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The Problem with the Pro Bowl, Super Bowl Predictions, Recent Vikings Playoff Woes, More Trivia, and Former Vikings playing in the Super Bow · The Skol Hop

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  All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of the School
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  Hot I'm Evan and I'm Austin. There's just a couple of dudes from Iowa.
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  We like drinking beer. I like talking about the Vikings. Yeah,
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  we do school. We're getting better. It's just a solid f school.
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  We've had a few really good ones and a few duds, but that was
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  a pretty decent one. I get worried because these glasses aren't the thickest,
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  and I keep wondering one of these days, if we'll don't tell me that,
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  I'll make that happen. Okay, Well, I like these glasses.
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  You probably like your carpet too. If you ever log in and you see
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  a little bucket between us, you know, I'm going for it and then
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  we both have to get stitches and that'll be a Patreon exclusive clip or something.
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  I don't know. Yeah, maybe we'll go viral with that one.
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  Yeah, I don't know. There's it. We can't go any more viral
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  than the Keaton Mitchell leg bending backwards thing. It's a pretty gruesome video.
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  Yeah. Well, we have a tradition on this podcast of drinking Iowa exclusive
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  beer, and Evan, you you procured the beer for us this week.
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  I did with your help, well kind of, yeah, I guess we
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  decided together. So the story is, and we kind of shared this on
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  our TikTok when we reviewed the beer check it out ago. But yeah,
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  go over to TikTok and check us out there because we always do a quick
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  little beer review before our episode. So if you're kind of curious as to
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  what we're having on the episode, or I just want to get a sneak
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  view of the episode, that's where you can find it, or YouTube shorts
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  as well. Yep, yep. But anyways, I went to the grocery
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  store, what was it, Saturday night, Friday night, Friday night,
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  it was Friday night, and didn't expect to see you there, but there
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  you were with a bottle of vegetable oil in hand. Yeah, and you
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  were perusing the wine and spirit section at our local grocery store. And I
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  said, hey, let's pick out a beer for the episode next week.
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  Yeah, and you were like, all right, let's do it. So
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  we kind of scanned the shelves and you know, we saw a lot of
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  beer on those shelves that we've already had, so we were kind of like
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  just checking, like, yep, have that one, had that one,
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  had that one. But we've always tried to keep it fresh and new,
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  and we've never doubled up on a beer. So we were looking for something
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  new and I pointed out this brewery from Clinton, Iowa, Great Revivalist,
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  and we saw another brewery too, and we kind of I narrowed it down
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  to those two and I said, why don't you pick? Yeah, And
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  so it was the other one. They were from Muscatine, Muscatine. I
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  can't remember off the top of my head. Maybe next time we'll figure it
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  out. We'll google that and make sure that we give a shout out to
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  them because they deserve that too, and maybe we'll have one of those.
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  Eventually, we're gonna have to have all of the Iowa breweries and all of
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  their beers and then make a beer ourselves. But stay tuned for that one.
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  Yeah. But we landed on the cloud tripping hazy Ipa from Great Revivalist
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  out of Clinton, Iowa. And it's pretty good so far. I would
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  say, yeah, I'm liking it a lot. It's definitely like a hazy
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  ipa. It's less of that orange juice color that you normally see with the
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  hazy IPA a darker color in a good way. I'm really I'm really digging
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  this beer. It has a heavier flavor than your traditional Like I don't know,
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  like what's the what's the word I'm looking for, Like juicy, hazy
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  I p A, you know, something like that. But I like this
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  a lot, and I haven't had it before. I don't think you haven't.
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  You haven't had this one before. You though. This is definitely in
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  my wheelhouse of beers more so than your wheelhouse. But I think we both
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  like it. Yeah, I Like we were saying this right after we finished
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  our TikTok filming as we were kind of getting set up here, and I
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  just said, you know, it's it's complex, it's it's a little more
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  interesting, yeah, than your typical hazy I p A. A lot of
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  those hazy I p as they kind of just like smack you in the face.
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  They're very bright and florally citra hops. Yeah, this tastes like it's
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  got more than just citra going on. Yeah, in a good way.
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  Yeah, It's it's more mellow, which maybe by the name, would would
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  like itself to that cloud tripping. Yeah, there you go a little more
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  relaxed, a little more. I don't know. I don't know how to
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  describe it yet. I'm not a great beer describer. Yeah, we're getting
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  there. But twenty six episodes in, we're getting there. Yeah, So
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  I like it a lot. I think I could definitely have a few of
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  these. Oh yeah, and at seven point three percent, those few,
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  they can they can start catching up to you. I want to limit it
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  to a few. Yeah, but great revivalists. I don't believe I've had
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  any of your other beers, honestly, for another show for us could tell
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  me if I have or not. But yeah, you're cloud tripping. It's
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  it's doing pretty good. It's a good name. I haven't really thought about
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  the name. That's a that's a good name. Yeah, good stuff at
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  the can art's pretty cool too, Yeah, kind of that like pop art
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  style. Yeah, it's nice. I like it. Good stuff. We'll
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  It's on my to do list. Well, we've got Pro Bowl Super Bowl
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  that we can talk about. Admittedly, either of us really watched any of
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  the Pro Bowl. I was aware of some of the stuff, but yeah
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  I didn't. I didn't watch the actual flag football game or whatever they had
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  going on. But there's some talkers there in Super Bowl. We got a
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  few things we can talk about. I think with the if we start with
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  the Pro Bowl, I think the fact that as avid of fans as we
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  are the fact that neither of us really paid much, if any, attention
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  to the Pro Bowl might say something about the effectiveness of the Pro Bowl.
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  Yeah itself, that's true, the changes they've made to that, because truthfully,
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  this was the first weekend that I didn't really watch football or care about
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  football since July or August. Well, and I didn't watch it, but
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  I definitely made a comment or two about how there's no football today, you
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  know, on Sunday. It was a kind of a sad day. I
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  didn't get to have my couch nap watching playoff football, you know, like
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  it was sad. But I mean they're technically, I mean it was football
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  like entertainment on TV. I just didn't watch any of it. And yeah,
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  I didn't watch much of it either. Yeah, I do know the
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  NFC. I'm pretty sure they won. The score was super high, so
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  again, probably would have helped if I would have watched it to know how
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  they scored, how they played the game. I'm pretty sure Baker Mayfield one
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  MVP or offensive MVP or whatever it was, So that's nice. Daniel Hunter,
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  his Tug of War team beat the AFC's Tug of War team and Aiden
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  Hutchinson got a lot of attention there. If you go back and watch that
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  two minute video, the announcers just gush over Aiden Hutchinson and how he was
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  jumping up and down pulling. They were saying that he did all the work
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  himself. But I don't know. There's some big dogs on that NFC Tug
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  of War team, so I don't know. That's kind of interesting, But
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  yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head for us to be
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  so abviod of fans and well, and we talked about it a little bit
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  last week on episode twenty five, you know, like it just seems like
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  they've tried so many different things, and to some extent, I think they've
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  kind of alienated the fan base from watching it. And maybe I'm wrong.
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  Maybe I'm in the minority of NFL fans that didn't really engage with it.
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  And I didn't not engage with it because I didn't want to. It was
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  just I was busy. I had other stuff going on and it wasn't a
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  priority for me. Vikings games are a priority for me, and even the
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  playoff games and the Super Bowl. I will intentionally not schedule things around that
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  time so that I can watch those the Pro Bowl. It's just different.
