October 22, 2025 • 41 mins
Common Man Hour 3 --West Coast Start Times --NBA Power Rankings --No More Ping Pong --Rodgers Spite Game
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
Tuble thirteen fourteen past on common He's tend to be
Mark Rosen out today. He'll be here tomorrow one thirty
to two thirty. He claims he has another pressing engagement
after two thirty, so he'd be here for spreadsween. Did
he tell you that too? I thought he told me
he said he was only going to be here till
two thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I thought that's what he said.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I I think it last week.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, I think he said he was going to do
it again.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
He he's over worked, that's what he is. Very trying
schedule for the young man. I one other text message,
this one says is Kyle Shanahan the real quarterback whisper.
I brought that up on a number of occasions. Darnold
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has said he learned more from San Francisco that he
learned anywhere.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
He said it, We talked about it.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
He was the backup quarterback to Rock Purty when San
Francisco went to the big game. They beat Detroit in
the NFC Championship game, and they lost the big Game.
I think too, it's probably Kansas City. That'd be a
pretty safe guess. But he saw how I mean Shanahan's
worked wonders with quarterbacks. Rock Purty was mister irrelevant. Jimmy Garoppolo,
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he coached up Jimmy. Jimmy Garoppolo, took a team to
a big game. Now, they didn't win, but Jimmy Garoppolo
was really good and his teammates loved him to a man.
They said, we'll play with Jimmy Garoppolo every day. So
now you've seen what he's done with Mac Jones. Mac
Jones looks like, I don't just brock pretty get his
job back. Yeah, Mac Jones has been really, really good.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So but even there's an example of right, we're using
quarterback whisperers for these guys. I would agree that if
anyone is a quarterback whisper it is Kyle Shanahan. In
terms of putting setting up an offense that puts his
quarterback in the most beneficial place to succeed that being said.
Even Kyle Shanahan, Yeah, he had a year into Trey
Lance goes, Yeah, this guy ain't it. So there's only
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so much a coach is correct.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
There is absolutely correct.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Which has been your point exactly, that it's it's not
just a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Just I don't think a coach can take any quarterback.
He can't take any quarterback and turn him into a star.
I just think it's it's really difficult to do. Wolfsta
begin their season tonight tenn to me, they're at Portland.
Somebody sent me a text message earlier in the show
because nine o'clock start, I'll be asleep two hours before that.
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Why does the NBA start their game so late? Well,
the NABA, the NHL, and Major League Baseball do it.
When teams on the West Coast are the home team,
they don't want to start the game at seven pm
Central because that means it's five pm their time, and
got people are still working until five and in rush
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hour traveling.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
You're catering.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Do I really need to explain it. You're catering to
the people that attend the games in that market. You
can't expect them to go where we're going to start
games at four o'clock so that you can watch the
game at six o'clock in being bed by nine doesn't
work that way. So if you're a fan of a
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Major League Baseball if you're a fan of the Twins,
but not many of those left.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
If you're a fan of the.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Twins, the Wild and the Wolves and you want to
watch every game, and you want to watch West Coast games,
you just have to stay up late.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Now that being said, I'll give Portland credit that the
game is at seven o'clock the third time, nine o'clock
our time. There are certain markets in the NHL that's
on the West Coast, no where it'll be nine to
thirty our time. Oh, seven thirty, and you might just go, oh,
that's just a half or different half hour makes a
big difference. Yeah, when you're trying to get x amount
of sleep. That that's what drives me the most crazy.
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When it's you're starting the game at seven thirty your time.
Why can't you start it at seven You can still
get your people in your rush hour to still get
to the arena on time. You don't need to go
and delay it another half hour.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You must have a reason for it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, because they hate us.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well I expose that.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, what the league should interject on that one.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, that's again where you and I are. I've never they.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Don't need seven thirty starts. Yeah, they can start at seven.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I just say, deal, whether there's worse things in the world,
just don't watch a game, wait till the next day.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah. So that's a poor business decision by the NHL.
That's my point. If you're starting it's so late that
people are just be like, well, I'm not to watch
because too late. Well, that's not a good business decision
for you. That's less eyeballs on the product.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
They seem to be doing okay to me, I don't
think they're they well, they're not going out of business
anytime soon. That going out of business. But they keep
adding teams. They just added two new teams. They had
a new new franchises two years ago. I think they're
doing fine.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I just think people need just to quit pouting over
the idea of late start games. That's the way sports are.
If you're a West Coast team and you're hosting, you
want to start at seven point thirty.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Start at As someone who works for Vikings Ready Network
and I poutd over Christmas games.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Well, I I yeah, I mean again.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Forcing people to go to work in the stadium on
Christmas Day's set of spending time with their children.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Start Christmas earlier, open your presence at six am or
seven am, and then go to the game.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Last time. Check Santa is not coming a day early.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I don't know what to tell you, man, I don't
know what to tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
When I back when I was doing small market radio,
I work Christmas Day all the time, work Christmas Eve,
Christmas Day, New Year's Day, work.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Them all and it's not Yeah, it's not. It's not ideal.
But I don't know what else to do.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
But just to answer the text messengers have question, they
start them late because they're not going to have They're
not starting their games at four o'clock over in the
West Coast or even five o'clock. Wolves do start the
season against Portland. You have to stay up until eleven
thirty if you want to see the end of the game,
because it'll start at nine o'clock. That's if it doesn't
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go to ot. CBS Sports Is released their NBA Power
Ranking Power Rankings, Who's the best, Who's the most powerful
in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
By the way, but the game tonight, Anthony Edwards was
participating in the portion of shoot around this morning that
was open on the media. So he kind of went
through that last year where he was questionable a bunch
of times and he always played Yeah, I think they're milking.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It, ded it be.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Who do you believe CBS Sports as as the number
one team in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
No, I'm going to go at the defending champion Oklahoma
City Thunder.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
They are indeed.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Now I want to see if you can, if you
can venture a guess to who they think the second
best team in the NBA is according to their power rankings.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Seasons started last night.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So these power rankings, if if some of these teams
have lost a This was just this was from yesterday's
two games last night, So who do you think they
have a number two?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Guess that go Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
They have the New York Nikoboxers as the number two
team in the league, followed by the Nuggets, the Cavaliers,
and then your Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Timberwolves the number.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Five best team in the National Basketball Association. They always
put a little paragraph with each one of the teams,
and here's what it says about the Wolves, and I
think this is relatively accurate.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It says the.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Way the Wolves ended the last season is probably close
to their true selves and how they started it with
Julius Randall finally looking comfortable in Anthony Edwards leading a
top three offense to complement their stout defense. Losing NAW
hurts and it means they'll need Rob Dillingham and or
Terren Shannon Junior to step up.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Both definite possibilities.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And I think you brought that up earlier today that
you know, or maybe it was yesterday with Rose.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And that you know, I looked for more growth in
ants game. You know, they they look at the make
no bones about it.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
The Athletic and Fishtraft factories East and West have Ratt
wrote about it that the organization has come right out
and said the coach and other players, we need Aunt
to play top five defense like he's capable of, but
we need him to do it all game, every game.
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They also need him to develop a.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Mid range jumper.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And now I hope he doesn't go over the top
and start just shooting mid range jumpers.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
That gay well, because that's what he did with the
three point He just kept shooting three points, three points,
three pointers, so hopefully well.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
He did talk about recently about how he's been he
was working on posting up during the end season. Okay,
And frankly, like you know, after watching after going against
SGA in a series and going man, this guy produces
a lot of offense, drawing fouls just in the mid area,
I think it's important he adds that to his game.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yes, I do too.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
He added the three point shot, and he was always
able to get the ball to the to the to
the basket correct. And if you can add a third layer.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And don't whine as much about the officiat that would
else help to that advice could go to a lot
of players in the NBA. But as you as as
as we talked about, I really feel like Randall playing
like he did in that last twenty five games of
the season all season long will be really important if
he can. That's a wonderful one two punch for the team.
