06-28-24 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to it, Broncos Country Tonight. Benjamin Olbright here with you short show
Post Rockies Edition five, six sixnine zeros of text line. You guys
will get involved in conversation. Thanksto everybody who who hung out with us
last night. Kind of a bitof a departure, you know, for
me, and being able to kindof talk about some things that politics and

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the debate and all that kind ofstuff was a lot of fun. I
appreciate you guys that called in allthe way through to ten o'clock hour.
A bunch of phone lines were packed, and people who joined us on Facebook,
all that kind of stuff. Itwas a lot of fun getting to
be able to do that with withMandy Connell and Ross Kaminski and yeah,
I just I don't know, Ihad a lot of fun last night.
This is gonna the show is notgoing to suddenly morph into a political show

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or anything like that. So Idon't want anybody to think that there's a
you know, there's a pivot incontent or anything like that. It's still
gonna be Broncos Country Tonight. Butyou know, we had a special event
there and I got a chance tokind of I don't know, spread my
wings a little bit, show peoplea little bit of a different side,
and so happy to have been ableto do that and had a lot of
fun doing it as well. Fivesix six nine zeros. The text line

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saw, speaking of the debate lastnight, a text text or a tweet
rather from noted data guy Nate silverI guess uh saying that there's a difference
between the political crowd and the sportscrowd. And in his tweet he alleged
that sports people, if you writea column saying, you know, Zach
Wilson sucks, we need to getrid of him, and he was talking

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about the Jets versus you know,the people are like fine with it,
versus the Democrats. You write acolumn about we need to get rid of
Joe Biden and get a new nominee, and people are raging against it.
And I was like, well,that's not really my experience at all,
is that people tend to when whenwhen column is to write columns saying we
need to move on from this quarterback, there tends to be a lot of
pushback from fans. As long assomeone is their quarterback, he's their quarterback

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untill he isn't. I think theRussell Wilson thing. It was a little
bit different, but most other quarterback. I mean, you saw how fervent
it was with you know, withDrew Locke, even you know, people
didn't want to move on or TrevorSimmey, and people want to pay Trevor
Simmey after like three games. Iit's so for me. I I sort

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of I sort of disagree with thatsentiment from Nate Silver and I wonder exactly
how many how much investment or timehe has spent in sports Twitter with sports
columnists and seeing the reaction to thesuggestion that they should replace the quarterback that
kind of thing. I just Ifound that that tweet fascinating and at least

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having some sort of connection to uh, to last night, as far as
you know, the way that thingsgo, I don't uh, I don't
want to get too far into it. But this Brandon Ayuk situation continues to
deteriorate. Forty nine Ers wide receiverbrandyk has has been pushing for a new

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contract, and that led to ameeting with the team that reportedly ended with
an understanding that the team was notlooking to trade him, but without any
certainty about a new deal. Andso. During an appearance on The Pivot,
Ayuk was asked if he feels likethey are close to an agreement that
would keep him with the Niners beyondthe twenty twenty four season, and Ayuk

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said that it has not felt thatway recently, saying, quote, throughout
this process, there have been timeswhen we're super close and I'm telling my
agent, let me get my suitready. I've got to get it back
to the bay. I got toget right to sign that contract. There's
days and times, like in thepast month or so where you could say

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we're pretty far apart. Iuk indicatedthat I feeling the two sides were close
came much earlier in the process.The dealers deals that have been signed since
by other receivers have changed the marketin a way that has made a deal
feel less likely. May have beenpart of the reason why Ayuke told Commanders
quarterback Jayde Daniels that the Niners quotedon't want me back. The former NFL

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safety and Pivot host Ryan Clark saidhe didn't believe the team told Ayuk that,
and the wide out explained why hesaid that to Daniels, saying,
quote, they told me that theydidn't think that we were on the same
page, and they didn't believe thatwe were going to Ayuke said, And
it was about it at that time. But it's part of it's part of

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contract negotiations, trying to sway stuffin either direction. So whether that's one
hundred percent sure or not, Iguess that's still to find out. Right
now, they're obviously not on thesame page. So the twenty twenty four
season could wind up being Ayuke's lastseason with San Francisco if assuming they don't
trade him before then if they wantedto. If you look at the financials

