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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hour two of this Tuesday edition of the Richmond Weavers Show,
presented by Engles Markets, rolls on right here one O
four nine Fox Sports Upstate. We are in full force,
mister Trey Falco behind the board and behind the mic
as usual, and you can join the conversation eight six
four two four zero five four eight zero. Again that
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number is eight six four two four zero five to
four eight zero. As we've been talking about ESPN and
the founder and the visionary Bill Rasmussen has passed away
at the age of ninety three.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Again.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Starting ESPN in September of nineteen seventy nine, he got
a cash advance on his credit card nine thousand dollars,
bought a satellite.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And the rest is history.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And oh, we want to just say it's just that easy,
Just nine grand satellite and you'll build one of the
greatest conglomerates.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
In media that we've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I don't think it was just that easy, No, I'm
sure there were quite a lot of hurdles and sent backs. Okay,
it's twenty twenty six and we still have technology issues.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Can you imagine nineteen nine.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Some of the technical technological issues that probably came about
and at times we didn't see it, you know, those
early days nineteen seventy nine, nineteen eighty and just not
being on the air whatever it might be, barely probably
able to pay your bills, whatever it is. And again,
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if it's twenty twenty six and we're still having technical issues,
you can't tell me. At nineteen seventy nine they didn't. Now,
of course it was completely different. I think we're so
sophisticated now it's almost, you know, one of those things.
The more sophisticated you get, I think you just run
the opportunity of having potentially more issues. Yeah, but still
(02:06):
with the level of technology that was available at the time.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know, they had their issues.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Also, I tell you right now, I don't know that
i'd want to be the guy that press that button.
I don't want to be the first one. Yeah, mister
rest music and you can. Why don't you come over
here and press it?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
And well, you know that's right, You be the guy, yes,
because I'm not, because I don't want to hit that
button and nothing happens.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
There's nothing worse in live broadcasting than hitting that button
and nothing happens.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Got to be on air, yeap, have to be on air.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I mean that is the one thing.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
If you're going to be a twenty four to seven channel,
you better be on twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's how you gain listeners, viewers, followers, whatever it is. Yeah,
they expect you to be on when you say you're
going to be on yep, and sometimes that just doesn't
always play out the way it is. I just think
it's outstanding. I think it's phenomenal, and I definitely need
(03:09):
to there's several books out about it, and I need
to be able to invest some of my time reading
some of the early days because I do love that.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Like even as I talked about reading the book.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Right now by Noel Monk Running with the Devil, about
Van Halen and you know how they came about and
became one of the biggest bands, et cetera, and all
of that, and just when you hear the stories Van some.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Of those stories back then were wild.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I read Slash's autobiography and there's I mean there's crazy
stuff in there.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Crazy stuff wild, yes, And just you know how again
Van Halen was coming about, you know, really burst onto
the scene in nineteen seventy eight, Yeah, nineteen seventy nine,
and you know it seemed again. You know, that's right
in line when everything's happening with ESPN. So you just
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have this convergence of how things get started and how
great they can be. And of course, you know when
you hear some of the stories, just like you don't
even know how it happened, yep, Like seriously, I mean
even some from the Van Halen stuff to I mean,
can you imagine.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You get into cash advance in your credit card for
nine grand?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Nine grand in nineteen seventy nine is a lot of money,
A ton of money. I mean right now, I'm like,
nine grand, yes, say that would do me?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, exactly. Didn't even get a cash advance right now
for nine grand? I mean it's yeah, it's mind boggling.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
But you can join the conversation eight six four two
four zero five four eight zero and let's head out
to the Ingles hotline right now, the Richmond Weaver Show.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Who's this?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Hey, Richmond?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
This is Rocky Rocky.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
How are you? My friend? Great to hear from you, sir.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Nineteen seventy nine, I was graduating from high school and
ESPN and as it was coming about, and you mentioned
all of a sudden you got on talking about Van Halen.
I was very famous in the dorms that, well, I
guess that's rocky because he's pumping out.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Van Halen.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Walking down the halls and you get, you get. You
could hear me pumping out VH. That was for sure
on my stereo. But ESPN, Yeah, I said, what was
this there there? I mean, what do you have International Badminton?
And you know all these little things that there was
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just this all sports station and and it just had
stuff that was off the radar, you know, when it
first started. And and obviously to where it has become today, yes,
and obviously ESPN and Disney and ABC and all of that,
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and now yeah, it's it's it's amazing how that little
upstart all sports network and well what kind of sports
does it have on it? Well, you know, it's not
Football's not baseball, not basketball. It was just such a
small all sports network. And then but I do remember
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it and when it was coming on and back in
the day, and like I say, it was, it started
to get a little bigger once I got to college.
Like I say, I was a senior, graduated in seventy nine,
and then by the early eighties. In the mid eighties,
obviously it had grown two more.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, and there was there's definitely a generation.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That Sports Center was a part of your childhood or
you know, part of your early adulthood, and you gravitated
towards the channel, and even to a certain degree.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I mean, I remember, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You wanted to to catch you know, the top ten
you know, Sports Center moments for you know, from that
particular day. You you wanted to see those countdowns. I mean,
you wanted to see some of the personalities, uh there,
and you know again like the Dan Patricks of the
world and the Keith.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
To stay up late for that, yeah you did, Yeah,
you had. I mean you wanted to watch Sports Center
and see Dan pat Patrick and uh god, who's this partner?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, Keith Oberman, Keith Oberman.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Yeah, so Dan and Keith or anybody else. You had
to you had to stay up late for it because
it didn't come on till late, because sports wasn't over.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah until late, that's right.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You know, it's almost like a rite of passage that
you want to stay up late for it.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yeah, you don't stay up. You stay up and you
watch the NFL, the whatever, and we want to watch
Sports Center if.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You had cable, Yes, if you had cable, if.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
You had cable, which uh but yeah, that's Kyle Ay
I did nineteen seventy nine. That long and whoever started that?
You mentioned the name?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, Bill Rasmussen. Yeah, remember that name. He's a pioneer,
Bill Rasmussen.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Yeah what you said, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Ras Mussen and he pronounced it okay.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Well, anyway, the birth of ESPN, how about that? Talking
about that and that just that's a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
About that, Yes, love it all.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Right, man, Well, thank you king in on that. Have
a good one.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Here, you do the same. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Anybody else out there, you can join the conversation again.
Eight six four two four zero five four eight zero.
I just think there's something special about DESPN, just in
terms of what has led to I mean now ESPN
College Game Day. I mean, that's its own brand almost
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in itself. That was, you know, a part of some
of the vision that I think Bill had. And again
there's so many of the former people that started in
the early days just now of course being able to
tell even more about Bill and just his infectious enthusiasm.
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And I know Bobb Lee has talked to quite extensively
about that. Even when it's those moments when you're having
those issues, you know, you have no idea how people
are reacting in terms of does EBA even like this
or is anybody even watching? And Bill was that guy
that was, Hey, we're doing great. You just keep going,
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you know. It was just that positive type of mindset,
And of course I think you had to have that
if you're going to build something like that, so different,
so unique, and I might you know, being you.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Know, talking with hyperbole here, but I'm just I.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Do think it's something that we don't pay enough attention
to because I think there's so many of us now
that's like, oh, it's just ESPN, all right, Yeah, it's automatic. Yes,
But when you really break it down to you know,
almost fifty years ago this got started and just what
it's become, I think it's phenomenal and I think we
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should take a moment to reflect, and especially when the
guy who created it and took that risk, when he
passes away at the age of ninety three, I think
this is that type of moment where you can reflect
and just think about what your or what the impact
of ESPN has had in you know, our lives and
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again people that remember it from the early days.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah, and I mean, you know you talk about kind
of I guess taking it for granted because it is
on all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Like it's also evolved a lot too.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I would be curious to see, at least from a
younger generation, how many really watch it on the TV
compared to do they stream it or they they pulling
it off the app because now, you know, I do
wonder with most people cutting the cable and.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Cutting the cord. This is the only time I really
have ESPN on a TV. You know. The rest of
the time it's in my pocket.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm getting updates, is pushing notifications articles. Yeah, I mean,
it's completely changed from where it was at its you know,
at its inception.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
There's no doubt and.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
There's part of me that misses just the traditional sports center.
