November 21, 2025 • 6 mins
“Should you teach kids to hate rival teams?” That’s the fiery question that kicks off this episode of The Ben and Skin Show, and trust us—it only gets wilder from there. Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive headfirst into the ultimate Cowboys vs. Eagles rivalry, sharing hilarious takes on Philly teachers turning elementary school kids into mini-boxing champs by punching posters of Dallas stars like CeeDee Lamb and Dak Prescott.From there, the crew pivots to the Mavericks’ season and the looming question: Is it time to tank? Ben breaks down why this might be the only year Dallas can cash in on a draft pick, And KT tackles the talk of the town: North Texas Mean Green’s shocking playoff push—and Rice University’s wild plan to offer students free beer to fuel an upset.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now that's cool around the sports KTD queens as all
the sports.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yes. I saw a video today of some Philadelphia kids,
elementary school kids, and today they their teachers had put
up a bunch of punching bags and put big cowboys,
like printing out big posters of Dallas Cowboys their faces
and put them on the bag. And these kids are
(00:29):
just punching Ceedee Lamb and Dak's face. Jake Ferguson just.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Just punched them.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And it's like, Okay, that's actually fun and that's how
it should be.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's Cowboys and Eagles week.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You absolutely should be doing that hateful stuff. My teacher
kids to hate them at a young.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Age, you have to. I don't have a healthy respect
for the Eagles, and I should. They're defending Super Bowl champs,
they're eight and two. It just seems like there's always
dysfunction around them, and they do so much quarterback sneaking,
Like when I watch them up, I'm not as scared
as I should be. I don't. I don't know. It's weird,
like I have I should not be confident as a
Cowboy fan going into this game, but I am.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I am two and I think I'm gonna save a
little more for when we do at five and cussing
the Cowboys because I have some thoughts on them that
are I think he explains why they're good and also
why they're bad, and also why I think the Cowboys
are gonna win Sunday. Well on that later, mass play
tonight here on the Eagle, it's New Orleans who has
two wins been. If you've gone done any tank watching,
(01:29):
you'll see that the Dallas Mavericks have four wins right now,
and going through the league here there are five teams
with less wins than the MAVs. The Kings have three,
the Nets, the Pacers, the Pelicans have two. The Wizards
have won. You play the Pelicans tonight tonight one of
those games, if the clear focus is to tank, tonight
is one of those games that you need to.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Lose, you know, if you know we hear rumors that
Jason Kidd wants to be the president of Basketball operations,
like he's the one fighting to be that guy. And
if that's the case, he knows better than anyone they
need to lose you. But sometimes veteran guys they have
more respect for the older guys. Maybe ja kids like
(02:11):
that maybe out of respect to kaian Ad he wants
to win, don't. I don't know, but and I know
it's hard to tank too because guys are fighting for
jobs and coaches are fighting for jobs, and people around
the team hate that sort of talk. But I think
you can tank, sit people out, sit your best players,
out play your rotations, maybe have a rookie try to
(02:31):
be your point guard instead of playing a point guard.
There's things you can do to lose. Yeah, I would
hope they do those things because they need they control
their draft pick this year. They don't control their draft
pick till the year twenty thirty one. If you're going
to tank and lose and get a good reward for it,
this is the only year you can do that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
There are a lot of things that tell me they're
not going to do that yet. And Wednesday night's performance,
just playing hard against the Knicks tells me that they're
not there yet. But you need clear organizational vision and focus,
and they don't have that. They need to rewire the
medical staff, they find out who the GM is, you
on the same page, and they have a couple of
(03:08):
big wars brewing. I think I think one of them
is Anthony Davis when he's healthy. Like, I don't know
what their plan is on if he wants to play.
He's going to want to play. I don't think he's
just gonna want to say he might not want to.
I don't know Kyrie Irving if healthy is going to
want to play, and they're gonna need to figure out well,
hey man for tanking. They're gonna have to have that talk.