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for the forty nine ers, youlook at their cap space, they are
well over the cap for next year, freeing up the things that they would
need to free up just to getunder the cap, much less try to
pay him what he's requesting, whichwas north of thirty million dollars. Also
puts them out on being able topay brock Party, which figures to be

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a bigger priority for them, youknow, as as it were. And
so I guess, you know,I I look at this situation and it
just it just does not seem likeI think Ayuk is right in the sense
that I don't think that either partyhere is really invested in having this thing

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continue with them. Are you wantingyou know, thirty to thirty five million
dollars a year in new money isnot realistic for the structure of what the
the forty nine ers have put togetherin terms of paying their team, and
the forty nine ers really have notshown a willingness to try to get creative
with Ayuk to make that happen.So I'm kind of a sort of,

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I guess, fascinating to see wherethis goes from here, because I think
the scheme for the Niners is reallythe engine, not necessarily any receiver,
whether that's Debo and we remember howhe was a running back for a while
as well, whether that's auk Kittlewhomever. I don't think any one particular
piece in there is the key thatturns the engine. And you know,
I guess you could say Christian McCaffrey. However, that offense was humming before

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it got McAffrey. It just humsa little harder. So you know,
I'm I'm I'm sort of fascinated tosee where the Niners go from here with
this this this contract situation, andyou know, it's it's going to set
some precedent for a few other teamsas well. But knowing that they are

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currently at and I believe it's thirtymillion dollars over the cap for next year,
and you still have to pay brockPerty who would be off a rookie
deal and onto a you know,a market rate quarterback deal. I don't
see how you can even make thishappen, Like, I just don't see
where where the cap space comes from. I don't understand how you even make

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that possible. So not that Iand again I get a lot of questions
about this. I don't believe theBroncos are or would be interested. They
would be interested in Brandon Yuk theplayer, who wouldn't They're not interested in
Brandon Yuk the contract at thirty tothirty five million dollars per year for four
or five years, So I thinkthat's I think that's that's the thing.

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And then you know, figuring outif he's not going to be an er,
where is he going to go?Who would pony up big money for
a wide receiver like that, andwhat you know what scheme and and all
that kind of stuff. So justjust one of those interesting stories is we
kind of keep our eye on theCourtland Sutton situation, is keeping an eye
on the Brandon Ayuk situation as well. Another interesting interview that was done recently

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Lashan McCoy DeShawn Jackson. They dothe twenty five to ten show all Everybody's
got a podcast now, but theyhad Todd Gurley on, and Todd Gurley,
you know, he last played forthe Falcons. It's been it's been
a few years, but from twentyseventeen to twenty eighteen, nobody got in
the end zo more than Todd Gurley. He was a number ten overall pick

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the twenty fifteen draft and a whoppingforty touchdowns in that span nineteen and twenty
seventeen, twenty one and twenty eighteen, despite missing three games that year.
But then, you know, acouple of years later he plays last season
for the Falcons. He's still onlytwenty nine years old right now. He
joined Lashawn and Dshawn and McCoy andJackson joked that Gurley could still make a

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comeback if he wanted to. Gurleyconfirmed he is retired by saying hell no
to that option. He seems prettyat peace when explaining how was last few
seasons in the league transpired. Hesaid, quote, I remember when I
signed my extension with the Rams backin twenty eighteen. The agent was breaking
it down, Gurley said, andhe was like, you get this,

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you get this amount, and thenif they cut you, you'll be twenty
six with a lot of money andyou're young. And then the Rams contract
guy was like, yeah, butwe'll never let that happen. And then
that's exactly how that bleep played out. So I got cut from the Rams.
I went to Atlanta. I kindof had to see what they were
talking about for real, because Iplayed at Georgia. So that one happened
and I was like, the seasonwas sorry. And then after it was