And I know you can even start getting into the
conversations of course, like who owns ESPN now?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And you know how the media.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Is, however you want to describe it politically, that's so
far on the left side. And you know, I still
tend to think that we're so programmed these days and
condition that you got to be on one side or
the other and that's it, and you can't kind of
fall in the middle. But guess what, we all fall
kind of in the middle at least I do, you know.
And it depends on the situation where I might lean
(12:17):
one way or the other, but not to have it
go down the political road. But there's no doubt it
has changed in terms of, hey, just deliver the sports.
That's all we need. Yeah, you know, just sports content,
that's it. And I'm okay, just give me the sports center.
That's why I love when some of these guys come back,
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like a Rich Eisen and he does a sports center.
You know, it's the first time in twenty years that
he's done sports center, you know, those type of things.
And you hear Dan Patrick talking about ESPN, you know,
the mothership, right, you know all that and a little
bit of tongue in cheek just in terms of you know,
how he left ESPN and you know, did his own thing.
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But he's forever grateful for being on ESPN because I mean,
I know he had somewhat of a career before that. Yeah,
but that catapulted him into a completely different stratosphere. Oh yeah,
and for a lot of these It gave you that
opportunity to see some of these people, and very talented people,
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don't get me wrong, but it gave them that type
of platform. So I just think there's something unique about ESPN,
And I don't know if we would have all of
these other entities that are out there and all these
other platforms that we see now without the advent of ESPN.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
All Right, we got to hit this brake.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
We're going to continue because I've got some more thoughts
on the ap Top twenty five poll. We talked about
it yesterday that we know there's going to be teams
that are ranked in the top ten that won't be
ranked in the top twenty five at the end of
the season because history tale us that. But what about
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teams that are unranked and will they finish in the
top ten? Ooh, are there some teams sitting out there.
We'll talk about that and much more as we continue
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One of the things that we've been talking about is
the AP pole Top twenty five preseason that was just
released yesterday and again got Ohio State number one, Oregon
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number two, Georgia number three, Notre Dame number four, Texas
number five, rounding out the top five right there. And
then you do have Indiana at six, Miami seven, Texas
A and m at number eight, oh Miss number nine,
in Oklahoma number ten, and no Clemson in there, no
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South Carolina. And that's a little bit different than how
things started last year, a little bit different. And so
we do know that based on what we've seen over
the past twenty three seasons, there has been at least
one team that has been ranked in the top ten
that has failed to be ranked in the top twenty
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five at the end of the year. The past twenty
three seasons, only one year that did not happen. That
was twenty nineteen, and so we were talking about it yesterday. Okay,
who could be some of those teams in the top
ten right now that we could see falling out of
the top twenty five completely, Not just falling out of
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the top ten. I'm talking about falling out of the
top twenty five. Ohio State. I don't think that's happening. Yeah,
I think they're going to be in the top twenty five. Oregon,
I think they'll be in the top twenty five. Yeah, Georgia,
you would think that they would be in the top
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Notre Dame. Same thing. Texas.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I mean, you can go through the entire list of
the top ten and it's hard to pinpoint one team
that you would think, especially in the top five.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I mean, could Texas? Could this be the year?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I mean I think we're thinking that this could be
the year that Texas wins the national championship. Yeah, not
falling out of the top twenty five Indiana. Are they
one hit wonder in terms of winning the national championship
and he falling out?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Maybe? But I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I still feel pretty good about anything. Yeah, I don't
see it with Kurt Signetti Miami. I mean, I know
they're reloading, but yeah, I don't know Texas A and
m Okay, now you're right now, you're talking, Oh Miss,
that's the one for now Oklahoma. Yeah, okay, I think
there could be your teams. But again, as I mentioned,
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last year, Clemson was number four. Would we have thought
that Clemson was going to fall out of the top
twenty five?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
No, last year, I think no. I don't think any
of us would have seen that. And that's why I
just even looking at the active coaches in the preseason
top ten who have finished unranked. Here's a list. This
is through the various years. So last year we saw
again Dabo swinging number four. Those their prese ranking for
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the Clemson Tigers fell out of the top twenty five.
How about this Penn State James Franklin. They were number
two in the country. Now, of course they let him
go before the season ended, so there's something to be
said about how crazy that entire season went, so they
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were out of it. In twenty twenty four, we had
Mike Norville with Florida State, they were tenth, they fell
out USC and twenty twenty three number six team in
the country. Number six, they fell out with Lincoln Riley
and twenty twenty two Brent Venables and Oklahoma. Yeah, number nine,
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they fell out Baylor. In twenty twenty two they were
number ten. They fell out Matt Campbell, who's now at
Florida State, I mean, excuse me, at Penn State, where
he was at Iowa State. In twenty twenty one, they
were number seven in the country, unranked at the end
of the year. James Franklin once again at Penn State
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in twenty twenty, number seven in the country, fell out
Mario Christobal there with the Oregon Ducks.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
This is before Miami.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
They're in twenty twenty they were number nine in the
country and fell out. And how about this one. In
twenty twelve, the number one team in the country preseason
was unranked at the end of the season, number one team,
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and that was Lane Kiffen's USC Trojans.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Now Lane kiffn doesn't have to worry about it. This
year's number eleven, right right, and av top twenty five.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
So I don't know so as much as we look
at the poll and we're saying, oh, there's no way
in Ohio State or an Oregon or a Georgia. We've
seen a number one team be unranked. We've seen a
number two team just last year Penn State not be
ranked at the end of the season. But I do
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think if I'm picking out of those, I'm saying a
Texas A and m an Ole Miss in Oklahoma, and
I'm going out on a limb here, and I would
say the Georgia Bulldogs just to throw somebody in there
that's in the top five.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I don't have any good data points to tell you anything,
so I know it doesn't make good analysis when I'm
saying I'm just rolling with my gut on that, because
I'm just going to pick one team out of the
top five, I would say the Georgia Bulldogs.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Hey, sometimes rolling with the gut pays off. I'm gonna
roll with it.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, we'll see how it plays out. But hey, I'm
not putting any money on that. I can promise you that,
and I will.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I wouldn't put any money on Texas A and m
Ole Miss or Oklahoma. Now if I had, if you
forced me to put money on somebody, it.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Would be Old Miss. That seems to be the one.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That I could see a little bit of a free
fall something happening and.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Then boom, you know, and that's how it plays out. Yeah,
so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
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Speaker 2 (22:34):
Who's this.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Tray?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
What's happening in Chad? The vending machine king? How are
you my friend?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Man, I think we just lost you. Chad must have
been too hot out there.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That the snack van was overheating there the bluetooth, Yes,
there is something about you know it's Chad. You can
hear it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah you can. You can
hear a little bit of the echo there. And so
I know he's probably trying to call back in Chad.
Or do we have you back on the line there, brother.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Yeah, man, I can hear you.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, there we go. We lost you for a quick second.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Talk to us, man, let's trade on trade messing wrong
buttons again?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Man, I hit that dump button. I gotta keep you
on your toes. Yeah that's right.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Oh, okay, okay, I wasn't even saying no rady words
on the dirty box forever. Oh man, you talking about
the ESPN dude passing earlier today? Earlier, Man, I got
a little few of them memories on ESPN when I
was a kid. Man, I remember when it first come along.
