May 14, 2025 • 19 mins
Petros Papadakis of Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about the much, much anticipated NFL schedule release day, Bill Belichick’s girlfriend Jordon Hutson and UNC, Softy’s trip to Greece, and Phil Knight not buying the Blazers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Nakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
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Speaker 4 (00:34):
A righty boting goes. Here we go in the moments
that at least five or six people I'd say, true,
that's not true.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
I've been waiting for the arrival of the Prince of
Pigskin from Southern California, my friend, one half of the
legendary Petros and Money radio show in Southern California, winner
of the Greek American Broadcaster of the Month Award, One
damn fine man again, one damn fine father, and one
incredible husband to Dana Papaduccas, our friend Petros Papadoucus brought
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to you bye.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
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Speaker 5 (01:39):
I assume that you and money devoting a ton of
your show today to the NFL schedule release.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
No, no, we were asked to, uh, so we will?
Asked to buy? Who our new boss is, the Kansas
City Chiefs guy.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Let's get choose?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So he uh he asked us to, So we will.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I thought you were above meddling like that. No, no radio,
but nobody can tell you what to do.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
People are generally hands off around here, so when they
ask for something, I don't push back because most of
my days are are unfettered and alive, like a freeman
in Paris.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Well, I was talking to our midday host about this
on the air the other day.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Gosh, that just went right over anyway.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm sorry I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You want to go
back into that reference you made there on the radio.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I don't, I don't. I'm gonna be one of the
five or six people that are looking forward to this.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That's fine, go ahead, I can't wait. It's exciting.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
What's your question?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I really, I really did not have a question.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
It was more of a statement that, you know, I
was talking to our midday guy the other day about,
you know, what we do for a living, and I
don't know how much effort you really put into this
thing in the morning hours, you know, prep work. I
first got in this business and Neil Scott once told me, hey,
one hour of prep for every hour the air. Okay, Uh,
that hasn't happened in twenty years. All right, I'll guarantee
(03:04):
you that. So is this what most people would call
like semi retirement?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
What we do?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No? No, no, not what I care? He cares for
My show's a little different. He cares. This show's got
a little more structure. Oh really, I don't know. I
don't know. I'm not saying what how different I am
from anybody or you? But I don't do a lot
(03:28):
of sports. I mean, it's a sports show, but the
part I do is not you know, maybe sixty seventy
percent not sports every day. So that takes research because
when you do that, you can very easily sound like
you have no idea what you're talking about just as
far as facts go.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
All right, So how much actual preparation for an hour total? Yeah,
all right, which just means goofing around on Instagram and Twitter.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Let's be honest. No it does not. No, no, suh,
Hey god, thank god, damn it. No.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Well, good for you that you actually put some prep
into this thing.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Man. You know, I don't like this. I don't like
this line of questioning. You know what, Kate's don't you agree?
Like you're listening to this right, you can't like that?
What's wrong with the line of questioning? You know?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Are you embarrassed that you actually prepare for your program?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Like me like going over to the trash Man Union
and be like, hey, you guys suck for being trash man.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
I bet it sucks being a trash man. You know,
I don't want to hear that crap. Those guys are
making a ton of money, dude.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Okay, but what I'm saying I'm tired of you.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Why, hey, you know what the good good for you?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
They got great men.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I'm gone for the next two weeks after this, so
you can deal with Dick.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I thought I was gonna be dealing with Dick today. No,
next one is to hear from you. I thought I
was gonna get my annual like text at seven in
the morning from Dick, Like, is that what he does?
I'll tell I'll tell you to leave you alone. That's
why this. I'm on my period.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Okay, Well, the NFL schedule was kind of a big deal.
What do you make of the seahawks potential by placement?
