December 24, 2025 • 48 mins
C&R are filling for the great Dan Patrick! Five of the league's top teams played mostly weak opponents, is it a tired narrative? Wemby & the Spurs have a new SKOL tradition. Are they biting the Minnesota Vikings? The guys talk Christmas Day NFL & Dave Chappelle! 'MIKE'S WORDS OF WISDOM' invades your holiday. Plus, why is Boise radio going wild? They dive into classic Christmas movies & classic sports clips! Will Covino's "future in-laws" have the patience for 'It's a Wonderful Life?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey, happy holidays from Covino and Rich and for Dan
Patrick locking the Fox Sports Radio studio. Still driving that trusty,
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(00:25):
the weather's bad in La here in Idaho just cold
and it's still dark here.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So anyway, that is Rich all our.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
East Coast affiliates, right, I know Dan has a ton
of people in the East Coast.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, us no projection, projections and predictions.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So hey, stay safe, put on your freezy freaky that
white Christmas. Yeah, and Rich, I want to throw a
few shout outs to you, say shot out, I said,
shout outs Kay, Rain Becker, Scott Tallica Willelmina Krinder Green
for eight seven seven, Jen Brown, A lot if you
(01:00):
people chiming in live on the live chat streaming live
Coveno and Rich FSR on YouTube. Covino and Rich FSR
join the fun, say what's.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Up and see what you hear? So we have lots
to get to. We have prizes to give away.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Today Midweek Major, We're gonna give you the news and
sports and pop culture and decide together are these stories
mid as the kiddo say Week or Major? We do
that every Wednesday on our show and Mike's Wednesday Words
of Wisdom. All you have to have to do is
listen and repeat verbatim and you get a prize. But
strength of schedule doesn't matter. Unfortunately it does.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
But you can only win the games you play and
the teams you play.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's true.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I mean that you can't be like, hey, man, you
know we really moved like a tougher schedule. Yeah, no, man,
why and you know why would you why would you
not want a cake schedule? In fact, if your team
like the forty Niners who had an off year last year,
if you remember McCaffrey was out the whole year, kid,
all every like that team was decimated. Right, So because
(02:08):
you suck, you get a favorable schedule the next year.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You take advantage of that.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Hey, if you were the prom king in your high school,
but your high school is like forty kids, you're not
that awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You didn't have any competition that's insulting.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That was Spots girls. Spot's wife is the prom queen.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, but there's like three girls and are graduating class.
Does it matter as much?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
She's beautiful?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
But I mean, I mean, but still, that's how life works,
you know, like it does. Competition matters, you know what
I know when I think about that a lot, Danny g.
You ever see someone playing Rex sports and they talk
about their high school prowess and you're like, it does
no way.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You were a good athlete, and you're like, what did
you go to high school with? Like four people?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Like the guys I play REX softball with coming on
and they're like, yeah, back in the day when I
was old County what like what county?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Like?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Yeah? Meanwhile, meanwhile, Rich has JJ McCarthy face paint on.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
That was I'm balling, bro Yes, yes, hey, I told
you about a forty nine er little not fun fact.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
There's nothing really fun about it, but really interesting.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
More so than the whole Morstead hasn't punted since he
was having Thanksgiving leftovers. The forty miners, they are that
their mine, They're my team. The forty nine ers. You know,
they might not have to leave the Bay area until August.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I did not know that. Then again, you're the schedule watcher.
Think about it.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
If the forty nine Ers win on Sunday Night against
the Bears, then it's a all or nothing Week eighteen,
and you know they're gonna make that the primetime game
against the Seahawks Niner.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Seahawks winner would get the one seed.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Let's say the Niners win that game, then the path
to the super Bowl goes through San Francisco, so they
would they play against the Bears in Santa Clara. They
play against the Seahawks, then the playoffs would go through
Santa clas and then the super Bowl is in San
Francisco this year, So if the forty nine Ers win,
(04:08):
they don't have to leave the Bay until next season.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So if you think comfort and not having to travel
plays a factor, the forty nine ers could unpack the bags.
McCaffrey could be hanging out with Olivia Culpo and his
beautiful baby. George Kittle can be hanging out with his
awesome wife, and yust Check could be you know, designing
jackets with his you know girlfriend and what.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
So this could all be easy, Breezy.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Niners just got to win.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Now, look realistically, what Randy Mochoman Savage said rings true.
The cream rises to the top regardless. But this is
all great for forty nine ers. What you're saying is
the eleven and four forty nine ers have everything going
for him because not only strength of schedule and not
having to leave for a while.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
What else did macho man say any other words? Wisdom
to come to mind? Snap bit, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
What about?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
What about what he proposed to Elizabeth? And he's like, Elizabeth,
will you marry me?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What is it? What did you say about three sixty one? Yeah? Yeah?
But what Rich?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Is?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Also that?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Again?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Elizabeth?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Elizabeth will will you marry me?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
They have a lot of things going their way because
here to use him. They're clicking just the right time.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So not only do they have to not travel and
haven't punted and all that good stuff, they're clicking. Their
offense seem seemed unstoppable against the Colts this week. They
moved the ball down the field with ease, They made
it look easy, and they scored at will. So it
seems like, you know, Rich doesn't want to get ahead
of himself as the excited forty nine ers fan, But
(05:49):
they've got everything in their favor right now. And honestly,
I don't hear a lot of people buzzing about the
forty nine ers, maybe until this past week.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, say, you know, sometimes better to go under the radar.
Reading the feedback wishing everyone to merry Christmas. Say, like
you said, a lot of people chiming in live.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Scott William, Michelle, Mike Christmas, filthy Animal. I'm gonna go
to Little Nero's Pizza tonight. Sam buys your girlfriend?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Speaking speaking of Buzz's girlfriend, I have a Christmas thought.
We're gonna get to next. But Danny, g who do
you got on the phone? Who are wishing to marry Christmas?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
To?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Here?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Patrick, let's start listening to a five seventy in La. Travis, Yeah,
what's up?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Trav? Hey? Travis?
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Hey, you guys haven't mentioned baseball yet, but I know
that Rich I think you don't care about the Mets
doing liquidation because you're gonna flip to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I know people people speculate that I'm I'm jumping ship.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
He drops little seeds here and there, just to let
everybody know that he's about to make the move.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
That would be the weakest sports fan.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Benedict Arnold like he gets to ask move of all
time if I dropped the Mets after four plus years, it's.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
The standard move. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
If you have a wife or girlfriend and she drops
the name every once in a while, that's the dude
she ends up with. And Rich drops the Dodgers a lot.
And he always talks about how his kids are Dodgers' fans.
He brings that up to everyone who's willing to listen,
just so he could forewarn us for when it happens.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Shadow, I think the Mets decimating their team, and yeah,
I saw a little a little someone did a little
ai of Edwin Diaz, Pete Alonzo, Jeff McNeil, Brandon Neimo,
all like walking away from City Field, all sad looking.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Listen, if I'm those guys, I'm not sad. Go live
your life.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Edwin Diaz is gonna be uh entering Dodger Stadium to
Timmy Trumpet's Life's good for Edwin Diaz and Pete Alonzo
is gonna be in Baltimore, where he's probably the coolest
thing that's happened to them since cal Ripken Jr. When
you really think about maybe Brady Anderson. Who who else
comes to mind? Oh that's a good one, Jim Palmer.
(07:59):
When our parents were younger, like Baltimore has been Thurston.
If they're like Thurston Hawl of the third, they're Thurston
for a superstar. And can you know that small outfield wall,
Pete A Lonzo is gonna hit fifty home runs and
everyone in Baltimore is gonna appreciate him. The Mets are
like the crappy ex girlfriend that then it tickle is,
you know, like the Mets never appreciated Pete a Lonzo.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And I'm a Mets fan.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I think it's disgusting when the Mets are wanting to
give guys like and and granted he's a star, but
when you're hearing these big deals they want to give
a guy like a Cody Bellinger or some of these folks,
and the Mets won't want to give Pete more than
three years. Good for him to tell the Mets to
beat it.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And Adam Jones brawling the Orioles. He was a beast.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, but you know what, how about Brady Anderson? I
did I said that by.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
One for one year about Mike Flanagan.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Mike, What about Mike? That wasn't Mike Messina dominant for
a minute? He was the moose. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
So, I mean they've had some great players, but this
is a big deal for sure for them.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So Rich is the Mets fan. Thank you Travis for
the call. Always take your phone calls. The most interactive,
most inclusive show on radio eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox and like I said, live chat, you can
watch the show.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Covino and Rich FSR.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Can't believe you guys left out Eddie Murray.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, but I mean that's way back. You know, what
is that Eddie Murray.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Everyone in the media when they talk about like the
best of all time, you know why because apparently Eddie
Murray was a jerk. It's true, you get that, that's
the legend. You've heard that story many a times where
Eddie Murray. You know, depending on how you you know,
ask a legend like Rob Parker who works here at FSR.
There's certain athletes that are that are kind and ones
(09:39):
that are not. And if you're a jerk to everyone
in the media, you could be the greatest event. But
you know, no one's gonna do any favors and then
talk about how great you are, just how it.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Is all right?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
You know what, Cove. There's a few things I want
to get to coming up. It's a Christmas Eve extravagance,
as we feel in for Dan Patrick. So there's a
deep thought about movies and sports I want to get to.
And there's a new NBA tradition. You tell me you
let's choose our own little Christmas adventure.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I want to talk about the NBA tradition because I
know what you're talking about is the Spurs here. And
it's a really simple question that we ask you Fox
Sports Radio Nation. Is it cool or corny the new
Spurs tradition? Weenbin Yama, you know, took it upon himself
as a leader to introduce this new tradition, And man,
(10:29):
I could sum it up by this rich I could
say that it's cool for them and probably corny for
everybody else, because traditions, I think are supposed to happen organically,
or has every tradition as we know it been forced
in some sort of way, like it shouldn't feel forced
like a nickname.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You can't force a nacky Before we give you the
new Spurs tradition. Danny g has a queue up on standby.
I want to think of some of the other things
we've seen in the last you know, in our lifetime.
