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• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: Hello, and it's uh Steve Wirt from uh Pittsburgh Sports Memories podcast, and uh some uh events had uh happened in between us recording this uh podcast on Steeler Media Legends and then us publishing it.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: And unfortunately, um what had happened was uh legend, uh Steelers legend, uh Tunch Oaken had uh just passed away just a day or two before we were going to publish this episode.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: So we just wanted to add a little special note to it and to um what a legend Tunch was, and uh he'll always be remembered with the uh likes of Myron Cope and uh Jack Fleming and many others who made the Steelers so great to watch.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_01: And not only was he a great Steeler legend and football guy, he was just a great person too, who truly lived um the values that he believed in.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he was the one of the more genuine people you ever meet in life.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: I never met the man, but from all the stories I've heard and things I've heard him say, he definitely lived out the values that he believed in.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so enjoy our uh little segment on uh Tunch uh in this uh podcast.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's definitely be a nice tribute to uh his life and uh contributions to uh sports in Pittsburgh.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of Pittsburgh Sports Memories.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_01: In this episode, we're all gonna talk about everybody's favorite, the stinking media.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: At least it wasn't, I guess it wasn't Bill Cowler's favorite too much.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: So there have been uh many uh radio, print, and TV personalities and journalists.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um really their job is to you know cover the game and you know help us you know get a closer look on that.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: But um some have shocked us while others have uh you know entertained us, and some might have even had like a voice or personality that could probably only work in uh Pittsburgh.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um as usual, I'll be uh joined with uh my co-host uh Tim Hannon.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, everybody.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so uh I guess we'll jump right in here, and we're gonna start off with uh somebody that uh everybody knew knew.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know how to organize these, so I just kind of threw them all together.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I guess you could go old school, new school.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_01: I'll call this guy kind of new of the newer school here.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that would be one Mark Madden.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: He is definitely the most controversial figure on this list.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um quick his quick bio.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_01: He's from he grew up in Schaler.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: He graduated from Duquesne University, so uh you got that going for you, Tim.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he worked for the Post Gazette.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: He covered high school sports when he started.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um, he also worked with the WCW Wrestling as an announcer.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um then he he was on a Channel 4 Sports Sunday roundtable show.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: He also hosted a talk show on ESPN Radio 1250.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's probably where everybody kind of became familiar with him.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_01: He still writes a column, I think, for the Beaver.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: No, I think he I don't know if he writes a column for the Beaver County Times.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: He definitely writes a column for the Trip Review.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: And he currently hosts now a talk show on 1059 DX.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um, what he's known for, why he's a legend.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he he got kicked off that round table show on channel four by uh Dan Rooney, supposedly.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: That's always been the rumor.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_01: I think he said something like negative about Heinz Ward or something.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um he also got kicked off of ESPN radio for making a joke about Ted Kennedy.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: And this is the quote.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: I I remember hearing this, I don't remember it being this bad, but I I guess I don't know.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm very disappointed to hear that Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is near death because of a brain tumor.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: I always hoped Senator Kennedy would live long enough to be assassinated.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so they kicked him off for that.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's a lot of people that don't like Ted Kennedy, so I always thought that was kind of political, but I guess maybe not reading that quote.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh honestly, that was that was one of those things that you know so it was definitely a little crass.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um was that the worst thing he ever said?
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: Not by not by a mile.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: And and were there people that were like legitimately offended by that?
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like I won't I won't listen to your station anymore.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: I won't buy any products of people who advertise.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, there really really wasn't anybody that was it was a small group of people that were actually like hurt and offended by that.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_00: I I wrote the station manager at 1250 an email at the time that I still have, and I was I was all angry about him getting fired, and I was like, I'm not gonna listen anymore.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: And he wrote back and he said, and I have I pulled it up here, he said, I can't ask you to understand why we dismissed Mark, but this has been coming for a long time.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: And he wrote some other stuff, but it was just interesting that that was his reply.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: So this was like the straw that broke the camel's back.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: This was this was Mike Thompson, who was the general manager at 1250 ESPN radio.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: He actually wrote me back and said it was interesting that he would say that.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you would think A, you wouldn't even get a response, and B, it would be just a template like, Thank you for listening, you know, um, we believe, blah, blah, blah.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, he basically said, you know, this has actually been a long time coming.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: So um, that was interesting to hear.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it was very candid, and it just made you think, okay, they were just kind of looking for a reason at that point, and this was the reason.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know that, Tim.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's great.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, well, wow.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he wrote a letter to the editor.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, he also has like this thing, Mark Madden, where he picks a stealer and he just starts picking on him.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: I remember it started with like Jerome Bettis, and then it kind of moved to like Heinz Ward, like I said, that's what got him kicked off the um that Channel 4 show.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_01: And then um then it was Ryan Clark, if I remember correctly, because that was back when they were cracking down on the headshots and stuff, and now it's Juju because he dances on TikTok and stuff.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um he once bet uh on a more humorous note, he once bet Mario Lemieux that he couldn't score from a face-off.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so in 2002 against the Buffalo Sabres, Lemieux actually scored a goal off the faceoff.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: And uh Mark Madden, true to his word, donated uh$6,600 to the Mario Lemie Foundation, which of course benefits people with cancer and such.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: So uh that was a pretty cool, pretty cool little story.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: And um uh Madden when he did WCW, I don't remember do you remember Tank Abbott at all?
