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Is Texas OU Ready?! · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: My wife and I have talked about that.
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  Speaker 2: We think he kind of surrendered into it a little quickly,
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  so maybe something was going on there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, he is a rock star.
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  Speaker 2: And this is another guy whose hair is amazed you.
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  Right when you look at the three guys from Ambrosia, right,
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  all four of them press off. Ambrosia sounds like it's
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  one person. No, it's it's it's a bad it's a
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  bad from the seventies and eighties. And they're performing in
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  Arlington tomorrow and since Linda and I had to go
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  up to the Dallas Forward area anyway, and they're performing
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  at the Arlington Music Hall, which is kind of like
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  going to the Paramount here. It's a small venue, a theater.
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  And she said, oh look, I was like, you want
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  to go to see Ambrosia? She said, because I'm a
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  yacht rock fan, although Ambrosia is not my favorite, but
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  I don't dislike.
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  Speaker 1: Them, so she was interested in him.
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  Speaker 2: So I said, okay, so we got tickets, so we're
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  gonna go see Ambrosia tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 1: That's part of it. So that's why I wanted. That's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: We see a lot of shows together since We've been
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  together since twenty eighteen. And my first wife she also
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  liked musically. We went to some concerts together, and next
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  week will be eight years since she passed away, so
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  and then I was two years beyond that before Lynda
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  and I bumped into each other at an event going
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  to see that we went to see an old friend
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  play and as the first time I'd seen her in
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  I think since nineteen ninety four, so it's been like, yeah,
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  I think it was twenty six years or twenty four years,
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  twenty whatever. It was twenty four years, I guess, since
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  we'd even seen each other or something like that. And
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  then it just kind of took off from there. And
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  we had dated back in the early eighties for about
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  a year and a half, split up state friends. She
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  was at my wedding, I was, Me and my wife
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  were at her wedding in ninety four. She and her
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  husband had decided to divorce, and then I just happened
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  to randomly run into her and it started from there well,
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  once we got together, and then when she moved down here.
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  Because she's a special ed counselor and I was also
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  a licensed professional counselor, so she has a client list
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  that she counsels does mental health counseling. We started going
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  to these concerts, and it was because I had gotten
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  to the point of my life where there were some
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  people that I had and bands and artists I either
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  had never seen before and always wanted to or wanted
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  to see, or it was a band or artist that
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  in my college days in the early eighties, I worked
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  the concerts, selling T shirts for the band or for
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  the arena.
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  Speaker 1: And I did that for.
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  Speaker 2: Four years and in the early eighties, and so I
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  used to tell people that have worked everything from ac
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  DC to Lawrence Welk, which was pretty much true. I
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  would worked a c d C concert and worked Prince worked,
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  Prince Yeah, Prince wow Right. It was the Purple Rain tour.
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  Wow went on to her journey in eighty three in
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  the Frontiers tour, worked Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilow, worked All
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  Kazzy Top, all Met Doobie Brothers, Rolling Stones, all of these,
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  all of these great bands, Bob Seeger so did all these.
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  And now years later, having put myself through college by
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  working those shows, I wanted to have the opportunity to
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  see some of these because when you're working it you
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  don't really you see glimpses of the show. You walk
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  in during a song, they walk back out to your
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  stand while your partner watches the stand, and then you
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  swap off. So I wanted to see some so I
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  just happened to mention because my broadcast partner for Long
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  Worn Basketball, Eddie Orrin, and we were going to go
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  see Bob Seger, who was on his last tour. And
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  then Eddie couldn't do it he had a work related conflict.
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  So Linda and I by then had started to see
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  each other, and I said, do you want to go
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  see this concert? It's Bob Seeger And She's like, yeah,
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  I'll go. She didn't, and then when she went, she
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  loved it. She said, oh I remember that song, and
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  oh I remember that song, and oh I remember that song.
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  I said, I got a whole file folder of shows
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  like that that I want to see coming up.
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  Speaker 1: If you're up for it. She said yeah. So then
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  it became Eric Clapton while we went to that.
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  Speaker 2: Then we saw a little River band in a casino
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  then and then saw Boss Gags at the Paramount. She
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  gave me as a Christmas present because she knew how
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  much of a Billy Joel fan was and she was
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  somewhat of a fan. She gave me two tickets to
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  see Billy Joel at Fenway Park at Yeah, so I said,
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  I said, it was a Christmas gift, she said, and
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  opened it up. Two tickets Bill Joseah, Wow, Can I
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  take anybody? She says, as long as I'm the other Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I was just joking. So we went.