You know, let's say, let's go from nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Now, all right, can I give you like an example
of what I meant?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Though it's cool for them, corny for everybody else, Like
the rally monkey in Anaheim, Like that was the weakest
gimmicky tradition for them or for everybody else, but cool
for them.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Why do you got a probam with the rally monkey.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Because let's be real, it's kind of corny, right, What
did the rally monkey ever do to you? I decided
let me give you one fan, I say, no.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Let me give you one in the UH in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I'm gonna start naming sports traditions and just give me
your first instinct. Don't even don't overthink it. I want
the Steve Cavino, who thinks he's the coolest guy in
the world barometer on this.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I'm gonna give you.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know, I'm willing to give you my opinion because
you're the first time you're the first time you see
them unfurl and develop before your eyes. It takes away,
like pulls back the curtain on the origin.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
And I say this, I say this like kindly, Cavino
is and we all have friends like this, And Cavino
speaks on behalf of a lot of dudes where your
instinct for a lot of things, like.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yo, if that corny, it's like a sixth sense. You
were born without it. Rich like you you you don't
have that corny like.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I guess instinct where you could you could pick up
on it, Like, nah, man, that's just that's just lame.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Yeah, Like Covino is like, yeah, they if they put
the macarena at a wedding, that's when Cavino dips away
to get a drink.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I'm the guy. I'm the guys, Like, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I don't jump in the conga line for Buster Poindex
rest in peace. He was a great performer. But I'm
not feeling hot, hot hot when that song comes on,
you know corny? Yeah, Like it's just the truth, man,
Like some things are corny, and you also have to
let things develop a little bit.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
But okay, let me give you a couple and then
you know they will break and come back and and
talk about the spurs and tradition.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But let me hit you with a couple Now, you
tell me corny or yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
In Sacramento, like a year ago or so, when they
started to do the light the beam and after the game,
like big Beam alike comes out of the arena.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You know, I thought that was kind of cool, But
I don't feel like it caught on the way they
wanted to. So, you know, I think the public picked
up on the fact that it's just not that cool.
But I wasn't hating on it.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
That started in twenty twenty two, So in your mind, nope, okay.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, not really, it's not really it's not really hitting it.
It's been going off for a little while.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Now, how does Steve Covino feel about touchdowns scored in
Green Bay, Wisconsin followed by a Lambeau leap?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Now, dude, that feels like tradition, right?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Does it not feel like tradition that happened organically?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Like that's the difference. That's the difference of organic and forced.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And you know, some people could smell that a mile away,
and to me, that one has been around long enough
where it's just tradition. That's just how it is. Nothing
corny about it, all right. You know what I find
corny though, cheeseheads wearing a block of cheese on your head.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
That's I would never do that.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
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Speaker 8 (14:09):
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Speaker 4 (14:19):
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Speaker 3 (14:23):
What what are you doing? We were interrupting our promo.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
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Speaker 8 (14:30):
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Ye.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
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Speaker 4 (15:30):
You know what people will say, Oh, they really want
a white Christmas. You know what no one says, Yeah, well,
like a wet, rainy Christmas, soggy, clustering, soggy Christmas. And
by the way, as we look at the three games
for Christmas Day tomorrow, some of them such high hopes
early on, like the NFL does a great job of somehow,
(15:53):
like they just strike gold, like they're a sour dough.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Sam the forty nine ers of mascot.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
They're striking gold constantly with like Y know this, and
the games that they get in primetime are awesome. But
Christmas Day just didn't work out the way they thought.
The Chiefs didn't deliver on their end of the deal.
Where it's Broncos at Chiefs. Chiefs are done, Lions and
Vikings both out of the playoff mix, and the Commanders,
(16:19):
you know, laid an egg after a great season last
year and the Cowboys came up short.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
So no, man, yep, So doesn't it still feel like
an NBA day to you? Anyways?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Though?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
To me Thanksgiving football and Christmas Day basketball?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I agreed, but I feel like the NFL is trying
to hijack.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
I mean, I think they have Chris forday and hijack.
But like you said, with the bad games, this is
a chance for the NBA to take their rightful throne.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Curious how the.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Ratings will be, Well, we'll see because these are three
irrelevant NFL games, So the question will be does an
irrelevant NFL game still dominate the NBA and rating? So
we'll see tomorrow. Merry Christmas, Uh, Danny g We're gonna
do Mike's words wisdom. In a little bit, we'll talk
some more NFL, but you want to take a couple
quick phone calls.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I know people have been on hold. Let's say, how
did Jay in Delaware?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
He just want to talk about strength of schedule, which
is something we talked about last hour.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Really quick, Rich, just so the phone stop ringing about this.
Ryan and Cincy and several others called in, citing the
Chappelle Show two thousand and four for pioneering the Kobe.
Do you remember the skit? Rashida Jones is famously in it,
and Kobe, the fake Kobe, makes her sign a contract. Listen,
(17:32):
don't tell anybody.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
About this from the makers of the love contract comes
the confidentiality.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Don't worry.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
I'm not gonna tell anybody.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
I know you won't well who you is Kobe and
that's where he shoots the condom into the wastebasket.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Was that my origin or did that popularize something?
Speaker 6 (17:57):
At popularize something? I think maybe we were all saying,
I see, I don't know, but that's what made That's
what blew it up. I put it into our lexicon.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Sometimes something's been around, but a pop culture moment really
enhances it. Like Cavino and I've argued for years that
I said the term milf was from American pie, and
Cavino's like, you think they invented that, And I'm like,
maybe they didn't invent it. But because the popularity of
American pie right around the turn of the century, you know,
(18:27):
milf became a word. We also a new no.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I mean, man, I was claiming, like man, I, me
and my high school friends used to say milf. It existed,
So oh, I'll give you maybe popularize it, though for sure,
we've argued.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
We've been on like a Fox Sports radio business trip
and when we're meeting for breakfast, you know, I'll knock
on Covino's door housekeeping and I'm like, yo, Tommy Boy,
and He's like, you think Tommy Boy invented that.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I'm like, no, but the idea my dad would do
that when I was a kid. That's my point.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
So there's a difference between the origin and what popularized it.
So Chappelle that he create that. Did he make that
or did he popularize it? I don't know, but traditions. Hey,
I'm not hating on the spurs, Okay, it takes time
to develop a time to build.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Now, let me ask you this, he said, Chappelle, did
you watch any special? I did, Like, Yeah, he's a
good storyteller.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Man.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Chappelle, I think has gone to like he's less punchliney
and he's just more of like an amazing storyteller that
tells funny stories. It's it's like the evolution like Sebastian
Man of Scalco to me is now like a super
physical comic. Totally is in that lane now, and I
think David has.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Like a caricature of himself, you know, highly animated. He
really leans into the physical stuff and it works.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Chappelle seems like less of a comedian and more of
like a generational like orator where he just grabs the
mic and you just want to hear what he has
to He's a social commentary.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
He's doing like a he's like a.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Talk like a younger black George Burns Now. The way
he's smoking on stage telling stories about how you're buying
his whole town.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, I'll be honest, it's like oddly distracting how he
just doesn't stop smoking. Special all right, let's say hi
to Jane Delaware. One NFL question, then we'll give away
a prize here on Fox Sports Trading.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
What's up, Jay, Becky, you men, Merry Christmas, Buddy.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Marry Christmas. While I was on hold, you guys, I
just real quick out the Christmas movie traditions. But my kids,
we are the two movies that we always watch for
The Elf and the Muppets Christmas Carol.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
The the Muppets Christmas Carol.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
When they do Marlee and Marlee. My kids love that craft.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
I love that one.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
That's a good one, dude, That's definitely a good one.
You know what I realized the other day, there's the
biggest jerk.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You know what. Let me save it. My adds blazing.
Uh let's talk strength of schedule, Jay, what you got man?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Uh So, the two teams in there that I trust
the most out of those five, i'd say, or the Patriots,
they've once you know, they're undefeated on the road and
they finished their games. You know, they've lost for the
Raiders of course in the beginning of the season, but
that's that was the beginning of the season. But the
Niners has brought back five and zero and they're putting
away teams. You know, the last five games, they've one
(21:13):
bout two scores. They've scored on twenty three straight borders
Hunter hasn't punted since November. Those are the two teams
that I trust the most of those bottom five, like,
even though their strength of schedule of blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Heyst as a Niners fan, I'm not going to argue
that point. But we earlier talked about the five teams
that have had the weakest strength of schedule this year
are all playoff bound teams Niners, Chargers, Bears, Broncos, and
the easiest schedule the Patriots had. And you got to
ask yourself the strength of schedule matter much.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
We decided he.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Made a good point, and I did say that. I
did say, you know, it's also how you win. Yeah,
you may be playing weaker teams, but how did you
beat them? Did you clabbor them?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
That makes it different. Yeah, I think it's a great point.
You know what a lot of those teams have in common.
And you could say this about a lot of playoff teams,
but I look at those five teams with the weakest schedule.
Danny g As arguably having five of the best coaches
in the NFL listen to those teams. Yeah, Kyle Shanahan,
Jim Harbaugh, Ben Johnson, Sean Payton, and Mike Rabel. Those
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are hell of hell of good coaches that have their
teams headed to the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
So yeah, Covino said it in the first hour that
they all have good fundamentals. And this is strength of
schedule during this season, not prior to it. So some
of these teams look good on paper going into the year.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
No doubt. All right, let's do this. Let's play a game,
giveaway a prize.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
We'll come back, we'll talk more NFL and I have
a more dumb fearies about holiday movies and sports, so
we'll get to all that. But we do it every
week on Covino and Rich as we fill in for
Dan Patrick. There's a guy around here at Fox Sports Radio.
His name is Mike Big Mike.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
When we he looks like a stone called Steve Austin.
He looks like Rick from Pond Stars.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
And we when we first met him, he just came
with a vibe that I thought he ran this place,
and it's very clear everyone around here was quick to say, no, no,
this guy does not run this place. But we call
him Mike that runs this place, and he has words
of wisdom. Take it away, Sam, it's time for the
guy that runs this place.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Just for clarification, guys, Big Mike does not run this place.
He is not in charge of everything. He has no
power over really anybody here. He does not run this place.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
It's Big Mike's words of wisdom on a Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
And I think that's a sentiment in a lot of
offices where there's someone that appears to have a power
and you realized they really don't.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I never told you guys this story before, but since
Mike's not in the building, uh before, we play his
actual words of wisdom here. When I was running the
OutKick the Coverage program on this network, Mike got into
it a little bit with me one morning because he
wanted something done faster, and he raised his voice and
I said, Mike, you're not my supervisor. And he's like, well,
(23:57):
I'm gonna email your supervisor.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Then, and I say, he's just he's just the visor.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Yeah, and you know what, I think.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Super Heath, it's super about him.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Really. At the end of the shift, he came up
to me and he's like, I'm sorry for raising my voice.
