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- 0:33Speaker 1: welcome back to another episode of the Tailgate. It's Colts Week.
- 0:37Speaker 1: We need a victory, a big week for the Minnesota Vikings.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Joining me on this week's show is lifelong die hard
- 0:46Speaker 1: Colts fan Megan Gaily. Incredible comedian, incredible writers. She's written
- 0:50Speaker 1: for the SP's her podcast with Rachel Bonetta and Sarah
- 0:54Speaker 1: Tiana called Sports Bitches. It is fantastic. You have to
- 0:58Speaker 1: check out our TikTok at Better Gaily. She is absolutely fantastic.
- 1:03Speaker 1: You can get her posts her upcoming tour dates. She folks.
- 1:07Speaker 1: She is a full on lunatic for her favorite teams,
- 1:12Speaker 1: much like me. So this was a fun episode and
- 1:16Speaker 1: I hope you guys like it. Recket recket. I'm here. Hey, everybody,
- 1:31Speaker 1: Welcome into the Vikings Tailgate, brought to you by Ticketmaster,
- 1:35Speaker 1: the official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings. I'm your host,
- 1:39Speaker 1: Si Amenson and joining us today to discuss Colts Vikings
- 1:45Speaker 1: die hard lifelong Colts fan and somebody who I can
- 1:51Speaker 1: already sense her I need to speak about Joe Flacco,
- 1:55Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson Energy, the Great Megan Gaily. Thank you for
- 1:59Speaker 1: hanging out.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Meghan, thank you so much.
- 2:00Speaker 3: You know, I had really high hopes. We both have
- 2:03Speaker 3: young children, and I had really high hopes. I was
- 2:05Speaker 3: gonna wake up, shower, put on makeup, do my hair,
- 2:10Speaker 3: and then I said that would just be so uncults
- 2:13Speaker 3: fan of me. So you are getting like fresh out
- 2:17Speaker 3: of bed. I think I brushed my teeth. Colts had
- 2:20Speaker 3: on very hoosier.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Yeah, that's well. And I have a wife who is
- 2:24Speaker 1: from Indiana, so I very much understand the very hoosier vibe,
- 2:30Speaker 1: as her entire family exists inside of it. So I
- 2:33Speaker 1: appreciate you coming authentically. I am obsessed with Joe Flacco's existence, Okay,
- 2:39Speaker 1: because I have a one of my best friends is
- 2:42Speaker 1: a lifelong Browns fan and went through that mayhem last year.
- 2:47Speaker 1: I don't understand if he can still throw the football
- 2:49Speaker 1: like this, why he is a mid season fourth option
- 2:52Speaker 1: for struggling teams. How do you feel walking away from
- 2:58Speaker 1: a draft pick towards one hundred year old Joe Flacco
- 3:01Speaker 1: who can still throw the ball ninety yards?
- 3:04Speaker 3: So I will start by saying, I love Joe Flacco.
- 3:08Speaker 3: I think Joe Flacco is like a hunk. Like I
- 3:11Speaker 3: saw him in a post game and I was like, wait,
- 3:13Speaker 3: is he hot? Like I think he is a great quarterback.
- 3:16Speaker 3: He seems like a lovely man. I think it's absolutely insane.
- 3:20Speaker 3: The Colts were the only team to offer him a
- 3:23Speaker 3: contract in the off season. Unfortunately, Joe Flacco is now
- 3:28Speaker 3: the fourth version of this experiment the Colts have done.
- 3:33Speaker 3: We did it with Philip Rivers. We did it with
- 3:35Speaker 3: Carson Wentz, we did it with Matt Ryan. All like
- 3:38Speaker 3: pretty serviceable to very good quarterbacks at some point, and
- 3:43Speaker 3: it has failed miserably, and so to be repeating it
- 3:47Speaker 3: now feels absolutely insane to myself and I think a
- 3:54Speaker 3: large portion of the Colts fan base.
- 3:57Speaker 1: I always like talking to fans of the few fan bases,
- 4:02Speaker 1: the few teams that I don't despise you know how
- 4:05Speaker 1: you build up that animosity for eighty ninety percent of
- 4:07Speaker 1: the league and you're like, well, I guess I just
- 4:09Speaker 1: don't hate the Colts for any reason whatsoever. Yeah, you do,
- 4:15Speaker 1: you guys find yourselves? Like you mentioned the Philip Rivers thing,
- 4:18Speaker 1: which I thought that was gonna go way better than
- 4:20Speaker 1: it did. I really did. Yeah, but you feel like
- 4:23Speaker 1: you just never escaped the post Andrew Luck Hayes. And
- 4:27Speaker 1: you can't because right after it there was that vibe
- 4:30Speaker 1: where it felt like you put a good quarterback in here.
- 4:32Speaker 1: This defense is so good, and you've just kind of,
- 4:36Speaker 1: you know, never gone too low or too high. Since then?
- 4:39Speaker 1: Do you just feel like you're trapped in no man's land?
- 4:41Speaker 3: We are in a purgatory since Andrew Luck retired. I
- 4:47Speaker 3: am of like the very small minority of Colts fans
- 4:51Speaker 3: that is like happy for Andrew Luck.
- 4:53Speaker 2: I do not blame him. I would not have booed him.
- 4:56Speaker 3: I actually think the fans who booed him put a
- 4:59Speaker 3: curse on on us that we have still yet to
- 5:02Speaker 3: break love it.
- 5:03Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want you guys to struggle, but
- 5:05Speaker 1: anything with a curse, I'm interested in.
- 5:07Speaker 3: No, I think I there are my own family members who,
- 5:11Speaker 3: like yesterday when when Richardson was benched, I was irate,
- 5:16Speaker 3: like as upset. It was probably the most upset I'd
- 5:20Speaker 3: been since Luck retiring. And I knew I couldn't even
- 5:24Speaker 3: text my brother and my dad because we were just
- 5:26Speaker 3: not in the same camp. Sure, And so I was
- 5:29Speaker 3: just like, well, now I just have to like go
- 5:32Speaker 3: to Twitter. Like my husband was like, hey, I see
- 5:35Speaker 3: you're posting whole threads about the benching of Anthony Richardson,
- 5:40Speaker 3: and I'm out of town and I just need to
- 5:42Speaker 3: know that you and our son are says, And I'm like,
- 5:44Speaker 3: we'll see.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Do you here's a question, because we are a long
- 5:51Speaker 1: suffering no quarterback. I mean we had Fran, but Fran
- 5:55Speaker 1: Tarkentin is so removed from any like yeah, you have
- 5:59Speaker 1: to be my dad or older to be like I remember.
