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BONUS EPISODE: Pgh Sports Current Events - March 2026 · Pittsburgh Sports Memories

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SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to another exciting edition of Pittsburgh Sports Memories Current Events.
0:05
SPEAKER_00: We really haven't done uh current events podcast in a in a little bit since we're kind of in the uh slower season of sports right now.
0:13
SPEAKER_00: So no football Palooza, but um we have plenty of other Pittsburgh sports to talk about.
0:20
SPEAKER_00: And we'll start with Pit Basketball since March Madness is coming up.
0:24
SPEAKER_00: And um I think I know one team that won't be participating in March Madness.
0:30
SPEAKER_00: Uh that would be the pit basketball team.
0:32
SPEAKER_00: Um they're just having a horrible season again.
0:35
SPEAKER_00: Um, it doesn't look like they're even gonna make the ACC tournament.
0:39
SPEAKER_00: Ever since they let in Cal and Stanford and SMU, uh now you just it used to be you've before you would just automatically make the ACC tournament.
0:48
SPEAKER_00: Now you actually have to have a respectable record, at least not be like bottom three.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: So um if Pitt makes it, it doesn't look very promising.
0:57
SPEAKER_00: Even if they do, they're not going to the March Madness tournament.
1:02
SPEAKER_00: Um they just don't seem to be able to recruit the I guess their best player is injured.
1:07
SPEAKER_00: They lost the twins, they've lost so many people.
1:12
SPEAKER_00: What what what's it take to get Jeff Cable fired at this point?
1:16
SPEAKER_00: Like he he's he's gotta go at some point, right?
1:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I really thought that when Heather like was exited that Jeff Cable wouldn't be safe anymore.
1:29
SPEAKER_01: But apparently he is.
1:31
SPEAKER_01: So I I don't know.
1:33
SPEAKER_00: Maybe they're waiting until the end of the season.
1:34
SPEAKER_00: I I I don't know.
1:36
SPEAKER_01: Maybe.
1:36
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I yeah, I don't know, Steve.
1:39
SPEAKER_01: I I I just p Pitt's just stuck in this continual they're they're right back to where they were pre-Ben Helen and Jan Hackson.
1:48
SPEAKER_01: They really are.
1:49
SPEAKER_01: I mean they're just they're just you know, not a not a strong basketball school, and they're just gonna be that way apparently for the rest of time.
1:57
SPEAKER_01: So I I I think we should have enjoyed that time more than I than we did because apparently it's not coming back.
2:03
SPEAKER_00: Then what was it, 10 to 20 years there of the golden age of pit basketball?
2:08
SPEAKER_01: Not even that long.
2:09
SPEAKER_00: 10 to 15, maybe?
2:10
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
2:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, maybe.
2:12
SPEAKER_00: It ended when uh Kemba Walker put the moves on Gary McGee as up the Madison Square Garden.
2:18
SPEAKER_00: That kind of ended the golden age of pit basketball.
2:21
unknown: Yeah.
2:22
SPEAKER_00: But I digress.
2:23
SPEAKER_00: Uh I like I said, that kind of ended the pit.
2:26
SPEAKER_00: So we we don't think pit will ever be a power in basketball.
2:29
SPEAKER_00: It could be wrong.
2:30
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it looked like this in you know 2000 before they hired some guy from northern Arizona named Ben Hallen.
2:35
SPEAKER_01: So Yeah, I mean it's a it's a different playing field today.
2:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, with all the money, with all the money, I I I don't know how they compete in in any of these sports, quite honestly, with the way the money is going.
2:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
2:49
SPEAKER_00: So Pitt might Pitt might be in trouble.
2:53
SPEAKER_00: Um Duquesne, I threw in a Duquesne here for you, Duquesne alums.
2:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, they uh they don't have much better pick chance than Pitt, but at least they have a 2% chance of making the NCAA tournament.
3:05
SPEAKER_00: Um they have 16 wins, which I think is way more than Pitt has.
3:08
SPEAKER_00: So um For a team like Duquesne, probably to make the tournament, they probably got to win the the um tournament, the conference tournament, I would think.
3:17
SPEAKER_00: Because winning 20 games isn't probably gonna get them in.