So there's a lot of decisions they gotta make. I
(03:30):
want to do this one real quick, Ben. The talk
of the town right now is believe it or not,
the North Texas mean and green. I know this sounds crazy,
and I know there might not be a lot of
people out there that care. But like again, another cover
story on ESPN about their coach, their quarterback was on
Sports Center two nights ago. And they play Rice tomorrow night.
(03:51):
So basically what happened. North Texas needs to win their
next two games. They play tomorrow night, and they play Friday,
and then they would host the conference championship game on
on Friday, December fifth. We'll be at Pluckers that day.
They win that game, they're in the college football Playoff.
It sounds nuts. They could be playing Alabama or Texas
Tech or whoever. It's just crazy. So this is unheard of. Actually,
(04:14):
So tomorrow night they play in Rice. Well, Rice, they're
in the same conference. Rice is not great, they're five
and five, but they know how big of a deal
it would be if they could upset the nine to
one North Texas Me and Green whoeveryone's kind of talking
about right now. So Rice is offering students free beer.
Oh yes, if you're twenty one and over and you
(04:36):
have a ticket, then you can go get free beer. Now,
you cannot get it from the concession stand. They've set
up kiosks, okay, right in the concourse. That's not a
consistent They've got a special place where you can go
and get free beer. Here's got to be a limit, right,
because this is not gonna end. Well, I think you're
giving college kids free beer as long as you're not intoxicated. Kid.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I think about the didn't the Rangers do this dollar
beer or penny beers or something in the seventies and
it ended up being horrible, and so they said we'll
never do that again.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It ruined you know, cheap beer, honestly, like you couldn't
That was a great plan, and with them stopping the
government's decided to stop making the penny, which I think
I agree with. Dude, someone needs to run a one
cent beer night again and just see what he's worse
than the crimes we commit on social media. If you
(05:35):
can do hate speech on social media, I don't see
why you can't get a little drunk out there. I'm kidding,
and I am, but also.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You turn into Joe Jones. Did you hear that I'm kidding?
Of course I am, but I am serious too, and
I am kidding but I'm not all right. There you
have it. There's Around the Sports a lightning round of
sports notes coming up next, it's the Thanksgiving family Feud,
followed by the Today Game, followed by cutting the Cowboys.
That's all next on the Eagle
Now that's cool around the sports KTD queens as all
the sports.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yes. I saw a video today of some Philadelphia kids,
elementary school kids, and today they their teachers had put
up a bunch of punching bags and put big cowboys,
like printing out big posters of Dallas Cowboys their faces
and put them on the bag. And these kids are
(00:29):
just punching Ceedee Lamb and Dak's face. Jake Ferguson just.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Just punched them.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And it's like, Okay, that's actually fun and that's how
it should be.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's Cowboys and Eagles week.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You absolutely should be doing that hateful stuff. My teacher
kids to hate them at a young.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Age, you have to. I don't have a healthy respect
for the Eagles, and I should. They're defending Super Bowl champs,
they're eight and two. It just seems like there's always
dysfunction around them, and they do so much quarterback sneaking,
Like when I watch them up, I'm not as scared
as I should be. I don't. I don't know. It's weird,
like I have I should not be confident as a
Cowboy fan going into this game, but I am.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I am two and I think I'm gonna save a
little more for when we do at five and cussing
the Cowboys because I have some thoughts on them that
are I think he explains why they're good and also
why they're bad, and also why I think the Cowboys
are gonna win Sunday. Well on that later, mass play
tonight here on the Eagle, it's New Orleans who has
two wins been. If you've gone done any tank watching,
(01:29):
you'll see that the Dallas Mavericks have four wins right now,
and going through the league here there are five teams
with less wins than the MAVs. The Kings have three,
the Nets, the Pacers, the Pelicans have two. The Wizards
have won. You play the Pelicans tonight tonight one of
those games, if the clear focus is to tank, tonight
is one of those games that you need to.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Lose, you know, if you know we hear rumors that
Jason Kidd wants to be the president of Basketball operations,
like he's the one fighting to be that guy. And
if that's the case, he knows better than anyone they
need to lose you. But sometimes veteran guys they have
more respect for the older guys. Maybe ja kids like
(02:11):
that maybe out of respect to kaian Ad he wants
to win, don't. I don't know, but and I know
it's hard to tank too because guys are fighting for
jobs and coaches are fighting for jobs, and people around
the team hate that sort of talk. But I think
you can tank, sit people out, sit your best players,
out play your rotations, maybe have a rookie try to
(02:31):
be your point guard instead of playing a point guard.
