April 28, 2025 • 45 mins
PGA Tour Sr. Producer and Host, Celia Palermo joins Rich on the Thursday edition during the "Inside the Ropes driven by the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX" segment to talk golf and what it was like helping create the PGA Tour Originals "Tiger 2000" that aired on CBS.
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little bit of golf that will be in the next segment.
And I don't know if you saw the PGA Tour
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original called Tiger two thousand, which chronicled the sensational season
that Tiger Woods had in two thousand on the PGA Tour,
where he won nine tournaments that year out of twenty
that he participated in in three majors, just a dominant performance.
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And we get to talk with senior producer and PGA
Tour host Celia Palermo and get her insight as far
as putting together that type of project, and then talk
other things around golf, with the resurgence of Rory Michaelroy
and him getting the career Grand Slam and also the
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Green Jacket, which he had been fighting for for so
many years, So we get to talk to her about
that and even maybe I'm going to talk to her
about some of the rising stars, and we have a
fantastic event here with some of those stars that are
trying to get onto the PGA Tour, the Cornfery Tour
coming to Greenville that first week of June June tewid
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the NFL Draft tonight, it's interesting just what we're starting
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to hear with some of the things happening with certain players. Again,
all things look like it is inevitable that cam Ward
is going to be the number one overall pick. We
do know the Tennessee Titans are for sure not going
to move down. But where will other players go? Where
will Travis Hunter go? Where we'll Abdul Carter go, Shador Sanders,
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some big names and the domino effects that might go
into it, and a lot of the things that we're hearing.
But how much can you truly attribute to truth telling
or lying? Because we do know right now it's the
lying season with the NFL because nobody wants to show
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their hands as far as what they want to do
from a personnel standpoint. But the NFL Draft and even
the NFL got me thinking, and I'm relating this back
to food. So bear with me here just for a moment,
because there's something about we love the NFL, and we've
talked about it several times that there's just this gravitational
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pool to the NFL. Is it the gladiator aspect of it?
Is it because it fits so well on TV? Is
it just the ability to cheer for a community, a
community team, all of those things that are considered, and
we're seeing the elite of the elite on the football
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side playing and that's something that I think a lot
of fans gravitate towards. And then what we've always talked about,
the unpredictability. It's unscripted. We don't know how it's going
to happen. You never know when you're going to see
some crazy plays, you never know when you're going to
see some greatness. And that's something that we definitely like.
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But there's also something that I think is interesting that
is the NFL similar to bacon. Is it just that
irresistible that it's something that it doesn't matter where you
see bacon, what time of day it is. I know,
for me, I'll take bacon all day long. And I
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think there's something that is the same with the NFL.
And I know that's crazy to create some type of
analogy with bacon and the NFL, but it's irresistible. It's
something that when you walk past a plate of bacon,
it's hard not just to grab a piece, it's almost impossible,
especially with the smell that it hits you and you're done.
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And I think the NFL has that same type of pool.
You're flipping through the channels on a Sunday and then bam,
you see Patrick Mahomes and he's got some crazy behind
the back type of pass that you haven't seen in
the NFL. Or you've got Derrick Henry trucking some linebacker.
There's something about that just hooks us in. And I
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think it's the NFL does just such a great job
of marketing what they have. We've talked about it several times.
And even if you're not really planning on watching the NFL.
Next thing, you know, you see some of those plays,
you see that team that you love, or you see
that team that you don't want to win. The next thing,
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you know, you're yelling at the TV. You're talking about it.
Just like that bacon, you walk by it. Next thing
you know, you've grabbed it and now you're going to
eat it. And there's something about that because the NFL
just seems to be irresistible at times. And also how
about the versatility. This is another thing too. Bacon's not
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just for breakfast. You can throw it in salads. What
about putting on a burger, wrap it around filet mignon.
There's all types of thing, and I think that's the
same way with the NFL. You won't high flying offense, Well,
there's several teams that are like that. You won't smash
mouth defense. Hey, the Steelers got you, Ravens got you.
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You want drama? How about all of the trade rumors
that we have, the coaching scenarios playing out, and then hey,
don't even forget about the Aaron Rodgers saga and the
ups and downs with Aaron Rodgers and what he's going
to do, especially this year. So there's something about that
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that everything seems to be centered around some of these
things in terms of why the NFL has the gravitas
that it does. And then also how about tradition. And
I know you can look at bacon and it's traditionally
for breakfast. We talked about it, but you can have
it in any other type of meals. But it's something
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about bacon on a Sunday morning breakfast. Something about that.
And I think there's something to be said about the
NFL the tradition that goes along with it. When we
think NFL, especially you think Sundays, that is the day
for the NFL. Now, I know there have been all
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types of scenarios playing out where the NFL is all
about being able to hijack other days. Go ahead and
get in front of some of these other professional sports leagues,
even college football, and we might as well go ahead
and call college football pro sports now. But there's something
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about the tradition. And then even you look at a
Monday night and we think NFL when you're talking Monday
nights in the fall, and then Thanksgiving. When you think
about Thanksgiving, you think about football and what we see
on TV, the teams, the Lions, the Cowboys, the Packers,
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all those teams that we traditionally see. I think it's
something about it. And then also I think there's something
about the NFL that's very similar to bacon. It's addictive.
It's hard just to eat one piece of bacon. You
seem to be reaching for another. And I think the
NFL is the same way. It's not just one game,
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it's not just one play. You want to see more.
And that's why the entities, the TV media people, they
get that. They understand that. Why do you think there's
so much NFL content going around twenty four to seven?
And we make jokes about it that you could talk
about the NFL three hundred and sixty five twenty four
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to seven. And I think that's absolutely true, because you can.
It's addictive, it's something that we want to be in
the know about, it's something that we want to continue
to have those conversations. And I think that's something special.
And then also the NFL and the bacon can do
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this too, and that's bring people together. It seems to
be a unifier. I know what, at least it is
for me. It's easy. We know food is an opportunity
of bringing people together. And there's not a whole lot
of people that don't like bacon. I know there's some
I know there's some vegetarians, there's vegans out there that
are not going to eat bacon. But what's interesting, how
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many other bacon substitutes do we see that they want
to emulate Bacon, and that's the way the NFL is.
There's a lot of leagues out there that want to
be the NFL, but you're not going to be that
Spring football UFL, XFL. Yeah, they want to be the NFL,
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but they're not. But the NFL, we do know it
brings people together. And again that can be from a
perspective of watching the games, talking about the games, betting
on the games, whatever it is. But there's something universal
about all of that. So I know it might be
a little bit of a stretch, but I'm running with it.
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I am going with it that the NFL and Bacon
are very similar for all of those things that I
talked about, And that's why there's so much coverage for
the NFL Draft and being able to understand the season
of hope for teams in the NFL Draft and how
it's going to play out. And we'll be able to
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break down all of the Round one picks tomorrow. But
what's your team going to do? And you can join
the conversation eight six four two four zero five four
eight zero, But first we're going to take this break
and we will be back. We're going to talk some
golf inside the Ropes driven by the BMW Charity program
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presented by td CENTX is next as we get to
talk to Celia Palermo, senior producer for PGA Tour and
studio host. And also she doesn't play by play, we'll
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gas pump. And there are so many things going on
in the sports world right now. The NFL Draft is
tonight and three game threes in the NBA Playoffs, so
get ready for that and also don't forget right now.
The PGA Tour teeking off today with the Zurich Classic
of New Orleans, and the first major of the season
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for the LPGA starts today as well with the Chevron Championship.
It is definitely time to talk even more golf.
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From the fairways to the headlights. It's inside the Ropes.
You're all access pass to golf's biggest names in fast moments.
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It is time for inside the Roades driven by the
BMW charity program presented by td Cenics. And this past
weekend we saw Justin Thomas get back in the win
column with his victory at the RBC Heritage. But before that,
I don't know if you saw this, but before the
coverag started on CBS, there was a PGA Tour Originals
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documentary called Tiger two thousand, which relived that historic season
by Tiger Woods in two thousand, winning nine tournaments and
three majors and what many have described as the most
dominant season in golf history. And I thought it was
extremely well done, especially from the Storytelly side, and you
know I love storytelling. And so now we're on to
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bring on senior producer and PGA Tour host Celia Palermo,
who was instrumental in bringing this project to life. And Celia,
so glad you could join us. And this is an
obvious question, but I do have to ask how excited
were you to participate and be a part of this project.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me.
