June 13, 2025 • 39 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler, Dick Fain, and Jackson Felts debate today’s new bracket topic, the most unforgettable - both good and bad - sports-related moments of this century - the last 25 years - that don’t include anything with Seattle sports teams.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You'll have to introduce the segment because I got a mouthful.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Just come out as like, let's take the opportunity here,
because he just.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Wants to move on.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
So let's just it's gonna take the opportunity and run with.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It, all right.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
He said that, he said, go for it, Dick, Let's
take it. Okay for it, let's take it.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
We'll have the most unforgettable non Seattle sports moments of
this century. And no, we decided to do why do
we do twelve? We don't usually do eight. We couldn't because.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We're stupid and can't decide eight. That's why we couldn't
figure out eight. And we just said, let's expand it.
And even then we have honorable mentions. But like, we
had to go twelve. But we've already had some Twitter polls, right, Oh,
we've had Twitter polls. We've had angry people on Twitter.
We've had I think about a decade's worth of text
conversations over this.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So here we are.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
So this so this first segment really is like the
Tuesday Wednesday playing games in the n Yeah, let's kind
of fire through it though, if we Yeah, let's do
tell people the top to the twelve moments that.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
We have all right in order, or just whatever.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Whatever you want in order.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Charge I'm eating peanuts, all right.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Well, our first, our first round is gonna be the
eight to nine between Lebron James's finals block of Egodala
and Lebron James the decision.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
That's the eight to nine game.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Five to twelve games are both the five to twelve
games both baseball Red Sox Yankees two thousand and four series.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
The Red Sox comeback.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
The twelve seed is the Cubs break one hundred and
eight year World Series curse. The six to eleven game
is COVID stops the NBA game where Rudy Gobert and
thought it was a really funny to like touch everybody's
microphone right breath in the press corps after being after
contracting Covid, and the eleven MESSI wins the World Cup.
And then the seven to ten Boise State tricks the
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Sooners with Chris Peterson in the Statute of Liberty against
the ten seed the Patriots twenty eight to three comeback,
and those are your first round matchup.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
All right, well, and the four seeds that have buys
David Tyree's helmet catch and the Super Bowl versus the Patriots.
That was the undefeated Patriot football team right the time.
Tiger Woods is the twenty nineteen Masters. Jim Nanster return
to Laurie, remember that? And then who was doing the
color for broad for CBS that day, Probably Trevor.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Trevor Immelman. He says in the Game of Guff you
never see a bet to scene Evermever that.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
He's walking off, hugging his bomb and his kid, Tiger Tiger.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I mean that point chills Charlie.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Unbelievable. Hugg does that?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Ex girlfriend? Remember her?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
She was there and now she's out. She's still dis asked.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Kobe passing away in the helicopter crash in January of
twenty twenty uh and then the world ended like two
months later with COVID. That was a weird time, dude.
And then Vince Young Texas usc the Rose Bowl. We're
bringing the trophy back to Austin, baby from LA.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
All right, So let's get to it.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
The first matchup involves Lebron versus Lebron the block against
excuse me, Igodala in the NBA finals to steal the deal,
right or the decision? The TV broadcast itself, Jackson, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The thing about the game was, obviously it's like Dick Craig,
me if I'm wrong, that's that ended up winning him
the NBA Finals, right like that?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Well, yeah, that sequence right block, and if he doesn't
get the block, they lose.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
But here's my here's my thing is. Listen, I'm a
sports fan. I'm not a huge NBA fan, and I
didn't even know off the top of my head what
game that was and if that won the series or not.
The decision was one where like I made sure that
I was in my living room with a couple of friends.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
We had it on. We knew exactly what time it was,
we were in our seats, we knew.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Everything that was on the line for not only for him,
but for other NBA franchises that lost out on him.
So for unforgettable. I mean, I don't remember where I
was at the block. I remember every single thing about
like that hour long decision TV program, Give me the
nine seed. Do we have the audio of the decision?
By the way, I'll get it later. If the advances
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far who turn?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
By the way, whoever you ready to go? All right?
I mean even if you want. It's fine, Jackson says
the decision.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I mean, if he's using I know where I was, win,
then I got to take the opposite side because I
don't exactly remember where I was when I was watching
the decision. I know I was sitting next to my
six year old son, and it's the first NBA Finals
that he really ever remembers, and he was a big
Golden State fan at the time, and he went to
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his bedroom and cried for thirty consecutive minutes when Golden
State lost. Meanwhile, I'm sitting there happy because lebron Jas
won the final. So I'm reveling over the fact that
my son is crying in his bedroom for thirty minutes.
I'm taking the I'm taking the block. It was the
biggest single play that the best or second best player
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in NBA history ever made, So that's pretty big.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Well, again, it just depends on how you kind of
grade this stuff. Do you grade it on how big
it meant to the sport, or how much it meant
to the country, how much it meant to yourself, you know, forgettable, unforgettable.
I just I'm with Jackson that I just think the
decision is maybe the biggest non NBA event or excuse me,
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non NBA game event basketball history.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Wow, right, I.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Mean think of a I mean the frozen envelope and
the draft lottery with the Knicks, or Rudy Gobert too,
Rudy Gobert covid. I mean the decision. How many people
tuned in to watch that show? It took forever to
get to the announcement. Yes, look, he rents out a
boys and girls club in Connecticut, and when he says
I'm taking my talents to South Beach, you could hear
somebody go. There was just an audible gas from the back.
(05:30):
Everybody's pissed off. The Cavaliers are having to find out
on television that he's going to Miami because he didn't
have the balls to even tell them before he made
this thing.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So, I mean, the decision and.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
The broadcast itself, for a lot of people has shaped
how they.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Feel about Lebron James. Yeah, exactly, and they've never gotten
over it.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Thirteen point one million.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Dude, the NBA Finals by five million people.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Game two of the.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
NBA Finals eight and a half million people.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
This thing at thirteen Can you imagine that basically the
entire state of like Oregon on top of what they
already got for the NBA Finals. Watch the more people
are watching that than they're watching the damn NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Nine seed moves on.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Unbelievable, all right, the decision moves on, all right. So
that brings us then to another matchup.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Is I have my bracket your thing?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Red Sox versus Yankees two thousand and four versus break
in the one eight year.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Currk Okay, So I'll go first, but you know you
go first because you were gonna go.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
This one for me is easy. I don't even remember
who the Cubs beat Indians, okay, and I don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Where it comes.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
The Yankees Red Sox series is to me, probably the
most memorable baseball series of this century, other than than
the Mariners playing against the Yankees back in two.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Thousand and one. In two thousand, I.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Mean, that was an unbelievable comeback, and it was one
that you kind of felt like it could happen. I
remember Dave Roberts stealing second base in Game number four,
getting into scoring position, getting knocked home. They won that one,
and you're like, this can happen, even though it's never
happened before. I remember thinking this actually can happen, and
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it did.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I loved that series, well, I did too.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
I just think that it's not as memorable as the
Cubs as in Indians, because you had two teams that
were playing in the World Series. The Cubs hadn't won
the World Series in one hundred and sixty years, Jackson,
is that right at the time, and the Indians hadn't
won the World Series since nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
But do you remember, Buddy, Yes, I remember the final game.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I remember Anthony Rizzo catching the last doubt at first
base and then sticking the baseball in his pocket because
you wanted to keep the ball. I have that vivid
memory of Anthony Rizzo grabbing the ball and putting it
right into his back pocket and then rushing the pitcher's
mound to make sure he saved that ball. I mean,
I've watched videos of Cub fans freaking out, crying, going nuts.
I think it was Game six, if I'm not mistaken.
(08:01):
It was in Cleveland, by the way, when they won it.
Bill Murray was in the crowd. He went seven games, yes,
seven games, and the Cubs won it, and then they
blew it, and then they won it, and then they
blew it. It was back and forth, back and forth, back
and forth. So I mean the Curse of the Cubs,
the Curse of the Billy Goat finally coming to an
end was unbelievable to watch that thing happen.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So I'm gonna go with the Cubs.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Weren't in the World Series over the Red Sox Yankees,
which was also very memorable, But I would say the
Cubs is more unforgettable.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Jackson.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I hear what you're saying, Softy.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Ice specifically, and we'll see you later at night. And
then he can keep on running to New York and
all of the calls from Joe Buck in that series,
Johnny Damon's Grand Slamming Game seven. You can pick any
of these moments and it would be deserving five seed.
