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Vikings Tailgate: Cy's Feeling Thankful On Thanksgiving - SEA - Ep 65 · The Vikings Tailgate

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Speaker 1: Recket recket for come.
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Speaker 2: I'm here.
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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome into the Vikings Tailgate, brought to you
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Speaker 1: by Ticketmaster. I'm your host, Siaminson, and Hey, it's Thanksgiving,
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Speaker 1: and we are thankful for all of you listening to
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Speaker 1: the show all year. We've loved the episodes we've done,
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Speaker 1: and since four of the teams we've played already this
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Speaker 1: year are playing today, we thought we would give you
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Speaker 1: a little best of talking about each of those teams
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Speaker 1: on today's show. That means we're gonna start with the Lions.
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Speaker 1: They've been on Thanksgiving forever, just like Zach Martina has
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Speaker 1: been on this show forever. Here's Zach and I talking
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Speaker 1: about the curse of Bobby Lane and the growing cockiness
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Speaker 1: of Lions fans, ladies and gentlemen. The great Zach Martina
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Speaker 1: and Zach, I need to start with something we touched.
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Speaker 1: I think the first time you were ever on the show.
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Speaker 1: I saw this article and it was talking about all
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Speaker 1: the weirdest stuff that's ever happened in Detroit and with
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Speaker 1: the Lions, and on and on and on, and one
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Speaker 1: of the things in there, it's the Bobby Lane curse.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, In nineteen fifty eight, the Lions trade.
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Speaker 3: Bobby Lane to Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 1: To Pittsburgh, and he's a star, right he is.
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Speaker 2: He is the Patrick Mahomes of his time.
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Speaker 1: They trade him and he places a fifty year curse
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Speaker 1: on the Detroit Lions and it runs nineteen fifty eight.
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Speaker 1: It's supposed to end in two thousand and eight, and.
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Speaker 2: It was adjusted for inflation. So that's it lasts. It's
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Speaker 2: gone gone, And what a few years longer than that.
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Speaker 1: Well, here's what I would say is super interesting. The
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Speaker 1: last year of the curse, your team went oh and
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Speaker 1: sixteen and in that fifty years you lost more games
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Speaker 1: than any team in the entire league. And you end
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Speaker 1: on an ohen sixteen. Then you got Stafford yep, and
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Speaker 1: now you're moving forward and now out of the It's
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Speaker 1: almost like it's real. How real is it to Detroit fans?
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Speaker 1: Because you went there, then you got Stafford, you kind
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Speaker 1: of got out of it a little bit. Stafford led
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Speaker 1: to golf with led to all these changes. Dan, here
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Speaker 1: we go and now you are a multi year championship
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Speaker 1: contending team that people are picking at the beginning of
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Speaker 1: the season. Do you buy this? Are you all in
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Speaker 1: on the Bobby Lane curse. And now that it's over,
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Speaker 1: you're off and running.
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Speaker 2: I would be hard pressed to find a Detroit Lions
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Speaker 2: fan that does not believe in the Bobby Lane curse.
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Speaker 2: Because we needed a reason. We needed a reason that
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Speaker 2: we were like, okay, well this is this can't be
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Speaker 2: just the organization. This can't just be our team is
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Speaker 2: it's it's in the universe, it's intergalactic, it's whatever words
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Speaker 2: you want to use. But it was at least a
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Speaker 2: reason we could say, well, yeah, but you know, we've
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Speaker 2: got this, Like I mean, Calvin Johnson was on the
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Speaker 2: team before Matthew Stafford, and he was part of that
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Speaker 2: oh and sixteen team. To be part of a fifty
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Speaker 2: year stretch where you are losing more games than any
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Speaker 2: other team in the franchise, you have to have a
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Speaker 2: reason because it doesn't make sense when you have players
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Speaker 2: of that caliber.