There's things you can do to lose. Yeah, I would
hope they do those things because they need they control
their draft pick this year. They don't control their draft
pick till the year twenty thirty one. If you're going
to tank and lose and get a good reward for it,
this is the only year you can do that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
There are a lot of things that tell me they're
not going to do that yet. And Wednesday night's performance,
just playing hard against the Knicks tells me that they're
not there yet. But you need clear organizational vision and focus,
and they don't have that. They need to rewire the
medical staff, they find out who the GM is, you
on the same page, and they have a couple of
(03:08):
big wars brewing. I think I think one of them
is Anthony Davis when he's healthy. Like, I don't know
what their plan is on if he wants to play.
He's going to want to play. I don't think he's
just gonna want to say he might not want to.
I don't know Kyrie Irving if healthy is going to
want to play, and they're gonna need to figure out well,
hey man for tanking. They're gonna have to have that talk.
So there's a lot of decisions they gotta make. I
(03:30):
want to do this one real quick, Ben. The talk
of the town right now is believe it or not,
the North Texas mean and green. I know this sounds crazy,
and I know there might not be a lot of
people out there that care. But like again, another cover
story on ESPN about their coach, their quarterback was on
Sports Center two nights ago. And they play Rice tomorrow night.
(03:51):
So basically what happened. North Texas needs to win their
next two games. They play tomorrow night, and they play Friday,
and then they would host the conference championship game on
on Friday, December fifth. We'll be at Pluckers that day.
They win that game, they're in the college football Playoff.
It sounds nuts. They could be playing Alabama or Texas
Tech or whoever. It's just crazy. So this is unheard of. Actually,
(04:14):
So tomorrow night they play in Rice. Well, Rice, they're
in the same conference. Rice is not great, they're five
and five, but they know how big of a deal
it would be if they could upset the nine to
one North Texas Me and Green whoeveryone's kind of talking
about right now. So Rice is offering students free beer.
Oh yes, if you're twenty one and over and you
(04:36):
have a ticket, then you can go get free beer. Now,
you cannot get it from the concession stand. They've set
up kiosks, okay, right in the concourse. That's not a
consistent They've got a special place where you can go
and get free beer. Here's got to be a limit, right,
because this is not gonna end. Well, I think you're
giving college kids free beer as long as you're not intoxicated. Kid.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I think about the didn't the Rangers do this dollar
beer or penny beers or something in the seventies and
it ended up being horrible, and so they said we'll
never do that again.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It ruined you know, cheap beer, honestly, like you couldn't
That was a great plan, and with them stopping the
government's decided to stop making the penny, which I think
I agree with. Dude, someone needs to run a one
cent beer night again and just see what he's worse
than the crimes we commit on social media. If you
(05:35):
can do hate speech on social media, I don't see
why you can't get a little drunk out there. I'm kidding,
and I am, but also.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You turn into Joe Jones. Did you hear that I'm kidding?
Of course I am, but I am serious too, and
I am kidding but I'm not all right. There you
have it. There's Around the Sports a lightning round of
sports notes coming up next, it's the Thanksgiving family Feud,
followed by the Today Game, followed by cutting the Cowboys.
That's all next on the Eagle
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