I'm like, Mike, you don't run anything here.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
But yeah, but you know what, we really love Mike.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
He's awesome.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, you give them the credit that he deserves.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
He's a big teddy bear. He's one of those kind
of guys.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Let's hear his words of wisdom and it's very simple.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Guys, repeat it word for word and you want to
price eight seven seven nine nine on Fox eight seven
seven nine nine on Fox. Listen to Mike's words of wisdom.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
May your Christmas be bright, your turkey be moist, and
your gifts be returnable.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Merry Christmas, everybody, verbatim, Dan Patrick Nation, verbatim. That's how
the game works.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Oh simple, I like it.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Where do they need to say the Merry Christmas? Point?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Yeah, I thinks, oh yeah yeah. If you don't celebrate,
it's part of everything.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
And verbatim.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
It's verbatim. You want to play, how you win one
last time? Yeah, give it one one more time.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
May your Christmas be bright, your turkey be moist, and
your gifts be returnable. Mary Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
It's pretty good. One man, Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Repeat it at eight seven to seven nine nine on Fox.
Win a coveno on rich Fox Sports Radio, NERF Turbo Football.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
We'll do that.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
We got Midweek major, all the stories in sports and
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we get to Week seventeen, some games of importance, some
meaningless games. With those meaningless games will also dictate draft order.
So there's nothing really meaningless about it, I guess right,
So we'll get to all that. Coveno on rich In
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Speaker 4 (25:57):
Ho ho ho, don'll shoot tryout?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Kid?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Hey, why don't you try out? Joy your holidays? Bahambug
to Aul and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Eve.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It's Steve Covino, just a kid from Union, New Jersey
out here in Idaho, Marl from Idaho. That's where Davis.
He put the square in Franklin Square along Island. They're
live the Fox Sports Radio Studio, live from the Monsoon
on a Saggi holiday.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Saggy, you know, be careful with the are you listening?
On five seventy am the LA big affiliate out here.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Let me tell you the governor put out like a warning.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I'm looking on the news right now mud slide possibility,
So be safe out there. Like of all days, right,
who wants a soggy, gross Christmas?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Even Christmas dreaming of a saggy ass gross monsoon of
a Chris.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
You have an excuse to stay inside and watch movies.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I agree, Sam.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Until I was a homeowner, I think anyone that's a
homeowner anytime there's like bad weather conditions, like I don't
want to see a leak or something. You know, there's
always something that goes wrong, And Covino will tell you
there's always something.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, my sister's place already leaking on the west side
because of all the rain. And I'm sorry speaking to movies.
You know, we got to talk some movies in just
a moment. But I do want to thank everyone for
hanging out with us. Richie mentioned the affiliates. I want
to shout out all the affiliates, thank you for hanging
out with us. Please check out our regular show five
to seven on the East Monday through Friday two to
(27:31):
four on the West. We even have a bonus podcast
called over promised, which I love doing. We have guests
give us twenty two minutes, We'll give you the world
or something like that. It's a quick, awesome show over promised.
It's on our YouTube page, Coveno and Rich FSR on YouTube.
The live chat's popping, Lisa's there, Michelle Tallica, Mark James,
a lot of people hitting us up live. We appreciate
(27:53):
that again, Coveno and Rich FSR. And let's get into it.
We got midweek major, this hour, biggest stories in sports
and pop culture. We decide with spot if they're midweek
or major. And right now again, I'm in Idaho with
my future in.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Laws, Rich, what does that mean? I mean, that's what?
What is that? That's a big giveaway?
Speaker 6 (28:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
What are you supposed to say? My girlfriend's family? There
you go?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Well, future in laws would insinuate you're getting engaged?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I mean, yeah, I don't. I don't put a lot
of emphastists on that. It's just the same, really, right.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
I mean, future in laws, it's not really an expression.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Ring ring box in your pocket or a potato?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
What's that under the tree?
Speaker 5 (28:43):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So anyway, stop spreading rumors.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
Don't do it on Christmas, though, because then you can't
take it back because it's exact.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Now, future in laws, huh, oh, my god, you're so corny.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
You're just coast tradition. You're the guys. What do you say,
that's my girlfriend's family. What do you say?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
You just say it's the same you said, my future
in laws completely insinuate your getting married.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Just call the in laws.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Then it's like it's corny. If I said in laws,
does that mean anything? Is my girlfriend's family? Right, I'm
here with them.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Fox Sports Boys ninety nine point nine is going wild
right now?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, man, is getting a local boise reporter outside your house,
getting your radio host and your potato queen are getting married.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Oh wow, yes, so.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Her family radio tycoon well called Potato Girls.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Potato twenty twelve. So I realized that none of her family,
well not her entire family, but her sister, her brother
in law. A lot of the younger people had never
seen It's a Wonderful Life, And I felt like the
old guy, like they made it seem like it was
my favorite movie and it's.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
One of which is what I'm like, which is what
you promised to give your girlfriend in the future. You
guys are corny, dude, so you you know, I'm like, hey,
hold on, I'm not from nineteen forty six.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
That's when the movie came out. It's a classic. I'm
surprised you guys have never seen it. And they made
it out like, oh, he wants us to watch it.
We should watch it for Steve, and I'm like, no,
I don't know what we hold up. Don't watch it
for me because then I'm gonna be insulted that. You know,
you're looking at your phone and you're taking bathroom breaks
and you're chatting over the movie, like I you watch
it if you want to watch it, And I will
(30:24):
say this, we have not yet to watch it. We
have not watched it. In fact, we watched the Dave
Chappelle special last night. But now I got all this
pressure because they are saying, yeah, we're gonna watch It's
a Wonderful Life with Steve.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I'm like, yo, stop, what's that for me? Like, I
don't want you to do anything for me. You should
have seen it a.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Long time ago.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
So you're gonna go from Edgy stand up special to
nineteen forty six black and white Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well, yeah, because it's it's a slurwer moving movie. And
we put that on last night.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Late at night.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
This cigarette smoking in both, yeah, exactly, that's the only commonality.
But you know what, can you know brings up a
good point? Movies, music, sports moments. There are things that
in your mind, dude, there's a freaking classic. How could
someone not appreciate it? But when you show it to
your kids, or a younger girlfriend or sim to be fiance,
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or anyone younger in your life, it might not translate.
And I noticed this for the first time years ago,
when my nieces and nephew were younger. I was like,
you guys want to watch a scary movie? And they're like, yeah,
Uncle Rich, And I was like, you know, we're gonna
watch Gremlins. I sat down my nieces and nephew, who
(31:37):
are now like grown teenagers, are like they're in college.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
But I remember when they were little.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
I thought I was going to open their eyes to
a legendary classic movie.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
I was like, dude, who they want? They'd want a
magua for Christmas?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Yo.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
They were like, Uncle Rich, you sucked. This is the
cheesiest movie ever. They booed me movies think and I
as night.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
As I watched it, I was like, oh my god,
this is bad. It's like I stated once, it's slow,
the special effects are terrible. We'll go back once in
a while and you looks like it looks like something
from the early eighties, Like blurry, it came in blurry.
You watch something from your childhood that you know how
movies come in high there for and okay, came in blurry.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Eighties blurry.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Watch something from back then and you have such fun
memories of something that was complete trash. Like I remember
going back and watching reruns of shows that I loved
as a kid. I'll name two of them that are
garbage that as a little boy, Rich Davis me loved you.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
But truthfully, the shows you're about to mention were garbage.
Then you're just a little kid, though, see your your
expectations were low.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Yeah, but I mean these were successful shows that.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
It's classics that stand the test of time. Perfect Strangers
is not a class what I CoFe show from the eighties.
I thought Belki and making Bibby Bopkas was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
It was not. Yeah, because you're a nose pick an
eight year old. What do you know, Willie? I thought
ALF was amazing.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I went back and I watched an episode of ALF
once and I'm like, this is nonsense.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Most of us thought that was cheesy when it was on.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yeah, yeah it was. It was cheesy.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
The difference cheezy then means even cheesier now, I'll give
you classics then should stand the test of time, but
not all do. And that's how I feel about Like, dude,
Back to the Future came out in nineteen eighty five,
it's still great today because classics stand the test of time.
It's a Wonderful Life came out in nineteen forty six,
and it's in black and white, and I think younger
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eyes see anything like that and they're immediately tuned out
because it's not crystal clear clarity.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It's just it looks old, it.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Looks slow, and they don't It doesn't register to their
weenial social media eyes. You know, it just looks They
won't even give it a chance, is really what my
point is, even if I hold it up. My kids
liked Goonies and I thought that was cool. They were like, yeah,
this is cool because it's an adventure kids fun.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Time one movie. Yeah, I'm not surprised by that. But
I'm gonna upset a lot of people when I say this.
Kids want fast moving, fast acting.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Let me upset a lot of people, the nerds out there.
When I was younger, I was certainly not the coolest kid.
But my family was not a Star Wars family.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Still aren't. We're just not a Star Wars family.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
My wife likes Star Wars, but growing up, my brother
and sister and my family we weren't into it. So
when I was older, I investigated Star Wars because everyone
I knew was like, yeah, Star Wars the best. If
you watched the original nineteen seventy something Star Wars now
for the first time, I promise you you'd be terribly disappointed.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
No, no, that's blasphemy.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yeah, man, I don't know. Classics tend to test the time.
That's my theory.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
They were so ahead of their time with those movies
Rich that that's one of the reasons why the acting storyline,
the special effect.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Are you kidding it's not?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I think you also have to explain to whoever's watching,
like you have to realize, guys, yeah, this might look
a little dated, but these were the innovators, the pioneers,
the first imagine seeing something like this for the first
when we were kids.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
The cool special the coolest special effect when we were
kids was large Marge's face like we've come along, We've
come a long way.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I'm not saying Star Wars is bad. What I'm saying
is watching it.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
You kind of did.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Say watching that, you know, you know what. I guess
You're right, I do. I did that gets I think
it stinks watching it now. You can't get through the
first one. It stinks, it does. I think it's just
slow bored by it.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
There there was more storylines going on in older films,
and so to Covino's point, uh, I think it was
Coco Melon where I read that they changed the shot
like eight times in a few seconds because the kids
nowadays they need the screen to constantly change the regulation.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
You're right, Danny g. There is the show Coco Melon.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
If you got little kids, Coco Melan's like a very
popular kid show.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
They change frames.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
I believe every three seconds something absurd where because the
kid's attentions like boom bam.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I started noticing this. I remember showing my daughter Mary Poppins, and.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
You think a kid's gonna chim Chimaru yeah, Like it
just felt slow. It felt so snow and old.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
And it was that song that the Manhatter guy singing
when he's floating around. By the time that song came on,
my kid was sleeping. And you know what, They start
off those older movies with the credits, so the kids
bored before the movie even start.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Dude, my kids love Wicked. We went to go see Wicked.
Obviously as a good dad, I'm like, let's watch Wizard
of Oz. They loved the Wizard of Oz. But I
had to fast forward the first minute and a half
because it's opening credits of who's in the movie. There's
like two minutes of this is lying opening credits.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Like what are the words? I see? What are why words?