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Speaker 1: So now that you're this new team and my team
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Speaker 1: is coming off, you know, from a fan standpoint, one
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Speaker 1: of the more difficult losses in the Kevin O'Connell era, right,
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Speaker 1: And I think that just that sentence speaks to how
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Speaker 1: impressive the coaching staff has been. I always use the
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Speaker 1: example you can use a ton of them, but winning
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Speaker 1: a game with Josh Dobbs calling the plays into the
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Speaker 1: headset in Atlanta, like this team has finally arrived in
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Speaker 1: the place where it felt like adversity steam rolled them
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Speaker 1: against the Chargers, and we're not quite where we expected
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Speaker 1: we would be. Is there any is there any part
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Speaker 1: of your little fan brain that feels that you might
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Speaker 1: be vulnerable to a desperate team coming in and punching
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Speaker 1: you in the face.
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Speaker 2: Let me, let me go ahead and show you how
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Speaker 2: little my fan brain is. I'm not going to take
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Speaker 2: your bait. I'm not going to take your bait of
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Speaker 2: insulting me and coming at me saying I have a
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Speaker 2: little brain. I have a size eight head, all right.
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Speaker 2: When I played football in high school, they had do
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Speaker 2: special order a helmet. All right, When you knock on
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Speaker 2: this skull, it is not hollow. It's not little SI,
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Speaker 2: thank you, and I it is not. It is a
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Speaker 2: big brain. It is a big old brain. But I
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Speaker 2: don't I'm I mean, I'm always nervous because I've been
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Speaker 2: hurt in the past, but I feel really good coming
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Speaker 2: off of the bye. I feel really good coming off
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Speaker 2: of the bye. Who you'll come into at a home game.
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Speaker 2: No less, you know what, I'm just realizing.
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Speaker 1: In the history of you being on the show. The
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Speaker 1: first season, we were very good with Kirk and you
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Speaker 1: were having that season where you beat Green Bay at
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Speaker 1: the end of the year and you were like turning around.
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Speaker 1: You had the major season before the season. Second season,
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Speaker 1: you had a really great year. We didn't have a
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Speaker 1: reason to feel bad because we had a quarter back
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Speaker 1: situation that we were battling through. Third year, we're both great.
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Speaker 1: We play each other. It sucks that we lost to
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Speaker 1: you at the end of the season, but we're both great.
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Speaker 1: We're both feeling good. This is the first year that
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Speaker 1: there's some angst in this conversation between you and I.
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Speaker 1: This is the first year where you're still doing well
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Speaker 1: and we're not doing the things we want to be doing.
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Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, I hate it.
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Speaker 2: I buddy, I'll tell you the angst is all on
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Speaker 2: one side.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: I understand you have.
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Speaker 1: An ad I've never noticed the attitude and tell my
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Speaker 1: team is not where I need it. It's only fitting.
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Speaker 1: If we're going to talk Lions, we should probably talk
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Speaker 1: about their opponents, the Packers. Uh, let's do a clip
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Speaker 1: of Chad and I discussing one of our most memorable
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Speaker 1: moments from our friendship from being on stage together. This
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Speaker 1: is the time Chad and I spent a weekend in
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Speaker 1: Appleton right before Brett Favre's first game against the Packers
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Speaker 1: as a Viking. I'm your host, Siam and sinceitting across
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Speaker 1: from me as a guy who criticizes my intro every
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Speaker 1: week with his little smirk. Ladies and gentlemen, the co host,
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Speaker 1: Chad Daniels, Hello, everybody. I don't know what's happening, but
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Speaker 1: the amount of trash talk early and often from Packer
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Speaker 1: fans is hitting me at a aggressive level.
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Speaker 3: Sure, I'm just gonna throw this out there. I believe
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Speaker 3: that the Packers and the Eagles should get all their
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Speaker 3: primetime games taken for the next seven years because that
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Speaker 3: was the worst game of football I've ever seen.
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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, man, Like I am a little riled
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Speaker 1: up because like I don't really have the AMMO to
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Speaker 1: go back right. You know, you can't quite go back
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Speaker 1: as hard so what I've been doing, and I want
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Speaker 1: you to tell me what you think about this. I'm
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Speaker 1: not engaging at all. I'm only I'm not silent treating.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, silent treating.
