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Chiefs moving to Kansas, Purdy & the 49ers rout, Pete Fiutak talks College Football & the Voice of the Chiefs Mitch Holthus Report · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on the
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  day before. The day before, we welcome you
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  to the Iowa Sports Radio Network, Trent Condon and Ken
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  Miller as we'll talk sports with you for the next couple of
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  hours. Thank you for starting your
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  afternoon with us. Here's what's coming up on our
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  program, Pete Futech from collegefootballnews.com.
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  We'll talk to Pete at the bottom of the hour.
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  Been a month or so since we've caught up with Pete.
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  Pick his brain and what he sees coming up here as we get set for
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  the quarterfinals. Pete Few tech at 12:30.
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  Mitch Holtis is going to join us via tape.
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  He sent a 3 minute piece. We'll hear from Mitch, a
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  recorded piece coming up here at 12:45.
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  Haven't listened to it, guessing it has everything to do with the
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  game on Christmas, Christmas night, but Mitch Holtis will
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  join us. 12:45 Then we'll hit the Chicago catch up with a
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  Cappy. More on the Bears and their
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  remarkable win over the Packers. And what lies ahead for the
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  Bears. They will play on Monday night.
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  And then more on the Chiefs with Nick Athan.
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  But why don't they pick Nick's brain?
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  What's going on with the move I. I guess I don't understand the
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  uproar, but to be perfectly honest with the audience, I'm
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  not the most well versed on Kansas City, MO or Kansas City,
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  KS. I don't like the area.
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  For whatever reason, it never struck A chord with me or what.
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  I mean, I love the Twin Cities, I love Chicago.
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  Maybe it's 'cause I never got to the parts that would move my
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  needle. I mean, I've been to.
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  The casino. No, yeah, I did go once.
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  Actually, I did go once, 90, maybe 1990, but been to
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  obviously Kaufman and I would never go near that dump that's
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  next door to it because the Chiefs played there.
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  I think your fan of showed. Just a chat and I know I get it.
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  Look here, Chiefs fans love it. But So what am I missing?
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  Isn't it kind of like it's 20 miles away?
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  You're right. What's?
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  The big deal if he if he if, let's say we had the principal
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  Park was Major League team moves to Altoona.
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  Right. What's the I mean the uproar?
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  West Waukee or West Waukee? And that happened to be in
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  Nebraska. Right.
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  See. I I guess I don't understand it,
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  but there's a lot of people that are pissed off the free money.
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  I get that part of it that the owner seemingly are going to,
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  you know, pull the wool over the taxpayers eye again.
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  Although there's something called star bonds, which I'm
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  trying to become familiar with. As I anticipated speaking on
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  this today, I don't know what I'm I'm, I'm no more clued in
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  than I was when I started to dig into it.
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  But anyways, they're moving and the Chiefs and the ownership,
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  etcetera, not going to have to dig very deep into their own
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  pockets. This is not the Seattle
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  SuperSonics becoming the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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  Or the Winnipeg just becoming the Phoenix Coyote's a story I'm
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  much more familiar with. This is moving across the river,
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  right? You're in the same Metroplex,
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  You're in the same area if you're used to it, and I know
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  you got tons of memories of that place.
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  But people from Kansas City, KS have been going to Kansas City,
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  MO to watch the Chiefs forever, right, yes, absolutely And and
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  and maybe if there's somebody from Kansas City that happens to
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  be driving through or whatever that can can help us out.
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  I don't understand the uproar. You're going to get a brand new
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  stadium. Arrowhead sure, the memories and
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  you've got some absolutely incredible ones there for for
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  that. I'll, I'll, I'll give you that,
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  but I mean, Kansas City, KS is part of the same municipality
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  right as Kansas City, MO. It's all one big happy cities
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  like West Des Moines and Des Moines.
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  The uproar? Well, we just had a color that
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  did mention there's a lot of eggs between these two states.
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  Over what? Well, this dates back to the
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  Civil War. One side and I don't know that
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  part. So one side fought for the
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  winners, the others for the losers.
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  OK. All right.
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  So yeah, this is. And that still lingers to this
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  day. Well.
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  I think there's, there's pieces of that.
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  There's still, I mean, segregation was a big thing.
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  Yeah, slavery was a big thing. I get that part.
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  Yep, I get that. Part and I'm gonna guess that
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  yeah, though it's centuries ago, that that is still something.
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  That's why people. Don't.
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  Well, Omaha, Council Bluffs, probably a little different
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  factor, but if you had all of a sudden Creighton Blue Jay
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  basketball being played in Council Bluffs, think people
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  just take it sitting down. Yeah.
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  I mean, you're, you're, you're they're still your team.
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  They're not going to change the name, right?
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  They're not going to be the Kansas City KS Chiefs.
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  I don't, I don't think. But, but again, and I want to be
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  perfectly upfront with this, this is over the tips of my
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  skis. And so I'm kind of relying on
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  you, the audience, which is why I wanted to get Nick in here to
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  get his opinion on this. Now, the Royals might may follow
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  suit. I think what's lacking when I
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  look this purely as an outsider's perspective, who's
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  literally been to to Kauffman and where do we stay?
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  Was it called the Adam's Mark across the street?
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  It's been a couple of different properties.
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  It was the Drury that Drury was. There, but there was across the
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  street from the Drury, there was another property and it's not
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  there. It's not the coolest place and
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  there's no bars. I get that part, which is
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  probably one of the reason they do want to move.
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  Yeah, there's going to be a huge development.
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  Here's the thing, you're going to get multiple Super Bowls,
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  you're going to get multiple Final Fours in the cradle of
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  college basketball. All these major events that may
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  have passed you by, sporting events, they're going to come
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  your way now. But again, it's, it's upset a
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  lot of people. So I'm I'm asking for help when
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  it comes to this. We got a couple of colors that
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  maybe can help. Us all right, let's go to Jesse
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  first of all, then we'll get Thunder Joe in here.
