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- 0:53Speaker 2: Good evening, everybody, I'll walk up to another edition of
- 0:55Speaker 2: a special addition of a sports exchange in my loud
- 0:58Speaker 2: No really, lover, And for those of you like josh
- 1:02Speaker 2: O Doorr who thought this was a hockey show, Joshua
- 1:04Speaker 2: dor let me give you some good information.
- 1:05Speaker 3: My friend. You ever heard Aaron Rodgers? Okay, relax, there
- 1:09Speaker 3: is some hockey in this, but we're leading off what
- 1:11Speaker 3: the Great Cup?
- 1:13Speaker 2: Yes, the Canadian version of the Super Bowl, So relax,
- 1:18Speaker 2: as Aaron Rodgers would say, all right, Rod is out
- 1:21Speaker 2: in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1:23Speaker 3: You know we see any game at the BC Place.
- 1:26Speaker 3: Why am I wearing this Detroit Lion shirt because got
- 1:29Speaker 3: the Detroit Lions. I'm my end and he's gonna be
- 1:31Speaker 3: over at the home of the BC Lion, the British
- 1:34Speaker 3: Columbia life. Yes, I'm a Lion in every way, shape
- 1:37Speaker 3: or form. And I know that you used to obviously
- 1:39Speaker 3: work for the Saskatchewan rough Riders. Since I don't know
- 1:41Speaker 3: much about the Canadian Football League anyways, look at this guy,
- 1:44Speaker 3: work entire love it. Great stuff, all right, good stuff.
- 1:49Speaker 3: I would have root for the Saskatchewan rough Riders if
- 1:52Speaker 3: I know that you were the commentator, but I always
- 1:53Speaker 3: call them the BC Lions that I have to stay
- 1:55Speaker 3: with the BC Lion at heart. That doesn't mean that
- 1:58Speaker 3: that's fluid, but it is what it is. We got
- 2:00Speaker 3: a rough rider and you can call me rough all
- 2:02Speaker 3: the way round. I've heard it all anyways. Anyways, the
- 2:04Speaker 3: sports are change can be heard on iHeartRadio and the
- 2:08Speaker 3: reality that you can be hearing a lot more and
- 2:10Speaker 3: Katie will definitely go ahead and mention it as well.
- 2:12Speaker 3: If I'm busy at end. Today we're going to talk
- 2:14Speaker 3: about the Canadian football leagues. We all some hockey stuff
- 2:17Speaker 3: as we always do as well. Fire A Florida will
- 2:19Speaker 3: return next week when Rod is in town. Right now,
- 2:22Speaker 3: we want to focus on the fact that this guy
- 2:24Speaker 3: here is in a place where a lot of Canadians
- 2:27Speaker 3: would like to be out there version of the Super Bowl.
- 2:30Speaker 3: Rod has an incredible history, one hundred and eleven years worth.
- 2:33Speaker 3: I think the only universitalm they had was in what
- 2:35Speaker 3: COVID nineteen where there's a little bit of a hiccup there.
- 2:37Speaker 3: So let's talk about the history of the Great Cup.
- 2:40Speaker 3: Nobody knows that, probably better than you.
- 2:42Speaker 4: Well, it's funny because you mentioned the BC Lions that
- 2:45Speaker 4: would be your team in mind, the Saskatchewan rough Riders.
- 2:47Speaker 4: Neither one is in the Great Cup.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Scott.
- 2:49Speaker 4: It's going to be played Sunday, as you mentioned, it's
- 2:51Speaker 4: sixty thousand seed BC Place Stadium and it's the Toronto Argonauts,
- 2:56Speaker 4: North America's oldest professional franchise, who have won the most
- 3:00Speaker 4: Great Cups of anybody against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers here
- 3:04Speaker 4: on Sunday. And I was at Super Bowl last year
- 3:06Speaker 4: in Las Vegas. Now I'm at Canada super Bowl in Vancouver,
- 3:10Speaker 4: and there's a very large super Bowl feel to what
- 3:13Speaker 4: they're doing here. The trade shows, I assume you've been
- 3:16Speaker 4: to Super Bowls Radio Row. I've been broadcasting from Radio Row.
- 3:20Speaker 4: All the alumni is here, it's the nation's football fans
- 3:23Speaker 4: are here. They call it Canada's most iconic sporting event annually.
- 3:28Speaker 4: So there's no place I'd rather be This week.
- 3:31Speaker 3: I'm in the four Super Bowl. I know. It's all
- 3:32Speaker 3: about my goodness. I'm telling you the Detroit Lions. Actually
- 3:36Speaker 3: one of my best friends, Bill Keenez, was the reason
- 3:37Speaker 3: why I got to him. And as you look at
- 3:39Speaker 3: lessons from the microphone, which we're going to talk about
- 3:41Speaker 3: later in the show, Ron, it'll detail my trail to
- 3:44Speaker 3: get to the Super Bowl as well. Yeah, I can
- 3:46Speaker 3: imagine exactly the tradition this, I mean a hummer in
- 3:50Speaker 3: eleven years. It's my goodness, that's a lot. But the
- 3:52Speaker 3: fact of the matter is is the Canadian Football League
- 3:55Speaker 3: is alive and well we can sit here and talk
- 3:57Speaker 3: about the fact that they produced so many great players.
- 3:59Speaker 3: Don't have time for that for this particular type of
- 4:02Speaker 3: show tonight, but you know, we'll get into that one
- 4:04Speaker 3: of these days when the opportunity presents it. So as
- 4:06Speaker 3: we look at the the actual Gray Cup itself, he
- 4:11Speaker 3: just mentioned the Winniplaces Blue Bombers are facing the Toronto Organize.
- 4:14Speaker 3: And by the way, that game is at six thirty
- 4:17Speaker 3: pm on the CBS Sports Network, so it will be
- 4:19Speaker 3: televised here in the States. Winnipeg defeet of the Saskatchewan
- 4:22Speaker 3: rough Riders thirty eight, twenty two, so they're heading back
- 4:25Speaker 3: for the fifth straight season twenty ninth overall, this's the
- 4:28Speaker 3: eighth matchup between the two squads, second since nineteen fifty.
- 4:31Speaker 3: So let's talk about the media coverage and radio row. Yes, Rod,
- 4:35Speaker 3: I do my homework on this stuff. I'm not going
- 4:37Speaker 3: to walk in here unprepared looking like a you know,
- 4:39Speaker 3: boninga stamol ad. So I don't care if I'm north
- 4:43Speaker 3: of the border, south of the border, wherever you put.
- 4:45Speaker 3: I do research and I take that very very I
- 4:48Speaker 3: take a lot of pride in doing that. So go ahead, Frod.
- 4:51Speaker 4: What media coverage? Radio roll?
- 4:55Speaker 3: Yeah, covers row? How how many credential requests? You said, oh,
- 5:00Speaker 3: so what's the super Bowl?
- 5:02Speaker 4: What is? Do Do you have any idea how many
- 5:03Speaker 4: for the Super Bowl?
- 5:05Speaker 3: I don't know a lot.
- 5:08Speaker 4: I know that wouldn't be any is it?
- 5:12Speaker 5: Is it?
- 5:12Speaker 4: Literally thousands? I think you're right, I actually think that
- 5:14Speaker 4: it is. It's not that. I mean I was at
- 5:17Speaker 4: a party last night, a media party. They do it
- 5:19Speaker 4: every Wednesday of the Great Cup week, and there was
- 5:22Speaker 4: you know, it was a pack room. I want to
- 5:24Speaker 4: say maybe a couple hundred, but I mean all the
- 5:26Speaker 4: national television stations are here, not just the sports networks,
- 5:29Speaker 4: but the national TV networks are here. Radio coverage, it's
- 5:33Speaker 4: the usual, you know what it is, and it would
- 5:35Speaker 4: be almost insulting for a CFL to hear this. But
- 5:39Speaker 4: it's a mini Gray Cup. What you know, when you
- 5:42Speaker 4: look at the crowd and this, you know, sixty thousands
- 5:44Speaker 4: nothing to sneeze at at BC Placed on Sunday. It's
- 5:46Speaker 4: a big crowd for that. But the media has been
- 5:48Speaker 4: hurt considerably in Canada. It's not like it used to be.