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Speaker 1: No, not quite. They trash talk me. If any of
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Speaker 1: the Packer fans trash talk me, I just send them
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Speaker 1: back a fact about their state that I think is absurd,
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Speaker 1: and then I no matter what they say after that,
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Speaker 1: then they get silent treatment. For example, somebody said some
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Speaker 1: really negative things to me, some heavy duty trash talk,
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Speaker 1: and all I wrote back was Wisconsin once had two
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Speaker 1: local towns argue over who would get a thirty foot
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Speaker 1: tall fiberglass badger statue. So a Milwaukee resident legally changed
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Speaker 1: his name to Count Justinian de mort wore a cape daily,
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Speaker 1: slept in a coffin shaped bed, and petitioned the mayor
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Speaker 1: to declare his birthday Vampire Appreciation Day. And I'd still
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Speaker 1: rather hang with him than talk football with you. That's
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Speaker 1: the sort of stuff that I'm sending back.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's a smart way to do it. I mean,
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Speaker 3: there are a lot of those. I've been to Wisconsin
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Speaker 3: several times, so have you to perform live stand up comedy.
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Speaker 1: That's actually the origin of our friendship. Know, I don't
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Speaker 1: know how many people know that our friendship the birth birth,
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Speaker 1: but I think the growth of.
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Speaker 3: Our flourishing when it flourished.
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Speaker 1: You want to tell it, you want to tell the people.
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Speaker 3: Well, we were in Appleton, Wisconsin, which is just south
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Speaker 3: of Green Bay, and we were working at the Skyline
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Speaker 3: Comedy Cafe.
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Speaker 1: And what year do we think this is? Back in
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Speaker 1: twenty Well it was the far of year. What year
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Speaker 1: was far two thousand and nine?
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Speaker 3: Okay, so we're there and we're doing We used to
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Speaker 3: do this decathlon thing where we would do ten events
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Speaker 3: that were somewhat athletic. Right, it was like wiffleball, home run,
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Speaker 3: derby point contest. Yeah, just stuff like that that wasn't
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Speaker 3: the actual game game, but it was derivative of it.
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Speaker 3: So we would do that and then on the and
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Speaker 3: then we were playing cribbage.
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Speaker 1: That's funny how the athleticism started with the athletics and
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Speaker 1: whittled down to let's play cards and move toothpicks.
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Speaker 3: Well toward towards the end of the week, you don't
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Speaker 3: have access, right, You can't like quick run to the
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Speaker 3: ry YMCA. What you can do is, right before a
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Speaker 3: set is you can put on a Vikings Brett Favre
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Speaker 3: Jersey like you did. And then I heard you get introduced,
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Speaker 3: and then I heard just thick booing without you having
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Speaker 3: said anything.
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Speaker 1: It was right before the first game that Brett Fav
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Speaker 1: played the Packers as a Viking. Was the It was
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Speaker 1: the Saturday night before that was going to happen, I
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Speaker 1: think on a Monday.
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Speaker 3: And the people were I'm gonna go with less than
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Speaker 3: pleased yeah, And so that's when I thought to myself, like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I think that he and I have a pretty similar brain.
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Speaker 1: So I went up on stage. Cliff, who ran the club,
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Speaker 1: pulled the lights up because and I quote he was
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Speaker 1: pretty sure somebody was going to throw a glass at
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Speaker 1: me because I was doing the Hulk Hogan like bump
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Speaker 1: up up, like hand to the ear motion, over and over.
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Speaker 1: And then you ran to the booth and as I
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Speaker 1: was going up, played the Monday night football theme music.
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Speaker 1: That's the one thing that I remember. And here we
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Speaker 1: are years later with the team letting us be involved, which.
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Speaker 3: That's right, and our friendship barely hanging on.
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Speaker 1: Jay the producer just said that people through pool balls
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Speaker 1: on the field at players during that game. When Farv
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Speaker 1: went back there for the first time and had signs
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Speaker 1: comparing Farv to Fredo from The Godfather.
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Speaker 3: So I knew it was you. I knew it was you.
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Speaker 1: I didn't get the pool balls, but you could. You know,
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Speaker 1: you could feel that that would probably be the reaction
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Speaker 1: in that room night, because I believe Appleton is where
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Speaker 1: the opposing teams stay, so Appleton they're not just pack Evans.