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You know, I told you my mom my dad, he
got the basic cable when we were kids, and I've
told the story before, and we got to watch the
Braids and the Chicago Bulls play a lot. But the
ESPN was in the premium package. Man, we didn't get
the premium package. That rich blessed them. But there's an
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elderly couple lived next door to my mom and dad.
Bless their heart. Man, they would let me and my
buddy we were, I don't know, it's eleven ten, eleven,
twelve years old. It let us come in on that
Saturday that ESPN always broadcasting the Clinton Carolina game. My neighbors,
they would let us come in their house and watch
the Clinton Carolina game every year, me and my buddies
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that lived on the other side down the road. That man,
I just remember sitting there every year. Man, we was
decided by watching Clinton Carolina game. And it only come
on ESPN. And not the regular channels.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, that's look at that memory, and my goodness, how
nice are your neighbors allow you to do that?
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Oh yeah, man, they were awesome. And they even let
like my mom and dad were all the time, and
my buddy's grandparents went with work. Wasn't going out at night.
They would take us to the high school football games. Man,
before we could drive, Man, they would let us off
in the car. They take us to the game and
be back in our seats. That so many minutes left
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in the four quarters wing go home there. It was
pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
That's neighbors.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
You know, communities look at look at each other. Man,
you need your neighbors and other parents looked out for
the other kids and all. You know, there's a lot different.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Oh, it definitely was.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I mean I remember so many times going over to
neighbor's house across the street.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
We ran out of eggs.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You have two eggs, you know that type of stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I mean, that's just the way it was.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Oh yeah, a couple of a couple of legs. All hell,
and our neighbors knock on our door, and Mama send
us over to the neighbors knock on their door.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yes, I was the remote control and I is the
the neighborhood almost like uh got the uber person.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Hey, you know we need eggs, all right, let me
run over to mister Bayle's house.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Oh yeah, I remember being a remote guy to man
having to get up turn the channel. Yes, back then
there was only a three channels. There wasn't a lot actionally,
It ain't like it is now where you got a
couple of hundred channels.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
No. Well, I'm glad because I had to stand there,
turn turn, Okay, yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, but
we'll watch that.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I had to yeah, maneuver the rabbit ears to make
sure it all came in clear.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Billing. Aren't get a new sheet of rentals and hold
it up around?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah, no doubt that is for certain.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Well, I know ESPN has been a big part of
a lot of people's lives, and that's why I thought
it was just an opportunity, uh to take a moment
and honor the legacy of Bill Rasmussen and what he
started thinking nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Oh man, then that dude have a vision.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Man crazy.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Yes, that was awesome. Man. He did in the world
of favor. Yes, world all sports man, and I mean
he changed the face of sports man, and he really did.
You could argue that he made some of these sports
multi billion dollar businesses instead of you know, just million
dollar deals.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, I don't even know if you can make the argument, Chad,
because I think it's factual.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, I think it's pretty black and white. He definitely
did to your.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Point, he did that. Man deserves to be recognized. Man.
I don't know if they got a Hall of Fame
or something nerves for sportscasters or I don't even know
if he's, but he needs to. He needs to be
uh honored and recognize me.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I think he's been in basically every hall of fame
there is.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
That is application, Okay, Yeah, he got it, glory.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Yeah, and we appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yes, And I think that's how you do it. You
get to honor him before they pass away. And he
lived a great life ninety three years old. And again
he didn't do it until he was forty six years old.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Chad.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Yeah, man, that's just yeah about me starting out.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I know, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It's a midlife crisis instead of the Corvette. I'm going
to start a twenty four to seven sports channel.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Okay, more power to him, that's for certain.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Well, chat, We appreciate the phone call, my friend, you
call anytime, brother.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Hell little do rich trade man. We'll they two nine
always man. We love the show.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yes, sir, I appreciate it. And of course you can
also chime in on the text line eight six four
triple seven ninety five ninety three. Again the text line
eight six four triple seven ninety five ninety three. And
we're talking about the top twenty five preseason poll. Clemson
in South Carolina not ranked in the top twenty five.
Here in twenty twenty six in the AP pole. You know,
(29:03):
Clemson snuck in there at number twenty three with the
coaches poll. But last year it was a completely different
story for Clemson in South Carolina, both being ranked there
in the top fifteen. And we had Trey texting in
on the text line and not mister Trey Falco, but
Trey out there listening and says, I'd rather have South
(29:24):
Carolina and Clemson ranked in the top twenty five at the.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
End of the year instead of the beginning. Absolutely, Hello,
that's what it counts, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I think that's something that I have been consistently saying. Yes,
there's something about being you know, talked about at the
beginning of the season, and you know how the expectations
might be laid out for what the season's going to entail,
but at the end of the day, it's you have
to produce. And if you're ranked in the top twenty
(29:58):
five at the end of the season, that means you produced. Yep,
that means that you were in position to win games
and to be in contention. You know, all of those things.
And that's why when Clemson and South Carolina play each other,
I want both teams to be in the best position
possible in terms of making the game even bigger than
(30:23):
just the rivalry itself. It's already going to be big
regardless of the records. I get that, but when both
teams are really good, it changes the dynamics of that game,
oh yeah, in a massive way. And that's where I've
talked about it several times earlier in the show where
we were talking about the international games. You're not going
(30:44):
to have the same type of feel and the same
type of pageantry that you would have in a Clemson
South Carolina football game, right, that we could see on
one of the campuses when both teams are really good
at the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And that's why keep them those games.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
And again, I know these are games that basically are
almost preseason because it's quote unquote week zero.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
But my concern is, though, is that will it start creeping?
Will it's wilt because we saw it with the NFL. Yeah,
We'll do a preseason game over here in Europe, and
then it was a regular season game, and then it's
more regular season games, and then it's different locations.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Now all of a sudden, we've got one in Australia. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Well, and then not to mention, we're getting to a
point where you're about to see it every single week,
there's gonna be a preseason I mean that he if
I'm not mistaken, it's at some point in the offseason.
Because I remember JJ Watt mentioning it. I think that
was the goal, right, was to have a preseason game
or no, a preseason game, wow, an international game every
single week.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yes, that is inevitable. Yeah, and I think Roger Goodell
is already even talking more about that that we're going
to continue to see that, all right, before we get
to the daily rundown, I did want to mention as
we were talking about the AP top twenty five pole,
just in terms of the teams that are in the
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top ten at the beginning of the season and fall out.
We know it's happened twenty three seasons, twenty two of
the past twenty three seasons. The only time it didn't
happen within those twenty three seasons is in twenty nineteen.
But how about this, In twenty nine of the last
(32:32):
thirty two years, at least one team that started the
season unranked, unranked finished in the top ten in the
final AP pole. So at least one team that's unranked
out of the last twenty nine of the thirty two years,
(32:53):
they've been able to find themselves ranked in the top ten,
not the top twenty five. I'm talking about in the
top ten. So this just continues to showcase. Do we
know what we're talking about? But we think we have
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it all figured out, but we get surprises.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
But that's the beauty of it, That's why we love it.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
So when I'm you know, looking at some of these situations,
who's going to be a team that's going to be
in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Can it be a Clemson, Can it be a Kansas State?
You know? Can it be some unknown team?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
And remember Indiana was number twenty in the preseason poll
last year and came to win the national championship and
go undefeated.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
So I mean, that's almost obscure.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
That's even more preposterous than somebody that's ranked outside of
the top twenty five at the beginning of the season
and then finishes in the top ten. To go from
twenty to undefeated national champion, That's that's a feat because, Okay,
would we think that Tennessee this year their number twenty?
