five hundred songs that a classic rock
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station plays, and you can play fourteen songs an hour,
so do the math, you play almost four hundred a day.
So I did that for twenty something years. I played
the same five hundred songs forever. But thatd it. And
it wasn't until much later that I started the sports stuff.
So I had no idea when I got into radio
that I ever have anything to do with sports.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
This is crazy. The arc is wild.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
And to me, you know, when you go a segment
in three quarters, how we got about five minutes left
with the box of ball boxes ever to box? But
you know, for those of you who listened to Kate
Vann or listen to nine to noon, we'll get three, four, five,
six minutes into it. Joining us now, my Glorioprofootball Talk
dot Com Nordo got a question. There's no reintroduction needed
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here when it comes to that voice. The white zone
is for loading and unloading up passengers only ladies and gentlemen. Yeah,
I know you got more questions on there. I won. Okay,
I thought of something this week that I wanted to
talk about or deals with officiating in the NFL. Two
things that need to be changed. One I think is
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easy and I saw it in the like the Sunday
Night or the Monday night game last week, and we
see it all the time. And I understand a couple
of years ago when they made the rule about when
you sack the quarterback you can't fall on him with
your weight by way, and I get it, I get it.
I know the reason for the rule, but that rule
is changing games. Yeah. One of the super biggest plays
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in the game on a third down when the game
is on the line and the defense puts forth their
best effort and they sacked the quarterback because the middle
linebacker runs straight ahead for seven steps, dives at the
quarterback makes the sack, the game is flagged down first
down for the offense. That's got a change. We can't
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continue that. And here's another one which is way way
out there, but we see it also, And it was
in these same games a week ago, with all of
the replay and cameras and people in dark rooms that
are calling you, the referee in the ear and randomly saying,
oh no, that was a first down, Oh no, that
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was a get what do they call it? Something in
the next several years, I hope that something that we
hear on NFL games is the penalty was deemed irrelevant
to the outcome of the play.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
There was.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
It was just last week. I think it was the
Sunday night game. I don't even remember who was playing.
The quarterback is getting ready to throw, he's getting smashed
in the face by two guys and they called a
defensive pass interference over here where the quarterback's not even
looking bast It happens all the time, and the referee
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that the officials job is to watch one thing. My
job is to watch any receiver that comes in here. Watch, watch, watch, watch, watch, Oh,
there's holding, and then they look up to see whether
it's holding or whether it's pass interference if the ball
is there. Yeah, with all the replay that we have,
why is a grab or a touch over here on
the sideline when the quarterback is sprinting towards the opposite sideline?
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Why does that change the outcome of the play and
oftentimes change the outcome of the game.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I mean, why do you keep looking at me? Who
do you think?
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I am Bernie Kuchar and we're also up against break
Alan roade, ladies and gentlemen, the box of all boxes
ever to box. I want to say goodbye, goodbye everyone,
Thank you, Egan. I look forward to seeing you on
Sunday at us Bank Stadium. I can't wait for August
of next year.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Eight.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Give him a big round applause, very coolly came out
here with his family, all right, everybody on behalf of
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KFA N and the Friday Football Feast team here cors
Cors like cors beer. Round of applause for the support
they give the Feast and have for many, many years
with those unbelievably cool tickets they give away. Don't forget
before you leave, please tip the servers and the bartenders exponentially.
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The show begins at nine, they were here a long
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So you have you have some ladies and gentlemen who
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So tip very nicely before you leave. Please round of
applause for these servers helping us at Buffalo Wild Wingings,
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Egan and and on behalf of all of us. We
want to thank you for coming to the Friday Football
Feast whenever you do so. Yeah, the crowds. Crowds have
been terrific this year. The engagement has been absolutely fantastic.
And you know we we a kf A in or
or maybe nine to noon. If we don't tell you
enough how much we respect you, how much, how much
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we need you, and how dedicated you are. It's it's
in our I can't speak for everybody else, but it's
in our hearts because it's proven out over the years.
The dedication listeners have to f M one hundred point
three k f A N and it's been fantastic and
all of you have a lot to do with that
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this this is the This my fifteenth year doing the
feast and my first with Alec and Noordo uh and
it was it was a difficult adjustment when Paul charchy
and in April said that he was leaving, but it
was very easy to fill the spot with two of
my dear friends. Around of applause for Alex Lewis, Athletic
Nordo producer nine to noon. It's been great doing the
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Feast with you guys this year, man and I love
you guys. Jared Wells, ladies and gentlemen on the sound,
Nick Madden is Street Team, Kevin Ward back in Kfam.