When does it start? And I'm like, oh, geez, you know,
you know what.
Speaker 9 (37:05):
They need to start backwards doing like you know how
with podcasts you can listen at like one and a
half or two time speed.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
They need to do that with old movies. You need
to be able to like there needs to be away.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
You want the moon, Mary?
Speaker 3 (37:17):
What the moon right in town?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (37:22):
Right?
Speaker 9 (37:23):
And then it's just everything moves it two times the
speed and you can listen to it and then it's
like it's over in half the time.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Oh, they need you're right spot like a podcast or
like a I know a lot of baseball networks like
s n Y and yes for the Yankees, could you know?
And I'm sure Spectrum for the Dodgers's in ness in
mess in all the they do the like a two
and a half three hour game. They do some type
of like cutout, they cut out the fat and it's
like a half hour game.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Yeah, the condensed version is great. Yeah, So based on this,
you know, what do you think about It's a wonderful life?
Is it a fail? Am I setting myself up for failure?
Are they going to be bored? Seeing through younger eyes?
Does it not stand to test the time?
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Beautiful?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
I look at it, I really look at it like
a timeless story of life lessons and what the holiday
really means. And I think classics never die. I think
it's the Wizard of Oz of Christmas movies. I really do.
But then again, I don't want that pressure and vouching
for it, and I don't want them to be bored,
and it's all my fault and I don't want to
be booed the way your nieces and nephews booed you
(38:23):
rich when you show them Gremlins.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
But think about this if certain movies and even to us,
certain movies right that maybe your mom watched, are boring
to us, like, Man, I don't know. Do those sports
highlights that we cherish, that we saw, that we watched
that we grew up thinking we're the coolest?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Do those games? Do those moments also not translate because
they look so old. You could see a highlight from
the nineties and it looks old and blurry, and.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
A kid today might just think, yeah, that's weak. Or
even the moves, like I reference this to you the
other day, Rich, Like when we saw Magic Johnson making
those moves, first time you saw him making those moves,
the first time you saw someone play that way.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
So you're blown away by Magic Johnson.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Hit today sees that on and one videos and one
on one competitions and kids on social media every minute
of the day. It doesn't hit the same.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Way, and it looks old. It's kind of laying dad.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
No look pass in the eighties was something we had
never seen before. Magic's on a breakaway and this is
the ball off like not looking at all.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
It was like, oh my god, no, we remember, were
like a no, look past right.
Speaker 6 (39:35):
You want to talk about that Lway documentary, So I'm
gonna watch it tonight. It was released on Netflix Monday,
and when they got to the part where Elway did
the helicopter, I think that was Super Bowl thirty two.
In my mind as as a little kid watching that,
he helicoptered way high off the ground into the end zone.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Same, Danny, that's all same thing.
Speaker 6 (39:57):
That's the lord, Like, that's what I think. But it
was just to get a first down. It was right
right inside the five yard line. Wasn't for a touchdown.
And also he got like ankle high almost off for real.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
My memory of it was different than the reality. You're right,
because we're kids, our perspectives off.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Steve Mann one nine nine says nostalgia is a drug,
and yeah, when kids see it from their younger perspective,
it doesn't hit.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
In the same way.
Speaker 6 (40:26):
Not to take anything away from Elway, because he was
such a gamer in that Super Bowl, wanted it so
bad and it was awesome how he took the ball
and ran. He was an older guy, he was battling injuries.
But in my mind as a kid, that was one
of the most awesome quarterback runs ever. And now watching
that documentary and I was like, yeah, it was cool, but
we've seen bigger, faster, stronger quarterbacks running the football.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Now, that's that's weird.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
I just googled John Elway doing the helicopter and I
got something else.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Footage of that.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Yeah, I think that was far bro farv coodn helicopter
though it was weird. Yeah, Like a mad dog will
like bring up Bob Coozy all the time, Bob kuz
And then you'll look at the highlights, and Bob Coosey
was playing a bunch of goofy white guys. He had
no competition, and you're not really impressed with it. That's
how your kids look like, look at Mike Tyson highlight
and they're.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Like, yeah, but that look who he's fighting. It looks
because he's.
Speaker 9 (41:24):
Fighting some bum By the way, if you looked at
a Bob Coosey clip when you were a kid, it
would be the equivalent of looking at something from like
the two thousands.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Yeah, I'm telling you that. That's that's the age difference.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
These movies, these highlights, these sports moments, forget about an
entire game, Think of like the greatest game, the flu Game.
Think about the greatest game you mentioned Brett Farv, Brett
Farv's game when he when his dad died and.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
He threw for a million yards. Think of a legendary game.
A kid today would never even want to sit through
it because it looks old. As simple as that, it
could be the greatest game, and they don't care because
it doesn't work with them.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
It's not enough stimulation. That's the shame of it. My
kids watch it.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
But you remember I told the story a while back,
how I showed my kids the Mets eighty six game
six gets by Buckner, and my kids like, Dad is like,
it's all blurry?
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Like is it?
Speaker 5 (42:18):
Like?
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Is something wrong? It's all blurry?
Speaker 6 (42:20):
I'm like no.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
But hey, rich, you remember when you were a kid,
you thought life was in black and white because all
your Grandpappy's pictures and movies were in black and white.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
My grandparents would tell me a story, I would picture
it in black and white. I thought your kids probably
think your kids probably think we grew up in the
blurry era. Dad, When you were a kid, was everything
just blurry?
Speaker 4 (42:42):
You ask a college kid now, you ever see where
they ask a college athlete, it's like what makes someone
old and they're like, yeah, when they were born in
the nineteen hundreds, Jesus.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
So basically the question is if classics like It's a
Wonderful Life might not stand in a test of time.
I'm not sure if it does. I haven't really put
it a test yet, and I don't think it will.
I really don't. That's why I'm hesitant. Do these moments
that we cherished growing up in the world of sports,
like Danny g said, the John l a helicopter, like,
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we have this vision of this legendary moment in our brain.
Kids today would hold home at this moment, and you
feel insulted as a result.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
It's just how it is, Coch.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
When you think of sports movies, see to combine them,
both movies and sports. And by the way, I'm curious
what people think at Covine on Rich at Fox Sports
Radio and of course eight seven to seven nine nine
on Fox. I am curious if people think, first of all,
will It's a Wonderful Life translate to anyone that's never
seen it? Now, that's question number one. Number two, sports movies,
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which are so near and dear to us, as sports
fans and movie fans. I heard our pal Colin Cowhard
recently talking about how star star stars, the best stars
attract stars, the best sports movie ever, and he was
very adamant in saying stars Brian Song, which I thought
was an emotional, tear jerking great movie. But would anyone
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younger now have the patience to sit through Brian Song.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Nope, North Dunlands forty Caddy Shack, No young person would
ever sit through that, no matter how great it is.
We're not saying it's not great. We're just giving you
the truth. So all these things that are near and dear,
they're not fast moving enough.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
These kids have pea brains.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Social media has rotted everybody's attention span, including ours, especially kids.
And I made this point recently Rich and I'll make
it again, the difference between us. If you're forty something
around that age, you're fluent an old guy in the
analog lifestyle, but you're also fluent in fast moving social
media culture of today. If you grew up younger than that,
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your only reference is fast moving social media culture, you
do not have the attention span. You're not fluent in
old timey time analog, slow moving movies.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
You have no patience for it. You think it sucks.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
There's nothing that anyone could say that could convince you
that at one time this was cool because in their
mind it's not.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
They don't have that reference point. That's what makes gen
X and you're you're after that?
Speaker 6 (45:14):
Right?
Speaker 3 (45:14):
What you are? What are you?
Speaker 6 (45:15):
Rich?
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Alfalfa generation? What is it? Alpha? Jen Alpha?
Speaker 4 (45:19):
I'm I'm a gen X?
Speaker 5 (45:22):
Right? I was?
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Are you a gen X?
Speaker 4 (45:24):
I think I'm I'm borderline millennial? If you're born in
like not around nineteen eighty early eighties.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
We can appreciate both. That's what makes us unique. That's
what makes us valuable. Honestly, we're fluent in two different mindsets.
It's like being being fluent in uh like Android and iOS.
You know your your your mind works in both ways.
A younger person only wants fast moving content, or they're
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falling asleep, or they're looking at their phone, or they're
not interested.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
Do you think some younger person who is spending their
free time playing stupid games like all right, dog dog
dog cat dog cat like people that are doing stupid
TikTok Instagram games, do you think they're gonna sit down
for two hours and watch a black and white Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
No, that's the shame of it. So if that is true,
that's what I'm saying. If that is true, and I
and we all agree it probably is the same applies
to these sports highlights and the games that we hold
near and dear to our hearts. They do not care.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
All right, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take
your feedback thoughts on old.
Speaker 4 (46:39):
School sports clips, sports highlights, old school movies.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Do they goofy?
Speaker 2 (46:45):
You know how goofy stirrups must look to a young kid?
George Bretton is nineteen eighty stirrups?
Speaker 3 (46:50):
What are those?
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (46:52):
Well, we used to put these things over your sock
that are called stirrups. What are you from the eighteen
hundred to that?
Speaker 5 (46:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (46:58):
But why were we all worse? Yeah? But dad, I
don't wat what to hold up your stockings? But dad,
why don't they just wear baseball socks?
Speaker 4 (47:08):
Right? Hey?
Speaker 3 (47:10):
Hey dad? How come the kickers only had one bar
in their helmet? Are you from the eighteen hundreds?
Speaker 4 (47:16):
So you know what I mean? You're trying to tell
them that it's cool, and they're like, it's not yeah, man,
the evolution of of what we appreciated it because we
lived both lives.
Speaker 3 (47:28):
We're a different generation.
Speaker 4 (47:29):
Younger generation has no exposure to anything but fast moving,
fast acting social media expectations. The wild thing is the
attention span is not there, so it is disintegrated your thoughts.
It's a wonderful life. Sports highlights and you know what's
interesting too. What was impressive then versus now also changed.
