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03/06/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 4: It's a great professional out there and playing this ball
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Speaker 4: game like I know you can play.
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Speaker 1: With Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 1: Arman Sorriest, don't get skinned.
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 3: He congratulate you, and you're an extraordinary group of players.
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Speaker 2: I'm half of the league.
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Speaker 1: I'm behalfing Packer fans in Wisconsin, throughout America and indeed.
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Speaker 3: Throughout the world.
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Speaker 2: Mike, here's the body truckle.
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Speaker 1: Hey, thank you, Bob Hallan. It's been twenty nine years
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Speaker 1: since green Bay.
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Speaker 2: It's got on a world title.
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Speaker 1: What do you have to say to green Bay, the
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Speaker 1: New America Sea, and all.
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Speaker 2: Of its fans around the world.
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Speaker 1: I think it's time, Terry, that the Lombardi Trophy goes
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Speaker 1: home to lambeau Field, where it belongs.
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Speaker 3: Friday edition of the Huddle, Off and Running from Headquarters, Drew,
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Speaker 3: Billy and Arman bringing it to you as we celebrate
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Speaker 3: the life of Bob Harlan, former Packers president and one
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Speaker 3: of the more influential people in the history of Wisconsin sports.
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Speaker 3: Welcome in everybody. Tough news yesterday to lose Bob Harlan Drew.
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Speaker 5: It's one of those you say, eighty nine years and
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Speaker 5: we like to Everybody has their different way of saying it.
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Speaker 2: Rest in peace, Rest easy.
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Speaker 5: You can celebrate a life well lived and hard to
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Speaker 5: measure up to the sports life and the personal life
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Speaker 5: lived by Bob Harlan. Those that got a chance to
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Speaker 5: meet him and interact with him, those that worked for him. Uh,
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Speaker 5: there's not one bad word ever spoken about Bob Harlan,
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Speaker 5: and the only thing that we take with us in
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Speaker 5: this world is well how people remember us. And nobody
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Speaker 5: remembered more finally than Bob Hart.
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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame person and Hall of Fame impact, huge
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Speaker 3: impact on the franchise. Obviously, I don't know the Packers
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Speaker 3: would exist if Bob Harlan had push some of the
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Speaker 3: buttons that he did during his tenure. That's a clean
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Speaker 3: take very much. The you know, there's the renovations of Lambeau.
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Speaker 3: He's obviously lay in the groundwork for the title town district.
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Speaker 3: They were gobbling up land at that time, to you know,
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Speaker 3: big picture fantastic and turning the keys over to Ron
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Speaker 3: Wolf and getting the executive committee out of football decisions.
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Speaker 4: That was no small feet, guys. That was to say,
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Speaker 4: we will stand in the sidelines. We will put one
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Speaker 4: hundred percent of football operations of football decisions into the
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Speaker 4: operations of the football. This was a This was an
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Speaker 4: organization that believed in their checks and balances rightly so
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Speaker 4: to some extent. And they had to have board meetings
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Speaker 4: to hire and fire coaches, I.
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Speaker 5: Mean, or to or to trade a first round pick.
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Speaker 5: Because the video was circulating yesterday of Kevin telling the
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Speaker 5: story great.
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Speaker 4: Point famously, you know, they wanted to have a say
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Speaker 4: in Vince Lombardi's football decisions.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't gonna happen.
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Speaker 4: So you know, Bob was the one, and Bob was
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Speaker 4: And it's also I don't think, you know, exaggeration to say,
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Speaker 4: in an organization.
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Speaker 2: That doesn't have an owner, that position's as.
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Speaker 4: Important and more important than it is in any other organization.
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Speaker 4: To do it correctly, do it right, and do it
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Speaker 4: with the integrity that he did it with. So amazing,
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Speaker 4: amazing life lived, and thank you Bob Harlan for everything
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Speaker 4: he did for the Packers.
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Speaker 5: And Armin kudos, and I think also the emeritus as well,
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Speaker 5: the man that just stepped down out of that spot,
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Speaker 5: Mark Murphy, agreed to the point that when you are
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Speaker 5: representing the only team that isn't backed by billions, right,
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Speaker 5: isn't fact by a checkbook that measures up to the
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Speaker 5: other thirty one at the table when you go to
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Speaker 5: those owners' meetings, that position is almost more powerful than
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Speaker 5: any other in professional sports because you represent something that
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Speaker 5: isn't backed by your own personal wealth. You need to
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Speaker 5: make decisions that are based on the good of the
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Speaker 5: organization and not your own pocket or personal well being
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Speaker 5: and personal wealth. That's something that no other sport is
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Speaker 5: really able to say and team ends up saying. And
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Speaker 5: when he I loved that video yesterday of Kevin Harlan
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Speaker 5: and obviously pre seasoned voice of Packers football and voice
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Speaker 5: of all of my childhood on NBC, on the NBA
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Speaker 5: two K games and everything like that. They've been so
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Speaker 5: influential in the story that he told when all of
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Speaker 5: a sudden they're sitting there and he's trying to figure
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Speaker 5: out how on earth they're going to be able to
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Speaker 5: get this first round pick, and he looks over it.
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Speaker 5: Ron Wolfe is pitching it to the executive committee, and Ron,
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Speaker 5: would you leave the room here for one quick minute.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Every single one of you needs to stop
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Speaker 2: this right now.
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Speaker 5: You just hear the curtness in the story and the cleanness,
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Speaker 5: but the temperament drew something that's probably not going to
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Speaker 5: be matched again here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think so.
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Speaker 3: And you know it's like Bob Harlan, these are the
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Speaker 3: tight Bob Harlan with the Packers, like we said, just
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Speaker 3: such a steward of the organization in his like twenty
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Speaker 3: years as president and even before that, Marquette grad arman,
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Speaker 3: he touches a lot of bases for us because he's
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Speaker 3: from Des Moines, Iowa. So that's Dolph went to Dowland, Catholic,
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Speaker 3: went to Marquette, was the SID at Marquette.
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Speaker 2: He won al SID.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they dropped football and track during that
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Speaker 3: time in the late fifties, and so that job became
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Speaker 3: less attractive. He rolls over to the U. Saint Louis Cardinals.
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Speaker 3: We talk about again, talk about training. I've often made
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Speaker 3: the parallel how St. Louis Cardins are similar to the Backers. Well,
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Speaker 3: Bob Harlan was there, his community relations director and then
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Speaker 3: media relations director got so he was always the most
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Speaker 3: media friendly guy you could possibly be because he was
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Speaker 3: in that gig. And he was in that gig when
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Speaker 3: they won a World Series with Bob Gibson and Bob
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Speaker 3: Buker and the guys.
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Speaker 2: So he had a.
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Speaker 3: World Series ring and Super Bowl. That's a pretty good tenure.
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Speaker 3: He hired two Super Bowl winning gms, now.
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Speaker 5: The only person in pro football to do it and
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Speaker 5: hire two different gms with two completely different rosters.