And second of all, I mean talk about the honor
of a lifetime not only to work on a project
involving Tiger, but to work on a project specifically about
Tiger's two thousand season. You know, I was five years
old in two thousand of dating myself there and I
know how old I am, right, So I was five
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at the time. I didn't get to live the two
thousand season the way a lot of golf fans did,
and so getting the opportunity to work on this show,
I got to live and breathe those moments for myself
as a golf enthusiast some would say a golf sico.
So it was just the thrill of a lifetime to
able to really immerse myself in those moments.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, I know it had to be. And again I
thought it was extremely well done, especially from the storytelling side,
and there's so many factors that go into that. And
just talk about though your approach to being able to
capture that and bring the significance of that season to
life there on the screen.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, you know, it's a difficult task when you think
about telling a story about something that happened twenty five
years prior, because you don't just want to recap what
happened twenty five years prior. You want to bring something fresh,
you want to learn something new, And so I think
that was the key here, a way to think about
what can we talk about from this season that gave
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something to our viewers that they took away from this
that they thought about, Huh, you know, maybe I didn't
know that about this season. Maybe that's not something I
could learn or just know just from looking at the
stat line from that year. So it's for us, you know,
we approached this show out, Okay, what can we do
to make this stand out from just a historical look back,
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And for us, that meant doing new interviews with key
characters that year to get their perspective. And that also
meant finding that or those key storylines that we could
look into. And so one key storyline that we highlighted
was Tiger's golf ball switch mid season and how big
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of a deal that was in his success two thousand
and so to do that, we interviewed the guy who
did the research and development in two thousand from Nike
to talk about that. That's one thing we did to
bring some fresh perspective beyond the interviews and so just
little things like that to make the show teach you
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something new beyond just hey, he won nine times, he
won by a lot, and he won three majors, so.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
That kind of thing, that's right. And obviously, yes, we
know those type of details, the nine wins, the three majors,
but learning details like you just described behind the scenes
type of content about the golf balls. I never knew that,
and I felt that was fascinating to understand a little
bit as you're peeling the curtain bag, so to speak,
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in any other standout moments from your research as you're
putting this project together.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Well, I think when you think about this show, you
think about, Okay, he won nine times, three majors, he
won by astronomical margins. But why And so that was
the key for us was to uncover the why. And
one of we nailed it down to two key factors.
It was the golf ball switch. So he originally was
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playing a Titleist Professional ninety, which was a lound construction
golf ball, which was the standard type of golf ball
that most players were playing at the time, and then
he switched to a solid construction golf ball, which gave
him a big advantage over a lot of players at
the time, particularly at the majors that year, because this
construction golf ball just gave him a lot more control
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in the venues that they were playing that year. They
were playing at Pebble Beach, they were playing at Saint Andrews,
and this golf ball gave him better control in the
wind at that those particular places, which allowed him to
win by crazy margins. You think fifteen shots, you think
eight shots. And then the second thing that down to
was the mental tension that he was able to create
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over his opponents. You talk about intimidation, it was this
you know, intangible feeling that players described, this force field,
these Jedi like powers that players described back then, feeling
that Tiger was on site when they were playing against him.
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It's just they felt, even when they had their best,
it just wasn't good enough if he was out there.
They knew they had to bring better than their a
game to even stand half of a chance. And yeah,
I mean, just to be able to explore those stories lines,
I think those are the things that stood out to
me as being able to attribute a why to the
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things that he did that year. I want people to
come away having watched any work, work on you know,
having felt that they've learned something new, or that they
enjoyed what they just watched, or that it made them
feel something. You know. It's it's what I set out
to do when I entered this industry, and so this
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show is no different and telling a good story of
whether it's new orals, it's paramount to me.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, and so your role right now, why did you
decide to jump on board with PGA Tour and in
the golf world.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Well, I was a sports reporter for five years before
I took this job at the PGA Tour in twenty
twenty one. I first worked in Augusta, Georgia, of course,
home with a Master's tournament, and I was fortunate enough
to cover the twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen Masters. Of course,
Tiger won in twenty nineteen, so that was a pretty
amazing experience, yep, to witness that. And then my second
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sports reporting gig was in the quad cities of Iowa
and Illinois where the Jounder Classic was. And so throughout
my sports reporting career, I specifically directed it to markets
where there was a PGA Tour event or a golf
heavy market because I always knew that I wanted to
be involved in golf, and so I actually met a
PGA Tour staff member at the Junjer Classic back in
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summer of twenty twenty one and got to talking to
her about just opportunities at the PGA Tour and we
stayed in touch, and so when an opening opened up
in the late summer of twenty twenty one, I reached
out to her and just said, hey, if you you know,
send my resume along to the right person, then'd be
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super helpful. And you know, I ended up doing a
couple interviews and taking a job and in fall of
twenty twenty one and haven't looked back since. But for me,
taking the job of the PGAUR was the opportunity to
focus on just golf and that was always the dream
for me. And so I've been fortunate enough to not
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only use my storytelling skills but also my on air
skills here in this role at the PGA Tour, and
so I feel very fortunate. My role is kind of
a loot to create my own adventure here, and so
it's just been a dream come true. I mean, it
really is the dream job to be able to work
at the PGA tour.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
For me, Yeah, when did you fall in love with golf?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
It's hard to pinpoint a moment or a time, but
I like to say that it's always been written in
the starters for me. You know, I learned actually through
working on Tiger two thousand that my grandpa was a
volunteer at the two thousand US Open that pubble Beach,
and he's since passed. He passed in twenty thirteen, and
so I never got to ask him about his experience
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there because in twenty thirteen I had just graduated high
school and it was a freshman in college, and so
I never got to talk to him about stuff like this.
But golf is always been in my family. You know.
I went to play with my dad and my grandpa
and spend time on the range with them. But you know,
I covered golf at Georgia when I was in school,
and you know, at college internships and stuff like that.
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It's just kind of always been in my blood. But
I'd say I started taking it really seriously at my
first job in Augusta because I saw it as an
opportunity where there weren't a lot of women at the
time in golf besides a few like Dottie Pepper and
at the time, you know, Amanda Balionis was just as
a star in golf, and so you know, there's certainly
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women who have come before those two, but at the
time those were the you know, the prominent two. And
so I thought as an opportunity to kind of stake
my claim in an industry where you know, more and
more women you.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Know need to be for sure. And how often do
you get to play?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You know, not as often I would like because I
travel a ton for work, so you know, I get
to see a lot of incredible venues. I don't get
to play a ton. And so, yeah, that game needs
some more work, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah. Celia Plermo is our guest here on Inside the
Ropes driven by the BMW charity program presented by td CinEx,
and she's the senior producer and host PGA tour and
play by play. And so, Celia, I have to ask
you the difference between hosting there in studio versus some
of the play by play stuff that you do.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Oh my gosh. I mean, it's like two different sides
of your brain, right, I've been. I mean, it's hard
to hard to even describe because I obviously started my
career as a sports supporter and that's totally different from hosting, right,
and so that's different from that, and then getting into
play by play. I didn't really start doing play by play, gosh.
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I did play by play in college a little bit,
but I didn't do play by play until I had
the opportunity actually in twenty twenty three here we did
a Cornfierry Tour seventy second whole live stream our social
media platform, and that was my first like big play
by play gig gosh. I mean you think about, you know,
stream of consciousness there, I was Solow on the air
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doing that. I didn't have an analyst, it was just me,
So that was a lot. But I think the difference
now for me looking at them is play by play,
you are giving quick bursts of information. You are setting
up your analysts to do their job right. You're setting
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up if you have a walker in the field or
someone doing an interview, you're setting up context for them
as well. You're filling in details that the viewer cannot
see for themselves. So that's play by play for me.