My quick example would be you're seeing, guys, what did
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Kim Little kick the other day in practice seventy three
yard a seventy three yard field goal that they said
would have been good from seventy five and he just
missed a seventy five yarder. And the other Eddie Pinero
and the Niners on Monday Night football, just for the
heck of it, tried like a sixty five yarder at
the half and it joinked off the thing. It was like, oh, man,
(48:13):
if you tell kids, yeah, the Buffalo Bills, they've lost
four Super rolls in a row, one because of a
missed field goal, and you're they're thinking, oh, what did
the kicker miss like a sixty seventy fifty yardfield goal? No,
it was a thirty nine yard field goal. Oh, scottiz
like it's like looking, but we didn't think it was
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a chip shot.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Then Yes, that's what I'm saying. They're saying through different eyes,
your thoughts and midweek major.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
A lot of fun here filling in for the great
Dan Patrick can mean on rech red here on Fox
Sports Radio,
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey, happy holidays from Covino and Rich and for Dan
Patrick locking the Fox Sports Radio studio. Still driving that trusty,
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(00:25):
the weather's bad in La here in Idaho just cold
and it's still dark here.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So anyway, that is Rich all our.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
East Coast affiliates, right, I know Dan has a ton
of people in the East Coast.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, us no projection, projections and predictions.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So hey, stay safe, put on your freezy freaky that
white Christmas. Yeah, and Rich, I want to throw a
few shout outs to you, say shot out, I said,
shout outs Kay, Rain Becker, Scott Tallica Willelmina Krinder Green
for eight seven seven, Jen Brown, A lot if you
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people chiming in live on the live chat streaming live
Coveno and Rich FSR on YouTube. Covino and Rich FSR
join the fun, say what's.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Up and see what you hear? So we have lots
to get to. We have prizes to give away.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Today Midweek Major, We're gonna give you the news and
sports and pop culture and decide together are these stories
mid as the kiddo say Week or Major? We do
that every Wednesday on our show and Mike's Wednesday Words
of Wisdom. All you have to have to do is
listen and repeat verbatim and you get a prize. But
strength of schedule doesn't matter. Unfortunately it does.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
But you can only win the games you play and
the teams you play.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's true.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I mean that you can't be like, hey, man, you
know we really moved like a tougher schedule. Yeah, no, man,
why and you know why would you why would you
not want a cake schedule? In fact, if your team
like the forty Niners who had an off year last year,
if you remember McCaffrey was out the whole year, kid,
all every like that team was decimated. Right, So because
(02:08):
you suck, you get a favorable schedule the next year.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You take advantage of that.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Hey, if you were the prom king in your high school,
but your high school is like forty kids, you're not
that awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You didn't have any competition that's insulting.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That was Spots girls. Spot's wife is the prom queen.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah, but there's like three girls and are graduating class.
Does it matter as much?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
She's beautiful?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
But I mean, I mean, but still, that's how life works,
you know, like it does. Competition matters, you know what
I know when I think about that a lot, Danny g.
You ever see someone playing Rex sports and they talk
about their high school prowess and you're like, it does
no way.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You were a good athlete, and you're like, what did
you go to high school with? Like four people?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Like the guys I play REX softball with coming on
and they're like, yeah, back in the day when I
was old County what like what county?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Like?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Yeah? Meanwhile, meanwhile, Rich has JJ McCarthy face paint on.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
That was I'm balling, bro Yes, yes, hey, I told
you about a forty nine er little not fun fact.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
There's nothing really fun about it, but really interesting.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
More so than the whole Morstead hasn't punted since he
was having Thanksgiving leftovers. The forty miners, they are that
their mine, They're my team. The forty nine ers. You know,
they might not have to leave the Bay area until August.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I did not know that. Then again, you're the schedule watcher.
Think about it.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
If the forty nine Ers win on Sunday Night against
the Bears, then it's a all or nothing Week eighteen,
and you know they're gonna make that the primetime game
against the Seahawks Niner.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Seahawks winner would get the one seed.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Let's say the Niners win that game, then the path
to the super Bowl goes through San Francisco, so they
would they play against the Bears in Santa Clara. They
play against the Seahawks, then the playoffs would go through
Santa clas and then the super Bowl is in San
Francisco this year, So if the forty nine Ers win,
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they don't have to leave the Bay until next season.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So if you think comfort and not having to travel
plays a factor, the forty nine ers could unpack the bags.
McCaffrey could be hanging out with Olivia Culpo and his
beautiful baby. George Kittle can be hanging out with his
awesome wife, and yust Check could be you know, designing
jackets with his you know girlfriend and what.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
So this could all be easy, Breezy.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Niners just got to win.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Now, look realistically, what Randy Mochoman Savage said rings true.
The cream rises to the top regardless. But this is
all great for forty nine ers. What you're saying is
the eleven and four forty nine ers have everything going
for him because not only strength of schedule and not
having to leave for a while.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
What else did macho man say any other words? Wisdom
to come to mind? Snap bit, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
What about?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
What about what he proposed to Elizabeth? And he's like, Elizabeth,
will you marry me?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What is it? What did you say about three sixty one? Yeah? Yeah?
But what Rich?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Is?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Also that?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Again?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Elizabeth?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Elizabeth will will you marry me?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
They have a lot of things going their way because
here to use him. They're clicking just the right time.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So not only do they have to not travel and
haven't punted and all that good stuff, they're clicking. Their
offense seem seemed unstoppable against the Colts this week. They
moved the ball down the field with ease, They made
it look easy, and they scored at will. So it
seems like, you know, Rich doesn't want to get ahead
of himself as the excited forty nine ers fan, But
(05:49):
they've got everything in their favor right now. And honestly,
I don't hear a lot of people buzzing about the
forty nine ers, maybe until this past week.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, say, you know, sometimes better to go under the radar.
Reading the feedback wishing everyone to merry Christmas. Say, like
you said, a lot of people chiming in live.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Scott William, Michelle, Mike Christmas, filthy Animal. I'm gonna go
to Little Nero's Pizza tonight. Sam buys your girlfriend?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Speaking speaking of Buzz's girlfriend, I have a Christmas thought.
We're gonna get to next. But Danny, g who do
you got on the phone? Who are wishing to marry Christmas?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
To?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Here?
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Patrick, let's start listening to a five seventy in La. Travis, Yeah,
what's up?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Trav? Hey? Travis?
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Hey, you guys haven't mentioned baseball yet, but I know
that Rich I think you don't care about the Mets
doing liquidation because you're gonna flip to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I know people people speculate that I'm I'm jumping ship.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
He drops little seeds here and there, just to let
everybody know that he's about to make the move.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
That would be the weakest sports fan.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Benedict Arnold like he gets to ask move of all
time if I dropped the Mets after four plus years, it's.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
The standard move. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
If you have a wife or girlfriend and she drops
the name every once in a while, that's the dude
she ends up with. And Rich drops the Dodgers a lot.
And he always talks about how his kids are Dodgers' fans.
He brings that up to everyone who's willing to listen,
just so he could forewarn us for when it happens.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Shadow, I think the Mets decimating their team, and yeah,
I saw a little a little someone did a little
ai of Edwin Diaz, Pete Alonzo, Jeff McNeil, Brandon Neimo,
all like walking away from City Field, all sad looking.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Listen, if I'm those guys, I'm not sad. Go live
your life.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Edwin Diaz is gonna be uh entering Dodger Stadium to
Timmy Trumpet's Life's good for Edwin Diaz and Pete Alonzo
is gonna be in Baltimore, where he's probably the coolest
thing that's happened to them since cal Ripken Jr. When
you really think about maybe Brady Anderson. Who who else
comes to mind? Oh that's a good one, Jim Palmer.
(07:59):
When our parents were younger, like Baltimore has been Thurston.
If they're like Thurston Hawl of the third, they're Thurston
for a superstar. And can you know that small outfield wall,
Pete A Lonzo is gonna hit fifty home runs and
everyone in Baltimore is gonna appreciate him. The Mets are
like the crappy ex girlfriend that then it tickle is,
you know, like the Mets never appreciated Pete a Lonzo.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And I'm a Mets fan.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I think it's disgusting when the Mets are wanting to
give guys like and and granted he's a star, but
when you're hearing these big deals they want to give
a guy like a Cody Bellinger or some of these folks,
and the Mets won't want to give Pete more than
three years. Good for him to tell the Mets to
beat it.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And Adam Jones brawling the Orioles. He was a beast.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yeah, but you know what, how about Brady Anderson? I
did I said that by.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
One for one year about Mike Flanagan.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Mike, What about Mike? That wasn't Mike Messina dominant for
a minute? He was the moose. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
So, I mean they've had some great players, but this
is a big deal for sure for them.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
So Rich is the Mets fan. Thank you Travis for
the call. Always take your phone calls. The most interactive,
most inclusive show on radio eight seven seven ninety nine
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watch the show.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Covino and Rich FSR.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Can't believe you guys left out Eddie Murray.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, but I mean that's way back. You know, what
is that Eddie Murray.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Everyone in the media when they talk about like the
best of all time, you know why because apparently Eddie
Murray was a jerk. It's true, you get that, that's
the legend. You've heard that story many a times where
Eddie Murray. You know, depending on how you you know,
ask a legend like Rob Parker who works here at FSR.
There's certain athletes that are that are kind and ones
(09:39):
that are not. And if you're a jerk to everyone
in the media, you could be the greatest event. But
you know, no one's gonna do any favors and then
talk about how great you are, just how it.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Is all right?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
You know what, Cove. There's a few things I want
to get to coming up. It's a Christmas Eve extravagance,
as we feel in for Dan Patrick. So there's a
deep thought about movies and sports I want to get to.
And there's a new NBA tradition. You tell me you
let's choose our own little Christmas adventure.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I want to talk about the NBA tradition because I
know what you're talking about is the Spurs here. And
it's a really simple question that we ask you Fox
Sports Radio Nation. Is it cool or corny the new
Spurs tradition? Weenbin Yama, you know, took it upon himself
as a leader to introduce this new tradition, And man,
(10:29):
I could sum it up by this rich I could
say that it's cool for them and probably corny for
everybody else, because traditions, I think are supposed to happen organically,
or has every tradition as we know it been forced
in some sort of way, like it shouldn't feel forced
like a nickname.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You can't force a nacky Before we give you the
new Spurs tradition. Danny g has a queue up on standby.
I want to think of some of the other things
we've seen in the last you know, in our lifetime.