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Speaker 2: That one came out yesterday totally.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, and just the CE change and let's put
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Speaker 3: the football people in charge of the football. And then
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Speaker 3: of course Ron Wolf Begat Mike Homer and and then
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Speaker 3: Brett Favre was the trade that Ron Wolf made. And
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Speaker 3: then Reggie White came and the Packers. You know, that story,
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Speaker 3: the greatest story in sports might have fizzled out without
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Speaker 3: Bob Harlan, So it is. And okay, so and you
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Speaker 3: talk about the controversies. Yeah, he took some boats, but
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Speaker 3: he always was at his desk. I mean he as
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Speaker 3: a reporter when I was doing stuff coming up I
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Speaker 3: got to interact with him a couple of times and
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Speaker 3: just couldn't have been a nicer, more professional, more folksy,
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Speaker 3: feel like, you know, the guy, your whole life kind
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Speaker 3: of guy. Did you call thee? Yeah, oh, he answered
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Speaker 3: his desk. He answered the phone and his desk quite
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Speaker 3: a bit. And he if not, you could get on
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Speaker 3: the list of people. Like when if they announced a
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Speaker 3: ticket pricing, you got to get a comment or something.
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Speaker 2: He would just have a list of people to call.
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Speaker 2: And Wolfe was the same way.
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Speaker 3: They would just at the end of the day, you'd
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Speaker 3: get your call, you know, and you'd get like, you know,
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Speaker 3: three to five minutes.
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Speaker 2: Better make it a good question, and you're gonna go
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Speaker 2: to a little small talk.
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Speaker 3: And then sometimes if there was time, it would roll
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Speaker 3: into small talk. And Bob Harlan had a close relationship
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Speaker 3: with Bud Selig, and both of those guys are titans
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Speaker 3: and Buds in the you know sundown years too. It
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Speaker 3: was north of ninety these guys were incredible stewards and
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Speaker 3: so just thinking about and then you think about look
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Speaker 3: at his family and the success Kevin has had and
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Speaker 3: now Olivia and Ken.
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Speaker 5: Brian's one of the biggest sport agents and in the world,
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Speaker 5: no doubt.
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Speaker 3: And I you know, I've dealt with those guys in
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Speaker 3: the past, and we've had Kevin on the show a
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Speaker 3: bunch of times. And then their brother Mike is a
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Speaker 3: friend of the program as well. So it's it's, uh, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's quite the loss. We've got to celebrate his life today.
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Speaker 3: And you talk about not all of the decisions were easy,
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Speaker 3: and some of the waters got chopped. You know, it's
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Speaker 3: always great when you're winning Super Bowls, but you don't
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Speaker 3: do that every year. Yeah, right, But the one of
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Speaker 3: the most impactful things that Bob Harlan did left a
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Speaker 3: scar for many.
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Speaker 2: It's funny how it's it's kind of been. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's it's been.
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Speaker 3: It's healed now, sure, but pulling the packers out of
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Speaker 3: Milwaukee when he did that, there were people down here
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Speaker 3: and Billy your family got tickets, and there are people
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Speaker 3: out here got tickets that are still kind of mad
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Speaker 3: about that, like, yeah, you're screwing and you look at
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Speaker 3: it now and you go, of course, look at what
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Speaker 3: Lambeau is and that is the lower that's the legends, like, hey,
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Speaker 3: we're playing Green Bay in Milwaukee. You know, and then
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Speaker 3: that whole thing with County Stadium and what's now American
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Speaker 3: Family Field being baseball only is all part of the
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Speaker 3: Packers not wanting to use the factil anymore because they
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Speaker 3: knew it was better for business to be up there.
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Speaker 2: You look back and every decision it was right.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's the amazing thing about you know, and
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Speaker 4: you look back, controversial or not, that was That's his
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Speaker 4: legacy in that sense.
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Speaker 5: The sports solvency in the state. You mentioned budd Sea
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Speaker 5: League as well, and then you know Herb Cole would
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Speaker 5: also need to be in the conversation as well. Those
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Speaker 5: three have what brought in and kept sports in the
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Speaker 5: state of Wisconsin. I mean, what what's in Green Bay
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Speaker 5: now will will won't be won't be touched. But when
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Speaker 5: Bob took over, obviously it was very, very, very tenuous,
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Speaker 5: it was a massive question mark.
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Speaker 2: And and with Herb and obviously.
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Speaker 5: Bud being able to keep what sixty seventy years of
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Speaker 5: professional sports in the state of Wisconsin at least, it's
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Speaker 5: incredible the generations of people that they impacted.
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Speaker 3: Between if you look at if you want to go
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Speaker 3: Mount Rushmore off the field, Bob Harlan, Bud selig herb
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Speaker 3: Cole and Pat Richter.
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Speaker 2: Pat Richter, Yep, there you go. There's your there's.
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Speaker 3: Your four who have been just giants of a generation
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Speaker 3: and that their work laid a foundation that allowed what
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Speaker 3: we enjoy today.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, an incredible sports life, I mean when you
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Speaker 4: an incredible life in general, an incredible sports life when
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Speaker 4: you you just consider what he did with the Packers,
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Speaker 4: but all the you know, incredible figures he kind of
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Speaker 4: worked with and came across already mentioned on laguire, but
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Speaker 4: you mentioned the car Is card Stint was, you know
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Speaker 4: in sixty seven. I mean as one of the most
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Speaker 4: legendary Cardinals teams as well, you know, and and obviously
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Speaker 4: with the Packers, and you know, it just it just
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Speaker 4: have seen as much as he did, what a blessing
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Speaker 4: we we had to have him as ours and to
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Speaker 4: impact our sports. You mentioned our you know, our favorite franchise,
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Speaker 4: our favorite team so much, and it just in he's
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Speaker 4: always going to be an important integral figure in Packers history.
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Speaker 4: Not to mention and this is the most important part.
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Speaker 4: You talk about the business of the solvency. You know,
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Speaker 4: he was the h he was the man during a
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Speaker 4: lot of winning in Green Bay and that's the most
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Speaker 4: important thing for Packers fans, and he had a monster
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Speaker 4: monster part of that, and he's gonna be missed.
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Speaker 3: Packers Hall of Famer, Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Famer, if
11:46
Speaker 3: there's a Hall of Famer for great people, yeah, just
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Speaker 3: gentlemanly people, he's in that too. If there would be
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Speaker 3: the Wisconsin Business Hall of Fame, he's in. They give
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Speaker 3: out the Bob Harlan Leadership Award every year. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: he's no doubt. And it's just it goes beyond people
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Speaker 3: forget what it was.
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Speaker 2: Like they called it the house that Farv built right.
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Speaker 3: When they renovated Lambeau in the early two thousands, Well
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Speaker 3: it was you know, Harlan again was behind that made peace,
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Speaker 3: gave the keys to Rob Wolf and then.
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Speaker 2: They kind of said it in motion, you guys.
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Speaker 3: It's like you think of it now, the stuff you
12:20
Speaker 3: take for granted, like the Hudson Center thousands, they had
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Speaker 3: to build that right, right, and so that's you know
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Speaker 3: that that wasn't there well in the entire and that
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Speaker 3: it took money and foresight and everything about the atrium
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Speaker 3: and all that.
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Speaker 2: The whole vision of it is.
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Speaker 5: Rooted and what everything everything you saw this year, right,
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Speaker 5: everything you saw this year with the NFL drafts, no
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Speaker 5: shot that. Obviously, Mark Murphy made it his his, you know,
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Speaker 5: goal to walk out and make sure that that was
12:47
Speaker 5: one of the final things that the packers were able
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Speaker 5: to do. But none of that's ever remotely possible if
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Speaker 5: that complex isn't started with the crown jewel right there
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Speaker 5: in the middle. I was at the Rebirth of the
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Speaker 5: Legend or whatever they ended up calling the Friday or
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Speaker 5: Saturday Night celebration when they reopened after all of the renovations,
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Speaker 5: and I was.