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  Speaker 2: We saw Billy Joel there and and so we've seen
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  a lot of concerts. It's the old Master, Herb Albert,
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  who is eighty nine years old and still touring. We
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  saw him last year. I've seen it, seen him a
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  couple of times. Play that trumpet is great. That's what
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  all the music are inconceivable. It's Herb Alpert and Tijuana
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  brass stuff. So we've seen a lot of concerts. And
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  I even had tickets for Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks
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  at Jerry World in Arlington. Couldn't go because one of
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  Stevie Nicks's band members had COVID and so they postponed
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  the show, and when they rescheduled the show, I couldn't go.
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  So she went and took a friend of her. So
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  I've kind of you know, pulled her into the concert thing,
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  and then for her because she always wanted to see
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  Joni Mitchell, one of the great rock legends of the
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  early seventies. The day after The Long Words played Georgia, here,
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  we're flying to Los Angeles. I'm gonna see Joni Mitchell
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  at the Hollywood Bowl and then come back on a
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  red eye that night, talking me back in position the
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  next day when we have Sarks press conference to get
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  ready for Vanderbilt.
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  Speaker 1: So there's that.
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  Speaker 2: So were we become big concert goers to the extent
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  if we see other other bands and every things like oh, hey,
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  maybe we want to go say and you know, and
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  so yeah, tomorrow night it'll be Ambrosia. We'll go see
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  Ambrosia tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 1: Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Update from Houston. The Tigers are now up one nothing
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  on the Astros. As Houston bats in the bottom of
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  the sixth inning. Top of the sixth inning, Parker Meadows
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  with a solo homer to put Detroit in front. So
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  the anxiety, you might say, for Astros fans might be
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  ratcheting up a bit now, although they Jordon Alvarez is
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  just trying to walk, so they have the tying run
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  on and that's just the lead off the bottom of
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  the sixth inning, so still a lot of baseball left
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  to be played in that one. But the Asters are
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  down one nothing in the sixth inning to Detroit, and
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  again because the Tigers won game one yesterday, if they
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  win this one this afternoon, it's over. Remember, the Wildcard
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  Series is just a best of three, best two out
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  of three, and it's all at one site. So these
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  first two games are at Minute May Park, and if
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  there is a third game, that game would be at
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  Minute May Park tomorrow if that happens, if there is
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  a game three, but the Asters have to win to
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  force a game three. Meanwhile, Kansas City and Baltimore are
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  getting ready to start game number two of their series
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  that starts here really in about ten minutes. The Royals
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  winning game one one to nothing, so they lead this
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  he's one game to nine. Then at six thirty this
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  evening or Mets and Brewers, and then at seven thirty
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  tonight are the Braves and the Podres going for that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite baseball team? By the way,
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  I do? Yeah? Which one is it? Do you want
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  to guess? First? Well, isn't your favorite? Did I hear.
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  Speaker 2: One morning on when it was the Hard Knox Light
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  before what it is now morphed into with the addition
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  of Mark Henry to the program, is now the Morning Kickoff.
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  But didn't I hear you say that your favorite NFL
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  team is New England the Patriots?
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  Speaker 1: Is correct?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a background in the New England area
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  in the northeast? Did you just take did you just
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  glimb onto the Patriots because it was easy to bandwagon
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  them because they were winners?
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  Speaker 1: No, in about fifth grade or something. Okay, so like
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  two thousand and four or something like that. Yeah, make
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  me feel litt Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: All my friends were playing a pee pewee football while
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  I was running truck and they all played for the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay. And then the high.
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  Speaker 3: School I was supposed to go to before they rezoned everything,
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  their mascot was the Patriots. I went to Google and
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  I was like, oh, I wonder if there's a football
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  team for the Patriots there it is.
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  Speaker 2: That's might And you happen to get them right in
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  their wheelhouse when they were winning Super Bowls. Yes, okay,
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  all right, No, I can respect that. I respect a
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  kid locking into a team. I did that with the
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  Dodgers when I was a kid, because my dad used
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  to tell me stories of the Yankees versus the Dodgers.
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  My dad was a Yankees fan, and he went to
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  a couple of World Series games in the early fifties
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  when the Dodgers played the Yankees. And my favorite color
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  back then when I was a kid was blue. And
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  the first package of baseball cards I opened, it was
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  Bill Russell, the Dodgers shortstop.