You know, let's say, let's go from nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Now, all right, can I give you like an example
of what I meant?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Though it's cool for them, corny for everybody else, Like
the rally monkey in Anaheim, Like that was the weakest
gimmicky tradition for them or for everybody else, but cool
for them.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Why do you got a probam with the rally monkey.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Because let's be real, it's kind of corny, right, What
did the rally monkey ever do to you? I decided
let me give you one fan, I say, no.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Let me give you one in the UH in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I'm gonna start naming sports traditions and just give me
your first instinct. Don't even don't overthink it. I want
the Steve Cavino, who thinks he's the coolest guy in
the world barometer on this.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I'm gonna give you.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know, I'm willing to give you my opinion because
you're the first time you're the first time you see
them unfurl and develop before your eyes. It takes away,
like pulls back the curtain on the origin.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
And I say this, I say this like kindly, Cavino
is and we all have friends like this, And Cavino
speaks on behalf of a lot of dudes where your
instinct for a lot of things, like.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yo, if that corny, it's like a sixth sense. You
were born without it. Rich like you you you don't
have that corny like.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I guess instinct where you could you could pick up
on it, Like, nah, man, that's just that's just lame.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I'm not doing that.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Yeah, Like Covino is like, yeah, they if they put
the macarena at a wedding, that's when Cavino dips away
to get a drink.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I'm the guy. I'm the guys, Like, let's do it.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I don't jump in the conga line for Buster Poindex
rest in peace. He was a great performer. But I'm
not feeling hot, hot hot when that song comes on,
you know corny? Yeah, Like it's just the truth, man,
Like some things are corny, and you also have to
let things develop a little bit.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
But okay, let me give you a couple and then
you know they will break and come back and and
talk about the spurs and tradition.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But let me hit you with a couple Now, you
tell me corny or yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
In Sacramento, like a year ago or so, when they
started to do the light the beam and after the game,
like big Beam alike comes out of the arena.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You know, I thought that was kind of cool, But
I don't feel like it caught on the way they
wanted to. So, you know, I think the public picked
up on the fact that it's just not that cool.
But I wasn't hating on it.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
That started in twenty twenty two, So in your mind, nope, okay.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, not really, it's not really it's not really hitting it.
It's been going off for a little while.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Now, how does Steve Covino feel about touchdowns scored in
Green Bay, Wisconsin followed by a Lambeau leap?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Now, dude, that feels like tradition, right?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Does it not feel like tradition that happened organically?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Like that's the difference. That's the difference of organic and forced.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And you know, some people could smell that a mile away,
and to me, that one has been around long enough
where it's just tradition. That's just how it is. Nothing
corny about it, all right. You know what I find
corny though, cheeseheads wearing a block of cheese on your head.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
That's I would never do that.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
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Speaker 8 (14:09):
As everybody knows, we're the hosts of the award winning
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Speaker 4 (14:19):
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Speaker 3 (14:23):
What what are you doing? We were interrupting our promo.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
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totally out of context.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
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Speaker 4 (15:30):
You know what people will say, Oh, they really want
a white Christmas. You know what no one says, Yeah, well,
like a wet, rainy Christmas, soggy, clustering, soggy Christmas. And
by the way, as we look at the three games
for Christmas Day tomorrow, some of them such high hopes
early on, like the NFL does a great job of somehow,
(15:53):
like they just strike gold, like they're a sour dough.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Sam the forty nine ers of mascot.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
They're striking gold constantly with like Y know this, and
the games that they get in primetime are awesome. But
Christmas Day just didn't work out the way they thought.
The Chiefs didn't deliver on their end of the deal.
Where it's Broncos at Chiefs. Chiefs are done, Lions and
Vikings both out of the playoff mix, and the Commanders,
(16:19):
you know, laid an egg after a great season last
year and the Cowboys came up short.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
So no, man, yep, So doesn't it still feel like
an NBA day to you? Anyways?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Though?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
To me Thanksgiving football and Christmas Day basketball?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I agreed, but I feel like the NFL is trying
to hijack.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
I mean, I think they have Chris forday and hijack.
But like you said, with the bad games, this is
a chance for the NBA to take their rightful throne.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Curious how the.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Ratings will be, Well, we'll see because these are three
irrelevant NFL games, So the question will be does an
irrelevant NFL game still dominate the NBA and rating? So
we'll see tomorrow. Merry Christmas, Uh, Danny g We're gonna
do Mike's words wisdom. In a little bit, we'll talk
some more NFL, but you want to take a couple
quick phone calls.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I know people have been on hold. Let's say, how
did Jay in Delaware?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
He just want to talk about strength of schedule, which
is something we talked about last hour.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Really quick, Rich, just so the phone stop ringing about this.
Ryan and Cincy and several others called in, citing the
Chappelle Show two thousand and four for pioneering the Kobe.
Do you remember the skit? Rashida Jones is famously in it,
and Kobe, the fake Kobe, makes her sign a contract. Listen,
(17:32):
don't tell anybody.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
About this from the makers of the love contract comes
the confidentiality.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Don't worry.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
I'm not gonna tell anybody.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
I know you won't well who you is Kobe and
that's where he shoots the condom into the wastebasket.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Was that my origin or did that popularize something?
Speaker 6 (17:57):
At popularize something? I think maybe we were all saying,
I see, I don't know, but that's what made That's
what blew it up. I put it into our lexicon.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Sometimes something's been around, but a pop culture moment really
enhances it. Like Cavino and I've argued for years that
I said the term milf was from American pie, and
Cavino's like, you think they invented that, And I'm like,
maybe they didn't invent it. But because the popularity of
American pie right around the turn of the century, you know,
(18:27):
milf became a word. We also a new no.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I mean, man, I was claiming, like man, I, me
and my high school friends used to say milf. It existed,
So oh, I'll give you maybe popularize it, though for sure,
we've argued.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
We've been on like a Fox Sports radio business trip
and when we're meeting for breakfast, you know, I'll knock
on Covino's door housekeeping and I'm like, yo, Tommy Boy,
and He's like, you think Tommy Boy invented that.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I'm like, no, but the idea my dad would do
that when I was a kid. That's my point.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
So there's a difference between the origin and what popularized it.
So Chappelle that he create that. Did he make that
or did he popularize it? I don't know, but traditions. Hey,
I'm not hating on the spurs, Okay, it takes time
to develop a time to build.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Now, let me ask you this, he said, Chappelle, did
you watch any special? I did, Like, Yeah, he's a
good storyteller.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Man.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Chappelle, I think has gone to like he's less punchliney
and he's just more of like an amazing storyteller that
tells funny stories. It's it's like the evolution like Sebastian
Man of Scalco to me is now like a super
physical comic. Totally is in that lane now, and I
think David has.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Like a caricature of himself, you know, highly animated. He
really leans into the physical stuff and it works.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Chappelle seems like less of a comedian and more of
like a generational like orator where he just grabs the
mic and you just want to hear what he has
to He's a social commentary.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
He's doing like a he's like a.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Talk like a younger black George Burns Now. The way
he's smoking on stage telling stories about how you're buying
his whole town.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, I'll be honest, it's like oddly distracting how he
just doesn't stop smoking. Special all right, let's say hi
to Jane Delaware. One NFL question, then we'll give away
a prize here on Fox Sports Trading.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
What's up, Jay, Becky, you men, Merry Christmas, Buddy.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Marry Christmas. While I was on hold, you guys, I
just real quick out the Christmas movie traditions. But my kids,
we are the two movies that we always watch for
The Elf and the Muppets Christmas Carol.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
The the Muppets Christmas Carol.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
When they do Marlee and Marlee. My kids love that craft.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
I love that one.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
That's a good one, dude, That's definitely a good one.
You know what I realized the other day, there's the
biggest jerk.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
You know what. Let me save it. My adds blazing.
Uh let's talk strength of schedule, Jay, what you got man?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Uh So, the two teams in there that I trust
the most out of those five, i'd say, or the Patriots,
they've once you know, they're undefeated on the road and
they finished their games. You know, they've lost for the
Raiders of course in the beginning of the season, but
that's that was the beginning of the season. But the
Niners has brought back five and zero and they're putting
away teams. You know, the last five games, they've one
(21:13):
bout two scores. They've scored on twenty three straight borders
Hunter hasn't punted since November. Those are the two teams
that I trust the most of those bottom five, like,
even though their strength of schedule of blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Heyst as a Niners fan, I'm not going to argue
that point. But we earlier talked about the five teams
that have had the weakest strength of schedule this year
are all playoff bound teams Niners, Chargers, Bears, Broncos, and
the easiest schedule the Patriots had. And you got to
ask yourself the strength of schedule matter much.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
We decided he.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Made a good point, and I did say that. I
did say, you know, it's also how you win. Yeah,
you may be playing weaker teams, but how did you
beat them? Did you clabbor them?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
That makes it different. Yeah, I think it's a great point.
You know what a lot of those teams have in common.
And you could say this about a lot of playoff teams,
but I look at those five teams with the weakest schedule.
Danny g As arguably having five of the best coaches
in the NFL listen to those teams. Yeah, Kyle Shanahan,
Jim Harbaugh, Ben Johnson, Sean Payton, and Mike Rabel. Those
(22:16):
are hell of hell of good coaches that have their
teams headed to the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
So yeah, Covino said it in the first hour that
they all have good fundamentals. And this is strength of
schedule during this season, not prior to it. So some
of these teams look good on paper going into the year.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
No doubt. All right, let's do this. Let's play a game,
giveaway a prize.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
We'll come back, we'll talk more NFL and I have
a more dumb fearies about holiday movies and sports, so
we'll get to all that. But we do it every
week on Covino and Rich as we fill in for
Dan Patrick. There's a guy around here at Fox Sports Radio.
His name is Mike Big Mike.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
When we he looks like a stone called Steve Austin.
He looks like Rick from Pond Stars.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
And we when we first met him, he just came
with a vibe that I thought he ran this place,
and it's very clear everyone around here was quick to say, no, no,
this guy does not run this place. But we call
him Mike that runs this place, and he has words
of wisdom. Take it away, Sam, it's time for the
guy that runs this place.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Just for clarification, guys, Big Mike does not run this place.
He is not in charge of everything. He has no
power over really anybody here. He does not run this place.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
It's Big Mike's words of wisdom on a Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
And I think that's a sentiment in a lot of
offices where there's someone that appears to have a power
and you realized they really don't.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I never told you guys this story before, but since
Mike's not in the building, uh before, we play his
actual words of wisdom here. When I was running the
OutKick the Coverage program on this network, Mike got into
it a little bit with me one morning because he
wanted something done faster, and he raised his voice and
I said, Mike, you're not my supervisor. And he's like, well,
(23:57):
I'm gonna email your supervisor.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Then, and I say, he's just he's just the visor.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Yeah, and you know what, I think.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Super Heath, it's super about him.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Really. At the end of the shift, he came up
to me and he's like, I'm sorry for raising my voice.
I'm like, Mike, you don't run anything here.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
But yeah, but you know what, we really love Mike.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
He's awesome.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, you give them the credit that he deserves.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
He's a big teddy bear. He's one of those kind
of guys.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Let's hear his words of wisdom and it's very simple.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Guys, repeat it word for word and you want to
price eight seven seven nine nine on Fox eight seven
seven nine nine on Fox. Listen to Mike's words of wisdom.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
May your Christmas be bright, your turkey be moist, and
your gifts be returnable.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Merry Christmas, everybody, verbatim, Dan Patrick Nation, verbatim. That's how
the game works.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Oh simple, I like it.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Where do they need to say the Merry Christmas? Point?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Yeah, I thinks, oh yeah yeah. If you don't celebrate,
it's part of everything.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
And verbatim.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
It's verbatim. You want to play, how you win one
last time? Yeah, give it one one more time.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
May your Christmas be bright, your turkey be moist, and
your gifts be returnable. Mary Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
It's pretty good. One man, Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Repeat it at eight seven to seven nine nine on Fox.