The Vikings are going to beat the Packers this weekend.
They're going to finish nine and eight. Then we'll do
a feast again next year. God bless all of you.
Happy New Year and have a wonderful, wonderful weekend.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
All right, bye.
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There, ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please.
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We have secured the voice of Avalanche Hockey at Ballerina,
all the Super Bowls, NFL Europe games, EA's Madden, Yeah, yeah,
Madden the video game, and of course the voice of
US Bank Stadium. And it all started in Slayton, Minnesota.
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Can I get a witness in a raucous round of
applause for the vox of all boxes ever? The vox
Alan Roach, Ladies and gentlemen at Buffalo Wild Wings. Okay,
brace yourselves. Everybody be quiet. Everybody be quiet. Hi, Alan,
how are you? Thank you? Egan? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Read the room? Pa? How do you lead with on
the announcer for the Avalanche? Wait to get stuff thrown
at me? Get it out of the way.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Just get it out of the way in quick fire fashion.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Anybody's seen the Avalanche record. No, you're what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You're creating your own enemies here? What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Ladies and gentlemen, We need security right now to escort
the box of all boxes ever, the box back to
ball Arena. Like like you said here, it all started
in Slaton, Minnesota. He's from Slaton, Minnesota and the voice
now that I've talked to him, met your brother, you
guys came from. He's a limb on the voice tree.
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Holy Cowed's voice is unbelievable like yours. But for those
who don't know your Slatin days, your affinity and affirmation
and or love for Minnesota sports teams, like when did
that start? And you give all the credit to Slaton
Minnesota for what you're doing right now. Slat Minnesota. I
remember my first memories of the Vikings right. I can't
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look at you, man, because I just want to yell
yes every time in Slaton, Minnesota. I'm probably aged three
or four, and so we're talking nineteen sixty nine, nineteen seventy.
I remember watching games on the Mankato TV station. Land
was that y that was Save two falls? So it
was whatever the man Cato station that I think was
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the whoever had the NFC games. And I would sit
on the floor watching the Viking game with all of
my football cards. I would have the Carl Eller and
the Allen Page and the Jeff Seaman and the Roy
Winston and I would set the cards up the way
the players were lined up on the TV screen. And
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as the play would happen, I would run Chuck Foreman
around the right end, or I would run and Barren
Narrow up the middle, or Brand McClanahan and he'd fumble,
and then I'd tear his card in them. And that
that's what I remember, at age three or four, was
where my love for the Viking started. Now you'll notice
Alan has a purple and gold bucket with him if
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anybody wants him to do a voiceover for one hundred dollars,
just dropping in a bucket, like I put one hundred
in there, so he'll say. The white zone is for
loading and unloading of passengers. Only hold on, please, the
strain is departing.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Many just.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
All say how about that? I like, how about that? Hallelujah?
How about that?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's great? This is this is really cool. I get
a chance to listen to these. I live in Denver
now and I get a chance to listen to these
on the iHeart radio app every Friday. And you have
in your mind what does it look like? And I
guess this is pretty much yet. But it's very cool.
It's eight it's eight years. If you've done this fifteen
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o nine. Wow, yeah, sixteen years. I mean, whether it's Miller, course,
the Vikings, KFA and whatever, who like comes to three
at least three or four every time we've got you
got some got some break?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah we have.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
We have frequent Feast contributors. But whomever came up with
this idea into the two thousand and nine season with five,
that was way right. I've heard you say that somebody.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Else needs to ask a question other than me. When
did you know that the voice was going to be
the moneymaker?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I don't know. I don't think I ever did. I
started in radio. Was just telling my brother and my wife.
I started in radio in nineteen eighty two in Brainerd, Minnesota.
It was the summer before my junior year of high school. Wow,
so you hit puberty at age age.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
That scenes Lap, he was a tenor until high school.
I can't look at him. I just want you to.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Read books like I'd love like almost you mentioned, you know,
starting in radio, like orson Well style War of the World.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I'd love for you just to read that to me.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, and you know what, you know how long it
takes to read a book. Now, I didn't have that too. No,
I don't have that kind of time.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Is there a difference, like when you're doing a hockey
game and when you're doing a football game.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Is there a difference? And what would it be?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, I mean from from an actual standpoint of what
I do football. I have to watch every play because
like Pa Pa does beautiful, flowery, wonderful play by play,
I do what's called I call skeleton play by play.
