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Warner Wolf, legendary sportscaster Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: On the line, Warner Wolfe, and it started yesterday in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon with the New York Jets winning against the Titans.
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  Speaker 1: And Warner, were you anticipating that victory?
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  Speaker 2: That one, I don't think Cam Ward is that great
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  Speaker 2: for the Titans, but I was thinking, here's Robert Sala,
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  Speaker 2: the new Titans coach, he must have been Are you
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  Speaker 2: thinking he was still coaching the Jets? Yeah, they were terrible. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: the Jets don't play the Titans every week. But I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you what, let's hear it for Geno Smith. No interceptions,
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  Speaker 2: no fumbles, no sacks. And it appears the Jets may
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  Speaker 2: have finally found a reliable, long-distant place kicker. Jason Sanders
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  Speaker 2: made three yesterday, including a 51-yarder and a 52-yarder.
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  Speaker 1: So you're all pumped up on them, Warner. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you were down on them before the start of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Fickle. I change. Fair weather.
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  Speaker 1: All right. And the evening action, Sunday night football, Giants
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  Speaker 1: versus Dallas at MetLife.
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  Speaker 2: I stayed up, watched the game. If you didn't stay
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  Speaker 2: up until 1130, Giants beat the Cowboys 28-20. And you
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  Speaker 2: know what? The score was no indication of how much
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  Speaker 2: the Giants dominated the game. And I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 2: if Jackson Dart, who gained 54 yards rushing, if he
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  Speaker 2: wisely continues to slide and run out of bounds, man,
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  Speaker 2: here's the Giants 4-13 last year. They could win 9
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  Speaker 2: or 10 games this year. I do have a question, though.
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  Speaker 2: The Cowboys' defensive coordinator, he must have been watching another game.
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  Speaker 2: The Giants killed him all night with the same play,
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  Speaker 2: a pass in the flat to the Cowboys' right side.
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  Speaker 2: And also, man, Dak Prescott, he threw one of the
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  Speaker 2: worst passes of his career. If you didn't see this,
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  Speaker 2: the interception just before the half He's trying to throw
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  Speaker 2: out of bounds while falling backwards. It was intercepted, and
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  Speaker 2: the Giants scored, and it went ahead. And what a
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  Speaker 2: dummy this Javante Williams is. He scores, and then he
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  Speaker 2: taunts the Giants 15 yards. So instead of the normal
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  Speaker 2: 33-yard extra point, Aubrey had an extra point from 48
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  Speaker 2: yards and missed. So if the Cowboys had scored again,
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  Speaker 2: they would have had to go for the two-point conversion.
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  Speaker 1: God, you're euphoric. You're euphoric. Both teams, you're like on
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  Speaker 1: top of the world. He has. Think about it. Ten
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  Speaker 1: wins for the Giants, that puts him on the doorstep
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  Speaker 1: of a playoff. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Ten and seven would make it. Possibly nine
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  Speaker 2: and eight would make it. And it's funny, Harbaugh would
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  Speaker 2: have made the playoffs last year and maybe he'd still
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  Speaker 2: be coaching the Ravens if Tyler Loop had made that,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a 44-yard field goal at the
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  Speaker 2: end and he missed. Well, yesterday, Loop, for the same Ravens,
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  Speaker 2: made a 57-yard field goal. It's kind of funny. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad he missed it so the Giants have Harbaugh. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: changing the gears, the early suspicious college football coach of
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  Speaker 2: the year, Ohio State's Ryan Day. Ohio State was a 50,
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  Speaker 2: that's 5-0, and a half-point favorite over little Ball State.
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  Speaker 2: But they led by only 46 points with just 155
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  Speaker 2: to play. With a second down at Ball State's 15-yard line,
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  Speaker 2: did Ohio State try and run out the clock?
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  Speaker 1: No! No!
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  Speaker 2: They passed for a touchdown and beat the 50-and-a-half-point spread,
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  Speaker 2: winning 56-to-3, 53 points. Why? Well, obviously the Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: coach must have taken Ohio State and given the points.