- 6:03Speaker 1: But so there's this desperate gravitation towards anyone who you
- 6:07Speaker 1: believe can be the guy from a franchise Hall of
- 6:11Speaker 1: Fame standpoint, And that's hard. Do you think it is
- 6:16Speaker 1: somehow harder to have had one of them, one of
- 6:20Speaker 1: the like one of the five to ten guys, know,
- 6:23Speaker 1: what that looks like only have won one title, which
- 6:25Speaker 1: is still amazing, but like, only have gotten one and
- 6:28Speaker 1: now you almost know what you're missing out.
- 6:30Speaker 3: On, Yes, and having Peyton and then going directly to Luck. Yes,
- 6:37Speaker 3: it almost you know that's you're being blessed in a
- 6:42Speaker 3: way that franchises are just not. And I think we
- 6:47Speaker 3: lost Luck because we did not know how good we
- 6:51Speaker 3: had it and the reason. And I think Luck has
- 6:54Speaker 3: been much more open.
- 6:56Speaker 2: There was that.
- 6:57Speaker 3: Really long piece last year that I bored over every
- 7:02Speaker 3: word like it was a true Detective season finale, and
- 7:07Speaker 3: you know, people walk away from different things in their
- 7:11Speaker 3: life for many different reasons, but like it is, it
- 7:15Speaker 3: is hard to not look at how blessed this franchise
- 7:21Speaker 3: has been with like Luck, no pun intended of We
- 7:25Speaker 3: almost drafted Ryan Leaf, who I've met and as a
- 7:28Speaker 3: lovely man, and I was like, oh my god, I'm
- 7:29Speaker 3: a Colts fan and he was like okay. So it's
- 7:32Speaker 3: like we we lucked out by even knowing that we
- 7:35Speaker 3: should take Peyton Manning.
- 7:36Speaker 2: That was like a huge controversy. So it is I
- 7:41Speaker 2: also have to wonder too.
- 7:44Speaker 3: I find sports fans to be very impatient and dumb
- 7:48Speaker 3: and I'm at the top of that too.
- 7:50Speaker 1: I'm the most I couldn't agree more.
- 7:52Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think Walts fans have been spoiled and
- 7:57Speaker 3: whether we believe it or not, and it's been like
- 7:59Speaker 3: nine years of not being spoiled.
- 8:02Speaker 2: But it we look back.
- 8:04Speaker 3: And we go, well, we were thirteen and three every
- 8:06Speaker 3: year and we went to the AFG Championship every year,
- 8:09Speaker 3: and it's like, yeah, we were really, really lucky. And
- 8:12Speaker 3: then you look at other franchises and you're like, they've
- 8:14Speaker 3: never even sniffed the playoffs. So I think it put
- 8:17Speaker 3: a lot of pressure on Anthony Richardson to be good
- 8:21Speaker 3: right now. And it's like Peyton went three and thirteen
- 8:24Speaker 3: his rookie season, Like we're having revisionist history on what
- 8:28Speaker 3: it takes to build a franchise quarterback, and you see it.
- 8:34Speaker 3: I think it's an epidemic across the league. You look
- 8:36Speaker 3: at all these guys that were drafted in the last
- 8:39Speaker 3: three years and they're all benched right now, and I
- 8:41Speaker 3: don't think that that is all of their fall.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Yeah, And then you look at what else has happened
- 8:46Speaker 1: in the league, which is these the renaissance aspect for
- 8:50Speaker 1: different quarterbacks careers where you have Sam Darnold here in Minnesota,
- 8:54Speaker 1: you have Gino out in Seattle, you have Baker down
- 8:57Speaker 1: in Tampa. So and that's kind the other side of
- 9:01Speaker 1: proving your point is what happens when some of those
- 9:04Speaker 1: guys get good chances in healthy situations, good second chances.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Yeah and yeah, I you know, I can't imagine. C J.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Stroud's success makes it. It's funny because you could easily
- 9:16Speaker 1: go like, hey, it's really hard to be a young quarterback.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Look at what's happening with Bryce, you know, but everybody
- 9:21Speaker 1: he just goes, oh, c J. Stroud is immediately amazing,
- 9:24Speaker 1: and then Jaydeen Daniels is playing well. It's it's one.
- 9:27Speaker 3: Those are both with organizations that you don't necessarily think of,
- 9:32Speaker 3: Like the Commanders are a joke, not anymore. But until
- 9:36Speaker 3: Dan Snyder sold them like, it was like they could
- 9:39Speaker 3: not they had to change their name. They're like the
- 9:42Speaker 3: whole city of Washington was like, why don't we have
- 9:45Speaker 3: this team like it? And the Texans are an expansion
- 9:48Speaker 3: team that got their ass kicked all the time and
- 9:52Speaker 3: they've been able to go in those systems and flourish.
- 9:56Speaker 1: I had really liked Anthony Richardson coming out. I think
- 9:59Speaker 1: the question is, then you know, if you take if
- 10:02Speaker 1: you set the angst aside about Anthony Richardson, which I
- 10:05Speaker 1: would also have if I was a Colts fan. Uh,
- 10:08Speaker 1: but you're in the immediate moment here that division hasn't
- 10:13Speaker 1: proven to be so incredible and THEFC isn't so runaway
- 10:18Speaker 1: with top heavy teams that you still have to be
- 10:20Speaker 1: competing where you're at right now? Do you think you
- 10:25Speaker 1: get the Joe Flacco bump? Do you think, regardless of
- 10:29Speaker 1: the frustrations, do you see a high level Joe Flacco
- 10:32Speaker 1: where all the coaches are like, yes, we needed to
- 10:34Speaker 1: be able to actually run this play and he can
- 10:37Speaker 1: run it.
- 10:38Speaker 3: I don't, And maybe that's just me like really not
- 10:45Speaker 3: being able to see the forest through the trees because
- 10:48Speaker 3: I'm so upset. And I really found Richardson's like running
- 10:53Speaker 3: to be so dynamic and to just.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Open up the playbook to be like.
- 10:59Speaker 3: We can do anything. We have a linebacker at quarterback,
- 11:04Speaker 3: and yeah he was he was missing passes, but like
- 11:06Speaker 3: I was even listening to Brian Florit's talk about Richardson yesterday,
- 11:09Speaker 3: and it's like, this is this defensive coordinator on the
- 11:12Speaker 3: team we were about to play, and he seemed like
- 11:14Speaker 3: he did not want to have to prepare for him.