And then they got the three point shot with Devincenzo
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on the end of the push. But as you pointed out,
I think they really do need help from Dillingham and
Shannon and Betel also that's the other thing for the
wild of of all the quotes that have come out
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of the Wolves Den, I like the one where the
coach and the coach said this shortly after the season
was over last season, he talked about having a deeper
bench because a lot of these coaches I know, I
know Finch does it or have.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Did it. And we also know Tibbs.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Is famous for it as well, where they play eight
guys and that's it, and they'll occasionally go to a
ninth that needed, but it's eight guys. We play him
day and day and the other guys. To me, just
rod on the bench and then if you do need.
They haven't played a whole heck of a lot. And
I think the template has sort of been set by
OKC because from what I understand, and this doesn't come
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from just from walking.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I don't watch. I'm not I'm not paying.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
His close attention to OKC basketball as I.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Once did to people I trust. Tell me, they play ten.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And they play ten every game, it's not just every
once in a while, and so guys are fresh all
the time, guys are contributing, they have a deep bench.
They're a good team, and they won the NBA Championship.
So I think other teams are taking notice of that,
including I think Finching Company, and they're decided they'll they'll
they'll play some of their role players and give them
bigger rules than just cameos. We'll pause more controversy of
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Vikings news to get to right now, though, as we
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Speaker 2 (12:24):
Controversy dogs the common man wherever he goes.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'm common, he's tennab tennaby. We both have friend and
foe when it comes to.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Star times in the National Football League or NHL, NBA,
Major League Baseball. Let me see the one.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Here's the one courtesy of our Brad shown brock cave
in textalling common.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Why don't you just agree with Tenna He's right, you
shouldn't have to work on Christmas unless you're a nurse
or a jailer. Well, I think if you're a night
Watchman and if you're a I think if you're a
police officer, you might have to work too. Not everybody
celebrates Christmas. It's just a fact. The National Football League
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plays on the NBA has five games.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The NFL used to not do. Christmas is a relatively thing.
And I'm not a fan selfishly right, But that's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's like, it's like it for you, Yeah, I can
understand because you have to work.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
That day, but well, for you, it doesn't affect you,
so you don't care.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, Tennebe's more high maintens than a lit'll be sounds
like to me, I can't.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I can disagree.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Them, get a different job. It's what you signed up for.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I've been trying just ask works out.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
That's what you signed up for, Tennebee.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Actually, when I first got the job, the NFL was
not playing on Christmas, so I technically did not sign
up for that.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
See either some more. Oh, here's one. This is still
my favorite one. Tennebe's more high maintensinance lit'll be. This
one says, you know the risks when you take the job.
Plenty of other people would be happy to work on
Christmas as far as starting time goes either suck it
up or don't watch. It's as simply that, or just
get less beauty sleep.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
It's not a big deal. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
But I'll say it again once again, the just don't watch.
That's bad business for the league. So they should be
smarter about their smart times. They would they are. They're
losing money off of that.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
You really think they are?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, plus people are watching. That's less revenue from a
television contract. That's less advertising money.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
So in Minnesota when we play Edmondton, there's four thousand
people that decide not to watch a game. Okay, that's
going to be a crush a business model.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I guess I'm just saying it's going to crush the
business model. I'm just saying, you're not maximizing your profits.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
What would you suggest they do when they play? What
should they start the game at seven pm Central?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I just said they shouldn't have They should do seven
o'clock games, seat of seven thirty. That's all I've said.
It's a thirty minute difference. It's not impacting them, but
it does impact the people. We're not even on the
East coast right, Well, imagine if you're living in New
York and you want to watch your team plan on
the West Coast. It's even worse. Just you don't need
to trim the half hour.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
High and Mighty Dan talking down to the little people.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
You work three hours a day and get paid five
times more than a person who actually has to work
for me. It might be a little more than five times.
I don't know if an so much you're making.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
If you're making five times, I'm gonna quit.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Let me just say this. Do I have to go
through this? I earned my stripes.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
There was a time I worked seven days a week
and I worked twelve hours a day when I first
started here at the fan. To have to go over it,
I've done it before, I do it again. I like
talking about myself. I did the morning sports. I would
get here at five o'clock in the morning, work until
nine o'clock in the morning. Now again, it's not running
a jackhammer four ninety four, but getting up at four to.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Be ready to even earlier, because you know, shout, we're
up blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Doing sports five to nine. I would then go hit
a couple of bucket ball come back. Then I would
have worked from two until nine pm at night, running
the control board for the Chadburraro Show, and then Jeff
haggarttor and then a couple of others that were on
at night.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I would get done at nine o'clock.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I would go home and go right to bed, because
guess what, I had to get up at three thirty
four o'clock the next day. And I was also doing
talk shows on Saturdays and Sundays. Before I got to
the Fan, I would work at the Forest Lake Radio.
And by the way, these are all for five dollars
an hour. By the way, these are these are five
dollars an hour jobs.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
That's what they were.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
When I started working here at the Fan, I was
paid five dollars. Lorna Gladstone, the late Lorna Gladstone, God
bless her. And when she came to town, she said,
they're only paying you five dollars an hour. I'm gonna
give you a raise to seven Chesshy gave me a raise.
She knew how much they were ripping me off five
dollars an hours, but I was making Oh, I take
that back.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
For doing the morning sports, I got.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Fifty bucks fifty bus I'm bad. Fifty dollars for four
hours of work. So four and to fifty is what
how many were twelve fifty hours, so I make it
twelve fifteen an hour, twelve fifty an hour to do sports, sports, sports,
your whole life just sports. And before that I worked
from at the Forestay radio station.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I worked ten.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
At night to five o'clock in the morning, and I
would go home and take a nap for an hour,
and then I worked at my buddy's ad agency answering
phones doing billing eight until noon. So I was done
at five am and had to be at the next
job at eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I'd work eight to noon, and.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Then I had to be at my next job, Dubbie
Music at one o'clock, and I'd work one until five.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
So when I got home at six, remember I act to.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Be at ten, so I was able to get a
two and a half three hour and an half in
so I was sleeping four hours a.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Day and then we're in split shifts. That's what I
signed up for. So I'm not.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Talking down to the little people. I worked my ass off.
I worked plenty of hours and I've to position myself.
And by the way, it isn't three hours a day,
five days a week during the college football in college
basketball season, it's only fourteen hours. But I get an
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hour off of the PJ. Fleck Show in the and
the Who Will It Be Now? The Nico med Been Show.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
So don't be coming to me and act like I'm
talking down to people.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I'm just saying that's the real world out there is
that people work on Christmas Day. Do you think a
pastor works on Christmas Day? Such as the life of
a pastor, Easter, He's got to work Easter?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Well he does? Does he not?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, he doesn't want. He might want Easter off. It's
a holiday for everybody else.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Does he have kids?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I know my pastor does. Pastor Larsen, he has children,
has a wife and children.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But he works Christmas, he works Easter, he works good Friday.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I don't know. I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Ever since tennis started getting game days, he game days off.
He's changed. That sounds like a grueling schedule. In your
earlier years, when did you find some time to mix
in some cocktails?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I didn't drink. I quit drink it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Really I had to.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
My fourteenth birthday, Mom took to me to McDonald's to
get jobs in the UH since legal legal to work
five dollars or five cents the per hours that start.