Hosting is all about personality, having fun, you know, that's
that's really the difference.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
For me for sure. And I do have to go
back to the Tiger two thousand PGA tour originals. How
difficult was it though, with the content that you had
being able to carve that down, because I imagine you
guys had so much content that didn't make it or
just fell on the cutting floor, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
You know, you'd be surprised. Yes, we had to cut
it down for time because it was a network yes,
first airing it aired on CBS, and then we posted
it to YouTube after, so you do have a time
constraint there. But in terms of like actual content, I mean,
we covered every single win and so we didn't leave
anything out in terms of that. But yeah, sure there
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were some sound bites that you'd like to include, but
you know, honestly, I'd say that we included everything that
we really really wanted to. Everything that we cut was
just added both and I don't feel that we left
out that the viewer really really needed. So I'm really
proud of how we handled that because we really only trimmed. Gosh,
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I'd say we came in three minutes longer than it
needed to be, so wow, over an hour long show.
You know that's really not much, No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Well, that goes to show you just some of the
pre production that you guys were probably able to do
to really hone in on some of the storylines and
make sure you just captured that type of content. So
very well done from that perspective. Yes, And Cecilia Palermo
is our guest here, senior producer and host and play
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by play for a PGA tour, and so I do
have to ask you also though, because you were able
to follow Tiger in that season, and then you even
mentioned getting to see Tiger and the return to glory
as Jim nance said, they're winning the Masters in twenty nineteen,
and we just saw Rory McElroy be able to accomplish
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the Masters, get that green jacket that he has been
fighting for for so many years, and finally getting the
career Grand Slam. Just how important do you think that
career Grand Slam was for Rory? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I mean you could just see it was an emotional
release for him. It was he finally got that weight
off his shoulders. It's I mean, it's just something that
he's wanted for so long, and you know, for so
many years wondered if he'd ever achieved it. I'm sure
he wondered if he ever achieved it. I mean, in
that moment, he got to let go of every single
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doubt that he ever had if he'd ever achieved something
like that, because it would be very easy to think it. Golf,
nothing is guaranteed. You know, you could have a very
successful career and never win, right And so obviously Rory's
had an extremely successful career winning the amount that he
has won, but he could have never achieved that and
still had gone on to have a Hall of Fame career.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
And so just from your perspective, you know, how important
is it to see some of these players, you know,
coming from the corn Ferry Tour and then you know,
making it to the new rising stars on the PGUR
like a Scottie Scheffler. The Max Home was those type
of players.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean look at their classic leader board, right.
I've got Isaiah so Linda and Kevin Fellow who are
tied for first right now. They're both Corntrry Tour products
that just graduated this last year. Currently eleventh on the
points list, he has three top tens this season. He
seems like he's kind of always in the hunt. He's
a fun one to watch. Davis Chatfield. He has been
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on the Corntrairy Tour since I think twenty twenty two
or twenty twenty three, and he has three top tens
this season, including a runner up. Sin As Shanny's ninth
on the points list. And you know what he lacks
in size, he makes up for game and he is
one of the funniest players on tour as well, and
so he's a fun guy to watch. And then Logan McAllister.
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He won in Chile. He nearly got his card in
twenty twenty three, and so he's kind of always hovering
around there. And then one last guy to watch out
for it says Alistair Doherty. He's currently twenty second on
the points list, so he's right outside the number right now.
Top twenty at the end of the season get their
PGA Tour cards. But his five top twenty five finishes
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this season, including a pair of top tens. But he
missed his PGA Tour card twice last season, once at
the Cornberry Tour Championship by one or two shots and
once at Q School by one shot. He actually nearly
won the Myrtle Beach Classic on the PGA Tour last
year he finished ruin a rop. So this guy's got
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big game. He is going to be a PGA Tour
winner one day, and it's not a matter of if,
it's a matter of when. And he is knocking on
the door. So he's a fun name to watch as well.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, I love it, and I appreciate that kind of
going through some of the names, and some of these
guys do have charisma and there's those type of guys
that fans can gravitate towards. But Cecilia, we greatly appreciate
you being able to join us here. One last question though,
is we wrap up. If people didn't get a chance
to watch the Tiger two thousand, where can they watch
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it now?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Well, I appreciate the plug. You can watch Tiger two
thousand if you have Fast Network channels, which is like
Roku things like that. Tiger two thousand is on the
PGA to Fast Network, or you can watch it on YouTube.
Just search Tiger two thousand and it comes up. It's
on our YouTube page. I'd be thrilled if you watched it,
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and I just appreciate the opportunity to come on and
talk about it.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yes, by all means, we greatly appreciate, Cecilia. I know
you're going to be busy over the next coming weeks,
but maybe we can get you to Greenville at some point.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Oh yeah, it would be an honor. It would be
an honor.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
That would be fantastic. Cecilia, thank you so much. We
greatly appreciate it and look forward to having you back
on real soon.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Awesome, have a good one. Thank a right.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Thank you. That is Celia Palermo, Senior producer, host and
play by play for PGA Tour. And again, go watch
Tiger two thousand. I promise you you will not be
disappointed as we'll continue this Thursday edition of the Richmond
Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets right after this live
from the England Studios in downtown Greenville, right here on
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North Main Street. This is the Thursday edition of the
Richmond Weavers Show, presented by our good friends at Ingles Markets.
And as you can tell, mister Trey Falco, who is
typically behind the board and behind the mic, is out,
but we do expect him to come back. It might
not be until next week, but mister Falco will be back.
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So running a little bit solo, and we always want
you to join the conversation though eight six four two
four zero five four eight zero. Again that numbers eight
six four two four zero, five four eight zero. As
we are only hours away from the NFL Draft, and
they've got the countdown clock on ESPN four hours, nineteen
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minutes and zero five seconds until the first pick at
least is when the coverage is going to start. And
from all reports are is that the Titans are going
to take cam Moore. Now, there are also some reports
right now that the Giants were very aggressive as far
as trying to trade up to number one, which I
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found that very interesting by the Titans. Apparently we're not
having any scenarios where they would play out that would
play out, I should say that they would want to
trade that number one overall pick because they do believe
that cam Ward is going to be their guy, going
to be their quarterback of the future and lead them
into an opportunity of having success. And if you didn't hear,
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the other reports were that Warren Moon, who has his
jersey number one, retired with that organization because Houston moved
to Tennessee at becoming the Tennessee Titans from the Houston Oilers,
and Warren Moon has come out and said that he's
thinking about it that as far as cam Ward being
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able to wear number one, So that will be interesting
also in all types of different storylines. But I just
wonder what's going to be the big storyline heading into
this weekend as far as will there be other teams
that try to get in a better position either moving
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up in the draft, but also there's something about moving
down in the draft, especially when you're in some of
these classes when you're talking about quarterbacks and how they
might not be the quarterback class that's heavy in terms
of star power, and I think that's what this quarterback
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class is right now. I think it might be a
reach on some of these guys as far as the
success that they can have. But again, that's part of
the NFL draft. That's why we talked about it. It
is an art, it's not a science, and it's very
difficult to evaluate how these players will be in the future.
And that's the challenge for these general managers, for these
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coaches and all of the player personnel that's associated with
each of these teams, and obviously from a fan standpoint,
this is something that people are wanting to make sure
that their team gets it right. They want to have
the best success as possible. But it's very challenging, very difficult.
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But if you have some thoughts on the NFL draft,
give us a call. Eight six four two four zero
five to four eight zero. All right, let's take a
look at some of the latest headlines. It's only one game,
and that's to take care of Benn.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Hitting the latest headlines. It's the daily rundown, all.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Right, We're going to start with some NBA action. Yes,
as we saw games last night, the Celtics take a
two to zero series lead against Orlando Magic and Jason
Tatum not playing one oh nine to one hundred. But
the Celtics are just a such a well balanced team.
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I don't think they're going to have any issues against
the Magic. Now, maybe the Magic get one game in
this series as they go back to Orlando, because I
do believe that Paulo Banco and Franz Wagner are very
good and a lot of people don't understand how good
the Magic defensively have played this season. But this is
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going up against one of the best offensive teams, if
not the best offensive team in the NBA with the
Boston Celtics, so it will be challenging for them, but
they might be able to sneak out to one victory.
