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Vikings Tailgate: Cy Amundson and Chad Daniels Are Asking Who Dey? - CIN - EP 56 · The Vikings Tailgate

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  Speaker 1: Come on, I'm here, Hey, Viking fans, Welcome to another
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  Speaker 1: your host.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We're coming off a rough one folks. Your favorite team
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  Speaker 1: is one and one, and we go into week three
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  Speaker 1: facing a team from a city who calls spaghetti chili
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  Speaker 1: and whose most popular bank is named after an improper fraction.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the Cincinnati Bengals are coming to town
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  Speaker 1: and joining me to talk everything about the city and
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  Speaker 1: the team is the one, the only Chad Daniels.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, how are you? It's one in two thirds,
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  Speaker 2: It's what the bank should be. Why would you give
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  Speaker 2: your money to somebody who can't break that and do
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  Speaker 2: that math? BurrH. I'm excited. I'm gonna tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited for the game, and I'm excited that we
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  Speaker 2: 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 1: because I think, yeah, that's right, we're this sort of guys.
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  Speaker 1: If you let us recap, uh, oh, we got it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, brother, there's a reason that the windshield is bigger
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  Speaker 2: than the rearview mirror.
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  Speaker 1: You feel me.
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  Speaker 2: We got to look forward.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we do here on I love that, actually.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know you did it in a hillbilly voice,
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  Speaker 1: but I love it. Normally, normally we do the thing
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  Speaker 1: where we kind of dive into both sides of what
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  Speaker 1: we like and dislike about it. But I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I live in Cincinnati. We have a ton of friends
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  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. We love the city, we love the comedy there.
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  Speaker 1: And because their team is a tortured like they, I
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  Speaker 1: identify with them as it. There's not many organizations that
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  Speaker 1: you can really look at them and go, man, you
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  Speaker 1: just you've got that same Charlie Brown vibe, you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting the football pulled out from you in the fan base.
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  Speaker 1: So I like, yeah, I'm gonna have a hard time
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  Speaker 1: saying anything negative about the Bengals or their fans.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting because when you're a Vikings fan, you go,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what, this happened. Bad things happen to us,
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  Speaker 2: and then when we watch the Bengals, we go, they
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  Speaker 2: did it to themselves. It's a different attitude for the
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  Speaker 2: same situation. My girlfriend and said, we have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of friends in Cincinnati, how do you cheer for? And
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  Speaker 2: you go, I'm not going to listen to that, no,
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  Speaker 2: because we cheer just as hard and we make fun
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  Speaker 2: of them just as hard when we beat them.
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  Speaker 1: That's absolutely correct. There is a really like when I
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  Speaker 1: first moved here and you start meeting a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Bengals fans, one of the first things you learn is
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  Speaker 1: that they were one of, if not the, but one
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  Speaker 1: of the last teams in the NFL to get an
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  Speaker 1: actual website. And so yeah, of course, and the standard
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  Speaker 1: joke and it's a dad joke, but it, dude, it
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  Speaker 1: rocks everybody goes yes, because we had a hard time
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  Speaker 1: stringing three w's together. God dang, that's a.
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  Speaker 2: Good Oh, that is a really good joke. I think
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  Speaker 2: it is actually because it's harder to type on a
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  Speaker 2: keyboard when you have blisters from playing the banjo. They're
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  Speaker 2: so close to Kentucky. The airport is in Kentucky. They
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  Speaker 2: call it Cincinnati, and it's in a different state, dude.
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  Speaker 1: There is a so most of what they call Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: the city, like a good portion of it is right
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  Speaker 1: across the river in Kentucky. And so there's all these
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  Speaker 1: little cities over there, and one of them is Florence. Okay, Florence, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: And uh so they were going to build a mall
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  Speaker 1: in Florence and it was going to be called the
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  Speaker 1: Florence Mall. And so there was a water tower and
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  Speaker 1: they were gonna and I like, this is the funniest
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky thing of all time, Like, how do we promote
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  Speaker 1: our new mall? Well, somebody painted on the water tower
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  Speaker 1: so you can see there's a mall here from water tower. Hat.