For a five seed, I think it's almost underseeded here,
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five seed, Red Sox Yankees.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Oh four moves on.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
All right, So the decision moves on the Red Sox
Yankees is a five moves on COVID stopping the NBA.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
We were on the air.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I remember that when they announced that they were pulling
everybody off the floor and the whole world just went
to you know what and you know what bucket and
we're like, where does this end? Like they're going to
cancel the tournament. No, they're not, Yes they are No,
they're not.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yes, they are just interrupted us a mid show and guys.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Guys, the Jazz and the Thunder and Rudy Gobert and
nobody knows what the hell is going on. So we
got that versus Argentina winning the World Cup. Ligonel Messi
on his knees, throwing his hands in the air when
Argentina made that game winning penalty kick against France and
they won the World Cup. I actually happened to have
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more vivid memories of Man City beating QPR than.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I do that game, But whatever, I get it.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
So, COVID stopping the NBA or Messi winning the World Cup?
Which one was more unforgettable? I mean, for me, probably COVID,
to be totally honest with you, I think, you know, Argentina,
Lionel Messi, at some point we're supposed to win the
World Cup.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
This wasn't some unbelievable massive upset.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
But how many like you can remember some pretty amazing
World Cup moments in your lifetime. You can remember Pele
winning three of them. Remember mess or a Messy winning one.
When was the last time you saw a sports league
shut itself down? And it happened in front of your face? Okay,
like it's developing in front of your face. For us,
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it's different because we're in radio and this is what
we do for a living. But when they started melting
down the NBA, I'm thinking to myself, I don't even
know what to compare this to, Like there was never
ever seen this in our lifetime, and.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
We probably won't again exactly, won't shut it down exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So I'm gonna go COVID stopping the NBA.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Jackson, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I was at the local Argentina watch party at Queen Anne.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Beer Hall, Missus anders Hurst exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And we were all there and it was one of
the most incredible sights just seeing huns upon hundreds of
Argentina fans just lose their minds and cry and.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
It was it was spectacular.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But like if I'll remember that moment, But at the
end of the day, like that afternoon it was I
think it was almost exactly five thirty seven, and I
just you guys were talking about something. I don't even
remember what it was, and I just like kind of
raised my hand of like something is happening right now,
and we give the news and then in the break
I they call my wife. I'm like, I think things
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are gonna start, like everything's everything's down. It transcended sports
that moment. It was sort of like life as we
know it just changed, like not even like the sports world.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, life as we know it for sports fans. And
that's why for me, like listen, Messy, I'm a soccer guy,
I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But life changed in that moment that the NBA game
was shut down.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Because of COVID. So I gotta go with the six seed.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Go ahead, I'll share my thoughts on that one in
the next round.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
So let's just try. COVID moves on right, all right?
Boise State Fiesta Bowl, Oklahoma. And they had got off
to Johnson and then he and then.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
He to his girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Who was was it Jared Zebranskian, Johnson, Chris Peterson on
the sideline, the hook and ladder. I still remember the
broadcast crew is Charles Davis. It was Barry Alvarez on
the call, and it was uh, who's the guy from
the Reds that got fired for uh, Tom Brennaman, Tom Brennanman,
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Charles Davis and Barry Alvarez the.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Fester ball. And I still remember a lot about that game.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I remember watching it with Gina thinking, this is the
most unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Thing I've ever seen. I mean, this was crazy.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
I mean he looked back on it now thinking that
maybe Oklahoma wasn't as motivated as we thought they would
have been, right, I mean, they were kind of in
a no win situation to a beat up on the
little little Boise State or lose to Boise State and
be embarrassed. But the game itself was was crazy. I
don't know, man, I just think that what's more unforgettable?
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Unforgettable moment twenty five point blown lead in the Super Bowl,
the biggest sporting event in the world or the country,
has to offer falcon fans or posting on social media crying,
they're buying stuff at NFL dot com, they're calling their parents,
they're going nuts. As big as that game was, man,
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I gotta go with the Patriots comeback.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Remember the Julian Edelman catch?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, somehow catch up?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
What year was that?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
The Patriots come back, by the way, twenty seventeen, So
the Seahawks Patriot game is twenty thirteen.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Forty No, They're perfect season was seventeen.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Well, but here's the reason why I bring it up.
Here's the reason why I bring it up, oh seven,
because just like literally like just a few years before,
the Seahawks had the biggest choke job in Super Bowl
history at ten points, and then just a couple of
years later it gets hammered by the Patriots. So give
me the comeback.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah, I mean, I I enjoyed watching the Boise State
game much more, but that's not what the poll is
all about.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
The poll is about.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Most unforgettable sports moments and watching Kyle Shanahan just pee
down his leg off the second half.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Twenty seventeen, by the way, so it was three years later.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Like calling pass plays in field goal range when he's
up multiple scores in the second half in order for
his guy, his quarterback to get sacked.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
And then they can't even kick a field goal. I mean,
it was just right.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
The meltdown was unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
And you know, kudos to Tom Brady and that team
for coming back, but I blame Kyle Shanahan and Dan
Quinn just as.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Much as but you didn't.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
You didn't hate Kyle Shanahan then like you do now
because he was the coordinator of the.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Not After that game, I was like, what the hell
are you doing?
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Well, here's the thing though it wasn't even three years
It was two years later, guys. The Seahawk Patriots super
Bowl was the twenty fourteen season.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
This was the twenty sixteen years later.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Two years later, Jackson, that choke job gets obliterated by
New England and Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I thought that I was going to be the one
to say the Patriots because I mean I was like
thirteen years old, I think fourteen years old when Boise
State did their thing for me, that's like a long
time ago.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I will.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I always get together with my parents to watch the
Super Bowl, and like that stands out is, oh my god,
what are we watching?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Are we watching?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Ay?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
The greatest player in NFL history become the greatest player
in NFL history before our eyes, And I think that
game did it. It cemented him above Montana and I'll
always remember it is the game that cemented Tom Brady
to be the best ever.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
So I was watching you guys. I was like watching
a slow motion train wreck.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Man.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
It was just unbelievable. Can you imagine, being a Falcon fan,
how Palel would have been.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
God.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I mean, well, we've talked about what's worse, and I
think I think that's way worse, because it was.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
It was an hour and a half long collapse where
ours was a five.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Look they and you know what, guys, they could have
painted the ball off to Marshawn and the Patriots just
somehow Someway could have played stonewallty and just stopped him.
Of course, right, but you get a twenty five point lead,
it's done, twenty five points. You're calling your dad, you're
calling your buddies, you're asking when the parade is. It's
like you're breathing easy, You're relaxing at twenty five points, right.
I mean, how many points did it take us to
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breathe easy in New York at forty eight?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
At least twenty two?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Right, So if we're breathing easy at twenty two.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
It wasn't breathing easy till twenty nine.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
I wasn't either until Jermaine caught that ball, by the way,
But I'm saying that Falcon fans were they were, they
were relaxed. It was over man and it got taken away.
So all right, the decision moves on to face David
Tyree's helmet catch and the Super Bowl Red Sox come
back against the Yankees, moves on to face Tiger Woods
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Speaker 6 (18:04):
All right, baby, we are rolling rolling here, rolling, rolling, rolling,
keep the bracket rolling right, Well, we're rolling right into
Chuck Powell, who's gonna be here at six pm.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
He's already here.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
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every pizza parlor and Tacoma. He's a smart man, by
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Speaker 6 (18:48):
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Speaker 3 (18:52):
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Speaker 6 (18:58):
So most unforgettable non Seattle sports moments of this century
is the Brocket topic for today, the decision by Lebron James.
The TV Show has moved on to face David Tyree
and the helmet catch and the Super Bowl against the
eighteen and oh Patriots, when remember Eli Manning running around trying.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
To stay alive on that play, Juke and Sachs.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
The Red Sox versus the Yankees comeback in four has
moved on to face Tiger winning the Masters in nineteen,
COVID stopping the NBA, will face Kobe Bryant passing away
in a helicopter crash and the Patriot comeback against Atlanta
and the Super Bowl. In twenty sixteen, we'll move on
to face Vince Young and Texas versus USC in the
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Rolls Bowl.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So where do we start?
Speaker 6 (19:43):
How about we start with the Red Sox Yankees versus
Tiger Woods.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I'll vote Tiger Woods. Who's next, Jackson?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I'm gonna go with the Red Sox Yankees. And I
think there was just a little bit cheating because there
were so many moments. You remember the end of Tigers,
the final hole after eighteen and everybody he hugs and
all of that Red Sogs Yankees. It's cheating, but there
was so many moments from where teases walk off in
Game four, so teases walk off in Game five, to
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everything in Game seven, this slaughter that they did for
the Yankees. So is it is a little bit unfair,
But for all of the moments that series and O
four made it, I'm going to the five seed.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Let me just add one thing to my Tiger Woods argument.
