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Episode 55 Part II feat. RTP Sports N More - Belichick as a UNC Coach, other coaches under pressure, Big Matchups in CFB · Sports Avenue Twisted Podcast

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  Well, let well, let me ask you this man talk about coaches and,
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  and you know, one of the the greatest football coaches in the
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  history of the NFL now is coaching UNC, you know, future
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  Hall of Fame head coach Bill Belichick.
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  So what are your thoughts on him coaching UNC and do you think
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  he'll do well there? What do you what do you think of
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  that situation as a whole? I think Bill Belichick is going.
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  He's going to USUNC to prove something.
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  He's not going to UNC to win national championship.
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  That's not what he's going there for.
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  He's not even going to UNC to win ACC championships.
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  Do you know why he's going to UNC or why he went?
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  No, I think I figured just to, you know, just like money
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  probably trying to prove his prove his legacy further.
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  No, no, he has one goal in mind and that is to produce and
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  generate NFL quality football players.
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  That's it. He wants to produce draft picks.
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  That's all he cares about. He worried about knowing, man,
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  this dudes won more Super Bowls than you could eat.
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  He he don't care about wins and losses so much.
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  He wants to win, but he doesn't care about that as much as he
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  does. He wants to see thirty of his
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  players drafted every year. He wants to become known as the
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  place to go if you want to play in the NFL.
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  You can go to these other schools if you want to win
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  national championships. But he wants to become known as
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  the place to if you want to play in the NFL.
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  And by doing that, it will automatically produce
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  opportunities to win national championships.
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  Yeah, I never thought about it that way, but you're you're
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  right. That's.
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  His only goal, and if coaches would take this goal in college
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  and quit pussyfooting around and try to worry about this and that
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  and the other and go, I want to produce the NFL drafts, period.
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  That's what I want to do. What do I got to do to do that?
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  And Bill Belichick knows what NFL draft teams are looking for
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  because he ran drafts, you know, and that's what he he is the
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  ultimate draft runner, is he not?
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  Absolutely after. OK, so you got the ultimate
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  draft guy in the NFL now coming to coach college at a big
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  school. ACC is a big conference.
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  It's not a dominant conference, but every now and then they'll
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  produce something. So he, he's, he's coming up.
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  UNCUNC has never been known for winning football games.
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  They're basketball school. Yeah, they're basketball school,
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  Yes. Never been known, but what is
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  UNC done so well for the last 30 years?
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  They have produced tons of NFL draft picks, Tons NBA draft
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  picks. Rather, they have produced tons
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  and tons and tons. What?
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  OK, if you're a basketball player and you're like, OK, I
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  want to play in the NBA, what college are you going to try to
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  go to? Duke, UNC, Those are two.
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  The two, yeah. Duke and UNC, maybe Kentucky,
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  yeah, maybe go to Kentucky. Yeah.
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  Can't you know the the kind of the pecking order is is?
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  Kansas is the other one, yeah. Kansas.
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  But if you can't make it into Duke, then you try UNC.
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  If you can't make it there, you go to Kentucky or Kansas.
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  And now Florida was playing some basketball, too.
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  Yeah, they won a national championship last year, so.
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  Yeah, I mean, that's that sounded kind of amazing stuff
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  that they're stepping it up like that.
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  But, and I wish more SEC schools would and quit worrying so much
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  about damn football. You know, we got great baseball
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  in the SEC, We got great basketball.
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  Look at the things going on around the SEC.
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  They're not even football related, but yet they spend all
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  their damn time focusing on freaking football.
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  Like this little fun fact. Where's the finest college
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  baseball stadium in America? The finest one out there,
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  period. Do you know where it's at?
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  Mississippi State. I'm not.
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  I'm not joking with you, man. I'm not.
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  I'm not kidding with you at all. The Savannah Bananas were just
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  there the other day and they said this is the yeah, the
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  Savannah Bananas said this is the most incredible place we
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  have ever played. He said you look into the
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  outfield and you don't see nothing but grills and smoke.
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  That's all you see because we got decks out there loaded down
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  with these grills. And it's just the atmosphere
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  inside of our stadium is just, it is it's, it's insane.
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  You're making me want to go there one day, man.
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  I tell you what, man, if you can ever go there for like a
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  regional or a super regional, Oh my gosh, man, we're big. 30,000
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  of us come up in there for these regions.
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  We're big. We're big baseball guys.
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  So yeah, we'd love to go there when I'd be awesome.
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  Welcome when Florida plays and come when Texas plays, you know
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  what I'm saying? Hell yeah.
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  And where are you? Stupid stuff.
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  You know, we don't care. We don't care you, we ain't
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  going to be able to hear you over them cowbells.
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  You know, we, we allow coolers into our baseball stadium.
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  Beer. That's what I want to.
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  Drink yeah, and well, it's awesome.
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  But boy, I tell you what, we feeling pretty good about this
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  seventh in a stretch that I bring in a case with me and I
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  don't normally drink on a daily basis at all.
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  Matter of fact, I might drink a 12 pack in two months sitting at
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  home. But if I go to a race, if I go
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  to a football game, a baseball game.
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  Oh buddy, oh, buddy, you better just get ready.
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  We fixing the tie one on and we fixed to have us kill.
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  Y'all ever been to Talladega? No, I loved.
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  I would love to go to a NASCAR race one of these days.
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  Oh my gosh man, we need to plan up Talladega next spring.
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  Yeah, that would be. That would be.