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Speaker 1: I think they feel like they're really a part of it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because I went to a Vike's Packer game Lambeau
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Speaker 3: and Brett Farav was still the quarterback, Dante Culpepper was
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Speaker 3: for US. Dante Culpepper was getting murdered. I'm saying, right up, murdered.
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Speaker 3: So I start freaking out. I'm screaming down the field
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Speaker 3: and the section around me right just a couple rows
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Speaker 3: started chanting all before I know it, within the minute,
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Speaker 3: the entire stadium. Here's the crazy thing about this stadium.
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Speaker 3: They don't have to have witnessed what happened. They just
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Speaker 3: know if somebody sends out the bat signal, we have
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Speaker 3: to join in. And so this entire stadium was chanting that.
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Speaker 3: And then we were at the bar afterwards back in Appleton,
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Speaker 3: because we were staying at the same hotel that the
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Speaker 3: Vikes were staying at, and we're at the bar right
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Speaker 3: next door and then this Packer fan comes in. He goes,
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Speaker 3: oh man, somebody, somebody from Minnesota really got it tonight,
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Speaker 3: because everybody was chanting. And my buddy goes, he's right here,
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Speaker 3: this guy. And I really didn't even do anything to
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Speaker 3: deserve it other than yelling, because remember when Farv and
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Speaker 3: even even Rogers that whole thing. The Packers got a
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Speaker 3: lot of calls. They were the chiefs. Yeah, they were
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Speaker 3: the chiefs of the early two thousands, so it was tough.
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Speaker 1: to the Vikings tailgate once again. I'm your host, Simonson.
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Speaker 1: We're doing a little best of on Thanksgiving here. The
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Speaker 1: other two teams that we've discussed the season that are
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Speaker 1: playing today are the Ravens and Bengals. I live in
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Speaker 1: Bengals Country, and earlier this year, Chad and I broke
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Speaker 1: down the tortured nature of the Bengals franchise. The Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: Bengals are coming to town and joining me to talk
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Speaker 1: everything about the city and the team. Is the one,
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Speaker 1: the only Chad Daniels.
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Speaker 3: Hi, everybody, BurrH. I'm excited. I'm gonna tell you something.
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Speaker 3: I'm excited for the game, and I'm excited that we
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Speaker 3: don't recap games on this podcast.
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Speaker 1: What a wonderful thing for us that we're always looking forward?
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Speaker 3: We got it, Hey, brother, There's a reason that the
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Speaker 3: windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror. You feel me.
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Speaker 3: We gotta look forward. That's what we do.
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Speaker 1: Here on I love that. Actually, I mean, I know
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Speaker 1: you did it in the hillbilly voice, but I love it. Normally,
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Speaker 1: normally we do the thing where we kind of dive
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Speaker 1: into both sides of what we like and dislike about it.
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Speaker 1: But I tell you, I live in Cincinnati. We love
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Speaker 1: the city, we love the comedy there, and because they're
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Speaker 1: team is a tortured like they I identify with them
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Speaker 1: as it. There's not many organizations that you can really
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Speaker 1: look at them and go, man, you just you've got
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Speaker 1: that same Charlie Brown vibe getting the football pulled out
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Speaker 1: from you in the fan base. So I like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a hard time saying anything negative about
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Speaker 1: the Bengals or their fans.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting because when you're a Vikings fan, you go,
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Speaker 3: you know, what, this happened. Bad things happen to us,
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Speaker 3: and then when we watch the Bengals, we go, they
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Speaker 3: did it to themselves. It's a different attitude for the
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Speaker 3: same situation. My girlfriend said, we have a lot of
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Speaker 3: friends in Cincinnati, how do you cheer for And you go,
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to listen to that, No, because we
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Speaker 3: cheer just as hard and we make fun of them
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Speaker 3: just as hard when we beat them.
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Speaker 1: That's absolutely correct. The U there is a really like
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Speaker 1: when I first moved here and you start meeting a
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Speaker 1: lot of Bengals fans, one of the first things you
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Speaker 1: learn is that they were one of if not the
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Speaker 1: but one of the last teams in the NFL to
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Speaker 1: get an actual website. And the standard joke and it's
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Speaker 1: a dad joke, but it, dude, it rocks. Everybody goes yes,
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Speaker 1: because we had a hard time string in three w's together.