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  Hi, Jesse, are are you upset first of all?
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  Hey guys, I am upset but not upset as people from Kansas or
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  Missouri. I live in Waukee, I live in
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  Iowa, I work in Iowa. Lifelong Chiefs fan.
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  I know there's always been Missouri Kansas beef if you
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  follow the Kansas City Twitter. Or.
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  Their sports talk radio channels, there's always been a
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  beef and a rivalry. But to me it's more of the
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  Arrowhead is a classic. It's like the club leaving
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  Wrigley or Packers leaving Lambeau.
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  That's what hurts me, is there's nothing special.
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  About a new Dome, there's nothing special.
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  About another opening Roof stadium.
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  There's something special about Wrigley Arrowhead.
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  Yeah. Ambo.
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  Yeah, that's just my take. No, listen, I I think that's
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  absolutely fair. Jesse.
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  Merry Christmas, Happy holidays. Appreciate you chiming in, and
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  thank you for listening. Yeah, that's fair.
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  I mean that that's fair. Arrowhead.
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  The memories that are there. By the way, I watched a great
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  Arrowhead memory yesterday. The 1997 divisional round of us
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  of the Path to Super Bowl 32, Elway came out on Netflix
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  yesterday. I cried.
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  I did. I cried, but you know, I cried a
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  lot. Because he looks like a horse.
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  He looks like a Bronco. No, because he was such a hell
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  of a quarterback and he finally, finally, finally got us across
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  us across the finish line. It's pretty good, I think.
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  I think you probably have to be a Denver fan to really
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  appreciate it, but I thought it was pretty well done.
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  Just, you know, the pressure that.
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  He had, you know, and this kind of goes hand in hand with the
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  potential of the bears that we've talked about, right?
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  Them going to Indiana, you know, Hammond, IN, is what it's
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  talking. It's 45 miles away.
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  See, that's a little further. It's a little bit further, but
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  it's also it's not in. Illinois, right?
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  Yeah. The pride and joy of Illinois
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  doesn't quite go the same way. The pride and joy of Indiana
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  similar. Yeah, no, I.
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  Get it, but that's also bigger city feels much different for me
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  as an outsider. Kansas City, MO Kansas City, KS
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  Very similar and stayed on both sides it's.
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  All one thing. Right.
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  Yeah, and the metro area of Kansas City, much smaller than.
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  Chicago too. Yeah, right.
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  I mean, when you're talking about those western suburbs,
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  those people are talking about a 2 hour drive, you know, to get
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  to Hammond, IN. All right, let's get back to the
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  phones. A lot of people want to chime in
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  on this topic. I do want to get to the Monday
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  Night Football last night. God, it was fun to watch Phillip
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  Rivers play, wasn't it? It was just, I mean, there's
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  just this guy didn't get his due when he left.
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  And I think the appreciation that's coming his way.
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  I was always a fan. Even though he was a Charger, I
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  was always a fan of his game. Hi, Joe, How are you Thunder
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  Joe? Hey, pretty good.
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  Good afternoon. I kind of want to rib on these
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  Chiefs fans that are complaining about it.
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  First off, it's not like they're moving to Fort Hayes.
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  I mean, think about it, the 49ers play like 6 blocks from
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  San Jose. That's.
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  Absolutely true. Yes, absolutely.
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  I couldn't believe it, Joe. So we Super Bowl 50, I was
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  there. We stayed at San Francisco,
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  downtown San Francisco. I couldn't believe how far it
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  was to get to Levi's Stadium. It's like 40 minutes easily.
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  Yeah, I mean, the next thing you take one wrong turn, you're down
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  in LA. Yeah, pretty close, Joe.
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  Merry Christmas, man. Thank you.
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  You too, brother. Yep.
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  I appreciate you listening. Yeah, Levi Stadium is way, way
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  South of San Francisco. It's Santa.
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  Clara. It's Santa Clara.
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  And traffic there differently. Kansas City traffic.
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  Too. Sure, sure.
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  Absolutely. Was Chris and then AJ.
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  Hi, Chris, How are you? Yeah.
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  Hi guys. I wanted to chime in on the
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  Adam's mark. I think that has been defunct
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  for some now. I, I think so, the one across
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  from the stadium to the north and I'm all for the new stadium
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  now. Arrowhead's done a good job and
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  they've had the renovations since 1971 since it started up
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  and they have a great winning record.
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  But I welcome the new stadium, but I don't welcome the new
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  ticket prices because they're going to be astronomical to see
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  a Chiefs game. Yeah, that's all I got.
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  Yeah. Thanks, man.
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  Enjoy your holiday. Appreciate that.
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  Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, there's just.
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  Nothing around the area. You know, there's that one
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  Amico. Yeah, right.
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  Yeah, the tailgating is all otherworldly, right.
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  It is first class. I get that part.
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  It is a huge wide open area and it is.
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  It's fun. Yep, absolutely huge.
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  It's fun tailgating. I mean, I've been there for
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  Royals Twins games and it's a great time for baseball, which
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  is not exactly known for their tailgate environments.
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  It's incredible for. That it it really is.
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  I tailgated on opening day of Royals season back-to-back
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  years. It was I first I've ever
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  experienced it. I'll never forget John Walters.
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  Yeah. Chuck Reed, OK.
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  Myself and, you know, a couple other KCCI people I think.
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  But yeah, had a blast. That's a crew there.
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  Saw Joey Bell before he was Albert Bell.
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  OK, go deep on opening day one year.
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  Hello, AJ, how are you? I'm good.
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  Hey guys, I talked to my brother.
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  He's a long time DeSoto, Kansas native now from Iowa, but he's
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  in DeSoto and so he explained it all to me.
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  So with these star bonds, you need no government approval.
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  The governor can just send it right, right on to the Chief.
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  And they've fought in Kansas City or Johnson County.