- 5:51Speaker 4: It to be honest, there's probably a time in history
- 5:54Speaker 4: that the Super Bowl and the Gray Cup were on
- 5:56Speaker 4: par They're just not anymore. The NFL is, you know,
- 6:00Speaker 4: the number one sports brand in the world, so it's
- 6:04Speaker 4: a big deal. I've been to about twenty two of these.
- 6:06Speaker 4: This is probably my fourth in Vancouver. It's a beautiful city.
- 6:10Speaker 4: If it wasn't dark out, I would have turned my
- 6:12Speaker 4: camera run and it's just absolutely gorgeous. It's David Letterman's
- 6:15Speaker 4: He says the most beautiful city in the world, and
- 6:17Speaker 4: I believe that. And it's an iconic Canadian Football League city.
- 6:22Speaker 4: You know, there's the players that are coming through here,
- 6:24Speaker 4: Cameron Wake the Dolphins fans watching right now, he's the
- 6:27Speaker 4: one everybody talks about with notable alum that have gone
- 6:30Speaker 4: on to g in the NFL.
- 6:32Speaker 3: Yeah. I've been to Vancouver once before omte. I look
- 6:34Speaker 3: for it to take my wife there. Sanley Park was
- 6:36Speaker 3: an unbelievable place. I saw Chinatown and I've been through
- 6:39Speaker 3: a lot of the major areas and I actually saw
- 6:41Speaker 3: a Canucks game I believe it was Calgary Orf, the
- 6:44Speaker 3: old Pacific Coliseum and met Dave Hodge over there. It
- 6:47Speaker 3: was unbelievable. Dave and I talked for a while and
- 6:49Speaker 3: I had an opportunity. So yeah, don I think the
- 6:51Speaker 3: only thing wrong with Vancouver is just on the West
- 6:54Speaker 3: coast because it's the best secret in North America and
- 6:57Speaker 3: nobody to really get to was really what it is.
- 6:59Speaker 3: Sanley Park is unbelievable. I just really gravitated. I look
- 7:03Speaker 3: forward to getting her up there. It's just unbelievable. Joshua
- 7:06Speaker 3: dore evenuely seems to have Endora said, Stanley Cup, Stanley
- 7:08Speaker 3: Park is nice and Granville Market is cool too. Yeah,
- 7:11Speaker 3: I don't know much about that, but the guy doing
- 7:13Speaker 3: his homework one way or the other. But those are interesting, noble.
- 7:16Speaker 3: But yeah, Vancouver's one of the most beautiful cities. And
- 7:18Speaker 3: I love Toronto. I mean, what can I say, We
- 7:20Speaker 3: both go out. That's also on these coats, But Vancouver
- 7:23Speaker 3: is I think the best kept secret in Canada.
- 7:26Speaker 4: Joshua was watching my show today, by the way, so
- 7:28Speaker 4: he got a feel for what's going on here. My
- 7:31Speaker 4: show got crashed by the BC Lions cheerleaders. They came
- 7:34Speaker 4: in in the middle of our show and did a
- 7:36Speaker 4: cheer for the BC Lions. And it's funny, you know. It's,
- 7:39Speaker 4: I guess similar to the Super Bowl. If you're if
- 7:41Speaker 4: you're the host team, which the BC Lions are, but
- 7:44Speaker 4: you're not in it, you don't have a whole lot
- 7:47Speaker 4: to do. So today we had the VC Lions president,
- 7:49Speaker 4: we had their broadcaster, we had their cheerleaders, all of
- 7:51Speaker 4: them on Toronto Argunauts of Winnipeg Bluebarmers are busy now
- 7:55Speaker 4: you and I ran into Danny McManus at FAU. What
- 7:59Speaker 4: was that two fridays ago. Oh, he's the assistant Joe
- 8:01Speaker 4: manager of the Winnipeg Blue Armers. You might have heard
- 8:03Speaker 4: the conversation Danny Florida State Seminoles great. I said, are
- 8:06Speaker 4: you're going to be a great Cup? And he goes,
- 8:07Speaker 4: only my team's in it? Lo and behold they are.
- 8:11Speaker 4: And Danny mcmadis is one of those guys. But I
- 8:13Speaker 4: try to get him on my show. He's a great
- 8:15Speaker 4: Cup champion, Canadian Football League Hall of Famer. He's like,
- 8:18Speaker 4: I can't. We're busy, man, they are. It's go, go,
- 8:20Speaker 4: go for the teams and their staff that are in it.
- 8:23Speaker 3: Well, Danny mcmaernison I have in the communication. I remember
- 8:26Speaker 3: seeing him play at South Robard High School back in
- 8:28Speaker 3: South Florida back in the eighties and we hit it off. Well.
- 8:31Speaker 3: He's My goal is to get him a part of
- 8:33Speaker 3: the South Florida Tribute Broadcasting Network platform. There's a couple
- 8:36Speaker 3: of ways ago. I'll probably bring him on the MotorCity
- 8:38Speaker 3: of mad Moth to do a one on one first,
- 8:40Speaker 3: and then I have a great show called Inside the
- 8:41Speaker 3: Pigskin and Danny and I have already talked about it
- 8:44Speaker 3: right now. Obviously, the Great Cup is what he's taking
- 8:46Speaker 3: care of firsthand. So all right, Ron, I want you
- 8:48Speaker 3: to size up this matchup. You know, you certainly know
- 8:51Speaker 3: about the Argos and the Blue Bombers. What can you
- 8:54Speaker 3: tell us about the game.
- 8:55Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you what I think. What I'm about
- 8:57Speaker 4: to tell you might convince people to watch it if
- 9:00Speaker 4: they weren't going to. Here's the story. Jim Kelly's nephew,
- 9:05Speaker 4: Chad Kelly was the quarterback of the Toronto Argonauts and
- 9:08Speaker 4: led them well, not all year. He was suspended for
- 9:10Speaker 4: the first half of the season, which we won't get into,
- 9:13Speaker 4: but led them to a victory last week over Montreal
- 9:16Speaker 4: in the Eastern Final. Broke his ankle in the third quarter.
- 9:20Speaker 4: He didn't even make the trip, so he got it.
- 9:24Speaker 4: Representing the Eastern Conference. The Toronto Argonauts without their starting
- 9:27Speaker 4: quarterback Jim Kelly's nephew Chad Kelly, so they have a
- 9:31Speaker 4: backup Nick Arbuckles starting Winnipeg Blue Bombers. You skimmed over
- 9:35Speaker 4: this in MotorCity, mad mouth style. Fifth consecutive appearance, Scott,
- 9:40Speaker 4: think about that. For a second. Five great cups in
- 9:42Speaker 4: a row. You said it. I was listening. That's a lot.
- 9:45Speaker 4: And the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are favored by ten and
- 9:47Speaker 4: a half in the game. I was talking to a
- 9:50Speaker 4: Florida football guy who saw the line this week, and
- 9:53Speaker 4: he goes ten and a half points Winnipeg's favorite. Don't
- 9:54Speaker 4: they want anybody to watch the game. It's a wopping
- 9:58Speaker 4: points spread. Because Toronto I was playing their backup quarterback.