(34:07):
Do we think Tennessee would go undefeated and win a
national championship?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I don't see it.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
But then again, if you asked me last year about Indiana.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Saying yes, or is it going to be Utah or
is it going to be Iowa? Is it going to
be Houston, Louisville or Missouri? Could one of those teams
that are that you know, ranked in the bottom portion
of the top twenty five, could they make that run?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I just don't know, all.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Right, let me know your thoughts. Eight six four two
four zero five four eight zero. Let's head out to
the Ingles hot Line real quick, the Richmond Weavers Show.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Who's this, Hey, rich Trey, how are you guys doing.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Doing fantastic Billy? How about yourself? Brother?
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Doing very well? Listen, I'll be quick. The first thing
that comes to mind when I when when I hear
the ESPN guy that that actually was the brainchild behind
ESPN pass. You remember the scene in the second anchor
man when he was wanting New York to become a
you know, like a national broadcast syndicated like news anchor
(35:05):
and they're sitting in there arguing because it was over.
You know, they were on all night. That's the first
thing I thought of when I seen that movie was
when ESPN, ESPN, excuse me, and CNN first begin Because
if I'm not mistaken, rich maybe you can be or
Rocky or someone can remind me if I'm right. But
ESPN wasn't on all night. It wasn't a twenty four
(35:26):
to seven channel, even though it was cable. I think
it signed off at some point and then it would
come back on and then they restarted. You know. I
think that's like they started reairing the old supports centers
at the end of the day over and over again
and just stayed on twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah, I think there was a period of time early on,
from like midnight to like four am or something that
there was no programming on. I think that's writers some
somewhere within that window.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
That's correct.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
It was.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
It completely was a cultural change for anything that anybody
had seen it point. And so yeah, that guy definitely
deserves all the you know, the accolades that he's receiving
because it changed this society.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Honestly, no doubt. It definitely did.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
It changed how we consume sports, and then as Chad mentioned,
it changed the dollars that we're seeing now being spent
by these media entities to have sports on their different platforms.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Well, you know, and then there was people that argued
when you can't have the news on twenty four to
seven or sports. But I think those guys that probably
went the way of the dinosaur, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
They did.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
But I mean those people that foresaw this were actually
visionaries and for the people who wasn't around, it wasn't
an instant success, as.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
You know us.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
I mean, they didn't have the NFL to begin with,
I can remember it was big time when they first
started getting college basketball on there, and it took a
few more years after that, and then they got college
football and then they got the NFL.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
YEP exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Definitely took time and again just even getting the first
and second round of the NC DOUBLEA Tournament because nobody
had aired that before nineteen eighty and that was their
first entree into it, and that was all they got.
They didn't get any more of the NC DOUBLEA Tournament.
They just got the first and second round and that
was all.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Well. I remember the first big thing that they got
other than college football was the ACC Tournament in basketball.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, and I thought that was huge.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
It was at the time because that's when the ACC
had all those characters.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
You know, the guy at NC State of Jim Valvano, Jim.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Valvano, Bobby Crimmins obviously, we know who was at North
Carolina at the time, and you know they had a
big name at Maryland at the time.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Soft.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Yeah, that was a big time. So anyway, just to digress,
go on to the next topic that you had earlier.
There's definitely going to be an NFL Europe. There's going
to be a division, and it's going to be four
teams in Europe. There's no doubt about that. They're not.
When they expand into Europe, they're not going to just
have one or two teams. They're going to have an
entire division.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I agree, Yes, I think it makes perfect sense in
terms of if you're going to do it, you need
to do it that way, don't just put one team
out there.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
And I think the NFL understands that.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Boy, you can see it coming. There's no doubt about that.
And that's not to say that it won't expand into
Canada or Mexico too, But when they expand into Europe,
there'll be a complete division, because it wouldn't make sense otherwise.
All right, last thing, you was talking about remote controls.
People who are old enough to remember this won't know.
This is gonna be funny to some people, but this
is the honest go's true. Before they were remote controls, Richmond,
(38:32):
obviously the kids were right there next to the console,
you know, because we had console TV back then. But
then the first remote control I remember seeing it had
a wire to it. It is about ten or twelve feet,
that's right, And us kids remember, Richmond, us kids, was like,
oh my god, thank god, we don't have to turn
the TV no more.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Our life is saved.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
We're out of the slavery of changing the channel.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Right, yes, exactly right.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Anyway, Yeah, you get to a break. I appreciate it.
Talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Thank you, brother, We appreciate it. Yes, and we do
have to hit this break. But real quick, let's hit
the latest headlines. It's only one game, and that's to
take care of mine. Hitting the latest headlines. It's the
Daily Rundown.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
All right, the Daily Rundown, brought to you by Tuck
and Howell. How about this In the NFL, veteran wide
receiver Keenan Allen has agreed to a one year deal
worth eight million dollars with the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Interesting, yeah, how about that? Yeah, so here we go.
And how about the potential.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
N L MVP with a signature moment against Chicago or
I should say they're with the Chicago Cubs. But Pete
Crow Armstrong hit a home run to lead off and
then also a home run to walk off the game
(40:00):
last night.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
That's pretty special right there.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, I would say that's amazing that you can do
that and then also get ready to buckle up for
the NFL on Netflix. The forty nine ers in the
Rams in Week one, Packers in the Rams on the
first ever Thanksgiving Eve game, then Christmas Game Day, You've
got the Packers and the Bills. Packers and the Bears,
Bills and Broncos. And then Week eighteen with playoff stakes
(40:27):
and the NFL Honors. Netflix is now a big part
of the NFL. It is changing, that is for certain,
all right. That is the Daily Rundown brought to you
by Tuck and How Plumbing, Heating and Air. We'll wrap
up this Tuesday edition of the Richmond Weaver Show presented
by Ingles Markets right here on one of four nine
Fox Sports Upstate. Wrapping up this Tuesday edition of The
(40:49):
Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets here on one
o four nine Fox Sports Upstate. Yes, we have been
moving pretty fast these past two hours. And stay right
here on one of four nine Fox Sports Upstate Sports
Oocracy with Jeremy Green and Tank Spencer and mister Trey
Falco doing yeoman's work again behind the board and behind
(41:11):
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and also just get the iHeartRadio app and you listen
whenever and wherever you want to. As we're getting closer
and closer. Next week, we'll definitely be doing a lot
more of previewing college football, making some of our predictions.
The rest of the week, we will be diving into
(41:32):
a little bit more of NFL, starting to look at, okay,
who can be some contenders and who might be some
pre tenders, so to speak. But so we've got a
lot of that to get to for the rest of
the next ten days or so before we really get
true games started. Even if it's week zero, it's manufactured
(41:55):
week donut, whatever it is, but it is going to
be live football action and then ultimately we'll get to
reactionary mondays.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Let's got I know, we're excited about that.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Also, let's walk back in a little bit of history,
and you can skip the music, mister Falco, because again,
we're running out of time. I've got to do a
better job of controlling things here, so at least we
can make OTD a little bit more of Okay, hey,
it's a it's a truth. Yeah, that's right, and we
always will, there's no doubt. But we do need to
(42:26):
step back in a little bit of history OTD. On
this date, August eighteenth, nineteen eighty two, Pete Rose would
become Major League Baseball's all time leader in career plate appearances.
We know he already did in hits in Major League
Baseball fifteen thousand, eight hundred and ninety plate appearances his career.