Petros very very little.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I know that Travis Kelsey's unhappy from the Let's Get Cheese.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Why is he unhappy? What's his problem?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, he said he doesn't want to go to uh
to Brazil's gonna be hot, and he that's from Holliday Touchdown,
the Hallmark Chiefs movie.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I thought the Hallmark Chiefs movie was slapshot with the
Charleston Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
No, it was called Holiday Touchdown. Not a great Paul
Newman movie, but a terrible Hallmark movie featuring Travis Kelsey's
mom and sadly, uh ed Bagley Junior, who looked quite old.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And then there's gonna be a Buffalo Bill's Holiday Touchdown
style Hallmark movie this year. Yeah, and bub and and
that guy that died on the field and came back
like Lazarus two years ago. Right, yeah, he is going
to be in it. So that The only reason I
know that is because of my preparation and my dedication
(06:14):
to the information.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Let's get cheer, you know, let's go.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Did you see, by the way, and I mean you
never played in the NFL. You were in an NFL
camp though, correct at one point. No, No, I thought
you spend a couple of days and somebody's came.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
They took my X ray. I I do not who
took your X ray the Saints, But I just I
didn't pass the NFL physical the You see, the Vikings
are playing back to back international games. They got to
go to Ireland and then and then turn around next
week and go to Tottenham to the Hotspurs Stadium. Okay,
well that's not a long and then and then play
in London. Yeah well wait, wait, Tottenham is in London.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
That's what I said. They're gonna play in Ireland and
then they're gonna go to London.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Whiteheart Lane is the name of the Uh yeah, look
that's the that's the tell. I mean, my poor rate
partner's got to go to Brazil. They're going to harvest
his organ.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's gonna come back with a big scar.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I mean, the NFL is trying really hard to go
as international as possible, and they've done it for years,
and they use whatever scheduling and the international games and
the loss of the home revenue or however that works
out as a bargaining chip. I mean once the Chargers,
(07:27):
well look when they let the Rams move to LA
from Saint Louis and they stripped Saint Louis of their team,
even though Saint Louis took the Rams when they didn't
want him here in LA. When they let Kronky bring
the Rams back to LA, what do you think happened
to the Rams? They got scheduled, bamboozled for years and
(07:48):
they say, well why do we have to go? Well,
look where you are now? And the Chargers. They let
the Chargers go to LA and join the Rams for
one dollar a year on the rent at a stadium
that the Ramm's built. So when somebody, if there's somebody
that's going to be you know, drugged with the prostitute
and have one of their kidneys removed and wake up
(08:08):
in a bathful of ice, it's going to be the Chargers.
I mean they got a sweetheart deal from the NFL
and so on and so forth. And you know that
the conspiracy theories go even deeper, like let's say the
NFL forced somebody to draft Michael sam right, you know,
for the Optics years ago. Or the NFL forced somebody
(08:30):
to draft Shadeur when he was drafted and they look
so happy in that Cleveland draft room when they announced
that they picked him. Maybe sometimes that happens and you
get a schedule, get out of jail free card, you
know what I mean. But all this stuff happens behind
the scenes, softy, way above the pay grade of idiots
(08:51):
who just off on Twitter and Instagram for an hour
before you do the show? Did you?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Did you see the story? The Blazers are for sale?
And the reason why I bring it up is, well,
first of all, Paul Allen was a big icon in.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That huge, huge I mean he was massive.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I mean a nice man from what I can gather.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I only met him in person once or twice, and
it was more of just you know, passing by type thing.
I don't even know if Paul Allen I all report, Yes,
by all reports, great guy.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He didn't show up with like a platoon of hookers
everywhere like doctor Buss.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Uh No, I don't believe.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
So, you know, I mean he's already got a leg
up on most of our owners. Yeah, well, I mean,
did Jerry bring hookers to the games?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Was it obvious they were call girls? Do people wear
Laker jerseys at the game? Yes?