- 10:01Speaker 4: I hope it's not a rut, but that's kind of
- 10:04Speaker 4: what people are leaning towards. Just imagine any team having
- 10:07Speaker 4: to start their second third string quarterback actually in a
- 10:10Speaker 4: championship game. So that's the storyline there. Jim Kelly's nephew
- 10:13Speaker 4: not playing because of injury despite getting his team here.
- 10:16Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you a story. Rod Okay, many
- 10:18Speaker 3: years ago, when I was coming to Miami Hurricanes but
- 10:21Speaker 3: Jim was down here. I actually wrote a story on
- 10:23Speaker 3: him when he was a Hypen Trophy candidate. Couldn't do
- 10:25Speaker 3: it in personal Jim was kind enough that Sports Information
- 10:28Speaker 3: department to go ahead and give me the time. He
- 10:30Speaker 3: was really great, and film ron Steiner, the late ron Steiner,
- 10:33Speaker 3: handled it for me over at the University of Miami. Josh,
- 10:36Speaker 3: I don't think the Chad has muted. I don't know
- 10:38Speaker 3: there's something wrong with your computer. But a couple of
- 10:40Speaker 3: the comments that we've gone out there have been read.
- 10:42Speaker 3: So hang in there a little bit, you know, and
- 10:44Speaker 3: if you obviously go out there and have a chance
- 10:48Speaker 3: to re listen to it, you'll understand what I'm saying.
- 10:49Speaker 3: But yeah, Jim Kelly was unbelievable. He's iconic in Buffalo
- 10:52Speaker 3: as well. Chad Kelly has obviously made a life for
- 10:55Speaker 3: himself in the Canadian Football League. Has a lot of
- 10:57Speaker 3: guys do if they're not able to make the NFL.
- 11:00Speaker 3: But I'm glad you're right you brought it up and fine.
- 11:03Speaker 3: To get to the championship game in any places really
- 11:06Speaker 3: is an incredible accomplishment, regardless of what leave you at
- 11:09Speaker 3: your end. All right, let's go ahead talk a little
- 11:10Speaker 3: bit of hockey. Then we're going to come back to
- 11:13Speaker 3: the Canadian Football League. The Leaf versus Senators will feature
- 11:17Speaker 3: Kenzie Lalan as the first female play by play announcer
- 11:21Speaker 3: on TSN NHL broadcast. She'll join Gordon Miller and Matt
- 11:24Speaker 3: Cullen in play by play duty for the Ottawa Games
- 11:29Speaker 3: on TSN this season. What are your thoughts about this?
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- 12:33Speaker 4: Yeah, Kenzie, you know I've been spending a lot of
- 12:36Speaker 4: time in Canada the last two years. Kenzie is short
- 12:39Speaker 4: for McKenzie. She's a recent broadcast school graduate. She does
- 12:42Speaker 4: a lot of she does a lot of great work
- 12:44Speaker 4: for TSM. She does sidelines for the CFL broadcast. I said,
- 12:48Speaker 4: believe she's done play by play for international hockey tournaments
- 12:51Speaker 4: and also the Professional Women's Hockey League and made her
- 12:54Speaker 4: NHL debut. Was it last night? Yeah? Wednesday night? Yeah,
- 12:58Speaker 4: she made her debut in the NHL. She's young, Eastern
- 13:01Speaker 4: Canadian gal and I think it's great for she does
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- 13:06Speaker 3: Okay, Rod has Joshua has a really really good question
- 13:10Speaker 3: and he wants to hear your thoughts about the talks
- 13:12Speaker 3: regarding the draft age increasing. This is really good. I'm
- 13:16Speaker 3: always be in the trigued by this question. Thanks drafted question.
- 13:20Speaker 4: Well, this the first I heard of that. But it's
- 13:23Speaker 4: funny he brings that up because on the way out here,
- 13:25Speaker 4: I was reading Doug McLean's book, the former Panthers coach,
- 13:28Speaker 4: called Draft Day, where he goes into deep history of
- 13:32Speaker 4: the NHL draft, going back to I believe nineteen sixty
- 13:34Speaker 4: three and all the changes in it. To be honest,
- 13:37Speaker 4: the talk of increasing the draft age isn't new. They've
- 13:42Speaker 4: been talking about it for decades, and for whatever reason,
- 13:44Speaker 4: they never do. It's similar Scott to them complaining about
- 13:48Speaker 4: the no state income tax in Florida and how that's
- 13:51Speaker 4: an unfair advantage for the NHL team. Everybody was bitching
- 13:53Speaker 4: about that for a while because the Panthers are lightning,
- 13:56Speaker 4: but in the last five streak they didn't change that
- 13:58Speaker 4: either or compensate for that. I would be shocked if
- 14:02Speaker 4: they raised the draft age. I'm in favor of it.
- 14:04Speaker 4: I think I've told you that my dad was a
- 14:06Speaker 4: scout in the NHL for twenty six years. All it is,
- 14:09Speaker 4: when you're drafting seventeen year olds, it's very difficult to
- 14:13Speaker 4: see how they'll turn out. One more year, two more
- 14:16Speaker 4: years gives you a much greater indication of the type
- 14:19Speaker 4: of player you're drafting, and I would think that's the
- 14:21Speaker 4: only reason why they're doing it. Although let's not forget
- 14:24Speaker 4: NCAA just changed their eligibility rules to allow for major
- 14:30Speaker 4: junior Canadian players to be eligible for college hockey, which
- 14:33Speaker 4: means the players coming out of college are going to
- 14:35Speaker 4: be well the same age, but more draft eligible. They'll
- 14:38Speaker 4: be older draft ready. I should say so. I'd be
- 14:41Speaker 4: shocked if they do it. It's been talked about for
- 14:44Speaker 4: a long time.
- 14:45Speaker 3: You know what, ron I heard that too earlier in
- 14:47Speaker 3: the week. I think anytime you can go ahead and
- 14:49Speaker 3: send a kid to college and the coaching is a
- 14:51Speaker 3: lot different than it might be some of those other levels,
- 14:54Speaker 3: there's no doubt. Now that's a great point too, because
- 14:56Speaker 3: here's the thing. What you have in baseball, Rod, is
- 15:00Speaker 3: that you have kids drafted out of high school. If
- 15:02Speaker 3: they go to college, they have to fulfill two years
- 15:05Speaker 3: before they're able to be draft eligible. I think two
- 15:07Speaker 3: or three years. So I can see where there's a
- 15:09Speaker 3: lot of parallels between the two situations. Again, Joshua, I'm
- 15:13Speaker 3: glad you brought it up. This is always a question
- 15:15Speaker 3: that comes up when it comes to the draft, and
- 15:17Speaker 3: this one really is timely for what we're looking to do.
- 15:19Speaker 3: All right, So here, let's talk about the Hall of Fame,
- 15:22Speaker 3: where a lot of these draft guys hopefully get to.
- 15:24Speaker 3: So talks about Pavelo dot enter into twenty twenty four
- 15:27Speaker 3: Hockey Hall of Fame. He played the nine hundred fifty
- 15:29Speaker 3: three game and scored nine hundred and eighteen points.
- 15:32Speaker 4: Well, I should tell you. But you know in Doug
- 15:34Speaker 4: McLean's book, and you probably remember because you know a
- 15:37Speaker 4: lot of stuff.
- 15:37Speaker 3: Scott.
- 15:38Speaker 4: Doug mclin was an assistant coach with the Red Wings
- 15:41Speaker 4: just as they were getting going. Jimmy Develano here is
- 15:44Speaker 4: that kind of thing. But he saw that the building
- 15:47Speaker 4: blocks being put in place. That was long before Padol
- 15:50Speaker 4: Datsik's time. But when you look at those four Stanley
- 15:52Speaker 4: Cup champions Red Wing teams, every one of them was
- 15:56Speaker 4: the eventual Hall of Famer. Look at all the Cups
- 15:58Speaker 4: that they won that soon. Zetterberg, you mentioned Federoff. He's
- 16:03Speaker 4: not in right, but.