I say Aaron Jones and ball carrier gain him two
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second down and eight and so I have to watch
every play to say all of that stuff. Whereas in hockey,
you know, you can be doom scrolling that word from
my daughter yesterday, doom scrolling, and then they score a goal.
Everybody cheers, so you look, oh okay, and then they
give you who scored the goal, and then you say
it and that's all there is in hockey. So it's
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it's much different. I like announcing football a lot better
for that reason because I'm always engaged.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
How did you get through the last one?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Because I got a rare Alan roach text early in
the game, you know, because Alan will come to the
box box at us Bank Stadium and he'll see me
on my binoculars with the roster in front of me,
and I'm memorizing numbers and body types for for the
other team, so hopefully I can go quick twitch on it.
Alan does a lot of the same stuff. Texted me
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about five minutes into the game. What was the Texas
the Detroit game? Right? Yeah? I said, I cannot see
a single number on the Detroit line uniforms, right, the
black uniforms, the blue numbers. Box problems see a single number?
No idea?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
How'd you guys get over that?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Why he's got binoculars I have. I have a spotter
that I just relied on more. And I asked the
spotter who caught it, who threw it, who ran it,
who tackled who? I should just give him the mic?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
What do you like about living in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
The weather's pretty amazing we have and probably here too,
anywhere across the United States. This time of year, you
watch National News and they'll show seven feet of snow
and a snow plow going up the mountains, and you know,
the snow is high just outside of Denver. So people
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think that's what Denver is. Denver's a desert. You know
what the temperature was on Christmas Day in Denver? Seventy geez.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
We had in the month of December sixteen days above
sixty degrees this December. That's what Denver is. All Right,
it'll get snow and we have three hundred and twenty
days of sunshiny years.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I'm moving Denver, so is everybody else.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And that's over the last ten years. The housing prices
and stuff like that. Who I lived there, I've lived
there thirty years. When I got there, the metro was
two million. It's almost five million now. All right. Conversely,
what do you not like about living in Colorado? The roads?
They never built roads in Colorado. And that's we're just
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kind of what we're talking about. In the last thirty years,
it's gotten more than twice the size, twice the population.
All they do is, let's build houses, Let's build hospitals,
lot Fitzkills, low Fitfielder, let's build it. Oh we need
some roads. Wow, just kind of curl a road around here,
you'll be fine. We have no freeways. We have a
freeway that goes this way and a freeway that goes
that way, and that's it. So good luck getting from
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the southwest to the northeast. Despite your Minnesota vikings not
making the playoffs this season, correct me if I'm wrong here,
Vox of all boxes ever to box you always enjoy
when they beat Green Bay and you're on the microphone, right,
I think, yes, absolutely? And what is there an opening
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a lambo coming up hated the shiny yellow pants and
going all the way back to four years old with
the football cards on the floor. I think, wasn't the
first game I ever did in US Stadium? The first
game that was the Packers? Right? It was so it
couldn't gotten any better. Do you have any idea what
our record is against the Packers in the US Bank Stadium.
I don't know. I'm going to guess seven and two,
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donnison three.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well, find they won in twenty twenty two. You got
to go back to sixteen, twenty twenty three loss.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
They won in.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Sixteen, they won in seventeen.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I would guess it's it's it's a winning record and
by more than just one. They played nine. So and
to close this segment, then we'll chat about the vikings.
Get a little nosalgic with some of these Super Bowls
that Allen is boxed as the voice of the Super
Bowl like in the stadium, Man, it's super cool. I
thought there was an outside chance he was going to
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be here. I don't think he's here unless he's hiding.
But our boss with the Vikings and the Vikings Entertainment Network,
Brian Harper, is departing for the Las Vegas Golden Knights.