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Okay, speaking of hookers, how about Phil Belichick's girlfriend just
won't go away?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Are you tired of this yet?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Man?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He's got nothing to do with North Carolina football?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
And then there was that story that came out that
said she was banned and Carolina said, no, she's not paying,
and then Belichick said she's got nothing to do with anything,
and yeah, you told us last week and thought she
was a hooker.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Right. Minded people are starting to say, like, I don't
think this guy's gonna make it, you know, and I
might I might be in that. In that camp. You
do have some people trying to protect him and calling
in old favors. We'll see. I mean, there's prop bets
on the Strahan interview as like when is he going
to say this? When is this? I mean, it's pretty
(10:26):
it's pretty crazy. But all that being said, it used
to be when I was playing and long after, coaches
had to have a wife or a family structure, and
that was very important part of recruiting. And it was
very important that the coach said, well, you know, young Leo,
(10:46):
he's going to be far from home, but you know,
Katie and I will have him at our house. But Thanksgiving,
we're a family here in Fayetteville, you know. And that's
and and you'd go through the media guide and every
page for whatever coach, assistant or head coach would have
a full family photo, color family photo, and the family
(11:07):
kind of vibe was really pushed. And that's kind of
gone by the wayside. I remember it being kind of
rare when you know, Sark was divorced, Lane Kiffin divorced,
Dana Holgerson divorced, some guys just single, and you just
didn't have that as much in college football, and it
was a stability recruiting thing. But now, I mean, college
(11:30):
football has as much stability as a boat in a storm.
So it doesn't matter as much anymore that being said about.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It did that, by the way, he did that whole
same bit last week, I know.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
But Bill Belichick is pushing hard, like really hard, the
other way. Right. It's like, it's one thing to be
like divorced or like have a family or whatever, not
have a family anymore, you know, maybe have like a
girlfriend or you know, Mick Cronin has a girlfriend. He's
he divorced, single parent, So that's one thing. But it's
(12:05):
a whole other thing to have a twenty four year
old Jick going around in ridiculous outfits inserting yourself CB
into everything.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
So you can never imagine doing that at his age.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Like let's say, let's say Dana just said I'm done,
I've had enough of you.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You know your line of questioning. I mean, you must
have one foot in the Mediterranean already.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I just want to know what we're dealing with here,
all right, buddy, let's just say it comes to that,
and it never would because your relationship with your wife
is famous, right, I mean, everybody knows the love that
you share between the two of you.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But look, the point is.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
She walked away, and you're seventy five and here comes,
you know, Holly Hopscotch at twenty five years old, smitten
by the personality and celebrity of the greatest LA radio
talent of all time at Petros Papaacas and wants to,
you know, get a little cozy.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
And I got to sit there at the at the
beauty pageant.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah, yeah, no, they're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I'd rather be shot. Do I have to listen to
her talk? Oh? I have to pose on Instagram photos
on the beach like a jackass.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Oh God, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Honestly, can you imagine, Like I mean, there's a great
saying that that says there's no fool. And I'm sure
I said this too because you asked me about dumb
ass Belichick every week. There's no fool like an old
fool and he is, uh, he's showing his ass. And
it's unfortunate because we're talking about one of the great
(13:33):
coaches ever. It all started with that shirtless ring photo
of him, yeah, doing the Walk of Shame at like
four in the morning, and yeah, Lynn Lynn, the City
of sin well there you never come out the way
you went in.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
There's a reason why I brought up the Blazers thing
though before we got to Belichick. I don't know how
we got to Belichick.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I was gonna you just brought it up here. Well
for a hack.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I am a hack, that is true.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I was gonna got one foot in the g and C.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I'm going there, baby, I'm going to your home land.
Should I drop your name? Would it matter?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Five guys will look up.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Anyway? Uh.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I saw where Phil Knight said he's not interested in
buying the Blazers, and I thought for for him and
for the University.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Of Oregon undred years old he is.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Oh god, how is he? How old is he now?