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  Speaker 1: So the plan was to go up and literally write
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  Speaker 1: Florence Mall on the water tower. But because it was finished,
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  Speaker 1: the water tower before the actual mall, Florence was told
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't use the water tower to advertise something that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't actually there, and then repainting the whole thing became
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  Speaker 1: too expensive, so they just replaced the M with a Y,
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  Speaker 1: and now it just says Florence y'all. I think their
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  Speaker 1: minor league baseball team is called the Florence y'alls. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's really.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's fantastic. I Uh. One thing that I've never
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  Speaker 2: understood about Cincinnati is like, you know, Las Vegas, they go, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be Sin City, and they took that name,
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  Speaker 2: and now because of it, it's just like whatever happens
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  Speaker 2: here stays here. There are two Sins in Cincinnati, and
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  Speaker 2: nobody thought, should we do it? There's two of them.
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  Speaker 1: When I started looking like because I look into the
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  Speaker 1: teams a little bit before we do this show, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, traveling down that tortured fan base path. Man,
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  Speaker 1: they've got an all time one. So in nineteen seventy six,
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  Speaker 1: Bengals founder Paul Brown he retires as head coach. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got to appoint a successor, so he chooses
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  Speaker 1: long time assistant coach Bill Johnson, who it makes sense
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  Speaker 1: you give him the job. His nickname was Tiger, who
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  Speaker 1: you want to run the Bengals, Brother, You won't Tagger
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  Speaker 1: to run the Bengals. So he gives him that job, right,
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  Speaker 1: But the offensive coordinator and the guy he passes over
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  Speaker 1: is Bill Walsh, like the greatest innovator of offense in
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  Speaker 1: professional football. Old Tiger goes eighteen and fifteen and is
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  Speaker 1: fired after an zero to five start to year three,
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  Speaker 1: and Walsh just pipes trophies with Montana and Young for dude,
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  Speaker 1: that's like, there's that. I think the story is that
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  Speaker 1: John Wooden was on his way to interview for the
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  Speaker 1: Gophers and there was a snowstorm, so he went to
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  Speaker 1: interview for UCLA first and they're like, you're hired. That's
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  Speaker 1: that times a thousand you had him on your staff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one thing where Bill Tiger Johnson goes up
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  Speaker 2: and sees all the Bill Walsh's stuff and he goes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but you see these trophies. His name still isn't Tiger.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. I will say like, there are good moments
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  Speaker 1: and bad moments from Bengal history that are very interesting
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  Speaker 1: to me and worth talking about. I mean, you're you
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  Speaker 1: were a young white rapper, so we should start with
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  Speaker 1: the Ikey shuffle.
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  Speaker 2: I mean question who didn't in my generation? I ask you,
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  Speaker 2: who didn't cross a goal line where the pylons were
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  Speaker 2: made of hoodies out in somebody's backyard and do the
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  Speaker 2: Ikey shove? Please forget it.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. So, Ikey Woods, they
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  Speaker 1: go to the super Bowl that year, right, he runs
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  Speaker 1: for one thousand, sixty six yards I think fifteen touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: he wins Rookie of the Year. How many yards did
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  Speaker 1: Ikey Woods end up rushing? Four in his.
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  Speaker 2: Career one thousand and sixty seven.
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  Speaker 1: There was one thousand and five and twenty five all
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  Speaker 1: time one hit. Wonder that guy, you had such a
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  Speaker 1: good rookie year that you have a dance that we
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  Speaker 1: are talking about decades later, and you only ran for
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  Speaker 1: another four hundred and forty nine yards fifty nine yards
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  Speaker 1: the rest of your life and we're still talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Ikey shuffle. Iowa also say, uh Boomer assiasin we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about nicknames. A couple of weeks ago. Man for
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  Speaker 1: a guy named Norman Julius. That's his name. Norman Julius Asiasin,
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  Speaker 1: and you'd think it's because he could rip the football.