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Speaker 2: I'm maybe like seven or eight years old.
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Speaker 5: I was there with my grandma and my great great
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Speaker 5: grandpa and hear hearing stories of him being one of
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Speaker 5: the two hundred and fifty thousand people that were there
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Speaker 5: at the Ice Bowl. But seeing all of that, knowing
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Speaker 5: the very very little bit of what the old green
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Speaker 5: and yellow simple lambeau Field was drew, it's hard to
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Speaker 5: even put that on your like, it's hard to even
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Speaker 5: visualize it. I don't even know how AI would be
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Speaker 5: able to take away what it sees now and put
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Speaker 5: in what used to be there.
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Speaker 4: And the Don Hudson Center was his first big thing,
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Speaker 4: if I remember correctly, it correct me if I'm wrong
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Speaker 4: that I was finished in ninety four. His first big
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Speaker 4: building project was the Don Hudson Center. I think they
13:47
Speaker 4: had a small small renovation to the press box as
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Speaker 4: well in the early nineties, and then the yeah you
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Speaker 4: mentioned Billy, the other renovations and those things were so important,
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Speaker 4: you know, the ford thinking, the forward thinking decisions to
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Speaker 4: building the Packers brand physically and figuratively were so important,
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Speaker 4: and he spearheaded all of it. And he's always gonna
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Speaker 4: be regarded, you know, as the kind of the standard
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Speaker 4: of that position, you know, to respect to all the guys.
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Speaker 2: And Mark Murphy's also done.
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Speaker 4: A great job, but but he'll be the standard of
14:18
Speaker 4: that position, will always be regarded as such. For such
14:20
Speaker 4: a crucible time in American sports, for the Packers, in
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Speaker 4: this unique franchise and in the NFL when free agency
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Speaker 4: was starting, there were you know, I mean, there were
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Speaker 4: a lot of questions about how the Packers could operate
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Speaker 4: in those worlds, and he made it not only you know,
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Speaker 4: the challenge was made into an advantage of the Packers
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Speaker 4: and not the opposite.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean that that climb from assistant GM
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Speaker 5: to running the entire operation doing it the way he did,
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Speaker 5: and and drew again like this is the this is
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Speaker 5: the stuff that people talk about on this day, the
14:49
Speaker 5: day that they do the memoriams. But you almost felt
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Speaker 5: like people felt bad bringing up football first in in
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Speaker 5: celebrating and mentioning him yesterday because of how for human
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Speaker 5: being he was. That's genuine of a person he was, right, Like,
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Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's just it can be a small thing,
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Speaker 5: but it's the most important thing. That nobody had a
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Speaker 5: bad word to say, because he treated everybody in just
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Speaker 5: a different level of class and grace.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you come across people like that and you just uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, he had a you're right, just a grace
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Speaker 3: of presence of professionalism, uh, empathy. He just like he
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Speaker 3: treated everybody great. He was just an incredible human being.
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Speaker 3: Like I don't I don't know that. I'm sure he
15:28
Speaker 3: had bad days, and I'm sure he had times when
15:30
Speaker 3: things got tough, and you know, like I saw close up,
15:35
Speaker 3: I had like a behind the curtain view at Commissioner Ameritis,
15:39
Speaker 3: see like melting down a couple of times.
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Speaker 2: You can kind of upset it sometimes venting to me
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Speaker 2: on the phone and stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: We all have our moments, and I'm sure Bob had his,
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Speaker 3: but man, there was there was just a class and
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Speaker 3: a grace about him.
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Speaker 2: And the results speak for themselves. They highly earn you.
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Speaker 3: Like Billy you said it, there ain't nobody gonna say
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Speaker 3: a bad word about Bob Barlow.
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Speaker 4: He was one hundred in his record as a Actors
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Speaker 4: president was one and eighty one and one twenty three,
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Speaker 4: which is incredible. It's a third in that era, only
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Speaker 4: behind the Broncos and the Steelers to that stretch.
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Speaker 3: So though he didn't meddle in the on field stuff
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Speaker 3: and say hey, you ought to try this player, you
16:12
Speaker 3: ought to be playing that arman, sorry, and more like
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Speaker 3: the cut of his trip instead of that. But he
16:16
Speaker 3: did like the players, Leroy Butler and the players who
16:21
Speaker 3: got to know him, and he you know, if his
16:24
Speaker 3: door was always open and he was a resource and
16:26
Speaker 3: if you had any troubles or if you had any
16:28
Speaker 3: you know, needed advice, he was always there for players,
16:30
Speaker 3: and players respected the hell out of him. So a
16:32
Speaker 3: lot of times players can play ten years for an
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Speaker 3: organization and you know, maybe see the owner in passing
16:37
Speaker 3: yeah with him, these guys had relationships where they stayed
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Speaker 3: in touch, right, and so the players that were there,
16:44
Speaker 3: because he was such a you know again any he
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Speaker 3: would go to them and say, hey, what can we
16:48
Speaker 3: do for you guys? What do you can do to
16:49
Speaker 3: help What can we do to help you guys? I
16:51
Speaker 3: love the bringing in like the chefs and stuff that
16:54
Speaker 3: they've done. All the stuff that happened. Now, the game
16:56
Speaker 3: evolved as well, but the Pickers stayed up with the
16:58
Speaker 3: times and in some ways the pack became. They went
17:01
Speaker 3: from being the Siberian outs to kind of cutting edge
17:05
Speaker 3: in some way. Yeah, yeah, well, and the player in
17:08
Speaker 3: the reinvesting in football all started really with him, right,
17:11
Speaker 3: All the money that you have, we need to reinvest
17:13
Speaker 3: it in football because it only brings back more money.
17:16
Speaker 3: Do you talk about the players and the Packers released
17:18
Speaker 3: different statements, one from Brett Farv and one from Aaron Rodgers.
17:22
Speaker 3: Obviously the Brett Farv one is more important as he
17:24
Speaker 3: was there the entire time. Bob's leadership of the green
17:26
Speaker 3: Bay Packers was outstanding. Hiring Ron Wolf, supporting that trade
17:30
Speaker 3: that brought me to the Green Bay Packers changed my career.
17:32
Speaker 3: The organization believed in me and gave me the opportunity.
17:34
Speaker 3: He was so supportive of me during the challenges I
17:37
Speaker 3: faced in my career, challenges my family face too. He
17:40
Speaker 3: was always there offering support. He was a great and
17:42
Speaker 3: kind man.
17:43
Speaker 2: I know.
