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Legendary Sportscaster Warner Wolf Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's the man, Warner Wolf, with the start of
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  Speaker 1: the football season upon us.
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  Speaker 2: Exhibition, Giants versus Jets.
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  Speaker 1: Giants won as they approached their new season along with
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  Speaker 1: the Jets. Warner, what can you tell us about this
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  Speaker 1: whole exhibition season for both squads?
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  Speaker 3: I'm still laughing. There were 48 exhibition games this year.
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  Speaker 3: The so-called favorite failed to beat the spread 38 of
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  Speaker 3: the 48 games. Proving once again nobody knows nothing when
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  Speaker 3: you don't even know who's playing. And you idiots who
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  Speaker 3: bet on the games. Unbelievable. Now, you know the last
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  Speaker 3: time that a Jets-Giants exhibition game meant anything was the
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  Speaker 3: first time they ever played. August of 1969 in the
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  Speaker 3: Yale Bowl. Joe Namath threw three touchdown passes. and the
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  Speaker 3: AFL Super Bowl champion Jets clobbered the established NFL Giants 37-14. Results?
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  Speaker 3: Giants owner Wellington Mara fired Giant coach Ali Sherman even
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  Speaker 3: before the regular season began. And the irony is that Sherman,
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  Speaker 3: he had a 10-year contract, by the way. He wanted
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  Speaker 3: to take Joe Namath, for the Giants in the first
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  Speaker 3: pick in the 1965 draft, and Wellington Mara overruled him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. We have to take Tucker Fredrickson. Can
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  Speaker 3: you imagine how the difference of the franchises might have been?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it shows you a Brooklyn College education.
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  Speaker 1: He was the quarterback when Brooklyn College had a football team,
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  Speaker 1: Ali Sherman.
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  Speaker 2: He went on to become the chairman of OTB.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. He was the left-handed quarterback from Brooklyn College.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: So it comes out that... But I still can't get over...
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  Speaker 3: Imagine a giant. Namath had been blamed for the giant.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: And the poor Jets. Oh, my God. So it comes out.
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  Speaker 3: This is serious. One in every four NFL players has
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  Speaker 3: or will have the brain damage CTE. Chronic Traumatic Anxiety. encephalopathy,
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  Speaker 3: from too many hits to the head. And you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm thinking? The rate would be much higher if
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  Speaker 3: you counted the hundreds of players who played in the
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  Speaker 3: previous seven decades when there was no testing. And the
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  Speaker 3: coach would just say, oh, you just had your bell rung.
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  Speaker 3: Get back in the game. And as long as we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about head injuries, how about all the men and
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  Speaker 3: women's soccer players? And they're headers. No protection. Are we
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  Speaker 3: going to read about them years from now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've done a lot of stories on this. And
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  Speaker 4: you know what else is high? Competitive cheerleading when it
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  Speaker 4: comes to concussions. Because they fall on your heads.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they get tossed in the air wanting their competitions.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we know that.
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  Speaker 1: And then when they come down, they don't always get caught.
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  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, they pile drive right into the turf.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, gosh. Well, I'm glad you brought that up, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: Put a halt to the show.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell?
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  Speaker 1: After what you guys said, what are you going to
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  Speaker 1: have your kids do?
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  Speaker 2: They can't be cheerleaders. They can't play soccer. They can't
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  Speaker 2: play smash football. You know, with soccer and youth soccer,
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  Speaker 2: they do not let them head now until a certain age.
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  Speaker 2: They eliminated that. It's a penalty.
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  Speaker 3: No headers. All right. Hey. Hey. Move over NFL players.
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  Speaker 3: The owners are making the players look good. Remember years
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  Speaker 3: ago it was Patriots owner Robert Kraft arrested for prostitution
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  Speaker 3: and a massage parlor. So last week it was 49ers
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  Speaker 3: owner Jed York arrested for lining up a prostitute in
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  Speaker 3: a sting operation. Come on, give these owners something to
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  Speaker 3: do between the games. I'm looking at this. They're showing
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  Speaker 3: up the players. Hey, what's wrong with this picture? 23-year-old
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  Speaker 3: tight end Daquan Wright, who played two years at Virginia
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  Speaker 3: Tech and then two more years at Mississippi, and was
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  Speaker 3: an undrafted free agent released by the Eagles and Browns,
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  Speaker 3: is going back to college for a fifth year to
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  Speaker 3: play at LSU. Why? Because Wright will be paid more
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  Speaker 3: money with the use of his name, image, and likeness
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  Speaker 3: at LSU than he would be on a practice team
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL. Something's wrong with that picture.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So basically what you're saying, Warner, is that you
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  Speaker 1: can make more in college now than you might even
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  Speaker 1: make if you make an NFL team.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Certainly in your first year, yeah. Because I
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  Speaker 3: think it's $ 885, 000 minimum. And who knows what they'll give you. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: the stooge of the week, and also the boo of
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  Speaker 3: the week, has to go to the CBC. The Canadian
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  Speaker 3: Broadcasting Company last week ordered their entire television staff not
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  Speaker 3: to refer to the 9-11 World Trade Center disaster of
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  Speaker 3: almost 3,000 people dying as a terrorist attack.
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  Speaker 1: No! No!
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  Speaker 3: Hey, look up the word terrorist, you dummies. It says
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  Speaker 3: an act of non-combatants to achieve religious or ideological goals. Man,
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  Speaker 3: go tell the families and friends or the victims it
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  Speaker 3: was not a terrorist attack. I would rename, and I'd
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  Speaker 3: be ashamed to work for the CBC, but I'd rename
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  Speaker 3: that Canadian broadcasting company The Canadian Brainless Company. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's disgraceful.
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  Speaker 4: It is disgraceful, but we have to give some credit
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  Speaker 4: to the staff there and to the anchors and to
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  Speaker 4: the reporters who refused to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't aware of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That edict never made air because so many people said, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: we can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, they were brainless. The executive that wrote that was brainless,
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  Speaker 4: but the staff, they deserve some applause.
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  Speaker 3: That's terrific. Real quick, talk about perseverance. Journeyman quarterback Josh Dobbs,
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  Speaker 3: who was drafted way back in 2017, has played with
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  Speaker 3: nine different NFL teams, has been so impressive in preseason.
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  Speaker 3: He is now the backup quarterback for For the Detroit
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  Speaker 3: Lions to Jared Goff. The record, by the way, is
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  Speaker 3: 14 different teams. Josh Johnson, including the Giants and Jets.
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  Speaker 3: But that's a good story. You know, Goff could get hurt,
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  Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, Josh Dobbs. Man, that's a
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  Speaker 3: long time since he's waited. Nice story.
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  Speaker 2: That's longevity.
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  Speaker 1: You see, if you can be a backup quarterback, if
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  Speaker 1: you can be willing to sit on the bench and
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  Speaker 1: collect splinters, You could go from team to team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's longevity in the NFL. What?
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  Speaker 1: You're running back. You're lucky if you play four years
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  Speaker 1: and you're gone.
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  Speaker 3: That's the average four and a half years. You not
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  Speaker 3: only collect splinters, he's collecting a million and a half dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. To not play. I do appreciate it, Warner.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Same time. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your attention.
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  Speaker 2: Same time, same place next week.