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January 15, 2025 41 mins

Teams may have to wait a long time for Lions coordinators to fill their head coach openings - in that light, would Mike McCarthy make sense with the Bears? And legendary broadcaster Jim Nantz discusses stories from his vast career in sports with Dan.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's our two on this Wednesday. The Great Jim Nance
will join us coming up. He just called his five
hundredth NFL game if you include the postseason, so he's
working on five oh one. It'll be the Ravens and
the Bills coming up this weekend, so we'll talk to him.
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(00:26):
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(00:47):
Mike McCarthy is interviewing with Chicago today. I know that
that's not a sexy name, but I have to look
at the resume of the coach coming in. I know
we can go. Hey, Ben Johnson would be great. Okay,
you think he would be great as an offensive coordinator.
He has been great. He's done a wonderful job with Detroit.

(01:09):
Running a team is different than being a coordinator. In fact,
you have to have sort of CEO responsibilities capabilities. I
don't know if Ben Johnson is that kind of guy,
but as a coordinator, he's been wonderful. We've seen this
happen where somebody gets promoted and you're like, all right,

(01:29):
this is your opportunity. Now you've got to run a team.
Now you've got to take care of the offense and
the defense, special teams, the owner, GM, the draft, all
of this stuff. Whereas before when you're a coordinator, you're
just like, let me go into my lab here and
all of a sudden, I just prep this. This is

(01:50):
all I got to do. Got to make sure Jared
Goff is ready to go with the game plan, and
that's it. I'll leave the press conferences to Dan Campbell.
Mike McCarthy has been in this job for a long time,
and as I mentioned, you know, I think it's eleven
seasons where he's won at least ten games. That's a

(02:10):
track record here. Now you might say, all right, he
had good quarterbacks, he should have won more in Green Bay.
He didn't win the big games. And I know there's
negatives all around with Mike got a Super Bowl, Yeah,
the only one one Super Bowl. If I look at
the list as I did yesterday, the coaches who were
on that list, of those who have won at least

(02:32):
ten games in at least eleven seasons, he's up there.
They're all Hall of famers. You know Schulan, Belichick did
it twenty times. You know Tom Landry's on there. You
know there's great coaches on there. I think all of them,
except for maybe Marty Schottenheimer, are not Hall of Famers.
I think that's the list that we saw yesterday. So

(02:55):
the Bears, and once again I want to bring in
now the Bears are bringing in too many people, like
they probably have a hard time keeping track of. You know,
that guy's coming in and that guy's leaving. You imagine
if you show up in the parking lot and your
guy like, go, hey, how are you hey, Mike, how
are you there? I think pretty well, Hey, Pete Carroll, Hey,

(03:16):
Mike McCarthy, Hey, good to see you. Good luck. But
they have to wait for Ben Johnson, and I mean
the Jets situation as well. Aaron Glenn is he going
to get that job? I was told that Rex Ryan
is not getting that job. Rex, Rex keeps my talking trash.
That is a huge mistake. Wow, a huge mistake. I

(03:40):
would I would hire Rex Ryan if I'm the Jets,
I would just purely for the entertainment value of this.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
I would.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I don't know if the Jets would be any better,
but damn would they be entertaining? And he would embrace
the entertainment right. Robert Sala was trying to like, give
me your phone, somebody's leaking this information here. Rex would
be like, yeah, you know what, come on in here,
all my coaches and employees. We're going to go around
the room and see who's leaking information. I can make

(04:11):
it a TV a reality show. Have fun with it.
Let's go at least make it entertaining. The product on
the field isn't Rex would make it entertaining. Yes, Yes, done.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
And he recently said he looked forward to beating up
on coach Rabel twice a year.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Was a matter of days ago.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I know, he said beating up on his team, not
on Mike Bravel, which was a great clarification on his part.
Huge mistake. Yeah, Rex wants the job, like I don't
know how many coaches want that situation there. Rex is like, hey,
I want it. I want to go after these guys. Well,
let's go hire me. But I think Aaron Glenn is

(04:49):
probably the guy who gets that job. And he's done
a great job in Detroit. Once again, you're a great coordinator.
Now all of a sudden, you got to I mean
you're dealing with all kinds of things, things that you
never thought you'd be thinking of or have to, you know,
deal with, and you do because you're the head coach

(05:09):
of a team. Eight seven seven three DP show. We'll
get to your phone calls coming up. Let's recap our ones,
poll question Seaton, and then what are we going to
go with an hour or two? We got a couple
up there.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
Tom Brady being an NFL broadcaster and owner is a
conflict of interest or no big deal?