And Donovan Mitchell took over there in the game last
night as the Cavaliers get the victory over the Heat,
because the heat they still just don't go away, even
without Jimmy Butler. I mean, it's amazing how the Heat
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continue to hang around in some of these games. But
it was Donovan Mitchell that he was able to take
over right there at the fourth quarter, last few minutes
of that game. Thirty points, six rebounds, and six assists
for the star of the number one seed the Cavaliers
there as they take a two elite and I do
believe that's going to be a sweep. Now, there was
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talks about the Warriors could they sweep the upstart Houston Rockets,
and knowing what Houston was able to do in the
regular season as the second best record in the Western Conference.
But the Warriors, Jimmy Butler, you hope there's not an
injury there now. I do believe that the Warriors are
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overall a better team than the Rockets. But you've got
to be careful with the Rockets here because they have
some bravado. They've got a little bit of that it factor.
They might not have the experience in a playoff setting,
but sometimes being able to make plays, get out and
transition being athletic the way Houston is. If Steph Curry
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and the rest of the who are not on it
could be a challenge for the Warriors as they lose
one O nine to ninety four last night, And as
we mentioned, there are more games tonight the Knicks and
the Pistons as the Pistons host the Knicks there in Detroit.
And I do think Kate Cunningham. I think he is
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a true rising star and for whatever reason, I just
feel I think this might be something is brewing as
an upset. I think the Pistons might be able to
win this series as the series is tied right now,
and the Thunder and the Grizzlies. Sorry, I know it's
going back to Memphis, but the Thunder are just too much.
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I see this as a sweet Maybe Memphis gets one
just because a Jah Morant can go off and keep
a game close for a period of time. But I'm
not certain that this will happen. And then the big
one tonight the Nuggets and the Clippers. This series fascinates
me because you've got the best player in the NBA
right now in my opinion, and that's the Joker, Nikola
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Jokic averaging almost thirty points per game, twelve almost thirteen
rebounds per game, and over ten assists per game, so
he's averaging a triple double. But the Clippers, you've got
Kawhi Leonard. And I'm telling you it is so good
for the NBA to have Kawhi Leonard out on the
court being healthy and his shot making ability is elite
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of the elites. And we had Jason Temp, host of
Hoops Tonight on yesterday in our weekly NBA segment and
him talking about what makes Kawhi Leonard so unique is
his base and how stable he is and you can't
knock him off of his base. And being able to
have such a stable base where you're using your legs
so much when you're shooting, that makes a big advantage
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for Kawhi Leonard. So it'll be interesting to see how
that series is going to play out, as it is
tied right now, and that is about it. I do
believe that that series is a coin flip. Either team
there could win all right. In college football, RG three,
Robert Griffin third, has been hired by Fox Sports as
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the second analysts there, taking over for Brock Curwart or
the number two college football analyst. And I didn't think
this was going to take long for RG three to
find employment. There had been the reports where he got
fired from ESPN and what he was going to do next,
And I think this is a good fit. There's no
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question that he's got some charisma. I know he can
be polarizing to a certain degree. Maybe he tries to
go over the top a little bit, but he is
at least entertaining, and he also knows what he's talking about.
So I think that is a good hire. And going
back to the NBA, we talked about the Knicks. How
about Jalen Brunson being named the twenty twenty four to
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twenty five KIA NBA Clutch Player of the Year based
on nomination from the NBA head coaches. Now, he received
four hundred and twenty six total votes total points I
should say, seventy first place votes and the Joker, Nikola
Jokic was second with three hundred and twelve total points
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and twenty six first place votes. Jalen Brunson more clutch
than the Joker. I know Jalen Brunson is the man
for the Knicks, but more clutch than the Joker. I
don't doubt that Jalen Brunson is probably a better defender
than the Joker. But my goodness, the disparity between the
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gap right there. I thought that would have been a
little bit closer. But we do know Jokic is in
consideration for NBA MVP. This is almost a secondary type
of an award there, and I can see why they
did give it to Jalen Brunson, but they gap there.
I just don't understand the big gap from that perspective.
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And also in college football, Reese Davis has signed an
extension with ESPN to continue his role with Game Day
ESPN one of the true entertainment things that we love
about college football on Saturdays, and maybe they've gone off
the rails a little bit on some of their content,
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especially when they're trying it seems too hard with Pat McAfee.
And then now we know the news of Lee Coorso
retiring and his last broadcast will be on August the
thirtieth Opening day of college football, what we would say
opening day of college football, but a great job for
ESPN to be able to continue to have Reese Davis
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running the ship there. And then how about this. YouTube
TV announced that they will soon allow customers to build
their own multiview options, including both sports and non sports content.
So rather than just having it where it's automatically chosen
for you from predetermined options, you'll be able to create
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your own customized version. And we've been talking about that
for quite a bit that that's what we want to see,
especially when you don't have the ability to some of
this a la carte ordering through cable or now streaming.
I do think this is a step in the right direction,
being able to let you choose what content you want
on some of those multiviews. All right, that's some of
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the latest headlines and we will continue this Thursday edition
of The Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets. Right
after this, the Thursday edition of The Richmond Weaver Show
presented by Ingles Markets continues right here on one oh
four nine Fox Sports Upstate as we are running through
this hour, and stay tuned right now to this station
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game on with John Ellis is coming up next and
he'll get you ready for the NFL Draft with a
lot of excitement happening tonight and which team is going
to please their fans and which team is not going
to please their fans. We'll take a look at all
of that and look at the first round tomorrow and
see what surprises that happened on the opening night of
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the NFL Draft, and again a spectacle there in Green Bay, Wisconsin,
with reports are the parking is extremely expensive for fans
wanting to attend, with homeowners there that live so close
to lambeau Field that they're charging well over one hundred
dollars just to be able to park. So there is
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a financial benefit for some of these homeowners there. They're
trying to make a little bit of money here. But
it is April the twenty fourth, So let's walk back
in a little bit of history.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
What happened on this day. Let's go back in history
to the moments you might have forgotten and the ones
you'll never forget. It's OTD on this day, all.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Right, We'll go back to nineteen sixty three. Bob Coosey
would end his thirteen year career by scoring eighteen points
as the Boston Celtics would win their fifth consecutive NBA championship,
beating the LA Lakers one twelve to one oh nine
in Game number six, And also in nineteen sixty seven,
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the Philadelphia seventy six ers would win an NBA championship
in six games with a one hundred and twenty five
to one to twenty two comeback victory over the San
Francisco Warriors. Nineteen seventy four. Tampa Bay, Tampa, Florida is
awarded the NFL's twenty seventh franchise, and it would take
them a long time before they got good, but they
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have won two Super Bowls yees, so do keep that
in mind. Then, in nineteen eighty eight, how about this,
the NFL draft Auburn tied end Andre Bruce the first
pick number one overall by the Atlanta Falcons, a tight
end number one overall. Yes, things have definitely changed over
the years. Now, I do think Tyler Warren's going to
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go in the top fifteen, possibly the top ten. Their
tight end, David Robinson in nineteen ninety four would score
seventy one points to win the NBA scoring title as
the Spurs would end the regular season with a one
twelve to ninety seven victory over the Clippers, and it
was the fourth Robinson was the fourth NBA player to
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score more than seventy points in a game and he
would out shine Shaquille O'Neal to be able to get
that scoring title. And in two thousand and four, Eli
Manning was the number one overall pick, but he did
not go to the Chargers. We do know that that
is OTD and that is the Thursday edition of the
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And knowing that we've got the NFL Draft tonight, what
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eight zero. Again that numbers eight six four two four
zero five four eight zero. We will be talking a
little bit of golf that will be in the next segment.
And I don't know if you saw the PGA Tour
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original called Tiger two thousand, which chronicled the sensational season
that Tiger Woods had in two thousand on the PGA Tour,
where he won nine tournaments that year out of twenty
that he participated in in three majors, just a dominant performance.