17:44
Speaker 5: Winning the Super Bowl and bringing the Lombardi Trophy back
17:46
Speaker 5: to Green Bay was a proud moment for him. What
17:48
Speaker 5: the team accomplished. It was incredible to be a part
17:50
Speaker 5: of the resurgence in this great franchise, and Bob set
17:53
Speaker 5: the tone with his leadership. And then Rogers continued on saying,
17:56
Speaker 5: He's the big reason why I was selected by the
17:58
Speaker 5: Green Bay Packers in two thousand and five. You hired
17:59
Speaker 5: Ted Thompson, who drafted me with the first round pick
18:03
Speaker 5: in two thousand and five. I really got to know
18:04
Speaker 5: Bob in the two thousand and seven Packers tailgate tour,
18:07
Speaker 5: said Rogers. I think I speak for everyone who went
18:09
Speaker 5: on that trip when I say we had an absolute
18:12
Speaker 5: blast during those four days, and Bob was a big
18:14
Speaker 5: part of it for me. He Bob was one of
18:17
Speaker 5: the most naturally funny people that I met in the
18:19
Speaker 5: organization during my eighteen years. Whether we were laughing on
18:22
Speaker 5: that bus for four days on the tailgate tour, embracing
18:25
Speaker 5: me in the locker room after a game, or catching
18:27
Speaker 5: up at the holiday party. Year after year, I lit
18:29
Speaker 5: up every day I got to see mister Harlan and
18:31
Speaker 5: give him a big hug to me. Bob embodied the
18:33
Speaker 5: spirit of the Green Bay Packers, and he truly loved
18:37
Speaker 5: leading the greatest franchise in the NFL. His kind heart,
18:40
Speaker 5: quick wit, steady hand will be remembered by Packers people forever.
18:44
Speaker 5: I'll be always thankful for my time with the legend.
18:47
Speaker 2: Mister Bob hard Amazing, amazing.
18:49
Speaker 5: Can you imagine, though, how much fun Bob Harlan was
18:52
Speaker 5: having on that last Packers tel go He was hanging
18:54
Speaker 5: it up in two thousand and eight, having one final
18:57
Speaker 5: run around the state.
18:58
Speaker 2: Oh, I bet he had every story imaginable there, guarantee
19:01
Speaker 2: you guarantee you so yes.
19:04
Speaker 3: Bob Harlan again, titan of the industry, a huge figure
19:07
Speaker 3: in Wisconsin sports behind the scenes, never a show pony,
19:11
Speaker 3: never about him, but damn he got stuff done. Amen, Amen,
19:15
Speaker 3: smoke with a smile and with a grace that won't
19:18
Speaker 3: be forgotten. So we're thinking of Bob Harlan and his
19:21
Speaker 3: family today. Obviously, Kevin, Bryan, Michael, his sons, his wife
19:25
Speaker 3: and extended. Continuing the Friday edition of The Huddle, Fox
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Speaker 3: Sports Radio Wisconsin nine twenty, Milwaukee ten seventy and Madison
19:33
Speaker 3: everywhere on the iHeart apps, streaming live on Facebook x
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Speaker 3: and of course YouTube. Talking about Bob Harlan today eight seven, seven, seven,
19:41
Speaker 3: nine four one ninety seven three gets you to the
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Speaker 3: nicolay Law dot com talk and text line and Bob
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Speaker 3: Harlan being tributed and it's appropriate for today because of
19:50
Speaker 3: his impact on Wisconsin sports and our favorite NFL franchise.
19:54
Speaker 2: Amen and well and listen. I said it yesterday.
19:57
Speaker 5: I was talking to my wife about it and just
19:59
Speaker 5: kind of laughing in a weird way. Our lives changed
20:05
Speaker 5: because of Bob Harlan. And I've never even I don't
20:08
Speaker 5: know that I've been in the same room that he's
20:10
Speaker 5: been in at like three times after right, like all
20:14
Speaker 5: three of us get to be on the Packers radio network.
20:16
Speaker 5: I don't know for a fact the Green Bay Packers
20:18
Speaker 5: Radio Networks flagship is in Milwaukee in twenty six if
20:24
Speaker 5: it's not for Bob Harlan, Right, Like, the real possibility
20:27
Speaker 5: and a lot of different opportunities and things have changed
20:30
Speaker 5: for it. And also on the Friday before free agency
20:33
Speaker 5: starts in the NFL again you celebrate Bob Harlan and
20:36
Speaker 5: he's like, all these cats are nice, and these guys
20:39
Speaker 5: are sweet. Tyler Linderbaum sounds like a great guy. None
20:43
Speaker 5: of them are the free agent the free agent that
20:46
Speaker 5: he was a part of bringing in here in Reggie White.
20:48
Speaker 5: Like you think of all where the NFL was when
20:52
Speaker 5: he first started in it.
20:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it to now.
20:57
Speaker 5: The salary cap, the split the players are getting this
20:59
Speaker 5: year is for three one hundred million dollars. Like you
21:04
Speaker 5: see the growth that they've witnessed over the last thirty
21:07
Speaker 5: five forty years.
21:08
Speaker 2: It's incredible, it's amazing.
21:11
Speaker 5: And it's guys like Bob Harlan and their intestinal fortitude
21:14
Speaker 5: and sitting through some probably very very dark And you said,
21:18
Speaker 5: I imagine he had some bad days. True, I imagine
21:20
Speaker 5: there were a lot of days where he went home
21:23
Speaker 5: and just needed to like smile into the mirror and say, hey,
21:26
Speaker 5: it's all good. Kind of you just got to rageous,
21:28
Speaker 5: screamed at for a long period of time. Here today
21:30
Speaker 5: you're doing the right thing. Yeah, absolutely, there's a lot
21:33
Speaker 5: of arrows for a lot of Packers fans.
21:35
Speaker 3: Tributes all day yesterday. Jim Naggy, who's the uh? He
21:39
Speaker 3: is the general manager of Oklahoma Football as.
21:42
Speaker 2: Long time Senior Bowl guys. So yeah, Senior Bowl guy,
21:45
Speaker 2: he said.
21:46
Speaker 3: Very first day of my first job in the NFL
21:48
Speaker 3: with the Packers in nineteen ninety six, mister Harland called
21:50
Speaker 3: me up to his office. I was a pr intern,
21:52
Speaker 3: lowest person in the organization of that time, and the
21:55
Speaker 3: team president spent an hour asking me about my family,
21:57
Speaker 3: college experience, and life goals. Incredible and in leadership. Few
22:01
Speaker 3: men of this stature would have made time for a
22:03
Speaker 3: twenty two year old like me. Spent next two decades
22:06
Speaker 3: working in the league and never came across a finer
22:08
Speaker 3: man from Jim Naggy, the longtime GM, like you said
22:12
Speaker 3: of the of the Senior Senior Bowl Oklahoma Football, Ola
22:15
Speaker 3: Homa Football GM. So a lot of tributes for Bob
22:19
Speaker 3: Harlan yesterday.
22:20
Speaker 2: And that wasn't the only one.
22:21
Speaker 5: But I think my favorite part is almost every former player.
22:25
Speaker 5: Ron Wolfe said one through spoon yesterday and said, what
22:28
Speaker 5: comes to mind? Really, such an honorable man, and he
22:31
Speaker 5: was a man of his word. He was trustworthy, loyal,
22:33
Speaker 5: and all the adjectives you want to use about a
22:35
Speaker 5: decent human being would describe Bob Harlan. And it seemed
22:40
Speaker 5: like everybody that had the interaction with him drew and
22:42
Speaker 5: spoke about that moment. All they did remember was his
22:47
Speaker 5: memory and thought of your family more than anything else
22:50
Speaker 5: that you were doing, like anything that was going to
22:51
Speaker 5: impact the business or anything that was always going to
22:54
Speaker 5: be second to what you'd had.