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Right now?

Speaker 5 (05:28):
Sixty seven percent have that as a conflict of interest.
We also have up there which fan base would suffer
more if they lost the Super Bowl? The Buffalo Bill's
or the Detroit Lions. Bill's running away with that one
at eighty Yeah, massive.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
I did think that, though, I mean I don't like
thinking that way, but I did think that if and
I'm looking at the DraftKings odds of the best super
Bowl matchups, and the favorite right now is the Chiefs Lions,
which is obvious. Then followed by the Chiefs Eagles, Raven Lions,
and then it's the Bills and the Lions. And if

(06:04):
you were saying I could pick a super Bowl matchup,
I would say the Bills and the Lions because one
fan base is going to get a Super Bowl win.
And I know that the Lions they haven't really done anything,
haven't been competitive. But like the Cubs in the Indians,
the Cleveland Indians, they somebody was going to win, long suffering,

(06:26):
somebody was going to win, and the Chicago Cubs got
their win. Cleveland is still looking for for it's But
if you're going to have that matchup, you know, as
an innocent bystander, that would be the one that I
think would be wonderful. All right, Poll question for hour
two is going to be watched.

Speaker 5 (06:43):
Yeah, we actually put up there too, something that's kind
of funny. What food or drink from your childhood would
you absolutely not drink now? And then we also have
with the one that you would drink currently or eat.
It is a ton a ton of responses but nothing. Really,
It's all a million different things. Fluffer Nutter is coming

(07:06):
up a lot as something people absolutely would eat or
something people absolutely would not eat.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Let's do would not because I brought this up that
I went to the shopping a supermarket and I walked
down the aisle when I saw the Nesley's Strawberry Quick,
and I said to my wife, I think I want that,
and she goes, why. I said, I don't know. I
haven't had forty years. Yes, I said, I don't know,

(07:35):
but I'm gonna have it. Got up this morning and
I had a glass, put it in the milk, stirred
it around, and I said, you know what, I'm gonna
have another glass today. I'm feeling crazy. My wife goes, okay,
So I got Strawberry Quick and I haven't had it
in forty years. It didn't taste that good. It tasted

(07:59):
that great, so tomorrow even more Nesley's Quick Strawberry. Is
there something that you used to drink that there's no
way you would drink now when you were growing up,
Like I would say mountain dew, like I I remember,
you know, you're just basically pouring cavities down your throat.
There it's like, oh, this is awesome.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
You gotta get peppy.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
You meet me out Todd.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Now what it's bright green and you could use it
as a lantern at night, it doesn't matter if for.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Closing, then you could use it for ana freeze. But
I remember mountain dew and they're like yeah, and then
you'd be wired.

Speaker 6 (08:35):
Yes, Paulie, I would say, when I was a kid,
you had the same thing, Dan and your lunch going
to school, the plain baloney sandwich, one slice of baloney.
If someone offered me a blowny sandwich, not good like
cooked blooney, but that processed stuff, I would completely pass.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
I can't eat blooney sandwiches now. No, like you could
pile it on and I don't want it. It's like meatloaf.
Went to a restaurant last night with my wife, No,
and it had meat loaf and I my wife goes,
I'm going to get the meat loaf, and I said,
good because I won't. I'm scarred from my childhood with

(09:12):
meat loaf. Can't do it, can't do it. See and
you got something.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
Yeah, I love meat loaf.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Did then do to this day?

Speaker 5 (09:20):
And if it was a fried blooney sandwich I would
crush too easy easy.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, but okay, I've said this before. I swear on
my mother's life. I could hold up the slice of
blooney that was on my sandwich when I was going
to school. You could see through it. It's not funny toime.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
I'm sorry. Childhood, I was so hungry by one It's terrible.
But you should have had got you slices.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
At least you got a slice of American cheese. You
got mustard. My mom would put water in the ketchup
bottle and swirl it around to make it go long.