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And we get to talk with senior producer and PGA
Tour host Celia Palermo and get her insight as far
as putting together that type of project, and then talk
other things around golf, with the resurgence of Rory Michaelroy
and him getting the career Grand Slam and also the
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Green Jacket, which he had been fighting for for so
many years, So we get to talk to her about
that and even maybe I'm going to talk to her
about some of the rising stars, and we have a
fantastic event here with some of those stars that are
trying to get onto the PGA Tour, the Cornfery Tour
coming to Greenville that first week of June June tewid
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through the eighth with the BMW Charity Program presented by
td SINX, So a lot of things to talk to
her about in our weekly golf segment called Inside the
Ropes driven by the BMW Charity Program presented by td
SINX So make sure you stick around for that. But
the NFL Draft tonight, it's interesting just what we're starting
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to hear with some of the things happening with certain players. Again,
all things look like it is inevitable that cam Ward
is going to be the number one overall pick. We
do know the Tennessee Titans are for sure not going
to move down. But where will other players go? Where
will Travis Hunter go? Where we'll Abdul Carter go, Shador Sanders,
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some big names and the domino effects that might go
into it, and a lot of the things that we're hearing.
But how much can you truly attribute to truth telling
or lying? Because we do know right now it's the
lying season with the NFL because nobody wants to show
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their hands as far as what they want to do
from a personnel standpoint. But the NFL Draft and even
the NFL got me thinking, and I'm relating this back
to food. So bear with me here just for a moment,
because there's something about we love the NFL, and we've
talked about it several times that there's just this gravitational
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pool to the NFL. Is it the gladiator aspect of it?
Is it because it fits so well on TV? Is
it just the ability to cheer for a community, a
community team, all of those things that are considered, and
we're seeing the elite of the elite on the football
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side playing and that's something that I think a lot
of fans gravitate towards. And then what we've always talked about,
the unpredictability. It's unscripted. We don't know how it's going
to happen. You never know when you're going to see
some crazy plays, you never know when you're going to
see some greatness. And that's something that we definitely like.
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But there's also something that I think is interesting that
is the NFL similar to bacon. Is it just that
irresistible that it's something that it doesn't matter where you
see bacon, what time of day it is. I know,
for me, I'll take bacon all day long. And I
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think there's something that is the same with the NFL.
And I know that's crazy to create some type of
analogy with bacon and the NFL, but it's irresistible. It's
something that when you walk past a plate of bacon,
it's hard not just to grab a piece, it's almost impossible,
especially with the smell that it hits you and you're done.
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And I think the NFL has that same type of pool.
You're flipping through the channels on a Sunday and then bam,
you see Patrick Mahomes and he's got some crazy behind
the back type of pass that you haven't seen in
the NFL. Or you've got Derrick Henry trucking some linebacker.
There's something about that just hooks us in. And I
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think it's the NFL does just such a great job
of marketing what they have. We've talked about it several times.
And even if you're not really planning on watching the NFL.
Next thing, you know, you see some of those plays,
you see that team that you love, or you see
that team that you don't want to win. The next thing,
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you know, you're yelling at the TV. You're talking about it.
Just like that bacon, you walk by it. Next thing
you know, you've grabbed it and now you're going to
eat it. And there's something about that because the NFL
just seems to be irresistible at times. And also how
about the versatility. This is another thing too. Bacon's not
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just for breakfast. You can throw it in salads. What
about putting on a burger, wrap it around filet mignon.
There's all types of thing, and I think that's the
same way with the NFL. You won't high flying offense, Well,
there's several teams that are like that. You won't smash
mouth defense. Hey, the Steelers got you, Ravens got you.
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You want drama? How about all of the trade rumors
that we have, the coaching scenarios playing out, and then hey,
don't even forget about the Aaron Rodgers saga and the
ups and downs with Aaron Rodgers and what he's going
to do, especially this year. So there's something about that
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that everything seems to be centered around some of these
things in terms of why the NFL has the gravitas
that it does. And then also how about tradition. And
I know you can look at bacon and it's traditionally
for breakfast. We talked about it, but you can have
it in any other type of meals. But it's something
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about bacon on a Sunday morning breakfast. Something about that.
And I think there's something to be said about the
NFL the tradition that goes along with it. When we
think NFL, especially you think Sundays, that is the day
for the NFL. Now, I know there have been all
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types of scenarios playing out where the NFL is all
about being able to hijack other days. Go ahead and
get in front of some of these other professional sports leagues,
even college football, and we might as well go ahead
and call college football pro sports now. But there's something
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about the tradition. And then even you look at a
Monday night and we think NFL when you're talking Monday
nights in the fall, and then Thanksgiving. When you think
about Thanksgiving, you think about football and what we see
on TV, the teams, the Lions, the Cowboys, the Packers,
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all those teams that we traditionally see. I think it's
something about it. And then also I think there's something
about the NFL that's very similar to bacon. It's addictive.
It's hard just to eat one piece of bacon. You
seem to be reaching for another. And I think the
NFL is the same way. It's not just one game,
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it's not just one play. You want to see more.
And that's why the entities, the TV media people, they
get that. They understand that. Why do you think there's
so much NFL content going around twenty four to seven?
And we make jokes about it that you could talk
about the NFL three hundred and sixty five twenty four
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to seven. And I think that's absolutely true, because you can.
It's addictive, it's something that we want to be in
the know about, it's something that we want to continue
to have those conversations. And I think that's something special.
And then also the NFL and the bacon can do
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this too, and that's bring people together. It seems to
be a unifier. I know what, at least it is
for me. It's easy. We know food is an opportunity
of bringing people together. And there's not a whole lot
of people that don't like bacon. I know there's some
I know there's some vegetarians, there's vegans out there that
are not going to eat bacon. But what's interesting, how
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many other bacon substitutes do we see that they want
to emulate Bacon, and that's the way the NFL is.
There's a lot of leagues out there that want to
be the NFL, but you're not going to be that
Spring football UFL, XFL. Yeah, they want to be the NFL,
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but they're not. But the NFL, we do know it
brings people together. And again that can be from a
perspective of watching the games, talking about the games, betting
on the games, whatever it is. But there's something universal
about all of that. So I know it might be
a little bit of a stretch, but I'm running with it.
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I am going with it that the NFL and Bacon
are very similar for all of those things that I
talked about, And that's why there's so much coverage for
the NFL Draft and being able to understand the season
of hope for teams in the NFL Draft and how
it's going to play out. And we'll be able to
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break down all of the Round one picks tomorrow. But
what's your team going to do? And you can join
the conversation eight six four two four zero five four
eight zero, But first we're going to take this break
and we will be back. We're going to talk some
golf inside the Ropes driven by the BMW Charity program
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presented by td CENTX is next as we get to
talk to Celia Palermo, senior producer for PGA Tour and
studio host. And also she doesn't play by play, we'll
talk to her right after this. The Thursday edition of
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The Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets continues on
one oh four nine Fox Sports Upstate. And as we're
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Ingles for all of your grocery needs this weekend, and
don't forget to get your Ingles Advantage card so you
can save money inside the store and even at the
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gas pump. And there are so many things going on
in the sports world right now. The NFL Draft is
tonight and three game threes in the NBA Playoffs, so
get ready for that and also don't forget right now.
The PGA Tour teeking off today with the Zurich Classic
of New Orleans, and the first major of the season
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for the LPGA starts today as well with the Chevron Championship.
It is definitely time to talk even more golf.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
From the fairways to the headlights. It's inside the Ropes.
You're all access pass to golf's biggest names in fast moments.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
It is time for inside the Roades driven by the
BMW charity program presented by td Cenics. And this past
weekend we saw Justin Thomas get back in the win
column with his victory at the RBC Heritage. But before that,
I don't know if you saw this, but before the
coverag started on CBS, there was a PGA Tour Originals
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documentary called Tiger two thousand, which relived that historic season
by Tiger Woods in two thousand, winning nine tournaments and
three majors and what many have described as the most
dominant season in golf history. And I thought it was
extremely well done, especially from the Storytelly side, and you
know I love storytelling. And so now we're on to
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bring on senior producer and PGA Tour host Celia Palermo,
who was instrumental in bringing this project to life. And Celia,
so glad you could join us. And this is an
obvious question, but I do have to ask how excited
were you to participate and be a part of this project.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me.