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: He was like a very he ran a UFC, like one of the first UFCs.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: He was an actual UFC fighter in the very early days of that, and then he went into like professional wrestling and he beat up Mark Madden in like some sort of bit.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: I guess they were trying to make Tank Abbott a heel or something.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um uh Madden called uh used to call Le'Veon Bell and Antonio Brown the No Rings Mafia, which I always thought was kind of funny.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: But uh I mean that's just kind of what he does.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he's like you know, he's just really the wrestling heel heel persona, is what he's brought to like radio.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: So just the just the stuff he says just to get on people's skin and you know stuff like that.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean you nailed it right there at the end, Steve.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's exactly his stick is he's a wrestling heel.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, we talked in that last episode, uh, last episode about um Kurt Engel and and how he was a heel and he was trying like when he came to Pittsburgh, he's like, Oh, this town is garbage, you know.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like you're just trying to say stuff to rile people up because that's your persona, and that's exactly why he goes after the beloved figures, he the Rooneys or you know, Juju or Bettis, or all the guys he said he he he targets, you know, unless it's the penguins, because he actually loves the he's actually a penguins fan.
• 8:25
  unknown: Yeah.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: So he won't he he won't go after Mary or Sid because he actually likes the you know, he's a fan, but he's not a fan of any of the other teams, and so he'll just go after whose ever beloved the most.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I I remember listening one day and he went on a rant about um those memorials on the side of the road.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like if somebody crashed and and died, there would be like a memorial set up on the side of the road.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, I don't want to see that on my drive home.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, he it's just like you could get offended by that stuff, or you could just look at it and say, Okay, I get it.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: He's trying to get a reaction, so why get upset about it, right?
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, he's actually very, very knowledgeable too.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: He's not just a shock duck.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's what happens is like he kind of mixes in like his sports knowledge and like especially on hockey, like like except for when it covers the pens sometimes with the playoff, like he always seems overly optimistic with the penguins, but sometimes he's realistic too.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like the last couple years he said, Oh, I think the window's closed for them.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I'll give him that.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'll give him that credit.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I he's not like you said, he definitely is a Pens fan, and I think sometimes that he looks a little bit too optimistic with them, but he is realistic too.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean and he just I I don't know why he doesn't like the Steelers.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I think it's I think sometimes it it it comes across more than just a bit to me.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like sometimes I can tell okay, this is just a bit, and then there's other times like I don't know if he's still legitimately mad that like they got him kicked off that one show.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was just one of those stupid Sunday roundtable shows.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't even know if you get paid for that, or you know, it's just more just to get yourself publicity than anything.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: So but that that's Mark Madden.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_01: He's definitely one of the bigger sports personalities in Pittsburgh sports history.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: So I figure we start off with a kind of shock jock.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'll definitely, this guy I would say is old school, but this is like respectable old school, and that would be Ed Bouchette.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: And he wrote from for the Post Gazette from 1985 to 2019.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: And Tim, he exclusively covered the Steelers, right?
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember him covering like any other sports.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: Do you?
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: No, he was the Steelers beat guy, and he was always the guy that you went to for just any sort of Steelers knowledge.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know, no whatever whatever you wanted to know about and and whatever you wanted to believe is truth.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: Well, did Ed Bachet report it?
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, he was the guy for for Steelers news.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: And and it's a shame.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: Now he's with the athletic, and um, once again, you know, I guess I'm too cheap to do this.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you have to pay a dollar to read him.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: Because I like you said, I like if you really want to know what's going on with the Steelers and it not just be like a bunch of like made up BS, like somebody actually is in the know, it's it's Ed Bouchette.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_01: He's the he has he still has.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: I looked it up when I looked him up because I was wondering if they because the NFL Hall of Fame, how they induct people, is every team with a s every NFL city they pick one writer and that writer gets the Hall of Fame vote.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: And then I think there's a couple at large, like people like Peter King.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: And there I think there might be a couple.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: There was I think he used to be I think Dan Lebetard used to vote uh for the Miami.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know who does I didn't see who does the Miami anymore, but it's but he still does the Pittsburgh, he still has the vote for the NFL Hall of Fame for Pittsburgh, even though he works for the Athletic now.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: So but like you said, he's very well respected.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like I already mentioned Peter King, but I think I would kind of compare him to Pittsburgh's version, a local version of Peter King, like a very knowledgeable.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: I don't always agree with everything, Peter King's opinions, but when it comes to like sourced information, like you'll never go, you'll never get a bunch of BS from like Peter King or Ed Bouchette.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know what I mean?