3:21
SPEAKER_01: No, they they'd have to win the A-10 tournament like they did two years ago.
3:24
SPEAKER_01: I I Duquesne's having a nice little season, at least.
3:27
SPEAKER_01: I I think Drew Joyce has been a good coach for them.
3:31
SPEAKER_01: Uh and I I went to a Duquesne game actually recently, the Duquesne LaSalle game this year, and which ended on a Duquesne winning on a buzzer beater, so that was fun.
3:41
SPEAKER_01: Uh you know, I I don't I don't think Duquesne's gonna be real good either.
3:46
SPEAKER_01: Uh, but they're having a pretty nice little season for for again for Duquesne.
3:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, if Pitt can't compete with like the money and how much money they're playing players now, how's Duquesne have a chance?
3:58
SPEAKER_00: Like that's kind of sad, you know, that that like these schools but I guess in basketball you only really need one good guy and that can kind of come out of nowhere.
4:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean again, Duquesne Duquesne made it to the second round of the tournament two years ago.
4:12
SPEAKER_01: So it's it's possible.
4:14
SPEAKER_00: It's a tough job.
4:15
SPEAKER_00: Like these little school jobs, like I I I don't know.
4:18
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I know it was always kind of corrupt in college basketball, but this this just seems like with the NIL money, like how do you compete with like Kentucky and Duke and even Yukon or even some of the like other schools, like the SEC like football schools like Alabama or Auburn, like they gotta have a ton of money now to throw up basketball too.
4:37
SPEAKER_01: So but but then you could also make the flip argument, right?
4:40
SPEAKER_01: A school go if you look at football, Indiana.
4:44
SPEAKER_01: There's no way Indiana competes five years ago for anything.
4:47
SPEAKER_01: And now they're the now they're the now they're the national champion.
4:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, with that money.
4:52
SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
4:54
SPEAKER_00: We'll see what happens.
4:55
SPEAKER_01: But but I yeah, again, Duquesne, I'm as I'm as an alum, I'm I'm very happy with that.
4:59
SPEAKER_00: Well, when you gotta make that like hundred million dollar donation, Tim, to uh yeah, yeah, we'll get right on that.
5:05
SPEAKER_01: As soon as you know we get the next sponsor for this podcast, yeah, it's gonna give us that.
5:10
SPEAKER_00: Brought to you by Duquesne Athletics.
5:13
SPEAKER_00: Right.
5:14
SPEAKER_00: Join the red ring.
5:16
SPEAKER_00: Um moving on to the Super Bowl.
5:19
SPEAKER_00: Um, hey, uh, guess what, Tim?
5:22
SPEAKER_00: Seattle won a Super Bowl.
5:24
SPEAKER_00: Yay! Maybe they can stop crying about Super Bowl 40, finally.
5:29
SPEAKER_00: Um, with quarterback, former quarterback of the New York Jets, which's in the ultimate New York Jets moment, Sam Darnold won.
5:38
SPEAKER_00: Um, it was he kind of did what was smart about them.
5:41
SPEAKER_00: They they kicked a bunch of field goals, and this was another, it was such a throwback Super Bowl.
5:46
SPEAKER_00: And I I said this when the Steelers played Seattle.
5:49
SPEAKER_00: I like the way Seattle plays.
5:50
SPEAKER_00: It's a physical running game, a tough physical defense, and a quarterback that doesn't make mistakes but can make plays when you need him to.
5:58
SPEAKER_00: And boy, they really had like a it was them or the Rams.
6:02
SPEAKER_00: I think if the Rams would have won that game against Seattle, they probably win the Super Bowl, too, because I I don't think New England was winning the Super Bowl.
6:13
SPEAKER_00: Or even Denver.
6:15
SPEAKER_01: No, I agree.
6:16
SPEAKER_01: It was it was New England was had a very nice little season.
6:20
SPEAKER_01: Uh they were a good team.
6:22
SPEAKER_01: Denver was a good team.
6:24
SPEAKER_01: Seattle was was just a better team.
6:25
SPEAKER_01: They they just they just had a like Or LA.
6:28
SPEAKER_00: I think the Rams would have beat either of those teams either.
6:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think the Rams probably would have too.
6:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I agree.
6:33
SPEAKER_01: But what a weird season.
6:34
SPEAKER_01: Like Seattle and New England in the Super Bowl.
6:37
SPEAKER_01: Who would have called that in the summer?
6:39
unknown: Yeah.
6:39
SPEAKER_01: So it's it's we're in one of those weird like stretches.
6:43
SPEAKER_00: This is this is like a throwback to like those early 90s, late 80s, like the Jeff Haas that or Mark Ripon years.
6:50
SPEAKER_00: That's what it kind of reminds me of.
6:52
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
6:52
SPEAKER_01: Or or even the early the late 90s, early 2000s, when you had like the the the Ravens winning the Super Bowl with um Trent Dilfer.
7:03
SPEAKER_01: Trent Dilfer and the Buccaneers winning the Super Bowl with Brad Johnson.
7:06
SPEAKER_01: It was you know what happened?
7:07
SPEAKER_00: So so in that everybody aged out, all the Hall of Fame quarterbacks like that, and that's kind of how it's happened again, as we're kind of in between like Yes.
7:18
SPEAKER_01: Like you said, like the 80s to 90s, it was kind of that transition between although we still got Mahomes, but Mahomes got hurt, so well, and and the they weren't having a good season anyway.
7:28
SPEAKER_01: But like in the like you said, in the nineties, it was you know, like Joe Montana got old.
7:33
SPEAKER_01: Marino and Marino and those guys, and then in the in the in the in the 2000s, you had you had not made the transition between like the Elway, like Troy Inkman, like those years, and then like transition to like Brady and even Brett Favre, you could say to a point.
7:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
7:49
SPEAKER_01: But you had made that transition to like Brady and Manning.
7:52
SPEAKER_01: And then really for 20 plus years you had Brady and then what went right into Mahomes.
7:58
SPEAKER_00: Well, you had the Brady, Manning, Rothelsberger, other Manning.
8:01
SPEAKER_00: Yep, yeah, Rivers.
8:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you had a lot of really good quarterbacks, about four or five really good quarterbacks, and now it's kind of like who's the best, like Mahomes, uh Allen, uh I don't know.
8:16
SPEAKER_00: Is Hertz?
8:17
SPEAKER_00: I could never I could never figure out Hertz or Dak Prescott.
8:20
SPEAKER_00: Like what are they good?
8:21
SPEAKER_00: Are they bad?
8:22
SPEAKER_01: I you still have you still have you still have good quarterbacks.
8:26
SPEAKER_01: Not like you don't have good quarterbacks, it's just you don't have like the like legendary, yeah.
8:30
SPEAKER_01: You don't have the Brady or Montana or or And it's tough like with the rules.
8:35
SPEAKER_00: The rules are so favored, like you can't like sneeze on a quarterback now.
8:40
SPEAKER_00: It's tough to j that's why I can't ever judge Dak Prescott.
8:43
SPEAKER_00: And same thing with Hertz, it's like, well, they look like they're good, but they don't ever really get hit, and anytime they throw an incomplete pass, they call pass interference.
8:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's the really interesting thing, Steve, will will be is was Mahomes having a bad year and the Chiefs having was that a blip on the radar?
9:02
SPEAKER_01: Or will they come back and kind of rebuild around him like like the Patriots did with Brady?
9:07
SPEAKER_01: Because when Brady won those first three Super Bowls, remember you had a few years there.
9:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, where they they they had like Jabbar Gaffney at wide receiver and they lost to the goals.
9:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
9:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
9:18
SPEAKER_01: And and and so what's gonna happen in Kansas City?
9:20
SPEAKER_01: Are they gonna come back strong?
9:22
SPEAKER_01: Because Kelsey's about to retire.
9:24
SPEAKER_01: Andy Reid's, I think, pretty close to being, you know, retirement age.
9:28
SPEAKER_01: So so they'd have to kind of, but the Patriots did that.
9:31
SPEAKER_01: They rebuilt with you know guys like Julian Edelman and Gronk, and you know, they they they rebuilt that team around Brady very successfully, and it would be really interesting to see what Kansas City does.