What was the last major he won before the Master
was at the US opening the Rocco Media Tory Pines
eleven years, right, So he went eleven years, So we
were waiting eleven years to see this. I was waiting
for King Gruffrein Junior to come back. I was waiting
for Tiger Woods to win another major. I was waiting
for the Sonics to return. When you wait and wait
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and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait
and something finally happens, it's pretty fricking special. And that
scene with him walking off with Charlie and the crowd
chanting Tiger, Tiger, Tiger, the hair on my forearm stood
straight up watching that entire thing.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So that's why I take Tiger.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Oh man, this was a really tough one because I have.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
An hour left on the show watching both of these.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
I'm gonna put it this way.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I think what Tiger did and the ratings for that, which,
by the way, the broadcast peaked with eighteen million.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Viewers for a golf turn. That's technically more people than
watch Game one of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
That's right, eighteen million people were watching golf on television.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
That to me eclipses the Yankees, Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Give me Tig, Tiger Woods moves on.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Let's see the Lebron James Decision show versus David Tyree
pinning the ball against his helmet in the Super Bowl,
and I guess subsequently the Giant victory right in that
game as well against the undefeated Patriots, Dick.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Go ahead well, I think that I had to go
back and look at this. It was not a fourth
down play. It was third and five. If David Tyree
does not catch that ball, they still have a fourth
and manager.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Where was the ball right on a midfield?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Okay, go back around. Yeah, we should know this by the.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Way, we probably the fact that the fact that we
don't remember is points.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
That's right, because I think I think you don't want
to do too much research on this because you want
your memory. So I mean, Lebron James, you guys mentioned
the decision. I had to block over the decision, but
it was very, very close for me. I think David
Tyree is overrated, even though I think it's overseeded, even
though I think it was the greatest catch in Super
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Bowl history. It should have been surpassed by Jermaine Curse
and would have been surpassed by Jermaine Curse had Marshawn
Lynch taking the ball in If given the opportunity, I'm
gonna go with Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Jackson, who's up next to jam.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, David Tyree is overseeded, but I do go with
it here barely because I think at the end of
the day. That play felt like a million years. It
just never ended, and like it's sort of just like
every element of Eli Manning escaping the sack and somehow
getting away and then the ball just hanging in the
air with what fell like a year and somehow he
catches against his There were so many different elements of
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this play. Even if he had gotten out of the
sack and then it's just a normal catchdown the sideline.
It's a great play. So it's close. But I am
gonna go with David Tyree for how long that moment lasted.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Yeah, I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't think
you believe that. I think you're doing that just for
purposes of the radio show.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
No, I.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Think Jackson is just doing this to get to my
vote and to break the tie, because I don't think
anybody with a functioning brain in their heads would wake
up and think that the decision is not.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Bigger than David Tyree's catch.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
As far as unforgettle this Super Bowl, watching the television
show with the biggest star in the NBA, waiting until
live TV, until the in front of a group of
kids to tell the world where he's gonna play. There's
never been a more anticipated free agent decision in the
history of sports, and there's never been one since then.
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When Lebron went to Miami, the Giants easy could have
lost that game after that David Tyree catch. It was
fourteenth to ten with fifty eight seconds left to go.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You did just set blown it.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
You just say we're including the win, we're including the plan.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
I get that, but I'm just saying that that that
that show on its own. I remember being so emotional
about that and pissed off. I remember just thinking and screaming,
what a dick thing?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Really?
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Oh yeah, I just couldn't believe it, couldn't believe what
he did, couldn't believe that he would make Cavalier fans
turn on TV to watch him pull a knife out
and stick it in their nests.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So the nine seed goes to the Final four.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Lebron's going to the finalion.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
She could get the other quarter.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
COVID stops NBA or Kobe Bryant passing away in a
helicopter crash. Oh my god, this is a hard one.
This is a really really hard one. I I just
think that I think when COVID show it up it.
It freaked us out, even more so with the NBA
because we were right, they're living in it. When Kobe
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Bryant died, the world stopped and people that weren't even
sports fans could not believe what took place. It was sad,
it was his daughter, It was four other people I
believe as well, that died in that plane crash two.
And I know the COVID thing was crazy and freaky
and weird and all that, but I will never forget
standing in front of my television looking up and.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Seeing the ABC News feed.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Kobe Bryant dead in helicopter crash, and then all the
video coming out of people finding out about it and
their reactions to it.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I don't know, guys.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
I mean, it's six one a half dozen, enough too
horrible situations.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
But I think I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
With Kobe Wow Jackson, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I think it's Kobe by a mile. I mean so,
I think I think the differentiator for me was just
seeing my wife's reaction to both of these events.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I mentioned.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I went home in the night that the NBA game
was stopped, the pregame, and we reacted to it. But
when Kobe died and that whole thing. I mean, it
was it just it shook her and like that was
memorable for me. Is just watching a non sports fan reaction.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Don't we think the guys that when the NBA shut
down were like, oh, okay, they'll be back in.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
A week or what. Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yeah, And I said, and I said inaccurately, so there's
no way they're going to stop the NCAA.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We have the audio. Yeah, Oh my god, the Kobe
went Just for me.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I was sitting in church and I got a text
message softy and all it said, oh my god, Kobe.
That's all it said. It didn't say Kobe died. It
just said, oh my god, Kobe. And so I was like, huh,
what did Kobe do? I'll just wait till after church
to find out. And then after church, our pastor at
the time was a huge Laker fan.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
He be lined over to me.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
After the service and goes, did you hear what happened
to Kobe? And I was like, no, I knew something
happened to Kobe.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
But and he's like and.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Tears are streaming down his face and he's like, Kobe's dead,
And I was like, what the heck? A pastor crying
after church as Kobe Bryant dies, I mean, I'm totally
with you on the on it.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
We got a three three man sweep.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Yeah, all right, so Kobe moves on. We wanted to
do the last one real quick here, sure, really really quick?
Really Patriots come back versus Vince Young. I think I'll
take the Patriot comeback how over Atlanta? Yeah, I think
I just remember watching a slow motion train wreck and
just could not believe because the game went to overtime
when it was all said and done, and I could
not believe what I was watching. It was just the
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most miserable train wreck. I felt bad for Atlanta fans.
So I'll go Patriot didn't go ahead.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I would say that I would go Vince Young in
any other compared to almost any other Super Bowl, but
probably not that super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Right, So I'm gonna give the I'm gonna give the
edge to the PA.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Patriots, all right, So the Patriots will move on.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Sorry Jackson, We'll get a break and we'll do our
final four off our semis right next on ninety three
three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
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Speaker 6 (27:52):
All right back here at Cheney Stadium at Tacoba, Live
update from the NBA Finals. You twenty to fourteen pacers, Baby,
twenty fourteen pacers.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Oh excuse me, I'm having.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
A moment evidently, Haliver. And just from the logo a
minute ago, Jackson, you said.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Now.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
You all right in our bracket contest for today. And
that's not really a co I keep saying contest. It's
more of a bracket discussion. It's just a bracket debate, dummy,
most to the debate, most unforgettable non Seattle sports moments
of this century, and I honestly believe that we have
the top four in our final four, Lebron James Decision
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TV Show versus Tiger Woods winning the twenty nineteen Masters.
And then on one side, we've got the Patriots comeback
in the Super Bowl down twenty five and winning in
overtime versus Kobe Bryant passing away in a helicopter crash.
I don't think you will ever forget where you were
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for any of those four events. So Jackson, let's start
with you, and let's start from the bottom. Kobe Bryant
passing away in a helicopter accident Aninruary twenty twenty, versus
the Patriots comeback versus Atlanta and Super Bowl fifty one.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I feel like, for me, like I always think about
like my wife's reaction as a barometer because she's not
even a sports fan, and just like being around her
for both of these, watching the game the super Bowl
with her and just kind of like, Wow, that's crazy.
They came back versus Oh my god, life just completely changed,
and you know, everything is different now that Kobe is gone,
and not like Kobe, but like you know, learning about
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then his daughter and exactly the details of the whole.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Girl, that thing that spawned from that.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Remember God, So for me, it's Kobe because that moment
just transcended all of sports. The comeback was cool, but
like Kobe's I'll never forget.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
That entire day.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Dick, I like that. I think I think jack I
was on the fence.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
I think Jackson and you with your analysis the last
twenty seconds kind of moved me over to that side.