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: If if they're reporting it, it's definitely gonna happen or has happened.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good way to look at it.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, moving on to uh baseball, um, a guy who's just like a general, all-around, likeable, nice guy, and uh it's a pretty fun guy to listen to.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh Bob Walk.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, his bio, he had a uh 13-year career as a Major League Baseball pitcher, and he was with the Pirates from 84 to 93.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, he famously I I had to put this in here just because it's funny, and every time it comes up, he does kind of get ribbed about it.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, he gave up 10 runs against the Phillies in 1989, that first inning that one time.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um, he was warming up in the bullpen during that infamous ninth inning in Atlanta in 1992, which that's all we'll talk about that.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh in game five of that same N NLCS, he pitched a uh complete game three hitter to stave off elimination.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: So actually, the reason they were in that game seven was because of ball block.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um after he retired, I guess I was in '93, he became announcer for the pirates.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: And um, why he's a legend, he's like a really likable, funny color guy.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: And he's he's knowledgeable.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: He knows baseball, but he's like just got like a lot of personality, and he's just always says something interesting or funny.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um one of the funnier things that happened was he fell out of his chair during a pirate game.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: Do you do you remember that?
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: I um so like well, we have the link to the video, but you have to watch that.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he so it happened, and like I remember later that season the pirates actually had a bobblehead night, and they have a bobble, there's a bobblehead out there of Bob Walk falling off his chair.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's absolutely hilarious.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: Because I knew I knew a guy who had that bobblehead.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: He went that night and had it.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: So it was uh you know, Bob Walk's just kind of generally a good sport and fun guy to listen to if you have to really watch the pirates.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I guess if you got three hours to kill and nothing to do and really want to watch some bad baseball.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, yeah, did Bob Walk fall out of his chair because he fell asleep watching the Pirates?
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: Because I've probably done that before.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think I think that was back kind of in the couple years when they had McCutcheon and Walker, so the Pirates were actually good.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: So when that happens.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe he was just in shock after all the years of losing.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he was like, I've seen so much bad baseball.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, look, they're good.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: Whoa.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: He was kind of leaning back in the booth.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: If you watch the video, it's funny.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: He's leaning back in the booth, and he just the chair slides out like from behind the wall and stuff.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's hilarious.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: So um moving, uh staying in the I guess this would be more the new school category.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, a guy we've talked a lot about before, uh Tim Benz.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, Tim Tim Benz was born in Boston, but we won't have hold that against him.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: He graduated from Syracuse, and um he hosted a morning show on 105-90X until 2014.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, he hosts the Steelers post-game.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: If I think he still does, because I I know it was I think one of the preseason games I tuned in, I thought I heard him still talking on there.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: And currently he writes a column for the Tribune Review.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_01: And this is how like I think Tim Benz is officially a Pittsburger now because he did the he moved back to Boston and got a pretty good job at like whatever their WEEI.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's like the big radio station in Boston.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: And he actually moved back to Pittsburgh.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: So he's officially a Pittsburger, Tim.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: That that makes him officially a Pittsburgh, right?
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you leave Pittsburgh and then come back.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: Come back.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: You just can't A Rite of Passage.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: Even though he's really a Syracuse from graduate Syracuse, which just makes it all the more fun because he's so smarmy about it.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: And just as a Pit fan, like it it's annoying, but it's a fun kind of like he'll get me annoyed, but it's a fun kind of annoyed because he's just you know, and then Syracuse is such garbage anymore.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't there hasn't been that much to to to really cheer about with them.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: But um what he was really known for, um, he quit his morning show one time over a Second Amendment debate.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: Do you remember that?
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: He like got all like fired up about something.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like some gun store was giving away a gun and he's just like, oh, that's a horrible idea, and he got into it with all these people on the internet and stuff.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't did he did he come back?
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: I don't remember.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, he quit.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: He literally quit the morning show over that.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: I remember that.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: And uh like I said, he loves to harass Pit fans, and then anytime like he gives like an an a like um what would it say, an opinion on pit basketball or football, like you know, it's just oh just shush you shut up, you Syracuse orange person, you know, go back to Syracuse, yeah.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: But um no, it's all in good fun.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I always like Tim Hand Tim Benz.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: I thought he had pretty good opinions and pretty pretty fun guy to listen to, so yeah, and that's surprising about the Second Amendment debate because um he's always typically been a middle-of-the-road political guy.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: He's I he he's written some really great articles for the TRIB, uh you know, usually sports-related, but where he's just pointed out the ridiculousness from both sides of the aisle, and you know, whether it's the the national anthem debate or whatever.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: I I've just always appreciated his kind of take on things because it's a lot more it's a lot less um one side of the aisle kind of passion, and it's a lot more just practical.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: You don't always have to agree with him, but I just I've always so it's it's just funny to he to hear that that was something that you know he actually left that job over.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: I think he became like the sports director for all of Clear Channel then for a while.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: And his his wife does something in the media for the I think she worked for the trib, and I don't know if she got a job in Boston, and he just moved with her as part of the deal, and then she came back to Pittsburgh, but they definitely did like the Pittsburgh thing.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like, how many people from Pittsburgh have done that too?