I don't got to be eighty something, he's eighty something.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Like he's totally focused on the Oregon winning a national championship.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That's really working.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You got close.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
He's been close close.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Only counts and horseshoes and hand grenades. Buddy, you yeah,
keep trying, Phil, Phil Phil Cotters?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
What movie?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
What movie? Broundhog Dad?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
There you go out of boy Kate's nice work. Hey,
come on, it's you can It's fine. Don't you think?
Doesn't that surprise you a little bit? That he's uh,
he doesn't want to just kind of I mean, how
big of a feather and Oregon's cap would that be
to have their biggest booster own the the baz He's
eighty seven years old.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
But we wouldn't it be less money for them? Wouldn't
they be pissed off? It's like when your parents have
another kid.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
And they're like, what about Guy's worth like one hundred
and eighty trillion.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
And Organs needed every single dollar and more.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
They'll have it in the National Championship, that's right.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
So no, I'm not surprised. I don't I don't know
who will buy the Blazers. The one thing that is
interesting is owning a sports franchise used to be just
kind of a vanity play and it was just for
super rich people that wanted to be involved in something.
And now, because of TV revenue, it's it's lucrative, right,
And even teams that are notorious for not spending a
(15:50):
bunch of money, like the Chargers, are going out and
hiring people like Jim Harbaugh and building brand new facilities
because they're all making so much money. And I know
the NBA TV deal with ESPN is massive, and whoever
buys the Trailblazers is going to make money. They're also
a great franchise. So I don't know what rich guy's
(16:11):
out there, but Phil Knight's not the only rich guy
in the.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Northwest of How much did you talk about Pete Rose
yesterday on your program?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
A little bit? A little bit? Uh, you know, I
knew Pete Rose a little bit. I met him on
a few occasions, and he was always around Fox. The
first time I met him, it was like, you know,
I remember seeing that day, like there was all this
denial about gambling and this and that, and he was
in the newsroom at Fox, like is that the Nordeaks
like screaming a team.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I remember meeting him one time.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Actually I met him a couple of times, but the
first time I met him, I remember asking him, Pete,
how much baseball do you watch it? He's like, man,
I'm watching fourteen games a day. Why do you think
he's watching fourteen games a day?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I could, I cannot. Well, you know, I was a
lot closer with Shoeless Joe.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Well, Manfred said that the punishment, the banishment ends when
you're dead. Well he died seventy five years ago. Julius
Joe Jackson did, so that's a load of hogwash.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Well, you know, I don't really know what they're doing.
I don't know what the reasoning was, or how or
why or when they got to this, but it's definitely
a conundrum for baseball and the hypocrisy. We're all big hypocrites,
but the hypocrisy is pretty deafening when you think about
the fact that like half the games right now regionally
(17:29):
are being played on the fan Dual network.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes, they've taken a lot of money from gambling, and
fantasy baseball actually booied baseball in a way that was
almost like a messiah to the sport when it was
really dipping maybe a decade or so ago. Fantasy baseball
and the ability of the MLB to digitize all that
(17:57):
and get people on their website like that really change baseball.
And that has something to do with gambling. Yeah, and
so you know that. Look, when I started as a
broadcaster on TV, gambling was the one thing, especially in
college football unless you were Al Michaels and you felt
like you were above the law. And you know, field
(18:17):
goal goes in at the end of a game and
you say something to the effect that matters for somebody.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
On that note, enjoyed Dick next week, I know how
Dick Field. I'll send you a few thoughts and picks
and texts from out there.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
You know, I don't appreciate this combative nature of your interview.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I don't know what's combative about your wife leaves you?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
The hell?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Will there be a twenty five year old hot you
like Jordan Hudson waiting for me, an older version of
Paul Rubins, No herbsion of that's what I look like.