(42:49):
The closest active player right now is Freddy Freeman with nine,
eight hundred and eighty five SEZ.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
That's crazy, all right. That is OTD.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
And that is this Tuesday edition of The Richmond We Show,
presented by Ingalls Markets. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Hour two of this Tuesday edition of the Richmond Weavers Show,
presented by Engles Markets, rolls on right here one O
four nine Fox Sports Upstate. We are in full force,
mister Trey Falco behind the board and behind the mic
as usual, and you can join the conversation eight six
four two four zero five four eight zero. Again that
(00:21):
number is eight six four two four zero five to
four eight zero. As we've been talking about ESPN and
the founder and the visionary Bill Rasmussen has passed away
at the age of ninety three.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Again.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Starting ESPN in September of nineteen seventy nine, he got
a cash advance on his credit card nine thousand dollars,
bought a satellite.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And the rest is history.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And oh, we want to just say it's just that easy,
Just nine grand satellite and you'll build one of the
greatest conglomerates.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
In media that we've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I don't think it was just that easy, No, I'm
sure there were quite a lot of hurdles and sent backs. Okay,
it's twenty twenty six and we still have technology issues.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Can you imagine nineteen nine.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Some of the technical technological issues that probably came about
and at times we didn't see it, you know, those
early days nineteen seventy nine, nineteen eighty and just not
being on the air whatever it might be, barely probably
able to pay your bills, whatever it is. And again,
(01:43):
if it's twenty twenty six and we're still having technical issues,
you can't tell me. At nineteen seventy nine they didn't. Now,
of course it was completely different. I think we're so
sophisticated now it's almost, you know, one of those things.
The more sophisticated you get, I think you just run
the opportunity of having potentially more issues. Yeah, but still
(02:06):
with the level of technology that was available at the time.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know, they had their issues.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Also, I tell you right now, I don't know that
i'd want to be the guy that press that button.
I don't want to be the first one. Yeah, mister
rest music and you can. Why don't you come over
here and press it?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
And well, you know that's right, You be the guy, yes,
because I'm not, because I don't want to hit that
button and nothing happens.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
There's nothing worse in live broadcasting than hitting that button
and nothing happens.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Got to be on air, yeap, have to be on air.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I mean that is the one thing.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
If you're going to be a twenty four to seven channel,
you better be on twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's how you gain listeners, viewers, followers, whatever it is. Yeah,
they expect you to be on when you say you're
going to be on yep, and sometimes that just doesn't
always play out the way it is. I just think
it's outstanding. I think it's phenomenal, and I definitely need
(03:09):
to there's several books out about it, and I need
to be able to invest some of my time reading
some of the early days because I do love that.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Like even as I talked about reading the book.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Right now by Noel Monk Running with the Devil, about
Van Halen and you know how they came about and
became one of the biggest bands, et cetera, and all
of that, and just when you hear the stories Van some.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Of those stories back then were wild.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I read Slash's autobiography and there's I mean there's crazy
stuff in there.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Crazy stuff wild, yes, And just you know how again
Van Halen was coming about, you know, really burst onto
the scene in nineteen seventy eight, Yeah, nineteen seventy nine,
and you know it seemed again. You know, that's right
in line when everything's happening with ESPN. So you just
(04:05):
have this convergence of how things get started and how
great they can be. And of course, you know when
you hear some of the stories, just like you don't
even know how it happened, yep, Like seriously, I mean
even some from the Van Halen stuff to I mean,
can you imagine.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You get into cash advance in your credit card for
nine grand?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Nine grand in nineteen seventy nine is a lot of money,
A ton of money. I mean right now, I'm like,
nine grand, yes, say that would do me?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, exactly. Didn't even get a cash advance right now
for nine grand? I mean it's yeah, it's mind boggling.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
But you can join the conversation eight six four two
four zero five four eight zero and let's head out
to the Ingles hotline right now, the Richmond Weaver Show.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Who's this?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Hey, Richmond?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
This is Rocky Rocky.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
How are you? My friend? Great to hear from you, sir.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Nineteen seventy nine, I was graduating from high school and
ESPN and as it was coming about, and you mentioned
all of a sudden you got on talking about Van Halen.
I was very famous in the dorms that, well, I
guess that's rocky because he's pumping out.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Van Halen.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Walking down the halls and you get, you get. You
could hear me pumping out VH. That was for sure
on my stereo. But ESPN, Yeah, I said, what was
this there there? I mean, what do you have International Badminton?
And you know all these little things that there was
(05:45):
just this all sports station and and it just had
stuff that was off the radar, you know, when it
first started. And and obviously to where it has become today, yes,
and obviously ESPN and Disney and ABC and all of that,
(06:07):
and now yeah, it's it's it's amazing how that little
upstart all sports network and well what kind of sports
does it have on it? Well, you know, it's not
Football's not baseball, not basketball. It was just such a
small all sports network. And then but I do remember
(06:33):
it and when it was coming on and back in
the day, and like I say, it was, it started
to get a little bigger once I got to college.
Like I say, I was a senior, graduated in seventy nine,
and then by the early eighties. In the mid eighties,
obviously it had grown two more.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, and there was there's definitely a generation.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That Sports Center was a part of your childhood or
you know, part of your early adulthood, and you gravitated
towards the channel, and even to a certain degree.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I mean, I remember, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You wanted to to catch you know, the top ten
you know, Sports Center moments for you know, from that
particular day. You you wanted to see those countdowns. I mean,
you wanted to see some of the personalities, uh there,
and you know again like the Dan Patricks of the
world and the Keith.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
To stay up late for that, yeah you did, Yeah,
you had. I mean you wanted to watch Sports Center
and see Dan pat Patrick and uh god, who's this partner?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, Keith Oberman, Keith Oberman.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Yeah, so Dan and Keith or anybody else. You had
to you had to stay up late for it because
it didn't come on till late, because sports wasn't over.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah until late, that's right.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You know, it's almost like a rite of passage that
you want to stay up late for it.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yeah, you don't stay up. You stay up and you
watch the NFL, the whatever, and we want to watch
Sports Center if.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You had cable, Yes, if you had cable, if.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
You had cable, which uh but yeah, that's Kyle Ay
I did nineteen seventy nine. That long and whoever started that?
You mentioned the name?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, Bill Rasmussen. Yeah, remember that name. He's a pioneer,
Bill Rasmussen.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Yeah what you said, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Ras Mussen and he pronounced it okay.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Well, anyway, the birth of ESPN, how about that? Talking
about that and that just that's a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
About that, Yes, love it all.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Right, man, Well, thank you king in on that. Have
a good one.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Here, you do the same. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Anybody else out there, you can join the conversation again.
Eight six four two four zero five four eight zero.
I just think there's something special about DESPN, just in
terms of what has led to I mean now ESPN
College Game Day. I mean, that's its own brand almost
(09:06):
in itself. That was, you know, a part of some
of the vision that I think Bill had. And again
there's so many of the former people that started in
the early days just now of course being able to
tell even more about Bill and just his infectious enthusiasm.
(09:29):
And I know Bobb Lee has talked to quite extensively
about that. Even when it's those moments when you're having
those issues, you know, you have no idea how people
are reacting in terms of does EBA even like this
or is anybody even watching? And Bill was that guy
that was, Hey, we're doing great. You just keep going,
(09:51):
you know. It was just that positive type of mindset,
And of course I think you had to have that
if you're going to build something like that, so different,
so unique, and I might you know, being you.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Know, talking with hyperbole here, but I'm just I.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Do think it's something that we don't pay enough attention
to because I think there's so many of us now
that's like, oh, it's just ESPN, all right, Yeah, it's automatic. Yes,
But when you really break it down to you know,
almost fifty years ago this got started and just what
it's become, I think it's phenomenal and I think we
(10:31):
should take a moment to reflect, and especially when the
guy who created it and took that risk, when he
passes away at the age of ninety three, I think
this is that type of moment where you can reflect
and just think about what your or what the impact
of ESPN has had in you know, our lives and
(10:53):
again people that remember it from the early days.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah, and I mean, you know you talk about kind
of I guess taking it for granted because it is
on all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Like it's also evolved a lot too.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I would be curious to see, at least from a
younger generation, how many really watch it on the TV
compared to do they stream it or they they pulling
it off the app because now, you know, I do
wonder with most people cutting the cable and.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Cutting the cord. This is the only time I really
have ESPN on a TV. You know. The rest of
the time it's in my pocket.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I'm getting updates, is pushing notifications articles. Yeah, I mean,
it's completely changed from where it was at its you know,
at its inception.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
There's no doubt and.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
There's part of me that misses just the traditional sports center.