I think it was just such an emotional day for everybody,
whether you were Laker fan, a non Laker fan, a
basketball fan, or not even a sports fan like Jackson said, right,
and I don't think the other one moved you as much. Yeah,
if you're a football fan, you're like, oh my god,
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this was an unbelievable comeback. But you either loved it
if you're a Patriot fan or a Patriot fan, or
you hated it if you weren't a Patriot fan. So
we were all in cahoots how we felt about that Kobe.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Well, the Kobe thing.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
For me, I just just real quick, I remember, you know,
like celebrity passings, you know, I remember you said, you know,
it all kind of consumed us for a day.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
It consumed me for like a week long time.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I remember thinking, on like Wednesday or Thursday of that week,
there's no way Kobe's dead. No way like Michael Jackson
when Michael Jackson died, no chance, this is he's gonna,
this is gonna I'm gonna wake up. This is the nightmare.
It's a dream. None of this really happened. So I
think it's one of the most impactful sports moments of
all time, not just the last twenty five years when
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Kobe died. So the decision versus Tiger Woods, I'll go
ahead and go first.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Boy oh boy, man, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Oh, I mean Tiger Woods winning the Masters versus Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
To me, it's almost a flip of a coin.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
I think I'm gonna go with the decision just because again,
I'll take with what I said last segment. There has
never been a more anticipated free agent decision, and there
has not been one since then. There's been big ones,
but not like this. The fact that almost twenty million
people tuned in just to see where somebody was gonna
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play basketball the next year unprecedented.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
We may never see anything like this.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
I mean, how many athletes can command that many people
to go to a television and watch it and stick
around for an hour to see what he says about
his future. Tiger was huge. If it was to break
Nicholas's record, I'd probably go Tiger, right, But I gotta
go with the decision.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Well, it's an interesting symmetry because we're talking about who
two people who many feel like are the second best
of all time in their sport. Right Ron people think
Jack number one, Tiger's number two. A lot of people
think Jordan's number one and Lebron's number two. But there
are a lot of people out there that feel Tiger's
won and Lebron's won. So I'm gonna go back to
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what Jackson say, we remember where we were. I don't
remember where I was when I watched it.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
This us that's crazy. I just I do you not
know that? I don't know. I don't remember what you
were doing three years old?
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, I remember that. I mean maybe you were just
so drunk you forgot what I might have been in
transit from one place to another. So I kind of
listened to some of it and then watched some of it,
and you know, Tiger Woods sitting on the couch in
Palm Springs at my parents' house with my son, with
my entire family, and watching Tiger Woods do something.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
That most of us thought he would never do.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Again, Let's not forget what Tiger went through physically as
well as in his personal life in the twelve or
eleven years since he won the prior Mad Jackson, He's.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Going, Tiger, give us thirty seconds and then what you
know we'll do. We'll let Chuck Powell pick the winner.
Next segment.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I like that guy, let's let's let's not let's keep
the whole group two.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Chuck, Yeah, So the decision versus Tiger, The answer is
the decision because it was how long it was, I
too softy, like, got a group together. It was let's
all embrace the moment that this is you wait, wait,
wait wait wait, and you know, suddenly it becomes the
sort of thing where like I think, ultimately the interview
was only about ten minutes and.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
This everyone was done when he made his announce.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
You remember that it was just this long thing.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
But for me, it's the decision because it was just
you gathered in a group together, you huddle around the TV,
and you know that, like the basketball world will ever
be the same.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Yeah, all right, Well, the two most unforgettable moments of
the twenty of the last of the twenty first century
Lebron James's decision show versus the passing of Kobe Bryant.
Which one is more unforgettable? We'll get Chuck Palla's take
on this next as well, Live on ninety three three KJRFL.
So we have this most unforgettable moments the two thousand's
(34:01):
the last twenty five years it could be good moments
and bad moments in sports, right, And we've narrowed it
down to two, the Lebron James Decision TV show or
Kobe Bryant's death and a helicopter crash as the two
most unfort and neither one of them happened on the
field of play.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (34:20):
That's crazy in our opinion, the two most unforgettable things
to happen in the last twenty five years, neither one
of them took place on a court or a baseball field,
or a football field or a hockey rink. So I
guess the number one? Do we have the two events?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Right? You think?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I guess?
Speaker 5 (34:36):
So, yeah, I think.
Speaker 9 (34:38):
And they're so differently because Lebron was even though even
the people that hated that he was doing it waited
all day long to watch him do it and tuned
in for it, so it was such an anticipatory sporting
event versus the one that obviously just was what you know,
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what did I just.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Read coming across the ticker?
Speaker 9 (35:02):
So completely different, uh, sporting events and forget and unforgettable
in their own right.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
That's a really difficult one.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Which one was more unforgettable? For you?
Speaker 9 (35:12):
I'm gonna go ahead and say the Lebron one.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Wow, I'm gonna say the Lebron one.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (35:19):
You know, I think if Kobe would have like in
the middle of his career, that would have changed it. Yeah,
so it put him over the top.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Him dying at forty one was absolutely crushing and unbelievable,
But it would have been more crushing and more unbelievable
for you.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
It would have been more like like Magic Johnson and
a correct because I still remember, right my dad cried
that day, but that's not in the twenty so they
don't have that.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Well, so Chuck says, uh, Chuck says, Lebron Jackson, you
want to pick one.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah, I'm gonna go Kobe because I think there's a
shock value here, Like the shock of that you, I
think makes it more of an imprint on my memory. So,
like I remember, I was coming out of a haircut
and I I just was scrolling on Twitter as I
was walking to my car because I'm, you know, perpetually
on my phone and I can't stay off of it
for more than one minute, and just scrolling on Twitter,
I saw the moment it happened, coming just walking down
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the Street in Fremont, and at that moment you kind
of just you rush to your car, you turn on
the radio. Nobody's reacting on radio yet, So I drive
home and then like the moment I get home, you
turn on the Pro Bowl because the Pro Bowl was
on that day, guys, and then.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Watch the watch but they kept ignoring it to try
to confirmactly.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
So then I watched as they cut into the Pro
Bowl like five ten minutes after it gets announced on Twitter.
And this shock value of that moment makes it for
me more memorable.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Well, both incidents just gave you so much emotion, right,
but there's so much different emotion. I mean, I don't
think there was a lot of celebration from the Lebron thing.
It was mostly anger from most people. I have never
really got that. I didn't really have an emotional reaction
to the Lebron thing because I could really. I was like,
I'm gonna for Lebron wherever he goes. So I guess
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that's the next team I'm gonna rook for is the
Miami eat So I did.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
That didn't bother me as much, but obviously the Kobe
thing bothered me.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
And the Kobe thing just crushed me and my wife
was like, oh my god. And so many people talked
about that.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
And I think that's it.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Like, how much did you talk about Kobe with others
around you over the next couple of weeks versus how
much you talked about the Lebron decision.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
I think I don't think it's even They were both huge,
they were, but I don't think it's close.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
How as far as people that wanted to talk about
I don't.
Speaker 6 (37:34):
I don't agree with that. For me, I'm gonna vote
for Kobe. I mean, well, listen, I'm gonna just give
you a little preview. I'm gonna go with Kobe Bryant
as well. But I think we're splitting hairs here. I mean,
we have to pick one, right, These are two unbelievable
life altering events that you will never forget. Where you
were when you found out about Lebron James going to
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Miami and the decision and the reaction to it and
the criticism and the aftermath, and the Kobe Bryant death
and the helicopter crash.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
I mean, two of the bigger moments of your life.
But we got to pick one.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
We have to pick one, and to me, I still
think that Kobe Bryant passing away and the effect it
had on people, the impact it had on mothers and
fathers with daughters around the country, the impact that had
on the NBA. Mean, Jamal Crawford the next day is saying, Hey,
we gotta make Kobe the logo.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
We gotta get rid of there. We gotta get very
west and make this guy the logo right now.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Take And that never happened, obviously, But the murals that
went up all over the country with this guy, the
way people responded to it, players crying when they're finding
out on game day that he had it was in.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
January he passed away again.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
The Lebron thing was ginormous, ginormous, But the Kobe Bryant thing,
I think still resonates today for a lot of people.
And it's still amazing to a lot of people that
he is actually no longer with us, so he'd only
be forty six years old.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Yeah, for God's.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Sakes, right place, Kobe Bryant passing away is the most
unforgettable moment of the last twenty five years, according to
our brackets.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
So great a good thing.
Speaker 9 (39:11):
He couldn't do local otherwise it would be when Daoi
hit two homers.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
That's right, and then hears falling out of his back pocket.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Right.
You'll have to introduce the segment because I got a mouthful.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Just come out as like, let's take the opportunity here,
because he just.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Wants to move on.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
So let's just it's gonna take the opportunity and run with.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It, all right.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
He said that, he said, go for it, Dick, Let's
take it. Okay for it, let's take it.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
We'll have the most unforgettable non Seattle sports moments of
this century. And no, we decided to do why do
we do twelve? We don't usually do eight. We couldn't because.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We're stupid and can't decide eight. That's why we couldn't
figure out eight. And we just said, let's expand it.