That's what people tell me. Which, by the way, if
I look like Herman, then guess what pal you look like?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Pee wee Herman? Because you look like me.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well, enjoy everybody recognizing you as Petros Papadacres, AM radio
star and cable conglomerate out there. Oh beautiful, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You're the best. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Have fun, soft Petros Papadakus with us.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
We're getting close. Can you smell it?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh baby?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
The NFL schedule is about forty minutes away from being released.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
You'll hear it live right here. A ninety three three
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It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Nakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
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A righty boting goes. Here we go in the moments
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that's not true.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
I've been waiting for the arrival of the Prince of
Pigskin from Southern California, my friend, one half of the
legendary Petros and Money radio show in Southern California, winner
of the Greek American Broadcaster of the Month Award, One
damn fine man again, one damn fine father, and one
incredible husband to Dana Papaduccas, our friend Petros Papadoucus brought
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to you bye.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
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Speaker 5 (01:39):
I assume that you and money devoting a ton of
your show today to the NFL schedule release.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
No, no, we were asked to, uh, so we will?
Asked to buy? Who our new boss is, the Kansas
City Chiefs guy.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Let's get choose?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So he uh he asked us to, So we will.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I thought you were above meddling like that. No, no radio,
but nobody can tell you what to do.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
People are generally hands off around here, so when they
ask for something, I don't push back because most of
my days are are unfettered and alive, like a freeman
in Paris.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Well, I was talking to our midday host about this
on the air the other day.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Gosh, that just went right over anyway.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm sorry I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You want to go
back into that reference you made there on the radio.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I don't, I don't. I'm gonna be one of the
five or six people that are looking forward to this.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That's fine, go ahead, I can't wait. It's exciting.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
What's your question?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I really, I really did not have a question.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
It was more of a statement that, you know, I
was talking to our midday guy the other day about,
you know, what we do for a living, and I
don't know how much effort you really put into this
thing in the morning hours, you know, prep work. I
first got in this business and Neil Scott once told me, hey,
one hour of prep for every hour the air. Okay, Uh,
that hasn't happened in twenty years. All right, I'll guarantee
(03:04):
you that. So is this what most people would call
like semi retirement?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
What we do?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No? No, no, not what I care? He cares for
My show's a little different. He cares. This show's got
a little more structure. Oh really, I don't know. I
don't know. I'm not saying what how different I am
from anybody or you? But I don't do a lot
(03:28):
of sports. I mean, it's a sports show, but the
part I do is not you know, maybe sixty seventy
percent not sports every day. So that takes research because
when you do that, you can very easily sound like
you have no idea what you're talking about just as
far as facts go.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
All right, So how much actual preparation for an hour total? Yeah,
all right, which just means goofing around on Instagram and Twitter.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Let's be honest. No it does not. No, no, suh,
Hey god, thank god, damn it. No.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Well, good for you that you actually put some prep
into this thing.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Man. You know, I don't like this. I don't like
this line of questioning. You know what, Kate's don't you agree?
Like you're listening to this right, you can't like that?
What's wrong with the line of questioning? You know?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Are you embarrassed that you actually prepare for your program?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Like me like going over to the trash Man Union
and be like, hey, you guys suck for being trash man.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
I bet it sucks being a trash man. You know,
I don't want to hear that crap. Those guys are
making a ton of money, dude.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Okay, but what I'm saying I'm tired of you.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Why, hey, you know what the good good for you?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
They got great men.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I'm gone for the next two weeks after this, so
you can deal with Dick.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I thought I was gonna be dealing with Dick today. No,
next one is to hear from you. I thought I
was gonna get my annual like text at seven in
the morning from Dick, Like, is that what he does?
I'll tell I'll tell you to leave you alone. That's
why this. I'm on my period.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Okay, Well, the NFL schedule was kind of a big deal.
What do you make of the seahawks potential by placement?
