Aug 15-Hockey announcer Bryan Flores is my co-host-we talk hockey, a lot of baseball, football, Olympics & birthday

0:16 Hello everyone. I am Jeff and welcome to sports History. Today. We're gonna talk about what happened in the sports world on August the fifteenth. Now I have a really cool co host today. He is a sportscaster, a stud play by play guy, Brian Rot. You introduce yourself. Thank you for having me on, Jeff. Yeah, my name is Brian Flores. I do play by play for the FPHL. The team that I call for is the back Ruge Zydicho down there in Louisiana. One of the things we're gonna be talking about today actually has to do with a local in Louisiana. So excited for that. Oh cool. What got you into sports was just playing as a kid? Is that how you started? Oh? Getting into hockey? No, my dad wrote me into it. My dad has been a fan since the La Kings inception back in nineteen sixty seven, and it was kind of like it was a writ of passage that if he had to go through fifty years of pain, I'd at least have to go through twelve before we won the Cup.

1:11 Well, I guess that's kind of fair. Well, he did get Gretzky, though, he did get a funny story about that. So, my dad was working he's a radiologist who was working in the hospital at the time, and he was hanging out with his buddy Mike, and that's when the news dropped that Bruce McNall was going to be bringing in Wayne Gretzky, and he and Mike looked at each other as like, ah, man, really they weren't excited at all because they're like, there's gonna be no more cheap tickets going to the Kings games at the Forum. That is definitely true. That'll change the whole dynamic of your crowd base there. Yeah, and you know what, I'm going through it myself. My favorite thing when I come back to California is frequent Dodger games. We got Shoho Tani. I was excited, but I knew the Minchellata prices. We're gonna going from seven dollars to seventy.

1:59 That's well, at least you can get excited about going to the ballpark. I'm out here in Colorado with the Rockies, the worst team ever. Well, I mean I hear the beer there is plentiful. And it's cheaper than California, So definitely. Oh right, we'll talk some more sports throughout. But hey, let's see what happened in today in sports throughout the history of August the fifteenth, eighteen eighty six. Louisville pitcher, his name is Guy Hecker. He went six or seven at the plate, hit three home runs, scored seven runs. He's the only major league player they have seven runs in one game, and he's only pitcher to get hits in six hits in one game. You've got the win as a pitcher too. They beat Baltimore twenty two to five nineteen oh five, Philadelphia A's future Hall of Famer baybo l He honed no hit the Saint Louis Brown's got to win at five nothing. I always talked about no hitters basically because there's only three hundred and twenty six of them all time, so might as well bring them all up, kind of like it for athletes get a gold medal Olympics. Bore he wass bringing them.

2:53 Up to and never stopped talking about it. No, they are in their they in their fifteen minutes. So you're a big Dodger fan too, then. Oh yeah, absolutely, we're gonna be talking about another historical feet in baseball, a triple play, and there was a note on here that there have only been seven hundred and thirty nine and that's already obsolete because last night Choe Heo Tani hit into a triple play against the Angels. Oh really, yeah, well we'll have that to look far go. On nineteen twelve New York Yankee guys in, he stole the home base twice. The Yankees won five to four of the Detroit Tigers. We're talking about stealing home do you know obviously none of the less were alive. Remember we've seen pictures of Babe Ruth right. Yeah, could you believe he's stole home ten times?

3:43 Not as much as I can believe myself running a five k. Exactly, We'll get this. He's still home ten times. Ricky Anderson is the Baseball all time Baseball Steeler. He only stole home five four times in his their career. Really, yeah, Ty Cobb, he's still home the most. Hes still fifty four times in his career. Probably the best female athlete maybe of all time, but definitely the early nineteen nine ers. Her name was Babe Didrich sin Zaharias. Nineteen forty eight, she won yes Women's Open by eight strokes. Nice. Yeah, and a couple of years later in nineteen fifty, Ezard Charles actually TKO'ed Freddy Beischore in the fourteenth to keep the heavyweight championship of the world. And actually prior to that fight, Charles only lost once prior to that belt against Jersey Joe Wilcott, and since then he was able to win five straight before facing off against Freddy Beschore and after during the fight, Eddie actually suffered a bad cauliflower ear and that's when they called the fight late in the fourteenth And back in nineteen thirty nine, actually Jesse Owens long jumped a twenty six point eight in a third, a record that actually stood almost twenty five years today. In sixteen ninety four, America's Ralph Boston jumped twenty seven feet, breaking at Jesse's record, And if

5:15 you're wondering today, the long jump record stands at just over twenty at nine foot by America's Mike Powell in nineteen ninety one. That is a long time for a record in track and field to be on the books. Yeah, it really is. And I mean I can tell you my record in long jump. It's about two feet and I landed flat on my face. I think you got me by about a quarter of an inch. Nineteen sixty four of the Philadelphia Phillies turned a triple play and beat the Mets eight to one. I've only been seven hundred and now forty triple plays in baseball history. The rarest feet in baseball is the unassisted at triple play, which has only been done ten times. And as I mentioned, the two point thirty nine was up to two forty after last night's triple play by the Anaheim Angels, Shoheo Tani hitting it into his old team and moving on here.