And even then we have honorable mentions. But like, we
had to go twelve. But we've already had some Twitter polls, right, Oh,
we've had Twitter polls. We've had angry people on Twitter.
We've had I think about a decade's worth of text
conversations over this.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So here we are.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
So this so this first segment really is like the
Tuesday Wednesday playing games in the n Yeah, let's kind
of fire through it though, if we Yeah, let's do
tell people the top to the twelve moments that.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
We have all right in order, or just whatever.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Whatever you want in order.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Charge I'm eating peanuts, all right.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Well, our first, our first round is gonna be the
eight to nine between Lebron James's finals block of Egodala
and Lebron James the decision.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
That's the eight to nine game.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Five to twelve games are both the five to twelve
games both baseball Red Sox Yankees two thousand and four series.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
The Red Sox comeback.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
The twelve seed is the Cubs break one hundred and
eight year World Series curse. The six to eleven game
is COVID stops the NBA game where Rudy Gobert and
thought it was a really funny to like touch everybody's
microphone right breath in the press corps after being after
contracting Covid, and the eleven MESSI wins the World Cup.
And then the seven to ten Boise State tricks the
(01:40):
Sooners with Chris Peterson in the Statute of Liberty against
the ten seed the Patriots twenty eight to three comeback,
and those are your first round matchup.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
All right, well, and the four seeds that have buys
David Tyree's helmet catch and the Super Bowl versus the Patriots.
That was the undefeated Patriot football team right the time.
Tiger Woods is the twenty nineteen Masters. Jim Nanster return
to Laurie, remember that? And then who was doing the
color for broad for CBS that day, Probably Trevor.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Trevor Immelman. He says in the Game of Guff you
never see a bet to scene Evermever that.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
He's walking off, hugging his bomb and his kid, Tiger Tiger.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I mean that point chills Charlie.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Unbelievable. Hugg does that?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Ex girlfriend? Remember her?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
She was there and now she's out. She's still dis asked.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Kobe passing away in the helicopter crash in January of
twenty twenty uh and then the world ended like two
months later with COVID. That was a weird time, dude.
And then Vince Young Texas usc the Rose Bowl. We're
bringing the trophy back to Austin, baby from LA.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
All right, So let's get to it.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
The first matchup involves Lebron versus Lebron the block against
excuse me, Igodala in the NBA finals to steal the deal,
right or the decision? The TV broadcast itself, Jackson, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The thing about the game was, obviously it's like Dick Craig,
me if I'm wrong, that's that ended up winning him
the NBA Finals, right like that?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Well, yeah, that sequence right block, and if he doesn't
get the block, they lose.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
But here's my here's my thing is. Listen, I'm a
sports fan. I'm not a huge NBA fan, and I
didn't even know off the top of my head what
game that was and if that won the series or not.
The decision was one where like I made sure that
I was in my living room with a couple of friends.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
We had it on. We knew exactly what time it was,
we were in our seats, we knew.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Everything that was on the line for not only for him,
but for other NBA franchises that lost out on him.
So for unforgettable. I mean, I don't remember where I
was at the block. I remember every single thing about
like that hour long decision TV program, Give me the
nine seed. Do we have the audio of the decision?
By the way, I'll get it later. If the advances
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far who turn?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
By the way, whoever you ready to go? All right?
I mean even if you want. It's fine, Jackson says
the decision.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I mean, if he's using I know where I was, win,
then I got to take the opposite side because I
don't exactly remember where I was when I was watching
the decision. I know I was sitting next to my
six year old son, and it's the first NBA Finals
that he really ever remembers, and he was a big
Golden State fan at the time, and he went to
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his bedroom and cried for thirty consecutive minutes when Golden
State lost. Meanwhile, I'm sitting there happy because lebron Jas
won the final. So I'm reveling over the fact that
my son is crying in his bedroom for thirty minutes.
I'm taking the I'm taking the block. It was the
biggest single play that the best or second best player
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in NBA history ever made, So that's pretty big.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Well, again, it just depends on how you kind of
grade this stuff. Do you grade it on how big
it meant to the sport, or how much it meant
to the country, how much it meant to yourself, you know, forgettable, unforgettable.
I just I'm with Jackson that I just think the
decision is maybe the biggest non NBA event or excuse me,
(05:03):
non NBA game event basketball history.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Wow, right, I.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Mean think of a I mean the frozen envelope and
the draft lottery with the Knicks, or Rudy Gobert too,
Rudy Gobert covid. I mean the decision. How many people
tuned in to watch that show? It took forever to
get to the announcement. Yes, look, he rents out a
boys and girls club in Connecticut, and when he says
I'm taking my talents to South Beach, you could hear
somebody go. There was just an audible gas from the back.
(05:30):
Everybody's pissed off. The Cavaliers are having to find out
on television that he's going to Miami because he didn't
have the balls to even tell them before he made
this thing.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So, I mean, the decision and.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
The broadcast itself, for a lot of people has shaped
how they.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Feel about Lebron James. Yeah, exactly, and they've never gotten
over it.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Thirteen point one million.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Dude, the NBA Finals by five million people.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Game two of the.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
NBA Finals eight and a half million people.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
This thing at thirteen Can you imagine that basically the
entire state of like Oregon on top of what they
already got for the NBA Finals. Watch the more people
are watching that than they're watching the damn NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Nine seed moves on.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Unbelievable, all right, the decision moves on, all right. So
that brings us then to another matchup.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Is I have my bracket your thing?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Red Sox versus Yankees two thousand and four versus break
in the one eight year.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Currk Okay, So I'll go first, but you know you
go first because you were gonna go.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
This one for me is easy. I don't even remember
who the Cubs beat Indians, okay, and I don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Where it comes.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
The Yankees Red Sox series is to me, probably the
most memorable baseball series of this century, other than than
the Mariners playing against the Yankees back in two.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Thousand and one. In two thousand, I.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Mean, that was an unbelievable comeback, and it was one
that you kind of felt like it could happen. I
remember Dave Roberts stealing second base in Game number four,
getting into scoring position, getting knocked home. They won that one,
and you're like, this can happen, even though it's never
happened before. I remember thinking this actually can happen, and
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it did.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I loved that series, well, I did too.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
I just think that it's not as memorable as the
Cubs as in Indians, because you had two teams that
were playing in the World Series. The Cubs hadn't won
the World Series in one hundred and sixty years, Jackson,
is that right at the time, and the Indians hadn't
won the World Series since nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
But do you remember, Buddy, Yes, I remember the final game.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I remember Anthony Rizzo catching the last doubt at first
base and then sticking the baseball in his pocket because
you wanted to keep the ball. I have that vivid
memory of Anthony Rizzo grabbing the ball and putting it
right into his back pocket and then rushing the pitcher's
mound to make sure he saved that ball. I mean,
I've watched videos of Cub fans freaking out, crying, going nuts.
I think it was Game six, if I'm not mistaken.
(08:01):
It was in Cleveland, by the way, when they won it.
Bill Murray was in the crowd. He went seven games, yes,
seven games, and the Cubs won it, and then they
blew it, and then they won it, and then they
blew it. It was back and forth, back and forth, back
and forth. So I mean the Curse of the Cubs,
the Curse of the Billy Goat finally coming to an
end was unbelievable to watch that thing happen.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So I'm gonna go with the Cubs.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Weren't in the World Series over the Red Sox Yankees,
which was also very memorable, But I would say the
Cubs is more unforgettable.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Jackson.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I hear what you're saying, Softy.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Ice specifically, and we'll see you later at night. And
then he can keep on running to New York and
all of the calls from Joe Buck in that series,
Johnny Damon's Grand Slamming Game seven. You can pick any
of these moments and it would be deserving five seed.
For a five seed, I think it's almost underseeded here,
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five seed, Red Sox Yankees.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Oh four moves on.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
All right, So the decision moves on the Red Sox
Yankees is a five moves on COVID stopping the NBA.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
We were on the air.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I remember that when they announced that they were pulling
everybody off the floor and the whole world just went
to you know what and you know what bucket and
we're like, where does this end? Like they're going to
cancel the tournament. No, they're not, Yes they are No,
they're not.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yes, they are just interrupted us a mid show and guys.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Guys, the Jazz and the Thunder and Rudy Gobert and
nobody knows what the hell is going on. So we
got that versus Argentina winning the World Cup. Ligonel Messi
on his knees, throwing his hands in the air when
Argentina made that game winning penalty kick against France and
they won the World Cup. I actually happened to have
(09:46):
more vivid memories of Man City beating QPR than.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I do that game, But whatever, I get it.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
So, COVID stopping the NBA or Messi winning the World Cup?