I used to drink until five am and be there
Saturday am to open on Sunday. It's calmer for the
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Thanksgiving bag skates. Tennabe Remember remember used to make your
hockey team do Thanksgiving Day bag skates?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Do you would you do that now?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
They were optional practices, but sure.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
According to Tennabe professional teams from cater To La New
York City and Tennabe and Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah that sounds about right.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, there's all sorts of we could maybe we should
be some more.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
There's some people that are very NBA just signed an
eighty billion dollar TV deal, right, I guess those late starts.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Say about the NHL, Yeah, my NBA and ain't hurting them?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, say about the NHL. I have no problem with
the nine o'clock starts tonight. You've already taken it out
of proportion. I was just mentioning that there are hockey
markets that have nine to thirty starts when they don't
need to have, which is seven thirty their time. They
don't need to have it at seven thirty they can
start it at seven. What about it impacts everyone else
east of them?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
What if they did what if they did seven to
fifteen starts?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well, that would be better than seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I'll work on that.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Let's get Rows in a compromise.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Let's let's get Rose to work.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
He won't sleep until I won't.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Sleep until until it's taken. Careble take a break, We'll
come back. One more segment ago Common d Program in
the Fan.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Double thirteen fourteen passed. It's the final segment of the
grum It's also a Wild Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
We have your tickets next week's twenty fifth anniversary night
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Speaker 3 (22:31):
One eight hundred three two zero five three two six.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
If you're the eleventh caller, you're getting a pair of
tickets to see the Wild host the Winnipeg Jets. That
game is scheduled for October twenty eighth, and it's I'm
assuming at a reasonable time, what seven o'clock. We bet
that'd be the opening face off for wild games? Is
that what I nay?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
The square off? I think it is?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
So, Hey, the game will be over by nine thirty.
Be home by ten ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
A pond.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Where you live.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Here's a text way that says, Colm into the rubs,
complaining about you talking down to the little guys.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Pay no attention. Oops, hold on. Eight more text messages
came in. Pay no attention.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
They are probably just the late millennials or zeus who
don't understand paining your dues in the workplace. They expect
to run the place after a year or two, and
they have zero patience.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
That is correct. Here's another.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
This one says common dairy farmers works seven days a week.
To think about it, dairy farmers seven days a week. Bessie,
give baby's got to live, right, dairy farmer? You don't
just say hold the milk till Monday. Hey, it's Christmas Day.
I know you're you're full of milk, but to take
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a day off is utterly.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
So it's like plenty of people that have to work
seven days a week. This one says, could you remind
us what time the Vikings are playing tomorrow night? In
San Diego. They'll be at Jack Murphy Stadium.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
We just call it the Murph taking on the San
Diego Superchargers. Game time is seven fifteen Central time.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
That means think about it, if you're in San Diego, well,
how do you get to a game at five point fifteen?
I mean, if you work a nine to five job,
how do you get to the game? You ever see
traffic in San Diego? That's unfair to those people. Why
would the NFL and all their infinite wisdom do that?
Why would they have a seven to fifteen st Five
to fifteen start in San Diego means you probably if
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you have tickets to the game, you have to take
a day off.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
So you not only.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You not only have to go to the game, you
have to take a day off to get to the game.
So look at everybody's got their cross to bear.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
And you know what else too.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
You know my work schedule, I should get hazard as
duty pay. I have to work with rose in three
hours a week. Well most weeks oftentimes he's taking time off.
He's getting to that time of that point in his
life where he's not as interested in working as.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
He once was. But I should be.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Tennebe, I should get hazardous duty pay for the three
hours I work with Rosen. It's very difficult to do.
You probably want hazard of duty pay for everything.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I'm very deserving of that, But.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
There you go, and Tennabe. Look at think about it.
The NFL, they just do whatever they want. They do
seven to fifteen kickoff in Minneapolis, San Diego five point fifteen.
How about people that have to work till five o'clock
and have season tickets. What are they gonna do? They
have to take time off works, and not only they
have to take a day off or a half day,
they've got to fight through rush hour traffic to get
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to the Murph Fund.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So just sell your tickets. You don't have to go
to the game. You know what you signed up for
when you bought the tickets.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Now you're talking. See now you've got it right. That's
what I like to hear. Something else I ran into here.
Oh see the story headline Ravens John Harbas scrub locker
room of fun amid dreadful one in five start.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
That's how the ping pong table.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Ravens players returned from their bye week to vastly different
locker room. Baltimore coach Johnny Harbaugh, likely in response to
his team's dreadful one in five, start scrub the Ravens
locker room of it's recreational items. That's according to the
Baltimore Sun. Here's what they write. The Ravens promptly removed
several recreational staples from the locker room, including the basketball
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hoot near Lamar Jackson's and Trey Flowers stalls, the ping
pong table at rookies Teddy Buchanan and Mike Green often
battled on after practice, the once popular corn hole boards,
and yes, the video game consoles often lit up than
tense rounds of Super Smash Brothers that regularly drew small
crowds of teammates late in the day.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Don't even sound like a football lockero.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It's clear that Harball feels as team needs to increase
that's collective focus level if it's going to turn the
season around.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Health would also help the Ravens accomplish that goal.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
You know what I would do. Here's an idea closer
to the John Harbaugh string up stuffed cats in the
locker room, and they have a sign that says fat
cats get slaughtered.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Because that was effective. That was the Zimmer thing, right.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, that didn't go well because because were we like five, yes,
and we had the bye week, and so the coach
wanted people to say and you know, the message was great,
I just was it didn't resonate down from that point.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Went downhill. But what he was saying is just because
you're five and oh, don't get.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
All fat and happy and think we're really great. I
listened to I always listened to the Danny Campbell news conference.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I listened to them. I live in at O'Connell's in.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Campbell's Tedmy, it's it's he's just funny.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
He's just such a football coach.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And yeah, you know he just said he's always taking
his hat off and running his fingers through his hair
and scratching his chin and his neck and and but
he he kind of delivered the same message, you know, like, look,
we can't think, you know, he does this all the time.
We can't think just because we're winning games that we
got things to clean up. You know, don't don't be
starting to think that, you know, we're we're we're better
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than we really are.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
But yeah, so that's the message. I think most of
these coaches try to give a team.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You can't get too confident, too cocky, because.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
It can.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
It can come back to haunt you in a real
thirty in a real hurry, Timmy, let me ask you
another question.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Okay. Let's say.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Hawaii had a professional football team. Let's say the Hawaii Alohas. Okay,
and you were the master control supervisor, and the London game,
you'd be there at three thirty.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
In the matter of fact, that'd be the kickoff time.
You'd have to be there one thirty.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
And what if they had a Christmas Day London gate
then you'd really be hating it. One third, Yeah, one thirty,
the pregame would start for the for the for the
Alohas pay.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
For the right price. I would they pay more in Hawaii?
That's what Well? I don't know, have you been expensive?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Have you been in Hawaiian? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
We just went there a year and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I went there during the pandemic. Hadn't planned to go
during the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
It just it just worked out.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Was lovely.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Here's almost a non story again, Green Bay will uh
travel to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is quarterback by Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers,
once quarterback for Green Bay for a number of years,
has been a lot of successful years, a number of
Nfcchampionship games, one Big Game, World Championship, won, several MVPs.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
He's the first ballot Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Headline Packers Matt Lafleur won't stress significance of facing Aaron
Rodgers ahead of a Week eight showdown for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I would hope not.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
But now we're playing Aaron now, you know. It even
says in this story, I love this. It says, here's
what Lafleur says. We're playing the Pittsburgh Steelers who happen
to have Aaron Rodgers. I mean, it's as simple as that.
That's for you guys to talk about.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Granted, I mean we've got a lot of respect and
love for Aaron.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
What he's done here is a Hall of Famer. I know,
like our past together, we had a lot of great moments.
This game is not about that. It's about going to
Pittsburgh Sunday night football. Our guys would be jacked up.
There are guys would be jacked up. It's about the
Green Bay Packers versus Pittsburgh Steelers. That's for you guys
to talk about all those other storylines. He says, I'm
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gonna talk abouts like we do every week, what is
our blueprint and what are the keys in order to
go to Pittsburgh, which is a damn good football team
in a really tough, hostile environment and try to play
our best because we haven't to date. We've got a
lot of work to do. Then the best part is,
he says, Now, where did I read this quote? I
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thought it was in this story somewhere south quote. Well,
you know what, Tenny, this quote stop, don't uh. This
quote would be good for any You and I have
talked about this before. How many players currently on the
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Green Bay Packers even played with Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
They probably it wasn't that long ago, right, because.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
He left three years ago, four years ago, I think
just for two years. Yeah, so I think twenty twenty
two was his last year. I think, okay, so three years.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
They have the youngest ross from football there are guys,
so it's not like, you know, they remember Aaron and
we were buddy buddy with them and all that, and
we went into trenches with them, and it's like we've
talked about before, when.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Well, all the skill position players on offense are different,
are different, all of it.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
And it's like we've talked about before, when you have, you.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Know, the team one of the twins broke that eighteen
game postseason losing skid. Most of the guys on the
team that broke that skid didn't play in any of
those other playoff games, so it wasn't like, you know,
they asked what's it like to break the first you know,
it's like, well, I don't you know if they're you know,
and they always just give the answer that the media
person wants. Yeah, it's great to get that off our back.