- 16:04Speaker 3: I mean it's it's like I believe he is there
- 16:07Speaker 3: not to retire Detroit.
- 16:08Speaker 4: Okay, Well, he certainly delivered, deserves to be And so
- 16:10Speaker 4: when you ask what I think about Pavel Datsuk, he's
- 16:13Speaker 4: just one of many Detroit legends. They could all go
- 16:16Speaker 4: into the Hall of Fame. The guy that stole the
- 16:19Speaker 4: show Monday night, if you watched any coverage, you be
- 16:22Speaker 4: shocked if you would have missed it was Jeremy Ronnick,
- 16:25Speaker 4: third highest scoring US player of all time. His speech
- 16:29Speaker 4: stunned the crowd. It was a pretty good class and
- 16:33Speaker 4: headlined by Datsuk and Ronick. It's just I have a
- 16:36Speaker 4: personal not a grudge, but I don't follow the Hall
- 16:40Speaker 4: of Fame as much because of the snub of tharn Fleury.
- 16:42Speaker 4: I think we've talked about it on this show very close,
- 16:44Speaker 4: dear friend of mine, until he goes in, I don't
- 16:48Speaker 4: even follow it that closely. But what's funny is a
- 16:50Speaker 4: representative of the Hockey Hall of Fame is coming down
- 16:52Speaker 4: to my show tomorrow just to watch live. He's in
- 16:55Speaker 4: from Toronto. He's an Argonauts fan, he's with the Hall
- 16:57Speaker 4: of Fame. He knows my beef the Hall of Fame.
- 17:00Speaker 4: But you asked me about dat suit and like, it
- 17:03Speaker 4: doesn't surprise me. All those guys on their own were
- 17:06Speaker 4: Hall of Famers. Collectively it led to four Stanley Cups.
- 17:10Speaker 4: They don't get the credit they deserve as a franchise.
- 17:12Speaker 4: They don't.
- 17:14Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing about Jeremy Ronic. So on the
- 17:17Speaker 3: MotorCity Man Mos show is on No Filter Net. He
- 17:19Speaker 3: has a show on there, so I'm actually in their
- 17:21Speaker 3: lineup in terms of shows, in terms of of the
- 17:23Speaker 3: shows I have, So it's good that Jeremy Ronic is
- 17:25Speaker 3: on there, and I actually met him, one of the
- 17:27Speaker 3: nice people you ever meet. But that's how we're going
- 17:29Speaker 3: to transition over the station. Break Candy Ily, he'll take
- 17:31Speaker 3: over and Rob and I will continue this conversation. He
- 17:33Speaker 3: is lying from Vancouver, British Columbia, the home of one
- 17:36Speaker 3: hundred and eleventh Grade Cup, which will be played on
- 17:38Speaker 3: Sunday on CBS Sports Network featuring the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- 17:42Speaker 3: and the Toronto Argonauts. And that came. And if you
- 17:45Speaker 3: want to hear our show, it can definitely. Candy will
- 17:47Speaker 3: tell you the ways to listen to it audio.
- 17:48Speaker 4: Go ahead, Candy, take it away.
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- 19:56Speaker 3: Back to you Scott, thanks you, Candy and Joshua, thanks
- 19:59Speaker 3: for mention. Some other things as well. Forty five year
- 20:03Speaker 3: anniversary coming up. Now this is not pre recorded. This
- 20:06Speaker 3: is live. This so people understand it, so you are
- 20:09Speaker 3: definitely getting it live. Wheres Brent Musfruger say you are
- 20:11Speaker 3: looking live? Well, that's the fact what we're doing here.
- 20:14Speaker 3: The fact that he's only nine million miles away is
- 20:17Speaker 3: another story. Well, well Bridge That actually also should point
- 20:21Speaker 3: out too that Rod has had me on the Rod
- 20:23Speaker 3: Peterson Show. What a great time we have doing that
- 20:25Speaker 3: when I get the opportunity looking forward to hopefully coming
- 20:27Speaker 3: on from time to time with that show. You're doing
- 20:29Speaker 3: a wonderful, wonderful job with it. So I enjoyed coming on.
- 20:35Speaker 3: The people that you attracted that show are just unbelievable
- 20:38Speaker 3: and I can't thank them enough for the way that
- 20:40Speaker 3: they've treated me. And your social media is awfully strong.
- 20:43Speaker 3: With your Instagram, someone have added me as followers and
- 20:46Speaker 3: vice versa because they obviously see that I am working
- 20:49Speaker 3: with you in the fact that we're just starting this relationship.
- 20:52Speaker 3: Rock Seriously, man, I mean, it's just such an easy
- 20:55Speaker 3: time to bring a guy like you who's done so
- 20:57Speaker 3: much in Canada. My goal here is to help you
- 20:59Speaker 3: try to build your platform down the United States. And
- 21:02Speaker 3: it's a seamless situation, the fact that we're able to
- 21:05Speaker 3: come on week in and week out and talk some
- 21:06Speaker 3: fresh material. So I have to give your FYI for
- 21:12Speaker 3: the show. Okay, who was the only American team that
- 21:15Speaker 3: won the Gray Cup?
- 21:17Speaker 4: The Baltimore Stallions.
- 21:19Speaker 3: I couldn't get you on this one. No, you're not.
- 21:23Speaker 3: I know, I know, I'll watch you off easy. I
- 21:26Speaker 3: didn't really dig hard to get you. So let me
- 21:28Speaker 3: go out there and bring the premisey FII. Obviously, the
- 21:31Speaker 3: last Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup was the
- 21:34Speaker 3: Montreal Canadians in nineteen ninety three. Nothing's happened since, and
- 21:37Speaker 3: then Florida Panthers made sure it was going to happen
- 21:39Speaker 3: this summer either when they outsied the Edmonton Oilers. But yes,
- 21:44Speaker 3: the last American team to win the Great Cup was
- 21:46Speaker 3: in the CFL was the Baltimore Stallions. They actually I
- 21:48Speaker 3: believe it had the same colors as the Baltimore Colt.
- 21:51Speaker 3: I believe it was blue and white. Is that correct?
- 21:54Speaker 4: Black, blue and white. Yeah, really really nice, really nice
- 21:59Speaker 4: gear they wore you.
- 22:01Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yeah, right, Joshua did work out this time,
- 22:04Speaker 3: because this guy is all cfl. If you've been sitting here,
- 22:07Speaker 3: I'll smart this guy. Don't hold your breath. You only
- 22:10Speaker 3: did the play by play for the Saskatchewan rough Risers
- 22:12Speaker 3: was around about twenty years. Is that all?
- 22:15Speaker 4: That's all?
- 22:15Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all. I would yearn for a job like that.
- 22:19Speaker 3: But I'm really happy with what we're doing these days.
- 22:21Speaker 3: Let's talk a little bit more hockey. As we continued,
- 22:23Speaker 3: Connor Hellibuk of the Winnipeg Jets records his fortieth career
- 22:27Speaker 3: NHL shutout. We know that we talked about the Jets
- 22:30Speaker 3: playing well. They keep setting new record fourteen fifteen games,
- 22:34Speaker 3: fifteen didn't want and all that stuff. But Connor hell
- 22:36Speaker 3: but you have to have an incredible goaltender to be
- 22:38Speaker 3: able to win that many games. Some thoughts about him, Well, I'll.
- 22:42Speaker 4: Tell you what number one. I think they're losing in
- 22:44Speaker 4: Tampa tonight, or at least they were just before we
- 22:46Speaker 4: went to air. Connor Hellibunk, you mentioned my wife, Serena.