22:55
Speaker 4: At home, which is pretty impressive, you know, to do
22:57
Speaker 4: your job so well, to be such a legendary figure
22:59
Speaker 4: out your job, but also become that much better, even
23:01
Speaker 4: better of a person, right, I mean that that that's
23:03
Speaker 4: I think the goal of everybody and when they when
23:06
Speaker 4: they you know, go through life, and and he achieved it,
23:09
Speaker 4: no doubt.
23:10
Speaker 2: I love this.
23:10
Speaker 4: There was also a story I read once when he
23:13
Speaker 4: he was a UPI reporter living in Milwaukee, as you know, Drew,
23:17
Speaker 4: you know, that's where he cut his teeth in reporting,
23:20
Speaker 4: and he was at a I think he was at
23:23
Speaker 4: a Packers game in the you know, in the late
23:26
Speaker 4: fifties or early sixties. Was not working that night, but
23:29
Speaker 4: someone got sick, so he went down as a young
23:31
Speaker 4: guy to cover the packers in the locker room. We're
23:33
Speaker 4: going to the locker room. Got to ask Vince Lombardi
23:35
Speaker 4: some questions. And that was his first time meeting Vince Lombardi.
23:38
Speaker 4: You know, when he was a film reporter for the
23:40
Speaker 4: UPI so great, great stories I'm reading coming in. He
23:44
Speaker 4: made the announcement for Al McGuire. He got the when
23:46
Speaker 4: he was the s I d we're hiring a new coach.
23:48
Speaker 4: We're hiring McGuire. He thought it was Frank McGuire. So
23:50
Speaker 4: you couldn't find Frank McGuire was a well regarded coach
23:53
Speaker 4: at the time, as you know. Yeah, and he couldn't
23:54
Speaker 4: find Frank McGuire. Then he said, he guy walks up,
23:56
Speaker 4: he said, hey, I'm Al, I'm the new coach. It's
23:58
Speaker 4: a great story. So you know, it's just the amazing
24:01
Speaker 4: I just I think of all the amazing things he
24:03
Speaker 4: must have seen, you know, in his sports life, you know,
24:05
Speaker 4: the amazing stories he must have that, or the or
24:08
Speaker 4: the things he saw, the things he experienced.
24:10
Speaker 3: And it couldn't have been easy being the pr guy.
24:12
Speaker 3: When you catching fly balls with a two of.
24:14
Speaker 5: The two bucket, I mean, and I can't.
24:17
Speaker 2: Imagine it's would have been easy to.
24:22
Speaker 4: Like being in those owners meetings in some of those
24:23
Speaker 4: early days ago his ten years in the NFL, the
24:25
Speaker 4: way the Packers probably were looked upon by the other owners, like,
24:28
Speaker 4: you know, you guys are the backwater.
24:30
Speaker 2: You guys aren't you.
24:31
Speaker 4: Know, you guys don't belong here, or maybe you don't
24:32
Speaker 4: belong here because you're not a rich individual guy like us.
24:35
Speaker 4: You're just the guy that that that that they hired
24:37
Speaker 4: to were the tie like you know, and he probably
24:40
Speaker 4: had some battles and those things, you know, trying to
24:42
Speaker 4: stand up for us and stand up for the Packers
24:43
Speaker 4: and those meetings.
24:44
Speaker 2: So impressed when you think about those things.
24:47
Speaker 3: Roger Goodell that the word was that a part of
24:52
Speaker 3: the reason the Packers got in line when they did
24:54
Speaker 3: to host the Draft, which was a major success.
24:56
Speaker 2: Whoever has its where is it this year? Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh.
24:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna have something to live up to. I'm
25:01
Speaker 3: sure it's gonna be a great show because it always is.
25:02
Speaker 3: But that was great, amazing success last year, and there
25:06
Speaker 3: was word that they wanted to do it while Mark
25:09
Speaker 3: Murphy was still present, kind of like a little you know,
25:11
Speaker 3: going away present for Mark Murphy. Well, I think they
25:13
Speaker 3: also want to do it while Bob Harlan was still
25:15
Speaker 3: I think that was part of it as well, because
25:17
Speaker 3: that's how his legacy is. So again not being modeling today,
25:20
Speaker 3: we're just thinking about Bob Harlan eight seven seven seven
25:23
Speaker 3: nine four ninety seven. Three Packers have begun the process
25:26
Speaker 3: of clearing some cap they respectured Xavier McKinney. There will
25:29
Speaker 3: be more of those meanwhile. And for Jerry and Aplow
25:32
Speaker 3: and others who thought we talked too much Bears yesterday,
25:36
Speaker 3: center suddenly retires, They trade their best wide receiver, yeh,
25:40
Speaker 3: with a young quarterback on the rise.
25:42
Speaker 2: Is that give you confidence?
25:43
Speaker 3: And then oh, by the way, they cut one of
25:45
Speaker 3: their glue guys on defense for cap reasons.
25:48
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, welcome to the NFL. Welcome to a
25:50
Speaker 2: successful side of the NFL.
25:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, and welcome to what happens in year three of
25:55
Speaker 5: the rookie quarterback right Like the clock ends up starting
25:58
Speaker 5: to tick when you've been able to bolster the roster
26:01
Speaker 5: so much with the cap savings you have at quarterback.
26:03
Speaker 2: And Andrew, the other thing is like, I I don't
26:06
Speaker 2: know about you.
26:07
Speaker 5: I was kind of surprised on how the DJ Moore
26:10
Speaker 5: trade was discussed yesterday right when it happens. It was,
26:14
Speaker 5: of course, and he's like the fourth option. He was like,
26:17
Speaker 5: he's like their fourth best wide receiver. Okay, all due
26:19
Speaker 5: respect to Luther Burden in his family, I know that
26:21
Speaker 5: he had a very very good close to the year,
26:23
Speaker 5: good rookie year, Roma Dunze. The most important thing he
26:29
Speaker 5: did this year was what hurt his hand or his
26:31
Speaker 5: foot spiking the ceiling pile out after the victory, Like
26:35
Speaker 5: he didn't have himself a phenomenal season. Colston Lovelin looks
26:38
Speaker 5: like their number one option, and I get they got
26:41
Speaker 5: younger guys that are growing with them. I think you
26:43
Speaker 5: take the potential layup away. It's tougher, but everybody just
26:47
Speaker 5: pinpointed the last throw of the year, and I guess
26:50
Speaker 5: you can always say it's like why Nester Cortez and
26:53
Speaker 5: Devin Williams were traded for each other. I don't know
26:55
Speaker 5: that you could go back after that visual, but they
26:58
Speaker 5: get a second round pick.
26:59
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be phenomenal with the Bills.
27:02
Speaker 5: I mean he is going to get touches with Josh
27:06
Speaker 5: Allen and uh he's right there in the prime of
27:08
Speaker 5: his career, so it's an interesting good.
27:10
Speaker 2: Fit for the for the Bills. And I don't know
27:12
Speaker 2: who's where's a J. Brown go now England? I don't know.
27:15
Speaker 2: Nice question.
27:18
Speaker 5: He gets traded well, But it seems like there's going
27:21
Speaker 5: to be potentially some more moves here in the next
27:23
Speaker 5: three days, like there's there might be more action for
27:26
Speaker 5: the trade market, could be in free agency on Monday
27:29
Speaker 5: when we get here.