Would you have been the voice of US Bank Stadium
without Harper being like, well, mister wilf And and mister
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Warren and everybody else, you say you want the best
in your most visible spots or whatever or period, we
got to go get this guy.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Is that how it went down?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yes, And I met Brian Harper, who has been with
the Vikings for twenty two years. He worked as a
you know, a contract employee with the company that produced
the post game Super Bowl show where they give away
the trophy. And so it's kind of funny when you
whenever you look back at the postgame trophy presentations, you know,
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there's Terry Bradshaw, there's the commissioner. You can always see
Brian Harper's face in there somewhere too. That was his job,
was to make sure people in the right spot on
that stand. Well, when I met him sixteen years ago
and learned that he was with the Minnesota Vikings. Every
time our group would go to dinner on Friday night,
and I'd seem only once a year, every time our
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group would go to dinner on Friday night, there'd be
twenty people. I would always sit right next to Brian
Harper and just say, man, I would love to be
the voice of the Minnesota Viking one day. And then
when when the new stadium came around, there was an opportunity,
and yeah, Hart made it happen.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, he's I'm gonna miss I miss him already, man.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah you know he yeah, Well, what he's created, I
don't I don't know, and I know I've talked about
this on your show before. What happens inside the Minnesota
Viking Stadium is different than anywhere else that you will
go in the National Football League, and it's because of
Brian Harper and the people that he has brought in.
Every year, UH, sports teams or sports organizations had this
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big conference called the Idea Conference. So NBA teams, college
sports teams, NHL teams, baseball teams, they all come to
this conference and of course there's lots of this going on,
lots of beers at night. But then they have you know,
little breakout sessions where you learn about the newest technologies
and whatever. Well, all of these teams submit videos of
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what they do in their stadiums, whether it's baseball or
hockey or whatever. So then they go, okay, everybody, let's
vote on the best hockey program, and so that gets
an award. Let's bet on the best baseball program, and
then they have let's bet on the best overall program.
Well I don't know the exact numbers, but I think
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this is pretty close. In football, the Vikings have won
the best overall program seven of the last nine years,
and they've won the best football program seven of nine,
and they've won the best overall program in all of
sports like two of the last five years the Minnesota
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what you see in the stadium is not what everyone
else gets. And one of the things that's so amazing,
and it stuck out to me as soon as I
got here. And you probably don't notice this, but when
you walk into US Bank Stadium for a Vikings game
and you're there for three and a half hours, you
are not sold as single thing. There is not a
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commercial anywhere. It's interesting and if you go to almost
any other stadium for instance, I came from the Denver Broncos.
I did the Broncos for sixteen years. I read I'm
not kidding, at least seventy commercials a game. Wow fans,
be sure you get the official tire of the Denver
Broncos fans. When you need a personal interro attorney, be
(14:24):
sure to get the personal terry attorney to the Denver fans.
Be sure to drink Pepsi. It's the good.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Constantly during the timeouts, I'm reading commercials at the Vikings game.
The Vikings and Brian Harper did this. Ye appreciate the
money you are spending and the reason you are there.
And it's sure as hell is not to find out
who the personal injury attorney is of the Minnesota Biking
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and I love.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
That personal injury stray.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I was gonna ask you something a bit off topic though,
in terms of not just what you've built and been
able to be a part of here in Minnesota, but
e intros all the other things that you've gotten to
be a part of as part of your career. What
is what would you say the most special event that
you've gotten to voice. I mean, whether it's Olympics and
Super Bowls, of course, maybe you know World Cup soccer.
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You think about all the things that are on your resume,
either now or so certainly still to come.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
What what has been the most special thing that you've
been a part of?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And that's what's really cool about my job? Is there?
How do you? How do you is doing? Like picking
your is doing twelve World Cup games in Moscow cooler
than doing the Super Bowl where David Tyree caught the
ball in his helmet? I mean, what what's better?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
It's I I can't pick. I get to ask that
all the time. What's the best? I will say one?
And this is, you know what, I'm not even going
to say it, not even gonna what do you mean?
One of the things that always comes to mind one
of the most special moments, and it's not the most special,
but one of the most special moments that always comes
out of my mouth when I'm asked, is in two thousand,
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I'm sitting here's the glass on the ice at the
Avalanche game, and I'm sitting at the red line with
the microphone and I say, ladies and gentlemen, the Stanley Cup,
and the commissioner comes out with a Stanley Cup hands
it to Joe Sakic, who immediately turns around and hands
it to Ray Bork in his twenty second year, winning
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his first Stanley Cup. Yeah, that moment is one of
the most iconic ever in the NHL. And I was
as far away as the bar from them, and your
voice began to crack because you're either crestfallen from the
moment a quarter century later or your concerned. Three quarters
of Buffalo Wild Wings, Hegan has just turned on you
(16:41):
because we're the state of hockey. Hey, that's alan roach,
Ladies and gentlemen. He's gonna stick around for another segment.