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  Yeah, And I don't know about you, but I'm a fan of I
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  like when people try out of the box things, even down to like when
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  teams change up their uniforms and maybe they're not the most traditional, but they're
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  unique, like the Buccaneers uniforms of you know, the twenty teams or whatever.
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  Like I like when businesses and teams and stuff try different things. So
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  usually this kind of Pro Bowl trying new things that would be right up my
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  alley. But I don't know, like it doesn't. I think the fact
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  that it doesn't actually matter to anything other than knowing the players that got the
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  honor of being Pro Bowlers, maybe that's what does it for me. It
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  just kind of feels like a preseason game in the off season, you know
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  that. I will say. Some of the skills challenges that they've added and
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  some of the other fun entertainment things have been fun, like dodgeball. I
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  saw that kind of infamous picture of Kirk and JJ on one side with Stefan
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  Diggs in the foreground, and the caption was something like this is a legendary
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  picture or something like this picture it's too hard, Yeah, yeah, and
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  it does like every time you see it, you're like, oh, because
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  I'm pretty sure the NFC won that match. Yeah, and that was at
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  least a couple of years ago. Yeah, but yeah, that stuff like
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  that's cool. Did you see the Andrew Depaula, Like I did see the
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  skills Challenge almost just snapping. Well, I saw him and I saw Jason
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  Kelce, and Jason Kelce only went for the five hole right in the middle
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  and it's it was like the smallest but right down the middle, and he
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  only got one and he looked really mad when he was done. And then
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  Depaula like tried to mix it up, and I think he ended up winning
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  it for the NFC. I think, so he needed like six points and
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  I think he got seven to win it. So stuff like that's kind of
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  fun. That was fun. But I mean, truthfully, that's that and
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  some of the flag football game that I caught while I was out with some
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  other people. That was about it. That's all I watched, yeah,
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  for Pro Bowl festivities. So well, hopefully next year there are more vikings
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  in the Pro Bowl. We had officially three, but C J. Ham
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  was an alternate, so he still made it. He was still there.
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  Ye brought his family, and I'm really glad that I realized a few weeks
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  ago. C J. Ham is still under contract through next season, so
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  it's probably not gonna be the last for scene. Is c J. Ham
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  with a Viking logo on his chest, which is nice. Hopefully we see
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  some more Daniel Hunter with a Viking logo. And Andrew Depaula. I mean,
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  he's getting up there as far as NFL players go, but his position
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  is such a non contact specialized position, even more so than like kicker or
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  punter. Depaula could play a few more years. So I don't know what
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  his contract looks like, but I'd say as long as he's healthy, yeah,
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  keep him around. He's proven that he's a very good asset on special
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  teams for sure. Yeah, yep. All right, well super Bowl.
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  We're just a few days away from Super Bowl. What is this one?
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  Fifty something? I don't know. We should started in fifty sixty six?
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  Was the first Super Bowl? Because that was the other dad all the way
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  back. I just go by when my dad was born. I was born
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  in sixty six, the same year as the Super Bowl, So it's fifty
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  eight. Nice okay, because twenty sixteen or twenty twenty six, not twenty
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  six, twenty twenty six will be Super Bowl sixty. Okay, right,
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  so yeah, backtrack two years. Here we are, assuming that's all true
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  and accurate, super Bowl fifty eight. It's a rematch from a few Super
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  bowls ago. Unfortunately, weah the Chiefs and the forty nine ers. The
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  Chiefs obviously they've been This will be their their fourth Super Bowl appearance within a
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  five year span, and I think they obviously they won against the Vikings in
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  I want to say super Bowl three four? Was it four four? Yeah,
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  because the Packers won the first couple and then yeah, I don't know,
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  Yes, Cowboys might have been in there somewhere, the Jets sound Jets.
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  Maybe, I don't know. Yeah, I do know the Chiefs beat
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  the Vikings in the vikings first Super Bowl appearance, and I'm pretty sure that
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  game hadn't yet been called the super Bowl. Like if you've gotten time machine
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  went back in time and attended that game, it would not you wouldn't hear
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  the word super Bowl. I know the first super Bowl wasn't the super Bowl.
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  It was the AFL NFL championship game. But I think pretty pretty early
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  after that they adopted the term super Bowl. So the Vikings Chiefs one was
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  the first one they named the super Bowl. But I do know when they
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  started calling it the super Bowl, they went retroactively, and because they decided
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  to play the ch championship game between the AFL and NFL champions and that was
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  the ultimate championship game. But once they decided to name it the super Bowl,
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  they went retroactive. And we're like, okay, we're four into this,
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  so this one will be super Bowl four, you know, or whatever
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  number it was. And maybe this will garner some flak on the internet,
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  and that's fine. I can take it. We can take it. But
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  I'm pretty sure the Vikings still claim an NFL championship for winning the game before
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  that super Bowl four against the Chiefs. Yeah, maybe, because maybe to
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  your point, the super Bowl wasn't what we equate the super Bowl to be
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  today. It was a pre merger game. And I don't even win was
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  the mergers in the seventies early seventy if not nineteen seventy, so well,
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  because yeah, that Super Bowl four Vikings Chiefs would have been in nineteen seventy.
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  In January February nineteen seventy. So yeah, for all the people listening
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  that have access to Google right now, I mean, you're laughing at us
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  because we are recording on my Google device right here, Google accessible device.
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  I lost my phone, That's what I was looking for. It's right over
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  there on the bookshelf above our Big Top Ventures hat. But yeah, so
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  either way, the Vikings lost to the Chiefs in a Super Bowl. But
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  all that to say, I think that is the only other Chief's Super Bowl
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  appearance prior to twenty twenty, and I might be wrong about that, but
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  yeah, the Chiefs are on their fourth appearance in five years and they are
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  currently two and one in those appearances. They're fourth one obviously hasn't been played
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  yet. The Niners, they're a historically great team. They had the domination
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  of the eighties and nineties, and you know, they're just they've had some
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  big down years, but overall they're a dominant team. They've been in the
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  NFC Championship Game the same number four times in the last five years. It's
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  just they've only made the Super Bowl well now twice, which it'd be nice
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  if we could say the Vikings had been to an NFC championship game four times
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  within a five year span, but maybe someday it was nineteen seventy. Okay,
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  they merged AFL, NFL merged before, so perhaps I don't we'd have
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  to do some more research, but perhaps that first super Bowl that the Vikings
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  were in was the first one they verbally acknowledged as a super Bowl. It
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  was now Super Bowl four but back then, Yeah, we don't know.
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  But anyways, Yeah, definitely interesting matchup. I think it's this year's Super
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  Bowl coming back to the Future. Now, Back to the Future my favorite
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  movie. Yeah, back to the Future, three best movie of all time.
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  I think I saw, like before the conference championship games, there was
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  a picture going around of like the matchup everybody wants, the matchup nobody wants,
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  the matchup the NFL wants, or something like that, or the matchup
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  that's in the script, and I think this was the matchup that was in
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  the script. Perhaps I think the matchup everybody wanted was Taylor Swift, which
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  they kind of got that. I guess they definitely did, or maybe maybe
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  the Lions and the Ravens. Maybe what were the logo colors purple obviously was
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  one of them, was read the other one. So I still think the
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  script was the Vikings and the Chiefs, and it's just that the script didn't
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  account for Kirk to blow air blows Achilles. Shouldn't that be a part of
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  the script that it should have, but they didn't plan for it. So
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  maybe Kirk got a little cocky in those meetings with his shirt off and the
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  chains on with Keegan Michael Key. No. But so a question for you,
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  all right, well kind of a two part question in this Super Bowl?