9:45
SPEAKER_00: Um I know a topic that's dear and dear to your heart, Tim, is uh NFL officiating.
9:53
SPEAKER_00: So in week four, this is the oddest thing.
9:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh in week 14, the officials ruled that the self-catch, remember like when Rogers against the Ravens threw a cat a pass and he caught it, but then the guy from the Ravens kind of had it too, and they called dual possession and his knees were down, and that was the play.
10:13
SPEAKER_00: Well, on the field, if you remember, they had called that an interception, but replay it actually called down and overruled, saying no, it was a self-catch.
10:23
SPEAKER_00: Well, uh this week the NFL's now re-reversed itself, saying the original call on the field was the call it should have been.
10:32
SPEAKER_00: So, which leads me to I bring this story up because Mike Florio on Pro Football Talk, and I have a link, I don't know if we'll link it anywhere, but him talking about wanting to make replay for every play because replay is infallible, Tim.
10:48
SPEAKER_00: Technology has never let us down.
10:50
SPEAKER_00: We've never had a computer crash, we've never gotten a flat tire, we've never had a dead battery in our car, we've never had a replay official buzz down and make a mistake on a play like this.
11:01
SPEAKER_00: We've never had anything like that.
11:03
SPEAKER_00: It's the perfect system.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: Humans are perfectible.
11:07
SPEAKER_00: Mike Fleur has told me so, and he's not just a lawyer or a person doing a podcast trying to make waves in the offseason.
11:15
SPEAKER_01: Well, and they did re they did replay that play.
11:18
SPEAKER_01: So what I don't even understand what point he's trying to make.
11:22
SPEAKER_00: Well, I I I think my point is is he wants he he's like so sold on replay.
11:27
SPEAKER_00: Oh, they need to have replay to catch all these other plays the officials are making.
11:32
SPEAKER_00: Well, then replay isn't infallible.
11:34
SPEAKER_00: Replay, my point is replay isn't the be-all end all that I think it is, like that makes sense.
11:41
SPEAKER_00: It makes mistakes too.
11:42
SPEAKER_00: And is adding more of it really doing anything besides slow the game down and make TV more involved, which is just stupid at my at some point, in my point.
11:52
SPEAKER_00: I that's my only point is you know the games are managed by humans, officiated by humans, and can't we just like keep the games moving and only replay when we absolutely have to?
12:04
SPEAKER_01: Would be yeah, I I agree.
12:06
SPEAKER_01: And it was weird that they admitted they made this mistake, and I think like so long after it.
12:11
SPEAKER_00: But but then and then the same thing with the bills.
12:14
SPEAKER_00: Some people are saying this is the justify the bills call.
12:17
SPEAKER_00: But that bills call was really close.
12:19
SPEAKER_00: I will say that that could have gone, you could have ruled that probably either way.
12:24
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes when you get like a 50-50 call like that, you just gotta go with the call on the field.
12:29
SPEAKER_00: If it would have been called the other way, Denver fans will be crying, oh he had an interception, he came up looking, rolled it.
12:35
SPEAKER_00: He had game out, you know.
12:37
SPEAKER_00: It's so that's true.
12:39
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes, you know, as a fan, you just gotta get over yourself.
12:42
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes Alex Smith steals the ball.
12:46
SPEAKER_01: Well, that that that play in the Bills Broncos game.
12:49
SPEAKER_01: The other thing about that is everybody when they're watching it is watching it in slow motion.
12:54
SPEAKER_01: And when it's not it looks like the Bills guy has it for like a long period of time, but that's not how they happen.
13:03
SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
13:04
SPEAKER_01: Real life doesn't happen in slow motion.
13:06
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, those things mine feels like it's in slow motion right now.
13:10
unknown: Yeah.
13:10
SPEAKER_01: I do a lot of things physically in slow motion.
13:13
SPEAKER_01: Um the the the NFL, make no mistake, Steve.
13:16
SPEAKER_01: The NFL loves this.
13:17
SPEAKER_01: They love this.
13:18
SPEAKER_01: Like you wouldn't have to be able to do it.
13:18
SPEAKER_00: Well, you're talking we're talking about them in the middle at the end of February.
13:22
SPEAKER_01: That's exactly right.