And I know you can even start getting into the
conversations of course, like who owns ESPN now?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And you know how the media.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Is, however you want to describe it politically, that's so
far on the left side. And you know, I still
tend to think that we're so programmed these days and
condition that you got to be on one side or
the other and that's it, and you can't kind of
fall in the middle. But guess what, we all fall
kind of in the middle at least I do, you know.
And it depends on the situation where I might lean
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one way or the other, but not to have it
go down the political road. But there's no doubt it
has changed in terms of, hey, just deliver the sports.
That's all we need. Yeah, you know, just sports content,
that's it. And I'm okay, just give me the sports center.
That's why I love when some of these guys come back,
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like a Rich Eisen and he does a sports center.
You know, it's the first time in twenty years that
he's done sports center, you know, those type of things.
And you hear Dan Patrick talking about ESPN, you know,
the mothership, right, you know all that and a little
bit of tongue in cheek just in terms of you know,
how he left ESPN and you know, did his own thing.
(13:01):
But he's forever grateful for being on ESPN because I mean,
I know he had somewhat of a career before that. Yeah,
but that catapulted him into a completely different stratosphere. Oh yeah,
and for a lot of these It gave you that
opportunity to see some of these people, and very talented people,
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don't get me wrong, but it gave them that type
of platform. So I just think there's something unique about ESPN,
And I don't know if we would have all of
these other entities that are out there and all these
other platforms that we see now without the advent of ESPN.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
All Right, we got to hit this brake.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
We're going to continue because I've got some more thoughts
on the ap Top twenty five poll. We talked about
it yesterday that we know there's going to be teams
that are ranked in the top ten that won't be
ranked in the top twenty five at the end of
the season because history tale us that. But what about
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teams that are unranked and will they finish in the
top ten? Ooh, are there some teams sitting out there.
We'll talk about that and much more as we continue
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One of the things that we've been talking about is
the AP pole Top twenty five preseason that was just
released yesterday and again got Ohio State number one, Oregon
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number two, Georgia number three, Notre Dame number four, Texas
number five, rounding out the top five right there. And
then you do have Indiana at six, Miami seven, Texas
A and m at number eight, oh Miss number nine,
in Oklahoma number ten, and no Clemson in there, no
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South Carolina. And that's a little bit different than how
things started last year, a little bit different. And so
we do know that based on what we've seen over
the past twenty three seasons, there has been at least
one team that has been ranked in the top ten
that has failed to be ranked in the top twenty
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five at the end of the year. The past twenty
three seasons, only one year that did not happen. That
was twenty nineteen, and so we were talking about it yesterday. Okay,
who could be some of those teams in the top
ten right now that we could see falling out of
the top twenty five completely, Not just falling out of
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the top ten. I'm talking about falling out of the
top twenty five. Ohio State. I don't think that's happening. Yeah,
I think they're going to be in the top twenty five. Oregon,
I think they'll be in the top twenty five. Yeah, Georgia,
you would think that they would be in the top
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Notre Dame. Same thing. Texas.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I mean, you can go through the entire list of
the top ten and it's hard to pinpoint one team
that you would think, especially in the top five.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I mean, could Texas? Could this be the year?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I mean I think we're thinking that this could be
the year that Texas wins the national championship. Yeah, not
falling out of the top twenty five Indiana. Are they
one hit wonder in terms of winning the national championship
and he falling out?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Maybe? But I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I still feel pretty good about anything. Yeah, I don't
see it with Kurt Signetti Miami. I mean, I know
they're reloading, but yeah, I don't know Texas A and
m Okay, now you're right now, you're talking, Oh Miss,
that's the one for now Oklahoma. Yeah, okay, I think
there could be your teams. But again, as I mentioned,
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last year, Clemson was number four. Would we have thought
that Clemson was going to fall out of the top
twenty five?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
No, last year, I think no. I don't think any
of us would have seen that. And that's why I
just even looking at the active coaches in the preseason
top ten who have finished unranked. Here's a list. This
is through the various years. So last year we saw
again Dabo swinging number four. Those their prese ranking for
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the Clemson Tigers fell out of the top twenty five.
How about this Penn State James Franklin. They were number
two in the country. Now, of course they let him
go before the season ended, so there's something to be
said about how crazy that entire season went, so they
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were out of it. In twenty twenty four, we had
Mike Norville with Florida State, they were tenth, they fell
out USC and twenty twenty three number six team in
the country. Number six, they fell out with Lincoln Riley
and twenty twenty two Brent Venables and Oklahoma. Yeah, number nine,
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they fell out Baylor. In twenty twenty two they were
number ten. They fell out Matt Campbell, who's now at
Florida State, I mean, excuse me, at Penn State, where
he was at Iowa State. In twenty twenty one, they
were number seven in the country, unranked at the end
of the year. James Franklin once again at Penn State
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in twenty twenty, number seven in the country, fell out
Mario Christobal there with the Oregon Ducks.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
This is before Miami.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
They're in twenty twenty they were number nine in the
country and fell out. And how about this one. In
twenty twelve, the number one team in the country preseason
was unranked at the end of the season, number one team,
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and that was Lane Kiffen's USC Trojans.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Now Lane kiffn doesn't have to worry about it. This
year's number eleven, right right, and av top twenty five.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
So I don't know so as much as we look
at the poll and we're saying, oh, there's no way
in Ohio State or an Oregon or a Georgia. We've
seen a number one team be unranked. We've seen a
number two team just last year Penn State not be
ranked at the end of the season. But I do
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think if I'm picking out of those, I'm saying a
Texas A and m an Ole Miss in Oklahoma, and
I'm going out on a limb here, and I would
say the Georgia Bulldogs just to throw somebody in there
that's in the top five.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
And I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I don't have any good data points to tell you anything,
so I know it doesn't make good analysis when I'm
saying I'm just rolling with my gut on that, because
I'm just going to pick one team out of the
top five, I would say the Georgia Bulldogs.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Hey, sometimes rolling with the gut pays off. I'm gonna
roll with it.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, we'll see how it plays out. But hey, I'm
not putting any money on that. I can promise you that,
and I will.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I wouldn't put any money on Texas A and m
Ole Miss or Oklahoma. Now if I had, if you
forced me to put money on somebody, it.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Would be Old Miss. That seems to be the one.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That I could see a little bit of a free
fall something happening and.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Then boom, you know, and that's how it plays out. Yeah,
so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Hey eight six four two four zero five four eight zero.
That is the Ingles hot line. You can join the conversation.
Unles's head out there right now. The Richmond Weavers show.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Who's this.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Tray?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
What's happening in Chad? The vending machine king? How are
you my friend?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Man, I think we just lost you. Chad must have
been too hot out there.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That the snack van was overheating there the bluetooth, Yes,
there is something about you know it's Chad. You can
hear it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah you can. You can
hear a little bit of the echo there. And so
I know he's probably trying to call back in Chad.