He's the box of all boxes ever to box.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Very nice. He came out to Buffalo Wild Wings real quick.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, well real quick, we have you would ask who
goes to three or more feasts over the course of
the season, and behind us we have some lovely ladies
who basically go to every feast all year.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
One of them we.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Heard her asking Mike Florio a question, and so we
appreciate Katie and everybody involved, but they had asked. Given
the final of the feast, we won't have a feast
next week, but on Tuesday we're throwing birthday shout outs,
and everybody's turning the corner, and the calendar is opening
up on Tuesday, January sixth, This next Tuesday, the host
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of nine to Noon, the voice of the Minnesota Vikings,
is turning sixty years old.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Aw shucks, cheers, thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And so they asked that in lieu of a feast
next week, that we just give it. We give a
good shout out to the host tonight to do and
give him a round applause. Turn then another decade, we
got a cake in the midst here.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
The banker he took the jacket off so he could
bring you the cake.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
If the banker's bringing up the cake, does that mean
there's like a vault like a.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Five twenty nine or some kind of four oh one
k in there?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Wait, he's shuttle, but your attention. Please direct your attention
to the birthday cake. Can sing Happy birthday up, pay.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
What's your rooms? Happy birthday, Hapy, birthday to you, Happy.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Birthday, dear Paul, have you birthday to you? Love you guys,
thank you, happy sixty brother, thank you, thank you. Helload
out ready, hey ma'am, thank you guys. We'll be right
back Hey, Buffalo Wild Wings. Buffalo Wild Wings egan for
(19:43):
the final football Giovanni fitz Simmons. Right here is twelfth birthday.
Happy birthday, my brother, Giovanni fitz Simmons.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
We got all his albums.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Give me some cake. Happy birthday, Yeah, good day. We
got some cake. Back.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
There's j taking Jay Dobbs. Kay, I hope yourself right
there with some birthday cake for you.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Okay, all right, Alan Roach at mile high Roach via
the tweet machine, voice of US Bank Stadium, and much more.
He'll he'll be on the microphone Sunday beginning at nine
to thirty.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Forget the rehearsal part like for.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
The like gates open in attention, US Bank Stadium. Gates
will open in one minute. Yes, nobody gets to hear that.
I hear it all the time here. You gotta hear
it every week thirty of fifteen a one. And then
they come rolling in and then the box does this thing.
Who is our Who is the Minnesota Viking starting quarterback
(20:42):
next season? JJ McCarthy, Kirk Cousins, Joe Burrow or other
JJ McCarthy. Why he's five and four as a starter.
He is growing as a quarterback biggest concern with JJ
mccar arthy is he's got a state healthy and gotta
(21:04):
play kid, And let's hope that this is a one
off and it's going to be another eight years before
he misses five or six games in a season, and
that happens with players. Who knows, And maybe these are
all freak injuries, but that right now, I have much
more concern about staying healthy than I do about becoming
(21:26):
a good quarterback. Where's Giovanni Fitzsimmons, I got a k
fan sure for you?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Here is a birthday Okay, go ahead continue.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Harrison Smith returning or not returning in your fan loving mind,
not that you're in the meeting room or you're a
decision maker in this regard. What do you think about
number two to two, the career that he's had, the
chance you've gotten to watch him since the opening a
US Bank Stadium nearly a decade ago.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That's where you at with Hitman.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I think that is going to go to who the
defensive coordinator is going to be. I do not think
that Harrison's myth will come back to be part of
a new defense. I think it will be hard for
Harrison Smith to come back as a player in the defense.
If B Flow is not there, why would be Flow
(22:14):
not be there? I heard you guys talking about Pittsburgh.
Here's I think, uh with with B Flow going to Pittsburgh,
that's the one that makes the most sense. But the
two things I think that we as Viking fans have
going for us. And it's not like we're rooting against
B Flow. He deserves everything. No wait, wait, wait, sorry,
we'd say it. It's not like we're birds or lizards.