Which one was more unforgettable? I mean, for me, probably COVID,
to be totally honest with you, I think, you know, Argentina,
Lionel Messi, at some point we're supposed to win the
World Cup.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
This wasn't some unbelievable massive upset.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
But how many like you can remember some pretty amazing
World Cup moments in your lifetime. You can remember Pele
winning three of them. Remember mess or a Messy winning one.
When was the last time you saw a sports league
shut itself down? And it happened in front of your face? Okay,
like it's developing in front of your face. For us,
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it's different because we're in radio and this is what
we do for a living. But when they started melting
down the NBA, I'm thinking to myself, I don't even
know what to compare this to, Like there was never
ever seen this in our lifetime, and.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
We probably won't again exactly, won't shut it down exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So I'm gonna go COVID stopping the NBA.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Jackson, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
You know, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I was at the local Argentina watch party at Queen Anne.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Beer Hall, Missus anders Hurst exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And we were all there and it was one of
the most incredible sights just seeing huns upon hundreds of
Argentina fans just lose their minds and cry and.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
It was it was spectacular.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But like if I'll remember that moment, But at the
end of the day, like that afternoon it was I
think it was almost exactly five thirty seven, and I
just you guys were talking about something. I don't even
remember what it was, and I just like kind of
raised my hand of like something is happening right now,
and we give the news and then in the break
I they call my wife. I'm like, I think things
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are gonna start, like everything's everything's down. It transcended sports
that moment. It was sort of like life as we
know it just changed, like not even like the sports world.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, life as we know it for sports fans. And
that's why for me, like listen, Messy, I'm a soccer guy,
I love it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But life changed in that moment that the NBA game
was shut down.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Because of COVID. So I gotta go with the six seed.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Go ahead, I'll share my thoughts on that one in
the next round.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
So let's just try. COVID moves on right, all right?
Boise State Fiesta Bowl, Oklahoma. And they had got off
to Johnson and then he and then.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
He to his girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Who was was it Jared Zebranskian, Johnson, Chris Peterson on
the sideline, the hook and ladder. I still remember the
broadcast crew is Charles Davis. It was Barry Alvarez on
the call, and it was uh, who's the guy from
the Reds that got fired for uh, Tom Brennaman, Tom Brennanman,
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Charles Davis and Barry Alvarez the.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Fester ball. And I still remember a lot about that game.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I remember watching it with Gina thinking, this is the
most unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Thing I've ever seen. I mean, this was crazy.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
I mean he looked back on it now thinking that
maybe Oklahoma wasn't as motivated as we thought they would
have been, right, I mean, they were kind of in
a no win situation to a beat up on the
little little Boise State or lose to Boise State and
be embarrassed. But the game itself was was crazy. I
don't know, man, I just think that what's more unforgettable?
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Unforgettable moment twenty five point blown lead in the Super Bowl,
the biggest sporting event in the world or the country,
has to offer falcon fans or posting on social media crying,
they're buying stuff at NFL dot com, they're calling their parents,
they're going nuts. As big as that game was, man,
(13:21):
I gotta go with the Patriots comeback.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Remember the Julian Edelman catch?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, somehow catch up?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
What year was that?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
The Patriots come back, by the way, twenty seventeen, So
the Seahawks Patriot game is twenty thirteen.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Forty No, They're perfect season was seventeen.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Well, but here's the reason why I bring it up.
Here's the reason why I bring it up, oh seven,
because just like literally like just a few years before,
the Seahawks had the biggest choke job in Super Bowl
history at ten points, and then just a couple of
years later it gets hammered by the Patriots. So give
me the comeback.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah, I mean, I I enjoyed watching the Boise State
game much more, but that's not what the poll is
all about.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
The poll is about.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Most unforgettable sports moments and watching Kyle Shanahan just pee
down his leg off the second half.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Twenty seventeen, by the way, so it was three years later.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Like calling pass plays in field goal range when he's
up multiple scores in the second half in order for
his guy, his quarterback to get sacked.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
And then they can't even kick a field goal. I mean,
it was just right.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
The meltdown was unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
And you know, kudos to Tom Brady and that team
for coming back, but I blame Kyle Shanahan and Dan
Quinn just as.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Much as but you didn't.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
You didn't hate Kyle Shanahan then like you do now
because he was the coordinator of the.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Not After that game, I was like, what the hell
are you doing?
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Well, here's the thing though it wasn't even three years
It was two years later, guys. The Seahawk Patriots super
Bowl was the twenty fourteen season.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
This was the twenty sixteen years later.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Two years later, Jackson, that choke job gets obliterated by
New England and Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I thought that I was going to be the one
to say the Patriots because I mean I was like
thirteen years old, I think fourteen years old when Boise
State did their thing for me, that's like a long
time ago.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I will.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I always get together with my parents to watch the
Super Bowl, and like that stands out is, oh my god,
what are we watching?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Are we watching?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Ay?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
The greatest player in NFL history become the greatest player
in NFL history before our eyes, And I think that
game did it. It cemented him above Montana and I'll
always remember it is the game that cemented Tom Brady
to be the best ever.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
So I was watching you guys. I was like watching
a slow motion train wreck.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Man.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
It was just unbelievable. Can you imagine, being a Falcon fan,
how Palel would have been.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
God.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I mean, well, we've talked about what's worse, and I
think I think that's way worse, because it was.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
It was an hour and a half long collapse where
ours was a five.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Look they and you know what, guys, they could have
painted the ball off to Marshawn and the Patriots just
somehow Someway could have played stonewallty and just stopped him.
Of course, right, but you get a twenty five point lead,
it's done, twenty five points. You're calling your dad, you're
calling your buddies, you're asking when the parade is. It's
like you're breathing easy, You're relaxing at twenty five points, right.
I mean, how many points did it take us to
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breathe easy in New York at forty eight?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
At least twenty two?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Right, So if we're breathing easy at twenty two.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
It wasn't breathing easy till twenty nine.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
I wasn't either until Jermaine caught that ball, by the way,
But I'm saying that Falcon fans were they were, they
were relaxed. It was over man and it got taken away.
So all right, the decision moves on to face David
Tyree's helmet catch and the Super Bowl Red Sox come
back against the Yankees, moves on to face Tiger Woods
in the twenty nineteen Masters COVID shutting down the NBA
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Speaker 6 (18:04):
All right, baby, we are rolling rolling here, rolling, rolling, rolling,
keep the bracket rolling right, Well, we're rolling right into
Chuck Powell, who's gonna be here at six pm.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
He's already here.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
He's been hanging out in Teetown all day long, sampling
every pizza parlor and Tacoma. He's a smart man, by
the way, taking advantage of the opportunity. He's doing the
game with Riley Pay for the first time. Mike Curno
is no longer with us nothing, he's dead, but he's
not doing the radio.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Are no longer.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
I'm sorry, is gone. Uh, Mike Curdo is no longer
doing radio. Okay, he's retired. So Riley Pay, Who's awesome,
really cool, cool, person, young Gal doing the Rainiers radio
her and Chuck will have to call for you at
seven o'clock on nine point fifteen AM tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Young Gallon, old man, young Gal, old man.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
I mean they used to say that was not a
good combination, by the way, especially in a tightly locked booth.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
By the way, the two of them tonight. So but
Chuck's a professional Riley is too, all right.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
So most unforgettable non Seattle sports moments of this century
is the Brocket topic for today, the decision by Lebron James.
The TV Show has moved on to face David Tyree
and the helmet catch and the Super Bowl against the
eighteen and oh Patriots, when remember Eli Manning running around trying.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
To stay alive on that play, Juke and Sachs.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
The Red Sox versus the Yankees comeback in four has
moved on to face Tiger winning the Masters in nineteen,
COVID stopping the NBA, will face Kobe Bryant passing away
in a helicopter crash and the Patriot comeback against Atlanta
and the Super Bowl. In twenty sixteen, we'll move on
to face Vince Young and Texas versus USC in the
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Rolls Bowl.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So where do we start?
Speaker 6 (19:43):
How about we start with the Red Sox Yankees versus
Tiger Woods.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I'll vote Tiger Woods. Who's next, Jackson?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I'm gonna go with the Red Sox Yankees. And I
think there was just a little bit cheating because there
were so many moments. You remember the end of Tigers,
the final hole after eighteen and everybody he hugs and
all of that Red Sogs Yankees. It's cheating, but there
was so many moments from where teases walk off in
Game four, so teases walk off in Game five, to
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everything in Game seven, this slaughter that they did for
the Yankees. So is it is a little bit unfair,
But for all of the moments that series and O
four made it, I'm going to the five seed.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Let me just add one thing to my Tiger Woods argument.