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  Missouri had fought and there's so many levels of government in
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  Missouri that they had to go through and they had 50 years to
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  develop everything around it. They never did a Dang thing.
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  So that's going to go out by the Kansas Speedway and the Legends
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  and the soccer stadiums and all the infrastructure is there and
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  you have several interstates that can go right by it.
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  So you're talking about not just going to a Chiefs game, but
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  concerts that are indoors, whatever you want to do.
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  So, and I'm really excited as his brother because his house is
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  going to be about 2025 minutes from new stadium.
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  So I'm super stoked for the new stadium.
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  And then Trent, this Bear fan, my dog's name Bear, my
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  daughter's Peyton TAYTON, my whole life I'm loving this man.
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  We got to just carry it because you know what, let's go.
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  And I'm all for putting it in Hammond IN speed him if they
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  want, because the stupid Chicago corruption and government, they
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  still want the Bears to pay $500 million for half a Soldier Field
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  that the state and the county and the city were supposed to
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  pay. So if they go to Hammond, it's
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  right off of I-80. So bear down.
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  Let's beat the diners on Sunday night, buddy.
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  Let's go. Let's get it done.
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  Love that Jay. Merry Christmas, brother.
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  That's good. That's a passion.
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  Absolutely. AJ is up there from God's
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  country, too. He's a Clear Lake guy, is he?
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  Oh yeah, he knows what's going on.
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  What would he be listening on, I wonder up.
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  There probably the I Heart app sometimes, you know, we bounce
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  out there. But yes, AJ, good listener and
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  up there I'll be waving to AJ as I go by tomorrow, Christmas Eve
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  up to Osage. That's where you're going
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  tomorrow night. Going to Osage.
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  Well tomorrow we'll go to church with the whole no out there
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  church tonight at our church tomorrow, double dipping with
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  grandma and the whole crew and then we'll get on the road
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  probably 93010 o'clock. Get home, get the kids in bed
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  and then it will be Christmas. Nice finishing touches.
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  Wake up and all day long and then we always come up to your
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  neck of the woods. Then Christmas night.
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  Do you? We don't you.
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  See that that one display? Ginger, Was it Gingerbread Lane?
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  There is that, but there's one right by where I live.
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  We've been there before, it's OK.
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  But you you tune your radio. I think it's just the one house.
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  It's right in the corner of 36th and Mylan.
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  Maybe it's. It's almost the Interstate.
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  Yeah. This guy does an unbelievable
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  job. Oh, absolutely.
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  It's just incredible. And the tours that go through
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  there each and every night. But be careful because, you
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  know, they're closing I-35 northbound tonight.
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  They are north. I mean, perfect timing, right?
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  Yeah, I think between like 8:00 at night and I, I don't know,
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  but it's yeah, I-35 is going to be for a couple of days.
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  Those city planners, our buddy Travis, he's wondering
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  Christmas. Seriously.
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  Construction workers gas overtime.
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  Yeah, really. This is what somebody's posts on
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  Twitter, true or not, Not sure, but I don't want to get the
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  money on football, but just this.
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  Missouri's now lost Saint Louis Brown, St.
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  Louis Cardinals, Saint Louis Rams, Saint Louis Hawks, Kansas
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  City Kings, Kansas City Athletics, Kansas City Scouts
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  and soon to be the Kansas City Chiefs.
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  Kansas is lost. That's it.
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  Nothing but Missouri maybe, maybe it is politics there.
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  I don't know. But I was kind of struck by all
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  the the push back. Anyways, Nick Athan will come
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  with more on that football last night.
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  Did you see much of the Philip Rivers?
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  Well, look it to be fair, it was the Brock Purdy Show Co starring
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  Philip Rivers. Good God, Purdy's unbelievable.
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  He truly is. But Philip Rivers to me was the
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  story last night and the box with the 10 kids and his wife up
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  there. It's remarkable that this guy,
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  obviously the physical, he can't throw the ball down the field.
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  You know, Troy pointed that out a couple of times and it's
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  accurate. But just knowing, I mean, he's
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  been literally there for what, 10 days now?
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  And knowing the reads and getting the ball to where it's
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  supposed to be. I mean, he never had the
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  strongest arms by any means. I just respected the hell out of
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  his game, always did. And was it was a joy to watch
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  him play last night. How about this finishes these
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  last two games. Not going to get them to the
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  playoffs likely. They what they need the Texans
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  to lose out. They play a Week 18, but they
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  need the Texans to lose this week.
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  And they get the Chargers, so it's not without the realm of
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  possibility. And the Colts?
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  They had the Jaguars come to town.
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  Still, well, those are two big games.
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  But two important games and two that could go that, but that
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  side, Yep, I'll just say it doesn't happen.
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  OK, What we've seen from him does this.
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  Oh, I know where you're going. And the answer is yes, This
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  augments yes. He's hoping yes.
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  I think he went from a probably not first ballot.
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  He'll get there sometime. Yes, within the first five
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  years. Because the lack of Super Bowl,
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  you know, it's resonates with some, probably some voters.
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  I would hope that this would be taken into consideration.
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  I really would. It's I, I love the fact that
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  he's getting his dude, that he's 44, that he's not embarrassing
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  himself. Maybe as important as anything.
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  And that was the concern. Yes, absolutely was, especially
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  when you walk into Seattle for game one.
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  Yes, I mean good luck. Right, and they had an
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  opportunity to win that game. And yes, they moved the ball
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  last night against the Sanford. Yes, banged up defensively.
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  What other note? I just had my notes here.
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  Christian McCaffrey. And good God, it's all and
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  Kittle pretty back, you know Kittle.
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  We were. It was always on the background,
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  this 49er team, because you love Seattle, everybody loves the
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  Rams, the Packers before the injuries.
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  We're talking all these different match generations.
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  The Eagles obviously have done it to the last three years,
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  getting to the Super Bowl and winning one last year.
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  And the 49ers are just in the background.