Speaker 6 (09:59):
Apart watering down the drink bottles.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
It just it was not good. My parents, God love them,
they rest in peace. They did their best. But there
are just certain things where that slice of bologney was
not a slice. It was like a sliver of bologny,
but you could see through it. Oh, scarred forever, Marvin.
You grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth,

(10:25):
so you probably had anything you.

Speaker 7 (10:27):
Wanted relative to the people in my neighborhood. Yes, for sure,
Move peasants. Move Hawaiian punch. You can't drink it now,
I can't. I got Type ten diabetes as a kid.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
No thank you.

Speaker 6 (10:44):
I didn't know there's ten types.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
If there are. Fritzi's had it too.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
And I think my stuff at like four Hawaiian punch.
I had that a few months ago.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, it's not good.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Fruits, juicy red about a nice Hawaiian punch.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
No, I remember going to a fraternity party and that
wine punch and grain alcohol for the kids. You can
you can imagine how that ended up.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yes, there's another thing I won't drink.

Speaker 7 (11:15):
So, I don't know if you guys remember there used
to be just be a gallon of this thing called drink,
and it was literally just sugar water in food color.
So you just get a big gallon of like we
would call it ghetto juice and it would just be like,
oh purple. It just be a big gallon of just
sugar water and food color and that's all. Well, drink it. Yep, Hey,

(11:38):
get that big red bottle to drink. Okay, ma grab it.
And it was only like ninety nine cents and you
get what you pay for.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
So was it was like a less glamorized kool aid?

Speaker 7 (11:51):
Yes, it was a poor version of kool aid. Yes,
called drink. It had no label on it, no nothing,
I don't even know.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
There was a brand.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
It was contraband right.

Speaker 7 (12:03):
It was almost like the uh, the imitation frosted Flakes
with Terry the Tiger.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
He's down on his left brother Terry.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, and handling Terry the Tiger.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Welcome to hour two on this Wednesday, we'll talk to
Jim nance he'll join us. Coming up. Curtis in Illinois. Hi, Curtis,
what do you have for me today?

Speaker 8 (12:32):
Warner DP?

Speaker 2 (12:33):
I got some Danette related rhyme times for you.

Speaker 9 (12:36):
And since I don't really know how to make fun
of Seat and they'll start off with the softball on
him but leg muscle Seatan's best.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Attribute calf laugh ding ding, fuzzy vision. Todd's speech blurry, slurry, blurred.

Speaker 10 (12:56):
Slurred, nailed it.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Guys are killing young Deer, Marvin's.

Speaker 9 (13:00):
Dad, Young deer Marvin's dad, Buck sucks, fawn gone gone soon.
Todd job title and Todd's prom date booker.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Hooker, booker hooker hooker nailed it last one he didn't
powder layer of a sandwich and Paul's dad.

Speaker 6 (13:28):
Brad Dad nailed it.

Speaker 8 (13:32):
Soon.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Thank you, Curtis, clever slash morbid.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
I don't know where we go with it.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
Ye, bread Dad, I don't pay for it. I don't
pay for women anymore.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
By the way, just wanted to clap.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
You took one to lunch, right.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
I took a dancer to lunch.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
Adult film star.

Speaker 8 (13:54):
He became an.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Adult film star after I took out to a very
expensive sushi lunch.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Sushi.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
I met her at some at a bachelor party where
she was very occupied by other men, and I was,
you know, just kind of watching a lot of things
I'd never thought i'd ever see in my lifetime.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
But I ended up chatting it up with.

Speaker 6 (14:11):
Aching women and women.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
It was a very expensive lunch in Santa Monica, and
then all of a sudden she got a pager and
she had to go meet somebody in a hotel.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Do you imagine that todd Is? You know, he's striking
up a conversation with her at a bachelor party. So
how long did it take you to get here? What
do you drive? What kind of gas violence?

Speaker 3 (14:29):
She got?

Speaker 7 (14:31):
Yes, Marmon, did Fritzy go with the regular? You don't
have to live like this anymore. I can take you
away from here.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
We'll give up your.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Drinks to be a veterinarian. You could go back to school.
Figures up there.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
They're always they're always going to med school, always always.
Why is it My doctors never looked like these dancers.
They all went to med school. I never see them.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
I was gonna be a CPA, and now I'm on
the pole. I don't get it how this happened to me.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
But you could see Todd going. I could take you
away from this life. I could give you a better life. Here,
take my hand hold on. I'm being called. I have
a porno scene to shoot.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
I'll be welcome, be right back.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
I've said the restaurant waiting tell you for hours, Jay,
I have another Mountain dew please.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
I made it rain and everything, and you won't talk
to me. Where's you're going? No money left in my pocket?