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like, all right, bro,I live in LA I'm chilling. I've
done everything. Of course, I'dlove to have a ring stuff like that,
but I went to a Super Bowland lost. I wasn't really tripping.
I don't know. I feel likeI did a lot of stuff that
I never would have thought I wouldhave ever did, and just having fun,
just playing football, living out alot of people's dreams for real,
that type vibe. It really camedown to. It didn't matter if I
scored ten more touchdowns or if Iscored zero, it wasn't going to satisfy

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me anymore for real. Gurley addedhe had an opportunity to sign with the
Ravens in twenty twenty one, butat that point he just felt a piece
with his career, saying, quote, but I grew up a Ravens fan,
Diehard ed Reid favorite player. WhenI had to think about it,
I was like, Oh, yeah, it's over. It ain't really up
for discussion. I'm, you know, like, bro, I'm in LA,
I'm not about to go to DetroitBaltimore. I'm chilling the vibe,
and I'm just having a good perspectivefor real. Gurley, who played in

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eighty eight career games, ran forsix thousand and eighty two yards, sixty
seven touchdowns, called two hundred andforty three passes and fifty four yards and
twelve touchdowns from twenty fifteen to twentytwenty. There was a degenerative knee issue
that was a part of that thatkind of got skepped over, and so
it was kind of sort of interestingto see him not really sort of comment

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on that while talking about his reasonsfor going away and how much at peace,
you know he is with the waythings played out. It's with you
know, Todd Gurley was. Itwas a heck of a running back for
a couple of seasons, and that'sthat's one of those things about running backs
in the NFL. You know,you tend to have that that two to

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three season kind of apex and thenyou know, the wear and tear of
the body catches up with you.Gurley was. I don't want to say
he was the last of a ofa of a kind of throwback running back,
because that's not exactly true when youhave a Derrick Henry you know,
out there now. But he sortof, I mean, it kind of
was, you know, it was. It was interesting to watch. The

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Rams had a had sort of arun of running backs there for for about
fifteen twenty years when you when youlooked at Marshall Falk and you had Stephen
Jackson, and then you had youknow, you had Todd Gurley. They
sort of had a run of greatrunning backs in there. Gurley was Offensive
Rookie of the Year in twenty fifteen, and that was when the Rams were

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still in Saint Louis, and thenhe was the second place for the MVP
in twenty seventeen. I think alot of people forget that he was the
AP Offensive Player of the Year.He was the was like the sixth vote
for comeback Player of the Year atall Pro Pro Bowler was number two in

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the MVP voting that twenty seventeen twentyeighteen stretch for him. You know where
he missed. He missed three gamesin that span, but it was really,
I mean it was it was prettydominant. He led the NFL in
twenty seventeen in yards from scrimmage withalmost twenty one hundred, and he had
nineteen touchdowns. He topped that withtwenty one touchdowns the following season, although

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the yards from scrimmage dropped by abouttwo hundred yards as he played a you
know, one less game and theaverage went down. He went from six
point one yards per touch to fivepoint eight, and that continued to sort
of decline from there throughout his career. You know, I never got back
to that twenty nineteen with the Ramsfifteen games, he wound up with only
one hundred and fifty seven yards rushingand two hundred and seven through the air.

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But he did have you know,another fourteen total touchdowns in fifteen games.
Any went and played for Atlanta andthat was just not It just did
not go very well that season inAtlanta. Only six hundred and seventy eight
yards on the ground, he averagedthree and a half per attempt and then

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you know, twenty five receptions forAno one hundred and sixty four no touchdowns.
There nine total touchdowns on the season. But you know, I mean,
I think if you're the kind ofguy who finds that you're at peace
with your career, even if it'snot what you hoped that it was,
you know, necessarily, necessarily,I think that's a good thing. I

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think a lot of guys struggle withthat sort of struggle with the idea that
it's over and you know, wherewhere they fit in the pantheon of things.
I think a lot of people fightto continue beyond where or maybe they
should have continued to sign contracts thosekinds of things, to try to,

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you know, try to keep thedream alive, I guess. And for
Todd Gurley, good on him forrecognizing that that's, you know, this
was it for me. I'm goodhere, So I'm not you know,
I'm not mad him for that.It's just sort of fascinating to sort of
fascinating to see, Uh, hefinished four yards short of Travis Henry's career