27:29
Speaker 2: DJ Morrell will thrive in Buffalo.
27:31
Speaker 3: He used to cold weather, but not an issue right,
27:33
Speaker 3: not going to for a while, so he should be okay.
27:36
Speaker 3: And Josh Allen's going to be throwing him the pill.
27:38
Speaker 3: Played for a little bit, seamless transition. They're going to
27:41
Speaker 3: be pretty fired up about that because he put up
27:43
Speaker 3: big numbers there and that dude like for all I mean,
27:46
Speaker 3: I remember when people wanted him in Green Bay.
27:48
Speaker 2: It's like the.
27:49
Speaker 3: Dude he does take the ball, he gets on the
27:51
Speaker 3: field and Romadon say, like, you know, J Moore plays,
27:54
Speaker 3: he plays, Yes, plays, and he's out there. Yes, he
27:58
Speaker 3: never got a lot of targets.
27:59
Speaker 4: I don't think Ben John someone's ever really interested in
28:01
Speaker 4: making the focal point of the offense, which is something
28:02
Speaker 4: he wanted understandably, so I guess, and you know, I
28:06
Speaker 4: do think it's interesting a little bit, like, oh, they
28:08
Speaker 4: got this return for a guy that wasn't doing anything
28:10
Speaker 4: for him, and then it's like Ryan Pols did a
28:12
Speaker 4: great top. I'm like, well, he's also the guy that
28:13
Speaker 4: signed him, wasn't he like so, I don't know if
28:16
Speaker 4: it was like such a great move. I mean, yeah,
28:18
Speaker 4: they got us, they got they got some return for him.
28:20
Speaker 4: I understand that he wasn't really part of it. They
28:23
Speaker 4: obviously hope those young guys, you know you mentioned Rome Lutheran.
28:26
Speaker 4: Of course Colston's the main guy. Will Will uh, we'll
28:29
Speaker 4: you know, transcend a little bit. But those are three
28:32
Speaker 4: big pieces you'd lose. And and the Bears are having
28:35
Speaker 4: to come to terms with the cap situation a little bit.
28:37
Speaker 5: I think now it is u It definitely opens up
28:39
Speaker 5: some some wiggle room and they got options. I think
28:41
Speaker 5: they got three picks that they'll they'll have two seconds. Obviously,
28:44
Speaker 5: now with the bills they're at sixty, none of them
28:46
Speaker 5: are particularly high. There's there's a lot of chatter and
28:50
Speaker 5: a lot of smoke about Max Crosby.
28:52
Speaker 2: I don't know that that would be the way they go.
28:54
Speaker 5: I think they now become a prime target for Tyler Linderbaum,
28:58
Speaker 5: who ends up hitting free agency.
29:00
Speaker 4: Yeah.
29:00
Speaker 5: I also think the Chargers become a very very interesting one.
29:03
Speaker 5: I've been on the linderbomb train, but I don't know
29:06
Speaker 5: that I think it's one that I might have to
29:09
Speaker 5: get off Drew. As much as I'd love for the
29:11
Speaker 5: Packers to get the best center in football and try
29:14
Speaker 5: to lock in and solidify the unit up front, I
29:16
Speaker 5: don't know that at this particular point in time you
29:19
Speaker 5: can possibly commit twenty million plus to that spot, especially
29:23
Speaker 5: if the smoke's true that the Packers are tampering with
29:26
Speaker 5: Brandon Aubrey trying to pay ten million bucks to the
29:28
Speaker 5: greatest kicker in the NFL. I like that potential smoke
29:32
Speaker 5: going into free agents.
29:33
Speaker 2: Maybe they're just.
29:34
Speaker 4: Done with not having that situation being solidified to some point.
29:38
Speaker 5: Whatever you got, pay him whatever you need, figure it out,
29:41
Speaker 5: and then don't let anything get blocked in front of him.
29:43
Speaker 2: That's been more of the problem. Yes, but he is
29:44
Speaker 2: a weapon. I mean, there's no question about it.
29:46
Speaker 4: Mike.
29:47
Speaker 5: You did call him his kicker at the Pro Bowl games.
29:49
Speaker 2: I don't know that we Maybe we weren't.
29:52
Speaker 5: We weren't focusing in on that merely as much. The
29:55
Speaker 5: Vikings also starting to take a hacksaw to all of
29:58
Speaker 5: their different pieces, right You and I really liked the
30:02
Speaker 5: tandem of Hargrave and Jonathan Allen and now gone.
30:07
Speaker 2: Gone, both gone gone.
30:08
Speaker 5: Interesting how the Flora's defense is able to Again, It's
30:12
Speaker 5: not like he hasn't been successful with kind of whoever
30:14
Speaker 5: he's had in there, but those are two big force
30:17
Speaker 5: and they played a.
30:17
Speaker 2: Ton of ball for them this year. They did.
30:20
Speaker 3: Who's Jonathan Gannon bringing over from Arizona? Anybody? Any players?
30:24
Speaker 5: I think everybody wanted it to be Buddha Baker. I
30:26
Speaker 5: don't that's definitely not happening. The one that I think
30:29
Speaker 5: would be amazing would be Kalais Campbell, like somebody just
30:33
Speaker 5: a perfect fifth be feeder inside big wonder Ryan Pickett
30:39
Speaker 5: and still can get after it, gets after the packer,
30:41
Speaker 5: the passer, ring chasing, and just have it on your
30:44
Speaker 5: resume that you finished your career there, like asked Julius Peppers,
30:46
Speaker 5: how it worked out right?
30:48
Speaker 2: Correct? Yes, that that's the the exact player that I
30:51
Speaker 2: thought of in that moment.
30:51
Speaker 4: Maybe one day We'll just get a post on on
30:54
Speaker 4: X of him and Lambellfield looking around land like smile
30:57
Speaker 4: like with it for Julius.
30:58
Speaker 5: And it would also be the short cut route for
31:00
Speaker 5: the one thing that I desperately want the Packers to
31:03
Speaker 5: have a Walter Peyton man in the year Winner, so
31:06
Speaker 5: we can have the Walter Payton patch living on a
31:09
Speaker 5: Green Bay Packers jersey while you going to Soldier Field
31:11
Speaker 5: and win.
31:11
Speaker 2: I like that, Billy, I like that.
31:12
Speaker 4: But you have to admit, don't you think the last
31:14
Speaker 4: few days before a free agency is sort of like
31:17
Speaker 4: everybody looking at the same you know. Back in the
31:18
Speaker 4: day it was the East Bay Catalog, you know, or
31:20
Speaker 4: you know, everyone's looking at the same catalog looking at
31:22
Speaker 4: all the cool stuff.
31:23
Speaker 2: But the International Mail catalog that was a big one.
31:28
Speaker 2: I don't know I reference someone when it slide you.
31:31
Speaker 4: But but you know, it's like only you know, not
31:35
Speaker 4: everyone can have these toys, like you know, so everyone
31:37
Speaker 4: thinks their team is the one to get it. I
31:39
Speaker 4: know Bears fans are all excited thinking they're gonna get
31:41
Speaker 4: Max all this. It's it is funny to think how
31:43
Speaker 4: many fan bases across the league are gonna you know,
31:47
Speaker 4: fantasize about the same players.