Speaker 2 (15:24):
All right, let's clean it up. We've got Jim nance
who's going to do Yeah, Jim's Jim's a professional. Jim
is a professional. Robert Griffin Junior the third coming up
next hour. We'll talk to Jim Nantz next here on
the Dan Patrick Show.

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Hello friend, how are you hello?

Speaker 8 (17:03):
Friend?

Speaker 12 (17:03):
Listen forget about five hundred. I'm excited about five h one.
All that fanfare behind me, thankfully. It's been a dream
journey to this point, and they get better every week.
Buffalo hosting Baltimore this week it's five oh one. I
can't wait to get there and I'm as always tickle
to be on with you leading up to it.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
More to gain in your opinion, Josh Allen or Lamar
Jackson in this.

Speaker 12 (17:29):
Game, and you're going to be talking individual accolades here,
and I can tell you that knowing both of them
well enough to know this is all about trying to
get to the Super Bowl for them. So if you
say Josh has more to gain, it's only through the
lens of getting to a super Bowl for him. You
know he's going to be happy with whatever it takes

(17:51):
to get there and try to return that franchise for
the first time in thirty some odd years. But then
you got Lamaro's had his best year ever doing just
jaw dropping things as well, but he wants to get
to a super Bowl. So that's a tough question to
answer because they both feel like this is the year,
and I could give you a pretty compelling argument why

(18:13):
I think either one of them are very capable of
winning the Super Bowl this year.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
What was it like? Who was jim nant? Game number
one of the five hundred?

Speaker 12 (18:27):
It was Vinnie Testa Verdi and the Tampa Bay Bucks
at Chris Chandler in the Indianapolis Colts. The great Pat
Hayden was with me on the call. It was October
of nineteen eighty eight. I was a studio host for
our college football's scoreboard show back in those days, the
Prudential College Football Report. I worked in the studio in

(18:50):
New York on Saturday, parachuted in for the game on Sunday,
doing all my production meetings and all of that research
by phone. I didn't have the full treatment as you
will on most occasions getting ready for a game. The
night that I flew in after hosting the studio show
was a night that Kurt Gibson hit the home run

(19:13):
in the World Series. And you remember the Jack buck
call on the home run. I can't believe what I
just saw. I can't believe what I just saw. Well,
last week was number five hundred. As I looked back
at the scope of it all and the good fortune
I've had to be at so many big games in

(19:35):
my career, I could truly say, just like it was
uttered that very first weekend for me.

Speaker 8 (19:40):
I can't believe what I just saw.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
When's the last time you had announcer envy?

Speaker 12 (19:51):
I mean, all the time. You know me well enough
to know that maybe I'll look at things differently. I
admire so many people our industry. I know it's a
competitive business. I've never felt like it from that viewpoint.
I admire so many people that I hear and listen to.
I was watching TGL last night and listen to Matt

(20:13):
Barry calling golf. I knew he's a golf guy. I
don't know Matt really barely at all, but I was
admiring what a good job he did. You know, it's
a tough situation there in a made up environment with
golf into a simulator. But it's all the time. You know,
my deep respect for those that came before me and

(20:33):
you know that like the elder Statesman for me now
is is Al Michaels. And you know, listening to Al
do a game last week, I just love hearing his
cadence's voice. He's been such a magnificent friend in my life,
someone to look up to and still a kick every
time I talked to him, which is frequently.

Speaker 8 (20:56):
But the other thing that was brought to light.

Speaker 12 (20:57):
Last week on the five hundred Dan was that and
CBS has this history with the league where the original
network partner of the NFL, and go back to the fifties,
think Alan Amichi, think of that game Giants in the
Baltimore Folts, and that was you know, Chris Shenko back then.