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rushing totally, fourteen yards short ofduce McAllister's career rushing total, and you
know, a fewer years than thanboth those guys. He finished at the
top one hundred old time in rushingyardage. So, you know, I
think that having the kind of careerthat you're satisfied and happy with and all

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that kind of stuff, I,you know, good for him. I
think that if you're able to findfind joy outside of football afterwards, good
for him. And you know,he seems to have. He seems to
have sort of found that. Fivesix six nine zero is the text line
we get back a topic that's beengoing around today, and I think it's

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partially in light of last night.What are the biggest flops of all time?
And I wonder if you maybe putthe Broncos in Russell Wilson's first season
with Nathaniel Hackett on that whereas expectationswere set here and the team certainly did

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not even come close to living upto that one are the teams that jumped
out of me? Remember the Eagles, the dream team where they had all
those high expectations and then completely flop. So five six six ns there,
I want to hear you guys comeup with them during the break and we'll
kind of go over some of themwho you think were the biggest flops of
all time, whether that's with theHurricane, Peter McNeely, you know at

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boxing, you know touted is somethingmore than he was. I'm interested to
see what the biggest flops of alltime were, and that's I've got my
own list here, but I'm interestedto see where you guys sort of stack
up or what you sort of thinkthey are as well. Looking forward to
to next week here, Nick Fergusonshould be back. It'll be a lot

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of fun on on Broncos Country tonight here. So we're looking forward to
having him back off vacation. Wehave to give him some some guff about
how well done his stakes were andhow he left me here you know,
high and drive by myself for acouple of weeks. So when we get
back next week we'll get a chanceto do that as well. We got
to pay some bills right now wecome back, we're gonna talk about those

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flops. You listen to Broncos Countryto night right here on KOA say fifty
am ninety four ONEm News Talk Sports. Welcome back to it, Broncos Country
tonight, Albright here with you,Grant Smith back there behind the glass producing
six' nine zero is the textline when we were talking about before we

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hit the break, the biggest flopsof all time in honor of last night,
some of you guys already texted inand and went more of like the
bust as a player route. Therewas somebody who sent in a specific game.
So I I'm gonna try and getto to some of these that you
guys, uh, you guys putout there. I you know, I
posited that for the Broncos that mightbe the first year of Russell Wilson with

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Nathaniel Hackett, there were aspirations ofwinning the division and being a super Bowl
contender. Ultimately it was a teamthat didn't even come close to making the
playoffs or fighting on the sideline,got the coach fired, and just just
just an awful season. Uh.In Broncos memory. I also positive the
Eagles, you know, dream team, where they had super Bowl aspirations and

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wound up going nowhere as well.That was the Eagles Vince Young team.
So I say Vincent, he wason that team, but you know some
of these other ones. The sevento to oh said Ryan Leaf's third professional
start, And I went and lookedthis up. In my goodness, he

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set a record for futility by havinga passer rating of zero. Uh.
Literally the lowest passer rating you canpossibly have. Ryan Leaf went one of
fifteen passing for four total yards andtwo interceptions and three fumbles. And I

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went back and looked at this andI was just I mean, you know,
Ryan Leaf is a good friend ofthe show's. He comes on all
the time, and I think evenhe would say that that that performance was
one of the worst that he's everseen. It was somebody we've got.
We've got a couple of good oneshere. Uh. The three zero three

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Rookie Kobe Bryant's air ball Fest series, deciding Game five of the Western Conference
Finals, Jazz were up three toone, Rookie Kobe Bryant fired up four
air bowls to end the Lakers season. That was back in nineteen ninety seven.