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like, that's why I said it, like moved to another city for like a year or two, and then it's like oh, I'm back.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's like it's just like there was like a couple years ago, I swear there was this rash of people that left Pittsburgh that all of a sudden came back to Pittsburgh.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's like it's weird, so yeah.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: His his um wife, at least at one point, wrote for the trib.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then um Julie Benz, who is I want to say his cousin.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: That sounds right, yeah.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um she's an actress who's been in some stuff, so yeah.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: I you know, that's that's he's definitely has has some uh some relatives that are also in the media.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: The stinking media.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um sticking with maybe uh old school guy, uh Stan Savarin.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: So uh Stan, we we love the show.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh born he was born in Cleveland.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_01: Once again, we won't hold that against him.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: He graduated from Miami University just like uh won Ben Rothelsberger, but um, I don't think uh Stan played any quarterback there.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: So uh he hosted Sports Beat from 1991 to 2009.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: He's hosted a number of radio shows.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: I remember him doing Penn's pregame and post-game.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: He's a member of the Western PA Sports Hall of Fame.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: He's a member of the uh Pirates Media Wall of Fame.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: And uh why he's famous, he's nicknamed the godfather of Pittsburgh Sports.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: He's kind of like one of those even-handed like kind of guys.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: He's really knowledgeable sports, he he's pretty popular.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_01: He one time had a feud briefly.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: Normally him and Madden get along pretty well, like they go on each other's show and stuff, but he had a little blow-up with Madden.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: I think it was about the Steelers Hall of Hall of Honor.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like Madden was like, Oh, why even had this?
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's stupid.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and he was like, geez, just because you're not involved, you don't gotta like crap all over it.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: It was like, really?
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: So uh Stan's been around a really long time, he's been around for 45 years, and he still does a radio show.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: I've I've actually listened to it just in the last couple weeks, like, and it's the same kind of show, it's got like an old, definitely an older feel to it.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's the hey Stan, what do you think of Tristan Jari?
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: Are the penguins gonna keep him?
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'll hang up and listen, you know.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's still there's still a market for that.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, I mean, you're right, he's been around, you know, as long as you and I have been alive, he's been uh a Pittsburgh sports um media figure.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, he's just been around forever.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I used to listen to his show a lot when he was on in the afternoon, um, and and always enjoyed listening to him.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: He's like you said, knowledgeable, easy to listen to, you know, has opinions, but doesn't, you know, kind of conveys them in a different way than a guy like Benzer or Madden might.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I listen to those guys too, so it's just it's a nice kind of balance.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: Too bad they can't put them all on the same station.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: Now that would be awesome.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: But um now I guess sticking with Stan, since we stand, we gotta say Guy, Guy Junker, since Stan and Guy love the show.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Guy grew up in Baldwin.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: He Graduated from Penn State.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe we should hold that against him.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he works in the Channel 4 sports department since 1984.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: He's uh done pregame, halftime, and post-game for the Steelers.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: He's been around a long time, too.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: He hosted Sports Beat with Stan like for a long time.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: It was Stan and Guy, love the show.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but he's okay.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: I think he I always think of him more of a reporter than ever really uh, you know, a talk show host.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe I was too young for the whole sports beat thing, but I mean uh he's another kind of old school, you know, I'll hang up and listen kind of kind of guy going on there.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um and going into more play-by-play, uh, a gentleman named Lanny Frateri.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: Do you remember Lanny?
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: Of course.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: He's uh he was uh Ethica College grad, and he started calling the Pirates play-by-play in 1979 until his retirement in 2008.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: His 33 years of play-by-play for the Pirates is the longest in team history.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, no doubt about it.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: That was I remember that.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: That was like, no doubt about it.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like and go ball, get out of here.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: Overly describing foul balls.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: I remember that.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: And it went into the third row on the third base side.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: And um he once he called he called the game for ESPN where Bob Knight threw a chair across the court.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: And um, I do have yeah, I do have some audio here, uh Tim of uh Lanny.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_07: The Pirates have scored three here on the bottom of the night.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_07: The Bucks have the tiny run at first base.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_07: And a one goal of pitch.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_07: Giles swings drive to right field.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_07: Buckles win by way of a grand slam.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_07: Brian Giles, a line drive, grand slam into the right field seats.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_07: Count him six, seven, eight.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_07: Giles makes nine.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_07: Bucks win.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_07: Nine, eight.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_07: There was no doubt about it.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, as you can hear, that's uh Lanny doing his thing.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, there definitely was no that's a pretty good no doubt about it there, huh?
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, that was always it was just like comforting to hear his voice.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: And that was you know, that was back in the day where you would actually listen to baseball on the radio because you'd be, you know, I don't know, doing something else, right?