- 22:50Speaker 4: We love each other but have diametrically opposed opinions on hockey.
- 22:55Speaker 4: I said, if you had what could only take one
- 22:57Speaker 4: goalie to start a franchise, or even one goalie to
- 22:59Speaker 4: win a game, a championship game seven, I would say,
- 23:03Speaker 4: Sir Gabribroski, She says, Connor Hellibuck. And I put that
- 23:06Speaker 4: to our viewers, and I think sixty percent, said Connor Hellibuck.
- 23:09Speaker 4: I think part of it is because most of our
- 23:11Speaker 4: viewers are Canadian. Any place for the Winnipeg Jets. But
- 23:13Speaker 4: here's the thing, Scott, those two will oppose each other
- 23:16Speaker 4: Saturday night at Amrion Bank Arena when the Winnipeg Jets
- 23:19Speaker 4: come to town. Connor Hellibuck versus Sir Gabrabroski a potential
- 23:24Speaker 4: I think Stanley Cup Final preview is a wonderful column
- 23:27Speaker 4: about it in the South Florida Tribune this week. I'm
- 23:29Speaker 4: not sure if you're aware. So Hellabuck, I'm joking everything
- 23:34Speaker 4: about sensational. He's American. He will be the USA's goalie
- 23:39Speaker 4: in this February's Four Nations face off I'm pretty sure
- 23:41Speaker 4: Canada doesn't even know who their goalie is going to
- 23:43Speaker 4: be yet. But the only thing about him, it's a
- 23:46Speaker 4: little like your buddy Connor McDavid.
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- 24:47Speaker 4: Hasn't won a championship. At least McDavid's got to a
- 24:51Speaker 4: Stanley Cup final. Hellabuck has struggled to get out of
- 24:54Speaker 4: the first round. We'll see if that changes this year
- 24:57Speaker 4: or not. It's not his fault, but he tends to
- 24:58Speaker 4: blow up in the playoffs. So but right now he's
- 25:01Speaker 4: the Ragning First Star of the Week in the NHL.
- 25:03Speaker 4: He's all that.
- 25:05Speaker 3: They talked about the Hall of Fame in Dune's earlier
- 25:07Speaker 3: Shaye Webber is another guy that got in. Yeh, he
- 25:10Speaker 3: certainly deserved it as well. You had a pretty good class.
- 25:12Speaker 3: And you think it's the three main ones when you
- 25:14Speaker 3: have Jeremy Rona, Shaye Weber and Pivo Datzi, that's a
- 25:17Speaker 3: pretty impressive class.
- 25:19Speaker 4: Colin Campbell from the league office as well in the
- 25:21Speaker 4: builder category. And I'm trying to remember who else it's. Hey,
- 25:25Speaker 4: it's the Hockey Hall of Fame. It's always going to
- 25:28Speaker 4: be a good class in my opinion.
- 25:29Speaker 3: Yeah, the only time I was ever at the Hockey
- 25:31Speaker 3: Hall of Fame was when they held an exhibition place,
- 25:35Speaker 3: and I was actually at a Blue Jays game over
- 25:36Speaker 3: an exhibition stadium. I haven't been a new one. Downtown
- 25:39Speaker 3: broke by it when I was there earlier this year
- 25:42Speaker 3: when I saw the Blue Jays and I caught up
- 25:43Speaker 3: with my buddy Don manningly you know, and I say
- 25:46Speaker 3: my friend Don Manning because he is a really good
- 25:48Speaker 3: friend of mine, But you know, I mean, it's just
- 25:50Speaker 3: one of those things where they have a pretty good
- 25:52Speaker 3: class and I love the way the fact that they
- 25:54Speaker 3: had the Red Wings in the Toronto Maple He's playing
- 25:56Speaker 3: that weekend. You had two original six teams, you know,
- 25:59Speaker 3: for that whole the Fame weekend, and they were able
- 26:01Speaker 3: to introduce them. I don't think of that a much
- 26:02Speaker 3: better matchup that particular weekend as a prelude to what
- 26:07Speaker 3: you would have subsequently see on Monday night with the
- 26:10Speaker 3: induction ceremony per se.
- 26:12Speaker 4: Yeah, they really do it right, they really do. The
- 26:15Speaker 4: Leafs have had their struggles and up and down, but
- 26:17Speaker 4: they always seem to play well with Hall of Fame
- 26:19Speaker 4: week when they're hosting the National Hockey League. So that's
- 26:21Speaker 4: been a good week.
- 26:23Speaker 3: Let me tell you, if I have an opportunity to
- 26:24Speaker 3: cover the Gray Cup, and I know that's one on
- 26:27Speaker 3: my bucket lists, ron if can I pull that off,
- 26:30Speaker 3: I have been to the Super Bowl, the United States
- 26:32Speaker 3: Football League, and if I pull the Gray Cup, I
- 26:35Speaker 3: will have been to every single pro championship game out there.
- 26:40Speaker 3: So that's the thing that you and I have to
- 26:41Speaker 3: look forward to getting out there. And what I want
- 26:44Speaker 3: you to do is, I segue to this final topic
- 26:47Speaker 3: is when you talk to Randy and Broisey. I don't
- 26:49Speaker 3: know if you're going to see him or not. I
- 26:50Speaker 3: want you to go ahead and ask him about Frank Lodoto, Okay,
- 26:56Speaker 3: And Frank was one of my good friends here. Tried
- 26:58Speaker 3: to get me to interview Randy and I don't know
- 27:00Speaker 3: if he had his number or not, but Frank recently
- 27:03Speaker 3: died said his nineties anyway, but Frank was a good
- 27:05Speaker 3: guy that I actually met over at Lockhart Stadium when
- 27:10Speaker 3: FAU was playing there before they subsequently moved to their
- 27:12Speaker 3: on air stadium. So that segues to this CFL commissioner
- 27:16Speaker 3: at Randy and Broisey will retire from his role in
- 27:19Speaker 3: twenty twenty five after a seven year tenure. What's your
- 27:22Speaker 3: take on this. I know he had a tough battle
- 27:24Speaker 3: through COVID nineteen just to keep the keep being season alive.
- 27:29Speaker 3: So you know, I want Ron to define the tenure
- 27:32Speaker 3: of Randy and Broisey as a main man in charge
- 27:34Speaker 3: of the CFL.
- 27:36Speaker 4: He's a former player, he was an offensive lineman, in
- 27:38Speaker 4: the CFL in the late eighties and early nineties with Edmonton,
- 27:42Speaker 4: Winnipeg and Calgary. He's from Winnipeg. He played with Edminton
- 27:46Speaker 4: and Calgary and the Argos. I like Randy, I know
- 27:49Speaker 4: him personally. You asked if I'm going to see him.
- 27:50Speaker 4: Here's the thing about the Great Cup. It's a little
- 27:53Speaker 4: different than the Super Bowl in that there's a very
- 27:55Speaker 4: good chance when we hit the streets tonight, I'll bump
- 27:57Speaker 4: into him. The commissioner is a guy that'll be just
- 27:59Speaker 4: being walked down the street, you know, and always happy
- 28:01Speaker 4: to chat with fans and that kind of thing. But
- 28:03Speaker 4: I've written columns on this since it was announced. This
- 28:06Speaker 4: will be Ambrosi's last Great Cup. He'll be handing out
- 28:08Speaker 4: the trophy for the final time of his career on Sunday.
- 28:12Speaker 4: It's murky. It's a murky history. They were the only
- 28:16Speaker 4: what I would call major professional pro league not to
- 28:18Speaker 4: play in COVID. They scrapped the twenty twenty season and
- 28:22Speaker 4: that caused a lot of problems for a lot of people.