- 11:18Speaker 3: And I think Flacco is like obviously a good quarterback,
- 11:22Speaker 3: but I think it actually limits and I think Richardson
- 11:27Speaker 3: in the same way that like Robert sala Is, it's
- 11:30Speaker 3: like you end up having these sort of scapegoats when
- 11:32Speaker 3: things aren't going the right way, and when you remove
- 11:35Speaker 3: the scapegoats, you kind of start to see, oh, maybe
- 11:38Speaker 3: there's other issues.
- 11:40Speaker 2: And I think for the Colts the.
- 11:41Speaker 3: Other issues are play calling and and just sort of
- 11:46Speaker 3: us not necessarily having a standout, knockdown number one receiver.
- 11:53Speaker 3: I think Pittman is great. You look at Pittman and
- 11:56Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson, obviously he's the class of the league, and
- 11:59Speaker 3: it's like, well, they're even close to each other. So
- 12:02Speaker 3: I think there's gonna be some other things that fall
- 12:06Speaker 3: under the microscope. And if there are these drop balls, again,
- 12:12Speaker 3: it's going to be a lot more obvious when you
- 12:14Speaker 3: have a former Super Bowl winner throwing them to you, guy.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Who has a little bit more of the arm talent
- 12:20Speaker 1: at this point and his wife unfortunately, as someone who
- 12:24Speaker 1: also have it like has it, I can read the
- 12:27Speaker 1: energy off you. You are an insane person, Megan, and
- 12:33Speaker 1: I love it. I just absolutely love it. Before the show,
- 12:38Speaker 1: so everybody who's everybody who listens to the show, We've
- 12:41Speaker 1: had a lot of great comedians and actors on here,
- 12:44Speaker 1: and they know, like, before the show, we talk a
- 12:46Speaker 1: little bit before we get in, and you were telling
- 12:49Speaker 1: me some of the things about you being a Colts fan,
- 12:52Speaker 1: and you know, I was like, oh, we are very
- 12:55Speaker 1: similar in our insanity. And then I just watched you
- 12:58Speaker 1: exist in this first fifteen minute and I was like,
- 13:00Speaker 1: we shouldn't even be. We can't. We need to delete
- 13:03Speaker 1: cell phone numbers. This this is an unhealthy.
- 13:07Speaker 3: I'm sorry, No, it really is, like I and I
- 13:13Speaker 3: wish that I wasn't like this.
- 13:15Speaker 1: It's impossible not to be. It's impossible not to be.
- 13:19Speaker 3: Even so, I was in Indianapolis this past weekend and
- 13:23Speaker 3: I went to a bar afterwards to watch the end
- 13:25Speaker 3: of the Dodgers game. I've only been a Dodgers fan
- 13:28Speaker 3: for nine years, like I cause I didn't grow up
- 13:31Speaker 3: with a baseball team and do no want anyone to
- 13:33Speaker 3: come after me. And when they won, I had eight
- 13:36Speaker 3: of my closest friends there, four of my seven bridesmaids,
- 13:40Speaker 3: some other girls I've known like a long time.
- 13:42Speaker 2: They won.
- 13:42Speaker 3: I screamed and ran around so crazy that I got
- 13:45Speaker 3: back to the table. I put my head in my
- 13:48Speaker 3: hands and I said, gave myself an internal pep talk
- 13:51Speaker 3: that was, do not embarrass yourself in front of these
- 13:53Speaker 3: women you love, because I was like, I am, I'm
- 13:56Speaker 3: so insane.
- 13:58Speaker 1: After that, that's when you give the pep talk.
- 14:00Speaker 3: After that, after you yell at men you don't know,
- 14:04Speaker 3: get the out of here.
- 14:06Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Was that the was that the
- 14:08Speaker 1: walk off grand Slam? Yes, okay here, I'm not even
- 14:11Speaker 1: I don't enjoy baseball because my local team has like
- 14:16Speaker 1: drilled it out of me as much as I like
- 14:19Speaker 1: loved Kirby Pucket growing up. Yeah, and want to be
- 14:22Speaker 1: a baseball fan. So I don't even like baseball. And
- 14:24Speaker 1: when I saw that clip on you know, social media somewhere,
- 14:28Speaker 1: I'm just in my car. I don't even know who
- 14:31Speaker 1: the man who hit the home run was. I'm not
- 14:33Speaker 1: even nessus. I think they're playing the Yankees, is what
- 14:36Speaker 1: I thought in the moment. That's what I'm like, I
- 14:38Speaker 1: think this is against the Yankees. Yes, don't know what
- 14:40Speaker 1: game it is. And I was like, am I crying
- 14:43Speaker 1: in my car? Is that what's happening right now? So yeah,
- 14:46Speaker 1: I can recognize it and I love it.
- 14:49Speaker 3: Yeah, And sports says that, and it's like, not only
- 14:51Speaker 3: do I know who that man is, I know his
- 14:52Speaker 3: mother passed away.
- 14:53Speaker 2: I know his three year.
- 14:54Speaker 3: Old son, who I like worship has been through a
- 14:58Speaker 3: terrible health crisis this year. Like it's like I'm invested
- 15:02Speaker 3: now as a mother and that is and like a
- 15:05Speaker 3: lot of my friends since I became a mom, wh'ere like,
- 15:08Speaker 3: I don't like talking sports with you anymore because my
- 15:12Speaker 3: talking has gone way down because now I see everyone
- 15:16Speaker 3: as my son.
- 15:17Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 15:18Speaker 3: And so it's like when a guy drops the ball,
- 15:20Speaker 3: I'm like someone's baby.
- 15:22Speaker 2: Someone's baby is gonna go cry.
- 15:25Speaker 3: No, And like I watched I cried it every single
- 15:28Speaker 3: episode of Hard Knocks this year. It's like I despise bears,
- 15:31Speaker 3: fans despise them, and I'm weeping because a man loves
- 15:35Speaker 3: his mother.
- 15:36Speaker 2: Like it just it does really ramp it up.
- 15:39Speaker 3: I I scheduled nine am ballet lessons for my son
- 15:43Speaker 3: and then we go games start at ten am out here,
- 15:46Speaker 3: so we have ballet then we go to breakfast so
- 15:49Speaker 3: I can miss the first half because I get.
- 15:52Speaker 2: To Yeah, it's not good for my mental health.