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  And as they get healthier now, they're gonna have to win a
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  different way. This is not going to be the
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  49ers team a couple years ago where now they can go out there
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  and win 17. 13 Brock Bertie's gonna have to lead them.
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  They're gonna have to win shootouts, but with those
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  weapons, the way that offensive line's coming together.
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  When you say weapons, I don't think he has the greatest wide
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  receivers, but kittles elite still at 32 and obviously you
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  hit the tail on the head. 23 is is otherworldly.
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  Did you hear I got such a kick? I I mean, if you listen to this
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  program, you know my love for Troy and Joe Buck.
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  I mean, these guys are unbelievable when Buck brought
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  up the, the fact that before they brought in Philip Rivers,
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  they got the committee on leadership together to ask the
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  that there's a, the committee of leadership's made-up with, you
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  know, all the position groups, defensive backs, defensive
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  lineman, offensive, like they got it.
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  They got a committee on leadership.
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  And Aikman starts laughing and says, Can you imagine Jimmy
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  Johnson putting together a committee on leadership?
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  No, I mean that's how much the game has changed.
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  Right. You know, like it really goes
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  hand in hand with, well, we had Dame Mazzutani on last week and
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  we're talking about JJ McCarthy. And it's something that has just
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  stuck with me here this last week or so.
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  And it goes with Caleb Williams and young quarterbacks.
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  And the questions about Caleb Williams, cuz he paints his
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  nails. I mean, one of the dumbest lead
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  up to a these for me. Yes, there's a generation
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  younger, right? The Barstool Bros, those kind of
• 18:31
  people. And it's not for me, but yeah,
• 18:33
  that's different. Well, we're talking about now
• 18:35
  for me, two generations, you know, this next generation,
• 18:38
  whatever this generation is, but these people in their teens into
• 18:42
  their early 20s. JJ McCarthy's a weird dude to
• 18:45
  me. Caleb Williams is a different
• 18:47
  kind of quarterback. But I think it's also the
• 18:49
  reality that I have to start to realize is they are a lot
• 18:53
  different. Yeah, younger people, OK,
• 18:55
  they're kind of one group. But when you get those two
• 18:57
  generations removed, and this is kind of the first time in my
• 18:59
  career that I'm going through this for the first time doing
• 19:01
  this and understanding they don't have to be wired like John
• 19:03
  Hillway. They don't have to be Troy
• 19:05
  Aikman. Today's environment, team
• 19:07
  camaraderie, all those different things and leadership count.
• 19:10
  And talking about things. Did you and your buddies get
• 19:14
  together and talk about your feelings right?
• 19:18
  No. It's a different generation.
• 19:20
  No, it is. And it's something that you have
• 19:22
  to evolve when all these quarterbacks, they're not all
• 19:25
  gonna fit into the box that I think we're used to.
• 19:27
  And it's something that just stuck with me when Dane brought
• 19:30
  that up and we were talking about because it's not just
• 19:32
  McCarthy. I don't think he's very good.
• 19:34
  And I want to be right on that because he also plays for the
• 19:36
  Vikings. But secondly, he's just wired
• 19:39
  different. But that's OK.
• 19:40
  And I think it was just a reality for me is maybe I have
• 19:43
  to think of, and it's not just a quarterback, but just in general
• 19:46
  this new era of athlete that is coming into our lives.
• 19:48
  And we talked about at the college level with NIL and how
• 19:50
  different that is. But also personality wise, these
• 19:53
  guys are a whole lot different. There's no question you may hit
• 19:56
  the look. I think you can in in a way kind
• 20:00
  of bring that really close to home here at Cakes.
• 20:02
  And oh, when I was asked when I thought about Lucas Strange
• 20:05
  joining our team, I said you have your mind out of your mind.
• 20:09
  This guy never saw the Run, the Senecas play or the Catch the
• 20:15
  Holloway play. He never seen any of this stuff,
• 20:17
  you know, come back in 10 years and then maybe he's it's the
• 20:20
  best hire we've made in a long time.
• 20:23
  We got younger for the better. And look at the audience he's
• 20:26
  bringing in. It's fantastic.
• 20:29
  That, but but to my credit, I'm going to give myself a little
• 20:33
  credit here. I went home and thought about it
• 20:35
  and realized no, no, no, no, this is a good move.
• 20:37
  And came back the next day and said, yeah, I think this is a
• 20:40
  really good idea because everything needs to evolve.
• 20:43
  Right, absolutely. The way that we do things is a
• 20:46
  lot different. The old people that still
• 20:48
  college athletes getting paid back in my day.
• 20:52
  Our day was a long time ago. I hate to remind you it's.
• 20:55
  The old adage right? Evolve or die, right?
• 20:58
  All right, we're going to get to Pete Futek coming up here.
• 21:01
  College football news collegefootballnews.com for for
• 21:04
  Pete, look forward to Do you have one game you like more than
• 21:07
  the others? Maybe from a?
• 21:08
  Non non playoff game. Yeah, no, a playoff game.
• 21:11
  Well, give me, give me one of each from a betting
• 21:13
  perspectives. We're not going to make any
• 21:15
  picks from a betting perspective.
• 21:18
  One that I jumped on right away was, and this was, I think, my
• 21:22
  first bold bet. Yeah.
• 21:23
  Was New Mexico when they were getting a field goal?
• 21:25
  Now they're getting 2 1/2 against Minnesota.
• 21:27
  That's the day after Christmas. That'll be on Friday afternoon,
• 21:30
  OK against New Mexico. I like New Mexico.
• 21:32
  I like New Mexico, yeah. Jason X stayed there.
• 21:34
  I think that was a big component of it.
• 21:36
  Minnesota, it really comes down to Darius Taylor.
• 21:38
  I mean, they're just such a completely different team in
• 21:40
  there. But Minnesota was so awful on
• 21:42
  the road. This is a bowl game, obviously a
• 21:44
  neutral site but and I think New Mexico, they haven't made a bowl
• 21:47
  game in like 8 years. So they'll be wanting to win.