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  Awesome baby. I'm talking VIP pit Rd. sitting
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  on pit boxes and stuff. I'm not talking about just going
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  to the race, I'm talking about being in the middle of the race.
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  Oh sweet. Yeah, oh, it's a lot of fun.
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  But you know, the preseason rankings, throw that shit away,
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  man. It's worthless.
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  As tips on a warthog. Nobody knows what anybody's got
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  right. Now take look at us in 2014 as a
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  prime example. Mississippi State was on
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  nobody's radar. Nobody's radar.
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  We weren't in the top 25. We weren't even in the top 50.
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  We weren't even nowhere. And then a few weeks into the
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  season, halfway into the season, we're sitting at #1 for five
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  weeks, you know, and, and it's like, how did they miss that?
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  How did they miss the school that was going to become the
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  number one team in the country for five weeks?
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  How did we not have them in the top 25 at the beginning of the
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  season? Because they don't know anything
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  about what the hell they're doing.
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  No. With that they got, what do you
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  got to go on? Yeah, that's true.
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  Absolutely nothing. We don't know what Arch
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  Manning's going to do. We don't know what saying is
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  going to do. We don't know what Beck's can.
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  We probably know what Beck's going to do.
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  Beck's going to get out there and do Beck like things.
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  But you know, it's just like you don't know shit.
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  You know, they may both look bad this coming Saturday, right?
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  They may both look bad, but who knows?
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  And it may be a great game. We may all be like, holy shit,
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  this is a treat. I want to see a great game.
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  I'm a college football fan. That's what I want to see.
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  I every game that's on that that's played every day and
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  every week, I'd like to see a great game.
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  Who wouldn't? Yeah, who wouldn't like to see
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  every college football game end in a last second field goal or
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  overtime or triple overtime or you know, this is exciting stuff
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  and we won't remember this shit, man.
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  That's The thing is we won't. OK, let me let me let me ask you
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  some questions. LSU won a national championship
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  a few years ago with Joe Burrow, right?
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  Correct. What was the score of the game?
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  I couldn't tell you. You don't know.
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  You don't know because it don't make a shit is that even LSU won
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  the national championship. You don't care and and a week
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  after this shit's over with, we don't.
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  Half of us don't even remember the score to the game.
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  Right. You know it.
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  It's it's you're big. Time good or bad, right?
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  You know. Right, you big time Florida
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  Gator. Let's see, who'd y'all play last
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  year? Fuck, I don't know.
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  I couldn't tell. Y'all play Alabama?
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  I mean, everything's all messed up.
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  Yeah, I know. I.
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  Used to know who Florida played every member and.
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  Remember, we played Tennessee, but I mean, we play that.
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  We play them quite a bit, right? Being like, I mean, Georgia, we
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  always play every year pretty much.
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  You played Tennessee last year. Right.
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  I think. I think we did, yeah.
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  OK I don't know if y'all did or not.
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  What was the score? I have no idea.
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  Yeah, don't make a shit. Yeah, that's the thing about.
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  Sports. Yeah, and This is why we don't
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  tolerate any politics in our sports is because sports is the
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  only damn thing we got to take our mind off of the bullshit.
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  But. There's so much bullshit in our
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  lives that we can't remember the freaking sports, you know?
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  Guarantee. You don't know the score to the
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  Super Bowl last year. No.
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  Yeah, What year did Steve Young win it?
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  Joe Montana, you don't freaking know.
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  You don't make a shit. All you need to know is that
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  Jerry Rice, the greatest receiver to ever live, Walter
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  Payton's the greatest running back to ever live.
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  We know these things. Yeah.
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  You know, we know about me and Joe Green, we know about, you
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  know, these guys. But we, the sports, we, we,
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  it's, it's so hard to explain, but so easy to enjoy is sports
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  is we just use them for those moments.
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  Like that's all we do. We use them for moments we don't
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  remember them exactly. We don't really give a damn
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  anymore because now we're on to the next moment because we got
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  bills to pay and we got this guy calling and we got that guy
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  calling. And you know, we're all in the
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  same damn boat. We're all in the sink and ass
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  ship. Every one of us, Our heads, our
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  heads are barely above the water right now.
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  Do you know how much each one of us is in freaking debt because
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  of the national debt? That's why we have sports.
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  And then they bring their damn politics into our sports and we
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  can't even get that freaking break because we're willing to
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  spend thousands of dollars. Each one of us is willing to
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  spend thousands of dollars on this entertainment we call
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  sports every year. We're willing to do it.
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  We go to games, we do this, we buy jerseys, we buy that.
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  You had all that shit up. You don't spend thousands of
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  dollars every year enjoying this sport that you can't even
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  freaking remember. I mean, think about it.
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  You know that's true. Who won the World Series last
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  year? I mean the Dodgers, right the.
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  Dodgers, right? But I mean, who won?
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  It who won it? Who won it the year before?
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  I mean, you're asking Rocky here, so Rocky would know that.
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  He knows everything when it comes to that shit man.
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  What I'm telling you is it doesn't matter who won it wrong.
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  Doesn't. As long as it happened and you
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  got to enjoy it for those few moments, you got some relief.
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  You know, that's why we go to big stadiums and we raise hell.
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  Is it the total release of everything going on in our
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  lives? That is the reason I invented
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  Randy the Plumber, OK? Randy the plumber is the
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  schizophrenia maniac that lives on the edge of reality.
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  And you never know what you're going to get out of this dude.