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  Who do you want to win? Who are you rooting for? Who
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  do you think will win? I'm rooting for the forty nine Ers, okay,
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  because I'm tired of the Chiefs and I don't really care for Patrick Mahomes.
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  I think I've said that on this podcast before. We spent a lot
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  of time in our early episodes talking about the quarterback series. And so if
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  they win, fine whatever, I won't be upset. It wouldn't be like
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  the Packers winning the Super Bowl that would just yea irritate me, or even
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  the Lions making it there. Yeah, so I want the Niners to win
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  just because the Chiefs are turning into little Patriots. I mean, there's so
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  far they are as dynastic as New England was. They're definitely getting there.
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  Yeah, so I want to break that up. I don't like that.
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  I like the I like the parody of the NFL. It's anybody's league.
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  Anybody can win at any time, and the Chiefs are proving that wrong,
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  I guess, and I'm not a fan of that. I think unfortunately,
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  the Chiefs will win. I think Patrick Mahomes has proven that he's the guy
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  in those big games. And I've I typically, my my main sports digest
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  is around the horn and pardon the interruption, Uh, when I get home,
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  if my kids aren't watching like Spidey and his Amazing Friends or something,
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  I mean I can get behind that though. That's yeah, there's some good
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  shows that they watch. But if I can get the TV, that's what
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  I'm watching. And everybody that I've heard talk since the conclusion of the conference
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  championship games has basically reiterated the same thing. Patrick Mahomes is Tom Brady.
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  I mean, he is the reincarnation, so to speak, of Tom Brady
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  in those big moments, and he's tough to beat and having a coach like
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  Andy Reid behind him calling those plays, having some of those big name players
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  to throw to one of the best offensive lines in the league. I think,
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  I mean, they have a lot of things going for him. It'll
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  be a really interesting game. I think it might be one of the better
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  Super Bowls that we've seen. I hope so. In years past. I
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  remember thinking back and actually looking at my time hop recently going back to tweets
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  that I had of the I think twenty twelve season when the Ravens went on
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  to beat the Niners in the Super Bowl, and I had a tweet that
• 22:06
  said something like, this was the best playoffs I've ever seen in my couple
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  decades of life, and the Super Bowl did not disappoint. And I think
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  you're onto something. This game feels like it could rival that game. But
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  yeah, I tend to agree with you. I definitely want I'm rooting for
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  the forty nine ers, but I think the Chiefs are gonna win solely for
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  the fact that I thought the Ravens were definitely the team to beat. I
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  didn't know who could beat the Ravens. I didn't know how any team would
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  figure that out. And the Chiefs made them look like the Lions of Bold,
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  you know, like ye, so Yeah, the Chiefs are the classic
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  getting hot at the right time. They're just good. Can we can we
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  like now officially replace Ah, they did a Vikings thing with they did a
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  Lions thing. Can we can we like, are the Vikings now like off
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  the hook for that? Like? I don't know, just because, Yeah,
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  the Lions totally sked the bed in the NFC champ the second half of
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  the NFC Championship game, but the Vikings have still done that more. They
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  have still sked the bed more in the NFC Championship Game than the Lions have.
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  So it's trending that way the way you want it to. But I
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  still don't think. I think the Vikings are still the biggest faced palm of
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  the two teams, of the Vikings and the Lions in the NFC champions Really,
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  it's only the last two NFC Championship games that the Vikings have been in
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  that it's been ugly. Oh nine, if you go back to nine,
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  right, yeah, because that's that would be the third in our life.
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  Well not if you include ninety eight. Ninety so you're you're forgetting. So
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  there was ninety eight and then two thousand and one and then nine and then
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  seventeen, two thousand and one was forty one to nothing. I do remember
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  that. That was bad. Yeah, maybe I'm I'm off somewhere. That
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  could be off too. I thought we were in one more NFC Championship game.
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  What happened? What game was it when Kyle Rudolph walked us off in
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  New Orleans? That was against the Saints in probably that the division? That
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  was the wild card round. That was Kirk's only playoff winn is a Viking,
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  Okay, because then the next week I forget where they went. They
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  lost, Yeah, obviously, but they didn't make it to the NFC Championship
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  game. The last NFC Championship game was started by case Keenum. Okay,
• 24:52
  well, let's just stick to all games post high school graduation for us,
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  which is only two NFC Championship games. The Eagles in seventeen, we can
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  forget about. That was awful. I think the Vikings forgot they were playing
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  in a game after that first drive scored on the first drive, and then
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  nothing happened after that. Yeah, but I would, I would say,
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  and I would make the argument that the nine NFC Championship game was there and
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  had there not been egregious rule breaking happening behind the scenes, there could have
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  been a different outcome there. There were a few major problems, bounty gate
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  being the most I don't know, painful for Vikings fans to look back on.
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  There was also a very controversial pass interference called on Ben Leeber that I
• 25:49
  don't agree was a past interference there was. I mean, the Adrian had
• 25:56
  more than one fumble multi a few times, and then Brett with the nail
• 26:02
  and the coffin to throw a crossbody and just play hero ball when he didn't
• 26:07
  necessarily have to. He could have just run the ball for a few more
• 26:11
  yards and attempted a long field goal. Yeah, but was he even thinking
• 26:14
  clearly at that point. I mean, he'd been hit so many he was
• 26:17
  probably all hopped up on pain meds at that point too. A little bit
• 26:21
  of a tangent off this already little bit of a tangent I think it was
• 26:26
  a couple of years ago. Another Vikings podcast, the Norse Code podcast with
• 26:33
  Arif Hassan and I forget the other guy's name. This is horrible. I
• 26:37
  hope they never hear this, but they did kind of. I think it
• 26:40
  was like an April Fool's Day episode where they did a live rewatch. They
• 26:47
  hit record on their microphones and they turned the NFC Championship game on the TV
• 26:51
  and they just did a live reaction while watching that game, put it out
• 26:56
  as a podcast. It was almost therapeutic, like they meant it as a
• 26:59
  joke, and it definitely was, but they were also living through that pain
• 27:03
  as well, and I remember enjoying that episode. But yeah, I think
• 27:11
  the Lions got closer to winning and going to the Super Bowl than the Vikings
• 27:17
  have just by being so dominant in the first half. But then they totally
• 27:25
  they let mister Irrelevant come back and beat them. So, I mean we've
• 27:30
  seen a lot of those types of comebacks lately though in the league. Yeah.
• 27:34
  I've looked at the little thing behind you there a few times since we've
• 27:38
  kind of opened this conversation. Yeah, like it's becoming more and more common.
• 27:44
  And I would wonder if the biggest comeback in NFL history that we have
• 27:48
  emblazoned on the wall yeah here, may not stand for much longer. I
• 27:52
  mean, any record can be broken, but we'll always have that memory and
• 27:57
  I don't know how much more it could be broken by they were down by
• 28:03
  thirty three points a half. I think at one point it was thirty six
• 28:07
  to nothing or thirty six to three and they came back. That was a
• 28:11
  great game. Yeah, that was great. Thanks for leaving, Brian.