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  Speaker 1: It's not. His mom called him that because of how
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  Speaker 1: hard he kicked in the womb. Yeah, yeah, he just
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  Speaker 1: I think their literal quote was something like he's always
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  Speaker 1: booming me in there, which sounds like somebody who's gonna
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  Speaker 1: wind up a quarterback in the Cincinnati, Kentucky area. I
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  Speaker 1: love dude. I love Boomer Assiasin. That's a home run nickname.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So you you remember the show Opie and Anthony, right,
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  Speaker 2: and Anthony is this guy. He's got a lot of opinions.
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  Speaker 2: He's the toughest guy you've ever heard of. And Opie
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  Speaker 2: and Anthony they'd always go do all these pranks and
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  Speaker 2: everything was funny. Nobody was off limits. And then one
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  Speaker 2: day Anthony broke down and told a story about how
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  Speaker 2: all of his problems into adulthood stem from Boomer Assiasin
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  Speaker 2: bullying him in school. So I'm gonna tell you that's
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  Speaker 2: why I like Boomer Assiasin. This has nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: with football. This has to do with pre bullying a
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  Speaker 2: bully man.
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  Speaker 1: The when you're down here, like when we move down here.
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  Speaker 1: As a Viking fan, it's that nice thing where I
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  Speaker 1: just hold too many football grudges and but there isn't
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  Speaker 1: I think when you haven't won something major and for
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  Speaker 1: a really long time. You're talking Cleveland, Brown's the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: before they did, right. You can't say the the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox because you know they had the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff going on in Boston. But you know a few
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  Speaker 1: of these franchises, like there's just a almost a camaraderie
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  Speaker 1: and an understanding where you kind of just inherently are like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm cool with you. We don't have to. But but
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  Speaker 1: the way the other thing that is a lot like
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota about Cincinnati is and it is everywhere that like tribalism,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like Mott pal is better than your town brother. Sure, Florence, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: why don't you walk at home? But they the Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: rivalry is it's very Green Bay ish. Where we're all
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  Speaker 1: sitting here. We have a lot to say about the personalities,
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  Speaker 1: appearance and activities of people who live in Wisconsin. You
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  Speaker 1: just duplicate it. There's this all time moment in Bengals history.
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  Speaker 1: It's like nineteen eighty nine. I think they're playing the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, and an official made of call that the
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  Speaker 1: fans did not care for. Seahawks are I think they're
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  Speaker 1: backed up against their own end zone and the fans
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  Speaker 1: it's it's December. So they start balling up snowballs and
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  Speaker 1: heaving them onto the field, and the Seahawks are like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: we're not doing it, We're not playing with you throwing
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  Speaker 1: stuff at it. So they will and the officials have
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  Speaker 1: to pause the game. And I love I love the moments.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if it's high school call when a
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  Speaker 1: coach when they have to hand him the PA system
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  Speaker 1: and be like, coach, can you please get a hold
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  Speaker 1: of these people? It's so good. So they hand the
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  Speaker 1: coach at the time Sam White or White. That's how
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  Speaker 1: unimportant they've been, is they have been? Is? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how to pronounce this guy's name. Uh. He gets
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  Speaker 1: the microphone and to the whole stadium he goes, will
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  Speaker 1: the next person that sees anybody throw anything onto the
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  Speaker 1: field point them out and get them out of here.
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  Speaker 1: You don't live in Cleveland, you live in Cincinnati. The
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  Speaker 1: place the erupts. Imagine just being in like Grand Rapids,
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  Speaker 1: like 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 2: That is like that is like a dad just going like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you're acting like your brother right now, knock it off.
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  Speaker 1: Like I remember that as a kid. I don't, and
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  Speaker 1: I do feel that against Packer, like the state of
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin and I don't. It's so funny because when you
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  Speaker 1: cut the top half of both states off, you could
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  Speaker 1: just drive across them and it's nearly indistinguishable.
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  Speaker 2: 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, I don't know how we decided that, but
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  Speaker 1: we there's there's certainly a heart clog issue there.
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  Speaker 2: I think we were like, hey, come get all moldy milk. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can have our moldy milk.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of the Packers, probably the greatest on field moment.