And second of all, I mean talk about the honor
of a lifetime not only to work on a project
involving Tiger, but to work on a project specifically about
Tiger's two thousand season. You know, I was five years
old in two thousand of dating myself there and I
know how old I am, right, So I was five
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at the time. I didn't get to live the two
thousand season the way a lot of golf fans did,
and so getting the opportunity to work on this show,
I got to live and breathe those moments for myself
as a golf enthusiast some would say a golf sico.
So it was just the thrill of a lifetime to
able to really immerse myself in those moments.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, I know it had to be. And again I
thought it was extremely well done, especially from the storytelling side,
and there's so many factors that go into that. And
just talk about though your approach to being able to
capture that and bring the significance of that season to
life there on the screen.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, you know, it's a difficult task when you think
about telling a story about something that happened twenty five
years prior, because you don't just want to recap what
happened twenty five years prior. You want to bring something fresh,
you want to learn something new, And so I think
that was the key here, a way to think about
what can we talk about from this season that gave
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something to our viewers that they took away from this
that they thought about, Huh, you know, maybe I didn't
know that about this season. Maybe that's not something I
could learn or just know just from looking at the
stat line from that year. So it's for us, you know,
we approached this show out, Okay, what can we do
to make this stand out from just a historical look back,
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And for us, that meant doing new interviews with key
characters that year to get their perspective. And that also
meant finding that or those key storylines that we could
look into. And so one key storyline that we highlighted
was Tiger's golf ball switch mid season and how big
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of a deal that was in his success two thousand
and so to do that, we interviewed the guy who
did the research and development in two thousand from Nike
to talk about that. That's one thing we did to
bring some fresh perspective beyond the interviews and so just
little things like that to make the show teach you
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something new beyond just hey, he won nine times, he
won by a lot, and he won three majors, so.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
That kind of thing, that's right. And obviously, yes, we
know those type of details, the nine wins, the three majors,
but learning details like you just described behind the scenes
type of content about the golf balls. I never knew that,
and I felt that was fascinating to understand a little
bit as you're peeling the curtain bag, so to speak,
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in any other standout moments from your research as you're
putting this project together.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Well, I think when you think about this show, you
think about, Okay, he won nine times, three majors, he
won by astronomical margins. But why And so that was
the key for us was to uncover the why. And
one of we nailed it down to two key factors.
It was the golf ball switch. So he originally was
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playing a Titleist Professional ninety, which was a lound construction
golf ball, which was the standard type of golf ball
that most players were playing at the time, and then
he switched to a solid construction golf ball, which gave
him a big advantage over a lot of players at
the time, particularly at the majors that year, because this
construction golf ball just gave him a lot more control
(18:03):
in the venues that they were playing that year. They
were playing at Pebble Beach, they were playing at Saint Andrews,
and this golf ball gave him better control in the
wind at that those particular places, which allowed him to
win by crazy margins. You think fifteen shots, you think
eight shots. And then the second thing that down to
was the mental tension that he was able to create
(18:24):
over his opponents. You talk about intimidation, it was this
you know, intangible feeling that players described, this force field,
these Jedi like powers that players described back then, feeling
that Tiger was on site when they were playing against him.
(18:44):
It's just they felt, even when they had their best,
it just wasn't good enough if he was out there.
They knew they had to bring better than their a
game to even stand half of a chance. And yeah,
I mean, just to be able to explore those stories lines,
I think those are the things that stood out to
me as being able to attribute a why to the
(19:06):
things that he did that year. I want people to
come away having watched any work, work on you know,
having felt that they've learned something new, or that they
enjoyed what they just watched, or that it made them
feel something. You know. It's it's what I set out
to do when I entered this industry, and so this
(19:27):
show is no different and telling a good story of
whether it's new orals, it's paramount to me.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, and so your role right now, why did you
decide to jump on board with PGA Tour and in
the golf world.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Well, I was a sports reporter for five years before
I took this job at the PGA Tour in twenty
twenty one. I first worked in Augusta, Georgia, of course,
home with a Master's tournament, and I was fortunate enough
to cover the twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen Masters. Of course,
Tiger won in twenty nineteen, so that was a pretty
amazing experience, yep, to witness that. And then my second
(20:06):
sports reporting gig was in the quad cities of Iowa
and Illinois where the Jounder Classic was. And so throughout
my sports reporting career, I specifically directed it to markets
where there was a PGA Tour event or a golf
heavy market because I always knew that I wanted to
be involved in golf, and so I actually met a
PGA Tour staff member at the Junjer Classic back in
(20:28):
summer of twenty twenty one and got to talking to
her about just opportunities at the PGA Tour and we
stayed in touch, and so when an opening opened up
in the late summer of twenty twenty one, I reached
out to her and just said, hey, if you you know,
send my resume along to the right person, then'd be
(20:48):
super helpful. And you know, I ended up doing a
couple interviews and taking a job and in fall of
twenty twenty one and haven't looked back since. But for me,
taking the job of the PGAUR was the opportunity to
focus on just golf and that was always the dream
for me. And so I've been fortunate enough to not
(21:09):
only use my storytelling skills but also my on air
skills here in this role at the PGA Tour, and
so I feel very fortunate. My role is kind of
a loot to create my own adventure here, and so
it's just been a dream come true. I mean, it
really is the dream job to be able to work
at the PGA tour.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
For me, Yeah, when did you fall in love with golf?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
It's hard to pinpoint a moment or a time, but
I like to say that it's always been written in
the starters for me. You know, I learned actually through
working on Tiger two thousand that my grandpa was a
volunteer at the two thousand US Open that pubble Beach,
and he's since passed. He passed in twenty thirteen, and
so I never got to ask him about his experience
(21:50):
there because in twenty thirteen I had just graduated high
school and it was a freshman in college, and so
I never got to talk to him about stuff like this.
But golf is always been in my family. You know.
I went to play with my dad and my grandpa
and spend time on the range with them. But you know,
I covered golf at Georgia when I was in school,
and you know, at college internships and stuff like that.
(22:12):
It's just kind of always been in my blood. But
I'd say I started taking it really seriously at my
first job in Augusta because I saw it as an
opportunity where there weren't a lot of women at the
time in golf besides a few like Dottie Pepper and
at the time, you know, Amanda Balionis was just as
a star in golf, and so you know, there's certainly
(22:34):
women who have come before those two, but at the
time those were the you know, the prominent two. And
so I thought as an opportunity to kind of stake
my claim in an industry where you know, more and
more women you.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Know need to be for sure. And how often do
you get to play?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You know, not as often I would like because I
travel a ton for work, so you know, I get
to see a lot of incredible venues. I don't get
to play a ton. And so, yeah, that game needs
some more work, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah. Celia Plermo is our guest here on Inside the
Ropes driven by the BMW charity program presented by td CinEx,
and she's the senior producer and host PGA tour and
play by play. And so, Celia, I have to ask
you the difference between hosting there in studio versus some
of the play by play stuff that you do.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Oh my gosh. I mean, it's like two different sides
of your brain, right, I've been. I mean, it's hard
to hard to even describe because I obviously started my
career as a sports supporter and that's totally different from hosting, right,
and so that's different from that, and then getting into
play by play. I didn't really start doing play by play, gosh.
(23:46):
I did play by play in college a little bit,
but I didn't do play by play until I had
the opportunity actually in twenty twenty three here we did
a Cornfierry Tour seventy second whole live stream our social
media platform, and that was my first like big play
by play gig gosh. I mean you think about, you know,
stream of consciousness there, I was Solow on the air
(24:09):
doing that. I didn't have an analyst, it was just me,
So that was a lot. But I think the difference
now for me looking at them is play by play,
you are giving quick bursts of information. You are setting
up your analysts to do their job right. You're setting
(24:29):
up if you have a walker in the field or
someone doing an interview, you're setting up context for them
as well. You're filling in details that the viewer cannot
see for themselves. So that's play by play for me.