• 28:14
  We appreciate it. Although I don't know, I think the Vikings host the
• 28:21
  Colts. They do, and I've already been approached about my interest in going
• 28:27
  to that game, and I responded very positively. So we might need to
• 28:32
  talk about a skull hop trip to Minnesota and include, you know, a
• 28:40
  whole posse, because we had a little bit of a posse last time we
• 28:44
  went and that was pretty fun. And I don't think I don't think it'll
• 28:47
  take too much arm twisting to get the front of the show Forest and his
• 28:51
  wife to come. Maybe maybe, And they may not be totally interested,
• 28:55
  but sounds like our friend Brian Colts fan. Brian would love to go to
• 29:00
  that game. Let's do it. Yeah, we'll circle that one whenever the
• 29:03
  schedule comes out. Yeah, it'd be fun. That may also include my
• 29:11
  whole family as well, because I don't know how many opportunities I'll get to
• 29:14
  go to a game, so might as well make it count. We did
• 29:18
  tell our girls that we would try to bring them to a game next year.
• 29:21
  Yeah, there you go. Either way, maybe maybe our podcast will
• 29:25
  explode and we'll be able to out of nowhere buy Viking season tickets and we'll
• 29:30
  just change up all of our content from there. That would be amazing.
• 29:34
  Yeah, shout out all of our listeners that are about to find us,
• 29:38
  help us buy season and give you content. All right, let's uh you
• 29:45
  you linked a little Super Bowl bet document here. Yeah, it just kind
• 29:53
  of outlined some of the big bets that have already come to light so far
• 29:59
  and some of the betting lines that are out there a little bit. What
• 30:03
  are some of the more interesting ones for you? Because I'm not I don't
• 30:07
  bet, I probably won't ever. It's just a personal conviction of mine.
• 30:11
  But you do, and I don't judge you for that. Yeah. I've
• 30:14
  been known to make a five or ten dollars bet here and there, nothing
• 30:18
  crazy, never going to lose the house. But I like the idea of
• 30:21
  making a winning a bet here there. We do have a friend or too
• 30:25
  that that does make some some what I would consider large bets, but they
• 30:30
  also hit every once in a while too, so se Yeah, I think
• 30:34
  as of right, now we're recording on the fifth of February. As of
• 30:38
  right now, the forty nine ers are favorites by two points two point favorites,
• 30:44
  and that's a little surprising to me. Usually Vegas is not very wrong,
• 30:49
  So yeah, I don't. We have both said that we think the
• 30:53
  Chiefs will definitely win, so that's kind of surprising that the Niners are still
• 30:57
  the favorite. But yeah, I know you printed off that that article too.
• 31:03
  So some of the things that were interesting to me, yeah, or
• 31:08
  some of the individual bets. So most of them were individual bets on who
• 31:15
  would win MVP of the Super Bowl. And one that I that caught my
• 31:18
  eye right away. Somebody made a one hundred and forty dollars bet so not
• 31:23
  you know, nothing crazy that Kyle used check would win the MVP at seven
• 31:30
  hundred and fifty to one odds. And if you don't know that, that
• 31:33
  basically means for every dollar you would put down, it would pay out seven
• 31:40
  hundred and fifty dollars if your bet won if you won the bet, So
• 31:45
  a f one hundred and forty dollars bet payout pays out one hundred and five
• 31:49
  thousand dollars if you use Check a full back, a very athletic and talented
• 31:55
  fullback, but a full back if he won Super Bowl MVP, so kind
• 31:59
  of rooting for that. One probably need like multiple tds, yeah, rushing,
• 32:04
  at least one rushing, at least one catching, receiving, And it
• 32:07
  sounds like you're describing Christian McCaffrey right right, which might also indicate maybe he's
• 32:14
  out of the game, maybe he's injured. If use Check has multiple tds
• 32:17
  like that, then McCaffrey was either a decoy all game or yeah, he
• 32:21
  got injured early on. So yeah, I'm I'm rooting for that bet.
• 32:25
  I will not make that bet myself because that sounds like just a waste of
• 32:30
  money, but hey, if it hits, that guy's gonna look like a
• 32:32
  genius. There's been at least one bet. Somebody has put down a million
• 32:38
  dollars at Caesar Sportsbook for the forty nine ers just to win the game and
• 32:45
  they're at minus one twenty. So I don't know, is that would it
• 32:47
  pay out one point two million? I don't know. Yeah, there's there's
• 32:53
  quite a few here. Somebody put twenty five thousand dollars down on Kansas City
• 33:01
  running back Isaiah Pacheco to be Super Bowl MVP. His odds were a little
• 33:06
  bit not as flashy as you check, but he was at forty to one,
• 33:10
  so that twenty five grand if it won, would pay out a million
• 33:14
  dollars. There was I think one other one, but I'm not seeing it
• 33:22
  here. It could be on this other page here maybe. Oh, here's
• 33:25
  what it was. Caesar Sportsbook took a one hundred thousand dollar bet on the
• 33:31
  coin toss hitting tails. Somebody from Michigan put one hundred thousand dollars down on
• 33:37
  the coin toss being tails. So at probably around fifty to fifty, that
• 33:43
  would probably pay out around two hundred thousand dollars. But still that seems tails.
• 33:49
  For Taylor, Hey, there you go. Who might be in attendance?
• 33:54
  I would assume. I know there was some buzz because she's got a
• 34:00
  concert in Tokyo. I think like the night before. I think it's like
• 34:06
  Friday night. But there have been some conflicting stories. The most accurate I
• 34:12
  think I've heard and that I understand is that she will finish her show.
• 34:19
  Can you believe we're talking about Taylor Swift again? It's what the people want,
• 34:22
  what the people want hashtag Taylor Swift follow our podcast. Please. Hey,
• 34:27
  if Taylor we will have you on the podcast, we will welcome you
• 34:31
  with open arms. That'd be great. Anyways, from what I understand,
• 34:37
  her show in Tokyo ends, she gets on a plane and she basically time
• 34:40
  travels across the international date line back to the same day, which what is
• 34:49
  the super Bowl day the eleventh? Yeah, Sunday the eleventh, So I
• 34:52
  think her show in Tokyo is Sunday the eleventh, but it would be early,
• 35:00
  and then she would fly to where is the super Bowl even California.
• 35:05
  It's in Vegas, that's right. Sorry I blanked for a second. That's
• 35:08
  all right. But she's going to fly back to the western side of the
• 35:12
  United States, which isn't that far from Japan. Yeah. I don't know
• 35:15
  whether how long time I've been to Japan. It's but I went from Chicago
• 35:24
  to Seoul, Korea. Oh yeah. She would probably definitely have her own
• 35:29
  private Oh yeah. Anyways, she will like go back in time and relive
• 35:36
  February eleventh all over again in Vegas. I can just picture her writing a
• 35:43
  song about time traveling to see the Super Bowl. Gotta go back in time.
• 35:49
  You need to pull it back to the future stuff it would be great,
• 35:52
  or like on stage saying like and technically right now, I will be
• 35:57
  at the super Bowl, you know, blockwise, if that's how it works.