Win a coveno on rich Fox Sports Radio, NERF Turbo Football.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
We'll do that.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
We got Midweek major, all the stories in sports and
pop culture, and of course a lot of NFL. As
we get to Week seventeen, some games of importance, some
meaningless games. With those meaningless games will also dictate draft order.
So there's nothing really meaningless about it, I guess right,
So we'll get to all that. Coveno on rich In
for the great Dan Patrick and the Dan Atz right
here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
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Speaker 4 (25:57):
Ho ho ho, don'll shoot tryout?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Kid?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Hey, why don't you try out? Joy your holidays? Bahambug
to Aul and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Eve.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It's Steve Covino, just a kid from Union, New Jersey
out here in Idaho, Marl from Idaho. That's where Davis.
He put the square in Franklin Square along Island. They're
live the Fox Sports Radio Studio, live from the Monsoon
on a Saggi holiday.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Saggy, you know, be careful with the are you listening?
On five seventy am the LA big affiliate out here.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Let me tell you the governor put out like a warning.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I'm looking on the news right now mud slide possibility,
So be safe out there. Like of all days, right,
who wants a soggy, gross Christmas?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Even Christmas dreaming of a saggy ass gross monsoon of
a Chris.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
You have an excuse to stay inside and watch movies.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I agree, Sam.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Until I was a homeowner, I think anyone that's a
homeowner anytime there's like bad weather conditions, like I don't
want to see a leak or something. You know, there's
always something that goes wrong, And Covino will tell you
there's always something.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, my sister's place already leaking on the west side
because of all the rain. And I'm sorry speaking to movies.
You know, we got to talk some movies in just
a moment. But I do want to thank everyone for
hanging out with us. Richie mentioned the affiliates. I want
to shout out all the affiliates, thank you for hanging
out with us. Please check out our regular show five
to seven on the East Monday through Friday two to
(27:31):
four on the West. We even have a bonus podcast
called over promised, which I love doing. We have guests
give us twenty two minutes, We'll give you the world
or something like that. It's a quick, awesome show over promised.
It's on our YouTube page, Coveno and Rich FSR on YouTube.
The live chat's popping, Lisa's there, Michelle Tallica, Mark James,
a lot of people hitting us up live. We appreciate
(27:53):
that again, Coveno and Rich FSR. And let's get into it.
We got midweek major, this hour, biggest stories in sports
and pop culture. We decide with spot if they're midweek
or major. And right now again, I'm in Idaho with
my future in.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Laws, Rich, what does that mean? I mean, that's what?
What is that? That's a big giveaway?
Speaker 6 (28:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
What are you supposed to say? My girlfriend's family? There
you go?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Well, future in laws would insinuate you're getting engaged?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I mean, yeah, I don't. I don't put a lot
of emphastists on that. It's just the same, really, right.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
I mean, future in laws, it's not really an expression.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Ring ring box in your pocket or a potato?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
What's that under the tree?
Speaker 5 (28:43):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So anyway, stop spreading rumors.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
Don't do it on Christmas, though, because then you can't
take it back because it's exact.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Now, future in laws, huh, oh, my god, you're so corny.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
You're just coast tradition. You're the guys. What do you say,
that's my girlfriend's family. What do you say?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
You just say it's the same you said, my future
in laws completely insinuate your getting married.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Just call the in laws.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Then it's like it's corny. If I said in laws,
does that mean anything? Is my girlfriend's family? Right, I'm
here with them.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Fox Sports Boys ninety nine point nine is going wild
right now?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, man, is getting a local boise reporter outside your house,
getting your radio host and your potato queen are getting married.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Oh wow, yes, so.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Her family radio tycoon well called Potato Girls.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Potato twenty twelve. So I realized that none of her family,
well not her entire family, but her sister, her brother
in law. A lot of the younger people had never
seen It's a Wonderful Life, And I felt like the
old guy, like they made it seem like it was
my favorite movie and it's.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
One of which is what I'm like, which is what
you promised to give your girlfriend in the future. You
guys are corny, dude, so you you know, I'm like, hey,
hold on, I'm not from nineteen forty six.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
That's when the movie came out. It's a classic. I'm
surprised you guys have never seen it. And they made
it out like, oh, he wants us to watch it.
We should watch it for Steve, and I'm like, no,
I don't know what we hold up. Don't watch it
for me because then I'm gonna be insulted that. You know,
you're looking at your phone and you're taking bathroom breaks
and you're chatting over the movie, like I you watch
it if you want to watch it, And I will
(30:24):
say this, we have not yet to watch it. We
have not watched it. In fact, we watched the Dave
Chappelle special last night. But now I got all this
pressure because they are saying, yeah, we're gonna watch It's
a Wonderful Life with Steve.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I'm like, yo, stop, what's that for me? Like, I
don't want you to do anything for me. You should
have seen it a.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Long time ago.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
So you're gonna go from Edgy stand up special to
nineteen forty six black and white Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well, yeah, because it's it's a slurwer moving movie. And
we put that on last night.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Late at night.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
This cigarette smoking in both, yeah, exactly, that's the only commonality.
But you know what, can you know brings up a
good point? Movies, music, sports moments. There are things that
in your mind, dude, there's a freaking classic. How could
someone not appreciate it? But when you show it to
your kids, or a younger girlfriend or sim to be fiance,
(31:16):
or anyone younger in your life, it might not translate.
And I noticed this for the first time years ago,
when my nieces and nephew were younger. I was like,
you guys want to watch a scary movie? And they're like, yeah,
Uncle Rich, And I was like, you know, we're gonna
watch Gremlins. I sat down my nieces and nephew, who
(31:37):
are now like grown teenagers, are like they're in college.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
But I remember when they were little.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
I thought I was going to open their eyes to
a legendary classic movie.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
I was like, dude, who they want? They'd want a
magua for Christmas?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Yo.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
They were like, Uncle Rich, you sucked. This is the
cheesiest movie ever. They booed me movies think and I
as night.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
As I watched it, I was like, oh my god,
this is bad. It's like I stated once, it's slow,
the special effects are terrible. We'll go back once in
a while and you looks like it looks like something
from the early eighties, Like blurry, it came in blurry.
You watch something from your childhood that you know how
movies come in high there for and okay, came in blurry.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Eighties blurry.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Watch something from back then and you have such fun
memories of something that was complete trash. Like I remember
going back and watching reruns of shows that I loved
as a kid. I'll name two of them that are
garbage that as a little boy, Rich Davis me loved you.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
But truthfully, the shows you're about to mention were garbage.
Then you're just a little kid, though, see your your
expectations were low.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Yeah, but I mean these were successful shows that.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
It's classics that stand the test of time. Perfect Strangers
is not a class what I CoFe show from the eighties.
I thought Belki and making Bibby Bopkas was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
It was not. Yeah, because you're a nose pick an
eight year old. What do you know, Willie? I thought
ALF was amazing.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I went back and I watched an episode of ALF
once and I'm like, this is nonsense.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Most of us thought that was cheesy when it was on.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yeah, yeah it was. It was cheesy.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
The difference cheezy then means even cheesier now, I'll give
you classics then should stand the test of time, but
not all do. And that's how I feel about Like, dude,
Back to the Future came out in nineteen eighty five,
it's still great today because classics stand the test of time.
It's a Wonderful Life came out in nineteen forty six,
and it's in black and white, and I think younger
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eyes see anything like that and they're immediately tuned out
because it's not crystal clear clarity.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It's just it looks old, it.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Looks slow, and they don't It doesn't register to their
weenial social media eyes. You know, it just looks They
won't even give it a chance, is really what my
point is, even if I hold it up. My kids
liked Goonies and I thought that was cool. They were like, yeah,
this is cool because it's an adventure kids fun.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Time one movie. Yeah, I'm not surprised by that. But
I'm gonna upset a lot of people when I say this.
Kids want fast moving, fast acting.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Let me upset a lot of people, the nerds out there.
When I was younger, I was certainly not the coolest kid.
But my family was not a Star Wars family.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Still aren't. We're just not a Star Wars family.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
My wife likes Star Wars, but growing up, my brother
and sister and my family we weren't into it. So
when I was older, I investigated Star Wars because everyone
I knew was like, yeah, Star Wars the best. If
you watched the original nineteen seventy something Star Wars now
for the first time, I promise you you'd be terribly disappointed.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
No, no, that's blasphemy.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yeah, man, I don't know. Classics tend to test the time.
That's my theory.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
They were so ahead of their time with those movies
Rich that that's one of the reasons why the acting storyline,
the special effect.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Are you kidding it's not?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I think you also have to explain to whoever's watching,
like you have to realize, guys, yeah, this might look
a little dated, but these were the innovators, the pioneers,
the first imagine seeing something like this for the first
when we were kids.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
The cool special the coolest special effect when we were
kids was large Marge's face like we've come along, We've
come a long way.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I'm not saying Star Wars is bad. What I'm saying
is watching it.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
You kind of did.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Say watching that, you know, you know what. I guess
You're right, I do. I did that gets I think
it stinks watching it now. You can't get through the
first one. It stinks, it does. I think it's just
slow bored by it.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
There there was more storylines going on in older films,
and so to Covino's point, uh, I think it was
Coco Melon where I read that they changed the shot
like eight times in a few seconds because the kids
nowadays they need the screen to constantly change the regulation.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
You're right, Danny g. There is the show Coco Melon.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
If you got little kids, Coco Melan's like a very
popular kid show.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
They change frames.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
I believe every three seconds something absurd where because the
kid's attentions like boom bam.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I started noticing this. I remember showing my daughter Mary Poppins, and.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
You think a kid's gonna chim Chimaru yeah, Like it
just felt slow. It felt so snow and old.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
And it was that song that the Manhatter guy singing
when he's floating around. By the time that song came on,
my kid was sleeping. And you know what, They start
off those older movies with the credits, so the kids
bored before the movie even start.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Dude, my kids love Wicked. We went to go see Wicked.
Obviously as a good dad, I'm like, let's watch Wizard
of Oz. They loved the Wizard of Oz. But I
had to fast forward the first minute and a half
because it's opening credits of who's in the movie. There's
like two minutes of this is lying opening credits.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Like what are the words? I see? What are why words?
When does it start? And I'm like, oh, geez, you know,
you know what.