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  Speaker 1: And I know we're not supposed to glorify streakers or
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  Speaker 1: pe people who break onto the field, sure, but there
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  Speaker 1: was a guy I'm not sure what year it was,
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  Speaker 1: but the Bengals were like five and two. It was
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  Speaker 1: like their best start in a decade and a half,
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  Speaker 1: and they were playing the Green Bay Packers and they
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  Speaker 1: were up like two or three touchdowns, and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, the Packers start coming back. The next thing
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're only down a touchdown. Brett Farv's the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's bringing him down the field like from
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  Speaker 1: his own five yard line, like twenty seven yard past
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  Speaker 1: seventeen yard pass another similar story, another bad call, and
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  Speaker 1: he's right in that position where you're like, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is the part where Farv throws a touchdown and Cement's
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  Speaker 1: kind of that.
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  Speaker 2: Guy pass interference call, passing reference call.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably, I would assume so, given.
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  Speaker 2: What Okay, because I remember I remember the Packers at
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  Speaker 2: that in that era getting past interference calls when the
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  Speaker 2: defense was on there.
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  Speaker 1: And by that era, you mean from the moment Brett
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  Speaker 1: Farv took a snap until the moment Aaron Rodgers was
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  Speaker 1: traded to the Jets.
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  Speaker 2: It's very fun to watch Packer fans complain about calls
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  Speaker 2: and haven't seen a realistically called football game in fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy. I've always said, it's like, uh, Packer
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  Speaker 1: fans are a lot like that. The richest kid in
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  Speaker 1: your school who doesn't understand that, Like, if you mess
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  Speaker 1: up your Honda, you're gonna have to work for a
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  Speaker 1: while to get your new Honda. And if he crashes
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  Speaker 1: his Maserati, he shows up the next game, he's like,
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  Speaker 1: look at it, it's a Bentley, right, where's your Bentley? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Gets a flat tire in his Bentley. He's like, where's
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  Speaker 1: your where's your tire? Butler? God, my tire Butler's late.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always getting screwed by my tire Butler. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: what the vibe is. But so far it's he's about
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  Speaker 1: to drop back, and you just have that vibe that
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna mm hm bam. He's just gonna make he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna make the throw. Because he drops back, this fan
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  Speaker 1: breaks onto the field and literally plucks the ball out
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  Speaker 1: of his hands. Terrifying, right, if you're a football player,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, there's a human from the audience
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  Speaker 1: on like, so he plucks the ball from his hands
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  Speaker 1: and he just jets splits two dudes, like almost like
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  Speaker 1: a movie where the two security guys dive at him
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  Speaker 1: and crash into one another like angels in the outfield
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  Speaker 1: almost and then he gets absolutely plowed by a security
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  Speaker 1: guy as he's almost getting off the field. Man, it
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  Speaker 1: is a I know, we don't promote those videos. They
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  Speaker 1: don't even show it on TV anymore, right, yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 1: But it's to Kevin Harlan had that great call on
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  Speaker 1: the radio where he called the streaker on the field.
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  Speaker 1: I would have loved to have seen him call this
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  Speaker 1: far one.
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  Speaker 2: If I was the coach of the Bengals, I just
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  Speaker 2: would have been like, on the phone, immediately, get this
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  Speaker 2: guy a one dollar contract for the day he's on
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  Speaker 2: our team. That's a turnover.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. I'm surprised that the city of Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: didn't invincible him, that they didn't vince Papoli. And it's
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  Speaker 1: funny I read an article on him in the New
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  Speaker 1: York Times that was like thirty years later. The guy
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  Speaker 1: who did it reflect You're like, man, you got it.
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  Speaker 1: Must slow news day. If you're doing, if you're doing
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  Speaker 1: a verbal history of the time a guy jumped on
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  Speaker 1: the field and stole the ball from Brett Fahv.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tough. I went down to watch the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: play in Cincinnati, and as you know, there are all
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  Speaker 2: these foot bridges. There's bridges going from Cincinnati over to
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky back and forth, a lot of bridges over the river.