• 36:01
  I don't know, but yeah, I can't say that I will be
• 36:08
  upset if Taylor Swift doesn't make it for the game. Lots of people might
• 36:15
  be. I don't know. The NFL might be upset if she doesn't make
• 36:20
  it, But I guess it's a storyline. There have been some Taylor Swift
• 36:24
  related prop book offering. Oh absolutely, there have been probably something like how
• 36:30
  many times will she be showing on TV? Probably a lot? Yeah,
• 36:34
  will she make a surprise appearance in the halftime show with Usher? You know
• 36:40
  she's there. I'm sure a conversation has been brought up about that. Yeah.
• 36:47
  I don't know. Good for her, though, I mean, you're
• 36:51
  talking about one of the most famous and popular people in the world and it
• 36:55
  seems to be positive news. And I mean, shoot, my eight year
• 37:00
  old daughter, Taylor Swift has been a regular topic of conversation from her in
• 37:06
  the last few weeks. So yeah, and it seems positive, so good
• 37:12
  for her. That's not really doing it for me. But there's tons of
• 37:16
  things I like that lots of people don't like. So that's fine. We
• 37:21
  do like good beer. We love we love good beer. How's the beer
• 37:24
  treating you so far? Oh, it's treated me really well. I'm about
• 37:28
  to open my next one and add it to the football glass. I'm going
• 37:31
  to open my next one right now. Yeah, it's a good transition.
• 37:35
  Yeah, we're next. I got to reach for it. Victor is hogging
• 37:37
  it over here. Don't spill your current one never. You know, every
• 37:42
  once in a while, I think you remember our friend in college. You
• 37:45
  may not remember. Sometimes random things hit me different and I just remember them
• 37:51
  for the rest of my life, Like Maggie, they live rent free in
• 37:55
  your brain. Yeah, but I do remember. Once or twice a friend
• 38:00
  of ours in college would go on just aggressive, loud, enthusiastic rants about
• 38:09
  how we never ever waste beer never, and like veins would start popping out
• 38:16
  of his neck, like, no, we don't waste beer. And do
• 38:21
  you know who I'm talking to? I know exactly what you're tause. I
• 38:22
  lived with him for two years, and I just anytime I've ever spilled even
• 38:30
  a drop, I immediately go back to Oh, he'd be so mad at
• 38:34
  me. He was joking, but his way of joking was like, is
• 38:37
  this dude joking? Like, what's funny about that? Is? I just
• 38:42
  spilled a little bit. We don't waste beer. I don't think he listens
• 38:47
  to the podcast, but we might have to share this part with him.
• 38:51
  Yeah, well, it probably would mean a lot for him to know that
• 38:53
  he's made an impact on me. I do know he's probably still upset that
• 38:57
  we didn't have tandem weddings that he he mentioned a few times. Yeah,
• 39:02
  he had a lot of good ideas. He would just we could just be
• 39:08
  sitting in dead silence and he would just be like, Hey, Austin,
• 39:14
  how's how's your toe doing? I don't know. He would just say random
• 39:17
  things. He is an aficionado for the awkward and I love it, and
• 39:24
  I'm sure obviously he loves it too. Yeah. I missed that guy.
• 39:28
  It's been a long time. That is just part of his personality. Last
• 39:30
  time I saw him was at the U and I basketball game. That's right,
• 39:34
  we went to I went to a U and I basketball game? How
• 39:37
  was that on Saturday? It was good? Other than the fact that you
• 39:39
  and I lost by thirty plus, Like I did not know that. It
• 39:44
  was like there was a magnet on the ball that repelled the ball away from
• 39:49
  the rim every time the Panthers shot the ball. It was terrible. They
• 39:54
  had like a twenty percent field goal percentage. It was an ugly game.
• 40:00
  That's why I'm a fan of the Vikings, because I don't like having my
• 40:01
  heart broken like that. We have to immediately laugh, yeah, laugh after
• 40:08
  that one, because yeah, no, it was good though. It was
• 40:12
  good. We we got to sit in some really good seats. We got
• 40:15
  to hang out with some friends that we hadn't seen in a while. There
• 40:19
  you go, got the tour of good old ceedar Falls. There are some
• 40:22
  things that have changed, but also a lot of things that haven't. So
• 40:27
  yeah, it's good stuff. It was a good it was a good little
• 40:30
  Saturday day trip up to the University of Northern Iowa. Yeah, I'm ripping.
• 40:37
  I'm ripping though. Yes, you are our Alma model right now.
• 40:39
  Yeah, like that's what shired a lot. Yeah, I have it or
• 40:43
  I got it right when my second child was born that Christmas. There you
• 40:50
  go. Yeah, I like it all right, man, we got some
• 40:53
  more trivia. Let's do it yeah, I'm gonna hopefully do better than I
• 40:59
  did last week. That's my goal. You you did admirably last week.
• 41:02
  Fell on my face? Which which question did you have last week? I
• 41:07
  don't even remember because it was so bad and tried to like block that out
• 41:09
  of my memory because I did? What did I do? Pro Bowl quarterback?
• 41:14
  The last Pro Bowl quarterback for each team? And then you did mad
• 41:16
  mad covers? Yeah, and I did. I don't even remember what I
• 41:21
  did. Oh, you did the non quarterback NFL MVPs since two thousand.
• 41:28
  That's a tough category. Do you think you can answer that question right now?
• 41:30
  Nope? There were four of them. Do you remember what position?
• 41:34
  They all were? Running back? Oh? There you go. Do you
• 41:36
  remember the Seahawks one. He was the toughest one, I think, was
• 41:43
  he? I think you got it because the last one you got was Lte.
• 41:47
  Yeah. Well, I wasn't going to have you go through we already
• 41:51
  did it. But like if you would have gotten the Seahawks one, then
• 41:53
  you definitely would have been fine. Was it Marshawn Lynch? Was it?
• 41:55
  No? No? This was this was pre marshall On Lynch as a Seahawk.
• 42:01
  He may have been a bill when Shawn Alexander won MVP. But yeah,
• 42:06
  it was Seawn Alexander for the Seahawks, how much I was paying attention?
• 42:12
  And then Marshall Folk for the Rams and obviously good old A d himself.
• 42:15
  Maybe could have gotten Marshall fulk maybe because I remember watching the Greatest Show
• 42:21
  on Turf and Kurt Warner and Tory Hole Bruce. Oh yeah, Ricky Pearl's
• 42:28
  dad, was it now? Ricky prol is the dude who was the Viking
• 42:32
  that was a pearl Blake Blake. Yeah, well there's two pearls bouncing around,
• 42:37
  right, doesn't matter? All right? So we have a question for
• 42:44
  you, in a question for me, and which one there were the seventeen
• 42:51
  cities, not seventeen, just seven or seven cities with multiple NFL teams,
• 42:57
  and then the four NFL teams without a Super Bowl appearance, and I forget
• 43:02
  how we we decided to split this one out. I'll take the seven states
• 43:07
  with multiple NFL teams for one thousand dollars. Oh, I cannot give you
• 43:14
  the prize if you win, That's okay, it'll be like whose line is
• 43:16
  it? Anyways? Or the you can just bring made up you can bring
• 43:21
  the beer next week? How about that deal? It's cool? All right?
• 43:24
  I feel like we should give you another time limit. Seven states.
• 43:29
  It's not seven cities, it's seven I spoke earlier, so we're gonna go.
• 43:34
  We'll go four minutes again, just because it's easy and it's right here,
• 43:38
  free minutes. And so yeah, seven states with multiple NFL teams.