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: You didn't you couldn't bring the TV with you like you you could now with streaming services and stuff.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, just hearing his voice.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: And it wasn't just on the radio, you'd be on on TV too.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: So just to really have a lot of good memories of the Pirates when I was younger, and his voice went along with most of those.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I always always liked Lanny.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: Lanny was uh legendary in 1979, so he I guess he called the last Pirates World Series.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: So that'll be an answer to a trivia question 50 years from now, still.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh staying with uh Pirates play by play guys, uh one Greg Brown.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: I think he's a media legend by this point.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm thinking.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um for three years he was the color analyst for the Buffalo Bills.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: If you listen to the uh NFL films highlights of the big comeback game against Houston, uh you definitely hear Greg Brown like chiming in at key parts, so it's pretty cool.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: So in 94, he he decided he had enough of uh winning football, which is probably good because the Bills stunk for a long time until about a couple years ago.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: He decided to go watch the Pirates stink for 20.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: He he replaced Laney Fateri as the main play guy in 2009.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um his catchphrases are raise the Jolly Roger and Cannonball coming through, and uh he had a good one, Marte Partey.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um here I have a little clip of him uh doing a home run call.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: I think this is the Equato game.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_05: Whoa.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_05: Cueto drops the rattled him.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_05: Dropped the ball as he was ready to go into the wind up.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_06: Here's the 2 1.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_06: And there's a fly ball on the left center field.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_06: That ball's deep toward the wall.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_06: And it is gone.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_07: Russell Martin clears the deck against Johnny Quiteau.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_07: It seems 2 0.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: I never get tired of
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh, they gave me chills.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: I like to have chills from that.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for Johnny Quato has to live that.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: And like you can really and we even got bonus Bob Walk in that clip, too.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: So there you there you there you go.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_01: But um that that's some great calls from from Greg Brown.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: Greg Brown, you know, he's had to watch a lot of bad baseball, so I guess that's you know, good for him.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: At least he got to be for for the Quato game.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: So Yeah, he it's rare that you find a baseball announcer with as much enthusiasm as Greg Brown, so kudos to him, especially like you said.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know, given the team he he's assigned to.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um sticking with uh I guess I guess this is play-by-play, guys.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Mike Lang, the legend.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: He just retired uh recently.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um Mike Lang joined the Penguins in 1974.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_01: He actually worked for a team called the San Diego Gulls, which I guess was uh another hockey team.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: He left the Penguins in 1975 because they were bankrupt.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_01: Can you believe it?
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_01: The Penguins bankrupt.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: Who'd have thought of it?
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: Who thought it?
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: I guess he called some soccer games in Washington, D.C.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_01: And then in 1976 he came back to the Penguins and he stayed with them until just 2021.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: And uh he was the Penn's main TV main TV announcer from 76 until 2006.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: And he actually did radio calls in two until 2021 when he retired.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um but I don't know if anybody remembers this.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_01: He called some pirate games in the 1980s.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if anybody remembers that.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, why was he a legend?
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: Well, he was in the movie Sudden Death, so that immediately elevates you to legendary status.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I I think he I think he curses in sudden death, doesn't it?
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: Or is that Stagger Wall?
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: I I think that's Staggy that curses, yeah.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I don't know if he said like when the terrorist came in, scratch my back with a hacksaw or something.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: But uh when Drog Clan Foundam kicked somebody, maybe they should have had like a Mike Langism.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: But uh that's kind of leads us into what he really is famous for is his goal sayings or game sayings.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: So uh he has a collection of them.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um these are just a few, they aren't all of them.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: There is a leak a link in Wikipedia that has a list of them.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's a hockey night in Pittsburgh.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's a hockey night in Pittsburgh, and Elvis has left the building.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: And uh more recently, slap slap me silly, Sydney.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: And he le smiling like a butcher's dog and beat him like a rented mule.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: He has some great calls, and um I think uh the main one we'll do we'll share him is the 1992 Stanley Cup call, because that's probably probably probably his best one.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: I look through some of them.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_01: The 2009 one's kind of frenetic.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's not bad, but I I like the I like the other one better, so I will share that with you.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_07: Stelly Hill shoots and block! The penguins have won the Stanley Cup! Oh Lord Stanley, Lord Stanley, get me the brandy.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_01: So uh there's uh Mike Lang doing his uh Mike Lang thing.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh definitely the king of the catchphrases, definitely probably one of the more legendary play-by-plays in Pittsburgh sports history.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um your favorite Mike Langism, uh Tim.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have one?
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I like um beat him like a running mule because it's just I don't know, it just always makes me laugh, and it's always at the expense of some poor goaltender.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that just got I remember in the in the 2009 conference finals, um, you know, they had this really good goaltender named Cam Ward, and uh there was a game where Malkin just destroyed him with a hat trick, and it was just he beat Ward like a running mule, and it just was I don't know, those those ones always just made me smile for whatever reason.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: So but I but I honestly my my fa I take that back.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's probably my second.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: My favorite is honestly just the shoots and scores because it's just so classic.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's just such a classic call from I mean you have you know you have that call for guys that have been playing for the penguins for the last two years.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_00: You have that call for guys that were playing for the penguins in the 70s.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's just amazing how long he he was with the penguins, and it's gonna be so odd just to try to associate anything with the penguins without Mike Lane.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's definitely, I mean, he's gotta be one of the top announcers like in sports of all time.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: I would put him up there with Vin Scully and you know, who else?
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_01: Jack Buck.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember much about Jack Buck.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_01: Who was the one who said, and we'll see you tomorrow night?
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_01: Was that Vin Scully in the 89 World Series?