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My goodness, that was That's somethingelse. A lot of a lot
of games in here, you guys, there's so many. I can't get
to all these, so I appreciatethis, but too many of these at
once. I'll try to get toas many of these as I can.
Trevor Berbick has made an appearance,so for those who don't know, early
in his career, Mike Tyson mademany fighters look foolish, but no one

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looks worse than Trevor Berbick. Inthe WBC Heavyweight Championship, Mike knocked Berbick
down three times with one punch tobecome the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history.
Burbick, Yeah, that was.That's a good one, you know,
it's that was what that had beeneighty eighty six. I think November

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eighty six, I'd have to goback. I'm not a not one hundred
percent, but I like this one. This one here, and this is
from our our one of our longtimelisteners, Derek talking about Tommy John,
saying from from nineteen eighty eight,and most people know Tommy John for the
surgery that's named after him, Tommythat surgery, but the pitcher, the

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real player, Tommy John actually hada pretty decent career. He was like
a four time All Star, andhe was he was in the league forever,
some like twenty six years. Onedistinction I think you'd rather forget,
though, is just being only oneof two players, uh to commit three
errors on one play. It wasa game against the Milwaukee Brewers back in

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nineteen eighty eight. John fumbled theground or through past first base, then
bobbled the relay throw from right fieldbefore throwing past the catcher. And this
was all after his his surgery,which the surgery named after him, of
course, So this is uh,yeah, somebody and they sent me a
link to the video because wow,I had I had, I could completely

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forgotten about that. It was justhow do you commit three errors on one
play? That is certainly fascinating.Uh good to go back and look at
I've got Uh oh, this isgood. When yeah, Jason Kidd back
in two thousand. You know,over the course of his career, Jason

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Kidd had hundreds of triple one hundredtriple doubles over a hundred I don't remember
how many exacts, but his overhundred triple doubles. But he uh was
trying to get I guess somebody wastrying to Shoehorn a quadruple double for him,
and in game against the Knicks,he had eighteen points, twelve boards

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assists, but tied the record forthe most NBA turnovers in a game.
He had fourteen turnovers in that game. So I guess that's a quadruple double
of the worst possible the worst possiblevariety one that I had had written down
that we have from the nine toseven. Oh, here was John Daily

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back in nineteen eighty eight. Youknow, it's Bayhill Invitational. Daily had
added to his legendary status by shootingat eighteen on a par five. Six
of his shots ended up in thelake. Daily went on to shoot an
eighty five for the day. Anyhope he had of winning the tournament,

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But yeah, how you shoot aneighteen on a par five is certainly something
man, I've forgotten about that.Yeah, there's a lot of five of
you have actually suggested the Len Dawsonwin here, which some of you have
pretty long memories as well before Iwas born back in nineteen sixty four.

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Hall of Fame quarterback Chiefs quarterback LenDawson, best known for you know,
Super Bowl MVP in that picture ofsmoke in the locker room and then three
AFL championships. But he holds therecord for the most fumbles in a game.
That's seven. Seven fumbles in anNFL game. This is uh.

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I don't even know if there's videoof that one. I've seen the box
scored. I've never seen the gamefilm for that game. That's that's one.
If somebody's got a link to that, I would love to watch that
because that that feels like something.A seven fumbles is one of those things
that I think you have to haveto sort of see to see to believe.

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Speaking of which video, you know, we talked about the Wilt Chamberlaine
hundred points game, and there arepeople that believe it was fake because there's
no video and you know and allthat. So Daryl Imhoff was was the
Knicks defender who was guarding Wilt Chamberlainthat night. He was the third overall

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pick behind Oscar Robertson and Jerry Westthe nineteen sixty and eight draft, but
he ended up being you know,a nobody on like those two, and
Chamberlain made sure he would always beremember, dropped a hundred on him when
he was he was guarding that night. Yeah, I don't know if that's
a bust, that's just a badnight, Like you get up against one
of the grades of all time.I don't know if that's I don't know

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if that counts as a bus.Dude, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna
have to put an asterisk. Ithink on that one the worst shooting performance
in NBA history Tim Hardaway in nineteenninety one. Yeah, that's man.
I had forgotten about that game.I think we were watching that game.
I think my brother and I werewatching that game. It was after Christmas

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back in nineteen ninety one. TimHardaway, who was at the time with
the Golden State Warriors, it wasplaying the Minnesota Timberwolves, and he set
an NBA record by going oh forseventeen from the field and uh it Hilariously,