(22:38):
We're kings. How about that. That's that's on the That
was a that was that was quote? But grant, Yeah,
that's that's on the screen every week in the in
the opening. Okay, it's not like we're lizards or reptile
or birds or reptiles. But if I don't want to
root against B Flow, but that's kind of what you
(23:00):
have to do, right in order to be selfish as
a Viking fan. The Pittsburgh Steelers have had a defensive
head coach for what nineteen years in a row or whatever,
and even Cower was before that in the in your
face and so you I would think that Pittsburgh needing
a quarterback is going to look more for someone who's
going to develop a young quarterback. And then we go
(23:23):
to the whole two at Tanga Bloa comments of two
years ago, and who knows whether Hey, either that's sour
grapes or whatever. That only you dropping the mic only
happens at ball Arena. It never happens in US Bank Stadium,
So I don't I don't think the Pittsburgh Steelers are
going to be in the market for well Brian Flores,
(23:44):
So I think that means both he and hit Man
will be back next year.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I'd love that if that happens.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
My question, and during a season like this, when you're
like on the mic for some of these games, is
it hard to keep the emotion out of it?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Or do you want do you want the emotion in it?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Like?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
How do you navigate that?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I think for the first few years, I had to
monitor the emotion and not the mad emotion, the angry
emotion when an interception or a loss, because I goten
used to that for no matter what team I've announced
for for twenty years before that. I knew that you
have to remain professional, but I kind of tried to
(24:22):
temper the excitement a little bit and bring it down
and make sure that I but over the last four
or five years, I'm like, no, let it ride. Look
at the stadium and the fans in this place hard
how they react. I came home last week and told
my wife, this sounds ridiculous because the Vikings are not
in the playoffs and this game meant nothing. I had
(24:46):
seriously more fun announcing last week's game than I've ever
had announcing any game anywhere. Really, I was more into
last week's game than any other game I've ever announced
in my thirty eight plus years. So I think and
and Alex picked up on this too. The joy in
(25:07):
the building was palpable. I mean you could just feel
the happiness and the joy within the fan base. And
it was you know, it's first down and the crowd's
going crazy, and it's a two yard loss on a
running play. Now the crowd is louder. Now it's the
seven yard sacked. The crowd is even louder. Now it's
third and nineteen and the place is going crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
It was.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Also it was also like you didn't know what time
it was in there was like dark, so you kind
of just felt the snoop fit was the bomb.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It was like Snoop, the Country Lady, and then Opera
guy at the end. I left it being like, but
Kelly with Kelly, that's right. I left it being like,
just do that at the super Bowl as opposed to
and Honey or what it might be the box.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
It was unbelievable. That was phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I was like, this, Okay, what is the first super
Bowl you voxed?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And what was that?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Like? First super Bowl was februare well, probably January of
two thousand and six. It was the Steelers and the Seahawks.
Oh at fort Field, Ben Roethlisberger versus Assis. It was
the very last game for Jerome bettis Antwine Randelel threw
a touchdown pass be high Ward, Yes he did. And
(26:28):
the Super Bowl halftime show, Ladies and gentlemen, the Rolling Stone.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
That's good, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Amazing super I dropped the mic after that, Danta, I'll
never do anything cooler than this, and I've done seventeen
more so it's pretty amazing. Super Bowl fifty two at
US Bank Stadium, Billy beats New England, two weeks after
your fait well, three weeks after the Minneapolis miracle, two
weeks after your favorite team takes a seven zero lead
(27:01):
a Lincoln Financial then gets outscored like thirty eight zero.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Like? You see the shirt I'm wearing right now? Well, no,
it's radio. How would you introduce the player like if
you was going, I'm during my nineteen seventy five throwback
Allen Page jersey. The first day I wore this jersey
on a game day was the NFC Championship game against
(27:26):
the Eagles Barnett. Yeah, and so now go back to
the Spurgeon win. I brought it back one time last
year because I'm like, we're going to get through this.
Guess which game I wore it last year? The Arizona
game one one week before that. Oh, Detroit can't wear
that everty, So I thought i'd be safe wearing it
(27:48):
here and maybe it would be cleansed during Yeah. Oh
good idea exercise. So you're the consummate professional relying on
mailbox money, So therefore your personal prom livitys and or
adoration for a team, and what happened two weeks previous
you So, ladies and gentlemen, Phildelph Eagles quarterback Nick Foles,
(28:10):
you still got to bring it right, I'll be honest
of all the Super Bowls I've done, I had less
memories of that one than any other, right because I
was here in town the whole week leading up to it.