31:48
Speaker 2: At the under You know, that's just the way It's
31:50
Speaker 2: like with JJ Watt, right, everybody wanted Watt and you're.
31:55
Speaker 5: Then they got more and more of their fire, the
31:58
Speaker 5: stokes in the flame stoke when's like I wanted to
32:01
Speaker 5: play there nothing and espn Matt Bowen put out his
32:07
Speaker 5: U his top one hundred free agents. Were you guys
32:09
Speaker 5: a little bit surprised that the Packers had four in
32:11
Speaker 5: the top twenty. I mean, like sheid Walker won, rashid
32:15
Speaker 5: Walker being five, I think that definitely higher than people thought.
32:20
Speaker 2: Kway Walker being ten might be a little bit higher.
32:22
Speaker 5: I think Rashid is the one that people really get
32:24
Speaker 5: surprised about, and it speaks to he played better than
32:27
Speaker 5: people give him credit for at one of the three
32:30
Speaker 5: or foremost important positions in ball.
32:33
Speaker 2: That's gonna he's gonna get some money. I never would
32:35
Speaker 2: have dreamed though, that I would see his name there.
32:37
Speaker 4: Then again, I don't kind of I don't follow the
32:39
Speaker 4: old lineman the way you do in some ways, like
32:42
Speaker 4: the way they're talked about, the way they're analyzed, the
32:44
Speaker 4: way they're performing. But you know, hey, if the league
32:47
Speaker 4: thinks better of him. That is interesting, Billy, and it
32:50
Speaker 4: makes you wonder well maybe I don't know. I mean
32:52
Speaker 4: sometimes we get the market wrong too, like I'm blanking now,
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Speaker 4: and our guy that the center that that left in
32:57
Speaker 4: for agency didn't get any of Josh Myers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for some reason.
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Speaker 5: Well until you just never know, and they have Romeo
33:03
Speaker 5: dobbsos is the third most valuable wide receiver on the market,
33:06
Speaker 5: then I kind of get yeah, yeah, that is definitely something.
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Speaker 2: Eight seven seven, seven, nine four one ninety seven to
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Speaker 2: three gets you.
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Speaker 3: And once again, Matt Lapay is going to join us
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Speaker 3: today at about seven twenty five our halftime report coming
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Speaker 3: up with Dolph about less than an hour from right now.
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Speaker 2: We got some some other nuts and bullets for you today.
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Speaker 2: Armon might have a catalog to look at here during
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Speaker 2: the break too, Yeah, I think about it. I looked
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Speaker 2: at the East Bay catalog.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what you guys are talking about.
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Speaker 3: I just had to throw it out, all right, I
33:34
Speaker 3: throw it out there, all right, this Heer's catalog. Maybe
33:37
Speaker 3: Arma's going to find out what we're talking about.
33:39
Speaker 2: Next. It's the huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. What's that
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Speaker 2: a music deal?
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Speaker 3: Friday edition of the Huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, Drew
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Speaker 3: Billy and Arman nine twenty, Milwaukee, ten seventy Madison.
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Speaker 2: Everywhere in the iHeart app, and that's where you go.
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Speaker 3: Today is like the last day they can use the
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Speaker 3: talk back feature to enter our SAS's VIP contest.
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Speaker 2: Well and good because deadline spur action.
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Speaker 5: So we'll get the best ones in here, and we'll
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Speaker 5: get the best stories and we'll get the absolute best
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Speaker 5: memories menu items from SAS's fifty years.
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Speaker 3: Use that talk back the little microphone on the iHeartRadio
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Speaker 3: app at Fox Sports Radio nine to twenty and use
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Speaker 3: it tell us your name, your hometown, your phone number,
34:19
Speaker 3: all important details in case you win, and then also
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Speaker 3: your favorite memory of Saz's or your favorite menu item
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Speaker 3: on the menu says if it's something you eat at festivals,
34:28
Speaker 3: if it's actually at the restaurant, if it's something you
34:30
Speaker 3: buy in the grocer's freezer, you know, or in the
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Speaker 3: condiments section where you can buy that SAS is Sasy
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Speaker 3: Sauce in Sauce or Sauce Sauce fifty years anniversary.
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Speaker 2: So here's the deal.
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Speaker 3: You will win if you and a friend, if you
34:47
Speaker 3: win will head the Sazzes for the second game of
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Speaker 3: the season March twenty eighth, and you'll get food and
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Speaker 3: drinks and then a ride to the shoot Ballpark and
34:57
Speaker 3: then a seat in the iHeart Suite where there'll be
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Speaker 3: more and drinks, and then back to Saz's.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be a hell of a day.
35:03
Speaker 3: It's a six o'clock game that night against the Birds
35:07
Speaker 3: and the hated but less hated team from Chicago, the
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Speaker 3: team from further Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little well, it depends. It depends on
35:16
Speaker 2: the era. But that used to be the rival, but
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Speaker 2: not as much. Won't be Rate Field North.
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Speaker 5: I can't I can't imagine there will be a lot
35:22
Speaker 5: of slex fans trying to drive away.
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Speaker 2: I think so.
35:24
Speaker 3: But it's going to be a fun time and the
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Speaker 3: whole weekend it's Festus Isama again, kicking at old school
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Speaker 3: fifty year anniversary, heated tent outside, bands, huge fish fry
35:33
Speaker 3: on the off day on the Friday, Buddy Mary Brunch
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Speaker 3: on Sunday, bands outside and just fun as SaaS celebrates fiftieth,
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Speaker 3: the fiftieth anniversary of the Finest.
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Speaker 2: And SAS knows fun.
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Speaker 5: So it's going to be a phenomenal, phenomenal weekend and
35:48
Speaker 5: it also is a great way to toast back to
35:50
Speaker 5: baseball being back.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, indeed, and also.
35:54
Speaker 5: Again sweet that sweet now, sweet little figurine of American
35:58
Speaker 5: Family Field that you get there on that one.
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Speaker 2: That's a good promotion. Promotion now for the young people.
36:03
Speaker 3: And we've talked about this before and we are inside
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Speaker 3: three weeks from opening day, which is cool, very good.
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Speaker 2: We like that, we like. But the Shamrock Shuffle is
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Speaker 2: going to take place, I believe this weekend in Milwaukee.
36:16
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right, Gerins, Yes, Shamrock Shuffle or some
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Speaker 3: call it Saint Practice Day, a bar crawl. The event
36:27
Speaker 3: planners they got it fired up and it's different. It's
36:32
Speaker 3: it's the number one Saint Patrick's celebration around and it
36:37
Speaker 3: gets a little.
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Speaker 2: Sloppy, oh very much, very much.
36:40
Speaker 3: So you think National Marquette led to some drunk and
36:43
Speaker 3: behavior needs to swashed down. The Shamrock Shuffle in Milwaukee
36:46
Speaker 3: around Water Street and the into your district, Deer District,
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Speaker 3: into Walker's Point. There's a lot of bars that take
36:52
Speaker 3: place that take part in the Shamrock Shuffle and it's
36:55
Speaker 3: like you buy a t shirt and you just walk
36:57
Speaker 3: around and you just drink the shirt.
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Speaker 2: Right, your name you right, you know on the slogan
37:05
Speaker 2: you should write your number. It's a great tradition.