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the Golden State Warriors still wanted towin that game in overtime one o
six, one oh two, butoh for seventeen from the field. There's
there's got to be a point whereyou know, you you jack up your
first five six shots, you don'thit, and the team's like, Okay,
shake it off, go sit down, come back out, we'll try
it again. You get you getto the point where you're like, oh
for twelve, oh for fifteen fromthe field, I think I'm mailing it
in. At that point, Ithink I'm I think of packing it in

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for the night. I think I'mdone. I don't think that there's any
like I'm like, look, Idon't got it tonight. Guys. You
know, there's got to be somebodyelse on this bench that can hit a
shot because I can't. Uh.So that's that's one of those ones that
yeah, yeah, there's a coupleof people that are suggesting the Novitsky you
know, shooting cold night. Hewas like two of thirteen from the field

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against the Golden State, and youknow he was the he was the MVP
at the team at the time ofthat. But that's nowhere. Two of
thirteen isn't as bad as oh forseventeen. I mean, that's just that
is one of the most absurdly badnights I think I've ever seen. And
the fact that your team still won, that you went, you went oh
for seventeen, to me is evenmore embarrassing. Says how bad the Timberwolves

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were, uh at that point?So I yeah, uh, the time
Jeff Jenkins got two golden Sombreros.Oh my goodness. Yeah, I had
forgotten to bow. Oh my goodness, I forgot about that. Uh.
Milwaukee Brewers player, Uh Jeff Jenkins, he struck out. It was a

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game against the Angels Anaheim Angels,and he became one of only eight players
in Major League Baseball history to strikeout six times in a game, six
times in one game. That's that'sa that's a pretty good one. We've
had a couple of people that arehave texted in Bartman is one of the
biggest epic fails. I guess that'sa cub fan. That name lives on

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in infamy. Uh as you know, as far as that goes. Yeah,
I Bartman, that's fool that's agood one. The Yeah, I'm
seeing the uh the Lebron James memewhen uh what's his name went? Uh
went the wrong way? We dribbledthe ball out, drove the clock out
instead of scoring. Yeah, thatwould be one of the worst flops of

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of all time. Five six,six, nine zero is a text line.
If you've got one, that's uh, that's better than that. Jake
de Loom, Yeah, that's athat's a good one. Uh. Playoff
game against Oh who the opponent inthat one? Oh, I think it
was Arizona, as he said,Dilome ow nine. I'm pretty sure it
was Arizona. Dilom came in throughfive interceptions, lost to fumble. Yeah,

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oh my godness. Anyway, totop it off, if I remember
correctly, that game was also JakeDelane's birthday. It was his birthday.
He threw five picks in a fumbleto lose the Arizona Cardinals. Oh my
goodness. Seeh I I had forgottensome of these. Some of these are
great, by the way, I'mreading some of these comments in here that

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are absolutely great. This is asock. Okay, I'll read this one
because it's soccer, and I don'tthink a lot of people will know this
one. But Luis Guerva Mora fromEl Salvador. This is all the way
back in nineteen eighty two in ElSalvador's second appearance in a World Cup.
Just making it to the big stageobviously an accomplishment of note itself, but
I don't think anybody imagined the beatdown that Hungary would hand them in their

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first match. Hungary scored a WorldCup ten goals on Salvador and goalkeeper at
Luis square A Mora. Yeah,I that's that's late in neck. I
don't know if it'd called it becauseI mean they were such an underdog and
Hungary it was such a good soccerteam. I mean maybe that's you know,

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maybe maybe that maybe that doesn't exactlyqualify. Uh, I don't know,
I don't know. Oh, nowyou guys are digging deep. We've
got yeah, we've got some.We've got some interesting one. Okay.
Oh, you're gonna have to sendme on the person who send me the
Alan Travers stuff. You got tosend me more on. That's way before
my time. But do you typeit up, I'll read it for you.
Ray Allen, oh man, Iforgot about that. Ray Allen.

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Yeah, he went oh for thirteenfrom the field in the finals. That's
the second worst final shooting performance inNBA history, oh for fourteen Dennis Johnson
nineteen seventy eight. But Ray,yeah, Ray, Ray Allen super down

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to earth guy and had an incredibleGame two in that series. But in
Game three, oh for thirteen,it was absolutely absolutely awful as far as
that goes. So yeah, okay, so I got this this Travers thing.
I'm gonna try and try and readthis because I didn't know anything about
this. In nineteen twelve, apparentlyAlan Travers Detroit Tigers, the Detroit Tigers

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players had gone on strike to protestthat their teammate Ty Cobb was on an
indefinite suspension for beating a handicapped heckler. So as a result, the team's
owner was forced to find replacement players, one of which was Alan Travers.