- 15:55Speaker 1: No, I think I think we need to. I think
- 15:57Speaker 1: we need to. I think we need to switch to
- 15:59Speaker 1: nine am. It's this funny thing like cause I'm it's
- 16:03Speaker 1: my first kid as well, where it's the thing that
- 16:05Speaker 1: you hear people say because they can't elocute it right
- 16:08Speaker 1: where they go like, we're not sawing my son. I
- 16:11Speaker 1: just understood a different love and you're like, and then
- 16:14Speaker 1: you learn and you it sounds so stupid, and I
- 16:17Speaker 1: inarguably that description of it is. But it's it's biology, right,
- 16:22Speaker 1: It's science. It literally changes the chemistry of your brain,
- 16:25Speaker 1: so you just receive information differently. And I do that
- 16:28Speaker 1: same thing too, where I was like when somebody like
- 16:30Speaker 1: I had that thought during that home run, I was like,
- 16:32Speaker 1: I bet his dad is just living good right now?
- 16:36Speaker 3: It really does. I do think it like changes sports
- 16:40Speaker 3: for you.
- 16:41Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the absolute best part of it. But here's
- 16:44Speaker 1: as I've now. I was like, I told everybody, I
- 16:47Speaker 1: think you're insane like me, and then you were like, oh, yeah,
- 16:50Speaker 1: watch this and let's talk about our children. But you yeah,
- 16:55Speaker 1: So just to explain to people why I said that
- 16:58Speaker 1: you are the sort of Colts fan who you scheduled. Well,
- 17:02Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna say it because I no one
- 17:04Speaker 1: would believe me. So you say the thing out loud.
- 17:06Speaker 2: Okay. So I was getting married.
- 17:09Speaker 3: I did get engaged in front of the mural of
- 17:12Speaker 3: Reggie Miller that is in Indianapolis. That is where my
- 17:16Speaker 3: husband decided to not even get down on one knee
- 17:20Speaker 3: because he has bad knees from playing football, so he
- 17:23Speaker 3: crouched he did the Trevor laurn snow knee down in
- 17:26Speaker 3: front of Reggie Miller. And then as we were planning
- 17:29Speaker 3: our wedding, I looked at the Colts schedule and said,
- 17:33Speaker 3: when should I have my bridal shower in Indianapolis? I
- 17:35Speaker 3: wanted to coincide with like a good game. And then
- 17:38Speaker 3: I realized that Dwight Freene's jersey was being retired, and
- 17:43Speaker 3: Dwight Freennie is my number one favorite Cults player of
- 17:45Speaker 3: all time, and so I scheduled my bridal shower for
- 17:49Speaker 3: my mother in law to come in, all my friends
- 17:51Speaker 3: to come in from out of town the day before
- 17:55Speaker 3: Dwight Freenie's jersey retirement, so then I could go to
- 17:58Speaker 3: the game the next day.
- 18:01Speaker 2: And they lost, and I'm still upset about it.
- 18:04Speaker 1: And then tell me you for those people who are
- 18:07Speaker 1: listening not watching. So you have up behind you on
- 18:10Speaker 1: the left hand on your wall, Yeah, you have a
- 18:13Speaker 1: road sign. Tell me about that.
- 18:16Speaker 3: This is the exact mileage from where I had my
- 18:19Speaker 3: baby shower to Lucas Oil Stadium. So it's two thousand miles,
- 18:25Speaker 3: two thousand and sixty miles. And that is the exact
- 18:28Speaker 3: mileage from yeah, the venue to Lucas Oil.
- 18:32Speaker 1: I want to tell you, and I say this with
- 18:33Speaker 1: so much love because I have no less than five
- 18:37Speaker 1: things that are this exact thing. That is such a
- 18:41Speaker 1: stupid thing. It is such a dumb combination of like
- 18:47Speaker 1: when you're like, my irrational love for the creature that
- 18:51Speaker 1: I am birthing or gonna or I'm raising combined with
- 18:55Speaker 1: my irrational love where you're like, wouldn't it be neat
- 18:58Speaker 1: if I you know how they did like this? What's that? Stupid? Uh?
- 19:02Speaker 1: What's it? Waldrug? You remember that place in U Yeah,
- 19:05Speaker 1: during the Vietnam War, there's that picture of like ten
- 19:08Speaker 1: thousand miles the Waal drug and your brain was like,
- 19:11Speaker 1: I need that, but my baby and the colts and
- 19:14Speaker 1: I have exactly so many do my son when he
- 19:19Speaker 1: started learning to draw on stuff, the first two crayons
- 19:23Speaker 1: he used were purple and gold, and I was like, vikings.
- 19:26Speaker 1: I didn't even let him finish. I took it from
- 19:28Speaker 1: him because I saw him going for a third color.
- 19:30Speaker 1: I was like, this is all you meant. No, this
- 19:32Speaker 1: is your you, this was your art and I will
- 19:35Speaker 1: frame it and that will be everything to us as
- 19:38Speaker 1: a dad and son duo.
- 19:39Speaker 2: Does he go to daycare yet.
- 19:41Speaker 1: We're making the insane choice to put him in. Uh
- 19:45Speaker 1: what's the place where all their toys are?
- 19:47Speaker 2: Just like wooden monasury.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna. We're gonna take on the
- 19:53Speaker 1: challenge of Montossori School with my mania.
- 19:55Speaker 2: Okay, I very modern of you.
- 19:59Speaker 3: Sure, my son goes to daycare and he has little
- 20:03Speaker 3: friends and sometimes they will send pictures of them doing
- 20:06Speaker 3: stuff and so Conrad that's his name.
- 20:08Speaker 2: You can please look him up. Please please perceive the caution.
- 20:13Speaker 3: He wears tons of He wears Anthony Richardson jersey every Friday.
- 20:18Speaker 3: He also has an Edrind James jersey and then he
- 20:20Speaker 3: has tons of Lakers gear, like he just has a
- 20:22Speaker 3: lot of stuff. So they sent a picture one Friday
- 20:26Speaker 3: Conrad was in his Richardson Colts, Jersey, and then he
- 20:29Speaker 3: was sitting seated next to one of his best friends,
- 20:32Speaker 3: who I did not know up until that point had
- 20:35Speaker 3: parents that were obviously Steelers fans. And I screen shot
- 20:39Speaker 3: at it, screens shot at it, sent it to my
- 20:41Speaker 3: husband and my entire family and said, look who Conrad's
- 20:45Speaker 3: never playing with ever again. And I don't look at
- 20:49Speaker 3: that kid the same, Like I'm like, I know that
- 20:52Speaker 3: you're a sweet boy, but I don't know what's going
- 20:54Speaker 3: on in that house. So we'll be keeping a wide
- 20:56Speaker 3: berth from you.