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Speaker 1: God dang, that's a good.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that is a really good joke. I think it
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Speaker 3: is actually because it's harder to type on a keyboard
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Speaker 3: when you have blisters from playing the banjo. They're so
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Speaker 3: close to Kentucky. The airport is in Kentucky. They call
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Speaker 3: it Cincinnati, and it's in a different.
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Speaker 1: State when you're down here, like when we move down
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Speaker 1: here as a Viking fan, the Cleveland rivalry, it's very
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Speaker 1: Green Bay ish. Yeah, there's this all time moment in
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Speaker 1: Bengals history. It's like nineteen eighty nine. I think they're
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Speaker 1: playing the Seattle Seahawks and an official made of call
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Speaker 1: that the fans did not care for. And the fans
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Speaker 1: it's December, so they start balling up snowballs and heaving
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Speaker 1: them onto the field, and the Seahawks are like, we're
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Speaker 1: not playing with you throwing stuff at it, so they
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Speaker 1: will and the officials have to pause the game. And
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Speaker 1: I love the moments when when a coach when they
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Speaker 1: have to hand him the PA system and be like, coach,
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Speaker 1: can you please get a hold of these people? It's
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Speaker 1: so good. So they hand the coach at the time,
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Speaker 1: Sam Whitch, He gets the microphone and to the whole stadium.
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Speaker 1: He goes, will the next person that sees anybody throw
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Speaker 1: anything onto the field point them out and get them
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Speaker 1: out of here. You don't live in Cleveland, you live
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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. Imagine just being in like Grand Rapids, Like
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Speaker 1: it's yeah, you guys are pretty much it's very similar.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, that's an all time moment.
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Speaker 3: That is like a dad just going like, hey, you're
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Speaker 3: acting like your brother right now, knock it off.
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Speaker 1: And I do feel that against the state of Wisconsin,
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Speaker 1: and I don't. It's so funny because when you cut
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Speaker 1: the top half of both states off, you could just
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Speaker 1: drive across them and it's nearly indistinguishable.
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Speaker 3: I've always said without professional football, it's the same.
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Speaker 1: State pretty similar. I think there's a cholesterol difference due
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Speaker 1: to a cheese product. Like somehow we were like our
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Speaker 1: state was like, we'll make milk, you make cheese. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how we decided that, but there's certainly a
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Speaker 1: heart clog issue there.
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Speaker 3: I think we were like, hey, come get all moldy milk. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: you can have our moldy milk.
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Speaker 1: The Bengals opponent today is going to be the Baltimore Ravens,
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Speaker 1: And of course, when we talked Ravens earlier this season,
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Speaker 1: we talked about one of the craziest finishes in Vikings history.
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Speaker 1: Listen to Chad and I break it down here, let's
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Speaker 1: shift to the Ravens. You know, we do a little
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Speaker 1: bit of history on this show, and this matchup also
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Speaker 1: has one of my in addition to a crazy weird
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Speaker 1: stat one of my favorite history moments. I was at
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Speaker 1: Hilarities in Cleveland, sure for a week of shows, the
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Speaker 1: Great Hilarities opening for the Great Jake Johansson's this pretty
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Speaker 1: early in my career, huh. And I sat at a
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Speaker 1: bar all by myself and watched the twenty thirteen Ravens
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Speaker 1: Vikings game and if you recall, we lost it. But
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Speaker 1: that was that absurd game where there was such horrible
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Speaker 1: snow that the field crew had to plow the field
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Speaker 1: at halftime, and in the last two minutes of that game,
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Speaker 1: everything goes nuts. Two minutes and seven seconds left, Dennis
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Speaker 1: Pitta scores a touchdown. The Ravens take the lead. Then
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Speaker 1: Boom Vikings get the ball back. Two plays later, blast
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Speaker 1: from the pass Toby Gerhardt Toby Gearhart forty one yards
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Speaker 1: for a touchdown. Ravens get the ball back, run the
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Speaker 1: kickoff back for a touchdown. They retake the lead. Then
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Speaker 1: Corderioatterson scores on a seventy nine yard touchdown pass for
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Speaker 1: the Vikings. They take the lead, and then Marlon Brown
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Speaker 1: scores on a nine yard touchdown with only nine seconds left.