Petros very very little.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I know that Travis Kelsey's unhappy from the Let's Get Cheese.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Why is he unhappy? What's his problem?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, he said he doesn't want to go to uh
to Brazil's gonna be hot, and he that's from Holliday Touchdown,
the Hallmark Chiefs movie.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I thought the Hallmark Chiefs movie was slapshot with the
Charleston Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
No, it was called Holiday Touchdown. Not a great Paul
Newman movie, but a terrible Hallmark movie featuring Travis Kelsey's
mom and sadly, uh ed Bagley Junior, who looked quite old.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And then there's gonna be a Buffalo Bill's Holiday Touchdown
style Hallmark movie this year. Yeah, and bub and and
that guy that died on the field and came back
like Lazarus two years ago. Right, yeah, he is going
to be in it. So that The only reason I
know that is because of my preparation and my dedication
(06:14):
to the information.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Let's get cheer, you know, let's go.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Did you see, by the way, and I mean you
never played in the NFL. You were in an NFL
camp though, correct at one point. No, No, I thought
you spend a couple of days and somebody's came.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
They took my X ray. I I do not who
took your X ray the Saints, But I just I
didn't pass the NFL physical the You see, the Vikings
are playing back to back international games. They got to
go to Ireland and then and then turn around next
week and go to Tottenham to the Hotspurs Stadium. Okay,
well that's not a long and then and then play
in London. Yeah well wait, wait, Tottenham is in London.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
That's what I said. They're gonna play in Ireland and
then they're gonna go to London.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Whiteheart Lane is the name of the Uh yeah, look
that's the that's the tell. I mean, my poor rate
partner's got to go to Brazil. They're going to harvest
his organ.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's gonna come back with a big scar.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I mean, the NFL is trying really hard to go
as international as possible, and they've done it for years,
and they use whatever scheduling and the international games and
the loss of the home revenue or however that works
out as a bargaining chip. I mean once the Chargers,
(07:27):
well look when they let the Rams move to LA
from Saint Louis and they stripped Saint Louis of their team,
even though Saint Louis took the Rams when they didn't
want him here in LA. When they let Kronky bring
the Rams back to LA, what do you think happened
to the Rams? They got scheduled, bamboozled for years and
(07:48):
they say, well why do we have to go? Well,
look where you are now? And the Chargers. They let
the Chargers go to LA and join the Rams for
one dollar a year on the rent at a stadium
that the Ramm's built. So when somebody, if there's somebody
that's going to be you know, drugged with the prostitute
and have one of their kidneys removed and wake up
(08:08):
in a bathful of ice, it's going to be the Chargers.
I mean they got a sweetheart deal from the NFL
and so on and so forth. And you know that
the conspiracy theories go even deeper, like let's say the
NFL forced somebody to draft Michael sam right, you know,
for the Optics years ago. Or the NFL forced somebody
(08:30):
to draft Shadeur when he was drafted and they look
so happy in that Cleveland draft room when they announced
that they picked him. Maybe sometimes that happens and you
get a schedule, get out of jail free card, you
know what I mean. But all this stuff happens behind
the scenes, softy, way above the pay grade of idiots
(08:51):
who just off on Twitter and Instagram for an hour
before you do the show? Did you?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Did you see the story? The Blazers are for sale?
And the reason why I bring it up is, well,
first of all, Paul Allen was a big icon in.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That huge, huge I mean he was massive.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I mean a nice man from what I can gather.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I only met him in person once or twice, and
it was more of just you know, passing by type thing.
I don't even know if Paul Allen I all report, Yes,
by all reports, great guy.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He didn't show up with like a platoon of hookers
everywhere like doctor Buss.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Uh No, I don't believe.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
So, you know, I mean he's already got a leg
up on most of our owners. Yeah, well, I mean,
did Jerry bring hookers to the games?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Was it obvious they were call girls? Do people wear
Laker jerseys at the game? Yes?