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But it's like I went for the guy to go,
I wasn't there then. I have no idea that that
doesn't affect me in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Same way with you look at the history of the Bikings.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
And never went, you know, winning a big game, right,
having haven't, having not been to one since what is
it seventy eight, seventy nine or seventy seven, seventy eights
even or seventy somebody know what it was. I was like, well,
none of these players, most of the players and the
team weren't even.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Born then, so it's that's.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Not haunting them now like it does the fan who's
been there. I've been around since the existence of the Vikings.
Didn't start paying attention to him until, you know, late
sixties when I was you know, seven, eight, nine years old,
and you start, you know, oh, sports, I'm kind of
into it now, you know, and you start following the teams.
So most of these players, so they're not they don't
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have that hanging and a lot of them will say
all the right things.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
You know, the city's deserved it forever.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
These fans have been through through with the franchise for
a thicken thing, and they really deserve this and so
but yeah, I don't think there's I think for Rogers though,
oh yeah, because we saw what he did just with
the Jets. He only spent two years with the Jets,
and he couldn't wait to after he said, wow, it's
nice to beat that organization. A lot of people in
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that organization didn't think I could play football anymore because
he was bitter about the Green Bay departure. I mean,
I don't know if his goal was to retire a Packer,
you know, I think a lot of guys do.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
What percentage of players want to play with the same team.
There are players that will state that that's important to them.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I don't know how important it really is.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I guess if you've had a stellar career and won
championships and such like that, it might mean more to you.
But you know, most of these guys are mercenaries anyways,
right Tennebe. It's like, Yeah, I was drafted by the
Arizona Cardinals, but after three years, guess what, I became
a free agent. They didn't want to pay me. Someone
had more money. I've taken the more money.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I'm not. There's no loyalty anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
I'm going where the money is right or a better
situation as whatever the case may be. So you don't
see a lot of teams start and finish with the
even the kid I think he wanted to stay here,
but then all of a sudden it just wasn't there
was when you have no chance to.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Win a world championship.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's part of the reason I think Matty Stafford, I
think Detroit did.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
It kind of as a favor to him too. I
really believe that.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I thought that's what's part of the sol like rebuilt exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
But I think they kind of said, this guy's.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
This guy's been grinning his wheels here and he's been bruised,
battered and beaten and giving us everything he's got, played
hurt and does this.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Let's give him a chance to go somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And by the way, the Rams are offering us a
boatloaded draft picks too, and another starting quarterback that at
the time a lot of people weren't very high on.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
And now, as you and I have talked about, he's
a top ten.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Quarterback in the league, if not even higher than that
right the way he's playing it again, a lot of
that has to do with the system you're in, and
the offensive line you have, and and all the skill
position players.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It all goes hand at hand. But yeah, so uh.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Oh Rogers, he wants this one back.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
So you know there's some bitterness there, right, it's the
old Yeah, he's the same guy that I think a
lot of He's not alone here. But when he was
drafted and he slipped in the first round, by the
way the Bikings passed on him twice in that draft,
you know, he was expected to be a top potential
five peck and he dropped in the bottom half of
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the first round, and he was bitter. Specifically, San Francisco
had told him they were going to take him and
they didn't. And that's very you know, his home state,
and he wanted to play there, and he forever had
a vengeance against the Yes. And that's kind of what
now is with green Bay is green Bay basically told them,
you're a nice player. We think we can find a
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we think we have a younger, more improved version that
we're gonna have for quite some time. And for a
guy that was first ballot Hall of Famer one MVPs,
I think he didn't want to. He'd never really been told, hey,
I'm not you know, yes, I think you're spot on
good enough.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
One other note, I don't know if this is something
new or if I just haven't been paying close enough
attention before the Sunday night games or the Monday night games.
They'll go down to the Pam Oliver's of the world
or whoever the I can't I can't recall any of
the names of the sideline reporter gas right, Aaron Andrews,
Aaron and will go down to them. And the other
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night was it was it was golf the night before
it was. It was the Homes, and they'll ask them
questions and they give the most watered down, cliched answers
I've ever go back and listen to them homes just
before the game interview in the GoF it's almost like
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they don't even though it's just minutes before the game.
It's it's like they don't want to provide any kind
of bulletin board material or anything that could be taken
out of context. They'll they would ask off, like, big game,
what do you think? What do you got to do
to win a night? Well, we got to make big
plays offenses, to play well defensive, we have to complimentary football.
What do you think about Tampa may really good football
team there, They're really good. We're gonna have to play
well tonight. And they ask about the question and it's
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just the short of same with Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
They've they've got the answers down.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
It's like and dudes and I are looking at each
other and saying, I don't even know why they bothered
with these anymore. I mean, if you were getting something
a bit more insightful and maybe maybe these just before
the opening kickoff interviews have always been like this. I
don't even remember them doing them with players very often.
I think this is sort of a new thing, is
it not?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Or am I wrong?
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Well?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
My favorite part about that too is while that meaningless
cliche answer is being given, you've got a reporter that
has to act like it's super interesting. So they're they're
like smiling, like superpoke, nodding their head and yeah, super focused,
as if it's just some genius answer being delivered exactly.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
And I can understand from the player's point of view too,
because like we're talking about really shortly before kickoff, I
don't even know are these pre recorded maybe you know,
like three minutes before, five minutes before, like during the
last break, because I don't think it's right just before
the kick.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
But still you can see the.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Player kind of looking back over shoulder in some second.
I agree to do it because it's probably part of
the deal that the players Association and the National Football
League teams the ownership has with the networks. You got
to give us one pregame interview just before kickoff with
one of the star players.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Okay, we can do that, And.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
So they just come up with the quickest cliche because
they want to get to the team and do the
jump up and down and go who dat going to
be the Saints who bat none?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
How about the coaches at halftime you see in college football,
I see at the NFL level where they kind of
like that thirty second interview. They want nothing to do
with a halftime interview. They've got they've got twelve thirteen
minutes to try to come up and devise what we're
going to do in the second half and talk to
the team, and they they could never they never give
you anything worth talking about, especially if they're down or
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trailing at the time. They're just bitter and correct. Don't
even want to be in that spot.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
This text messenger says, I couldn't get through for the
while tickets. I was going to ask for flop, sweat
and tears tickets.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Instead said okay.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
On that note, ten, Toby's bitter about tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
No, yeah, no, I'm excited about tomorrow. Oh let one
of two jobs.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Yeah, think about that.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Maybe your bitterness about time start games. You're finally getting
the respect you so richly deserve. You're off the air tomorrow,
you so you don't so no hazardous duty pay because
you're not working with me tomorrow. But you'll be doing
the uh uh, you'll be doing the master control supervisor duties.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
So I think was it Blake Moore?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Did he say?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I think that Blake Moore will be with me tomorrow.
Mark Rosen will join us. We'll join a one for
us spreads spread Swing.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
So you rose and induced for one thirty for spread Swing.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Hey, great job.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Thanks, I appreciate it. I think great might be a
bit overstated a little.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
You could say that every time I say that.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Yeah, I guess you're right. Even good might not good
is the enemy of great? Does that mean mediocre is
the enemy of good?