- 20:58Speaker 1: And I think as somebody who whose closest rival is
- 21:01Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, whose fans, yeah, at best can't
- 21:06Speaker 1: be trusted with general transportation, or an ability to make
- 21:11Speaker 1: a meal for a large group of people, and any
- 21:13Speaker 1: of the basic tasks that you'd want logistical help with,
- 21:17Speaker 1: I can understand. We have we have somebody in our
- 21:20Speaker 1: neighborhood who drives by and like I don't know if
- 21:24Speaker 1: they are parked somewhere like just waiting, like oh, like
- 21:29Speaker 1: there's a walkie talkie system, like a guy behind the tree,
- 21:32Speaker 1: like he's outside. He's outside again. Yeah, he must drive
- 21:36Speaker 1: by my house three times a day, and without fail,
- 21:40Speaker 1: I will be outside and he will shout go Pat
- 21:42Speaker 1: go and give me the finger every single time. And
- 21:46Speaker 1: it's so funny, it's so good. Man. I do I
- 21:50Speaker 1: do know him. I do know the man. Now here's
- 21:52Speaker 1: the thing. I'm not like, let's hang.
- 21:55Speaker 2: Out, okay, but when no, But but when.
- 21:57Speaker 1: I see him at the playground with his kid, I
- 22:01Speaker 1: say hello, and then he tells me about how you
- 22:04Speaker 1: know the Packers are the divine choice for a football team,
- 22:08Speaker 1: and you know all the insane stuff you remember earlier
- 22:12Speaker 1: when you were like, we were so lucky to get
- 22:15Speaker 1: to Yeah, if only we could send that, like just
- 22:19Speaker 1: take a breeze of that up to Wisconsin. We're like, well,
- 22:22Speaker 1: I actually believe we were chosen right, right, right right,
- 22:26Speaker 1: the team that hosts these great quarterbacks. It's more the
- 22:30Speaker 1: spirit of Green Bay. You know.
- 22:32Speaker 3: My mom will do a flip thing with the neighbors
- 22:35Speaker 3: they live. My parents live right next door to a
- 22:38Speaker 3: former Colts I want to say, legend. He was important
- 22:42Speaker 3: to me, very fun who no longer plays. My mom
- 22:45Speaker 3: texts me a lot. She wants to talk to me
- 22:47Speaker 3: all the time, and I am a very responsive daughter,
- 22:50Speaker 3: so I will like sometimes miss some text messages. And
- 22:55Speaker 3: then what she'll do is she will say the name
- 22:57Speaker 3: of the Colts player and go, oh, I gotta tell
- 23:01Speaker 3: you a funny story about fill in the blank name
- 23:03Speaker 3: of the Colts player, and she knows immediately I will
- 23:05Speaker 3: call her.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Get you're gonna be on the phone. Really, that's really
- 23:08Speaker 1: good a parental manipulation. Also, it really is. My parents
- 23:13Speaker 1: can't move next to a former Minnesota sports legend. That's
- 23:17Speaker 1: an unhealthy dynamic for me. There's no way I'm handling that. Well,
- 23:22Speaker 1: no way, I'm I'm now, I'm the version of the
- 23:24Speaker 1: guy in the truck. I'm just in my driveway allway, Like, Oh,
- 23:27Speaker 1: are you outside right now too? Can I ask you
- 23:29Speaker 1: some questions?
- 23:29Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah.
- 23:31Speaker 3: So I luckily live very far away from Indianapolis, so
- 23:34Speaker 3: I can't be out there all the time.
- 23:36Speaker 2: So my mom is a nurse. They have three young kids.
- 23:38Speaker 2: They're very close.
- 23:39Speaker 3: My parents go to all of their kids like soccer games,
- 23:43Speaker 3: like they are close. My dad is not allowed to
- 23:47Speaker 3: have his phone number like my mom has his phone number.
- 23:51Speaker 2: And I, and he slips. Sometimes he goes, hey, I need.
- 23:53Speaker 3: To text so and so about the acorns in the yard,
- 23:58Speaker 3: and she's like, I'll text him, like I have seen
- 24:01Speaker 3: him try and wiggle it out of her and she's like,
- 24:03Speaker 3: you are not legally allowed to have this man's phone number.
- 24:08Speaker 3: So it's like my dad sometimes will just be like
- 24:11Speaker 3: I can see him just like standing on the porch
- 24:14Speaker 3: like anybody else side.
- 24:18Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's the greatest. That is probably that is
- 24:22Speaker 1: probably the greatest way that could play out, as long
- 24:25Speaker 1: as he doesn't cross the extra line or two.
- 24:27Speaker 2: No, they have a big fence.
- 24:29Speaker 1: A big fence, I would imagine, So I would imagine,
- 24:31Speaker 1: so you'd be like, excuse me, could you build this
- 24:33Speaker 1: fence tall enough so that a tall man standing on
- 24:36Speaker 1: a tall deck can't see over it? That's the sort
- 24:39Speaker 1: of fence I need. Uh. I want to I want
- 24:42Speaker 1: to ask you one or two questions about the game
- 24:44Speaker 1: this week. But I first want to ask you, because
- 24:48Speaker 1: it was such a weird time with the you know,
- 24:53Speaker 1: the weird coach, you had, everything that was going on,
- 24:56Speaker 1: how did you experience the greatest come back in NFL history?
- 25:02Speaker 1: Because I want to tell you the Vikings did a
- 25:07Speaker 1: very nice thing for my family. So I have a big,
- 25:10Speaker 1: weird family. So I have an adult nephew who's almost
- 25:13Speaker 1: my age, and then he has a son who just
- 25:18Speaker 1: a few years old but obsessed with the Vikings at
- 25:20Speaker 1: this time. So my nephews and my brother in law
- 25:25Speaker 1: John and the little boy, Tyson, went to the game.
- 25:28Speaker 1: And Ben Leeber, who's a Vikings legend, was nice enough.
- 25:32Speaker 1: He came over and he gave my nephew Seth's son, Tyson,
- 25:37Speaker 1: a Vikings jersey.
- 25:38Speaker 3: Wow.