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Okay, speaking of hookers, how about Phil Belichick's girlfriend just
won't go away?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Are you tired of this yet?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Man?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He's got nothing to do with North Carolina football?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
And then there was that story that came out that
said she was banned and Carolina said, no, she's not paying,
and then Belichick said she's got nothing to do with anything,
and yeah, you told us last week and thought she
was a hooker.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Right. Minded people are starting to say, like, I don't
think this guy's gonna make it, you know, and I
might I might be in that. In that camp. You
do have some people trying to protect him and calling
in old favors. We'll see. I mean, there's prop bets
on the Strahan interview as like when is he going
to say this? When is this? I mean, it's pretty
(10:26):
it's pretty crazy. But all that being said, it used
to be when I was playing and long after, coaches
had to have a wife or a family structure, and
that was very important part of recruiting. And it was
very important that the coach said, well, you know, young Leo,
(10:46):
he's going to be far from home, but you know,
Katie and I will have him at our house. But Thanksgiving,
we're a family here in Fayetteville, you know. And that's
and and you'd go through the media guide and every
page for whatever coach, assistant or head coach would have
a full family photo, color family photo, and the family
(11:07):
kind of vibe was really pushed. And that's kind of
gone by the wayside. I remember it being kind of
rare when you know, Sark was divorced, Lane Kiffin divorced,
Dana Holgerson divorced, some guys just single, and you just
didn't have that as much in college football, and it
was a stability recruiting thing. But now, I mean, college
(11:30):
football has as much stability as a boat in a storm.
So it doesn't matter as much anymore that being said about.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It did that, by the way, he did that whole
same bit last week, I know.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
But Bill Belichick is pushing hard, like really hard, the
other way. Right. It's like, it's one thing to be
like divorced or like have a family or whatever, not
have a family anymore, you know, maybe have like a
girlfriend or you know, Mick Cronin has a girlfriend. He's
he divorced, single parent, So that's one thing. But it's
(12:05):
a whole other thing to have a twenty four year
old Jick going around in ridiculous outfits inserting yourself CB
into everything.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
So you can never imagine doing that at his age.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Like let's say, let's say Dana just said I'm done,
I've had enough of you.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You know your line of questioning. I mean, you must
have one foot in the Mediterranean already.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I just want to know what we're dealing with here,
all right, buddy, let's just say it comes to that,
and it never would because your relationship with your wife
is famous, right, I mean, everybody knows the love that
you share between the two of you.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But look, the point is.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
She walked away, and you're seventy five and here comes,
you know, Holly Hopscotch at twenty five years old, smitten
by the personality and celebrity of the greatest LA radio
talent of all time at Petros Papaacas and wants to,
you know, get a little cozy.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
And I got to sit there at the at the
beauty pageant.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah, yeah, no, they're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I'd rather be shot. Do I have to listen to
her talk? Oh? I have to pose on Instagram photos
on the beach like a jackass.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Oh God, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Honestly, can you imagine, Like I mean, there's a great
saying that that says there's no fool. And I'm sure
I said this too because you asked me about dumb
ass Belichick every week. There's no fool like an old
fool and he is, uh, he's showing his ass. And
it's unfortunate because we're talking about one of the great
(13:33):
coaches ever. It all started with that shirtless ring photo
of him, yeah, doing the Walk of Shame at like
four in the morning, and yeah, Lynn Lynn, the City
of sin well there you never come out the way
you went in.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
There's a reason why I brought up the Blazers thing
though before we got to Belichick. I don't know how
we got to Belichick.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I was gonna you just brought it up here. Well
for a hack.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I am a hack, that is true.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I was gonna got one foot in the g and C.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I'm going there, baby, I'm going to your home land.
Should I drop your name? Would it matter?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Five guys will look up.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Anyway? Uh.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I saw where Phil Knight said he's not interested in
buying the Blazers, and I thought for for him and
for the University.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Of Oregon undred years old he is.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Oh god, how is he? How old is he now?
I don't got to be eighty something, he's eighty something.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Like he's totally focused on the Oregon winning a national championship.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That's really working.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You got close.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
He's been close close.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Only counts and horseshoes and hand grenades. Buddy, you yeah,
keep trying, Phil, Phil Phil Cotters?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
What movie?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
What movie? Broundhog Dad?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
There you go out of boy Kate's nice work. Hey,
come on, it's you can It's fine. Don't you think?