Or do we have you back on the line there, brother.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Yeah, man, I can hear you.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, there we go. We lost you for a quick second.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Talk to us, man, let's trade on trade messing wrong
buttons again?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Man, I hit that dump button. I gotta keep you
on your toes. Yeah that's right.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Oh, okay, okay, I wasn't even saying no rady words
on the dirty box forever. Oh man, you talking about
the ESPN dude passing earlier today? Earlier, Man, I got
a little few of them memories on ESPN when I
was a kid. Man, I remember when it first come along.
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You know, I told you my mom my dad, he
got the basic cable when we were kids, and I've
told the story before, and we got to watch the
Braids and the Chicago Bulls play a lot. But the
ESPN was in the premium package. Man, we didn't get
the premium package. That rich blessed them. But there's an
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elderly couple lived next door to my mom and dad.
Bless their heart. Man, they would let me and my
buddy we were, I don't know, it's eleven ten, eleven,
twelve years old. It let us come in on that
Saturday that ESPN always broadcasting the Clinton Carolina game. My neighbors,
they would let us come in their house and watch
the Clinton Carolina game every year, me and my buddies
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that lived on the other side down the road. That man,
I just remember sitting there every year. Man, we was
decided by watching Clinton Carolina game. And it only come
on ESPN. And not the regular channels.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, that's look at that memory, and my goodness, how
nice are your neighbors allow you to do that?
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Oh yeah, man, they were awesome. And they even let
like my mom and dad were all the time, and
my buddy's grandparents went with work. Wasn't going out at night.
They would take us to the high school football games. Man,
before we could drive, Man, they would let us off
in the car. They take us to the game and
be back in our seats. That so many minutes left
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in the four quarters wing go home there. It was
pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
That's neighbors.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
You know, communities look at look at each other. Man,
you need your neighbors and other parents looked out for
the other kids and all. You know, there's a lot different.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Oh, it definitely was.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I mean I remember so many times going over to
neighbor's house across the street.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
We ran out of eggs.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You have two eggs, you know that type of stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I mean, that's just the way it was.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Oh yeah, a couple of a couple of legs. All hell,
and our neighbors knock on our door, and Mama send
us over to the neighbors knock on their door.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yes, I was the remote control and I is the
the neighborhood almost like uh got the uber person.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Hey, you know we need eggs, all right, let me
run over to mister Bayle's house.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Oh yeah, I remember being a remote guy to man
having to get up turn the channel. Yes, back then
there was only a three channels. There wasn't a lot actionally,
It ain't like it is now where you got a
couple of hundred channels.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
No. Well, I'm glad because I had to stand there,
turn turn, Okay, yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, but
we'll watch that.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I had to yeah, maneuver the rabbit ears to make
sure it all came in clear.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Billing. Aren't get a new sheet of rentals and hold
it up around?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Yeah, no doubt that is for certain.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Well, I know ESPN has been a big part of
a lot of people's lives, and that's why I thought
it was just an opportunity, uh to take a moment
and honor the legacy of Bill Rasmussen and what he
started thinking nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Oh man, then that dude have a vision.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Man crazy.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Yes, that was awesome. Man. He did in the world
of favor. Yes, world all sports man, and I mean
he changed the face of sports man, and he really did.
You could argue that he made some of these sports
multi billion dollar businesses instead of you know, just million
dollar deals.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, I don't even know if you can make the argument, Chad,
because I think it's factual.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, I think it's pretty black and white. He definitely
did to your.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Point, he did that. Man deserves to be recognized. Man.
I don't know if they got a Hall of Fame
or something nerves for sportscasters or I don't even know
if he's, but he needs to. He needs to be
uh honored and recognize me.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I think he's been in basically every hall of fame
there is.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
That is application, Okay, Yeah, he got it, glory.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Yeah, and we appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yes, And I think that's how you do it. You
get to honor him before they pass away. And he
lived a great life ninety three years old. And again
he didn't do it until he was forty six years old.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Chad.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Yeah, man, that's just yeah about me starting out.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I know, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It's a midlife crisis instead of the Corvette. I'm going
to start a twenty four to seven sports channel.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Okay, more power to him, that's for certain.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Well, chat, We appreciate the phone call, my friend, you
call anytime, brother.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Hell little do rich trade man. We'll they two nine
always man. We love the show.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yes, sir, I appreciate it. And of course you can
also chime in on the text line eight six four
triple seven ninety five ninety three. Again the text line
eight six four triple seven ninety five ninety three. And
we're talking about the top twenty five preseason poll. Clemson
in South Carolina not ranked in the top twenty five.
Here in twenty twenty six in the AP pole. You know,
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Clemson snuck in there at number twenty three with the
coaches poll. But last year it was a completely different
story for Clemson in South Carolina, both being ranked there
in the top fifteen. And we had Trey texting in
on the text line and not mister Trey Falco, but
Trey out there listening and says, I'd rather have South
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Carolina and Clemson ranked in the top twenty five at the.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
End of the year instead of the beginning. Absolutely, Hello,
that's what it counts, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I think that's something that I have been consistently saying. Yes,
there's something about being you know, talked about at the
beginning of the season, and you know how the expectations
might be laid out for what the season's going to entail,
but at the end of the day, it's you have
to produce. And if you're ranked in the top twenty
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five at the end of the season, that means you produced. Yep,
that means that you were in position to win games
and to be in contention. You know, all of those things.
And that's why when Clemson and South Carolina play each other,
I want both teams to be in the best position
possible in terms of making the game even bigger than
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just the rivalry itself. It's already going to be big
regardless of the records. I get that, but when both
teams are really good, it changes the dynamics of that game,
oh yeah, in a massive way. And that's where I've
talked about it several times earlier in the show where
we were talking about the international games. You're not going
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to have the same type of feel and the same
type of pageantry that you would have in a Clemson
South Carolina football game, right, that we could see on
one of the campuses when both teams are really good
at the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And that's why keep them those games.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
And again, I know these are games that basically are
almost preseason because it's quote unquote week zero.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
But my concern is, though, is that will it start creeping?
Will it's wilt because we saw it with the NFL. Yeah,
We'll do a preseason game over here in Europe, and
then it was a regular season game, and then it's
more regular season games, and then it's different locations.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Now all of a sudden, we've got one in Australia. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Well, and then not to mention, we're getting to a
point where you're about to see it every single week,
there's gonna be a preseason I mean that he if
I'm not mistaken, it's at some point in the offseason.
Because I remember JJ Watt mentioning it. I think that
was the goal, right, was to have a preseason game
or no, a preseason game, wow, an international game every
single week.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yes, that is inevitable. Yeah, and I think Roger Goodell
is already even talking more about that that we're going
to continue to see that, all right, before we get
to the daily rundown, I did want to mention as
we were talking about the AP top twenty five pole,
just in terms of the teams that are in the
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top ten at the beginning of the season and fall out.
We know it's happened twenty three seasons, twenty two of
the past twenty three seasons. The only time it didn't
happen within those twenty three seasons is in twenty nineteen.
But how about this, In twenty nine of the last
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thirty two years, at least one team that started the
season unranked, unranked finished in the top ten in the
final AP pole. So at least one team that's unranked
out of the last twenty nine of the thirty two years,
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they've been able to find themselves ranked in the top ten,
not the top twenty five. I'm talking about in the
top ten. So this just continues to showcase. Do we
know what we're talking about? But we think we have
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it all figured out, but we get surprises.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
But that's the beauty of it, That's why we love it.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
So when I'm you know, looking at some of these situations,
who's going to be a team that's going to be
in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Can it be a Clemson, Can it be a Kansas State?
You know? Can it be some unknown team?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
And remember Indiana was number twenty in the preseason poll
last year and came to win the national championship and
go undefeated.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
So I mean, that's almost obscure.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
That's even more preposterous than somebody that's ranked outside of
the top twenty five at the beginning of the season
and then finishes in the top ten. To go from
twenty to undefeated national champion, That's that's a feat because, Okay,
would we think that Tennessee this year their number twenty?