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: That was 91, that was Jack Buck, and and Jack Buck's.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: That was Jack Buck.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah he spent a lot of years as the St.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: Louis Cardinals announcer, Harry Carey in Chicago.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like you had a lot of those guys in baseball.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Ernie Harwell in Detroit.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_00: But definitely Mike Lang uh is um you know one of those guys that that is just that who's been there forever and who it's really hard to associate a team like the Penguins without his voice.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I I just like like I trying to think of like Gus Johnson or yeah, it's it's hard to think of anybody that's like comparable to him.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean Gus Johnson just doesn't have like any sayings or or like there's the guy who does the the Boston Brewing games, and his more thing is like he's just so homer.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know what I mean?
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like if somebody hits like a Boston player, it's like the greatest tragedy, you know, tragedy ever, you know.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, oh my gosh, you know, Pasternak got checked.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, what a horrible person you are, you know.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: So but uh yeah, Mike Lang's definitely a fun one, and uh definitely I'd be surprised if he isn't in some sort of Hall of Fame somewhere, if he isn't already.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_00: He's he's in the hockey hall of fame, actually, already, so and well deserved.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um uh sticking with absolute legends, uh, that would be one Bino Cook.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um his bio, he graduated from Pitt in 1954, and I didn't know because he served in the army for two years.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um he was yeah, I can't see that.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: I just can't picture that.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: Bino in the army.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_01: That had to be a trip, huh?
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um, he was Pitt's sports publicist from 1956 to 1966.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I guess in the 80s he did some commentary for WPXI, but really where he rose to fame was he worked for ESPN from the late 1980s until his death.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um, he was referred to as the Pope of college football.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_01: He really was a legend in college football more than anything, and probably more nationally than even Pittsburgh.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: Like he's he's big in Pittsburgh, but like on a national level, like you know, Beano definitely.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um one time he predicted Ron Paulis would win multiple Heismans.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, I guess that didn't work out too well for Bean for Bino there.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um another great another great quote by uh Bino was uh that Dracula and LSL LSU football are at their best after sundown, which is just hilarious.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember one time I couldn't find this clip on the internet.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_01: I know I've seen it, but I couldn't find it anywhere on the internet.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: The internet really let me down on this one, but I know he did this.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_01: He bet uh Howard Baldwin, he Howard Baldwin at a press conference, like they were having like a question to answer with Howard Baldwin.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: He bet he would sell the penguins and leave town within five years.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_01: And that's just it's like amazing, like the wow, the the Hutzpah and Bino there.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh just but that's Bino for you.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, and there is a field, I think one of the practice fields at Pitt's practice complex is named after Bino Cook.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_01: So I be Bino, he wrote a great like I know I've said it before, like he wrote a great introduction to one of the uh Sam Shulo, he's a pit historian books about Pitt.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_01: And um I mean B Bino's just he was a legend.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_01: He he's like if you want to learn something about college football, you just definitely listen to Lean listen to Bino talk.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, his his knowledge on college football was always amazing.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um you talked about San Saburn used to have the afternoon show every I forget what day of the week, Wednesday or something, he would always have Beano on at four o'clock.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: And the and Beano would always have a college fight song as like his introduction song, and he would switch it once a year.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: And for a while it was like the rambling wreck from Georgia Tech.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I think maybe the Michigan fight song was in there, and they would actually play like the song with the words and everything.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's like intro him in.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: And he just always had these just great nuggets, he had this amazing memory.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like he'd be sitting there like, yeah, and then the 1957 Sugar Bowl, you know, and he would just reel off stuff that you're just like, wow, how do you remember that?
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um so yeah, yeah, he was he was just a wealth of knowledge.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's a shame.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: I I do miss Bino, and and is if you ever do look on the uh he has some outtakes on YouTube still from his ESPN days are absolutely hilarious.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: Just Beano just I can hear him.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_00: Tell him I can hear him.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I remember those clips, those were classics.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: ESPN played those for years.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_01: I just laugh thinking about it.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um Beano's like a definitely a Pittsburgh legend, and nationally is a legend too.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_01: So um now going into the category of strictly um we'll go strictly Pittsburgh sports legend, but definitely old school Pittsburgh sports legend, and that's the one, the only Myron Cope.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_01: And um his bio he graduated from Pitt and he worked for the Post Gazette.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_01: He also wrote for Sports Illustrated, he has a ton of awards.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_01: He went for he runs some prize for best magazine in sports writing.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: He's named as a notary literary achiever by the Hearst Corporation.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_01: His profile uh profile of Howard Cosell was selected as one of the 50 all-time classic articles by Sports Illustrated.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um he's the first pro football announcer elected in the Radio Hall of Fame.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_01: He uh received something called the Pete Rosell Radio Television Award.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_01: He just has so many, so many different awards.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and that's just his awards.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_01: His his legendary status is he invented the terrible towel in 1975 before a playoff game, and of course, all the proceeds went to benefit the Allegheny F valley schools, which I think now they change their name to Marrake.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_01: And that's uh it's a program that helps uh people with uh intellectual disability.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, if you buy a terrible towel, you're you're helping uh a good cause out.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um he had many catchphrases.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_01: I remember oakal noco and mm, and it's just like I that's my best Myron Cope, sorry, and it's not that great.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um he popularized the term immaculate reception.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_01: He gave Cordell Stewart the slash nickname.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_01: Did did Jerome Bettis was he already the bust when he came here?