Doesn't that surprise you a little bit? That he's uh,
he doesn't want to just kind of I mean, how
big of a feather and Oregon's cap would that be
to have their biggest booster own the the baz He's
eighty seven years old.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
But we wouldn't it be less money for them? Wouldn't
they be pissed off? It's like when your parents have
another kid.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
And they're like, what about Guy's worth like one hundred
and eighty trillion.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
And Organs needed every single dollar and more.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
They'll have it in the National Championship, that's right.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
So no, I'm not surprised. I don't I don't know
who will buy the Blazers. The one thing that is
interesting is owning a sports franchise used to be just
kind of a vanity play and it was just for
super rich people that wanted to be involved in something.
And now, because of TV revenue, it's it's lucrative, right,
And even teams that are notorious for not spending a
(15:50):
bunch of money, like the Chargers, are going out and
hiring people like Jim Harbaugh and building brand new facilities
because they're all making so much money. And I know
the NBA TV deal with ESPN is massive, and whoever
buys the Trailblazers is going to make money. They're also
a great franchise. So I don't know what rich guy's
(16:11):
out there, but Phil Knight's not the only rich guy
in the.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Northwest of How much did you talk about Pete Rose
yesterday on your program?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
A little bit? A little bit? Uh, you know, I
knew Pete Rose a little bit. I met him on
a few occasions, and he was always around Fox. The
first time I met him, it was like, you know,
I remember seeing that day, like there was all this
denial about gambling and this and that, and he was
in the newsroom at Fox, like is that the Nordeaks
like screaming a team.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I remember meeting him one time.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Actually I met him a couple of times, but the
first time I met him, I remember asking him, Pete,
how much baseball do you watch it? He's like, man,
I'm watching fourteen games a day. Why do you think
he's watching fourteen games a day?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I could, I cannot. Well, you know, I was a
lot closer with Shoeless Joe.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Well, Manfred said that the punishment, the banishment ends when
you're dead. Well he died seventy five years ago. Julius
Joe Jackson did, so that's a load of hogwash.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Well, you know, I don't really know what they're doing.
I don't know what the reasoning was, or how or
why or when they got to this, but it's definitely
a conundrum for baseball and the hypocrisy. We're all big hypocrites,
but the hypocrisy is pretty deafening when you think about
the fact that like half the games right now regionally
(17:29):
are being played on the fan Dual network.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes, they've taken a lot of money from gambling, and
fantasy baseball actually booied baseball in a way that was
almost like a messiah to the sport when it was
really dipping maybe a decade or so ago. Fantasy baseball
and the ability of the MLB to digitize all that
(17:57):
and get people on their website like that really change baseball.
And that has something to do with gambling. Yeah, and
so you know that. Look, when I started as a
broadcaster on TV, gambling was the one thing, especially in
college football unless you were Al Michaels and you felt
like you were above the law. And you know, field
(18:17):
goal goes in at the end of a game and
you say something to the effect that matters for somebody.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
On that note, enjoyed Dick next week, I know how
Dick Field. I'll send you a few thoughts and picks
and texts from out there.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
You know, I don't appreciate this combative nature of your interview.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I don't know what's combative about your wife leaves you?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
The hell?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Will there be a twenty five year old hot you
like Jordan Hudson waiting for me, an older version of
Paul Rubins, No herbsion of that's what I look like.
That's what people tell me. Which, by the way, if
I look like Herman, then guess what pal you look like?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Pee wee Herman? Because you look like me.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well, enjoy everybody recognizing you as Petros Papadacres, AM radio
star and cable conglomerate out there. Oh beautiful, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You're the best. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Have fun, soft Petros Papadakus with us.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
We're getting close. Can you smell it?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh baby?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
The NFL schedule is about forty minutes away from being released.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
You'll hear it live right here. A ninety three three
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