Speaker 9 (37:05):
They need to start backwards doing like you know how
with podcasts you can listen at like one and a
half or two time speed.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
They need to do that with old movies. You need
to be able to like there needs to be away.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
You want the moon, Mary?
Speaker 3 (37:17):
What the moon right in town?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (37:22):
Right?
Speaker 9 (37:23):
And then it's just everything moves it two times the
speed and you can listen to it and then it's
like it's over in half the time.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Oh, they need you're right spot like a podcast or
like a I know a lot of baseball networks like
s n Y and yes for the Yankees, could you know?
And I'm sure Spectrum for the Dodgers's in ness in
mess in all the they do the like a two
and a half three hour game. They do some type
of like cutout, they cut out the fat and it's
like a half hour game.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Yeah, the condensed version is great. Yeah, So based on this,
you know, what do you think about It's a wonderful life?
Is it a fail? Am I setting myself up for failure?
Are they going to be bored? Seeing through younger eyes?
Does it not stand to test the time?
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Beautiful?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
I look at it, I really look at it like
a timeless story of life lessons and what the holiday
really means. And I think classics never die. I think
it's the Wizard of Oz of Christmas movies. I really do.
But then again, I don't want that pressure and vouching
for it, and I don't want them to be bored,
and it's all my fault and I don't want to
be booed the way your nieces and nephews booed you
(38:23):
rich when you show them Gremlins.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
But think about this if certain movies and even to us,
certain movies right that maybe your mom watched, are boring
to us, like, Man, I don't know. Do those sports
highlights that we cherish, that we saw, that we watched
that we grew up thinking we're the coolest?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Do those games? Do those moments also not translate because
they look so old. You could see a highlight from
the nineties and it looks old and blurry, and.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
A kid today might just think, yeah, that's weak. Or
even the moves, like I reference this to you the
other day, Rich, Like when we saw Magic Johnson making
those moves, first time you saw him making those moves,
the first time you saw someone play that way.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
So you're blown away by Magic Johnson.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Hit today sees that on and one videos and one
on one competitions and kids on social media every minute
of the day. It doesn't hit the same.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Way, and it looks old. It's kind of laying dad.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
No look pass in the eighties was something we had
never seen before. Magic's on a breakaway and this is
the ball off like not looking at all.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
It was like, oh my god, no, we remember, were
like a no, look past right.
Speaker 6 (39:35):
You want to talk about that Lway documentary, So I'm
gonna watch it tonight. It was released on Netflix Monday,
and when they got to the part where Elway did
the helicopter, I think that was Super Bowl thirty two.
In my mind as as a little kid watching that,
he helicoptered way high off the ground into the end zone.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Same, Danny, that's all same thing.
Speaker 6 (39:57):
That's the lord, Like, that's what I think. But it
was just to get a first down. It was right
right inside the five yard line. Wasn't for a touchdown.
And also he got like ankle high almost off for real.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
My memory of it was different than the reality. You're right,
because we're kids, our perspectives off.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Steve Mann one nine nine says nostalgia is a drug,
and yeah, when kids see it from their younger perspective,
it doesn't hit.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
In the same way.
Speaker 6 (40:26):
Not to take anything away from Elway, because he was
such a gamer in that Super Bowl, wanted it so
bad and it was awesome how he took the ball
and ran. He was an older guy, he was battling injuries.
But in my mind as a kid, that was one
of the most awesome quarterback runs ever. And now watching
that documentary and I was like, yeah, it was cool, but
we've seen bigger, faster, stronger quarterbacks running the football.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Now, that's that's weird.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
I just googled John Elway doing the helicopter and I
got something else.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Footage of that.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Yeah, I think that was far bro farv coodn helicopter
though it was weird. Yeah, Like a mad dog will
like bring up Bob Coozy all the time, Bob kuz
And then you'll look at the highlights, and Bob Coosey
was playing a bunch of goofy white guys. He had
no competition, and you're not really impressed with it. That's
how your kids look like, look at Mike Tyson highlight
and they're.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Like, yeah, but that look who he's fighting. It looks
because he's.
Speaker 9 (41:24):
Fighting some bum By the way, if you looked at
a Bob Coosey clip when you were a kid, it
would be the equivalent of looking at something from like
the two thousands.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Yeah, I'm telling you that. That's that's the age difference.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
These movies, these highlights, these sports moments, forget about an
entire game, Think of like the greatest game, the flu Game.
Think about the greatest game you mentioned Brett Farv, Brett
Farv's game when he when his dad died and.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
He threw for a million yards. Think of a legendary game.
A kid today would never even want to sit through
it because it looks old. As simple as that, it
could be the greatest game, and they don't care because
it doesn't work with them.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
It's not enough stimulation. That's the shame of it. My
kids watch it.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
But you remember I told the story a while back,
how I showed my kids the Mets eighty six game
six gets by Buckner, and my kids like, Dad is like,
it's all blurry?
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Like is it?
Speaker 5 (42:18):
Like?
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Is something wrong? It's all blurry?
Speaker 6 (42:20):
I'm like no.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
But hey, rich, you remember when you were a kid,
you thought life was in black and white because all
your Grandpappy's pictures and movies were in black and white.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
My grandparents would tell me a story, I would picture
it in black and white. I thought your kids probably
think your kids probably think we grew up in the
blurry era. Dad, When you were a kid, was everything
just blurry?
Speaker 4 (42:42):
You ask a college kid now, you ever see where
they ask a college athlete, it's like what makes someone
old and they're like, yeah, when they were born in
the nineteen hundreds, Jesus.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
So basically the question is if classics like It's a
Wonderful Life might not stand in a test of time.
I'm not sure if it does. I haven't really put
it a test yet, and I don't think it will.
I really don't. That's why I'm hesitant. Do these moments
that we cherished growing up in the world of sports,
like Danny g said, the John l a helicopter, like,
(43:13):
we have this vision of this legendary moment in our brain.
Kids today would hold home at this moment, and you
feel insulted as a result.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
It's just how it is, Coch.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
When you think of sports movies, see to combine them,
both movies and sports. And by the way, I'm curious
what people think at Covine on Rich at Fox Sports
Radio and of course eight seven to seven nine nine
on Fox. I am curious if people think, first of all,
will It's a Wonderful Life translate to anyone that's never
seen it? Now, that's question number one. Number two, sports movies,
(43:46):
which are so near and dear to us, as sports
fans and movie fans. I heard our pal Colin Cowhard
recently talking about how star star stars, the best stars
attract stars, the best sports movie ever, and he was
very adamant in saying stars Brian Song, which I thought
was an emotional, tear jerking great movie. But would anyone
(44:09):
younger now have the patience to sit through Brian Song.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Nope, North Dunlands forty Caddy Shack, No young person would
ever sit through that, no matter how great it is.
We're not saying it's not great. We're just giving you
the truth. So all these things that are near and dear,
they're not fast moving enough.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
These kids have pea brains.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Social media has rotted everybody's attention span, including ours, especially kids.
And I made this point recently Rich and I'll make
it again, the difference between us. If you're forty something
around that age, you're fluent an old guy in the
analog lifestyle, but you're also fluent in fast moving social
media culture of today. If you grew up younger than that,
(44:50):
your only reference is fast moving social media culture, you
do not have the attention span. You're not fluent in
old timey time analog, slow moving movies.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
You have no patience for it. You think it sucks.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
There's nothing that anyone could say that could convince you
that at one time this was cool because in their
mind it's not.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
They don't have that reference point. That's what makes gen
X and you're you're after that?
Speaker 6 (45:14):
Right?
Speaker 3 (45:14):
What you are? What are you?
Speaker 6 (45:15):
Rich?
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Alfalfa generation? What is it? Alpha? Jen Alpha?
Speaker 4 (45:19):
I'm I'm a gen X?
Speaker 5 (45:22):
Right? I was?
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Are you a gen X?
Speaker 4 (45:24):
I think I'm I'm borderline millennial? If you're born in
like not around nineteen eighty early eighties.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
We can appreciate both. That's what makes us unique. That's
what makes us valuable. Honestly, we're fluent in two different mindsets.
It's like being being fluent in uh like Android and iOS.
You know your your your mind works in both ways.
A younger person only wants fast moving content, or they're
(45:52):
falling asleep, or they're looking at their phone, or they're
not interested.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
Do you think some younger person who is spending their
free time playing stupid games like all right, dog dog
dog cat dog cat like people that are doing stupid
TikTok Instagram games, do you think they're gonna sit down
for two hours and watch a black and white Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
No, that's the shame of it. So if that is true,
that's what I'm saying. If that is true, and I
and we all agree it probably is the same applies
to these sports highlights and the games that we hold
near and dear to our hearts. They do not care.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
All right, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take
your feedback thoughts on old.
Speaker 4 (46:39):
School sports clips, sports highlights, old school movies.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Do they goofy?
Speaker 2 (46:45):
You know how goofy stirrups must look to a young kid?
George Bretton is nineteen eighty stirrups?
Speaker 3 (46:50):
What are those?
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (46:52):
Well, we used to put these things over your sock
that are called stirrups. What are you from the eighteen
hundred to that?
Speaker 5 (46:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (46:58):
But why were we all worse? Yeah? But dad, I
don't wat what to hold up your stockings? But dad,
why don't they just wear baseball socks?
Speaker 4 (47:08):
Right? Hey?
Speaker 3 (47:10):
Hey dad? How come the kickers only had one bar
in their helmet? Are you from the eighteen hundreds?
Speaker 4 (47:16):
So you know what I mean? You're trying to tell
them that it's cool, and they're like, it's not yeah, man,
the evolution of of what we appreciated it because we
lived both lives.
Speaker 3 (47:28):
We're a different generation.
Speaker 4 (47:29):
Younger generation has no exposure to anything but fast moving,
fast acting social media expectations. The wild thing is the
attention span is not there, so it is disintegrated your thoughts.
It's a wonderful life. Sports highlights and you know what's
interesting too. What was impressive then versus now also changed.
My quick example would be you're seeing, guys, what did
(47:53):
Kim Little kick the other day in practice seventy three
yard a seventy three yard field goal that they said
would have been good from seventy five and he just
missed a seventy five yarder. And the other Eddie Pinero
and the Niners on Monday Night football, just for the
heck of it, tried like a sixty five yarder at
the half and it joinked off the thing. It was like, oh, man,
(48:13):
if you tell kids, yeah, the Buffalo Bills, they've lost
four Super rolls in a row, one because of a
missed field goal, and you're they're thinking, oh, what did
the kicker miss like a sixty seventy fifty yardfield goal? No,
it was a thirty nine yard field goal. Oh, scottiz
like it's like looking, but we didn't think it was
(48:34):
a chip shot.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Then Yes, that's what I'm saying. They're saying through different eyes,
your thoughts and midweek major.
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