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: Or was that a Myron Cope thing?
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: I that's a good question.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_00: I I remember I remember the Cordell Stewart thing because I I remember it distinctly.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_00: It was the 998 football game against the Browns in 1995, and I was at that game and I listened to Myron on the way home.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: He he always went down to the locker room to do like locker room interviews.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_01: And he had Sabanna.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: Was that Cope Cabana?
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_01: I guess Cabana.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_01: Because he sang the Copa Cabana song by Barry Manilow.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_00: And and he and he was saying, he was sitting there like he was like, Oh, I guess uh Cordell Stewart, you know, quarterback slash running back slash reserves.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_00: Well, let's just call him slash.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like he I I I heard him actually come up with that on the spot.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, two, three weeks later you hear everybody, national guys, everybody just call it a Cordell Stewart slash.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: So the stuff he the stuff he invented, like he had this knack of just coming up with stuff that stuck.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, he would have been a great like marketing person, you know, like like commercials or slogans for companies, because whatever he came up with, it just always stuck for years.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he was such a character, and like I like my I remember my mom like at first, like she was like, Oh, his voice is so annoying, and who is this guy?
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_01: But like then you would listen to him and he would just grow on you.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_01: It was like, what was that Seinfeld bit?
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_01: Coastanza, like bye, menon.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's just like it gets stuck in your head, just like you said.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I remember he had one called Jerome Bettis, he ain't no head of lettuce.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_01: I think that he says that in his Macarena song.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, I do have a link.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_01: I remember Yoi to the World.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_01: I remember that was like on the sides of buses.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_01: He had a radio show on 1250, and I remember when Johnny Majors came back the second time, he he did like a recap of Johnny Majors like first year or one year at uh Pit, and like he did like a recap of all the games, and it was like he was like, and Major Majors and the Marauders from Pit went down the Southern Mists, and it was like it was wild, like it was just like so entertaining, like you said, and memorable.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like they don't do stuff like that anymore on sports radio, which is which is a shame because it was actually fun.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_01: Now it's like, oh, let's all yell each other about like you said, people kneeling or something stupid, you know.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_01: Sports is fun, you know.
• 40:25
  unknown: Right.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: So um I'm gonna play uh this is this is from 1984, and this is called Deck the Broncos, and this is classic Myron.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_01: This is unbelievable.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_01: I I found this and I just I have to share this, so we will share it.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_02: Maestro, if you please, get those broncos, they're just Yonkos.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_02: There's Johnny away, traversing like a railway.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_02: Trample Lway, 80s to Parkway.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_02: Hit that rich kid with a manhole in.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_02: He faced the Steelers in his debut.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_02: We can still see that in his pants, they know we had three rivers.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_02: They made him chopped levers.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_02: He met the Steelers and knows their killers.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_02: David Little is coming up the moon.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_02: Crack that rich can't knock out his pick! No, don't kiss him.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_02: Safety blitz him! That that Bronco is just a Yonko!
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_03: Merry Christmas from Iron Cope on sports.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_00: The funny thing about that is if you played that for some fan or or some, you know, somebody in some other city that never heard of Pittsburgh, they'd be like, Why why did somebody record their drunk uncle trying to sing a Christmas song?
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry I laughed in the middle of that hallway when he said.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_01: David Little coming up in the middle.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_00: I just and like it's great.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like we ate that up, you know, in Pittsburgh, and we we've even watching that clip today, we we love it.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_00: I just I just I'd love to show that to somebody else, and they'd just be like, what in the world?
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_00: What was that?
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it's Myron, he's the best.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's Myron.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like, just imagine trying to show that to somebody and convince them that that's not a crazy person.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't under like why did he kept calling LA a rich kid?
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_01: Is that because he held out in that draft and wouldn't go to the hole?
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_01: He kept saying rich kids by cusp.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_01: Hit him with a mail in.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's horrible.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_01: Hilarious.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_00: That would get him canceled today.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I know.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh, I'm so insured.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe not.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_01: He said rich kids, so maybe that would that would not get him canceled.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's probably He has a can't touch this video, and uh, but it's just not that good.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_00: I I yeah, he did a um Ikey breaky heart was another one.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's just not that's the best one, I I thought.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_01: Did they win that playoff game?
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_00: No, I think that was for the Buffalo game that they lost in '92.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_00: I think.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: Don't quote me on that.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_00: But I think that's a good one.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, the deck the halls.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_00: I thought you were talking about Yes, that was the game that they upset Denver in Denver.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_00: We talked about that in our Steelers Broncos episode where um Eric Eric Williams, who nobody would ever remember, picked off Elway in the final minute to to win the game for the Steelers.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, they actually did win that game.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I guess they did knock out a Bicuspid.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_01: It was David but David Little the running back or the linebacker?
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_00: Linebacker, yeah.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I thought.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_01: Did he come up the middle in that game at all?