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  You never freaking know. You can't predict it.
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  You can't even imagine what's coming next because you'd never
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  guessed in a million years. That's the reason I invented
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  that shit was so everybody could watch that and for those couple
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  of minutes, not think about their bills, not think about any
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  bullshit going on in their life. Just sit there and have a good
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  laugh with me for a few minutes and take your mind off of it.
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  That's it, That's it. He's just a schizophrenic maniac
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  because that's where society's at right now.
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  We are all on the edge and ready to snap every now and one of us
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  are, you know, everybody in the country is 2 paychecks away from
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  being homeless. All of us, all of us, we're just
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  a couple of paychecks away from complete disaster.
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  That's how everybody has to live their life if they want to enjoy
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  their life. It's true.
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  If you don't want to enjoy your life and you want to save every
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  dollar you make and you don't want to go, you know, here,
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  there, Yonder, well, you can just go over, be a prune all by
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  yourself in the corner. You know me.
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  I'm going to the stadium to raise hell.
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  I'm going to spend my damn money enjoying it.
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  But that that's just that's just what it all comes down to at the
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  end of the day. You know, it was sports fans.
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  We're just we're we're just there for that moment, OK?
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  We want to enjoy that moment. We want to see that national
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  championship game. Because when you're sitting
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  there watching, OK, when you were sitting there watching
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  this, let's go back and let's go back to Ohio State and Texas,
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  OK? When you were sitting there
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  watching Ohio State and Texas, in your mind, you had no debt,
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  you had no responsibilities, and this is the only thing important
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  in your life right now. Is that true or not?
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  Yeah, it's true. Absolutely.
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  As soon as that game was over, yeah, you were disappointed, OK,
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  But you don't really give a shit because you got to enjoy the
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  moment. And it was a great ride.
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  It was a great season. You know, we made it far.
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  Everybody had a good time. We're not 2 and 10 like
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  Mississippi State, you know, And, and that's, that's what it
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  is. Now you got your Mississippi
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  State people. We're just all depressed because
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  we have no moments, you know, we're just, we're like, what the
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  Hell's going on here? But that's all we live for is
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  the moment. We will pay thousands of dollars
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  for that moment. Think about the money you've
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  spent in your life on these sports.
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  You know, and this may not make sense to a lot of people, but
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  I've been studying this stuff and really paying attention to
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  it. Do you know that sports is
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  irrelevant? 100% irrelevant because no
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  matter what, there's not going to be $1.00 more in your bank
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  account. No matter who wins or who loses,
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  there's nothing in your life is going to improve.
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  Your situation is going to stay the same.
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  You just had a moment to celebrate and that's all you
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  had. That's why we're sports fans.
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  You got people that are not sports fans.
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  They're oblivious to sports. I'd they're boring as hell
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  because what are they? What are they got going on?
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  Nothing. They're reading a damn book, I
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  guess, you know, or, or something like that.
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  But it's just my perspective on it, man.
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  I hope it makes sense to you. But once we start to really
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  understand sports, that's when we get we can really start to
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  enjoy them, you know, because we understand that we are just here
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  for this moment. This is my this is our moment in
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  time. Everybody in that stadium is
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  sharing the same moment in time. You know when you can get even
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  deeper than that. The three of us, we're all
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  living on this planet at the same time.
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  What's the odds? You know, what is the odds?
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  What is the odds of social media introducing us?
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  You know what I'm saying it's it's the moments in life that
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  come along that just take your mind like like I hadn't been
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  sitting here thinking about my bills while we've been on this
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  conversation. If.
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  Not at all. No, not at all.
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  You know, in the average listener, they won't be sitting
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  there thinking about their bills because they get, they got this
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  moment to to not think about them.
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  And here I am reminding them of their bills.
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  But you know, it's, it's, it's get out there and enjoy
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  yourself, you know, raise some hell, talk some smack, you know,
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  run your mouth, you know, like, you know, Texas sucks, you know,
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  Florida sucks. And those are facts, especially
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  if I'm playing the strip poker. I really.
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  Like. That but you how many times have
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  you said they're just these officials are out here just
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  making up the. Rules all the time, man.
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  The whole damn thing is made-up. Yeah, the whole damn thing.
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  They had this theory that if we put these players on the field,
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  people will pay money to come and watch them.
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  And every time we do it, we prove their theory right.
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  But the all the shit's made-up. It's not real.
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  It is just not, it's not real. It's just like it's only here
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  for our pleasure and entertainment.
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  And we pay people a shit ton of money to to for that
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  entertainment because that all that money comes from the fans.
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  Every dollar paid to anybody for a sport all comes from the fans.
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  It's the TV stations buying their fan base from them to
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  broadcast their event. That's what they're doing.
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  That's why they give them money that we're buying your fan base
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  to show them this game and they'll watch it.
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  It's all our money. Every damn penny of everything
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  is our money. Every.
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  We're paying Dak Prescott $60 million a year.
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  Jerry Jones is not. The fans are because Jerry Jones
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  collects the money from the fans to pay Dak Prescott 60 million a
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  year. You know, it's, it's, it's,
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  it's, it's this whole thing is a figment of our imagination is
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  the, is the bottom line. It doesn't really exist.
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  It's just all made-up. And we love the hell out of it.
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  We truly do. But at the end of the day, none
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  of that shit mattered. Not any of it.
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  We spent a bunch of money to go watch something and then we
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  start forgetting the shit on the way home.