What was the last major he won before the Master
was at the US opening the Rocco Media Tory Pines
eleven years, right, So he went eleven years, So we
were waiting eleven years to see this. I was waiting
for King Gruffrein Junior to come back. I was waiting
for Tiger Woods to win another major. I was waiting
for the Sonics to return. When you wait and wait
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and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait
and something finally happens, it's pretty fricking special. And that
scene with him walking off with Charlie and the crowd
chanting Tiger, Tiger, Tiger, the hair on my forearm stood
straight up watching that entire thing.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So that's why I take Tiger.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Oh man, this was a really tough one because I have.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
An hour left on the show watching both of these.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
I'm gonna put it this way.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I think what Tiger did and the ratings for that, which,
by the way, the broadcast peaked with eighteen million.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Viewers for a golf turn. That's technically more people than
watch Game one of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
That's right, eighteen million people were watching golf on television.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
That to me eclipses the Yankees, Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Give me Tig, Tiger Woods moves on.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Let's see the Lebron James Decision show versus David Tyree
pinning the ball against his helmet in the Super Bowl,
and I guess subsequently the Giant victory right in that
game as well against the undefeated Patriots, Dick.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Go ahead well, I think that I had to go
back and look at this. It was not a fourth
down play. It was third and five. If David Tyree
does not catch that ball, they still have a fourth
and manager.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Where was the ball right on a midfield?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Okay, go back around. Yeah, we should know this by the.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Way, we probably the fact that the fact that we
don't remember is points.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
That's right, because I think I think you don't want
to do too much research on this because you want
your memory. So I mean, Lebron James, you guys mentioned
the decision. I had to block over the decision, but
it was very, very close for me. I think David
Tyree is overrated, even though I think it's overseeded, even
though I think it was the greatest catch in Super
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Bowl history. It should have been surpassed by Jermaine Curse
and would have been surpassed by Jermaine Curse had Marshawn
Lynch taking the ball in If given the opportunity, I'm
gonna go with Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Jackson, who's up next to jam.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, David Tyree is overseeded, but I do go with
it here barely because I think at the end of
the day. That play felt like a million years. It
just never ended, and like it's sort of just like
every element of Eli Manning escaping the sack and somehow
getting away and then the ball just hanging in the
air with what fell like a year and somehow he
catches against his There were so many different elements of
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this play. Even if he had gotten out of the
sack and then it's just a normal catchdown the sideline.
It's a great play. So it's close. But I am
gonna go with David Tyree for how long that moment lasted.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Yeah, I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't think
you believe that. I think you're doing that just for
purposes of the radio show.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
No, I.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Think Jackson is just doing this to get to my
vote and to break the tie, because I don't think
anybody with a functioning brain in their heads would wake
up and think that the decision is not.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Bigger than David Tyree's catch.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
As far as unforgettle this Super Bowl, watching the television
show with the biggest star in the NBA, waiting until
live TV, until the in front of a group of
kids to tell the world where he's gonna play. There's
never been a more anticipated free agent decision in the
history of sports, and there's never been one since then.
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When Lebron went to Miami, the Giants easy could have
lost that game after that David Tyree catch. It was
fourteenth to ten with fifty eight seconds left to go.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You did just set blown it.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
You just say we're including the win, we're including the plan.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
I get that, but I'm just saying that that that
that show on its own. I remember being so emotional
about that and pissed off. I remember just thinking and screaming,
what a dick thing?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Really?
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Oh yeah, I just couldn't believe it, couldn't believe what
he did, couldn't believe that he would make Cavalier fans
turn on TV to watch him pull a knife out
and stick it in their nests.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So the nine seed goes to the Final four.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Lebron's going to the finalion.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
She could get the other quarter.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
COVID stops NBA or Kobe Bryant passing away in a
helicopter crash. Oh my god, this is a hard one.
This is a really really hard one. I I just
think that I think when COVID show it up it.
It freaked us out, even more so with the NBA
because we were right, they're living in it. When Kobe
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Bryant died, the world stopped and people that weren't even
sports fans could not believe what took place. It was sad,
it was his daughter, It was four other people I
believe as well, that died in that plane crash two.
And I know the COVID thing was crazy and freaky
and weird and all that, but I will never forget
standing in front of my television looking up and.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Seeing the ABC News feed.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Kobe Bryant dead in helicopter crash, and then all the
video coming out of people finding out about it and
their reactions to it.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I don't know, guys.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
I mean, it's six one a half dozen, enough too
horrible situations.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
But I think I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
With Kobe Wow Jackson, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I think it's Kobe by a mile. I mean so,
I think I think the differentiator for me was just
seeing my wife's reaction to both of these events.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I mentioned.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I went home in the night that the NBA game
was stopped, the pregame, and we reacted to it. But
when Kobe died and that whole thing. I mean, it
was it just it shook her and like that was
memorable for me. Is just watching a non sports fan reaction.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Don't we think the guys that when the NBA shut
down were like, oh, okay, they'll be back in.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
A week or what. Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yeah, And I said, and I said inaccurately, so there's
no way they're going to stop the NCAA.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We have the audio. Yeah, Oh my god, the Kobe
went Just for me.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I was sitting in church and I got a text
message softy and all it said, oh my god, Kobe.
That's all it said. It didn't say Kobe died. It
just said, oh my god, Kobe. And so I was like, huh,
what did Kobe do? I'll just wait till after church
to find out. And then after church, our pastor at
the time was a huge Laker fan.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
He be lined over to me.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
After the service and goes, did you hear what happened
to Kobe? And I was like, no, I knew something
happened to Kobe.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
But and he's like and.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Tears are streaming down his face and he's like, Kobe's dead,
And I was like, what the heck? A pastor crying
after church as Kobe Bryant dies, I mean, I'm totally
with you on the on it.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
We got a three three man sweep.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Yeah, all right, so Kobe moves on. We wanted to
do the last one real quick here, sure, really really quick?
Really Patriots come back versus Vince Young. I think I'll
take the Patriot comeback how over Atlanta? Yeah, I think
I just remember watching a slow motion train wreck and
just could not believe because the game went to overtime
when it was all said and done, and I could
not believe what I was watching. It was just the
(27:12):
most miserable train wreck. I felt bad for Atlanta fans.
So I'll go Patriot didn't go ahead.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I would say that I would go Vince Young in
any other compared to almost any other Super Bowl, but
probably not that super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Right, So I'm gonna give the I'm gonna give the
edge to the PA.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Patriots, all right, So the Patriots will move on.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Sorry Jackson, We'll get a break and we'll do our
final four off our semis right next on ninety three
three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
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Speaker 6 (27:52):
All right back here at Cheney Stadium at Tacoba, Live
update from the NBA Finals. You twenty to fourteen pacers, Baby,
twenty fourteen pacers.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Oh excuse me, I'm having.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
A moment evidently, Haliver. And just from the logo a
minute ago, Jackson, you said.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Now.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
You all right in our bracket contest for today. And
that's not really a co I keep saying contest. It's
more of a bracket discussion. It's just a bracket debate, dummy,
most to the debate, most unforgettable non Seattle sports moments
of this century, and I honestly believe that we have
the top four in our final four, Lebron James Decision
(28:30):
TV Show versus Tiger Woods winning the twenty nineteen Masters.
And then on one side, we've got the Patriots comeback
in the Super Bowl down twenty five and winning in
overtime versus Kobe Bryant passing away in a helicopter crash.
I don't think you will ever forget where you were
(28:50):
for any of those four events. So Jackson, let's start
with you, and let's start from the bottom. Kobe Bryant
passing away in a helicopter accident Aninruary twenty twenty, versus
the Patriots comeback versus Atlanta and Super Bowl fifty one.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I feel like, for me, like I always think about
like my wife's reaction as a barometer because she's not
even a sports fan, and just like being around her
for both of these, watching the game the super Bowl
with her and just kind of like, Wow, that's crazy.
They came back versus Oh my god, life just completely changed,
and you know, everything is different now that Kobe is gone,
and not like Kobe, but like you know, learning about
(29:28):
then his daughter and exactly the details of the whole.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Girl, that thing that spawned from that.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Remember God, So for me, it's Kobe because that moment
just transcended all of sports. The comeback was cool, but
like Kobe's I'll never forget.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
That entire day.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Dick, I like that. I think I think jack I
was on the fence.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
I think Jackson and you with your analysis the last
twenty seconds kind of moved me over to that side.