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Because I felt it was kind of meat. Stick around though, well,
I'll be back tomorrow twelve. Stick around, big ticket. J
G there next right here on the fan.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
Tuble thirteen fourteen past on common He's tend to be
Mark Rosen out today. He'll be here tomorrow one thirty
to two thirty. He claims he has another pressing engagement
after two thirty, so he'd be here for spreadsween. Did
he tell you that too? I thought he told me
he said he was only going to be here till
two thirty.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I thought that's what he said.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I I think it last week.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, I think he said he was going to do
it again.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
He he's over worked, that's what he is. Very trying
schedule for the young man. I one other text message,
this one says is Kyle Shanahan the real quarterback whisper.
I brought that up on a number of occasions. Darnold
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has said he learned more from San Francisco that he
learned anywhere.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
He said it, We talked about it.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
He was the backup quarterback to Rock Purty when San
Francisco went to the big game. They beat Detroit in
the NFC Championship game, and they lost the big Game.
I think too, it's probably Kansas City. That'd be a
pretty safe guess. But he saw how I mean Shanahan's
worked wonders with quarterbacks. Rock Purty was mister irrelevant. Jimmy Garoppolo,
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he coached up Jimmy. Jimmy Garoppolo, took a team to
a big game. Now, they didn't win, but Jimmy Garoppolo
was really good and his teammates loved him to a man.
They said, we'll play with Jimmy Garoppolo every day. So
now you've seen what he's done with Mac Jones. Mac
Jones looks like, I don't just brock pretty get his
job back. Yeah, Mac Jones has been really, really good.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So but even there's an example of right, we're using
quarterback whisperers for these guys. I would agree that if
anyone is a quarterback whisper it is Kyle Shanahan. In
terms of putting setting up an offense that puts his
quarterback in the most beneficial place to succeed that being said.
Even Kyle Shanahan, Yeah, he had a year into Trey
Lance goes, Yeah, this guy ain't it. So there's only
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so much a coach is correct.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
There is absolutely correct.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Which has been your point exactly, that it's it's not
just a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Just I don't think a coach can take any quarterback.
He can't take any quarterback and turn him into a star.
I just think it's it's really difficult to do. Wolfsta
begin their season tonight tenn to me, they're at Portland.
Somebody sent me a text message earlier in the show
because nine o'clock start, I'll be asleep two hours before that.
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Why does the NBA start their game so late? Well,
the NABA, the NHL, and Major League Baseball do it.
When teams on the West Coast are the home team,
they don't want to start the game at seven pm
Central because that means it's five pm their time, and
got people are still working until five and in rush
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hour traveling.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
You're catering.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Do I really need to explain it. You're catering to
the people that attend the games in that market. You
can't expect them to go where we're going to start
games at four o'clock so that you can watch the
game at six o'clock in being bed by nine doesn't
work that way. So if you're a fan of a
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Major League Baseball if you're a fan of the Twins,
but not many of those left.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
If you're a fan of the.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Twins, the Wild and the Wolves and you want to
watch every game, and you want to watch West Coast games,
you just have to stay up late.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Now that being said, I'll give Portland credit that the
game is at seven o'clock the third time, nine o'clock
our time. There are certain markets in the NHL that's
on the West Coast, no where it'll be nine to
thirty our time. Oh, seven thirty, and you might just go, oh,
that's just a half or different half hour makes a
big difference. Yeah, when you're trying to get x amount
of sleep. That that's what drives me the most crazy.
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When it's you're starting the game at seven thirty your time.
Why can't you start it at seven You can still
get your people in your rush hour to still get
to the arena on time. You don't need to go
and delay it another half hour.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You must have a reason for it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, because they hate us.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well I expose that.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, what the league should interject on that one.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, that's again where you and I are. I've never they.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Don't need seven thirty starts. Yeah, they can start at seven.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I just say, deal, whether there's worse things in the world,
just don't watch a game, wait till the next day.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah. So that's a poor business decision by the NHL.
That's my point. If you're starting it's so late that
people are just be like, well, I'm not to watch
because too late. Well, that's not a good business decision
for you. That's less eyeballs on the product.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
They seem to be doing okay to me, I don't
think they're they well, they're not going out of business
anytime soon. That going out of business. But they keep
adding teams. They just added two new teams. They had
a new new franchises two years ago. I think they're
doing fine.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I just think people need just to quit pouting over
the idea of late start games. That's the way sports are.
If you're a West Coast team and you're hosting, you
want to start at seven point thirty.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Start at As someone who works for Vikings Ready Network
and I poutd over Christmas games.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Well, I I yeah, I mean again.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Forcing people to go to work in the stadium on
Christmas Day's set of spending time with their children.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Start Christmas earlier, open your presence at six am or
seven am, and then go to the game.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Last time. Check Santa is not coming a day early.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I don't know what to tell you, man, I don't
know what to tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
When I back when I was doing small market radio,
I work Christmas Day all the time, work Christmas Eve,
Christmas Day, New Year's Day, work.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Them all and it's not Yeah, it's not. It's not ideal.
But I don't know what else to do.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
But just to answer the text messengers have question, they
start them late because they're not going to have They're
not starting their games at four o'clock over in the
West Coast or even five o'clock. Wolves do start the
season against Portland. You have to stay up until eleven
thirty if you want to see the end of the game,
because it'll start at nine o'clock. That's if it doesn't
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Speaker 1 (06:41):
By the way, but the game tonight, Anthony Edwards was
participating in the portion of shoot around this morning that
was open on the media. So he kind of went
through that last year where he was questionable a bunch
of times and he always played Yeah, I think they're milking.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It, ded it be.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Who do you believe CBS Sports as as the number
one team in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
No, I'm going to go at the defending champion Oklahoma
City Thunder.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
They are indeed.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Now I want to see if you can, if you
can venture a guess to who they think the second
best team in the NBA is according to their power rankings.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Seasons started last night.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So these power rankings, if if some of these teams
have lost a This was just this was from yesterday's
two games last night, So who do you think they
have a number two?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Guess that go Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
They have the New York Nikoboxers as the number two
team in the league, followed by the Nuggets, the Cavaliers,
and then your Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Timberwolves the number.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Five best team in the National Basketball Association. They always
put a little paragraph with each one of the teams,
and here's what it says about the Wolves, and I
think this is relatively accurate.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It says the.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Way the Wolves ended the last season is probably close
to their true selves and how they started it with
Julius Randall finally looking comfortable in Anthony Edwards leading a
top three offense to complement their stout defense. Losing NAW
hurts and it means they'll need Rob Dillingham and or
Terren Shannon Junior to step up.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Both definite possibilities.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And I think you brought that up earlier today that
you know, or maybe it was yesterday with Rose.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And that you know, I looked for more growth in
ants game. You know, they they look at the make
no bones about it.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
The Athletic and Fishtraft factories East and West have Ratt
wrote about it that the organization has come right out
and said the coach and other players, we need Aunt
to play top five defense like he's capable of, but
we need him to do it all game, every game.
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They also need him to develop a.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Mid range jumper.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And now I hope he doesn't go over the top
and start just shooting mid range jumpers.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
That gay well, because that's what he did with the
three point He just kept shooting three points, three points,
three pointers, so hopefully well.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
He did talk about recently about how he's been he
was working on posting up during the end season. Okay,
And frankly, like you know, after watching after going against
SGA in a series and going man, this guy produces
a lot of offense, drawing fouls just in the mid area,
I think it's important he adds that to his game.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yes, I do too.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
He added the three point shot, and he was always
able to get the ball to the to the to
the basket correct. And if you can add a third layer.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And don't whine as much about the officiat that would
else help to that advice could go to a lot
of players in the NBA. But as you as as
as we talked about, I really feel like Randall playing
like he did in that last twenty five games of
the season all season long will be really important if
he can. That's a wonderful one two punch for the team.
And then they got the three point shot with Devincenzo
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on the end of the push. But as you pointed out,
I think they really do need help from Dillingham and
Shannon and Betel also that's the other thing for the
wild of of all the quotes that have come out
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of the Wolves Den, I like the one where the
coach and the coach said this shortly after the season
was over last season, he talked about having a deeper
bench because a lot of these coaches I know, I
know Finch does it or have.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Did it. And we also know Tibbs.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Is famous for it as well, where they play eight
guys and that's it, and they'll occasionally go to a
ninth that needed, but it's eight guys. We play him
day and day and the other guys. To me, just
rod on the bench and then if you do need.