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  Speaker 1: So I was locked in then. So they get that
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  been forever.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as kids, we tend to lock in on teams,
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  but over time, I guess people get kind of frustrated
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  if their teams have a stretch of losing.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: My oldest son when he was give was a Jaguars fan,
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  and that was colors and logos, and they were pretty
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  good back and Fred Taylor Mark Brunell had a couple
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  of AFC Championship game appears.
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  Speaker 1: Then he went through this long dry spell being awful.
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  Speaker 2: So he just decided, I'm changing my favorite team to
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  the Cowboys because I love I said, you're letting yourself
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  in for a lot of heartbreak. So he became a
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  Cowboy fan, and he's really a big Cowboy fan. My
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  younger son was originally a Tennessee Titans fan because of
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  Vince Young and but then when Vince left and the Titans
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  fell off, he swapped to the Packers and he's been
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  a Packer fan.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how people just switch teams like that.
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  I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: But but I know some people get tired of a
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  team losing and say I'm out on him. Why should
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  I devote my energies to supporting a team that consistently lose.
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  This is a question, by the way, the Cowboys fans
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  ask themselves annually.
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  Speaker 1: For almost thirty years.
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  Speaker 2: That Cameron Parker, a producer regular producer of this program,
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  is having his own self examination as a Cowboys fan.
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  That's why he's not watching them this year at all,
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  at allow unless they reach the NFC Championship. He watched
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  him in the preseason just to see how the rosters
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  come together. But he he told us after they lost
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  to the Packers last January in the playoffs, he said,
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  I'm done with him. I said, are you done with
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  a fan? No, there's still my team. I'm done watching
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  them for now. Wow, foot out the door. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  So there's some self examination going on here as a
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  Cowboys fan. Now, the man for whom you produce in
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  the morning, Mike Hardball Harch, he's a long suffering Cowboys fan.
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  Speaker 1: Correct, long time, long time, by fifty years of it. Okay,
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  well that's like me with the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: You know, went through a lot of Leaneers now, uh
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  Kurt uh yeah, but it predates that he goes all
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  the way back when I was nine years old. In
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  those days, what kids used to do is we would
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  write letters to pro football and baseball and basketball teams
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  asking for autograph pictures if you can get them, and
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  I sent off several to different teams. The only team
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  that respond was the Rams, and I got this eight
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  y ten black and white, glossy photo autograph the quarterback
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  Roman Gabriel, a champ never quits. Rouman Gabriel probably immedia
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  relations or PR person actually did that and signed his name.
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  But it didn't matter. I was hooked in on the
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  Rams den in nineteen sixty nine. They started that year
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  eleven to oher and ended up losing in the first
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  round of the playoffs. But I was hopelessly drawn into
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  being a Rams fan. With through a lot of heartbreak
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  in the seventies and then didn't see him win a
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  Super Bowl until they were in Saint Louis. But I
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  let my fandom follow the Jersey to Saint Louis actually
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  win a several games in Saint Louis, including the Super
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  Bowl year and then and stayed with him. And that's
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  when Kurt Warner was playing for them, and then following
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  him back to LA and going through some lean times
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  right now, the injuries and they don't be good right now.
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  Speaker 1: But you you just got yours.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, I know, hey, yeah, they won a
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  Super Bowl three years ago, so I'm I'm okay for
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  a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah, That's how I was with
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  the Dodgers winning one in eighty eight. But I'm going
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  to tell you, by the time I got the twenty twenty,
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  I was like, I come on. So they finally broke
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  through in one one, so hopefully they can do it
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  again this year. So anyway, nothing, It's unusual when your
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  favorite teams, uh, when they let you down. Is not
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  unusual when they finally went And I've said this, I
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  said this after the Rams win the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: I said after the Dodgers won the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: Every sports fan, every one in the United States, every
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  American sports fan who is a real dedicated fan of
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  eighteen should get to experience at least one time in
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  their lifetime their team winning a World championship. Oh definitely,
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  you know, as a reward for that. Now, you never
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  did tell me who your favorite baseball team, the Red Socks.
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  Well that makes sense. And my youngest son is a
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  Red Sox fan because his first two t ball teams
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  and little league team were Red Sox or Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: So you've gotten a chance to see them win multiple titles,
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  which is funny since he went eighty six years without
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  winning one and then two thousand and four in two
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  thousand and seven and thirteen and eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so you've got a chance to see them
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  win multiplever and over. Yeah. Yeah, So it's been nice.
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  You've had an embarrassment of riches there.
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  Speaker 2: All right, more coming up, we'll update the baseball for you,
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  going on with the playoffs here on sports Radio AM
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