13:24
SPEAKER_01: They love it.
13:26
SPEAKER_00: Um, the Pittsburgh Steelers.
13:27
SPEAKER_01: Um speaking of stuff to talk about in March when there's nothing else happening.
13:31
SPEAKER_01: Go ahead.
13:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they well, this is I really went deep dive on this because I don't know why, because it's the middle of March and I have nothing better to talk about.
13:40
SPEAKER_00: Stupid pit basketball.
13:41
SPEAKER_00: Jeff Capel, get your act together.
13:44
SPEAKER_00: Goodness gracious, give me something to talk about besides toilets.
13:49
SPEAKER_00: Um so there was a survey by the NFLPA, and um the Steelers did not fare well.
13:56
SPEAKER_00: They were 32 out of 32, mainly because they got an F on the field, which is they're never gonna get an A with that field unless they replace it with artificial turf.
14:05
SPEAKER_00: It's just always gonna be a problem.
14:06
SPEAKER_00: So I didn't, I kind of discounted that.
14:09
SPEAKER_00: But the treatment of families and the locker room was the two surprising things to me.
14:15
SPEAKER_00: Um, the players seem to be upset that they don't have daycare at Accursure Stadium.
14:21
SPEAKER_00: And I find that when I want to take my toddler to a Steeler game slash pit game, I really want to take advantage of the daycare services at the stadium rather than leave them with a family member safely at home.
14:34
SPEAKER_00: I'd rather expose them to 70,000 drunk Steeler fans.
14:37
SPEAKER_00: But I mean, it's a learning experience, and the kids got to learn how to deal with that at some point in their life.
14:42
SPEAKER_00: The other issue was there are five only five bathroom stalls for 53 players.
14:47
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if the coaches have a separate one, if they have to use the buttons, could you imagine using a stall after Cam Hayrid?
14:53
SPEAKER_00: Cam Hayward?
14:54
SPEAKER_00: That that's gotta be a mess.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: Aaron Rodgers probably can't, maybe it's Aaron Rodgers couldn't handle it.
15:01
SPEAKER_00: It's like, oh my gosh, it's two.
15:03
SPEAKER_00: But I I I according to uh United Rents Rentals, who uh do port-a-potties for construction workers, you only need three port-a-potties for 60 people, and construction workers pretty quite work pretty hard.
15:17
SPEAKER_00: And according to Raycon Design, whoever they are, a rayon design, you only need for 25 to 50 people, three to six toilets, and three to six sinks.
15:27
SPEAKER_00: So the Steelers are right in that, according to these design people, just to give some context and do some reporting that Mike Florio won't give you because he just likes to rip on the Steelers.
15:39
SPEAKER_00: Um, I I I don't know.
15:40
SPEAKER_00: Do you care about any of this, Tim?
15:43
SPEAKER_00: Do you feel more educated that you know that for 50 people you should have three to five bathrooms?
15:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's good.
15:49
SPEAKER_01: That's good.
15:50
SPEAKER_01: I did I didn't know.
15:51
SPEAKER_00: Next time you're planning your event for 50 people or more, I don't know.
15:55
SPEAKER_01: Right.
15:56
SPEAKER_01: No, I so number one, I the the the this happens every year where they do the survey and it comes this huge story, and it's such a like you said, it's in the middle of nothing else happening, so it gets way overemphasized.
16:08
SPEAKER_01: Do they do they really need all these amenities?
16:11
SPEAKER_01: Maybe not, but I think I think what it does say about Art Rooney specifically is that you know, how much money, man?
16:21
SPEAKER_01: How much money does the league rake in?
16:23
SPEAKER_01: Like I I get like if it were me going to my job, I you know, I I'm I'm not gonna get free daycare or things of this nature, but but but it's all relative.
16:34
SPEAKER_01: And other NFL teams are providing these amenities, and again, the NFL the the they have an unlimited stash of money that they could give anything to these players, and it just comes across as Art Rooney being just cheap.
16:49
SPEAKER_01: Cheap.
16:49
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't know any other way to say it.
16:52
SPEAKER_01: And it's not like cheap because he won't, you know, sign the$30 million linebacker.