• 43:44
  Okay, currently got it? All right? Are you ready? Yep?
• 43:49
  Three? Two? One? New York? Uh No, actually, no,
• 43:55
  New Jersey. Okay, I mean are we going by where their stadium
• 44:00
  is located or their names? This? So yeah, this was where their
• 44:07
  stadium is located. So New Jersey. There it is Florida, Yes,
• 44:15
  California, So you got Texas or more? So? Yep? Texas?
• 44:22
  Yeah? Three more? Oh man? You always you're wasting time on beer.
• 44:43
  Beer is how I think? Ohio? Oh wah, I oh so
• 44:47
  I have two more? Yep? There you have California, Florida, New
• 44:52
  Jersey, Ohio, and Texas. There are two more. M hmmm.
• 45:05
  One is very tricky, like I don't know if I would have ever really
• 45:07
  gotten the one. Two NFL teams stadiums in the same state. Yeah,
• 45:14
  you're down to two and a half minutes left. I can't get there.
• 45:16
  I think it's not Georgia. It's not. I don't know if there's anything
• 45:25
  else in the South other than Texas and Florida. Maybe, Yeah, Tennessee
• 45:34
  doesn't have more than one. I will tell you each area has an AFC
• 45:44
  and an NFC team. Is Maryland one of them? Oh? Yeah,
• 45:53
  the Ravens in the Washington football team. That's the one that I don't know
• 45:58
  if I would have gotten. Well. Yeah, I was trying to think
• 46:00
  of where are the commanders at and they're like, I think they're in Maryland.
• 46:05
  Yeah, okay, so minute forty left is the other one? Super
• 46:09
  obvious. I don't know it is to two fan bases. I almost gave
• 46:16
  it away with the phrase, but both teams have had some pretty solid success
• 46:27
  over there their lifetimes, long established teams. Man ten left, I'm going
• 46:38
  I feel dumb if I don't get this last one. Yeah, because you've
• 46:43
  got California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, and Texas.
• 46:50
  You guessed New York, but technically no on New York. Historic franchises been
• 46:58
  around for a while. Can you give me a reachi of seconds left?
• 47:07
  I don't know if I can give you a region, we'll go east of
• 47:09
  the Mississippi. East of the Mississippi. H that's fair. That narrows it
• 47:14
  down a little bit. Missouri, No, there are no Missouri NFL teams.
• 47:21
  Kansas City is I think they're technically Oh, yes, you're right.
• 47:23
  Never mind, they're not in Kansas, Missouri. Kansas City, Missouri is
• 47:28
  the Kansas City. If anybody looks like a big you're wasting time, ding.
• 47:31
  I know you have sifteen seconds, I don't know if you can do
• 47:37
  this, have ten seconds. That's all right, you can do this.
• 47:40
  Wisconsin. Now, why is that even on your mind? To one man?
• 47:50
  All right? What was it? All right? So you got California
• 47:52
  they got the Niners, Chargers, and ramsp You had Florida they also have
• 47:59
  three teams, the Dolphs, Bucks, and Jags. You had Maryland,
• 48:01
  which you said was the Ravens and the Commanders. New Jersey, which are
• 48:07
  the Jets and Giants in the same MetLife stadium. You had Ohio which has
• 48:13
  the Browns and the Bengals. You had Texas who has the Texans and the
• 48:16
  Cowboys. You were missing the Home of the Eagles and the Steelers. Yeah,
• 48:30
  yeah, you were close. You did pretty good. I don't know
• 48:31
  that I ever would have thought of Maryland like yeah. When I saw that
• 48:36
  one, I was like, oh man, crazy, I feel dumb.
• 48:39
  I do feel dumb. You shouldn't. You did really good. Pennsylvania,
• 48:43
  Come on, yans yans. I don't even know how to use that word
• 48:50
  in context. I just know that they say that out there, yans ys.
• 48:52
  Is that like Pennsylvanians. No, I think it's like y'all, but
• 48:59
  I guess it never put like a Dutch thing. I'm Dutch kind of.
• 49:02
  I don't use that. We just offended like a ton of people. Probably
• 49:07
  we just alienated our whole audience in Pennsylvania. We probably alienated ten percent of
• 49:12
  our audience so that one person can come back whenever they want. So,
• 49:16
  all right, I'm up next. Do you know the question it's on our
• 49:22
  You are going to name the four teams without a Super Bowl appearance? Ever?
• 49:32
  Ever, well, the Vikings do have four appearances, but they are
• 49:38
  on the list of teams without a Super Bowl victory. How much time are
• 49:44
  you going to give me? I need you have the notes over there.
• 49:49
  I know you haven't looked at them, but I just I need to confirm
• 49:52
  that my answers are correct. Oh you want my notes? Yeah, all
• 49:57
  right, okay, that confirms what I to know. All right, I'm
• 50:07
  gonna give you two minutes. Two minutes, Okay, I can do this,
• 50:13
  and I'm not gonna turn my ringer all the I don't know seeing the
• 50:16
  lights flash in your eyes like, oh my gosh. I did go back
• 50:22
  and watch that and laughed a lot. Yeah, all right, ready two
• 50:27
  minutes and go all right, so front of mine, I know the NFC
• 50:32
  North foe Detroit Lions have never won a Super Bowl, It's correct. Nor
• 50:37
  have they ever been to a Super Bowl. Yeah, so sucks to suck
• 50:42
  Lions fans. We've been to before. We our team has been before more
• 50:46
  than two decades before either of us were alive. So that's right. So
• 50:52
  the Detroit Lions and then probably new teams, right, newer teams because I
• 51:00
  think the last like new team to win a championship was the Vegas Knights of
• 51:05
  the NHL. So we'll go with the Jacksonville Jaguars yep. And this next
• 51:19
  one I'm thinking of, I'm not sure because did they move or were they
• 51:22
  fully knew? And if they did move and were a different team before.
• 51:27
  Would that have counted. I think it would have counted, But I don't
• 51:29
  know if they've moved. I'll just say it the Texans. The Texans on
• 51:32
  the list, yea. And I think they were a new franchise. I
• 51:37
  think way back in the day Dallas, oh the Dallas text but that franchise
• 51:44
  moved and I can't remember if they were. I don't remember they moved.
• 51:51
  Eating my time on purpose. You have one more team thirty seconds. Oh
• 51:57
  wow, this is tough. So I think it's not a new team.
• 52:05
  I think the Browns. Yes, yes, got it. With seventeen seconds
• 52:13
  to spare, we're gonna turn turn that off before it scares the piss out
• 52:15
  of you. Ohiss. Well yeah. So the Texans and the Browns are
• 52:23
  teams that have like had teams and then lost teams and then because Houston they
• 52:31
  were the Oilers right then that team moved to Tennessee where they were also the
• 52:37
  Oilers for there was also a team called the Dallas Texans way back in the
• 52:42
  day, and the Browns were Cleveland and then moved to Baltimore and became the
• 52:50
  Ravens, and then a new franchise also known as the Cleveland Browns because the
• 52:55
  city of Cleveland retained the rights to and history I think to that entire Browns
• 53:02
  organization. Hopefully that move pays off for them one of these days they can
• 53:07
  get a I mean just having an NFL team. Their stadium is actually pretty
• 53:10
  sweet. I haven't been there for a game, but one time my dad
• 53:14
  and I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and if I
• 53:17
  remember right, the Brown Stadium and the rock and Roll Hall of Fame essentially
• 53:22
  like share a parking lot or interesting, not just one single parking lot because
• 53:27
  whatever, but we did walk next to the stadium and look at it.