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  You know, we literally do. And within a week we don't even
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  know what the hell we watched, but we remember having a good
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  time. So we remember drinking some
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  beer. We remember the guy behind us,
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  it was high 5 and it's the whole game.
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  We remember the guy that was 2 rows over that was raising
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  absolute hell. That guy's me.
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  That guy's me. The Mississippi State come and
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  played in Biloxi at the Biloxi has a professional baseball
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  team, a minor league name, the Biloxi Shuckers.
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  So Mississippi State come and play the game in Biloxi, right?
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  And I come up in the stadium and I'm very familiar with the
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  stadium. I've been to a lot of Shuckers
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  games there. But I come up in the stadium,
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  I've been, I'm already about 6 beers deep.
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  I'm loose, I'm feeling good. Our pitchers are out there
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  warming up. Our fielders, They're all out
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  there on the field. I walk into the damn stadium and
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  I start hooting and hollering. They all stop what the hell
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  they're doing, every one of them.
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  And I walk down there toward where the pitchers are at and
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  they come over and start high, fiving me and shit.
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  You know, because the biggest Mississippi State baseball fan
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  on the entire planet just came into the stadium and I come in
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  there raising hell. All right, so let me ask you
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  this question here. And it's a new experience, by
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  the way, is that there's a new fake injury role in that fight
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  starting this year. What the heck is going on with
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  that? Because that that was people
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  that were taking advantage of manipulate the whole process,
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  right? Like how, how the hell?
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  How the heck? Is that a thing now?
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  And The thing is like, do you think there there is a lot of
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  advantages last year that that applied to this year and it's
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  becoming a thing now? Well, they ought to call that
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  rule the Lane Kiffin rule. They that's what they should
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  have named it the Lane Kiffin Fake Injury rule because Old
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  Miss was terrible about that crap.
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  Faking injuries. I think it's the most ridiculous
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  thing I've ever seen, and I think it hurts your NFL draft
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  stock. Just ask Colt McCoy about faking
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  injuries in a national championship game, how that
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  affects your draft stock. Yeah, that's exactly what he did
• 20:40
  when they played Alabama. He was no more injured.
• 20:44
  They said he had a shoulder injury, right?
• 20:46
  Yes. And then he's back on the field,
• 20:48
  throwing his hands up in the air, trying to fire the crowd
• 20:50
  up. How in the world can you have a
• 20:53
  shoulder injury and be aggressively throwing your hands
• 20:57
  up in the air trying to rile the crowd up?
• 20:59
  It's impossible. Can't be done.
• 21:02
  But yet he did it. And I think his dad gave him the
• 21:05
  order to go down. And look what happened to his
• 21:08
  draft stock. It plummeted.
• 21:11
  Yeah. He's supposed to go in the first
• 21:13
  round, and I think he went what? I don't remember exactly, but
• 21:17
  third, fourth round, something like that, I don't, I don't
• 21:20
  remember exactly where he went. I know he plummeted bad.
• 21:24
  I know, I know. Will Will Levis was drafted was
• 21:28
  a couple years ago and The thing is that he he was supposed to go
• 21:33
  at least top ten, but he fell down at 31st and and and you
• 21:38
  look at the way he he's his stock went down.
• 21:41
  But I mean, some of these quarterbacks, you know, it's
• 21:43
  such a a big need and especially for the NFL when you're drafting
• 21:48
  guys like, like, do you think that's a thing now?
• 21:51
  Like that's a that's a reason. And do you think it's just that,
• 21:54
  you know, taking advantage of injuries?
• 21:56
  Some guys don't want to play because of the draft.
• 21:58
  Do you think that's another reason why?
• 21:59
  Oh. I think he's got a lot to do
• 22:02
  with it, man. It's, it's, it's not good,
• 22:03
  though. It's not good for the sport.
• 22:05
  You know, it's not bad for the sport of college football.
• 22:08
  Is this NIL has been this NIL is not good for the sport, period.
• 22:13
  It's just not, you know, it would be fine if there was some
• 22:17
  sort of limitations, you know, but it's just like you got arch
• 22:21
  man and making six and a half, $1,000,000 a year, OK, that
• 22:27
  what's the next, you know, Longhorn making?
• 22:31
  Does anybody know? I have no idea.
• 22:32
  I don't keep up with the Longhorns much.
• 22:35
  But he's just, you know, you got all this freaking money coming
• 22:38
  at some of these players and then you got hardly any coming
• 22:41
  at the others. Well, they don't want to, you
• 22:44
  know, they're they're not about it.
• 22:46
  If they got a shot at the NFL, they don't want to get hurt.
• 22:50
  And you can see it in the plays sometimes, you know, but it's
• 22:55
  it's this, the fake injury crap. It had to go because it was
• 23:00
  happening. It wasn't happening everywhere,
• 23:02
  you know, and, and the NIL needs some, I don't know, they need to
• 23:08
  to figure out a way to come up with a happy medium.
• 23:10
  Like they give the money to the school and then, you know, you
• 23:14
  get all the players involved. Yeah.
• 23:19
  I just don't think one player should be making six and a half
• 23:21
  million while another one's over and can't even buy groceries.
• 23:26
  You know, Just my opinion, you know, and I'm, I'm sure a lot of
• 23:30
  people would say, hey, this old dude's crazy.
• 23:34
  Well, I just wanted to ask you about some quarterbacks.
• 23:37
  Who are some quarterbacks you think could break out this year?