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  Speaker 2: So my friend Marshall and I were on a bridge
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  Speaker 2: and we could we weren't at the game yet, we
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  Speaker 2: could see the JumboTron for the starting lineups and the
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  Speaker 2: national anthem started and we were like, this is this
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  Speaker 2: is so awesome to watch them right here. And then
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why. I don't know exactly what was
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  Speaker 2: going on, but the blue angels flew over. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if you've ever had the blue angels fly right
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  Speaker 2: over your head. It is so terrifying. Everything starts to
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  Speaker 2: shake in your body and you don't know why. And
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  Speaker 2: the bridge started moving a little bit. We were like,
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  Speaker 2: what's happening. A bunch of people dove down to the ground.
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  Speaker 2: It was it was awesome to be able to feel
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  Speaker 2: that fear but not be in any real danger. I
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  Speaker 2: really appreciated that.
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  Speaker 1: What when when was that? What was that a recent
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  Speaker 1: game or was this way back? Ye?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is from twenty probably twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you you came to a game in Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: years ago? Okay, I the first time I moved down here.
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  Speaker 1: That was the year that the Dalvin Cook fumble game, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in overtime, when when we all thought we were walking
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  Speaker 1: in to beat a Cincinnati team that was the same
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati team that it had been for decades, and that
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  Speaker 1: year ended with them in the Super Bowl. So we
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  Speaker 1: all felt really bad about that loss. But it's in
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  Speaker 1: the in the matchup between the two teams. I think
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  Speaker 1: the home team has won fourteen of the last fifteen matchups.
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  Speaker 1: First game was nineteen seventy three. That includes, in addition
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  Speaker 1: to that fumble game and the Blue Angel game that
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  Speaker 1: you were at, a thumping by the Vikings probably the
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  Speaker 1: biggest winning the series of forty two to seven and
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: ninety two and the Bengals. And this is what my
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: friends talk about this one a lot down here are
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: friends the win and in playoff opportunity on Christmas Night
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: against the Vikings in nineteen eighty nine, just our team.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: You know, you never think about, like you have all
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: your sports trauma, like the mist kick, you know, all
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: the things that went wrong. You don't necessarily realize what
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you put on others. They're that game ruined Christmas for
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: people we know and care about.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: We know a lot of comedians that talk about their
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: parents being divorced in Cincinnati, and I feel like that
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: caused fifty percent of them.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: It played a role. Also, this is a big memorabilia city, man.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I know everybody wears memorabilia everywhere, but the amount of
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: out fits that you can't go out on Sunday with,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Like the guy has an outfit, the wife has an outfit,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the kid has an outfit, the baby has an outfit,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the dog has an outfit, and the kid's baby doll
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: that also has its own dog, they both have outfits
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: like they are. The amount of merch purchased in the city.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: You think, as a comedian, you'd sell more merch here
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: just due to the branding that these people are into.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Well, it's probably you don't sell more merch there because
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: you're stuck in a hallway that's also the entrance to
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: the club. So there's a lot of confusion going on.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: But that'll hit home for six people.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: We have a friend who has a company there with
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: all the memorabilia, who bought up a lot of the
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: rights to a lot of teams and stuff, and so
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: you know, he rarely does comedy anymore because of the
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: memorabilia game going on in Cincinnati.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the merch king of Cincinnati, no question. Well,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of injuries, Chad, and I don't I
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: don't think you and I are qualified to discuss them
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: or when they're coming back. I think all I know
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: is I don't like watching a backup quarterback. But I'll
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: tell you what, I kind of like two backup quarterbacks.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: If we're gonna get one. Let's get the fact that
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: this is Jake Browning versus Carson Wentz. Yeah, it's interesting
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to me. Jake Browning he crushed us a couple of
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: years ago. I think I argue that he's one of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the better, if not best, backups in the NFL. And
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I am, dude, I'm very curious on this Carson Wentz thing.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: You can if he goes out and he plays well
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: where you and I are from close to the North
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Dakota border, if he goes out, and imagine he goes
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: out and plays well and throws a big touchdown to
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Adam Thielen, I think they're gonna have to shut down
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the schools and name it a national holiday. From where
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: we live ninety four up to Fargo, they're just gonna
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: have to shut the whole area down. People are gonna
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: lose it.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: They're gonna have open eye outs for people like you
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: and I from Minnesota, like we're gonna make a.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Whole team of us, and we're gonna do this the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz thing, like, objectively speaking, whether he was on
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: our team or not, the pride the North Dakota State
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: people who because that team was so unique and how
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: good they were and how many titles they were, and
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: then he was kind of the crown prince and he
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: first got to get drafted like that, and he has
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a really good rookie year and on and on. I
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: mean there, you would have a better time convincing someone
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: water was sand right then that Carson Wentz shouldn't be
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the guy every step of the way. So I there's
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: gonna be some because it's a home game, right, there's