• 21:49
  They're going to Phoenix, you know, Albuquerque to Phoenix.
• 21:51
  That's this is where Iowa State was going, right, Right.
• 21:53
  Probably took Iowa State's. Place they did absolutely, I was
• 21:56
  going to be Minnesota, Iowa State.
• 21:57
  I heard from some people down in Phoenix that were very excited
• 22:00
  to get the Cyclone fans and the last obviously that didn't
• 22:02
  happen. So that's one, at least from a
• 22:04
  betting perspective. And I just want to see the on
• 22:06
  Saturday, it's just a helmet game.
• 22:09
  Which one? Clemson, Penn State?
• 22:11
  Oh, yeah. I mean, how many people had them
• 22:13
  at minimum in the playoff in their Final four, maybe playing
• 22:17
  for a national? Clemson to win it all.
• 22:18
  And now these two teams at 6:00 and 6:00 will face off in Yankee
• 22:21
  Stadium. Who's going to play?
• 22:23
  Hey. You know what?
• 22:24
  Do me a favor. Yeah.
• 22:25
  Do you have your notebook here? Yeah.
• 22:27
  I did. I might have picked Clemson and
• 22:28
  Penn State to play for the national championship.
• 22:30
  I think he did. So I might have got the match up
• 22:32
  right. I'm going to ask for 1/2 a point
• 22:34
  you have. I want a half a.
• 22:35
  Point. I'll give you a quarter of a
• 22:36
  point. See.
• 22:37
  We round down. See.
• 22:38
  If you can find that, awesome. Clemson, Penn State, though,
• 22:42
  that's what that I I. Think I like that.
• 22:44
  Intriguing and do you realize on Saturday how many bowl games we
• 22:47
  have? We have 8 bowl games on
• 22:49
  Saturday, 8 bowl games on. Saturday, two NFL games that are
• 22:52
  are one of them's meaningless. Now let me get the bowl games in
• 22:58
  front of me. Are the NFL games in front of me
• 23:00
  for Saturday? Houston and the Chargers, it's a
• 23:02
  huge game. Baltimore.
• 23:04
  That's a huge game. Oh gosh darn it.
• 23:07
  The the NFL. They just keep they.
• 23:10
  Just, I mean, I get it, Good stuff.
• 23:13
  All right, Millery Condon, glad you're with us here.
• 23:16
  Appreciate all the input on the Kansas City to Missouri back and
• 23:20
  forth. Clemson over Penn State.
• 23:23
  That's what I had in the natty. Yep, I had Georgia beating Notre
• 23:27
  Dame. Well, you you have a chance to
• 23:29
  get your your winner. Right, could get that.
• 23:32
  So I actually predicted what pool did I predict?
• 23:35
  Where are they playing? What?
• 23:36
  What's Penn State? And they're playing in the what?
• 23:38
  The pinstripe. The Pinstripe.
• 23:39
  Yeah, the Yankee Stadium. It's.
• 23:41
  Kind of the same, not. Too shabby, de.
• 23:42
  Facto national champion. Right.
• 23:45
  Well, and we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the retirement
• 23:48
  John Hicks. Oh God, thank you.
• 23:49
  Yes. What a career.
• 23:50
  What a career. I mean, I think that offenses
• 23:55
  were starting to catch up a little bit with him, but you
• 23:58
  know, when you've got some of the who's who of defensive minds
• 24:03
  in the offseason making their way to Ames, IA to spend time
• 24:06
  with Iowa State's DC. The Patriots were coming to town
• 24:09
  under Bill Belichick to learn what you're doing and the elites
• 24:13
  from Venables when he was at Clemson and the defense
• 24:15
  coordinator who had elite defenses.
• 24:18
  But what do you do against these spreads?
• 24:20
  What are you doing that is working so well?
• 24:22
  It changed defenses in college football and the way that they
• 24:26
  play. They're right offensive coaches
• 24:28
  now. They're going to go back to the
• 24:29
  drive and they've started to figure some things out.
• 24:31
  But to have that, to have that happen, I mean, that's going to
• 24:34
  be top of the resume, right? Or or top of this statue for
• 24:37
  John Haycock. Yeah, is absolutely.
• 24:39
  How many people learned what they did against the spread and
• 24:43
  he was the architect. And no, there's no question.
• 24:45
  Well done. Heck of a career.
• 24:47
  Miller and Condon, Pete Few Tech next.
• 24:49
  Glad you're with us on the day before.
• 24:50
  The day before it's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 24:55
  I'm Milary Condon, Welcome back. I was sports radio network with
• 24:59
  you until 2O clock wherever you're listening in state of I
• 25:01
  grateful that you are. Happy holidays.
• 25:03
  Merry Christmas to all of you. Have a safe one.
• 25:07
  We will hear from Mitch Holt is the voice of the Kansas City
• 25:09
  chief Mitch on tape. He filed that earlier this
• 25:12
  morning. We'll hear that in about 15
• 25:13
  minutes. Right now.
• 25:14
  Pete futechcollegefootballnews.com.
• 25:17
  He's got his preview of all of the bowl games up there today,
• 25:20
  of course, being Louisville, Toledo, at least that is the
• 25:22
  first one. But Pete joins us.
• 25:24
  Hello Pete Futech, Tech. Wonderful time of year.
• 25:27
  How are you? I'm doing just fine.
• 25:29
  How you guys doing doing? OK.
• 25:31
  We saw some changes after the playoff 2024 had come and gone.
• 25:36
  Do you anticipate we're going to see anything significant prior
• 25:39
  to this exercise next December? There'll be something, there'll
• 25:45
  be some sort of tweaks, there'll be some sort of, it's the
• 25:49
  problem is the playoff committee wants to maintain control of
• 25:52
  things. At the moment the SEC and the
• 25:55
  Big 10 are happy because they got, you know, they pretty much
• 25:59
  are going to be as represented as they want to be.