16:58
SPEAKER_01: Like this would this would be pennies out of Art Rooney's pockets to to have somebody to set up somebody there to do daycare or to or to add more toilets, that would cost him he wouldn't even notice that in an accounting line budget.
17:15
SPEAKER_01: Like it's nothing.
17:16
SPEAKER_01: So it just comes across as the Steelers doing things second rate, the steelers doing things the way that you know his grandfather did so many years ago, and not really getting with the times.
17:27
SPEAKER_01: It's it's not a good look.
17:29
SPEAKER_01: It's not good optics, and this happened.
17:31
SPEAKER_01: This isn't the first year this happened.
17:32
SPEAKER_01: He's had ample time to address it, and he's not doing it.
17:36
SPEAKER_01: So I do I care about it?
17:38
SPEAKER_01: No.
17:38
SPEAKER_01: Do I think the players, do I think people aren't gonna sign here because of it?
17:41
SPEAKER_01: No, I don't think any of that.
17:42
SPEAKER_01: But it's not a good luck.
17:45
SPEAKER_00: He definitely has a PR problem as of right now.
17:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
17:50
SPEAKER_00: Moving the things that don't have a PR problem.
17:52
SPEAKER_00: Olympic hockey, Tim.
17:54
SPEAKER_00: Olympic hockey is always great.
17:56
SPEAKER_00: You want to chant it?
17:58
SPEAKER_00: USA.
17:59
SPEAKER_00: USA.
18:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
18:01
SPEAKER_00: Um, so the first time since 1980s, since something called the Miracle on Ice, the uh USA hockey team have won the gold medal.
18:09
SPEAKER_00: They beat some little country called Canada.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: Do they play hockey up there?
18:14
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
18:14
SPEAKER_01: Not as well as us.
18:15
SPEAKER_00: But suckers.
18:18
SPEAKER_00: Um, anyway, uh Hellerbuck, um, the goalie.
18:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, what does he play for Winnipeg?
18:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
18:25
SPEAKER_01: Raining League MVP.
18:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he he was very, very good.
18:28
SPEAKER_00: Made an awesome like paddle save, stick save on uh Jonathan Tay's on a goal that uh shot that should have gone in the goal.
18:37
SPEAKER_00: It was pretty tremendous.
18:39
SPEAKER_00: And then Jack Hughes in overtime on a three-on-they have these three on three overtimes.
18:44
SPEAKER_00: I didn't realize they had those in the Olympics, yeah, actually scores the game winner goal on a nice assist.
18:50
SPEAKER_00: Um I will say this Crosby got hurt when they were playing the Czech Republic, which is different than the Slovak Republic, which the penguins, the the uh USA had to so yes, the Canadians had to be the fighting Yammer Yawgers, and the USA team had to feed defeat the fighting Martin who's Marion Hoses.
19:11
SPEAKER_00: So you know that's how you take your Czechs and Slovaks sorted correctly.
19:18
SPEAKER_00: Um I mean, do you do does Crosby being hurt put an asterisk on this win?
19:23
SPEAKER_01: I I wouldn't say it puts an asterisk because every every I mean you'd have to put an asterisk on every single championship ever for who was who was hurt and who wasn't.
19:33
SPEAKER_01: But it is fair to say that it is fair to ask, would it have turned out different if Crosby was playing?
19:38
SPEAKER_01: Possibly.
19:38
SPEAKER_00: And and Crosby's not it did the last time in Vancouver.
19:42
SPEAKER_00: Well, not the last time, but that time in Vancouver.
19:44
SPEAKER_01: And and Crosby's not, you know, the the the Canada has better, like pure, you know, talent at this point in his career than Crosby and McDavid and McKinnon and those guys.
19:54
SPEAKER_01: But Crosby just is like the glue of the team.
19:58
SPEAKER_00: He's just such a winner, he really is.
20:00
SPEAKER_00: He has all the intangibles and and like Mike Sullivan said that about him.
20:05
SPEAKER_00: He's just you know, he's just a winner.
20:07
SPEAKER_00: He just he he does everything that you need to do to win.
20:10
SPEAKER_00: And boy, I'm glad the penguins have him.