6:10 Patricia Plinkaz became the first professional American football player in nineteen seventy, the first female professional football player. She played for the Orlando Panthers in the minor league Athletic Coast Football Conference. She held the She held four field goals, two extra points, and her husband was the kicker. Her husband got her after two games and they were going to keep her bigger pardon that we're gonna keep her. She had lost interest and told them that she was gonna keep the fifty dollars that she was promised. So she went back to being a first grade teacher. After that, imagine that you're you're you're on the grid iron kicking footballs, and then you know next week you're teaching basic addition to a bunch of first graders.

7:06 So I thought, what I thought, she must be the only one. I looked. There's actually, I don't know what league there in the Albany Firebirds. Do you know have any idea? Are they in like arena football or something like that. Yes, yes, they had a girl who kicked for cu actually universit callar out O. Her name is Katie Heide. She kicked for a couple of games for them. That ends not the only female athlete either. Marion Ramanau would be the first woman to lace up in between the pipes for the Tempa by Lightning back in nineteen ninety two. That'd be a lot tougher than being a kicker. Yeah, I mean, I'd rather kickballs than have pucks thrown at my face at like ninety miles an hour. I mean, I hope she earned more than fifty bucks, So I'm saying no, that tells what she did. In nineteen seventy five, Baltimore Orioles manager or a Weaver. He was ejected from both ends of a double leader. Yeah, him and the Texas Rangers in Baltimore. Nah, they split, So I don't know what he was so upset about. Now, this was before your time, but back in the day before basically the internet and everything went viral. Man, when something happened and it was on all the morning newscasts and all that kind of stuff, it was a big deal.

8:13 This guy, Dave Trevecki, he is a pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. Well, in September in nineteen eighty eight, he found out they had a tumor in his arm, and he was a well known player and all that kind of stuff, and they said, hey, you had to have surgery. So there was big news. There's this major league player had surgery and all that kind of Well, he came back early. They wanted to wait, but no, he came back to the falling August in nineteen eighty nine. Now he is on the mound and his first came back. He was doing pretty good and he was pitching against Tim Rains when they played for the Montreal Expos. He went to throw the ball and his arm just snapped the bone. Just everybody in the stadium could hear it, and it collapsed on the field, It was on the news, all that kind of stuff. It was kind of like one of those virtual things that you definitely didn't want to see. But David he came back even from that.

8:56 They said that the only thing that saved him was it was a clean break, and so he came back and he pissed a little bit, but the cancer kept coming back, so he ended up happening to have his whole arm amputated off. So that was a pretty sad story. Man. You talk about one of the things. I think that it's one of those one of those things that nationally everybody was just like, oh, did you see that? Did you see that? Oh? It was just horrible. Nineteen nineties Oakland A's Mark McGuire. He was the first player in baseball history hit thirty home runs in his first four seasons. Albert Poohols he did it, and I think what two thousand and two thousand and three, two thousand and four, something like that. Yep, And I can't remember. There was the I think back then when the Astros were still with the NLCS, absolutely clabbered one for the Houston Astros or against the Houston Astros, and you know, Wimer says that that ball is still somewhere in the stratosphere.

9:46 You know, that's I don't really think talk about the longest. I don't see how they measure those. I mean, still, oh, that was fire learning whatever feat I'd like. That in recent history in the World Series, Jorge Sol layer for the Atlanta Brave. And then that's another team that we'd be touching on in a little bit. Uh sent one out of Minute Made Park actually beat the train tracks went right over it, and there was a lucky I don't even know if they're actually an Astros fan, but after this they may have well turned into one, because they were walking right past Minute Made and they found the home run ball and they thought it was a ball, it was a batting practice ball, but nope, it was a horore So Layer bomb.

10:31 Well then, I did I just hear your boy out there in LA that had his three hundred home run ball. This sold for like twenty five grand or something like. That, yep, yep, And just seeing the mad scramble to go find it. And I remember it was Albert Poolhols when he hit his bomb against the Dodgers. The fan tried keeping it and Pool Holes offered to pay him something like a quarter of million dollars just for one baseball, and I'm thinking, you know what, I would love to pay off my car with one baseball. You know, I hope I would be big enough. But I think if somebody achieved something like that in sports, I think I would just give it to him. I mean, yeah, I mean a million dollars, like I'd settle.