• 23:41
  You know some guys that that maybe we've talked about already
• 23:45
  on the show. Go ahead.
• 23:47
  It's definitely going to break out, saying should break out to
• 23:50
  an extent. I know Ohio State wants him to
• 23:53
  break out massively. I think back down at Miami is
• 23:57
  fixing the show with something that we weren't expecting, you
• 24:02
  know, And I mean, who, who, who else do you think's on that
• 24:05
  list? I was, I was going to say we
• 24:11
  could talk about the quarterback from UCLA.
• 24:16
  The he's a He's another one that could bring.
• 24:18
  Nico Lama Vela or Yeah, I am a villa or Yeah.
• 24:23
  Or we can never talk about him. His name is Nico.
• 24:29
  I'm a leaving and he's not real smart, I can tell you that.
• 24:36
  He's not real. Smart at all.
• 24:39
  The kid could be really good, but man, there's been so much
• 24:44
  negative around him. I don't see how he ever
• 24:46
  overcomes it. I mean, UCLA is not going to win
• 24:50
  national championship or anything like that.
• 24:52
  They are way off. They're they're way off of
• 24:55
  winning 10 games. Like they're years away from A10
• 24:59
  win season and you got to have ten wins to get in that playoff.
• 25:04
  9's not. Going to do it.
• 25:06
  It's just there may be an exception come along eventually,
• 25:10
  but I just you got to go 10 and 2.
• 25:14
  If you go 10:00 and 2:00, you got a good shot at getting in.
• 25:16
  If you go 11 and one, you're locked, you know, and that's
• 25:19
  what I'm expecting from Texas in the regular season is 11 and
• 25:22
  one. Now, whether that one comes at
• 25:25
  Ohio State or that one comes from somewhere else, I'm
• 25:29
  expecting them to enter the postseason at 11 and one with a
• 25:32
  high seed, and I'm expecting them to not win a.
• 25:36
  Champ what? What about Lenore sellers from
• 25:39
  from from South Carolina? I don't know a whole lot about
• 25:43
  him, but you know, he's a South Carolina caliber quarterback and
• 25:47
  that's just what South Carolina has.
• 25:50
  You know, you're never going to see a stellar quarterback at
• 25:52
  South Carolina as long as they're named after a damn
• 25:55
  chicken. It is just not, this is not
• 26:00
  going to happen. I mean, facts are facts, man.
• 26:04
  Yeah. All right.
• 26:05
  The next question, we want to talk about coaches under
• 26:08
  pressure. We talked about a couple of them
• 26:11
  already, right? Like, for example, what about
• 26:15
  Sam Pitman from Arkansas, Brent Venables from Oklahoma, Mike
• 26:19
  Norvell, Mike Gundy, Lincoln Riley?
• 26:24
  What's that Hugh Freeze like? What about those guys?
• 26:28
  Well, start with the first one. Hugh Freeze.
• 26:33
  Hugh Freeze, Auburn, he has to win.
• 26:40
  He has to win eight games this year, but if he wins eight
• 26:48
  games, he has to beat Alabama for one of them.
• 26:53
  Period. He can lose the Alabama if he
• 26:55
  wins 10 games. Now that's not saying he's going
• 26:59
  to get fired, but that's going to start the process of him
• 27:01
  going into his last season. I Who's the next one?
• 27:05
  Sam Pitman, Arkansas. Arkansas At Arkansas, all you
• 27:09
  got to win is 7 games to keep your job.
• 27:14
  That's it. But if you lose to like a
• 27:17
  Vanderbilt or you know, there's a few others and you win seven
• 27:24
  games, then you got a problem. But if Arkansas wins eight
• 27:27
  games, they'll pick that guy up and walk him down the field on
• 27:30
  their shoulders, you know, But he's he's got to do that.
• 27:34
  He cannot win seven games and expect to stick around.
• 27:38
  But Arkansas is one of those schools, man, you don't have to
• 27:42
  you don't have to make it to the playoffs ever, because they've
• 27:46
  never really had much success. They kind of like Mississippi
• 27:51
  State, like we would have never fired Dan Mullen ever.
• 27:56
  I Who's your next one? Brett Venables from Oklahoma.
• 28:00
  Yeah, he's more on the hot seat than anybody because last year's
• 28:05
  disaster and exactly what it was.
• 28:12
  He's got to, he's got to pick up the pace, man, or he, he, he
• 28:16
  will be done. What about Mike Norvell?
• 28:22
  Oh, Florida State. Damn, I can't believe I didn't
• 28:26
  fire him last year. I just can't.
• 28:30
  I mean, he's got to either turn it around or he's going to be
• 28:33
  gone. And I mean, he's it's got to be
• 28:35
  an absolute turn around. They've got to, they've either
• 28:39
  got to beat Florida, they got to beat Miami, they got to win some
• 28:45
  damn games. I'd say he's got to go 8 and
• 28:48
  four or he's toast. And I and that maybe nine and
• 28:52
  three, maybe more like he's toast.
• 28:55
  Yeah. And he's going to start the
• 28:57
  season off with a disaster. Yeah, they will be talking about
• 29:01
  firing him by the end of half time against Alabama.
• 29:07
  Yep, I agree with that. Tom will start.
• 29:11
  Mike Gundy. Where's he at?
• 29:14
  Oklahoma State. Oh yeah, Oklahoma State.
• 29:17
  Yeah, Cowboys. He he, man.
• 29:20
  He's been there a long damn time.
• 29:23
  Yeah. How long has he been there?