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Do we think Tennessee would go undefeated and win a
national championship?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I don't see it.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
But then again, if you asked me last year about Indiana.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Saying yes, or is it going to be Utah or
is it going to be Iowa? Is it going to
be Houston, Louisville or Missouri? Could one of those teams
that are that you know, ranked in the bottom portion
of the top twenty five, could they make that run?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I just don't know, all.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Right, let me know your thoughts. Eight six four two
four zero five four eight zero. Let's head out to
the Ingles hot Line real quick, the Richmond Weavers Show.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Who's this, Hey, rich Trey, how are you guys doing.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Doing fantastic Billy? How about yourself? Brother?
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Doing very well? Listen, I'll be quick. The first thing
that comes to mind when I when when I hear
the ESPN guy that that actually was the brainchild behind
ESPN pass. You remember the scene in the second anchor
man when he was wanting New York to become a
you know, like a national broadcast syndicated like news anchor
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and they're sitting in there arguing because it was over.
You know, they were on all night. That's the first
thing I thought of when I seen that movie was
when ESPN, ESPN, excuse me, and CNN first begin Because
if I'm not mistaken, rich maybe you can be or
Rocky or someone can remind me if I'm right. But
ESPN wasn't on all night. It wasn't a twenty four
(35:26):
to seven channel, even though it was cable. I think
it signed off at some point and then it would
come back on and then they restarted. You know. I
think that's like they started reairing the old supports centers
at the end of the day over and over again
and just stayed on twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah, I think there was a period of time early on,
from like midnight to like four am or something that
there was no programming on. I think that's writers some
somewhere within that window.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
That's correct.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
It was.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
It completely was a cultural change for anything that anybody
had seen it point. And so yeah, that guy definitely
deserves all the you know, the accolades that he's receiving
because it changed this society.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Honestly, no doubt. It definitely did.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
It changed how we consume sports, and then as Chad mentioned,
it changed the dollars that we're seeing now being spent
by these media entities to have sports on their different platforms.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Well, you know, and then there was people that argued
when you can't have the news on twenty four to
seven or sports. But I think those guys that probably
went the way of the dinosaur, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
They did.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
But I mean those people that foresaw this were actually
visionaries and for the people who wasn't around, it wasn't
an instant success, as.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
You know us.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
I mean, they didn't have the NFL to begin with,
I can remember it was big time when they first
started getting college basketball on there, and it took a
few more years after that, and then they got college
football and then they got the NFL.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
YEP exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Definitely took time and again just even getting the first
and second round of the NC DOUBLEA Tournament because nobody
had aired that before nineteen eighty and that was their
first entree into it, and that was all they got.
They didn't get any more of the NC DOUBLEA Tournament.
They just got the first and second round and that
was all.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Well. I remember the first big thing that they got
other than college football was the ACC Tournament in basketball.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, and I thought that was huge.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
It was at the time because that's when the ACC
had all those characters.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
You know, the guy at NC State of Jim Valvano, Jim.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Valvano, Bobby Crimmins obviously, we know who was at North
Carolina at the time, and you know they had a
big name at Maryland at the time.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Soft.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Yeah, that was a big time. So anyway, just to digress,
go on to the next topic that you had earlier.
There's definitely going to be an NFL Europe. There's going
to be a division, and it's going to be four
teams in Europe. There's no doubt about that. They're not.
When they expand into Europe, they're not going to just
have one or two teams. They're going to have an
entire division.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I agree, Yes, I think it makes perfect sense in
terms of if you're going to do it, you need
to do it that way, don't just put one team
out there.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
And I think the NFL understands that.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Boy, you can see it coming. There's no doubt about that.
And that's not to say that it won't expand into
Canada or Mexico too, But when they expand into Europe,
there'll be a complete division, because it wouldn't make sense otherwise.
All right, last thing, you was talking about remote controls.
People who are old enough to remember this won't know.
This is gonna be funny to some people, but this
is the honest go's true. Before they were remote controls, Richmond,
(38:32):
obviously the kids were right there next to the console,
you know, because we had console TV back then. But
then the first remote control I remember seeing it had
a wire to it. It is about ten or twelve feet,
that's right, And us kids remember, Richmond, us kids, was like,
oh my god, thank god, we don't have to turn
the TV no more.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Our life is saved.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
We're out of the slavery of changing the channel.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Right, yes, exactly right.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Anyway, Yeah, you get to a break. I appreciate it.
Talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Thank you, brother, We appreciate it. Yes, and we do
have to hit this break. But real quick, let's hit
the latest headlines. It's only one game, and that's to
take care of mine. Hitting the latest headlines. It's the
Daily Rundown.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
All right, the Daily Rundown, brought to you by Tuck
and Howell. How about this In the NFL, veteran wide
receiver Keenan Allen has agreed to a one year deal
worth eight million dollars with the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Interesting, yeah, how about that? Yeah, so here we go.
And how about the potential.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
N L MVP with a signature moment against Chicago or
I should say they're with the Chicago Cubs. But Pete
Crow Armstrong hit a home run to lead off and
then also a home run to walk off the game
(40:00):
last night.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
That's pretty special right there.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, I would say that's amazing that you can do
that and then also get ready to buckle up for
the NFL on Netflix. The forty nine ers in the
Rams in Week one, Packers in the Rams on the
first ever Thanksgiving Eve game, then Christmas Game Day, You've
got the Packers and the Bills. Packers and the Bears,
Bills and Broncos. And then Week eighteen with playoff stakes
(40:27):
and the NFL Honors. Netflix is now a big part
of the NFL. It is changing, that is for certain,
all right. That is the Daily Rundown brought to you
by Tuck and How Plumbing, Heating and Air. We'll wrap
up this Tuesday edition of the Richmond Weaver Show presented
by Ingles Markets right here on one of four nine
Fox Sports Upstate. Wrapping up this Tuesday edition of The
(40:49):
Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets here on one
o four nine Fox Sports Upstate. Yes, we have been
moving pretty fast these past two hours. And stay right
here on one of four nine Fox Sports Upstate Sports
Oocracy with Jeremy Green and Tank Spencer and mister Trey
Falco doing yeoman's work again behind the board and behind
(41:11):
the mic. So make sure you keep it right here
and also just get the iHeartRadio app and you listen
whenever and wherever you want to. As we're getting closer
and closer. Next week, we'll definitely be doing a lot
more of previewing college football, making some of our predictions.
The rest of the week, we will be diving into
(41:32):
a little bit more of NFL, starting to look at, okay,
who can be some contenders and who might be some
pre tenders, so to speak. But so we've got a
lot of that to get to for the rest of
the next ten days or so before we really get
true games started. Even if it's week zero, it's manufactured
(41:55):
week donut, whatever it is, but it is going to
be live football action and then ultimately we'll get to
reactionary mondays.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Let's got I know, we're excited about that.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Also, let's walk back in a little bit of history,
and you can skip the music, mister Falco, because again,
we're running out of time. I've got to do a
better job of controlling things here, so at least we
can make OTD a little bit more of Okay, hey,
it's a it's a truth. Yeah, that's right, and we
always will, there's no doubt. But we do need to
(42:26):
step back in a little bit of history OTD. On
this date, August eighteenth, nineteen eighty two, Pete Rose would
become Major League Baseball's all time leader in career plate appearances.
We know he already did in hits in Major League
Baseball fifteen thousand, eight hundred and ninety plate appearances his career.
(42:49):
The closest active player right now is Freddy Freeman with nine,
eight hundred and eighty five SEZ.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
That's crazy, all right. That is OTD.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
And that is this Tuesday edition of The Richmond We Show,
presented by Ingalls Markets. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
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