(21:19):
But you look at people that actually called games play
by play at CBS at some point in their careers,
includes Al Michaels. Al started at Bob Costas was a
play by play announcer for a year or two before
he went to DC, but Summer all Lundquist in Bird

(21:41):
the last ten years of his career. Kirk Goudy ended
his career at CBS. This is a dangerous game, by
the way, because you start going through all the Jim
McKay did games for CBS on the NFL, Jack Whittaker,
of course, Ray Scott, Frank Difford. I mean it is
a you know, Dick Stockton. People don't realize he called

(22:04):
the second most NFL games of all time, had a
great Hall of Fame career. Frank Glieber again a name
that's forgotten, but he was a long time number two
behind Pat. I felt a little bit of I felt
connected to them. Last week, I was the first to
reach five hundred games play by play. Now it was surprising.

(22:27):
Somebody did the research on it.

Speaker 8 (22:29):
Pat.

Speaker 12 (22:30):
Some are all did seven hundred games in his career.
Some of them were at Fox, most of them were
at CBS, but some of them were as an analyst.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
When we were young kids.

Speaker 12 (22:42):
So his play by play numbers at CBS never reached
five hundred, and I just felt honored to take the
torch and try to run with it instead a new mark,
and then, you know what, I.

Speaker 8 (22:53):
Had enough of it. It's been discussed.

Speaker 12 (22:56):
I'm honored and plattered given the chance, and I'm ready
to go do five oh one this week, five oh
two next week, and put the fanfare behind me and
go watch some great games.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Is there an emergency plan? I don't want to jinx
you guys. An emergency plan if you're not able to
do the.

Speaker 8 (23:13):
Game at the Super Bowl, there is.

Speaker 12 (23:18):
I've never seen an emergency plan put in place in
advance of that.

Speaker 8 (23:24):
But we're worrying, Wartz. Those of us.

Speaker 12 (23:26):
Who make are living with our voices. And you know,
when I've worked as many weeks in a year as
I have for thirty seven years, I was working coast
of forty eight weeks a year between college basketball, the NFL,
and golf. So of course you're going to have your
battles along the way with a cold or the flu,

(23:46):
and how are you going to get through it? You know,
you worry yourself about being around anyone who is sick.
My little boy and I have a young son, Jamison.
He had the sniffles last night. He said he had
a sore throat. I mean, it's just had all the
guard rails up, still trying to interact, put them to bed,
say his prayers, sing a nighttime song, and thankfully felt

(24:09):
better this morning. But I started to do the map
on it. Two days from now, I could have whatever
he's starting to come down with, and I'm going to
go into this weekend compromise, but we we do.

Speaker 8 (24:21):
We do find a way to survive it.

Speaker 12 (24:23):
Anything that's you know, short of laryngitis, we're pretty much
gonna tough en out. I could hear in Troy Aikman's
voice the other night. I could hear something was going
on with him. There was a hoarseness that I know.
He wasn't one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
He's jim Nantz, the Hall of Famer. He'll be on
the call five oh one. Don't bring up five hundred
to him. It's the Ravens and the Bills. The AFC
Divisional playoffs. Go back to the last time the Super
Bowl was in New Orleans, and when you first got
an inkling that there was an issue with the power outage,
he did.

Speaker 8 (24:59):
I got a of it to your brother. You come
up with the best questions. It's just no one, no
one like you.

Speaker 12 (25:07):
So obviously I'm not ready for that answer if I
wanted to really give it a thought. But it's just easy, okay.
I was there with Phil Simms. It was like nine
thirty eight to go in the third quarter. The Ravens
had the football at roughly their own forty three yard line,
and there was a black o handoff, and there was
a run up the middle, and all of a sudden,
all my monitors went this black, complete dark, and in

(25:33):
my headset, I can't hear me finishing the call. I
was in the middle of a call, so I just
thought there was a power surge in the booth. But
you know, right after that, of course, in a millisecon,
you realize the lights are out, the whole thing's coming down,
the whole broadcast is probably off the air. I mean
it took you had to do some quick processing about

(25:55):
what was happening. So I have no link to the truck.
I can't hear from the producers. I don't have any
visual cues. We're all in the dark, figuratively and literally.
But my cell phone was working, so I called Lance Berrow,
our producer in the truck, and that was a dumb
thing to do because he was just as I'm sure

(26:18):
it is, more in the center of the storm than
I was. But he didn't pick up. But I was
trying to just Hey, what's going on? And then I thought,
let me call Melissa. You guys all know Melissa. She's
been my chief of staff or quarter of a century.
And I called her cell phone and said, what in
the world is happening right now? And she explained that