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In his one game major League Baseballappearance, Travers pitched and allowed twenty six
hits, twenty four runs, aMajor League Baseball record fourteen earned runs in
a complete game. He apparently wenton to become an ordained Catholic priest,
only priest ever to play in MajorLeague Baseball. I don't know if that
qualifies it, but that just qualifiesa bad day at the office. You

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got brought in to be a replacementplayer. That's not There was no hype
around that. I mean, hewas expected to come out and just just
you know, destroy I think fortrivia perspective, that's certainly fascinating. I'm
following that away, but I don'tthink that that's necessarily I don't think that
that's necessarily something that that you're youknow, you had high expectations and you

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busted or flopped on. I thinkthat's just I think it's just, you
know, your replacement player try toplay against major leaguers and you got you
got it handed to you. AliDia, I don't know. I mean
that's more like a sports fraud thingthough. I mean, I'll read this
since he said it in one ofthe biggest frauds in sports history. Senegalese

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football player Ali Dupa he had dupedSouthampton manager Graham Sooness into believing that he
was the cousin of George Willa,and his resume included impressive national performances for
the Senegal national football team. Sortof Signedda to a one month contract.
However, as soon as soon ashe got on the pitch, immediately realized

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that his level of play wasn't anywherenear the level it was perceived to be.
He had a one game Premier Leaguecareer, and his performance against Leeds
United was described as as like Bambion ice, embarrassing to watch. He
played for fifty two minutes and thenwas released shortly thereafter. If you guys
ever get a chance to read aboutthat, it's actually pretty funny. So

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yeah, that's not really I don'tthink it's a flop so much as that
that guy was just absolute fraud whowas lying about things. Yeah, O
seven Glavin with the Mets. Thatthat that see, that qualifies. That
qualifies, okay, because there wereplayoff hopes that were that were hinging on
that performance. And then Tom Glavincame out and this you know story pitcher

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obviously and gave up seven runs inthe first inning of that game, costing
him the game, clinching a playoffberth for the Philadelphia Phillies. Uh.
That that would be that would beup there, that would be one of
the biggest fails of all times.So that's that's a good one. I'm
I'm I'm totally on board with that. The Orlando Magic in nineteen ninety Oh,

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that's a good one. Yeah,Nick Ander God, I forgot about
Nick Atterson. Nick Anderson nineteen ninetyfive. Nick was a He was a
seventy percent free throw shooter. Hewasn't he wasn't good, but he wasn't
like Shack bad. Uh went tothe line to see you game one of
the finals for the Orlando Magic,and everybody was like Okay, this thing
is over. And then he missedthem both and he got fouled again and

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missed them both, went oh forfour to close out the game, and
uh, uh that was that wasUh, that was pretty bad. Yeah,
we got a couple of Greg Normanthe five stroke lead over fall though.
Yeah, I'm not gonna read thatone, but yeah, that's uh,
that's a pretty good one as well. Game seven of the NBA Finals

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nineteen ninety four John Starks of theNew York Knicks. He went two of
eighteen for the field oh for tenin the fourth, and the Rockets wound
up getting the ninety eighty four victoryover the Knicks. That was, uh,
that was a good one. Isaved Uh. I saved this one
right here because it's a Denver Broncoand I'll do it as quickly as I
can here because we got to hita break. But Craig Morton, Uh,

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super Bowl twelve approached, Morton stillhad the better taste of losing the
uh the big game seven years earlierwe'd played for the Cowboys. Uh,
and his his nerves might have endedup put the one that the worst quarterback
performance as Super Bowl history. Fourfifteen thirty nine yards. Four picks got
pulled in the third quarter. Uh, everybody's got some failures, but man,
that was that was pretty bad.You are listening to Broncos Country tonight

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