They haven't played a whole heck of a lot. And
I think the template has sort of been set by
OKC because from what I understand, and this doesn't come
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from just from walking.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I don't watch. I'm not I'm not paying.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
His close attention to OKC basketball as I.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Once did to people I trust. Tell me, they play ten.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And they play ten every game, it's not just every
once in a while, and so guys are fresh all
the time, guys are contributing, they have a deep bench.
They're a good team, and they won the NBA Championship.
So I think other teams are taking notice of that,
including I think Finching Company, and they're decided they'll they'll
they'll play some of their role players and give them
bigger rules than just cameos. We'll pause more controversy of
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Vikings news to get to right now, though, as we
go to break tennebee.
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Speaker 2 (12:24):
Controversy dogs the common man wherever he goes.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'm common, he's tennab tennaby. We both have friend and
foe when it comes to.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Star times in the National Football League or NHL, NBA,
Major League Baseball. Let me see the one.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Here's the one courtesy of our Brad shown brock cave
in textalling common.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Why don't you just agree with Tenna He's right, you
shouldn't have to work on Christmas unless you're a nurse
or a jailer. Well, I think if you're a night
Watchman and if you're a I think if you're a
police officer, you might have to work too. Not everybody
celebrates Christmas. It's just a fact. The National Football League
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plays on the NBA has five games.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The NFL used to not do. Christmas is a relatively thing.
And I'm not a fan selfishly right, But that's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's like, it's like it for you, Yeah, I can
understand because you have to work.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
That day, but well, for you, it doesn't affect you,
so you don't care.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, Tennebe's more high maintens than a lit'll be sounds
like to me, I can't.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I can disagree.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Them, get a different job. It's what you signed up for.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I've been trying just ask works out.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
That's what you signed up for, Tennebee.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Actually, when I first got the job, the NFL was
not playing on Christmas, so I technically did not sign
up for that.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
See either some more. Oh, here's one. This is still
my favorite one. Tennebe's more high maintensinance lit'll be. This
one says, you know the risks when you take the job.
Plenty of other people would be happy to work on
Christmas as far as starting time goes either suck it
up or don't watch. It's as simply that, or just
get less beauty sleep.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
It's not a big deal. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
But I'll say it again once again, the just don't watch.
That's bad business for the league. So they should be
smarter about their smart times. They would they are. They're
losing money off of that.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
You really think they are?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, plus people are watching. That's less revenue from a
television contract. That's less advertising money.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
So in Minnesota when we play Edmondton, there's four thousand
people that decide not to watch a game. Okay, that's
going to be a crush a business model.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I guess I'm just saying it's going to crush the
business model. I'm just saying, you're not maximizing your profits.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
What would you suggest they do when they play? What
should they start the game at seven pm Central?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I just said they shouldn't have They should do seven
o'clock games, seat of seven thirty. That's all I've said.
It's a thirty minute difference. It's not impacting them, but
it does impact the people. We're not even on the
East coast right, Well, imagine if you're living in New
York and you want to watch your team plan on
the West Coast. It's even worse. Just you don't need
to trim the half hour.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
High and Mighty Dan talking down to the little people.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
You work three hours a day and get paid five
times more than a person who actually has to work
for me. It might be a little more than five times.
I don't know if an so much you're making.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
If you're making five times, I'm gonna quit.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Let me just say this. Do I have to go
through this? I earned my stripes.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
There was a time I worked seven days a week
and I worked twelve hours a day when I first
started here at the fan. To have to go over it,
I've done it before, I do it again. I like
talking about myself. I did the morning sports. I would
get here at five o'clock in the morning, work until
nine o'clock in the morning. Now again, it's not running
a jackhammer four ninety four, but getting up at four to.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Be ready to even earlier, because you know, shout, we're
up blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Doing sports five to nine. I would then go hit
a couple of bucket ball come back. Then I would
have worked from two until nine pm at night, running
the control board for the Chadburraro Show, and then Jeff
haggarttor and then a couple of others that were on
at night.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I would get done at nine o'clock.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I would go home and go right to bed, because
guess what, I had to get up at three thirty
four o'clock the next day. And I was also doing
talk shows on Saturdays and Sundays. Before I got to
the Fan, I would work at the Forest Lake Radio.
And by the way, these are all for five dollars
an hour. By the way, these are these are five
dollars an hour jobs.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
That's what they were.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
When I started working here at the Fan, I was
paid five dollars. Lorna Gladstone, the late Lorna Gladstone, God
bless her. And when she came to town, she said,
they're only paying you five dollars an hour. I'm gonna
give you a raise to seven Chesshy gave me a raise.
She knew how much they were ripping me off five
dollars an hours, but I was making Oh, I take
that back.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
For doing the morning sports, I got.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Fifty bucks fifty bus I'm bad. Fifty dollars for four
hours of work. So four and to fifty is what
how many were twelve fifty hours, so I make it
twelve fifteen an hour, twelve fifty an hour to do sports, sports, sports,
your whole life just sports. And before that I worked
from at the Forestay radio station.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I worked ten.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
At night to five o'clock in the morning, and I
would go home and take a nap for an hour,
and then I worked at my buddy's ad agency answering
phones doing billing eight until noon. So I was done
at five am and had to be at the next
job at eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I'd work eight to noon, and.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Then I had to be at my next job, Dubbie
Music at one o'clock, and I'd work one until five.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
So when I got home at six, remember I act to.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Be at ten, so I was able to get a
two and a half three hour and an half in
so I was sleeping four hours a.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Day and then we're in split shifts. That's what I
signed up for. So I'm not.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Talking down to the little people. I worked my ass off.
I worked plenty of hours and I've to position myself.
And by the way, it isn't three hours a day,
five days a week during the college football in college
basketball season, it's only fourteen hours. But I get an
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hour off of the PJ. Fleck Show in the and
the Who Will It Be Now? The Nico med Been Show.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
So don't be coming to me and act like I'm
talking down to people.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I'm just saying that's the real world out there is
that people work on Christmas Day. Do you think a
pastor works on Christmas Day? Such as the life of
a pastor, Easter, He's got to work Easter?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Well he does? Does he not?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, he doesn't want. He might want Easter off. It's
a holiday for everybody else.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Does he have kids?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I know my pastor does. Pastor Larsen, he has children,
has a wife and children.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But he works Christmas, he works Easter, he works good Friday.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I don't know. I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Ever since tennis started getting game days, he game days off.
He's changed. That sounds like a grueling schedule. In your
earlier years, when did you find some time to mix
in some cocktails?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I didn't drink. I quit drink it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Really I had to.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
My fourteenth birthday, Mom took to me to McDonald's to
get jobs in the UH since legal legal to work
five dollars or five cents the per hours that start.
I used to drink until five am and be there
Saturday am to open on Sunday. It's calmer for the
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Thanksgiving bag skates. Tennabe Remember remember used to make your
hockey team do Thanksgiving Day bag skates?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Do you would you do that now?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
They were optional practices, but sure.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
According to Tennabe professional teams from cater To La New
York City and Tennabe and Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah that sounds about right.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, there's all sorts of we could maybe we should
be some more.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
There's some people that are very NBA just signed an
eighty billion dollar TV deal, right, I guess those late starts.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Say about the NHL, Yeah, my NBA and ain't hurting them?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, say about the NHL. I have no problem with
the nine o'clock starts tonight. You've already taken it out
of proportion. I was just mentioning that there are hockey
markets that have nine to thirty starts when they don't
need to have, which is seven thirty their time. They
don't need to have it at seven thirty they can
start it at seven. What about it impacts everyone else
east of them?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
What if they did what if they did seven to
fifteen starts?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well, that would be better than seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I'll work on that.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Let's get Rows in a compromise.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Let's let's get Rose to work.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
He won't sleep until I won't.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Sleep until until it's taken. Careble take a break, We'll
come back. One more segment ago Common d Program in
the Fan.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Double thirteen fourteen passed. It's the final segment of the
grum It's also a Wild Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
We have your tickets next week's twenty fifth anniversary night
Wild versus the hated Winnipeg Jets. If you'd like a
pair of tickets to the game, go ahead, pick up
the phone, be the eleventh caller one eight hundred three
to two zero fifty three twenty six.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
One eight hundred three two zero five three two six.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
If you're the eleventh caller, you're getting a pair of
tickets to see the Wild host the Winnipeg Jets. That
game is scheduled for October twenty eighth, and it's I'm
assuming at a reasonable time, what seven o'clock. We bet
that'd be the opening face off for wild games? Is
that what I nay?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
The square off? I think it is?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
So, Hey, the game will be over by nine thirty.