(26:39):
we were knocked off the air. You know, you had
all kinds of really not so good thoughts at that point.
This is twenty thirteen. You know you're wondering, is it
a terrorist attack? You hate to even say it, but
you don't know what it is. And as you know,
it took thirty five minutes before everything was restored in
that over out or really what was a compelling game

(27:02):
right down to the wire. People forget San Francisco had
four plays inside the ten yard line in the last
minute to try to win the game. Four incompletions, Kaepernick
on three of them to Michael Crabtree, all defended and incomplete.
It was a game that was in the thirties. It

(27:23):
was a one score game, and no one remembers that.
All they remember is the night the lights went out
in New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
I also remember Steve Tasker being pressed into service as
sort of the guy on duty. He was like the
night watchman and his microphone was working and he kind
of was hosting the Super Bowl.

Speaker 8 (27:47):
We could not find well.

Speaker 12 (27:49):
First off, the studio show is in one of those
collapsible sets. That takes four or five minutes to get
it standing, and and all the crew were hurriedly getting
into place. But you were looking for someone to be
able to be on mic and to help carry the moment.

(28:10):
And Phil and I had no line of communication. We're
still out and Steve, Steve filled in brilliantly.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
You got paid for a full game, though, didn't you.

Speaker 12 (28:23):
You know I should go back and look at it.
But can't I tell you a secret. Honestly, I would
pay to do the game. That's the dirty little secret.
I could say it now that I've got a long
term contract, and I'm you know what, I've always been
forthright about it.

Speaker 8 (28:36):
I would do.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
All of this for free, Romo said.

Speaker 12 (28:41):
I mean, as long as I could have a house
and be able to provide for my kids and everything.

Speaker 8 (28:48):
It's never what it's about.

Speaker 12 (28:50):
It's about, well, partly, it's about fulfilling a big part
of it, fulfilling the childhood dream to be a voice,
not to be the story, but to be the story
teller and be able to attend these events.

Speaker 8 (29:03):
And you know, it's it's all. It's all a gift.
It's about legacy too, Dan.

Speaker 12 (29:09):
That's why when I look at happening sometimes in sport.
Let's take what's going on in golf, and some have
left the PGA tour. I'm not going to get deeply
into all that, but you have to make a legacy
decision at some point. You know, you've been blessed enough
to be given the chance, and you probably made a
few bucks along the way. What is it really about

(29:30):
for you? Well, it's about being able to say that
you've lived out your dream and this is what you did.
It's about legacy, and that's how I feel about it
now that I'm reaching these certain milestones. They come a
little bit more frequently with long devity.

Speaker 8 (29:45):
That's for sure. These days.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Let's go to Tony Romo get his thoughts. Tony Jim
says that he would work for free. How about you,
would you work for free?

Speaker 5 (30:00):
Well, I mean, Tony, I'm certainly made enough money all
this time away.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yeah, I think I.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Can provide for myself in about thirty seven thousand other families.

Speaker 6 (30:08):
Yeah, yeah, I think I would.

Speaker 12 (30:11):
Okay, it's great to get Tony engaged in the show
right now.

Speaker 8 (30:17):
He's my guy.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
I love it, tell totally. Now, if Romo can't do it, Seaton,
I think could be his understudy.

Speaker 6 (30:27):
I don't know what am I gonna do?

Speaker 2 (30:28):
You want to run it here, you want to.

Speaker 6 (30:29):
Be what would you do?

Speaker 8 (30:32):
Date? Why don't you make way up to uh the
bullpeny by guy?

Speaker 2 (30:37):
I'd love it. I'd love it.

Speaker 8 (30:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
If you look back, though, can you extract one moment
that that would stand alone over everything else that you've done.
When you speak a legacy, one moment, whether it's football, basketball,
or dolphin.

Speaker 12 (31:00):
You're talking about one event, one game call, or one
thing that I had be it. Well, the most special
thing of all will always be April twelfth, nineteen ninety two.

Speaker 8 (31:10):
Nothing it ever topped that for me.