Hosting is all about personality, having fun, you know, that's
that's really the difference.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
For me for sure. And I do have to go
back to the Tiger two thousand PGA tour originals. How
difficult was it though, with the content that you had
being able to carve that down, because I imagine you
guys had so much content that didn't make it or
just fell on the cutting floor, so to speak.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
You know, you'd be surprised. Yes, we had to cut
it down for time because it was a network yes,
first airing it aired on CBS, and then we posted
it to YouTube after, so you do have a time
constraint there. But in terms of like actual content, I mean,
we covered every single win and so we didn't leave
anything out in terms of that. But yeah, sure there
(25:33):
were some sound bites that you'd like to include, but
you know, honestly, I'd say that we included everything that
we really really wanted to. Everything that we cut was
just added both and I don't feel that we left
out that the viewer really really needed. So I'm really
proud of how we handled that because we really only trimmed. Gosh,
(25:58):
I'd say we came in three minutes longer than it
needed to be, so wow, over an hour long show.
You know that's really not much, No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Well, that goes to show you just some of the
pre production that you guys were probably able to do
to really hone in on some of the storylines and
make sure you just captured that type of content. So
very well done from that perspective. Yes, And Cecilia Palermo
is our guest here, senior producer and host and play
(26:28):
by play for a PGA tour, and so I do
have to ask you also though, because you were able
to follow Tiger in that season, and then you even
mentioned getting to see Tiger and the return to glory
as Jim nance said, they're winning the Masters in twenty nineteen,
and we just saw Rory McElroy be able to accomplish
(26:49):
the Masters, get that green jacket that he has been
fighting for for so many years, and finally getting the
career Grand Slam. Just how important do you think that
career Grand Slam was for Rory? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I mean you could just see it was an emotional
release for him. It was he finally got that weight
off his shoulders. It's I mean, it's just something that
he's wanted for so long, and you know, for so
many years wondered if he'd ever achieved it. I'm sure
he wondered if he ever achieved it. I mean, in
that moment, he got to let go of every single
(27:26):
doubt that he ever had if he'd ever achieved something
like that, because it would be very easy to think it. Golf,
nothing is guaranteed. You know, you could have a very
successful career and never win, right And so obviously Rory's
had an extremely successful career winning the amount that he
has won, but he could have never achieved that and
still had gone on to have a Hall of Fame career.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
And so just from your perspective, you know, how important
is it to see some of these players, you know,
coming from the corn Ferry Tour and then you know,
making it to the new rising stars on the PGUR
like a Scottie Scheffler. The Max Home was those type
of players.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean look at their classic leader board, right.
I've got Isaiah so Linda and Kevin Fellow who are
tied for first right now. They're both Corntrry Tour products
that just graduated this last year. Currently eleventh on the
points list, he has three top tens this season. He
seems like he's kind of always in the hunt. He's
a fun one to watch. Davis Chatfield. He has been
(28:25):
on the Corntrairy Tour since I think twenty twenty two
or twenty twenty three, and he has three top tens
this season, including a runner up. Sin As Shanny's ninth
on the points list. And you know what he lacks
in size, he makes up for game and he is
one of the funniest players on tour as well, and
so he's a fun guy to watch. And then Logan McAllister.
(28:45):
He won in Chile. He nearly got his card in
twenty twenty three, and so he's kind of always hovering
around there. And then one last guy to watch out
for it says Alistair Doherty. He's currently twenty second on
the points list, so he's right outside the number right now.
Top twenty at the end of the season get their
PGA Tour cards. But his five top twenty five finishes
(29:06):
this season, including a pair of top tens. But he
missed his PGA Tour card twice last season, once at
the Cornberry Tour Championship by one or two shots and
once at Q School by one shot. He actually nearly
won the Myrtle Beach Classic on the PGA Tour last
year he finished ruin a rop. So this guy's got
(29:28):
big game. He is going to be a PGA Tour
winner one day, and it's not a matter of if,
it's a matter of when. And he is knocking on
the door. So he's a fun name to watch as well.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, I love it, and I appreciate that kind of
going through some of the names, and some of these
guys do have charisma and there's those type of guys
that fans can gravitate towards. But Cecilia, we greatly appreciate
you being able to join us here. One last question though,
is we wrap up. If people didn't get a chance
to watch the Tiger two thousand, where can they watch
(29:59):
it now?
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Well, I appreciate the plug. You can watch Tiger two
thousand if you have Fast Network channels, which is like
Roku things like that. Tiger two thousand is on the
PGA to Fast Network, or you can watch it on YouTube.
Just search Tiger two thousand and it comes up. It's
on our YouTube page. I'd be thrilled if you watched it,
(30:21):
and I just appreciate the opportunity to come on and
talk about it.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yes, by all means, we greatly appreciate, Cecilia. I know
you're going to be busy over the next coming weeks,
but maybe we can get you to Greenville at some point.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Oh yeah, it would be an honor. It would be
an honor.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
That would be fantastic. Cecilia, thank you so much. We
greatly appreciate it and look forward to having you back
on real soon.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Awesome, have a good one. Thank a right.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Thank you. That is Celia Palermo, Senior producer, host and
play by play for PGA Tour. And again, go watch
Tiger two thousand. I promise you you will not be
disappointed as we'll continue this Thursday edition of the Richmond
Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets right after this live
from the England Studios in downtown Greenville, right here on
(31:04):
North Main Street. This is the Thursday edition of the
Richmond Weavers Show, presented by our good friends at Ingles Markets.
And as you can tell, mister Trey Falco, who is
typically behind the board and behind the mic, is out,
but we do expect him to come back. It might
not be until next week, but mister Falco will be back.
(31:24):
So running a little bit solo, and we always want
you to join the conversation though eight six four two
four zero five four eight zero. Again that numbers eight
six four two four zero, five four eight zero. As
we are only hours away from the NFL Draft, and
they've got the countdown clock on ESPN four hours, nineteen
(31:46):
minutes and zero five seconds until the first pick at
least is when the coverage is going to start. And
from all reports are is that the Titans are going
to take cam Moore. Now, there are also some reports
right now that the Giants were very aggressive as far
as trying to trade up to number one, which I
(32:08):
found that very interesting by the Titans. Apparently we're not
having any scenarios where they would play out that would
play out, I should say that they would want to
trade that number one overall pick because they do believe
that cam Ward is going to be their guy, going
to be their quarterback of the future and lead them
into an opportunity of having success. And if you didn't hear,
(32:34):
the other reports were that Warren Moon, who has his
jersey number one, retired with that organization because Houston moved
to Tennessee at becoming the Tennessee Titans from the Houston Oilers,
and Warren Moon has come out and said that he's
thinking about it that as far as cam Ward being
(32:54):
able to wear number one, So that will be interesting
also in all types of different storylines. But I just
wonder what's going to be the big storyline heading into
this weekend as far as will there be other teams
that try to get in a better position either moving
(33:15):
up in the draft, but also there's something about moving
down in the draft, especially when you're in some of
these classes when you're talking about quarterbacks and how they
might not be the quarterback class that's heavy in terms
of star power, and I think that's what this quarterback
(33:37):
class is right now. I think it might be a
reach on some of these guys as far as the
success that they can have. But again, that's part of
the NFL draft. That's why we talked about it. It
is an art, it's not a science, and it's very
difficult to evaluate how these players will be in the future.
And that's the challenge for these general managers, for these
(33:59):
coaches and all of the player personnel that's associated with
each of these teams, and obviously from a fan standpoint,
this is something that people are wanting to make sure
that their team gets it right. They want to have
the best success as possible. But it's very challenging, very difficult.
(34:22):
But if you have some thoughts on the NFL draft,
give us a call. Eight six four two four zero
five to four eight zero. All right, let's take a
look at some of the latest headlines. It's only one game,
and that's to take care of Benn.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Hitting the latest headlines. It's the daily rundown, all.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Right, We're going to start with some NBA action. Yes,
as we saw games last night, the Celtics take a
two to zero series lead against Orlando Magic and Jason
Tatum not playing one oh nine to one hundred. But
the Celtics are just a such a well balanced team.