- 25:39Speaker 1: And if you want to talk about, like just that
- 25:42Speaker 1: alone for a little kid is such a cool But
- 25:45Speaker 1: it's his first ever game and they're getting slaughtered, and
- 25:48Speaker 1: I'm sitting I'm not there, and I'm thinking, well, at
- 25:50Speaker 1: least he got this cool moment. And then it turns
- 25:53Speaker 1: out that this kid's first ever game in the history
- 25:58Speaker 1: of his life like the greatest comeback in NFL history,
- 26:03Speaker 1: So that that game was such a fun moment, even
- 26:07Speaker 1: more than it was like as a you know, a
- 26:09Speaker 1: fan of the team moment. How did how did your
- 26:13Speaker 1: brain receive that meltdown?
- 26:16Speaker 3: Let's call it honestly, and I will be bringing this
- 26:20Speaker 3: up in therapy. You like mentioning it. I'm like, I
- 26:25Speaker 3: don't know what you're talking about. And then as you
- 26:27Speaker 3: were talking, I was like, oh yeah, like I it
- 26:30Speaker 3: was like a suppressed memory, like if I I it
- 26:34Speaker 3: was like a trauma that I blocked out that Now
- 26:38Speaker 3: I am like meeting with like a trauma psychologist to
- 26:42Speaker 3: try and get it out of me. And I'm like,
- 26:44Speaker 3: this is this has to be witness tampering.
- 26:47Speaker 2: This is messed up.
- 26:51Speaker 1: You know.
- 26:51Speaker 2: I actually like the Vikings. I find the A.
- 26:57Speaker 3: I find the NFC North to be like a really
- 26:59Speaker 3: fascinating sort of microcosm of football. So when it was
- 27:06Speaker 3: when Jeff Saturday was the coach, that's just the time
- 27:11Speaker 3: that you go, you know, maybe rich men aren't smart,
- 27:16Speaker 3: and there's other times like that, but when you have
- 27:18Speaker 3: an owner like Jim Mersey, you really you hang on
- 27:24Speaker 3: and you hope for the best because you are on
- 27:26Speaker 3: a wild ride. You really are beholden to kind of
- 27:33Speaker 3: the absolutely insane whims of a person who you don't
- 27:40Speaker 3: know what they're gonna do next. And so I think
- 27:43Speaker 3: we I went to the first Jeff Saturday coach game.
- 27:47Speaker 2: It was in Vegas, and the Colts won.
- 27:49Speaker 3: They beat the Raiders, and we were like maybe this
- 27:52Speaker 3: is maybe this works, you know, like it really was like,
- 27:56Speaker 3: oh my god, this was so fun. I saw Reggie
- 27:58Speaker 3: Wayne the night before and I was just drunk enough
- 28:01Speaker 3: that I went up to him and I said, they
- 28:02Speaker 3: should have made you coach, which they should have because
- 28:05Speaker 3: he was actually on staff already, and he goes out
- 28:08Speaker 3: of my hands, you know. So I was like I
- 28:10Speaker 3: was putting in work on the ground too to try
- 28:12Speaker 3: and make sure this all worked out. And then that game,
- 28:16Speaker 3: that Minnesota game, it really I think drove home like
- 28:21Speaker 3: you do need an actual coach. You can't And like
- 28:26Speaker 3: I still listen to Jeff Saturday. I love PTI. He's
- 28:29Speaker 3: on PTI almost.
- 28:30Speaker 2: Every week, so good.
- 28:33Speaker 3: I think a lovely man, super kind took that on
- 28:37Speaker 3: the chin pretty much like a champ.
- 28:39Speaker 2: But it was just like, yeah, you need you need
- 28:42Speaker 2: a coach. It can't.
- 28:43Speaker 3: It was probably a good lesson for like all sports
- 28:46Speaker 3: fans to be like, you can't just like have a
- 28:48Speaker 3: guy who's good at something JJ Reddick and then just
- 28:51Speaker 3: put them in there and like cross your fingers, like
- 28:54Speaker 3: you kind of need somewhat of a pedigree to be able.
- 28:58Speaker 2: To do this.
- 28:59Speaker 1: You said The thing that I thought was most interesting
- 29:01Speaker 1: about the whole Saturday thing is he tried it, he
- 29:05Speaker 1: failed at it, he went, well, I failed at it,
- 29:08Speaker 1: owned it, and then just went back to the other
- 29:10Speaker 1: thing he was good at. I thought it was so
- 29:13Speaker 1: interesting to not see him try to what I think
- 29:18Speaker 1: people in every walk of life are so quick to do,
- 29:22Speaker 1: which is push the blame anywhere but themselves or even
- 29:25Speaker 1: part of it. Yeah, I thought that was really really interesting, dude,
- 29:30Speaker 1: Jim Hear say, because I, like I said, Jenna's family,
- 29:33Speaker 1: my wife's family is there. Owning a sports team is
- 29:37Speaker 1: also owning a business and winning and bus like, it's
- 29:41Speaker 1: a very complex thing. And when you get the best owners,
- 29:45Speaker 1: you get the ones who set winning right next to
- 29:48Speaker 1: the business aspect of it and believe they go hand
- 29:51Speaker 1: in hand. And you know, we've seen unending amount of
- 29:54Speaker 1: organizations that have owners who don't really value the winning.
- 29:58Speaker 1: And the thing that's interesting about Ears say, because you're right,
- 30:03Speaker 1: he's very open about his demons. He's very odd. If
- 30:06Speaker 1: no one's ever gone and read about the weird guitar
- 30:10Speaker 1: museum he has, which is incredible, So you're like, it's like, oh,
- 30:14Speaker 1: this is your baby over here you have all these
- 30:16Speaker 1: insane guitars. But I do think he's a guy who
- 30:21Speaker 1: whatever the path to it and if he can get
- 30:24Speaker 1: there is another conversation. I do think he seems like
- 30:28Speaker 1: he really wants to win a super Bowl. Is that accurate?
- 30:31Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely.
- 30:34Speaker 3: I think sometimes it like maybe blinds him a little
- 30:37Speaker 3: bit too. And I do think that the paytent era
- 30:41Speaker 3: wasn't more successful in terms of super Bowls is still
- 30:47Speaker 3: upsetting to him. And I also I think he's like
- 30:50Speaker 3: a good person as far as billionaires go. The Colts
- 30:55Speaker 3: I do want quality guys to bring into the community,
- 30:59Speaker 3: and I think that's like ursay caring about Indianapolis as
- 31:02Speaker 3: a small town to be like, these guys are going
- 31:05Speaker 3: to be like shoulder to shoulder at the grocery store
- 31:08Speaker 3: with everybody, Like we want to make sure that they
- 31:11Speaker 3: are good guys and that they feel supported by the community.