And the twenty five people that are in my crew,
whether it's cameraman or or you know, computer operators or
(28:30):
the DJ or whoever the group is that deals with
the in game entertainment seven times a day. They would
look at me and I would just be pouting in
the corner and I would say, you guys, can't imagine
what today would be like if the Vikings were in
this Super Bowl. I mean it was it was six
(28:51):
below zero and there were twenty five thousand people at
the corner of tenth and Nickel it dancing in the street,
and they're like, this is unbelievable. Can you believe how
many people are out there? And I said, if the
Vikings were here, every corner in downtown, man would look
like this.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Remember doing Radio Row that week?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Yeah, I mean just I mean, you got, hey, it's
Marcus Marietta brought to you by Spam, and then Golden
Tates walking around with a Hershey's chocolate jersey. Just the
money game and we're sitting you want to talk about pouting,
sitting in radio row with him in charge for an
entire week, having to watch the glee and the love
and the beauty of what was to come for two teams,
and we were right there at the doorstep and we
(29:31):
completely bleeped it.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Up until it on Tuesday or Wednesday, it popped. The
Kansas City Chiefs are moving on for Alex Smith. He's
going to become the Washington Redskins quarterback. And then like
three hours later, we're wrapping up nine to noon third
form all of America. We're at a break and I nor,
(29:52):
don't I turn around and where you are compared to
where we are, Well, there's Kirk Cousins sitting at our table,
you know, doing some kind of an inner be right
there and talking about like Minnesota and like what options
could be. And I got to digest all this stuff
like that that became my never top defense.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Were just a quarterback away Vikings fans, and Kirk's going
to be available. Hey you took a little discount and
did you choose us over the Jets?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
This is the best super Bowl? Or Boss Kark's like,
I feel bad watching you guys my postgame as at
Super Bowl watch Monday night.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Super Bowl got over at you know whatever, eight thirty
eight pm or at some local time. I suppose by
about an hour. It took me to wrap up my
stuff and get out of the stadium. The traffic was
so bad that I just walked back to my hotel.
I was staying at the Crown Plaza, like at Seventh
of Market or something. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, they're won right by Rix Cabaret.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yeah, actually it is. And I walked back to my
hotel in you know, zero degree weather, and I had
to pack because I had to leave my hotel at
three point thirty in the morning to catch a flow
to Chicago to then catch a flight to pyeong Chang
for the Olympics. So I was on an airplane for
(31:06):
like seventeen hours and they're still the bomb doing that. So
are you going to Milan? I am going, well, yes, wow, yeah,
he's going to be the voice of the Olympics. Are
you kidding me again? Same thing at San Francisco. Yeah,
And I'm trying to trying to get a flight right
out of San Francisco at nine to thirty pm to
(31:26):
get to Munich to then go to But I don't
think I'm going to get that flight. That super Bowl
won't get over till seven thirty California time. I can't
make it from San Jose to San Francisco two hours
after the super Bowl. There's Fox problems. No way.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Are you in the mix for World Cup games too?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah? All the World Cup games next summer.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yet so for Team USA where they seattle in LA
maybe on the West coast, you're going to get to
do that.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
There's like sixteen cities in North America. Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Was just curious if it specific to the Americans.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
No, they they haven't. I haven't signed anyels, but I've
been talking with all Right, that's awesome freaking to do
World Cup stuff. I would It would be really cool
if I could bounce around, you know, do do a
game in Vancouver, and do a game in LA and
do a game in Chicago, and you know, that's that's
the way I hope it would go. But I don't
get picked.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
What would you like when you're getting into radio, what
would that self have thought of what you've been able
to see and do well?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And when I got into radio, I was I was
a music guy for twenty the first twenty something years
of radio, I played music. I played country for the
first nine months, and that was like, Okay, I'm gonna
quit and never do this again because I hate country music.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Why didn't you like the nitty gritty dirt man.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yeah, yeah, it was I could not stand it. But
then I got into classic rock, right when classic rock
stations started popping the ball over the country. Yeah, I
was right at the beginning of that. And so for
twenty years I played led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones, Freeburg, yep.
And I did that forever and ever. And you know,
there's only like five hundred songs that a classic rock
(33:04):
station plays, and you can play fourteen songs an hour,
so do the math, you play almost four hundred a day.
So I did that for twenty something years. I played
the same five hundred songs forever. But thatd it. And
it wasn't until much later that I started the sports stuff.