I think it was just such an emotional day for everybody,
whether you were Laker fan, a non Laker fan, a
basketball fan, or not even a sports fan like Jackson said, right,
and I don't think the other one moved you as much. Yeah,
if you're a football fan, you're like, oh my god,
(30:10):
this was an unbelievable comeback. But you either loved it
if you're a Patriot fan or a Patriot fan, or
you hated it if you weren't a Patriot fan. So
we were all in cahoots how we felt about that Kobe.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Well, the Kobe thing.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
For me, I just just real quick, I remember, you know,
like celebrity passings, you know, I remember you said, you know,
it all kind of consumed us for a day.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
It consumed me for like a week long time.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I remember thinking, on like Wednesday or Thursday of that week,
there's no way Kobe's dead. No way like Michael Jackson
when Michael Jackson died, no chance, this is he's gonna,
this is gonna I'm gonna wake up. This is the nightmare.
It's a dream. None of this really happened. So I
think it's one of the most impactful sports moments of
all time, not just the last twenty five years when
(30:52):
Kobe died. So the decision versus Tiger Woods, I'll go
ahead and go first.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Boy oh boy, man, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Oh, I mean Tiger Woods winning the Masters versus Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
To me, it's almost a flip of a coin.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
I think I'm gonna go with the decision just because again,
I'll take with what I said last segment. There has
never been a more anticipated free agent decision, and there
has not been one since then. There's been big ones,
but not like this. The fact that almost twenty million
people tuned in just to see where somebody was gonna
(31:27):
play basketball the next year unprecedented.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
We may never see anything like this.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
I mean, how many athletes can command that many people
to go to a television and watch it and stick
around for an hour to see what he says about
his future. Tiger was huge. If it was to break
Nicholas's record, I'd probably go Tiger, right, But I gotta
go with the decision.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Well, it's an interesting symmetry because we're talking about who
two people who many feel like are the second best
of all time in their sport. Right Ron people think
Jack number one, Tiger's number two. A lot of people
think Jordan's number one and Lebron's number two. But there
are a lot of people out there that feel Tiger's
won and Lebron's won. So I'm gonna go back to
(32:09):
what Jackson say, we remember where we were. I don't
remember where I was when I watched it.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
This us that's crazy. I just I do you not
know that? I don't know. I don't remember what you
were doing three years old?
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, I remember that. I mean maybe you were just
so drunk you forgot what I might have been in
transit from one place to another. So I kind of
listened to some of it and then watched some of it,
and you know, Tiger Woods sitting on the couch in
Palm Springs at my parents' house with my son, with
my entire family, and watching Tiger Woods do something.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
That most of us thought he would never do.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Again, Let's not forget what Tiger went through physically as
well as in his personal life in the twelve or
eleven years since he won the prior Mad Jackson, He's.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Going, Tiger, give us thirty seconds and then what you
know we'll do. We'll let Chuck Powell pick the winner.
Next segment.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I like that guy, let's let's let's not let's keep
the whole group two.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Chuck, Yeah, So the decision versus Tiger, The answer is
the decision because it was how long it was, I
too softy, like, got a group together. It was let's
all embrace the moment that this is you wait, wait,
wait wait wait, and you know, suddenly it becomes the
sort of thing where like I think, ultimately the interview
was only about ten minutes and.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
This everyone was done when he made his announce.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
You remember that it was just this long thing.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
But for me, it's the decision because it was just
you gathered in a group together, you huddle around the TV,
and you know that, like the basketball world will ever
be the same.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Yeah, all right, Well, the two most unforgettable moments of
the twenty of the last of the twenty first century
Lebron James's decision show versus the passing of Kobe Bryant.
Which one is more unforgettable? We'll get Chuck Palla's take
on this next as well, Live on ninety three three KJRFL.
So we have this most unforgettable moments the two thousand's
(34:01):
the last twenty five years it could be good moments
and bad moments in sports, right, And we've narrowed it
down to two, the Lebron James Decision TV show or
Kobe Bryant's death and a helicopter crash as the two
most unfort and neither one of them happened on the
field of play.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (34:20):
That's crazy in our opinion, the two most unforgettable things
to happen in the last twenty five years, neither one
of them took place on a court or a baseball field,
or a football field or a hockey rink. So I
guess the number one? Do we have the two events?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Right? You think?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I guess?
Speaker 5 (34:36):
So, yeah, I think.
Speaker 9 (34:38):
And they're so differently because Lebron was even though even
the people that hated that he was doing it waited
all day long to watch him do it and tuned
in for it, so it was such an anticipatory sporting
event versus the one that obviously just was what you know,
(34:59):
what did I just.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Read coming across the ticker?
Speaker 9 (35:02):
So completely different, uh, sporting events and forget and unforgettable
in their own right.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
That's a really difficult one.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Which one was more unforgettable? For you?
Speaker 9 (35:12):
I'm gonna go ahead and say the Lebron one.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Wow, I'm gonna say the Lebron one.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (35:19):
You know, I think if Kobe would have like in
the middle of his career, that would have changed it. Yeah,
so it put him over the top.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Him dying at forty one was absolutely crushing and unbelievable,
But it would have been more crushing and more unbelievable
for you.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
It would have been more like like Magic Johnson and
a correct because I still remember, right my dad cried
that day, but that's not in the twenty so they
don't have that.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Well, so Chuck says, uh, Chuck says, Lebron Jackson, you
want to pick one.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah, I'm gonna go Kobe because I think there's a
shock value here, Like the shock of that you, I
think makes it more of an imprint on my memory. So,
like I remember, I was coming out of a haircut
and I I just was scrolling on Twitter as I
was walking to my car because I'm, you know, perpetually
on my phone and I can't stay off of it
for more than one minute, and just scrolling on Twitter,
I saw the moment it happened, coming just walking down
(36:11):
the Street in Fremont, and at that moment you kind
of just you rush to your car, you turn on
the radio. Nobody's reacting on radio yet, So I drive
home and then like the moment I get home, you
turn on the Pro Bowl because the Pro Bowl was
on that day, guys, and then.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Watch the watch but they kept ignoring it to try
to confirmactly.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
So then I watched as they cut into the Pro
Bowl like five ten minutes after it gets announced on Twitter.
And this shock value of that moment makes it for
me more memorable.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Well, both incidents just gave you so much emotion, right,
but there's so much different emotion. I mean, I don't
think there was a lot of celebration from the Lebron thing.
It was mostly anger from most people. I have never
really got that. I didn't really have an emotional reaction
to the Lebron thing because I could really. I was like,
I'm gonna for Lebron wherever he goes. So I guess
(37:01):
that's the next team I'm gonna rook for is the
Miami eat So I did.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
That didn't bother me as much, but obviously the Kobe
thing bothered me.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
And the Kobe thing just crushed me and my wife
was like, oh my god. And so many people talked
about that.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
And I think that's it.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Like, how much did you talk about Kobe with others
around you over the next couple of weeks versus how
much you talked about the Lebron decision.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
I think I don't think it's even They were both huge,
they were, but I don't think it's close.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
How as far as people that wanted to talk about
I don't.
Speaker 6 (37:34):
I don't agree with that. For me, I'm gonna vote
for Kobe. I mean, well, listen, I'm gonna just give
you a little preview. I'm gonna go with Kobe Bryant
as well. But I think we're splitting hairs here. I mean,
we have to pick one, right, These are two unbelievable
life altering events that you will never forget. Where you
were when you found out about Lebron James going to
(37:55):
Miami and the decision and the reaction to it and
the criticism and the aftermath, and the Kobe Bryant death
and the helicopter crash.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
I mean, two of the bigger moments of your life.
But we got to pick one.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
We have to pick one, and to me, I still
think that Kobe Bryant passing away and the effect it
had on people, the impact it had on mothers and
fathers with daughters around the country, the impact that had
on the NBA. Mean, Jamal Crawford the next day is saying, Hey,
we gotta make Kobe the logo.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
We gotta get rid of there. We gotta get very
west and make this guy the logo right now.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Take And that never happened, obviously, But the murals that
went up all over the country with this guy, the
way people responded to it, players crying when they're finding
out on game day that he had it was in.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
January he passed away again.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
The Lebron thing was ginormous, ginormous, But the Kobe Bryant thing,
I think still resonates today for a lot of people.
And it's still amazing to a lot of people that
he is actually no longer with us, so he'd only
be forty six years old.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Yeah, for God's.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Sakes, right place, Kobe Bryant passing away is the most
unforgettable moment of the last twenty five years, according to
our brackets.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
So great a good thing.
Speaker 9 (39:11):
He couldn't do local otherwise it would be when Daoi
hit two homers.
Speaker 6 (39:15):
That's right, and then hears falling out of his back pocket.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Right.
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