• 29:25
  Like 20 years. He's been there forever, yeah.
• 29:28
  Yeah, I mean, Oklahoma State, they don't, you know, and they
• 29:33
  ain't never going to play for a championship.
• 29:37
  If if he wins 8, he's solid. He'd probably keep his job at
• 29:41
  7:00. But if he wins 8, he's solid.
• 29:45
  I mean, that's all they've ever done up there.
• 29:48
  When's the last time they had a 10 win?
• 29:50
  It's been a long time. Yeah, yeah.
• 29:52
  He, he don't have to do a whole lot.
• 29:54
  He was like, oh, what's his name at Penn State all those years?
• 29:58
  Paterno. Paterno, Yeah.
• 30:01
  Paterno could have took a shit on the 50 yard line and they
• 30:05
  would have celebrated it. I'll give you one more name.
• 30:08
  Josh Hoopoe from Tennessee. Hypo, Hypo, Hypo.
• 30:14
  Josh Hypo from Tennessee. Yeah, that's a tough one, man.
• 30:20
  That's a tough one. People up there love him.
• 30:23
  You know they love him, but they also Tennessee to turn on you so
• 30:27
  damn fast. Make your head spin.
• 30:29
  I'd say that he's got to make the playoffs this year or the
• 30:34
  talk is going to start and 26 if he don't make the playoffs.
• 30:38
  Because. If he missed the playoffs this
• 30:40
  year and 26, he'd definitely be gone.
• 30:43
  Because now that they've been to the playoffs, you know, there's
• 30:46
  12 teams, they're not going to accept anything less.
• 30:50
  And that's what Tennessee does. But Tennessee's never been a
• 30:52
  powerhouse. They've always thought they
• 30:54
  were. But Tennessee cannot sustain any
• 30:57
  success at all. If they win anything, they're
• 31:01
  done for 3456 years. Yeah, you know, they can't
• 31:06
  sustain it. And and they don't look like
• 31:08
  Alabama can sustain it anymore. They think they got them a
• 31:13
  coach. They they in for a rude
• 31:15
  awakening, very rude awakening. You cannot bring a coach with no
• 31:20
  SEC experience and put him in the SEC and expect him to get
• 31:25
  out there and kick somebody's ass because they don't
• 31:28
  understand it. That's why you're better.
• 31:31
  Coaches come as coordinators through the SEC.
• 31:35
  It's just the way it is. You know, it's, it's hard to be
• 31:39
  successful in the SEC if you've never been a coordinator and
• 31:43
  understand what it takes to win in that conference.
• 31:47
  You know, and I'm not talking about winning a few games.
• 31:48
  I'm talking about winning the conference itself.
• 31:52
  You know, it's, it's, you know, I'd say that Tennessee has less
• 31:58
  than a 10% chance of winning the SEC conference championship,
• 32:04
  which means they have no shot at winning the national
• 32:07
  championship at all. If you're not in that game,
• 32:11
  you're not winning shit, you know?
• 32:14
  And you did. Ohio State proved that you don't
• 32:17
  have to go to the Big 10 Championship to be successful
• 32:19
  because it's a weaker conference.
• 32:21
  But you cannot win a national championship in college football
• 32:27
  as an SEC team without having won the Southeastern Conference
• 32:31
  championship. It ain't going to happen.
• 32:34
  So, you know, whoever wins that game, they're a true contender
• 32:39
  to win it all, but nobody else will be.
• 32:44
  Look at the facts on that and you'll see what I'm talking
• 32:47
  about. Has an SEC team ever won a
• 32:51
  national championship without winning the SEC Conference
• 32:55
  championship? I don't believe so.
• 32:58
  Yeah, because that was the game that got you there.
• 33:02
  Now the 12th team playoff, OK, you know, but there's no way
• 33:06
  that somebody that didn't win the SEC before was going to play
• 33:10
  and win a national championship game.
• 33:11
  Maybe it's happened. I just don't know for sure that
• 33:15
  it has. I don't think it has.
• 33:18
  I could be wrong on that, but that's just a fact.
• 33:22
  You know, you got to win that game first.
• 33:25
  So but Tennessee, they they man, I don't know.
• 33:32
  I don't know if we can do it. I don't know if we can do all
• 33:35
  the controversy in the offseason.
• 33:37
  The Tennessee's been a lot. You know, you got your coach
• 33:41
  chiming up on television. You know, we don't want this kid
• 33:45
  no more and all this crap. You know, it's, it's, they could
• 33:49
  have been a better way to handle that situation.
• 33:51
  Absolutely. But hindsight's 2020 on every
• 33:54
  situation. I'm sure there's thousand
• 33:56
  situations I could have handled different if I look at it
• 33:58
  another way. Yeah, so it all kicks off on on
• 34:03
  at noon with with the big game that we've talked about already.
• 34:08
  There's some a couple other big matchups this weekend.
• 34:12
  What are your thoughts on on some of the big matchups like
• 34:15
  you got? I think it's Clemson plays LSU.
• 34:18
  What? I'm putting LSU, yeah.
• 34:21
  Where is that game being played at?
• 34:23
  Death Valley. Oh, no, no.
• 34:34
  You see, Clemson's another one of those teams, man.
• 34:37
  You don't really know what you're going to get.
• 34:38
  Are you going to get a good team?
• 34:40
  Are you going to get an OK team? Because, you know, Dabos, as
• 34:43
  long as Dabo Sweeney's there, you could have either or you
• 34:47
  could have a team that's ready to kick ass and take names.