20:13
SPEAKER_00: I hope he I hope he gets healthy.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: That's the question is um the penguins come back from the Olympic break and they they win.
20:20
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I forgot to say the women much like get myself in trouble like Trump.
20:24
SPEAKER_00: Um the women the women also won gold.
20:26
SPEAKER_00: And I actually did see that.
20:28
SPEAKER_00: I did not get to see the men's game live.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: I did get to see the women's game live.
20:31
SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people were watching the women's game.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: Like when I was coming home on the shuttle, there were a couple of guys watching on their phone.
20:37
SPEAKER_00: So people were really into the women's game, too.
20:39
SPEAKER_01: That was a that was a great game, and that was unexpected because the women I came home and as soon as I turned it on, I saw it go in the net.
20:46
SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh, they won.
20:47
SPEAKER_00: Cool.
20:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Megan Cower scored the overtime, and then she made this just amazing move on the Canadian defenseman.
20:54
SPEAKER_01: Uh but that was that was something because I had watched a couple of the women's games before that, and they were just destroying everybody.
21:01
SPEAKER_01: I think that they I think they had won all their games by a combined score of like 31-1.
21:07
SPEAKER_01: Like they had given up one game.
21:08
SPEAKER_00: But when you play Canada, once again it was USA King.
21:10
SPEAKER_01: Canada's a different Canada 5-0 like the week before in the same Olympics, but it wasn't the it wasn't the you know, it wasn't the gold medal game.
21:19
SPEAKER_01: Right.
21:19
SPEAKER_01: And so it was kind of like the 2007 Patriots.
21:22
SPEAKER_01: You felt like that kind of a feel?
21:24
SPEAKER_01: Like, oh, they just ran over everybody and then they get into the the biggest game, and all of a sudden somebody's given them a game.
21:30
SPEAKER_01: So that was a great, but that was a great win too.
21:33
SPEAKER_01: I I I loved this Olympics so much, Steve.
21:36
SPEAKER_01: This was one of my favorite Olympics.
21:37
SPEAKER_00: I I didn't get to watch a lot of it, but I I my my favorite events are always the bobsled, two man or four man ski jumping.
21:45
SPEAKER_00: I always like ski jumping.
21:47
SPEAKER_00: That was good.
21:47
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the biathlon was fun.
21:49
SPEAKER_00: Did you see the cross country, women's cross country where the dog ran on the snow?
21:53
SPEAKER_01: I didn't see it, but you sent me the clip.
21:55
SPEAKER_01: That was that was tremendous.
21:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
21:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the alpine stuff was good, the speed skating was good.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, speed skating's not bad.
22:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
22:02
SPEAKER_01: I really enjoyed the the figure skating.
22:04
SPEAKER_00: Um Oh God.
22:05
SPEAKER_00: Lord help you.
22:07
SPEAKER_00: It reminds me of that time that I was I was watching the ninety-nine Steelers play on play the Panthers, and the guy I was watching with kept turning on the freaking figure skating.
22:17
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I don't want to watch this unless somebody's getting hit in the knee.
22:20
SPEAKER_00: That's the only thing I want to see.
22:22
SPEAKER_01: I I I like watching it.
22:24
SPEAKER_01: My wife um was a competitive figure skater growing up.
22:27
SPEAKER_00: So was my sister.
22:28
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, people really like it.
22:30
SPEAKER_00: It seems like it's more of like geared towards like the the female people and they they like it.
22:35
SPEAKER_00: Hey, you know, it's each their own, you know.
22:38
SPEAKER_01: And and I like watching it with her because she's so into it, huh?
22:42
SPEAKER_01: Well, well, but he explained, like, to me, if you don't fall down, you did good, right?
22:47
SPEAKER_00: No, no, you like, but it is town, like these people do like triple axle luts things, and then that that spinning, even that like spin when they spin, that's really tough.
22:56
SPEAKER_01: That's it's it's really tough.
22:58
SPEAKER_01: And my wife will be like, oh, she under-rotated by by half of a rotation.
23:02
SPEAKER_00: And that's why she fell or didn't jump fall, just not even just like she didn't, she only did like one and a half turns instead of two, you know.
23:09
SPEAKER_00: Right.