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Speaker 1: The Ravens win. I haven't seen every football game in
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Speaker 1: the history of football. I don't have that rolodex like
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Speaker 1: our friend Alex Schubert, but that has to be about
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Speaker 1: the craziest two minutes in the history of professional football.
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Speaker 1: And it was in the snow. Guys were sliding, guys
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Speaker 1: were diving.
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Speaker 3: That's what made those plays possible is that in the snow,
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Speaker 3: once you get going forward, it is so hard because
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Speaker 3: nobody can catch you because everybody's trying to cut and
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Speaker 3: make up ground on you. Now you say this is
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Speaker 3: the greatest professional game, probably in the snow. I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: throw one little amateur at you nineteen ninety one Cleveland
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Speaker 3: Elementary School field. I remember a Fritz Skinner going to
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Speaker 3: Sam Skinner for ninety nine yard touchdown, and then I
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Speaker 3: remember immediately Eric Johnson throwing a bomb to excuse me,
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Speaker 3: but yours truly in the snow, high stepping in my
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Speaker 3: sore l boots for the touchdown for the win.
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Speaker 1: Now, I'm not saying it was the greatest professional snow
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Speaker 1: game of all time. I think people get really mad
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Speaker 1: at me for that. It's in the conversation for craziest
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Speaker 1: two minutes.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, crazy is two minutes snow doubt.
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Speaker 1: Can we just take a pause since he came up
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Speaker 1: in this memory for me and talk about Cordero Patterson
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Speaker 1: that game, he gets five receptions, one hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: one yards and a touchdown. I was thinking about him
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Speaker 1: the other day. I think it was tough to come
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Speaker 1: to our team, a team that we were the team
20:32
Speaker 1: of a mad Rashad and the team of Chris Carter
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Speaker 1: and the team of Randy Moss. So you think of
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Speaker 1: wide receivers in a very specific way. And he came
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Speaker 1: into the league and not only was he not that
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Speaker 1: type of guy, but he was so before his time
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Speaker 1: in terms of positionless football. I mean, he goes on,
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Speaker 1: he sets the NFL record for kick returns. Right, he's
20:53
Speaker 1: like a four time All Pro. He wins, he goes
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Speaker 1: and he wins a Super Bowl with Bill Belichick, and
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Speaker 1: you can't be done and play for Bill Belichick.
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Speaker 3: Right of course.
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Speaker 1: And then he has this amazing second act to his
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Speaker 1: career where he gets to Atlanta and they go, you're
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Speaker 1: a running back and then everybody goes, oh, man, he's
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Speaker 1: so good at running back.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: In retrospect, he's probably the most underdiscussed unique vite. Him
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Speaker 1: and Percy Harvin are kind of like the great what
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Speaker 1: ifs for me if they'd have been in a different
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Speaker 1: time period or gotten to do what they did late
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Speaker 1: Early Patterson.
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Speaker 3: Is the faith no More of football, right, faith no more?
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Speaker 3: What is it? It's it. They were Limp Biscuit before
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Speaker 3: Limp Biscuit, but nobody knew where to put them, and
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Speaker 3: so they didn't get the notoriety that they should have gotten.
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Speaker 3: And then Limp Biscuit goes on with Fred Durst to
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Speaker 3: like smash its and you're like, from my generation, you go,
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Speaker 3: this is a faith no more ripoff. And so that's
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Speaker 3: the same way I feel about Patterson. Sometimes people get
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Speaker 3: to the level they want to get to just a
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Speaker 3: little bit too early, and nobody knows where to put them.
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Speaker 1: Imagine, yeah, that's a great point. Imagine if Cordero Patterson,
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Speaker 1: if you handed him to Kyle Shanahan the same year
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Speaker 1: that Kyle Shanahan got Deebo Samuel. Sure, you're like, oh,
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Speaker 1: a giant Deebo Samuel. Mm hmmm, huge Cordero heads on
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