- 28:25Speaker 4: He tried a global experiment, they called it CFL two
- 28:29Speaker 4: point oh, where they tried to bring in players from
- 28:31Speaker 4: around the world they weren't good enough Scott. All they
- 28:34Speaker 4: ended up using were hunters and kickers. No position players
- 28:38Speaker 4: were good enough to play. It was a flop. It
- 28:40Speaker 4: was an absolute flop. On Tuesday this week, he held
- 28:43Speaker 4: his last ever State of the League address. He does
- 28:45Speaker 4: it every week of Gray Cup, and they asked if
- 28:48Speaker 4: he had regrets about this CFL two point zero Global
- 28:51Speaker 4: Experiment experiment. He said absolutely none. Well you should because
- 28:55Speaker 4: they scrapped it. So they didn't expand they wanted to.
- 29:00Speaker 4: They flirted with Halifax Nova Scotia as a tenth team.
- 29:03Speaker 4: It never happened, and the reason he won't be back
- 29:07Speaker 4: next year is he failed to increase league revenues for
- 29:11Speaker 4: the teams and so they wanted to change. So what
- 29:16Speaker 4: he did his legacy, which I think he'd like it
- 29:19Speaker 4: to be expansion, but that never happened. They've got stable ownership.
- 29:22Speaker 4: He oversaw the transfer of three franchises in the last
- 29:26Speaker 4: few seasons, the BC Lions, Montreal Aloettes, and Edmonton Elks.
- 29:30Speaker 4: It's on solid financial footing, but he didn't increase revenues,
- 29:33Speaker 4: didn't expand, so it's a murky history. He's a good guy.
- 29:37Speaker 4: He's a good guy, but they're looking for a new commissioner.
- 29:40Speaker 4: The interesting thing is, doesn't sound like they have any
- 29:42Speaker 4: idea who that will be. And that's a big topic
- 29:45Speaker 4: here a Great Cup week. Who will be the next
- 29:46Speaker 4: commissioner of the CFL.
- 29:48Speaker 3: Well, you know we have the same thing in the
- 29:50Speaker 3: United States, obviously, the commissioner say of the league address.
- 29:52Speaker 3: When I've been to all of those and those are
- 29:54Speaker 3: one of my favorite events that go to when I
- 29:55Speaker 3: go to a Super Bowl is I always make it
- 29:57Speaker 3: a point to go to that. It's just unbelievable. Gosh,
- 30:00Speaker 3: or says Ron, did you see the NHL Diddy Cup,
- 30:04Speaker 3: the Witch, the Diddy Cup, the Idby Cup.
- 30:08Speaker 4: Sorry, no, I don't know what it.
- 30:10Speaker 3: Is, but he put it out there. You'd make a
- 30:12Speaker 3: good question. So I don't know, said they answered, no, Ron,
- 30:16Speaker 3: I mean Joshua. So you know when we talk about
- 30:20Speaker 3: wasn't there a time when the XFL and the CFL
- 30:23Speaker 3: flirted about the possibility of joining forces.
- 30:27Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, well that was in the spring of twenty
- 30:29Speaker 4: twenty when they were flirting with the idea of canceling
- 30:32Speaker 4: the season. Listen, you say, stead, who's the only American
- 30:37Speaker 4: team to win the Great Cup? It was the Baltimore
- 30:39Speaker 4: Steins in nineteen ninety five. To me, one of the
- 30:41Speaker 4: greatest eras of CFL football when we had all these
- 30:43Speaker 4: US franchises San Antonio, Sacramento, Shreveport, Memphis, Baltimore. I loved it,
- 30:50Speaker 4: and for whatever reason, a lot of the fans didn't
- 30:52Speaker 4: and a lot of the league forefathers didn't like that
- 30:54Speaker 4: era of CFL football. So I'm a promoting proponent of expansion,
- 30:59Speaker 4: as are you to expand what you do with the
- 31:01Speaker 4: South Florida Tribune. I'm trying to expland expand what I
- 31:03Speaker 4: do in Florida. So I was a fan of that.
- 31:06Speaker 4: It was Ambrosi in the spring of twenty twenty who
- 31:10Speaker 4: came out and said, we're talking about talking There was
- 31:13Speaker 4: this quote, we're talking about talking with the Rock and
- 31:16Speaker 4: the XFL. He didn't say if they were talking about collaborating, merging,
- 31:22Speaker 4: and it never went anywhere. And to be honest, if
- 31:25Speaker 4: I had a chance, and maybe I will this week,
- 31:27Speaker 4: just to get them and pull them aside and ask
- 31:29Speaker 4: him one private question, it will be were you serious
- 31:32Speaker 4: or was that just a distraction to get us that
- 31:35Speaker 4: will follow the CFL at the time, it is one
- 31:37Speaker 4: of the major things that I talked about on my show,
- 31:40Speaker 4: a distraction away from canceling the season and the disaster
- 31:43Speaker 4: you were dealing with, because in the end, they did
- 31:45Speaker 4: cancel the season, and from what I understand, that's a
- 31:47Speaker 4: big reason why they're looking for a new commissioner.
- 31:51Speaker 3: Now. I know there's been talk in the past that
- 31:54Speaker 3: I've read. Okay, maybe you could clarify this a little bit,
- 31:57Speaker 3: but what about the Emeritimes. Is that one area that
- 32:00Speaker 3: was under consideration for an expansion team. I know you
- 32:02Speaker 3: have nine teams in the CFL, correct, and they certainly
- 32:05Speaker 3: like to even and out of town, but a Maritimes
- 32:08Speaker 3: is something. How about clarifying whether that's a possibility or what.
- 32:11Speaker 4: It's not now, but they get You could google Randy
- 32:16Speaker 4: and Brosi Halifax and see what comes up doing news search.
- 32:19Speaker 4: They tried so hard to get a team there, and
- 32:22Speaker 4: I think that was what Randy would have liked to
- 32:24Speaker 4: have been his as his legacy, was expansion into the Maritimes.
- 32:27Speaker 4: It never happened. They've been talking about it for fifty
- 32:30Speaker 4: years and it's never happened. The problem was they don't
- 32:33Speaker 4: have an adequate pro football stadium there. They don't have it.
- 32:35Speaker 4: There's three Canadian universities around there. They're playing smaller stadiums,
- 32:39Speaker 4: but none are pro caliber. And it didn't happen. And basically,
- 32:43Speaker 4: the CFL wants Halifax. The Halifax never wanted the CFL
- 32:48Speaker 4: and that's why we sit here today and the expansion
- 32:50Speaker 4: didn't happen.
- 32:52Speaker 3: So who's hosting the Great Cup next year?
- 32:54Speaker 4: It's in Winnipeg next year and in Calgary the year after.
- 32:57Speaker 4: They just announced that last week.
- 33:00Speaker 3: Big events they generally do to announces, thanks for what
- 33:02Speaker 3: they're going to do that? Yeah, nice show today here. Obviously.
- 33:05Speaker 3: Ron Peterson is live from Vancouver, British Columbia. He will
- 33:09Speaker 3: be over at the game featuring in the Winnipeg Blue
- 33:11Speaker 3: Bombers and the Toronto Argonauts. I gotta ask you question,
- 33:16Speaker 3: what is an argonaut?
- 33:18Speaker 4: It's well, their nickname is the boatman. It's funny you
- 33:22Speaker 4: say that, because I was thinking that this week and
- 33:24Speaker 4: I meant to look it up. It is they have
- 33:28Speaker 4: the nickname of the boatman. The scullers like rowing. I
- 33:31Speaker 4: guess that's a rowing thing. So I guess an argonaut
- 33:34Speaker 4: is a shipman. How about that? Their logo is a
- 33:36Speaker 4: boat so that would be Mike, did you ask that
- 33:39Speaker 4: or did Joshua? No?