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: gonna be some North Dakota State like belligerent heat in
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: that stadium. You're gonna be there, right, I think you're
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: gonna feel an interesting vibe when that dude, Like, there's
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of sixty year old farmers are like, finally, right, oddly,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I know it like, you're gonna get a lot of
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that in that stadium.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be able to feel an energy of paying
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: less taxes but using another state stuff. It's gonna feel great.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I can't wait for it. Here's the thing. The only
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: thing that worries me about Carson Wentz is that if
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: he goes back to his North Dakota roots and like, hey,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I played high school ball and all this stuff, and
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: you go, yeah, but there's two more guys out there
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: with you this time, Carson, this isn't nine man football anymore.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: You got two more guys to throw it too. So
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I'm excited to watch a lot of opportunities.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I think. I think here's my prediction. Well, I also
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: like that it's interesting because these aren't backups with you know,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: like I said, we have a lot of injury options.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: But like they're throwing to the two best receivers in
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the game, and one of them gets Justin Jefferson, the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: other one gets Jamar Chase. That's a pretty wild backup matchup.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I think you remember Lynn sanity. I have to tell you,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I think if he goes out and plays well, who
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: whens Mania is gonna run pretty wild. Like if he
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: goes out and he puts something like outrageous up like
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: a three eighty or a three fifty, three eighty and
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: three or four touchdowns. Man, you're gonna you're gonna have
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a vibe throughout the state that will be something we
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: haven't felt before.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I will tell you this. I have a friend that
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: lives in Fargo, and someday night he sent me a
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: picture of his Vikings Carson Wentz jersey that was on
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: his body, so he already has it. He's and it
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: just said, So you're telling me there's a chance, that's
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: all it's said.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Well, I think it is a good part in the schedule,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: if there were ever a good part to be struggling
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: with injuries, et cetera, et cetera. Like you've got the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: world champion and a bunch of other world can and
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not besmirching the Bengals without Joe Joe Burrow.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I think you have an opportunity here, especially because you're overseas.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Like if Wentz can go in and play, well, let's
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: just stack a couple of w's, right, Yeah, let's let's
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: do what this websiteless city could never do. And let's
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: let's put three ws on top of one another, and
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: then let's let's get into that buy. Let's make sure
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Darra saw Addison. Let's get this whole group back. Yeah,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and then we really see It's almost like we can
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: restart our expectations. You can't. I mean, you before in
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: one and I will focus on one game, but you
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: before in one and you can kind of restart your expectations.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Also cam Akers back on the team. Cam Akers or
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: who I love, who I think is fantastic. I'd like,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: very dynamic, and I I love the idea as someone
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: who was in a relationship that went really long and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: was off and on constantly. Man, I just love that
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: he's always willing to come back as somebody who as
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: somebody who wouldn't be married if the other person didn't
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: come back a bunch of times. Man, I'm a big
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: cam Oh came every time we need them, here comes
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: cam Akers to step right into the offense. Also, that
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: is Ah, you don't see a lot of that where
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: a guy who's so familiar with a coach and so capable,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: not that they don't come back, but that they're available.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Like it's just timed up so uniquely.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Every time I think we're looking sharp, I think, you know,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I have my predictions locked and loaded. I have a
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: couple of them feeling good about it. And Cincinnati, it's
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: gonna be nice because we won't play them every year,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: and so this means when we win this game, we
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: will have years to talk crap.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be also nice to not have a primetime game.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like you go to a birthday party
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: where you can't make an idiot yourself because it's your
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: wife's family on Friday, and then you go to a
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: wedding with your mom's side of the family and they
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: don't think you're very mature, so you got to wear
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: a shirt that everybody's gonna like and not say anything.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: You really think about the world the whole time you're there,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: and so Sunday you finally just put your sweat pants
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: on and you're like, this is a bat like noon
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: noon game at us Bank. Everybody, take a breath. Let's
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: just we don't have the whole world on top of us.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Let's just let's just go out and throttle a team. Yeah,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: without the whole world on top.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Of it and his fans. I'm excited. I'm excited to
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: go to the game when people are still alert enough,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: the coffee is still working where they won't run into
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: your car as you're sitting at a stoplay. That's what
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for you.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: If you like this show is just becoming kind of
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: like a docu series on how poorly a person can watch.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Because we're two weeks in. Week one, your internet goes down,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: your phone surface is spotty, so you have to watch
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: a game poorly on your cellphone. Week two opener at
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the bank, Chad's got his gal. They're going down. Whamo,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: A dude runs right into him, rear ends him, and
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: causes all sorts of problems. So, I mean, who knows?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Who knows what's next on this list?