• 26:02
  Certainly the ACC and Big 12 are going to keep complaining if
• 26:05
  they want more in this. But I do think overall they've
• 26:10
  they've got to do something. Justin, in terms of just the the
• 26:15
  the overall transparency, because the problem is OK, yeah,
• 26:18
  Miami won, Alabama won doesn't mean that the they got it right
• 26:23
  necessarily. I mean Notre Dame did get hosed.
• 26:27
  You don't really need a you need to have some group of five team.
• 26:31
  And if you get that, you have to have some way to that every team
• 26:34
  can believe that they have a shot, but you don't need both of
• 26:36
  them in. So I think the tweak might just
• 26:39
  be with next going forward. Just say you know what the whole
• 26:42
  all the Power 4 Pro champions are in and then we'll go from
• 26:47
  there. Do you because of potential
• 26:50
  litigation, there still has to be a spot, at least one spot
• 26:53
  though, for the group of five. Can you cap that though?
• 26:55
  Can you cap just one gets in or are you setting yourself up for
• 26:59
  more litigation if you go that route?
• 27:01
  I, I, you know, as long as there's a mechanism, there's
• 27:04
  ways to do this. And I'm not sure why.
• 27:06
  I mean, I, I know these people, I work with them, I know how it
• 27:10
  works. I know why certain things were
• 27:12
  the way they work were really when they just got started with
• 27:16
  this thing over 10 years ago, they just wanted to get up and
• 27:19
  going and then they were going to adapt and adjust.
• 27:22
  There's a couple really simple tweaks where I think that the
• 27:26
  weekend of the Army Navy game just have an extra game.
• 27:30
  Just have either you can either have it.
• 27:32
  You know, the two top group of Frank group of five teams play
• 27:36
  each other and the winner of that, if they're both outside of
• 27:40
  the top 12 to begin with, the winner of that gets into the
• 27:42
  tournament there they they, they just got your one representation
• 27:46
  or you, you have four teams like this year.
• 27:48
  If during that the Army Navy week, you had, let's say, you
• 27:52
  know, BYU versus James Madison and Tulane versus Notre Dame and
• 27:56
  just have that kind of be like, you know, like the NBA
• 27:59
  tournament 1st 4. Then OK, you know, the, the
• 28:02
  group of five teams get their representation, get 2 teams to
• 28:04
  get a shot. You know, you get a shot to at
• 28:07
  least get into the tournament. And then you kind of get ridden,
• 28:11
  you know those two legs, you know, LAG teams get their chance
• 28:14
  to. And if you're a Texas or if
• 28:16
  there's someone else and you can't even make that, you don't
• 28:18
  deserve to be in the playoffs. Let's let's Fast forward to the
• 28:23
  the quarterfinal rounds. Is there a team that had a buy
• 28:26
  this past week that you think might be in trouble?
• 28:31
  All of them. I mean, there's, I think, I
• 28:34
  mean, look, I mean, the, the, the positive about this is, you
• 28:37
  know, they tweaked last year's version where, you know, you had
• 28:41
  the, the easy layup games in the second round, relatively
• 28:44
  speaking, if you don't want to call it Arizona State that.
• 28:47
  And now we've got these monster quarter final games.
• 28:50
  I don't think Ole Miss beats Georgia.
• 28:53
  That's that's the one thing I'm pretty much sold on that.
• 28:57
  There's that Georgia comes up and Ole Miss had its game and
• 29:00
  has Lane Kiff and exorcism moment against Tulane.
• 29:04
  And now, OK, we're going to get rid of that.
• 29:06
  You know, the rebels were good, but flawed.
• 29:09
  I'm not buying into the SEC teams at all in general.
• 29:12
  So the least of the three that are left are probably and I
• 29:16
  don't buy into Alabama. I I still don't think they're
• 29:19
  that good. That was more of a case that I
• 29:23
  don't know what happened to Oklahoma, but you had the
• 29:26
  misfire on the past. You had the weird punt that
• 29:29
  didn't work and then the pick six.
• 29:31
  And they just completely, you know, messed themselves.
• 29:35
  I mean, they just, it was the weirdest type of thing at that
• 29:38
  team with that defense could look that bad.
• 29:41
  Well, yeah. And Alabama took over that
• 29:44
  Alabama's a little puffy chested and all that.
• 29:46
  I don't think they're beating it.
• 29:47
  Yeah. And I don't think we're going to
• 29:48
  get an Oregon situation of last year in the Rose Bowl.
• 29:52
  Certainly, you know, Texas Tech is going to be interesting.
• 29:55
  I mean, I that is a dangerous team to watch.
• 30:00
  Certainly, you know, Miami going forward is going to be
• 30:02
  interesting to watch. So I would not be shocked at any
• 30:05
  outcome in the other three. But I do think Georgia wins
• 30:07
  against old old Miss. Pete, I know you dabble and take
• 30:10
  a look at the point spreads. If Indiana and Alabama was just
• 30:15
  Big 10 champion, they got a Big 10 emblem on their helmet.
• 30:17
  It's not the Indiana Hoosiers and the Alabama team that we saw
• 30:20
  and they just have an SEC emblem.
• 30:22
  We don't have the name brands with it.
• 30:24
  Would the Big 10 brand be favored by two touchdowns as
• 30:26
  opposed to the one touchdown they are right now?
• 30:28
  Because. It's a it's a good question that
• 30:31
  the problem with it is it doesn't work like that only
• 30:33
  because again, I if it were big random SEC team playing Oklahoma
• 30:38
  last week. I still think you know, Oklahoma
• 30:41
  wins and but oh, you know, Alabama was Alabama.
• 30:44
  There is a little something that goes to that and even over the
• 30:47
  years, whether it was saving and now De Boer, look, you know,
• 30:51
  they that program seems to rise up and play.