- 33:41Speaker 3: I actually asked that one myself. But Joshua's got a question.
- 33:43Speaker 3: He said, what color is a great cup?
- 33:45Speaker 4: The one, Joshua, And you know what it is? It's silver.
- 33:49Speaker 3: Okay, there you go, josh What do you do double
- 33:51Speaker 3: dip on the show and the fact that you wanted
- 33:53Speaker 3: it twice? If you do, josh it's okay.
- 33:56Speaker 4: We need people like that.
- 33:57Speaker 3: Yeah. No, hey, listen, I'm telling one thing about this guy.
- 34:00Speaker 3: I don't know any about football, but he's he's been
- 34:02Speaker 3: a trooper sticking it out here on this show, knowing
- 34:04Speaker 3: that he expected fire of Florida with more Panthers topics.
- 34:07Speaker 3: But every now and then, Joshua, the rule of journalism
- 34:09Speaker 3: is you have to seize the moment when there's a
- 34:11Speaker 3: big event and be able to capitalize it and drink
- 34:14Speaker 3: a little bit of hockey. And that's exactly what the
- 34:16Speaker 3: whole idea. I like, what George Floris say? Go ahead,
- 34:19Speaker 3: you know what did George say? What did George say?
- 34:21Speaker 3: He says, argonaut is from Greek mythology.
- 34:25Speaker 4: And first sign out? Okay, Candy found it. What is it?
- 34:31Speaker 8: It's a band of heroes who sailed with Jason and
- 34:35Speaker 8: the ship Argo to retrieve the Golden Fleece. The name
- 34:40Speaker 8: comes from the ship's name, which was named after its builder, Argus.
- 34:46Speaker 4: I bet you most Argonaut fans wouldn't know the answer
- 34:49Speaker 4: to that. If I make candy, how did you find that?
- 34:51Speaker 3: I googled it?
- 34:54Speaker 4: Well, the fans, you would hope, would know that. But
- 34:57Speaker 4: I want to say this. Joshua was at the Panthers
- 35:00Speaker 4: last week that I was at. Who are they playing? Joshua? Philadelphia?
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- 37:03Speaker 4: And he sent a photo of the press box. Swen
- 37:06Speaker 4: and I were in the press box and he had
- 37:08Speaker 4: asked if I recalled to get together, but I had
- 37:10Speaker 4: just gone down the intermission before to meet a bunch
- 37:13Speaker 4: of fans in South Florida Tribune readers, and I couldn't
- 37:15Speaker 4: leave the press box again. But Joshua was at the game,
- 37:18Speaker 4: so we will hook up here before the season's over.
- 37:21Speaker 3: Hey, I've given him an open invite to come on
- 37:23Speaker 3: our show, Player of Florida at anytime Joshua wants to
- 37:26Speaker 3: come on that show, He's more than welcome to come on.
- 37:28Speaker 3: You know, his knowledge, as far as I'm concerned about
- 37:32Speaker 3: hockey is pretty good. I don't care whether the guy
- 37:34Speaker 3: is strictly a Panthers guy or not. So what you're
- 37:36Speaker 3: passionate about his team, and a little bit more information
- 37:39Speaker 3: about Joshua and his family. His dad's a passionate Flyers
- 37:43Speaker 3: fan who knows about the broad Bullets, bullies, bullies. Yeah, yeah, right, Oh,
- 37:48Speaker 3: I'll tell you that was a great era of hockey too.
- 37:50Speaker 3: I remember when I was rooting for them to beat
- 37:51Speaker 3: the Russians. But that'll be another show, you know, the
- 37:54Speaker 3: Conflict of the Life. I actually bought that VCR tape
- 37:58Speaker 3: over at the Philadelphia Spector and when I was watching
- 38:00Speaker 3: the Philadelphia seventy six ers in the Chicago Bulls over
- 38:04Speaker 3: ant the Spectrum and I bought it over the Swoons
- 38:07Speaker 3: ere need. I enjoyed watching that great participation in the
- 38:10Speaker 3: chat room day from George who Baris and Joshua and
- 38:13Speaker 3: George are both doing a wonderful job here. Blows is
- 38:16Speaker 3: actually in here. I had the Panthers winning the Cup again,
- 38:18Speaker 3: well possibility. I mean, it's early, but the fact of
- 38:21Speaker 3: the matter is that they're at the top of the division.
- 38:23Speaker 3: Is a good starter. Doesn't seem to be any sort
- 38:25Speaker 3: of letdown under Paul Maurice. I haven't talked much Panther,
- 38:28Speaker 3: but you know what, since Blows brought it up, what
- 38:30Speaker 3: are your thoughts about how the Panthers have done early
- 38:32Speaker 3: on in the campaign.
- 38:34Speaker 4: Number two team in the NHL, only behind the Winnipeg Jets,
- 38:38Speaker 4: and the two meets Saturday night at the Merrick Bank Arena.
- 38:41Speaker 4: So I don't know if they're going to win the
- 38:42Speaker 4: Stanley Cup or not, but I'll tell you what, that
- 38:44Speaker 4: game should be the best game in the NHL so
- 38:46Speaker 4: far this season, and whoever wins it, I would think
- 38:48Speaker 4: would be the Stanley Cup favorite. It's killing me that
- 38:51Speaker 4: I can't be there, but I think Saturday night here
- 38:55Speaker 4: in Vancouver, Connor Bdard and the Chicago Blackhawks come to
- 38:59Speaker 4: town the next face of the NHL. This is his
- 39:02Speaker 4: hometown and they're blowing it up. And so I'll be
- 39:05Speaker 4: in Rogers whatever they call it, Rogers Arena here in
- 39:08Speaker 4: Vancouver for that game. So that's not too bad either.
- 39:11Speaker 3: Asho says, you're going to to see Gattus there at
- 39:13Speaker 3: the end of the month when the Cans come to town.
- 39:16Speaker 3: I believe it's what the Red Wings last year, wasn't he.
- 39:19Speaker 4: Yeah, he's all over the place.
- 39:20Speaker 3: Yeah, he was around one year player. He's probably got
- 39:23Speaker 3: more lily pads than frogs too, So he says he's
- 39:27Speaker 3: going to try to say what's up to him. I
- 39:29Speaker 3: don't know, but you have a lot of role players
- 39:31Speaker 3: that move around. Sometimes teams end up turning over the
- 39:34Speaker 3: veterans that they need as a stopgap player, you know,
- 39:37Speaker 3: until the rookies come along. Josh says he went to
- 39:40Speaker 3: middle school with them. You produced players in the state
- 39:43Speaker 3: of Floor. If they keep winning that they're going to
- 39:44Speaker 3: continue to go out there and build more and more
- 39:47Speaker 3: players as you build the youth program, for sure. So
- 39:50Speaker 3: great questions and the chat very encouragels that I've seen
- 39:53Speaker 3: in Yes, Rod So all right, so I have to
- 39:55Speaker 3: ask you the big question, what is your prediction for
- 39:59Speaker 3: Sunday between the Blue Bombers and the RGOs.
- 40:04Speaker 4: Winnipeg's favorite by ten and a half. As I said,
- 40:07Speaker 4: but what we haven't talked about is their general manager
- 40:10Speaker 4: is Mike Pinball Clemens, who played at William and Mary's
- 40:13Speaker 4: from Clearwater, Florida, and I absolutely love him, adore him.
- 40:17Speaker 4: Mike Pinball Clemens, and I've learned the hard way, don't
- 40:20Speaker 4: ever bet against Penball. He runs the Toronto Argonauts. They
- 40:24Speaker 4: won it two years ago when these two teams met
- 40:27Speaker 4: and I was there. I'm going to take Toronto to
- 40:29Speaker 4: win an upset, So.