• 34:49
  But there's something about Clemson.
• 34:51
  You ain't got to worry about them winning the national
• 34:53
  championship this year because they wasn't threatening to win
• 34:56
  one last year. And and Clemson is one of those
• 34:59
  schools where they have to threaten the year before to win
• 35:04
  it. If you've ever watched them,
• 35:06
  you'll see the pattern that they follow.
• 35:09
  And it's the same thing with Tennessee too.
• 35:11
  Tennessee ain't going to just jump up there.
• 35:14
  Ohio State had just jumped up there, and Texas might just jump
• 35:17
  up there or Alabama or whatever. But Clemson's one of those
• 35:21
  schools that the next time they win a national championship the
• 35:24
  year before, they would have had to have been threatening to win
• 35:27
  it. And maybe even the year before
• 35:30
  that. Yeah, that's, that's, that's but
• 35:33
  Clemson going into LSU, huh? Oh, boy.
• 35:38
  I would I would say that LSU must win that game.
• 35:42
  Brian Kelly must win that game. If Brian Kelly loses Clemson,
• 35:46
  the talk of firing him will start immediately.
• 35:50
  Them LSU people are vicious. They're vicious, man.
• 35:55
  They fired Coach O for winning the national championship.
• 35:59
  You know, I mean, that's. Yeah.
• 36:02
  It's crazy, man. Then people down there, I used
• 36:04
  to live amongst them folks down in South Louisiana.
• 36:07
  I'm telling you, man, them people then people are different
• 36:10
  breed. They are absolutely different.
• 36:14
  All they think about is eating crawfish, which I like crawfish,
• 36:18
  you know I love crawfish, but there you go.
• 36:21
  Let me ask. No, I was going to ask him one
• 36:24
  game and that's on September 20th, Oregon versus Penn State.
• 36:28
  What do you think about that game?
• 36:31
  Who is Oregon? Who is that you talking about,
• 36:37
  Oregon? Oregon, yeah.
• 36:40
  Oregon, Yeah, yeah, Oregon, man, Is that the way it's pronounced
• 36:47
  and I'm ignorant? No, no, no, no.
• 36:49
  I just said it for the sakes of I, I say to Oregon, I don't
• 36:52
  know. I could be.
• 36:54
  Oregon. Oregon, Right, Oregon.
• 36:56
  Oregon, Oregon. Oregon, Oregon.
• 36:58
  Oregon, Oregon. Oregon.
• 37:00
  Thinking Ducks. So they got Penn State.
• 37:03
  Where's that game at? I think it's in Penn State, so.
• 37:07
  Oh, yeah. See that, that, that right
• 37:09
  there. So when Penn State plays at home
• 37:12
  during the regular season, you have to give them three points.
• 37:15
  You just have to. That place is wild.
• 37:18
  OK, they got all that white and blue going on up there.
• 37:21
  Tacky colors, I know, but the place is still wild.
• 37:25
  Very tacky colors that it's not as bad as orange and blue, but
• 37:29
  the the freaking burnt orange is the worst.
• 37:33
  The absolute worst color color is not in my color wheel, as Lee
• 37:39
  Ann Tui would say. But I mean, I'd give Penn State
• 37:42
  three points. Oregon has unlimited nail money.
• 37:45
  Did you know that? Yeah.
• 37:47
  Oh wow. Yeah, through Phil Nike, he all
• 37:50
  he wants is a championship. He's trying to buy a
• 37:52
  championship. He thought he was going to get
• 37:54
  it last year. Oregon's going to be good.
• 37:56
  They're going to be real good. But they will probably hit the
• 38:00
  postseason at 10:00 and 2:00 and I know them Oregon Ducks and be
• 38:04
  like, ah, bam, whatever. No, they will probably hit the
• 38:07
  postseason at 10 and two, they'll be in the playoffs.
• 38:10
  Penn State's probably going to hit the postseason at 10 and 2.
• 38:13
  They may be in the playoffs, Probably will, but I'd say I'd
• 38:19
  say that game's got to go to Penn State.
• 38:22
  Got to. Who knows, though, man, I don't
• 38:25
  pay much attention to the Big 10 because Oregon's in the Big 10
• 38:31
  now, right? Yeah.
• 38:34
  Yeah, Oregon's in the big. 10 They were in the Big 10
• 38:36
  Championship game. I'm.
• 38:40
  Going to go ahead out on a limb here.
• 38:42
  Make my prediction National champions.
• 38:46
  There that was. That was the final question we
• 38:47
  were going to ask. So what's the That was the
• 38:49
  question we were going to ask that it's.
• 38:52
  Going to be real unpopular. Oh oh.
• 38:55
  It's going to be extremely unpopular, but with the
• 38:59
  exception of last year, I was correct seven years in a row
• 39:02
  predicting the preseason, the champion and I had Michigan.
• 39:06
  Yeah, I had Michigan. I knew they were going to win it
• 39:09
  because the year before they threatened to win it.
• 39:13
  And you got to pay attention to Michigan because they are going
• 39:15
  there. Another team that's going to
• 39:17
  threaten the year before, they win it every single time.
• 39:21
  Every single. Do you know who the NFL team is
• 39:24
  that does that really bad is the Green Bay Packers, Most of the
• 39:29
  time when they won the Super Bowl the year before, they were
• 39:32
  in the NFC championship game and lost.