Speaker 12 (31:12):
Well, I get there is one thing I don't get
to that maybe in a second here, But that was
when my old dorm sweet mate at the University of
Houston Bread Couples, won the Masters. We used to have
these crazy dreams that one day he was going to
win the Masters. That was all about legacy for him.
That was his life goal. And of course by this time,

(31:33):
first day I show up on campus, I make the
declaration that one day I want to work for CBS,
Like that's going to happen. Fortunately it did. Blessedly it
did for me. But his dream was to win the Masters.
My dream was to one day broadcast the Masters, and
I also wanted the broadcasts for CBS because I love
the way they presented the NFL raised on a heavy

(31:55):
diet of let's say, summer all in Brookshire, summer all
in Madden. So in our dorm room, you know the story, Dan,
not every day, but on a couple of occasions, along
with Blaine McCallister, our great roommate, who had a spectacular career,
won five times on the tour himself, we used to
practice the Green Jackets ceremony, just kids make believe, dreaming,

(32:22):
just imagining somethingy, opening up your mind what that moment
could be like. And I'm sitting there in a dorm room,
room one oh one, Tom Hall Taub. It's now been raised,
but there we are. Fred's sitting across from me, and
we're doing an imaginary interview. He's just won the Masters,
and I'm hosting the presentation. So in nineteen ninety two,

(32:44):
that actually happened, except we weren't in dorm room. We
were in Butler Cabin and the world was watching. So
how do you beat that? There's only one way that
that could ever be better for me, and that is
that's when my son Jamison wins the Masters and he
comes in the Butler cabin and I say hello son

(33:06):
and goodbye friends.

Speaker 8 (33:08):
That will be it. That's the last show not to
walk off.

Speaker 12 (33:13):
But I mean, that's how outrageous it would have to
be in a better that moment for me. But other
than that, listen, last year's Super Bowl, you know, went
three seconds shy of five full quarters. The most watched
television show in the history of American television by a lot,
not by like one percent, by twelve percent. Two hundred

(33:34):
and three million Americans watched it one time. Normally I
don't even care about that, But now that we were
walking around with the belt, the Championship belt, I'm making
believe here now it was a great game, the broadcast.
Thankfully for our production team, it won the Emmy. So
proud of the thousand people that presented that that day

(33:57):
and in all those years of doing the End Tournament,
there are just too many to isolate and back at
that little place in Augusta, Georgia, Tiger nineteen ninety seven,
a win for the Ages pass forward to twenty nineteen,
this scene plays out again, the return to glory, and

(34:17):
Tiger is walking off the green and he's hugging Charlie,
his son. It's a perfect and perfect symmetry with the
scene we had seen twenty two years before, when Tiger
walked off the green breaking all the records in the
history of augusta youngest champion, largest margin of victory, the

(34:38):
seventy two hole scoring record, the youngest ever. And there
was Earl, his dad. If you gpsed it, I would
say that it happened on the exact same spot. Earl
hugged Tiger. Twenty two years later, Tiger hugs Charlie. It
went from a father to a son, and now the
son's the father and he's having the same moment with

(34:59):
his son. If you're in the storytelling business, it's about
as rich as it gets, about as high drama as
it gets. You know, thankfully we're on camera, because you
know there are shedding a few silent tears along the way,
is all that's happening. If you have a heartbeat, you
realize the gravity of that moment.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Great to reminisce.

Speaker 8 (35:23):
I love reminiscing with you. You know I'm wearing something here.

Speaker 12 (35:26):
I just I know they've got a lot going on
out there, But this is Bellair Country Club's Shields, okay,
and Owl's a part of that. I've been fortunate to
be a part of that club for a long time
as a member. We have a lot of our families
out there that have.

Speaker 8 (35:45):
Lost their homes. It's it's it's a lot.

Speaker 12 (35:49):
It's there are many many unfortunately lived in the Palisades
and what's going on in LA. I don't want the
story to just we get numb to things like this.
These areamilies, these are people lives. We're but the twenty
six is the death toll now. And I'm just, as
I said signing off on Sunday from Buffalo after the

(36:09):
Buffalo Denver game, LA, we're thinking of you, we're praying
for you, and really tough times. So we're out here
talking fun and games. That's real life. And people's whole
entire lives have been uprooted life savings, you know, starting
from scratch in the middle of their lives and maybe
later in their business careers whatever. It's all gone. And

(36:32):
it's not just a because it's three days and retired
to the story. Let's move on to something else. It's
real and I'm just thinking of all my families out
there that I know, many of whom you would know, Dan,
and it's just indescribable.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Have fun this weekend. Thanks for joining us. As always, I'm.