- 40:31Speaker 3: Give me a score. That's a close game there. You
- 40:38Speaker 3: have a chance to see the Detroit Lions beat the
- 40:40Speaker 3: Houston Texans last week.
- 40:43Speaker 4: I watched some of it. I don't stay up as
- 40:45Speaker 4: late as you, but that hell of a game.
- 40:48Speaker 3: Nobody stays up as late as I do, as Lenlo
- 40:50Speaker 3: gets up as early as I fd although I've seen
- 40:52Speaker 3: you actually go out there and get up early with
- 40:54Speaker 3: your social media too. And that was a pretty impressive
- 40:57Speaker 3: game by Dan Campbell and company. So you know, I
- 40:59Speaker 3: don't give me the opportunity to wear the Lion's share
- 41:01Speaker 3: for the fact that you're in Vancouver. It's the intrigued
- 41:03Speaker 3: me with the idea of doing a great show tonight.
- 41:05Speaker 3: Rod is always I that was a lot of fun.
- 41:08Speaker 3: So people, while Rod Peterson is live from Vancouver, British Columbia,
- 41:11Speaker 3: the home of the British Columbia Alliance, joining us tonight
- 41:14Speaker 3: and again the title of show of the CFL Great
- 41:16Speaker 3: Cup Championship. Glad that he was able to join us
- 41:19Speaker 3: for tonight's special edition of The Sports Exchange. So before
- 41:23Speaker 3: we take off, Candy, why don't you let everybody know
- 41:26Speaker 3: give us a final station break, and then Rod's gonna
- 41:28Speaker 3: go out there and let everybody know how they can
- 41:30Speaker 3: get home and all the different shows that he's on,
- 41:32Speaker 3: the fact that we always have a date once a
- 41:34Speaker 3: week here to make sure we talk great time hockey,
- 41:37Speaker 3: and I'm working on morecasts to continue to build it.
- 41:40Speaker 3: So go ahead, Candy, take it away.
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- 42:55Speaker 8: Thursday nights. You never know where we're talking about. We
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- 43:34Speaker 8: I covered everything back to you, Scott.
- 43:37Speaker 3: All right, Katie, go to the chats with Joshua real quick.
- 43:39Speaker 3: I don't make sure every chet gets acknowledge as much
- 43:41Speaker 3: as we can. Rod, Okay, the fact that it We'll
- 43:43Speaker 3: start with Rob where you have to see at the
- 43:45Speaker 3: season ticket holder event. You'll tell your picture if you
- 43:47Speaker 3: didn't see you there, No, I had.
- 43:50Speaker 4: Friends that were there that send me their photos. So
- 43:51Speaker 4: it's panther Fest on Sunday, Oh.
- 43:53Speaker 3: Was it okay? The lines of people for signatures and
- 43:56Speaker 3: picture and saying okay, great show with George great. It's
- 43:59Speaker 3: even better when you're making comments like that. Show is
- 44:01Speaker 3: always good with ron Is on Hey listen. He's one
- 44:03Speaker 3: of the best co hosts I've ever had in all
- 44:04Speaker 3: my years. He's just an easy guy to work with.
- 44:07Speaker 3: The stories are fantastic, They're very easy to read, and
- 44:09Speaker 3: the best part about it is a clean I don't
- 44:10Speaker 3: have to do a lot of it proof for eating
- 44:12Speaker 3: because this guy is a perfectionist and gets it done.
- 44:15Speaker 3: Thickets are expensive, love Rod. In fact, I've enjoyed this
- 44:18Speaker 3: show again. Rod Peterson reporting live from Vancouver, British Columbia,
- 44:24Speaker 3: the home of this week's hundred and eleventh Great Cup,
- 44:26Speaker 3: featuring the Winter to Play Blue Bombers and the Toronto Argonauts.
- 44:30Speaker 3: At least they have a clear definition of what an
- 44:31Speaker 3: argonaut is.
- 44:33Speaker 4: What we learned.
- 44:34Speaker 3: Yeah, there was no way I was going to check
- 44:36Speaker 3: you on a real tough question because I wasn't prepared
- 44:38Speaker 3: for it. I just wanted to make sure that our
- 44:40Speaker 3: focus was on the Great Cup, giving our audience an
- 44:43Speaker 3: opportunity to get a few for with it and a
- 44:45Speaker 3: few hockey topics. Also, I should point out Ron who
- 44:48Speaker 3: is also going to be working with me a little
- 44:50Speaker 3: bit enhancing our covers of Ford Atlantic University. He does
- 44:53Speaker 3: get there from time to time, so we have a
- 44:54Speaker 3: lot of projects that are certainly in the works as well.
- 44:57Speaker 3: So meanwhile, Ron, I wants let everybody know how they
- 45:00Speaker 3: can get ahold of you as well. If she mentioned
- 45:02Speaker 3: it before, repeated again repetitions if you today with all
- 45:05Speaker 3: the shows that you're involved with, if one other thing
- 45:07Speaker 3: I got to ask you have You've done some good
- 45:08Speaker 3: networking up there with all your people in Canada.
- 45:11Speaker 4: I've done as much as I can. I said, it
- 45:13Speaker 4: was a big media event last night. Had a lot
- 45:15Speaker 4: of friends there I hadn't seen in a long time,
- 45:17Speaker 4: so that was great. Do as much as I'm not
- 45:18Speaker 4: as good at it as you've Scott. But the folks
- 45:22Speaker 4: can see on the screen my name. Just look up
- 45:24Speaker 4: at Rod Peterson on Twitter. Our viewers do that great comments, George.
- 45:28Speaker 4: I love that you watch too. Just go look up
- 45:31Speaker 4: at Rod Peterson Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Everything you need is
- 45:34Speaker 4: right there, all the shows, and.
- 45:37Speaker 3: You know what, you got to tune into the Ron Peterson.
- 45:39Speaker 3: You know this is a great show and I've been
- 45:40Speaker 3: thankful to be a part of a couple of times.
- 45:42Speaker 3: And time will tell when Ron can get me back on.
- 45:45Speaker 3: But anytime I get on there as a blessing. Let
- 45:47Speaker 3: alone the fact that this guy's going to go ahead
- 45:49Speaker 3: and give me a diet coke, and obviously anything could
- 45:51Speaker 3: come out. I fouth. I don't mind it nating once
- 45:53Speaker 3: in a while, and I've burped a time or two
- 45:55Speaker 3: because diet coke is a really strong carbonated drink. But
- 45:58Speaker 3: you know what, it keeps the energy going. I don't
- 46:00Speaker 3: mind it manning it really seriously, no, madam, I really
- 46:03Speaker 3: enjoy working and that is seriously. So that concludes this
- 46:08Speaker 3: edition of this our special version of The Sports and Shane.
- 46:11Speaker 3: So on behalf of Rod Peterson. My name is Scott
- 46:14Speaker 3: Morgan Roth the Motor City, Madmouth, Candy Hamblings and our producer.
- 46:16Speaker 3: Tonight Fire Up with be at the top of the
- 46:19Speaker 3: hour with Jeremy Bulwrick excuse me, Ralph Williams, and we
- 46:24Speaker 3: have Pensman will be joining Candy. So meanwhile, thank you
- 46:27Speaker 3: very much for joining us and we will see you
- 46:29Speaker 3: next week when Fire Up Florida returns. But this is
- 46:31Speaker 3: a special edition of The Sports and Shane. Good night everybody,
- 46:34Speaker 3: and thanks to everybody in chat room. You were awesome baby.
- 46:37Speaker 3: As Dick Bytel would say, good night everybody.