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: We'll have to check the tape on that one.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um which leads to uh our our last entry, and uh I saved I saved this because uh this is one of my favorites.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_00: Hang on, Steve.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_00: I've I just one one more antidote to add.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's Myron.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I just I just I have to add this.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_00: But when I was my mom called into his radio show once, years and years ago, maybe in the 70s, and she told us that story for years when we were kids because she was like so proud.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_00: She called into Myron's show and she you know talked to him and she said and he said something like, Oh, you're very knowledgeable, young lady, or something like that.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_00: And she just she told that story for years.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_00: She was like so proud of that.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I just always thought that was cool.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_01: Remember Chris Collins where I said something, oh, the the women in Pittsburgh really know their football.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like how much have we gotten that that day?
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's like but they really do.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_01: They really, I mean, it's a fair observation.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know why people get so fired up about it.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_01: At least around here they do.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_01: But um anyway, uh moving on, uh uh Tunch Oaken and uh Craig Wolfley.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_01: I kind of put them together because they always they like do a lot of buddy, buddy shows.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like they do this great locker room uh talk show they always like to listen to, and they were just um the buyer, they were both former players with the Steelers in 1980.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um neither were in a Super Bowl, but both were pretty good.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_01: I think Tunch made a couple Pro Bowls.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um why they're uh media lesson, mainly Tunch, just because Tunches kind of had to retire and step back.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_01: But Tunch hosted a show, Lunch with Tunch.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_01: And uh he would interview all the Steelers and football guys.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_01: It was pretty awesome.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um he also hosted a show with his friend Craig where they called the locker room.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_01: It was just a great football talk, radio show.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_01: I just just great football talk.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_01: Um became a color analyst for the Steelers in 1998.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_01: He was really good at breaking down plays, especially with the offensive line.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um his Chuck Knowle stories were interesting because it was like it really like I didn't know much about Chuck Noel, and like he would it would always illustrate how like Chuck Knowle the effect him he had on him and Craig Wolfley's just life in general and how really good of a person Chuck Knowle was outside of just being a good coach.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_01: So that was interesting.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_01: And um, of course, the the the best touch moment of all time is uh during the uh Nick Harper fumble return.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_01: And um, I do have that in your mind.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_04: For all of you fantasy football players out there that have Jerome, you've got to be very excited right now.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_04: Would it be nice for him to get his second touchdown of the game?
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_04: Here's the other Jerome, he has it.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_04: to follow.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, the ball is fumbled.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_05: And the Colts pick it up.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_05: Nick Harper has it.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_05: He's running.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_05: And Big Ben can't he tackles it at the 43-yard line.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_05: Jerome Vennis, who rarely fumbles, fumbles with the goal line.
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_05: Nick Harper picks it up, and the Colts are still alive with 109 to go.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_06: Oh my gosh.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_06: Oh my gosh.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_06: All you got to do is fall on the ball.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_06: What a turn of events.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, now you got 109 left, right?
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_06: The Colts got the ball at the 42 yard line.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_06: The game is not over.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_06: Cancel the reservations to Denver.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_06: We gotta finish this one out here.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_01: So that that's Tunch at a at a probably at a moment he'd rather rather forget, but uh Tunch was great.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_01: He he's just great.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I I miss him, I missed him on the radio broadcasts already.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_01: And um I hope they I who they who I don't know who they brought in.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_01: Did they bring in Charlie Batch?
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know who they brought in to replace him.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_01: Craig Wolfley.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, was Wolfley?
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_01: Well Wolfley's pretty good too.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_01: I liked him more on the sidelines, but I'm sure he'll be fine in in the booth.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_01: But um yeah, unfortunately Tunch had uh got um uh ALS, uh Lou Gehrig's disease, and um he's been battling that.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_01: And so I mean the last year he was pretty sick, you could tell, even on the air.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_01: But um that was definitely prime Tunch there, and uh just love the cancel the reservations to Denver, we got 109 to play.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_01: And then at the end of the game, the best part is he goes, Remake those reservations to Denver, we're going to the championship game.
• 48:33
  SPEAKER_01: So but uh that that's Tunch.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_01: It was great, and he was always great to hear, and a very good person too.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like when he got sick, just the outpouring of people that said, Oh, what a fine person you he is and stuff was just just amazing.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, full disclosure, I I know Tunch personally.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_00: He's the men's director at my church and has been for a number of years, and um you know, what you said there, Steve, definitely just a a great person.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_00: Just an in somebody that inspires you, somebody that's a leader, somebody that you want to model yourself yourself after.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_00: So um, you know, uh always praying for him and and hoping that this illness doesn't ravage him too much, uh because it's it's not a good one.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um so you're right, he's definitely missed on the air for sure.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're we'll love Tunch and um just like everybody else, just like Myron, you missed Myron kind of there at the end and uh you know, and I'm sure he'll grow will have to have to retire one of these days.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_01: But um But you know, you get used to the these people you especially the I think the play-by-play and the color guys like the Myrons and the Tunches and you know Elaine Fatteris and yeah, I'm sure Greg Brown, you know.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but you know, yeah, life life goes on and there'll be new people, I'm sure, to fill in and stuff.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_01: But uh it's always nice, the fun to look at these guys and reminisce.
• 49:58
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• 50:04
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• 50:09
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• 50:11
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