37:08
Speaker 3: And there's like there's Third Street, like I said, Downtown,
37:11
Speaker 3: Water Street, Brady Street, and Walker's Point. There are bars
37:13
Speaker 3: that take place in this and it's it's quite the
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Speaker 3: thing starting in the morning on Saturday. Actually, yeah, so
37:21
Speaker 3: there's T shirts again, easily identifiable, people wearing the beads
37:26
Speaker 3: and stuff. For the young folks today that has kind
37:30
Speaker 3: of become there. Let's we're out of winter, blow off
37:34
Speaker 3: their opening day.
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Speaker 2: It's this, it's the toast to the start.
37:38
Speaker 3: The energy that the youngsters now put into the Shamrock Shuffle.
37:42
Speaker 3: It used to be just applied to opening day. The
37:44
Speaker 3: Shamrock Shuffle didn't exist. And I don't I like big events.
37:46
Speaker 3: I like gatherings. But it's just it's interesting how I
37:50
Speaker 3: know people have a certain vintage people maybe Billy without
37:54
Speaker 3: two kids at home.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what it definitely been.
37:58
Speaker 5: But then the interesting thing is we will be making
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Speaker 5: an appearance downtown tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Now.
38:03
Speaker 5: We'll be going to the Market game and then to
38:05
Speaker 5: the Admirals Games for drop kick Murphy's. Now, I would
38:08
Speaker 5: like to know if some people that are going to
38:10
Speaker 5: be doing the Shamrock Shuffle even though the drop Kick
38:12
Speaker 5: Murphys are playing at the Milwaukee Admirals game. A great
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Speaker 5: way to cap it off. You want to talk about
38:16
Speaker 5: a great way to cap it off celebration.
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Speaker 3: Celebrating Irish stuff all day and then you go see
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Speaker 3: an Irish Celtic punk.
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Speaker 2: Goodness, gracious, that is the capper.
38:25
Speaker 5: Now, I don't necessarily know how many two fists of
38:28
Speaker 5: slobbers we need inside of Panther Arena coming up on
38:30
Speaker 5: Saturday night.
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Speaker 2: Potentially it's gonna be a party. But the problem is
38:33
Speaker 2: because I do know how I was at six o'clock
38:35
Speaker 2: on the Shamrock That's right, That's exactly what I was
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Speaker 2: gonna say.
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Speaker 4: You need people that are gonna throw a complete game
38:40
Speaker 4: that day, and as we know a thing about Shamrock Shuffle,
38:42
Speaker 4: it's that's the day for really the Mizarowski types that
38:45
Speaker 4: you're hot for four innings and then that's it. I
38:47
Speaker 4: mean they're not really throwing complete games. I mean you're
38:50
Speaker 4: not really saving yourself for the evening.
38:52
Speaker 2: And that's what it is. I mean, it's the big
38:53
Speaker 2: day for the uber d even.
38:55
Speaker 5: Though it's a marathon, you end up sprinting the majority
38:58
Speaker 5: of the day.
38:58
Speaker 2: You're right, and.
38:59
Speaker 4: Especially you're getting really to open some of these bars
39:01
Speaker 4: with the green you know, doing the whole thing. But listen,
39:03
Speaker 4: it's a big day for the doordass drivers. It's a
39:05
Speaker 4: big day for the uber drivers. R At about four
39:07
Speaker 4: or five o'clock you'll be getting a lot of calls.
39:09
Speaker 4: And it's a big day for the street food vendors.
39:11
Speaker 4: My guys that are cooking out like sausages outside in
39:13
Speaker 4: the street. You're gonna be getting like some hungry kids
39:16
Speaker 4: that are ready.
39:16
Speaker 5: To you know, my man in the Superman costume in
39:18
Speaker 5: at the Hot Talk show's gonna be cooking it up.
39:21
Speaker 2: Would be a good day for our friend online that we.
39:23
Speaker 3: Saw yesterday, Hudbachi, that would be It's a good day
39:26
Speaker 3: maybe for that to first try to.
39:28
Speaker 5: Fire up the blackstone in the trunk in the car
39:30
Speaker 5: of the car. You know, I don't know who the
39:32
Speaker 5: d I don't know you could fire. I think there's
39:34
Speaker 5: a lot of people that could use a little bit
39:35
Speaker 5: of fried rice probably in the middle right there about
39:38
Speaker 5: one o'clock there that might end up working out I did, Drew.
39:41
Speaker 5: I think last year is when I ultimately got taken
39:45
Speaker 5: off of the chain tax and it was over for
39:47
Speaker 5: you buddy from my buddies to like ask me if
39:49
Speaker 5: I was gonna make it now, I don't know. I
39:51
Speaker 5: haven't made the shuffle in probably three years. Yeah, three years,
39:55
Speaker 5: because that was I have a three or the first year,
39:58
Speaker 5: but that that's when it ends. But it was always
40:03
Speaker 5: the text that I would get right around January of
40:06
Speaker 5: hey man, I know it's probably tough, but the Shamrock
40:10
Speaker 5: Shuffle is on the seventh Are you get are you
40:12
Speaker 5: get me interested in?
40:13
Speaker 2: It was a deep breath in a absolutely not wish
40:18
Speaker 2: I could, but no.
40:19
Speaker 5: Then last year was the deep breath knowing that we
40:23
Speaker 5: were about to have number two in a month, and
40:26
Speaker 5: I was like, you know, last do I throw the
40:32
Speaker 5: do I throw the question out and see if we
40:34
Speaker 5: can get clearance? Luckily, you know your clearance right, any
40:38
Speaker 5: good driver that's listening to us Jerry and a Plotak
40:40
Speaker 5: knows number one important thing, know your clearance.
40:44
Speaker 2: I was trying.
40:45
Speaker 5: I was that was gonna be We're trying to clear
40:47
Speaker 5: eleven and eleven nine and uh we only had seven
40:50
Speaker 5: feet four inches of clearance. So we decided to backtrack
40:53
Speaker 5: that one up, Drew and I will be observing from afar.
40:56
Speaker 2: But I do think I'm gonna put my loading T
40:58
Speaker 2: shirt on tomorrow. Go that's I think that's the last
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Speaker 2: one and one of the best ones loading. As I close.
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Speaker 5: As I cleaned out the closet in in October, I
41:07
Speaker 5: did keep one of the Shamrock Shuffle shirts just you know.
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Speaker 2: The tough thing about it, too is it's not like
41:12
Speaker 2: I'll meet you out for one situation. This is not
41:14
Speaker 2: a casual. This is no all day run a tab,
41:19
Speaker 2: call a cab and then maybe go home, nap and rally.
41:23
Speaker 2: I have one spin on Dragon Link. There's no turning back.
41:26
Speaker 2: It's all or nothing.
41:27
Speaker 3: Big weekend line ahead in terms of Badgers at Purdue
41:31
Speaker 3: Marquette last home game Senior Day, and of course we
41:33
Speaker 3: got well, we got bucks at home against the Jazz,
41:35
Speaker 3: Yes and the Admirals hosting San Jose to old drop
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Speaker 3: Kick Murphys tonight with the Badger band tomorrow Dropkick Murphy
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Speaker 3: is gonna be a time.
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Speaker 2: That is a cheers weekend and a great one at
41:47
Speaker 2: the rink. No doubt we are hanging out with you
41:50
Speaker 2: until eight a m. It is the Huddle. Fox Sports
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