Be home by ten ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
A pond.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Where you live.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Here's a text way that says, Colm into the rubs,
complaining about you talking down to the little guys.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Pay no attention. Oops, hold on. Eight more text messages
came in. Pay no attention.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
They are probably just the late millennials or zeus who
don't understand paining your dues in the workplace. They expect
to run the place after a year or two, and
they have zero patience.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
That is correct. Here's another.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
This one says common dairy farmers works seven days a week.
To think about it, dairy farmers seven days a week. Bessie,
give baby's got to live, right, dairy farmer? You don't
just say hold the milk till Monday. Hey, it's Christmas Day.
I know you're you're full of milk, but to take
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a day off is utterly.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
So it's like plenty of people that have to work
seven days a week. This one says, could you remind
us what time the Vikings are playing tomorrow night? In
San Diego. They'll be at Jack Murphy Stadium.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
We just call it the Murph taking on the San
Diego Superchargers. Game time is seven fifteen Central time.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
That means think about it, if you're in San Diego, well,
how do you get to a game at five point fifteen?
I mean, if you work a nine to five job,
how do you get to the game? You ever see
traffic in San Diego? That's unfair to those people. Why
would the NFL and all their infinite wisdom do that?
Why would they have a seven to fifteen st Five
to fifteen start in San Diego means you probably if
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you have tickets to the game, you have to take
a day off.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
So you not only.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You not only have to go to the game, you
have to take a day off to get to the game.
So look at everybody's got their cross to bear.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
And you know what else too.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
You know my work schedule, I should get hazard as
duty pay. I have to work with rose in three
hours a week. Well most weeks oftentimes he's taking time off.
He's getting to that time of that point in his
life where he's not as interested in working as.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
He once was. But I should be.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Tennebe, I should get hazardous duty pay for the three
hours I work with Rosen. It's very difficult to do.
You probably want hazard of duty pay for everything.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I'm very deserving of that, But.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
There you go, and Tennabe. Look at think about it.
The NFL, they just do whatever they want. They do
seven to fifteen kickoff in Minneapolis, San Diego five point fifteen.
How about people that have to work till five o'clock
and have season tickets. What are they gonna do? They
have to take time off works, and not only they
have to take a day off or a half day,
they've got to fight through rush hour traffic to get
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to the Murph Fund.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So just sell your tickets. You don't have to go
to the game. You know what you signed up for
when you bought the tickets.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Now you're talking. See now you've got it right. That's
what I like to hear. Something else I ran into here.
Oh see the story headline Ravens John Harbas scrub locker
room of fun amid dreadful one in five start.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
That's how the ping pong table.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Ravens players returned from their bye week to vastly different
locker room. Baltimore coach Johnny Harbaugh, likely in response to
his team's dreadful one in five, start scrub the Ravens
locker room of it's recreational items. That's according to the
Baltimore Sun. Here's what they write. The Ravens promptly removed
several recreational staples from the locker room, including the basketball
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hoot near Lamar Jackson's and Trey Flowers stalls, the ping
pong table at rookies Teddy Buchanan and Mike Green often
battled on after practice, the once popular corn hole boards,
and yes, the video game consoles often lit up than
tense rounds of Super Smash Brothers that regularly drew small
crowds of teammates late in the day.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Don't even sound like a football lockero.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It's clear that Harball feels as team needs to increase
that's collective focus level if it's going to turn the
season around.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Health would also help the Ravens accomplish that goal.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
You know what I would do. Here's an idea closer
to the John Harbaugh string up stuffed cats in the
locker room, and they have a sign that says fat
cats get slaughtered.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Because that was effective. That was the Zimmer thing, right.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, that didn't go well because because were we like five, yes,
and we had the bye week, and so the coach
wanted people to say and you know, the message was great,
I just was it didn't resonate down from that point.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Went downhill. But what he was saying is just because
you're five and oh, don't get.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
All fat and happy and think we're really great. I
listened to I always listened to the Danny Campbell news conference.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I listened to them. I live in at O'Connell's in.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Campbell's Tedmy, it's it's he's just funny.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
He's just such a football coach.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And yeah, you know he just said he's always taking
his hat off and running his fingers through his hair
and scratching his chin and his neck and and but
he he kind of delivered the same message, you know, like, look,
we can't think, you know, he does this all the time.
We can't think just because we're winning games that we
got things to clean up. You know, don't don't be
starting to think that, you know, we're we're we're better
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than we really are.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
But yeah, so that's the message. I think most of
these coaches try to give a team.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You can't get too confident, too cocky, because.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
It can.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
It can come back to haunt you in a real
thirty in a real hurry, Timmy, let me ask you
another question.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Okay. Let's say.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Hawaii had a professional football team. Let's say the Hawaii Alohas. Okay,
and you were the master control supervisor, and the London game,
you'd be there at three thirty.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
In the matter of fact, that'd be the kickoff time.
You'd have to be there one thirty.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
And what if they had a Christmas Day London gate
then you'd really be hating it. One third, Yeah, one thirty,
the pregame would start for the for the for the
Alohas pay.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
For the right price. I would they pay more in Hawaii?
That's what Well? I don't know, have you been expensive?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Have you been in Hawaiian? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
We just went there a year and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I went there during the pandemic. Hadn't planned to go
during the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
It just it just worked out.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Was lovely.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Here's almost a non story again, Green Bay will uh
travel to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is quarterback by Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers,
once quarterback for Green Bay for a number of years,
has been a lot of successful years, a number of
Nfcchampionship games, one Big Game, World Championship, won, several MVPs.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
He's the first ballot Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Headline Packers Matt Lafleur won't stress significance of facing Aaron
Rodgers ahead of a Week eight showdown for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I would hope not.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
But now we're playing Aaron now, you know. It even
says in this story, I love this. It says, here's
what Lafleur says. We're playing the Pittsburgh Steelers who happen
to have Aaron Rodgers. I mean, it's as simple as that.
That's for you guys to talk about.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Granted, I mean we've got a lot of respect and
love for Aaron.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
What he's done here is a Hall of Famer. I know,
like our past together, we had a lot of great moments.
This game is not about that. It's about going to
Pittsburgh Sunday night football. Our guys would be jacked up.
There are guys would be jacked up. It's about the
Green Bay Packers versus Pittsburgh Steelers. That's for you guys
to talk about all those other storylines. He says, I'm
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gonna talk abouts like we do every week, what is
our blueprint and what are the keys in order to
go to Pittsburgh, which is a damn good football team
in a really tough, hostile environment and try to play
our best because we haven't to date. We've got a
lot of work to do. Then the best part is,
he says, Now, where did I read this quote? I
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thought it was in this story somewhere south quote. Well,
you know what, Tenny, this quote stop, don't uh. This
quote would be good for any You and I have
talked about this before. How many players currently on the
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Green Bay Packers even played with Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
They probably it wasn't that long ago, right, because.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
He left three years ago, four years ago, I think
just for two years. Yeah, so I think twenty twenty
two was his last year. I think, okay, so three years.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
They have the youngest ross from football there are guys,
so it's not like, you know, they remember Aaron and
we were buddy buddy with them and all that, and
we went into trenches with them, and it's like we've
talked about before, when.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Well, all the skill position players on offense are different,
are different, all of it.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
And it's like we've talked about before, when you have, you.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Know, the team one of the twins broke that eighteen
game postseason losing skid. Most of the guys on the
team that broke that skid didn't play in any of
those other playoff games, so it wasn't like, you know,
they asked what's it like to break the first you know,
it's like, well, I don't you know if they're you know,
and they always just give the answer that the media
person wants. Yeah, it's great to get that off our back.