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  It's like a pretty cool, outdoor, vast stadium in Cleveland, which when
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  I think of football areas, Ohio, isn't the first of mind places that
• 53:40
  I think of. The Hall of Fame is, yeah, yeah, because
• 53:44
  that trip we did the rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the NFL Hall
• 53:46
  of Fame, and then probably a couple other things I don't remember, but
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  yeah, it's pretty cool. That's awesome. Well, you did pretty good,
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  and I had fewer answers. You did better, but I had few
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  answers. Improve I'm going to pay the categories next time. Yeah, I'd
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  love that. That's great. Next week we'll do some more. We will
• 54:06
  have the Super Bowl to talk about next week. So yeah, but the
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  Vikings aren't in it. I even tried to look like, can we talk
• 54:10
  about like former Vikings that are on teams? Are there any former Vikings in
• 54:16
  the Super Bowl? So yeah, there's at least on the Chiefs. I
• 54:20
  could think of two right off the bat. Jock McKinnon. Jack McKinnon who
• 54:24
  his numbers aren't crazy, but he's kind of like a scat back almost like
• 54:29
  a Darren Sproulls type player. Still really good, still found a lot of
• 54:34
  success in Kansas City, but it's not like he's got any thousand yard rushing
• 54:38
  seasons. I think a year or two ago he had like five hundred plus
• 54:44
  receiving yards. But yeah, he has appeared in I think both of the
• 54:52
  or one of the Chiefs Super Bowl wins and one of their losses, and
• 54:57
  now he will appear in his third because I think think he just came off
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  the ir because he was injured most of the season, so he may be
• 55:05
  playing actually, So that's Jerick McKinnon, another Chief who is a former Viking
• 55:09
  Blake Bell, I think is it Blake Bell? Sounds right? Yeah,
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  tight end. He spent one season with the Vikings, and it might not
• 55:20
  even been a full season. I think it looked it up. He had
• 55:22
  like three or five catches with the Vikings. So it's not like he's this
• 55:27
  iconic Viking that is now on another team. But he's been with the Chiefs
• 55:30
  for a few years and you know, a good depth guy. Obviously,
• 55:36
  they have Travis Kelce, who whatever you think about him as a you know
• 55:39
  character, he's no undoubtedly a very good tight end. So but I think
• 55:45
  that was it as far as like, I don't think there are any Niners
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  that are former Vikings. So the Niners I did look today. They have
• 55:53
  a couple practice practice squad guys. Jesse Davis who is a lineman and I
• 56:01
  think he's been on the team the last couple of years. I didn't even
• 56:06
  realize he wasn't on the team anymore until I saw him, and now that
• 56:09
  I'm really thinking about it, he may be a Chief, but he's on
• 56:13
  one of the teams. And I think the practice squad, I think it's
• 56:15
  for the Niners. But t Y McGill, do you remember that name from
• 56:22
  last season, a Viking defensive tackle who made a couple of splashes. He
• 56:29
  may have even been on the team in the preseason and then got cut.
• 56:32
  I think it was last year he was with the Vikings, but not very
• 56:35
  long. And then after that, like there might have been one or two
• 56:39
  other guys, but I couldn't really remember. So it's not like we have
• 56:43
  this big story of like, oh, former Viking Pro Bowl insert position here
• 56:50
  is finally getting a chance, like we'll shoot on that twenty twelve Ravens team
• 56:53
  you had, well in that Super Bowl, you had a handful of former
• 56:58
  Vikings because I'm pretty sure Randy Moss was on the Niners that year. He
• 57:02
  was. I know Matt Burke and Bryant McKinney were both offensive linemen for the
• 57:08
  Ravens that year, and there might have been one or two other ones.
• 57:13
  But even that year, it's like you got some big names on these other
• 57:16
  other teams, just not the case. Jack McKinnon's probably the biggest, and
• 57:22
  he was never the guy. No, I think it was him and another
• 57:29
  guy the year. Adrian essentially missed the whole year because of the the child
• 57:36
  abuse off the field stuff him and was it Toby Gerhart, not Latavious Murray
• 57:45
  because he came in right after they Gearhart would have been a rookie I think
• 57:47
  that year because I think that was the only year he really played for the
• 57:51
  Vikings. I don't I feel like Gearhart was before that though. We should
• 57:55
  know this, we're a Vikings podcast. But it was Jack McKinnon and another
• 58:00
  dude. But I just can't Matt Asciata was that that yet? Yeah?
• 58:08
  Oh well it's in the past. Nothing big happened. Mckennon's a former college
• 58:13
  quarterback for Georgia Southern. They did like a triple option offense, so there
• 58:19
  you go. Yeah, well, all of that to say, not a
• 58:22
  whole lot in terms of noteworthy Vikings news moving forward. I mean still the
• 58:30
  most noteworthy thing is what's going to happen with Kirk Coustiners. Yeah, that
• 58:35
  quarterback decision or non decision up until the draft is definitely the biggest like ticking
• 58:45
  time bomb in Vikings news, and the thing not even a non decision.
• 58:50
  It is a decision and somebody has to make one. Yeah, right,
• 58:52
  like but and I mean non decision, like if they go all the way
• 58:58
  up until Kirk contract officially you know, expires with the Vikings without a signing,
• 59:06
  and even then there's gonna be some like gray area unless it's like an
• 59:08
  overnight thing like oh, Kirk Cousins the minute after free agency starts, signs
• 59:14
  with the Steelers or whoever. You know, Like, yeah, that that
• 59:19
  is the biggest ticking time bomb the Vikings have at the moment, and everything
• 59:23
  else to me revolves around that. I mean, it's it's so much money.
• 59:30
  I mean, we're talking ninety million dollars plus to keep him. You
• 59:37
  know, you keep him, you've got to get rid of some other players,
• 59:39
  probably Daniel Hunter, and well, yeah, keeping him makes it so
• 59:44
  that you can't one keep other guys like a Daniel Hunter or even probably closes
• 59:52
  the door as far as the Vikings are concerned on like a Harrison Smith without
• 59:57
  even giving Harrison the opportunity to public lead announce what he's going to do.
• 1:00:01
  And maybe that's a little reason why we haven't publicly had any news on him.
• 1:00:07
  Specifically, he did say like if I retire, I'm not gonna you
• 1:00:09
  won't know, like I'm not going to tell everybody, But I mean that
• 1:00:14
  could be a domino that needs to fall. But yeah, I think if
• 1:00:19
  you and maybe that's why we haven't heard anything on Danil Hunter either, Like
• 1:00:22
  if you are going to sign Kirk, you're probably not going to sign Hunter.
• 1:00:25
  And we can debate till the cows can of home come home on if
• 1:00:30
  it's a good thing, if we want them to if we want them not
• 1:00:34
  to sign Kirk Cousins. I think on the field, both of us would
• 1:00:39
  absolutely say, like, yes, he's he is good, and we want
• 1:00:44
  him as a quarterback. But it's the finances that what can't you do if
• 1:00:50
  you do go with Cousins. Well, even off the field, I mean,
• 1:00:52
  he's the type of guy you want. Oh yeah, he is not
• 1:00:57
  the media eye so or that you want in your locker room. He's the
• 1:01:04
  darling child of the media almost, and so I mean in a lot of
• 1:01:09
  ways he's he's the guy that you want, but now he comes at a
• 1:01:15
  pretty hefty price tag. And yeah, I think it's unfortunate that Daniel Jones
• 1:01:21
  kind of set the market for elite quarterbacks because I wouldn't consider him one.