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you a fun game watching two backup quarterbacks
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: earning their spot. Vikes win by sixty.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: My guess was Chad gets on the field in an
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: important third down conversion and steals the ball from Jake Browning.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Well, here's the problem. I could not ever run in
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: between two people and have them tackle. They'd have to.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: They would have to give me too much credit and
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: run into each other in front of me because my
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: speed just does.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Not do it. Okay, let's do predictions. Okay, you already
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: gave yours, you already, but let's do game You had
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Vikes by six. Give me a player performance and then
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a Chad prediction.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, player performance, I have two of them. I think
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: that because Cashman, let me ask you, this Cashman's still out?
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Do we know?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I believe? So I believe Cashman will still be out.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Okay. Then I say Eric Wilson pick six interesting, yep,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: and I have Carson went Vents rushing.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Touchdown beterrest team.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I I'm gonna go Vikes one hundred and twenty seven
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to seventeen. I think over the Bengals. Yeah. For player performance,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I use this guy in game one, I'm gonna do.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I think there's a chance that we see an old
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: school like, hey, the running back ran for one hundred
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: and twenty yards and two touchdowns. Like give it to
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: that dude, Jordan Mason and let him rumble ye twenty
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: eight times. Let that dude have twenty to twenty eight
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: carries and just let him. I just think he's a
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: beast man. Just let him. I think he's gonna he
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: can wear that defense isn't what it was, wear him out,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: wear him down, and then when they're worn down, here
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: comes Carson Wentz with his big you know, North Dakota rock,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: pick an arm and blam a couple of deep shots.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: So I'm going big running back game with a cup
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: of explosive deep shots. And for a personal opinion, for
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: a personal prediction, this will be the first game that
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I watch with my son. Okay, like, actually watch now.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: He's he's very into it, as much as a toddler
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: who doesn't understand what's happening can be into something. And
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: he's gotten to watch a few minutes of the first
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: two primetime games. We're gonna watch this game together. He's
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: embarking on a journey that you and I and the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: adults in our lives have all been on, and I'm
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: just hoping that his journey and ours eventually leads to so.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: So my prediction is we will watch eight minutes of
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the game, he will lose interest, and then I will
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: watch it on my phone while telling him that it's
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: important to him. Well, he eats Dino nuggets and asks
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: about Sesame Street.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Oh love it. Well, my personal prediction is I'm not
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: going with my girlfriend I'm going with a friend and
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I'm going to have a separate meal each of the
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: four quarters, hoping for overtime.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they call that. They call that U Chads, Morgasborg.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: That wasn't a thing. I tried to combine Chad and
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Smorgsborg and then I just said both the words, and
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: that's that. Sucks to end the show that way, but
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: we're at okay. Well, let's get a win. I'll see
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: you next week. Hey, thank you everybody for joining us
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: on the show this week and each week. Thank you
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: for listening to our podcast feed while you're here. Give
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: it a good review, you know, five stars. Whatever you
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: can do, it makes a difference. Finally, huge shout up
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: to Ticketmaster, the official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: for helping make the show happen. Enjoy the game, everybody,