• 30:55
  I mean, the talents there. They're they just aren't playing
• 30:58
  like it necessarily. And they finally did for I mean,
• 31:01
  for the last, you know, 25 minutes of that game against the
• 31:06
  OU, but they hadn't beaten anything.
• 31:08
  They didn't played well for like a, you know, a couple months.
• 31:11
  I mean, since the Tennessee game, they were kind of black.
• 31:14
  So I get what you're saying. I'm still not I, I, I'm still
• 31:19
  having a hard time buying Indiana, mainly not because it's
• 31:22
  Indiana, but they don't have the talent level of, you know, the
• 31:27
  NFL talent guys of most of the rest of the team still in the
• 31:31
  tournament. I just they're, they're very
• 31:33
  good and they're they're obviously superior coach.
• 31:38
  I do think they get out of this. I think they get by Alabama.
• 31:42
  There's going to be a little nervy thing to begin with.
• 31:44
  Alabama's playing, you know that a little bit of a chip on its
• 31:48
  shoulder now because it's not supposed to win this thing.
• 31:51
  And that that goes to the other part of this thing too.
• 31:53
  It's remember, if they're not going to do this, and I have no
• 31:57
  idea why you can't do this in the NCAA tournament.
• 32:00
  I have no idea why you don't do this in the playoffs and other
• 32:03
  sports, especially the NFL. Indiana got host.
• 32:06
  I mean look they they get Alabama who technically is the 9
• 32:10
  seed and technically supposedly the better team than #10 Miami.
• 32:16
  OH State gets Miami. So theoretically at least even
• 32:20
  though I think Miami's better than Alabama, Alabama, Ohio
• 32:23
  State won by losing the Big 10 championship because it got the
• 32:26
  lower seeded game then Indiana did.
• 32:29
  And God forbid if Miami beats Ohio State, then Indiana really
• 32:33
  gets a kind of screw, kind of screwed in all this because it
• 32:37
  gets the higher seeds the whole way and it gets absolutely no
• 32:39
  break or no reward for being the number one overall seed.
• 32:44
  Pete, my last thing for you, preview all of the bowl games
• 32:47
  regardless playoff or not. As mentioned, you've got your
• 32:49
  games up today. Is there one non playoff game
• 32:52
  that you like more than the other?
• 32:53
  Which one non playoff game are you looking forward to watching?
• 32:56
  Pete? Few Tech.
• 32:57
  None of them. These are so awful.
• 33:00
  I'm not joking there. This bowl season's been so bad.
• 33:05
  I mean, it's just look, the celebration bowl, you know, to
• 33:09
  begin with, which isn't really a technical NBA, you know, the FBS
• 33:13
  sanction bowl was which was amazing.
• 33:15
  That was a great way to kick this thing off.
• 33:18
  And since then, everything has been awful.
• 33:21
  Either it's been, you know, teams no one cares about playing
• 33:23
  low scoring, boring games that no one's going to wait till the
• 33:26
  very end. And the one or games that you
• 33:28
  know, might have come down to something interesting or they've
• 33:31
  been ugly blowouts because the power four programs have just
• 33:35
  crushed the group of five programs so far.
• 33:38
  We'll see what happens today with Louisville.
• 33:40
  I mean, look, I mean, you keep watching because eventually
• 33:43
  you're going to get something great that, you know, so many
• 33:46
  games these do end up coming together and, you know, doing
• 33:49
  all right. I kind of want to see Georgia
• 33:51
  Tech versus BYU, of course, because BYU is going to play,
• 33:55
  you know, full bore. Georgia Tech seems just like it
• 33:58
  has most of its guys. But the problem is these last
• 34:01
  second opt out and the transfers and the these teams that are
• 34:05
  missing coaches. And then you get something like
• 34:07
  yesterday where, you know, Washington State didn't have
• 34:10
  anybody. They had their quarterback and
• 34:13
  that was it. No coaches, no players.
• 34:16
  And then Utah State who had everybody didn't even get off
• 34:18
  the bus and got just boat race from the start.
• 34:21
  So these are just some weird games and hopefully these become
• 34:25
  good. But to answer your question, I
• 34:28
  kind of like the game that no one's going to watch because
• 34:30
  it's on Christmas Eve. I'm with you.
• 34:33
  Cal versus Hawaii is going to be like 9592.
• 34:36
  I mean, because Dick Rolovich coaching Cal, Hawaii and Hawaii,
• 34:40
  I think that is going to be a wild back and forth shootout.
• 34:44
  At least I'm hoping. For that.
• 34:45
  We'll get you out on this one, Pete Michigan.
• 34:48
  Is Bip Pogey really going to take over this?
• 34:50
  No, really. He can't.
• 34:53
  He can't. I mean, look, he's just a
• 34:55
  different sort of dude. It's just crazy enough that it
• 34:59
  might work, but no, you can't. But the problem is there's
• 35:04
  everything else is every other option out there right now.
• 35:06
  It's kind of boring. And I'm really sort of Tommy
• 35:09
  Reese. Is that really going to be your
• 35:11
  guy? I am stunned that they didn't go
• 35:13
  Jet Fish that see, he seems like the next guy up.
• 35:17
  He seemed like he was ready for, you know, that job.
• 35:20
  I thought he was, you know, early enough of the process
• 35:22
  where they could just take him right away after the LA Bowl may
• 35:25
  be on their way. But Michigan overall, that whole
• 35:27
  athletic department, such a mess that I think they're just trying
• 35:30
  to get through the day and then they'll figure out the head
• 35:32
  coaches as they go. Enjoy the game tomorrow night,
• 35:35
  Pete. Appreciate it.
• 35:37
  Thanks for coming on, Pete Futech.
• 35:38
  Best in 26. Thanks pal.
• 35:40
  You too guys have a good one. Good to talk to you, Pete
• 35:42
  Futech. I'm with him.