(32:41):
But it's like I went for the guy to go,
I wasn't there then. I have no idea that that
doesn't affect me in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Same way with you look at the history of the Bikings.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
And never went, you know, winning a big game, right,
having haven't, having not been to one since what is
it seventy eight, seventy nine or seventy seven, seventy eights
even or seventy somebody know what it was. I was like, well,
none of these players, most of the players and the
team weren't even.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Born then, so it's that's.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Not haunting them now like it does the fan who's
been there. I've been around since the existence of the Vikings.
Didn't start paying attention to him until, you know, late
sixties when I was you know, seven, eight, nine years old,
and you start, you know, oh, sports, I'm kind of
into it now, you know, and you start following the teams.
So most of these players, so they're not they don't
(33:30):
have that hanging and a lot of them will say
all the right things.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
You know, the city's deserved it forever.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
These fans have been through through with the franchise for
a thicken thing, and they really deserve this and so
but yeah, I don't think there's I think for Rogers though,
oh yeah, because we saw what he did just with
the Jets. He only spent two years with the Jets,
and he couldn't wait to after he said, wow, it's
nice to beat that organization. A lot of people in
(33:56):
that organization didn't think I could play football anymore because
he was bitter about the Green Bay departure. I mean,
I don't know if his goal was to retire a Packer,
you know, I think a lot of guys do.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
What percentage of players want to play with the same team.
There are players that will state that that's important to them.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I don't know how important it really is.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I guess if you've had a stellar career and won
championships and such like that, it might mean more to you.
But you know, most of these guys are mercenaries anyways,
right Tennebe. It's like, Yeah, I was drafted by the
Arizona Cardinals, but after three years, guess what, I became
a free agent. They didn't want to pay me. Someone
had more money. I've taken the more money.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I'm not. There's no loyalty anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
I'm going where the money is right or a better
situation as whatever the case may be. So you don't
see a lot of teams start and finish with the
even the kid I think he wanted to stay here,
but then all of a sudden it just wasn't there
was when you have no chance to.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Win a world championship.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's part of the reason I think Matty Stafford, I
think Detroit did.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
It kind of as a favor to him too. I
really believe that.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I thought that's what's part of the sol like rebuilt exactly.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
But I think they kind of said, this guy's.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
This guy's been grinning his wheels here and he's been bruised,
battered and beaten and giving us everything he's got, played
hurt and does this.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Let's give him a chance to go somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And by the way, the Rams are offering us a
boatloaded draft picks too, and another starting quarterback that at
the time a lot of people weren't very high on.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
And now, as you and I have talked about, he's
a top ten.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Quarterback in the league, if not even higher than that
right the way he's playing it again, a lot of
that has to do with the system you're in, and
the offensive line you have, and and all the skill
position players.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It all goes hand at hand. But yeah, so uh.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Oh Rogers, he wants this one back.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
So you know there's some bitterness there, right, it's the
old Yeah, he's the same guy that I think a
lot of He's not alone here. But when he was
drafted and he slipped in the first round, by the
way the Bikings passed on him twice in that draft,
you know, he was expected to be a top potential
five peck and he dropped in the bottom half of
(36:01):
the first round, and he was bitter. Specifically, San Francisco
had told him they were going to take him and
they didn't. And that's very you know, his home state,
and he wanted to play there, and he forever had
a vengeance against the Yes. And that's kind of what
now is with green Bay is green Bay basically told them,
you're a nice player. We think we can find a
(36:22):
we think we have a younger, more improved version that
we're gonna have for quite some time. And for a
guy that was first ballot Hall of Famer one MVPs,
I think he didn't want to. He'd never really been told, hey,
I'm not you know, yes, I think you're spot on
good enough.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
One other note, I don't know if this is something
new or if I just haven't been paying close enough
attention before the Sunday night games or the Monday night games.
They'll go down to the Pam Oliver's of the world
or whoever the I can't I can't recall any of
the names of the sideline reporter gas right, Aaron Andrews,
Aaron and will go down to them. And the other
(37:05):
night was it was it was golf the night before
it was. It was the Homes, and they'll ask them
questions and they give the most watered down, cliched answers
I've ever go back and listen to them homes just
before the game interview in the GoF it's almost like
(37:25):
they don't even though it's just minutes before the game.
It's it's like they don't want to provide any kind
of bulletin board material or anything that could be taken
out of context. They'll they would ask off, like, big game,
what do you think? What do you got to do
to win a night? Well, we got to make big
plays offenses, to play well defensive, we have to complimentary football.
What do you think about Tampa may really good football
team there, They're really good. We're gonna have to play
well tonight. And they ask about the question and it's
(37:45):
just the short of same with Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
They've they've got the answers down.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
It's like and dudes and I are looking at each
other and saying, I don't even know why they bothered
with these anymore. I mean, if you were getting something
a bit more insightful and maybe maybe these just before
the opening kickoff interviews have always been like this. I
don't even remember them doing them with players very often.
I think this is sort of a new thing, is
it not?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Or am I wrong?
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Well?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
My favorite part about that too is while that meaningless
cliche answer is being given, you've got a reporter that
has to act like it's super interesting. So they're they're
like smiling, like superpoke, nodding their head and yeah, super focused,
as if it's just some genius answer being delivered exactly.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
And I can understand from the player's point of view too,
because like we're talking about really shortly before kickoff, I
don't even know are these pre recorded maybe you know,
like three minutes before, five minutes before, like during the
last break, because I don't think it's right just before
the kick.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
But still you can see the.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Player kind of looking back over shoulder in some second.
I agree to do it because it's probably part of
the deal that the players Association and the National Football
League teams the ownership has with the networks. You got
to give us one pregame interview just before kickoff with
one of the star players.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Okay, we can do that, And.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
So they just come up with the quickest cliche because
they want to get to the team and do the
jump up and down and go who dat going to
be the Saints who bat none?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
How about the coaches at halftime you see in college football,
I see at the NFL level where they kind of
like that thirty second interview. They want nothing to do
with a halftime interview. They've got they've got twelve thirteen
minutes to try to come up and devise what we're
going to do in the second half and talk to
the team, and they they could never they never give
you anything worth talking about, especially if they're down or
(39:27):
trailing at the time. They're just bitter and correct. Don't
even want to be in that spot.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
This text messenger says, I couldn't get through for the
while tickets. I was going to ask for flop, sweat
and tears tickets.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Instead said okay.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
On that note, ten, Toby's bitter about tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
No, yeah, no, I'm excited about tomorrow. Oh let one
of two jobs.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Yeah, think about that.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Maybe your bitterness about time start games. You're finally getting
the respect you so richly deserve. You're off the air tomorrow,
you so you don't so no hazardous duty pay because
you're not working with me tomorrow. But you'll be doing
the uh uh, you'll be doing the master control supervisor duties.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
So I think was it Blake Moore?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Did he say?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I think that Blake Moore will be with me tomorrow.
Mark Rosen will join us. We'll join a one for
us spreads spread Swing.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
So you rose and induced for one thirty for spread Swing.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Hey, great job.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Thanks, I appreciate it. I think great might be a
bit overstated a little.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
You could say that every time I say that.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Yeah, I guess you're right. Even good might not good
is the enemy of great? Does that mean mediocre is
the enemy of good?
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Because I felt it was kind of meat. Stick around though, well,
I'll be back tomorrow twelve. Stick around, big ticket. J
G there next right here on the fan.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
All right, goodnight, good night in Calavasion where heavy.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
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