- 31:14Speaker 3: He does a lot for like mental health. He talks
- 31:16Speaker 3: a lot about addiction, like he very is front facing
- 31:20Speaker 3: in a way that I think he is trying to
- 31:22Speaker 3: better the community.
- 31:24Speaker 2: But he does really want to win.
- 31:26Speaker 3: I mean, the Colts have now lost the season opener
- 31:31Speaker 3: ten years in a row, and I don't know that
- 31:33Speaker 3: and hold we hold the record. We hold the record,
- 31:37Speaker 3: and it is devastating to him.
- 31:41Speaker 2: He hates it. And the guys that are here now
- 31:45Speaker 2: they're new guys.
- 31:46Speaker 3: It's like that that transcends like three different coaching staffs,
- 31:50Speaker 3: like a lot of different personnel changes, and it's just
- 31:54Speaker 3: like a hill we cannot get over, and it I
- 31:57Speaker 3: think eats at him.
- 32:00Speaker 1: That's, yeah, you almost have no place. I mean, the
- 32:02Speaker 1: fans take that a certain way, but he's probably he's
- 32:06Speaker 1: probably the only one that's been around for all of
- 32:09Speaker 1: those losses, So yeah, how do you not take that
- 32:11Speaker 1: in a ridiculously hard way. So if you're coming into
- 32:16Speaker 1: this game this weekend, which this is a really big
- 32:18Speaker 1: spot for the Vikings, I thought that Rams game, there's
- 32:22Speaker 1: this Zach Martinez does this show, and he's infuriating because
- 32:27Speaker 1: he's right a lot. He said, you know, teams that
- 32:29Speaker 1: come off playing the Lions really struggled the next week
- 32:33Speaker 1: and we had a short week a Thursday against the Rams.
- 32:36Speaker 1: Puka and Cooper come back. And if you go and
- 32:40Speaker 1: you get that wins the as the Vikings, you kind
- 32:43Speaker 1: of walk out of there and you go, man, we
- 32:45Speaker 1: compete in that last one right at the ship and
- 32:47Speaker 1: we keep going. Now, you have put a unique amount
- 32:51Speaker 1: of pressure on this. This is a really big spot
- 32:54Speaker 1: for the Vikings. What do you worry about? From a
- 32:58Speaker 1: Colt's perspective, where do you where do you see this
- 33:01Speaker 1: thing going? And where is your big concern facing Minnesota?
- 33:06Speaker 2: I think the Vikings are angry.
- 33:09Speaker 3: They seem upset about the no call on the face mask.
- 33:14Speaker 3: So you never you never want to face a team
- 33:17Speaker 3: that's angry. They've had extra time, so there and I
- 33:22Speaker 3: and I also think it does not help the Cults
- 33:25Speaker 3: that they are the national number one story right now.
- 33:29Speaker 2: That brings a lot of eyes, a lot of attention.
- 33:34Speaker 2: It's it's upheople too.
- 33:36Speaker 3: It's like, well, we had Richardson and then we had Flacco,
- 33:39Speaker 3: Then we had Richardson, then we had Flacco. I think
- 33:42Speaker 3: our defense looked really good this past week and we
- 33:47Speaker 3: got to Forrest Buckner back Sire Franklin is at the
- 33:50Speaker 3: top or leading the league in tackles, and the Colts
- 33:53Speaker 3: defense really flies under the radar just because it's not
- 33:56Speaker 3: a team that usually has this powerful defense. Kenny Moore
- 34:01Speaker 3: so CJ. Stroud struggled, he really and it was it
- 34:04Speaker 3: was mostly the offensive line, but it's like Divorce Buckner,
- 34:09Speaker 3: Big Grover Stewart. They can get to some guys and
- 34:13Speaker 3: they will be looking to rattle Darnold and and I'm
- 34:19Speaker 3: you know, I think they can make an Okay offensive
- 34:22Speaker 3: line look bad. This rookie we have lot to lat to,
- 34:26Speaker 3: has like started kind of rough and then has like
- 34:29Speaker 3: for some fumbles, had some strip sacks like they I
- 34:33Speaker 3: am pretty impressed by them. And then I would have
- 34:38Speaker 3: to imagine I think Jonathan Taylor is.
- 34:40Speaker 2: Going to be back.
- 34:41Speaker 3: I I think that he they got. My hope as
- 34:46Speaker 3: a fan is they just feed him the ball and
- 34:49Speaker 3: then that that opens everything up. But like I I
- 34:53Speaker 3: just see Justin Jefferson like probably having two touchdowns. Like
- 34:57Speaker 3: I bet they'll put Kenny Moore on him, Kenny Moore
- 35:00Speaker 3: as a stud, but like Justin Jefferson is the best
- 35:04Speaker 3: wide receiver.
- 35:05Speaker 2: Like it's just it's hard.
- 35:08Speaker 3: Yeah, if it's anywhere near him, he's he's gonna get it.
- 35:11Speaker 3: So I could see them exploiting the secondary for sure.
- 35:16Speaker 3: I don't I don't know if it honestly feels like
- 35:19Speaker 3: a moral morale must win for both of them.
- 35:24Speaker 1: Yeah, Like yeah, especially with the flat. Yeah, they're both
- 35:27Speaker 1: in weird spots. Yeah.
- 35:28Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's like you guys are fighting probably for
- 35:32Speaker 3: a wild card, you know, for if we're being honest, just.
- 35:36Speaker 2: Because the Lions be honest.
- 35:38Speaker 1: So go ahead, okay, I.
- 35:39Speaker 3: Mean yes, you and the Colts and the Vikings are
- 35:42Speaker 3: all are both in the sense still in the hunt
- 35:45Speaker 3: to win their division. Sure, but like the Texans have
- 35:49Speaker 3: now beat us twice, have the tiebreaker over us, so
- 35:51Speaker 3: it's like unless something catastrophic happens there, like we are
- 35:53Speaker 3: fighting for a wildcard. The NFC is good, and like
- 35:57Speaker 3: there's gonna be a lot.
- 35:58Speaker 1: Of teams the Eagle coming. They're good.
- 36:01Speaker 3: I really wish we were not playing you this week.