Speaker 12 (36:56):
Coming to see you the summer. By the way you
I mean on your door up there? Whoa Okay, I
know where you are. Now do you want to come
in for a meet Friday.

Speaker 8 (37:11):
Into that studio right there?

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Well, this is made now, that's what.

Speaker 8 (37:16):
I'm talking about. I'm going to make it this summer. Okay.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Well it's not Butler's cabin, it's Danny's cabin. But we'd
love to have you. That's awesome.

Speaker 8 (37:28):
I don't need to be on the air.

Speaker 12 (37:30):
If you need an emergency, you talk about emergency fill in.
If maybe a guest doesn't show up, I'll pop on
for five minutes. But I'd like to see the studio.
But better than that, I'd like to go out and
have a lunch with you afterwards, so I'll find you.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Sounds great. Thank you, Thanks Dan, all the best you
But that's Jim NaN's Hall of Famer. Take a break.
We'll play in or out after this. Robert Griffin third
will stop by as well.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
I was going to do are you in or Out?
Can't wait, Dad, but I'm I'm gonna push it to
the top of the hour. Wow, I think we need
a little more breathing room for in or out?

Speaker 6 (38:17):
So I should take it as a compliment.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Yes, yes, that top of the hour will do are
you in or out? Like, give us a for instance,
just to let that audience know at the top of
the hour, you're gonna want to stay with us.

Speaker 6 (38:29):
Okay, I'll give you one.

Speaker 8 (38:32):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (38:32):
Mike McCarthy is closer to a Super Bowl today than
he was a week.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Ago, Todd, are you in or out?

Speaker 12 (38:41):
In?

Speaker 6 (38:43):
He's eaten. He's teamless though, that's right.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm extremely out. Marvin, I'm out.
I'm gonna be out because he's not in. He doesn't
have a team. But I would say.

Speaker 6 (39:00):
He's out of the situation that felt like a groundhog day.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
But he had a better chance of winning a Super
Bowl with the Cowboys than not coaching a team currently
in the NFL.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
That's technically correct. I looked it up. If you're not
coaching a team, you cannot win the super Bowl.

Speaker 5 (39:16):
He probably has a better chance of winning the super
Bowl in Dallas than he does of any of the
remaining teams that are looking for coaches.

Speaker 6 (39:25):
I don't know if it is.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
I don't know if you plug him into Jacksonville like
whoa super Bowl contender?

Speaker 6 (39:29):
Question mark?

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Probably not? Okay, more of that coming up top of
the hour. It is are you in or are you out?
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(39:50):
com for sixty percent off and free shipping ray in
New York. Hirae, what's on your mind today?

Speaker 13 (40:00):
First time? Long time? First of all that we see
sixty to fifteen. Also also DDC, DMC DDC carrying all
the flags for that. You had talked about your strawberry quick.

Speaker 10 (40:17):
I had a same thing, but as the adult version.
If you ever try tequila rose, it's like a strawberry click.
But for adults, so you would enjoy that a little better.

Speaker 8 (40:31):
I'll thank you. I don't.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
I don't need alcohol in my strawberry quick, right, I
just have alcohol. I don't need to have dress it
up with strawberry quick.

Speaker 6 (40:41):
Yes, Paul, Tequila rose is a strawberry cream tequila drink.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
No, no, no, no, that doesn't sound good.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
You're out.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Bob and Montana sent me Elvis bourbon or something that
was peanut butter and banana.

Speaker 5 (40:58):
I don't need that because that's he used to eat
those sandwiches, right, peanut butter and banana sandwich.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 6 (41:03):
I don't need those.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
Yes, yes, And it made you all shook up after
you had that.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Okay, all right, put on your bluetheit tooth and walk
on down to bop hop and say, hey, I don't
want this stuff. You got another one time?

Speaker 3 (41:16):
Sell it at the Heartbreak Hotel. You get like if
you get anything else that think that's good.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
That's it. Those those are the only Elvis songs you know.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
The Jailhouse Rock. But I didn't have a clever line
for that.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
You did to get so just don't be cruel, and
his MoMA cry.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Yeah, don't be cruel, Give it another chance and help
fall in love with this stuff.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
No, you can't take what seat?

Speaker 3 (41:37):
And I was just jumping on that. I've been known
to do that once it all.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
It's called stealing. Is on the way, Robert Rounder, Sure,
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