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  Speaker 2: Why else would he do it? And Curtis, you brought
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  Speaker 2: up a good– go ahead. The rule, Miami, Florida against
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  Speaker 2: the Florida A & M.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the reason I'm interested in Florida A &
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  Speaker 1: M is because I remember as a kid watching the
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  Speaker 1: world's fastest human, Bob Hayes, play for Florida A &
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  Speaker 1: M before he went to win an Olympic gold medal
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  Speaker 1: and then be on the Dallas Cowboys and be labeled
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  Speaker 1: the world's fastest human.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. But they had this new, it's not, anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Miami beat Florida A & M 77-7. And they stopped
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  Speaker 2: the game with five minutes left. Now, I didn't even
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  Speaker 2: know about this rule. It's rarely used. They stopped the
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  Speaker 2: game with five minutes left. The rule says that both teams,
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  Speaker 2: this is college ball, both teams and the referee agree
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  Speaker 2: to shorten the game at any time they can do it.
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  Speaker 2: The rule should be used more, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. I didn't know that existed either.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Has it ever been used?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea. They could have used it Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Georgia beat Western Kentucky 70-20. Houston beat Southern 77-66. The
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  Speaker 2: only reason maybe you don't want to use it it
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  Speaker 2: gives the bench warmers on the winning team a chance
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  Speaker 2: to play.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you have to do as the coach?
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  Speaker 1: You got to throw in the white towel? You got
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  Speaker 1: to throw it in on the field? No mas, no mas,
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  Speaker 1: we give up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, but both teams have to agree.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 2: And the referee.
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  Speaker 1: I see.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah. I didn't even know that rule was in
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  Speaker 2: the books. Hey, the boo of the week has to
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  Speaker 2: go to poor sport, Bush Liger, Irina Sabalenka, who after
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  Speaker 2: being aced by Elena Rabokina, match point. Rabokina, give me
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  Speaker 2: four times and I'll get it. On match point, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you saw it, so Rabokina wins the
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  Speaker 2: championship and Sabalenka throws a racket on the court and
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  Speaker 2: then when she sits down, She did a two-hand smash
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  Speaker 2: with her racket. Man, I mean, come on, get her out.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the $ 100, 000 necklace worn around her neck when she
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  Speaker 2: plays was too heavy and it wore her down.
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  Speaker 1: Or all the marijuana smoke in the stadium that she
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  Speaker 1: and other tennis stars were complaining about.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. That's right. Hey, I've got a little story.
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  Speaker 2: The late 86-year-old NBA Hall of Famer Don Nelson, who
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  Speaker 2: passed away recently. Well, you know, besides being the second
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  Speaker 2: winningest NBA coach in history after Greg Popovich, when Nelson
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  Speaker 2: played on five Boston Celtics championship teams, Nelson was known
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  Speaker 2: to use an abundance of stickum on his hands. which
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  Speaker 2: helped him with the pump fake and driving to the
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  Speaker 2: basket without losing the ball. But the joke was players
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  Speaker 2: around the league complained, and they would say Nelson uses
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  Speaker 2: so much stickum on his hands. that he can't even
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  Speaker 2: tie his own shoelaces. Is that only funny to me?
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  Speaker 1: You know, that reminds me. Remember Fred Belitnikoff, flanker for
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  Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders? Yeah. He'd stick them from his elbows
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  Speaker 1: to his fingers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The ball would hit him in the back, and he
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  Speaker 1: was a catch. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He would stick. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, anyway, we do appreciate that, Warner Wolf. We
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  Speaker 1: will catch up with you same time, same place next
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  Speaker 1: week while you're on this euphoric high for the Jets
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  Speaker 1: and the Giants winning their opening game. Yeah, he might
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  Speaker 1: be off the bandwagon next week. He might be. Shipping
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  Speaker 1: and industrial.