- 36:04Speaker 3: And I'm sure there's some Vikings players that are like,
- 36:08Speaker 3: I don't need this old man quarterback coming in that
- 36:11Speaker 3: we kind of have limited tape on with this team.
- 36:17Speaker 2: I don't know, I am honestly.
- 36:19Speaker 3: So it's it's in Minnesota because Taylor Swift is in
- 36:23Speaker 3: Indianapolis this weekend, and I think it's good the Colts
- 36:26Speaker 3: are not at home.
- 36:27Speaker 2: I think there would be booze. I think fans are upset.
- 36:29Speaker 1: I mean, the Vikings losing their all world left tackle
- 36:32Speaker 1: is a really big issue, especially against that started defensive line.
- 36:35Speaker 1: Would I'll be curious. I think Hockinson should be back?
- 36:39Speaker 1: What will be? They have ran seemingly as a guy
- 36:43Speaker 1: who admittedly knows nothing about how football is actually played,
- 36:48Speaker 1: they seem to have succeeded with such long developing plays
- 36:54Speaker 1: throughout the season. The line has done such a good job,
- 36:57Speaker 1: and they've gotten some guys so far down the field.
- 37:00Speaker 1: I think with TJ. Hockinson back being a release valve
- 37:03Speaker 1: underneath and actually being able to get some separation, maybe
- 37:06Speaker 1: that some of the other tight ends can't. I will
- 37:09Speaker 1: be curious if they come out and you see them
- 37:12Speaker 1: early quick drop, quick throw slants, you know, check downs
- 37:17Speaker 1: and marching down the field. I will get real confident,
- 37:20Speaker 1: real quick if if we are going to try to
- 37:24Speaker 1: hold up against I think you hit it on the
- 37:27Speaker 1: head your defensive line for longer developing plays. That worries
- 37:32Speaker 1: me because if when Jonathan Taylor plays for your football team,
- 37:35Speaker 1: they are just as much as everybody wants to devalue
- 37:38Speaker 1: the running back position. We know it here. Whatever the
- 37:42Speaker 1: money is for these guys, when you take your superstar
- 37:45Speaker 1: guy who and this is the thing with Aaron Jones.
- 37:47Speaker 1: When Aaron Jones is out, it's not just that he
- 37:49Speaker 1: can run and catch. There is nobody, I don't think
- 37:53Speaker 1: in the league who picks up up the middle pass
- 37:56Speaker 1: protection like Aaron Jones. And so when these guys are out,
- 38:01Speaker 1: you just almost don't even look like the same football team.
- 38:03Speaker 1: So I would like to get a lead. I would
- 38:06Speaker 1: not like, I don't want your running back and your
- 38:09Speaker 1: defensive line to control the tempo of the game or
- 38:13Speaker 1: that gets real scary, real quick in my opinion.
- 38:16Speaker 3: Yeah, even hearing you describe like the short plays, I'm like, yeah,
- 38:19Speaker 3: you the cultural miss tackles, you know, mis Tackler two.
- 38:25Speaker 2: So I don't know.
- 38:28Speaker 3: I have two birthday parties this Sunday, two kids' birthday party,
- 38:31Speaker 3: so I may be yelling on my phone. Yeah, while
- 38:35Speaker 3: while a blippy impersonators there.
- 38:37Speaker 1: Well, thank you for doing this. I told you this
- 38:39Speaker 1: off air. I'm going to say it on air. I
- 38:41Speaker 1: love your podcast with you and Rachel and Sarah so
- 38:44Speaker 1: I was on her last year. You guys are fantastic. Everybody.
- 38:48Speaker 1: We will plug it at the beginning, we'll plug it
- 38:50Speaker 1: at the end. Please download Megan's show and thank you
- 38:53Speaker 1: so much. For doing this, and I hope you have
- 38:55Speaker 1: a wonderful season, not counting this coming week. Do you
- 38:59Speaker 1: want to give a prediction or do you wanna Do
- 39:01Speaker 1: you want to stay away from that? I don't. Here's
- 39:03Speaker 1: the thing. I always make people give a prediction, but
- 39:06Speaker 1: your I don't feel like I want to put you
- 39:09Speaker 1: through those emotions, given what I recognizing you as a fan.
- 39:13Speaker 3: I want everyone to have a nice time and I
- 39:16Speaker 3: don't want anyone to get hurt. And I also will
- 39:21Speaker 3: say to the people of Minnesota. I went to the
- 39:25Speaker 3: Patriots Eagles Super Bowl there and I remember landing and
- 39:30Speaker 3: I'm from an Indian Indianapolis host to a Super Bowl,
- 39:33Speaker 3: and you and the Vikings had lost the NFC championship, heartbreaking,
- 39:38Speaker 3: and I remember being like, I don't know that we
- 39:40Speaker 3: should even be going to these people's city. This feels inhumane.
- 39:44Speaker 3: And I landed and everyone was so kind, so lovely,
- 39:50Speaker 3: in a level of maturity that I myself would not
- 39:53Speaker 3: be able to have. If I had volunteered for that
- 39:56Speaker 3: Super Bowl, I'd have been like, burn my name tag,
- 39:59Speaker 3: I'm not coming.
- 40:00Speaker 2: I hope it's a failure.
- 40:02Speaker 3: I hope the stadium collapses like it would have not
- 40:05Speaker 3: been like, Hi, do you need any help with directions?
- 40:07Speaker 2: I was shocked.
- 40:08Speaker 3: I was like, Wow, Minnesota's are a good stock. So
- 40:13Speaker 3: I do wish you all well and always beat the Bears.
- 40:17Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we can all agree on that that
- 40:20Speaker 1: nobody needs that team to succeed, No one.
- 40:23Speaker 2: Needs those fans. They've had enough.
- 40:25Speaker 1: They've had enough.
- 40:26Speaker 2: So yeah, I hope you guys make it into the playoffs.
- 40:31Speaker 2: I think you will well.
- 40:31Speaker 1: I wish the best for you as well. Thank you,
- 40:35Speaker 1: go Cults. Thanks again to Megan Gaily for joining the show,
- 40:38Speaker 1: and thank you for listening to our podcast feed while
- 40:41Speaker 1: you're here. Give it a like, give it a subscribe. Also,
- 40:45Speaker 1: a big shout out to Ticketmaster, the official ticket marketplace
- 40:48Speaker 1: of the Minnesota Vikings, for helping make this show happen.
- 40:52Speaker 1: We will see you all again next week.