(35:06):
I don't think they're going to have any issues against
the Magic. Now, maybe the Magic get one game in
this series as they go back to Orlando, because I
do believe that Paulo Banco and Franz Wagner are very
good and a lot of people don't understand how good
the Magic defensively have played this season. But this is
(35:28):
going up against one of the best offensive teams, if
not the best offensive team in the NBA with the
Boston Celtics, so it will be challenging for them, but
they might be able to sneak out to one victory.
And Donovan Mitchell took over there in the game last
night as the Cavaliers get the victory over the Heat,
because the heat they still just don't go away, even
without Jimmy Butler. I mean, it's amazing how the Heat
(35:50):
continue to hang around in some of these games. But
it was Donovan Mitchell that he was able to take
over right there at the fourth quarter, last few minutes
of that game. Thirty points, six rebounds, and six assists
for the star of the number one seed the Cavaliers
there as they take a two elite and I do
believe that's going to be a sweep. Now, there was
(36:13):
talks about the Warriors could they sweep the upstart Houston Rockets,
and knowing what Houston was able to do in the
regular season as the second best record in the Western Conference.
But the Warriors, Jimmy Butler, you hope there's not an
injury there now. I do believe that the Warriors are
(36:35):
overall a better team than the Rockets. But you've got
to be careful with the Rockets here because they have
some bravado. They've got a little bit of that it factor.
They might not have the experience in a playoff setting,
but sometimes being able to make plays, get out and
transition being athletic the way Houston is. If Steph Curry
(36:58):
and the rest of the who are not on it
could be a challenge for the Warriors as they lose
one O nine to ninety four last night, And as
we mentioned, there are more games tonight the Knicks and
the Pistons as the Pistons host the Knicks there in Detroit.
And I do think Kate Cunningham. I think he is
(37:19):
a true rising star and for whatever reason, I just
feel I think this might be something is brewing as
an upset. I think the Pistons might be able to
win this series as the series is tied right now,
and the Thunder and the Grizzlies. Sorry, I know it's
going back to Memphis, but the Thunder are just too much.
(37:41):
I see this as a sweet Maybe Memphis gets one
just because a Jah Morant can go off and keep
a game close for a period of time. But I'm
not certain that this will happen. And then the big
one tonight the Nuggets and the Clippers. This series fascinates
me because you've got the best player in the NBA
right now in my opinion, and that's the Joker, Nikola
(38:04):
Jokic averaging almost thirty points per game, twelve almost thirteen
rebounds per game, and over ten assists per game, so
he's averaging a triple double. But the Clippers, you've got
Kawhi Leonard. And I'm telling you it is so good
for the NBA to have Kawhi Leonard out on the
court being healthy and his shot making ability is elite
(38:28):
of the elites. And we had Jason Temp, host of
Hoops Tonight on yesterday in our weekly NBA segment and
him talking about what makes Kawhi Leonard so unique is
his base and how stable he is and you can't
knock him off of his base. And being able to
have such a stable base where you're using your legs
so much when you're shooting, that makes a big advantage
(38:52):
for Kawhi Leonard. So it'll be interesting to see how
that series is going to play out, as it is
tied right now, and that is about it. I do
believe that that series is a coin flip. Either team
there could win all right. In college football, RG three,
Robert Griffin third, has been hired by Fox Sports as
(39:13):
the second analysts there, taking over for Brock Curwart or
the number two college football analyst. And I didn't think
this was going to take long for RG three to
find employment. There had been the reports where he got
fired from ESPN and what he was going to do next,
And I think this is a good fit. There's no
(39:33):
question that he's got some charisma. I know he can
be polarizing to a certain degree. Maybe he tries to
go over the top a little bit, but he is
at least entertaining, and he also knows what he's talking about.
So I think that is a good hire. And going
back to the NBA, we talked about the Knicks. How
about Jalen Brunson being named the twenty twenty four to
(39:54):
twenty five KIA NBA Clutch Player of the Year based
on nomination from the NBA head coaches. Now, he received
four hundred and twenty six total votes total points I
should say, seventy first place votes and the Joker, Nikola
Jokic was second with three hundred and twelve total points
(40:18):
and twenty six first place votes. Jalen Brunson more clutch
than the Joker. I know Jalen Brunson is the man
for the Knicks, but more clutch than the Joker. I
don't doubt that Jalen Brunson is probably a better defender
than the Joker. But my goodness, the disparity between the
(40:43):
gap right there. I thought that would have been a
little bit closer. But we do know Jokic is in
consideration for NBA MVP. This is almost a secondary type
of an award there, and I can see why they
did give it to Jalen Brunson, but they gap there.
I just don't understand the big gap from that perspective.
(41:04):
And also in college football, Reese Davis has signed an
extension with ESPN to continue his role with Game Day
ESPN one of the true entertainment things that we love
about college football on Saturdays, and maybe they've gone off
the rails a little bit on some of their content,
(41:27):
especially when they're trying it seems too hard with Pat McAfee.
And then now we know the news of Lee Coorso
retiring and his last broadcast will be on August the
thirtieth Opening day of college football, what we would say
opening day of college football, but a great job for
ESPN to be able to continue to have Reese Davis
(41:47):
running the ship there. And then how about this. YouTube
TV announced that they will soon allow customers to build
their own multiview options, including both sports and non sports content.
So rather than just having it where it's automatically chosen
for you from predetermined options, you'll be able to create
(42:10):
your own customized version. And we've been talking about that
for quite a bit that that's what we want to see,
especially when you don't have the ability to some of
this a la carte ordering through cable or now streaming.
I do think this is a step in the right direction,
being able to let you choose what content you want
on some of those multiviews. All right, that's some of
(42:32):
the latest headlines and we will continue this Thursday edition
of The Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets. Right
after this, the Thursday edition of The Richmond Weaver Show
presented by Ingles Markets continues right here on one oh
four nine Fox Sports Upstate as we are running through
this hour, and stay tuned right now to this station
(42:54):
game on with John Ellis is coming up next and
he'll get you ready for the NFL Draft with a
lot of excitement happening tonight and which team is going
to please their fans and which team is not going
to please their fans. We'll take a look at all
of that and look at the first round tomorrow and
see what surprises that happened on the opening night of
(43:18):
the NFL Draft, and again a spectacle there in Green Bay, Wisconsin,
with reports are the parking is extremely expensive for fans
wanting to attend, with homeowners there that live so close
to lambeau Field that they're charging well over one hundred
dollars just to be able to park. So there is
(43:39):
a financial benefit for some of these homeowners there. They're
trying to make a little bit of money here. But
it is April the twenty fourth, So let's walk back
in a little bit of history.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
What happened on this day. Let's go back in history
to the moments you might have forgotten and the ones
you'll never forget. It's OTD on this day, all.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Right, We'll go back to nineteen sixty three. Bob Coosey
would end his thirteen year career by scoring eighteen points
as the Boston Celtics would win their fifth consecutive NBA championship,
beating the LA Lakers one twelve to one oh nine
in Game number six, And also in nineteen sixty seven,
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the Philadelphia seventy six ers would win an NBA championship
in six games with a one hundred and twenty five
to one to twenty two comeback victory over the San
Francisco Warriors. Nineteen seventy four. Tampa Bay, Tampa, Florida is
awarded the NFL's twenty seventh franchise, and it would take
them a long time before they got good, but they
(44:45):
have won two Super Bowls yees, so do keep that
in mind. Then, in nineteen eighty eight, how about this,
the NFL draft Auburn tied end Andre Bruce the first
pick number one overall by the Atlanta Falcons, a tight
end number one overall. Yes, things have definitely changed over
the years. Now, I do think Tyler Warren's going to
(45:07):
go in the top fifteen, possibly the top ten. Their
tight end, David Robinson in nineteen ninety four would score
seventy one points to win the NBA scoring title as
the Spurs would end the regular season with a one
twelve to ninety seven victory over the Clippers, and it
was the fourth Robinson was the fourth NBA player to
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score more than seventy points in a game and he
would out shine Shaquille O'Neal to be able to get
that scoring title. And in two thousand and four, Eli
Manning was the number one overall pick, but he did
not go to the Chargers. We do know that that
is OTD and that is the Thursday edition of the
Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets. We'll talk to
(45:52):
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