• 1:01:27
  No, I haven't seen enough out of him to consider him a top ten
• 1:01:30
  quarterback. And yet he's the tenth highest paid quarterback going in the next season,
• 1:01:35
  and Kirk has every right to demand more than that because he's played better
• 1:01:43
  than Daniel Jones injury aside. So yeah, there's a lot we could continue
• 1:01:50
  to talk about. And I'm sure Vikings podcasts everywhere have that is the question
• 1:01:55
  ad nauseum gone round and round and round. Yeah, we had Dustin Baker
• 1:01:59
  one last week, and if you paid attention to all of Dustin Baker's content
• 1:02:02
  outside of the skull Hop, even most of it has at least revolved or
• 1:02:08
  mentioned Kirk cousin that talker, because it's the biggest talker in Vikings lore right
• 1:02:14
  now. Like, you can't really absolutely talk about anything else until there's some
• 1:02:20
  kind of an answer for that. Yep. And I don't think the Vikings
• 1:02:23
  can head into free agency or the draft without answering that question. They have
• 1:02:30
  to address it, and that has to be the first thing they address,
• 1:02:34
  and then they address everything else in relation to that one decision. They keep
• 1:02:37
  Kirk, great now, they have a slew of other decisions to make.
• 1:02:43
  Kirk walks in free agency. Great Now, they have a quarterback to draft
• 1:02:47
  or somebody to pick up in free agency, and a slew of other decisions
• 1:02:51
  to make related to that as well. Yeah, so I just keep coming
• 1:02:54
  back to only looking at numbers. If you sign Kirk to this reported ninety
• 1:03:01
  million dollar contract, you're talking that is equivalent to two top ten the entire
• 1:03:10
  contracts, four to five year contracts of two top ten first round picks like
• 1:03:19
  that, that's kind of crazy. So, like, I don't know,
• 1:03:22
  I feel like they're going to draft a guy. I feel like Kirk.
• 1:03:25
  My gut tells me Kirk is going to play somewhere else next year, which
• 1:03:29
  for me, as a Vikings like fan of what they do on the field,
• 1:03:32
  that kind of sucks. But like thinking about the best chance to win
• 1:03:37
  a Super Bowl before I'm in a wheelchair, I don't know, maybe that's
• 1:03:40
  maybe that's ultimately for the best. Yeah, it all remains to be seen,
• 1:03:51
  I guess, and we'll be here to talk about it. We sure
• 1:03:52
  will. So where can they find us if they want to keep listening to
• 1:03:57
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• 1:04:01
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• 1:04:05
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• 1:04:10
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• 1:04:16
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• 1:04:23
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• 1:04:26
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• 1:04:30
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• 1:04:36
  mean, we're everywhere down to If you want to interact with us directly through
• 1:04:40
  email, you know, the skull hop at gmail dot com, we will
• 1:04:44
  respond, and we still have stickers. We also, we kind of died
• 1:04:47
  down on this talk a little bit, but we have we have a giveaway
• 1:04:50
  T shirt that we love to give away. I think when we first announced
• 1:04:55
  it, we said that we would like officially announce the giveaway right before right
• 1:05:00
  after the super Bowl, And here we are, it's right before the super
• 1:05:02
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• 1:05:05
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• 1:05:09
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• 1:05:14
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• 1:05:16
  so that's kind of me saying like that deadline is also no longer today,
• 1:05:21
  so it's fluid. Yeah, at this point, I'm a high school English
• 1:05:26
  teacher. I extend deadlines all the time. There you go. It's also
• 1:05:29
  where you can find us, as hopefully in the not too distant future you'll
• 1:05:32
  be able to find us in person at some Iowa breweries. That'd be a
• 1:05:36
  lot of fun. And if you are an Iowa brewery, hit us up.
• 1:05:42
  We don't mind driving, we definitely don't mind drinking some good beer,
• 1:05:46
  and we'd love to do our best to feature solid Iowa breweries in any way
• 1:05:51
  we can, through the podcast or TikTok or anything that's right. Speaking of
• 1:06:00
  how are we sitting with the cloud tripping hazy IPA, Well, I'm not
• 1:06:03
  tripping, but I don't think that's what they mean. I like it.
• 1:06:08
  I like it a lot. It's really good like this, this is hitting
• 1:06:14
  really good for me. I wish I knew more about beer, and I'm
• 1:06:16
  hoping to learn more about beer as we maybe get into brewing some you know,
• 1:06:23
  someday. But I don't know. I don't have good enough adjectives to
• 1:06:30
  describe this. This has grown on me in the last hour and a half.
• 1:06:32
  I feel like when I first took a sip. I was like,
• 1:06:35
  huh, that's different, and I don't know how I feel about it yet,
• 1:06:39
  And now here I am thinking like that this might be one of the
• 1:06:44
  better hazy ip as I've had. Well, And I don't think you'd be
• 1:06:47
  offending anybody by saying a certain category of beer is not your go to.
• 1:06:51
  Like my, I do not go to the like, you know, s'mores
• 1:06:58
  porter type beer. That's that's not my wheelhower. I however, I've definitely
• 1:07:02
  had some really delicious porter beers or yeah, excuse me, s'mores beers this
• 1:07:10
  while this is dead center right in my you know, go to category of
• 1:07:15
  beers, It's okay. If it's not like you're one hundred percent, I'm
• 1:07:20
  glad you like it enough that it sounds like you're you're gonna definitely be more
• 1:07:25
  open and willing to grab one of these types of beers off the counter.
• 1:07:28
  Again, for sure, I like this a lot, and I've had a
• 1:07:31
  little bit more than you have. Yeah, at this point, well,
• 1:07:33
  if you really pay attention to the episode, I've done a lot more talking.
• 1:07:38
  I'm sorry to our listeners that have heard more of me than than you
• 1:07:42
  should. You're smarter than me. So if you're a teacher, so there
• 1:07:45
  you go, just right off the bat. If you can't teach, that's
• 1:07:48
  what they say. Sure, well, and I can't teach or do so
• 1:07:51
  I just work for the government. That's what my tax dollars go towards.
• 1:07:59
  Yeah, and they towards you too, that's right, all right man.
• 1:08:01
  All that to say, Cloud Tripping, it's fantastic. I will definitely grab
• 1:08:06
  this again. It's not just making the list because it's an Iowa brew beer.
• 1:08:12
  It is. It's really good about it a lot, and we may
• 1:08:15
  have to make the relatively short trip up to Clinton sometimes great revivalist. Let's
• 1:08:19
  go check it out. Let's go even if we're not recording anything. I'd
• 1:08:23
  like to go a T shirt for all of these these breweries that we're trying.
• 1:08:28
  That's my goal. It's a good idea. Well, we'll work on
• 1:08:32
  that and we'll definitely feature a different Iowa beer next week. We're gonna have
• 1:08:39
  another episode coming out next week, so make sure you check us out and
• 1:08:43
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