23:10
SPEAKER_01: And and to me, like she landed fine, it looked fine, but no, she's that wasn't a very good skate because of stuff like that.
23:16
SPEAKER_01: Me, like I said, if they stay on their feet, I'm like, oh, she's gonna win the gold.
23:19
SPEAKER_01: It's like, no, she's in she's in 14th place, actually.
23:22
SPEAKER_00: You know, that would be you and I if we were on the ice, just staying on our feet.
23:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
23:27
SPEAKER_01: As long as you stay on your feet.
23:28
SPEAKER_01: But but that was fun to watch.
23:29
SPEAKER_01: Alyssa Liu, that was that was really fun to watch.
23:32
SPEAKER_01: Like it he has a great story.
23:34
SPEAKER_01: If you've I'm sure everybody's heard that story now about her father having to flee China after the whole Tiananmen Square thing and coming to the United States.
23:42
SPEAKER_01: And and you know, he was one of those people going into the Olympics that was not supposed to be uh necessarily the gold medal winner.
23:50
SPEAKER_01: He had retired from the sports, he came back.
23:53
SPEAKER_01: Just a great, great story.
23:55
SPEAKER_01: He's a great personality.
23:57
SPEAKER_01: Just uh again, I I loved it, Steve.
23:59
SPEAKER_01: I I was legit sad when the Olympics ended, but what a way for it to end with Jack Hughes sacrificing his teeth for his country and and scoring that goal.
24:10
SPEAKER_01: He he came uh the the the first game after the Olympics was in Pittsburgh.
24:14
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm sorry, the first penguin game was against the Devils in Pittsburgh, and he got just the biggest ovation that you've ever heard for somebody that does not play for a Pittsburgh team and well deserved to.
24:26
SPEAKER_01: And and that picture, you talked about that save that Connor Hellibeck made.
24:30
SPEAKER_01: I said they should they should erect a statue of that, make a statue out of that, and erect it at whatever the busiest like US-Canada border crossing is.
24:40
SPEAKER_00: I I did some research, much and it was a much more fun research than the toilet research.
24:44
SPEAKER_00: Was uh the the busiest crossing, which I think you've crossed.
24:48
SPEAKER_00: I've I've been by, but I've never crossed it, is the ambassador bridge right missing in to Windsor, Ontario.
24:53
SPEAKER_01: Yep, I've that would be crossed that bridge multiple times.
24:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so that would be where your Connor Hellebuck uh statue would be.
25:00
SPEAKER_00: Perfect.
25:01
SPEAKER_01: I love it.
25:02
SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes.
25:03
SPEAKER_01: I I will take I will take part of my big uh uh alumni donation, the Duquesne and also commissioning that statue.
25:11
SPEAKER_00: There you go.
25:12
SPEAKER_00: So the Penguins are second in the Metro, still eight points behind the Hurricanes, even though they did beat the Devils recently, four to one in Jack Hughes.
25:21
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
25:22
SPEAKER_00: I heard Jack is Jack Hughes going to do a commercial for Colgate.
25:25
SPEAKER_00: I thought I thought I heard that somewhere.
25:27
SPEAKER_00: Sound sounds like a great marketing tool.
25:29
SPEAKER_01: So that would be pretty good.
25:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
25:32
SPEAKER_00: Or like the orthodontists of America, the dentist of America.
25:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:36
SPEAKER_00: I know 10 dentists say Jack Hughes should get his front teeth replaced.
25:40
SPEAKER_00: The tenth dentist, we don't know.
25:42
SPEAKER_00: Um, but that was that was a lot of fun.
25:45
SPEAKER_00: Uh the Olympics are fun.
25:46
SPEAKER_00: Uh, hopefully Crosby isn't injured too long so the penguins can have him back for their playoff run, please.
25:52
SPEAKER_00: And somebody please find Pit Basketball a coach.
25:55
SPEAKER_00: Please, is there another Ben Holland out there, Tim?
25:58
SPEAKER_00: Hopefully.
25:59
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26:02
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, tell us how uh Tim is wrong and how the uh statue should be of Jack Hughes and his missing teeth, not of Connor Hellerbuck.
26:15
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26:21
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