• 39:36
  Yeah. And Brett Favre did the same
• 39:38
  exact stuff, too. But yeah, national champions.
• 39:47
  Oh, man, you ready for it? We're ready.
• 39:51
  And I. We're here for the smoke.
• 39:54
  I don't like them, they stuck in my opinion, but it's going to be
• 39:57
  LSU. Wow.
• 40:02
  Yeah, told you it's going to be an unpopular opinion.
• 40:06
  Hey, no, I I like it. I bet on LSU this weekend.
• 40:09
  So I like it. I like it.
• 40:13
  I think they'll come into the postseason 11 and one.
• 40:17
  Now who they'll lose that game to, who knows.
• 40:19
  There's a lot of tough ones on the schedule.
• 40:21
  Don't believe it's going to be Clemson.
• 40:24
  I do not believe it'll be Clemson.
• 40:25
  Not in Death Valley, no way. But I mean, Clemson could beat
• 40:32
  them and he's saying they can't. But it's the Tigers versus the
• 40:37
  Tigers, ain't it? So we got to figure out who the
• 40:41
  Alpha Tiger is. But yeah, it's I got LSU to win
• 40:49
  it all this year and y'all are speechless.
• 40:55
  No, I mean, I mean, who, who's so is LSU?
• 40:59
  It's going to be. So who's going to, who else is
• 41:02
  going to come out to play in the champion?
• 41:03
  Who? Who also represent.
• 41:05
  Yeah. Who's the runner up?
• 41:07
  That's my other question. Tough one, man.
• 41:09
  That's a tough one. But I would suspect that it
• 41:15
  would be Notre Dame. Snorted versus.
• 41:19
  OK, OK. Yeah, that's it.
• 41:23
  That's interesting. I was just going to ask, what do
• 41:25
  you think, Speaking of Notre Dame?
• 41:27
  What do you think of that coach that they got there?
• 41:29
  Do you think he has what it takes to ever win a national
• 41:32
  championship? No.
• 41:34
  I think he has what it takes to get to a national championship,
• 41:37
  just like a lot of coaches do. But to actually win it?
• 41:41
  No, No, I think he takes Notre Dame to three to four national
• 41:46
  championships over the next 5-6, seven years and they lose them
• 41:50
  all. They become the Buffalo Bills
• 41:52
  of. Oh man, I watched every one of
• 41:59
  those four Super Bowls live. I remember watching as a kid.
• 42:05
  Yeah, it was. Jim Kelly man, 4 Super Bowls in
• 42:10
  a row. What's the chances?
• 42:11
  What's the chances you. Lose every damn one of them.
• 42:15
  Yeah. I guess they were there though.
• 42:21
  Marv Levy was the coach, right? The coach that he was couldn't
• 42:24
  get it done. He was.
• 42:26
  He could get them there, but that's just the same thing with
• 42:29
  a lot of these coaches. The Mar Marv Levy, even though
• 42:32
  he could get a team to the Super Bowl 4 years in a row, he was
• 42:35
  not an elite coach. No.
• 42:38
  Yeah, he was just the best coach in the AFC.
• 42:42
  That's just what it come down to.
• 42:43
  But you don't get to 4 Super Bowls in a row without being
• 42:46
  badass. Yeah.
• 42:48
  Right. First of all, let's understand
• 42:50
  that. But just because you're badass
• 42:52
  don't mean you're going to get the ass, you know?
• 42:54
  It's just right. Yeah.
• 42:56
  It's just kind of what it is. But well, good talk y'all.
• 43:01
  Hey we, we appreciate you being here man.
• 43:04
  Great storytelling, great times man.
• 43:07
  Hell of a life you had man, wish we had we had something like
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  that. But where can we find you in
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  social media? I know you got TikTok and
• 43:14
  Facebook, so we just let them know where they can find you.
• 43:18
  I mean, that's pretty much what I do is TikTok and Facebook is
• 43:21
  RTP Sports. You know, I think I'm TikTok.
• 43:25
  I'm RTP Sports Extra. And then on Facebook, I'm just
• 43:29
  RTP Sports. It just kind of stands for
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  Randy's Plumber. It's my own little sports thing,
• 43:34
  you know, is it's it's it's what it is.
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  I'm retired, so I'm no longer a plumber.
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  So I just didn't feel like carrying the name anymore.
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  And my daughter gave me that name.
• 43:46
  So, you know, it's just kind of, yeah.
• 43:49
  I told her. I said I'm inventing the
• 43:50
  schizophrenia maniac. This guy's crazy as hell and
• 43:53
  he's on the edge of insanity all the time.
• 43:55
  Good name, he said. Well, your name's Randy and
• 43:59
  you're a plumber. I said.
• 44:01
  Yeah, she said. There you go.
• 44:04
  There's the name, man speaks for itself.
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  But yeah, thanks for joining us, man.
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  It was, it was awesome to have you and talk football and, and,
• 44:12
  and really get to to learn what makes you tick, man.
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  And yeah, everyone follow this guy's videos.
• 44:18
  He's hilarious. And he'll, you know, he gives
• 44:21
  you a great time. And so thanks a lot for joining
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  us, man. We appreciate it.
• 44:26
  It was. A pleasure, it was a pleasure.
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  We will place the description below where you can find RTP
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  Sports and more. Or they say Randy the plumber.
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  But till next time, take care, be kind to each other.
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  Signing off the Sports Ave. Twister podcast on Wednesday,
• 44:44
  August 27th, 2025. None.