So I had no idea when I got into radio
that I ever have anything to do with sports.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
This is crazy. The arc is wild.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
And to me, you know, when you go a segment
in three quarters, how we got about five minutes left
with the box of ball boxes ever to box? But
you know, for those of you who listened to Kate
Vann or listen to nine to noon, we'll get three, four, five,
six minutes into it. Joining us now, my Glorioprofootball Talk
dot Com Nordo got a question. There's no reintroduction needed
(33:50):
here when it comes to that voice. The white zone
is for loading and unloading up passengers only ladies and gentlemen. Yeah,
I know you got more questions on there. I won. Okay,
I thought of something this week that I wanted to
talk about or deals with officiating in the NFL. Two
things that need to be changed. One I think is
(34:11):
easy and I saw it in the like the Sunday
Night or the Monday night game last week, and we
see it all the time. And I understand a couple
of years ago when they made the rule about when
you sack the quarterback you can't fall on him with
your weight by way, and I get it, I get it.
I know the reason for the rule, but that rule
is changing games. Yeah. One of the super biggest plays
(34:35):
in the game on a third down when the game
is on the line and the defense puts forth their
best effort and they sacked the quarterback because the middle
linebacker runs straight ahead for seven steps, dives at the
quarterback makes the sack, the game is flagged down first
down for the offense. That's got a change. We can't
(34:57):
continue that. And here's another one which is way way
out there, but we see it also, And it was
in these same games a week ago, with all of
the replay and cameras and people in dark rooms that
are calling you, the referee in the ear and randomly saying,
oh no, that was a first down, Oh no, that
(35:19):
was a get what do they call it? Something in
the next several years, I hope that something that we
hear on NFL games is the penalty was deemed irrelevant
to the outcome of the play.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
There was.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
It was just last week. I think it was the
Sunday night game. I don't even remember who was playing.
The quarterback is getting ready to throw, he's getting smashed
in the face by two guys and they called a
defensive pass interference over here where the quarterback's not even
looking bast It happens all the time, and the referee
(36:07):
that the officials job is to watch one thing. My
job is to watch any receiver that comes in here. Watch, watch, watch, watch, watch, Oh,
there's holding, and then they look up to see whether
it's holding or whether it's pass interference if the ball
is there. Yeah, with all the replay that we have,
why is a grab or a touch over here on
the sideline when the quarterback is sprinting towards the opposite sideline?
(36:31):
Why does that change the outcome of the play and
oftentimes change the outcome of the game.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I mean, why do you keep looking at me? Who
do you think?
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I am Bernie Kuchar and we're also up against break
Alan roade, ladies and gentlemen, the box of all boxes
ever to box. I want to say goodbye, goodbye everyone,
Thank you, Egan. I look forward to seeing you on
Sunday at us Bank Stadium. I can't wait for August
of next year.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Eight.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Give him a big round applause, very coolly came out
here with his family, all right, everybody on behalf of
(37:28):
KFA N and the Friday Football Feast team here cors
Cors like cors beer. Round of applause for the support
they give the Feast and have for many, many years
with those unbelievably cool tickets they give away. Don't forget
before you leave, please tip the servers and the bartenders exponentially.
(37:48):
The show begins at nine, they were here a long
time before that. Generally don't open till eleven in the morning.
So you have you have some ladies and gentlemen who
have put in a lot of time in service of you.
So tip very nicely before you leave. Please round of
applause for these servers helping us at Buffalo Wild Wingings,
(38:09):
Egan and and on behalf of all of us. We
want to thank you for coming to the Friday Football
Feast whenever you do so. Yeah, the crowds. Crowds have
been terrific this year. The engagement has been absolutely fantastic.
And you know we we a kf A in or
or maybe nine to noon. If we don't tell you
enough how much we respect you, how much, how much
(38:31):
we need you, and how dedicated you are. It's it's
in our I can't speak for everybody else, but it's
in our hearts because it's proven out over the years.
The dedication listeners have to f M one hundred point
three k f A N and it's been fantastic and
all of you have a lot to do with that
in your adorating data station and the Vikings and finally
(38:53):
this this is the This my fifteenth year doing the
feast and my first with Alec and Noordo uh and
it was it was a difficult adjustment when Paul charchy
and in April said that he was leaving, but it
was very easy to fill the spot with two of
my dear friends. Around of applause for Alex Lewis, Athletic
Nordo producer nine to noon. It's been great doing the
(39:15):
Feast with you guys this year, man and I love
you guys. Jared Wells, ladies and gentlemen on the sound,
Nick Madden is Street Team, Kevin Ward back in Kfam.
The Vikings are going to beat the Packers this weekend.
They're going to finish nine and eight. Then we'll do
a feast again next year. God bless all of you.
Happy New Year and have a wonderful, wonderful weekend.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
All right, bye.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Bye podcast Today's Paul Allen Show. We're listening back to
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