• 35:43
  I can't wait for that game tomorrow.
• 35:44
  It'd be fun. Empty nesters.
• 35:47
  Just Cindy and I and Jet and a little college football.
• 35:51
  We'll take a time out. We'll hear from Mitch Holtis,
• 35:53
  the voice of the Chiefs. He sent along a what did you
• 35:56
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• 35:58
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• 36:00
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• 36:02
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• 36:05
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  involved throughout the region. OK, two things to deal with now.
• 36:26
  One is the Christmas night game hosting Denver and an even
• 36:29
  hotter issue here now that the Chiefs have been eliminated from
• 36:32
  the playoffs. And that was the announcement
• 36:34
  made in Topeka, KS on Monday and how it could affect Des Moines
• 36:39
  and the southwest and western region of Iowa.
• 36:42
  All right, football, the Chiefs are in the Alamo.
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  Yes, a six and nine record. The injuries are now boarding on
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  the ridiculous. The Chiefs are dealing with the
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  replacements for the replacements for the
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  replacements. I'm not kidding.
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  Let's take quarterback Patrick Mahomes out for the year.
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  Knee surgery on December 15th and in the first quarter for the
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  game against the Tennessee Titans, backup Gardner Minshew
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  had a serious knee injury. That meant Chris Ola Dokan, who
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  had barely played in the NFL, took over the duties and will do
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  so again on Christmas night against the outstanding Denver
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  defense. But it's really offensive tackle
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  where the roof is caved in. The Chiefs are down 4 offensive
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  tackles and are using Essa Pole who's played very little
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  football comparatively at left tackle.
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  And the Chiefs international pathway player from Nigeria Chew
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  Godric at right tackle who's played hardly any football.
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  And to have a backup for the backup to the backup, the Chiefs
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  signed Matt. Well, let's go.
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  A former Dallas Cowboy and Minnesota Viking practice squad
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  guy off the street. Oh, well, here come the Broncos.
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  Ken's wanted this for a decade. He's got it.
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  Not only a really good Bronco team, but now playing a Chiefs
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  team will have to Max out just to keep the game somewhat
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  competitive. And the Broncos have a lot at
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  stake after their loss Sunday to Jacksonville.
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  They're now in a tight battle for the number one seed and not
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  only that, but the Chargers aren't relenting.
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  So a Week 18 matchup take the Broncos from a buy to a wild
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  card position. Now the Monday announcement and
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  this is the big news. Chief Chairman and CEO Clark
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  Hunt announced in Topeka, KS that the Chiefs are going to
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  build a brand new Dome stadium near the Kansas Speedway in
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  Kansas City, KS and a new practice facility and village in
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  Olathe, KS that will be the new team headquarters.
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  The plans are very elaborate and put the Kansas City region in a
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  position to challenge for a Final Four, a national
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  championship football game, Super Bowl, Bowl games, major
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  concerts and events. And the new plans will call for
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  entertainment opportunities and amenities that will make the
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  facility a 360 day destination for vacations and trips.
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  That will be great for Des Moines and the state of Iowa,
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  especially the West southwest parts of the state.
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  Fellas, this is going to be really cool.
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  And the effect could be far reaching in a 250 to 300 mile
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  radius. I'll close as I began.
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  Merry Christmas and happy holidays.
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  And yes, your Christmas gatherings and family time
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  should include the awesome menu from Papa John's of Iowa.
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  Remember, Papa John's is red and green.
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  I think they're the official pizza of Christmas.
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  Anyway, check it out at papajohns.com.
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  Reporting from Kansas City, I'm Mitch Holtis, voice of the
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  Chiefs all. Right.
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  Good stuff and appreciate Mitch doing that for us on a on a
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  short week before we run out of time.
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  I want to mention this Smiley Hawkeye fan must have known a
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  ton of Hawkeye fans. There are more people that are
• 39:32
  responding to the news that he passed away.
• 39:35
  Gary Smiley is this is the last name Blore.
• 39:38
  Not sure on that. Just know him, Smiley.
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  Everybody knows him is Smiley, right?
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  So if you're a Hawkeye fan, you spend any time at Iowa City?
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  Probably bumped into him. Oh.
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  Absolutely. I saw him downtown, saw him at
• 39:47
  games. He was everywhere.
• 39:48
  Smiley, he made the rounds and all kinds of athletic events,
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  right? All kinds of downtown
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  establishments. Smiley was always around and.
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  An institution, Yeah. Absolutely.
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  And I think he'd moved away from Iowa City, I'd heard a while
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  back and was living with his sister.
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  But yeah, just one of those characters, right?
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  There are plenty of those in Iowa City.
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  You hang out at the PED Mall, you're gonna sing characters.
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  And Smiley was another one of those people that you just
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  always knew. Yeah, a lot of a lot of people
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  that they're expressing in condolences on his passing.
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  All right, our number two, we will head to Chicago.
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  Go catch up with Cappy. First of all, they'll talk about
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  the Bears. First of all, look forward to
• 40:24
  doing that. Do a little baseball with the
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  cap man as well. Sunday Night Football, it's the
• 40:30
  Niners and the Bears. Oh, baby doesn't get much better
• 40:33
  than that one, does it? I jumped in last night before
• 40:36
  the kick off of the 49ers game. To what?
• 40:39
  To jump on the 49ers, you did Super Bowl?
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  No, just to win the game to cover against the Bears.
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  And I think I got the right side of it because it was 2 1/2 at
• 40:47
  the time. Now it's three.
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  I had a feeling maybe something like what happened last night
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  could happen like that number to 2 1/2.
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  More than three. Hope I am dead wrong all.
• 40:58
  Right, Cappy kicks it off. More on the Chiefs move.
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  Nick Athan will join us for a few minutes before we get out of
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  here at 2:00. Miller and Condon, we've got an
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  hour to go. We're glad you're with us on the
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  Iowa Sports Radio Network.