11:15 I'd settle just for a sign jersey, you know. Sign jersey or hey man, can you give me like playoff tickets or something? You know, I don't I just don't get that help with me. Yeah, exactly. And speaking of baseball, nineteen ninety three, pitcher Nolan Ryan got his three hundred and twenty fourth win as the Rangers beat the Indians four to one, and it was actually No. One's last win and it would be a six years later, in golf, Tiger Woods won his second major, won the PGA Championship, beating Sergio Garcia by one stroke. You know, in baseball, I mean, I mean baseball. I meant to say golf. Beating a guy by one stroke is that's a nail bider, to say the least.

11:59 Yeah, and it's had funny, but him and Tiger and Sergio they had a they made a career out of that for about eight years, and Tiger always won by one stroke sports Sergia. I mean, I'd be miffed, but if it was the best golfer to ever hit the grass, I don't think I'd be too mad at myself. Now, you just be kind of like looking up, going, hey man, what I got to do to beat this guy? As a picture of him and a dartboard, and like, you know what, one of these days, I'm gonna win by one. And in twenty twelve, in baseball, the Seattle Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez became the twenty third pitcher in history to throw a perfect game. He didn't get any run support, but the Mariners beat Tampa Bay won nothing.

12:45 And as of today, there have been twenty four perfect games. And I remember back in twenty twelve, I was actually watching that with my parents. We were we weren't even you know, into watching baseball hard core at the time, but a perfect game, even for people who don't know of baseball, that's something that you always want to tune into. It's always special when it happens. Yeah, and it's you have one of those. They don't jinx it because you know nobody will talk to him, and you know, I get his stuff. It's like if everybody just kept going, he wonder if it wouldn't be more than just you know, but it's everybody in, everybody in the locker room, everybody on the bench, everybody in the stands knows it's coming up, and no one wants to do anything to jinx it. In hockey announcers, jinks is you always see you always avoid saying the S word before it before it happens.

13:33 And I remember it was the Vancouver Canucks taking on the Montreal Canadians, I believe, and the announcer said, you know, you know it was the Calgary Flames and he was like, oh, you know, ROBERTA. Longo's he's setting up for a shutout. And that was with ten seconds left, and don't they go down and score. Announcers, jinks is always going to be undefeated. Uh do you pay attention to that when you're calling on the games? Oh? I get very tense. Well, okay, So I used to announce for the long Beat Shredders and there was a guy who was playing against the Shredders Ethan Sadigian and they were beating the Shredders. The Ontario Junior reign were six to nothing, and every chance I get is like, oh, Sadinian, he's looking for his shutout. And you know what, maybe the announcers jings isn't isn't isn't always undefeated because they ended up shutting us out. Anyway.

14:29 Okay, well you're trying for the jings exactly. You know, you're the announcer for the team. Got to do your part. So as a hockey announcer, have you ever heard you know who Bob Costas was. Yep, you ever hear him about the first game he ever called in hockey? No, actually, I don't know if you can find it out thewhere. It's pretty funny. He just young, like you. You'd start off in the minor leagues. They said, here you go, you're gonna call this minor league team game. Didn't know any of the players, didn't know anything. You know, that's right when Europeans started coming in. So you had the Stravinsky he's in the slatter, that kind of stuff, and I just. Right. So he was sitting there looking at the game and he didn't really know what he was doing. He got one guy's name, then he knew he could say it right, and he said, everybody listened, thought that guy was going to be the greatest hockey player of all time. He had that guy doing everything because name he could say.

15:18 He said, he even had him passing to himself. And I mean, for me, I always, I always belly Ache, You're always you always have your Alexey, You're You're Elias Thompsons. But you never get a guy like Mike Smith, Dustin Brown, Jim Brown, just a simple, too syllable name that you know you can say just with these don't even need a name tag, just you know what, you're my new favorite player because you're the player that I actually know how to say. Well, once you make the show, then you'll get names like Brett Hole, oh right, it's all right, maybe he'll throw it to no one owing, But then you got the Valeri Kaminski's and all them kind of stuff. I think Hocky's got to be the hardest thing to do play by play on you.

16:02 Know, it's it's a challenge, and if it's in like a different set where action is always going on, so you're never you're never trapped for dead space. For me, the two hardest ones to go in between, and it's something I'm trying to do. We have an Ontario professional single a baseball club coming up, and I'm trying to throw my hat in the ring. But baseball is another one where it's just you know, you need to you need to be okay with talking to yourself. And I think that was one of the struggles with me going from the us PHL to the NAHL is. I had no color analysts, so I had to make my own fun I had to make my own stories, and you know, sometimes I would have full on conversations with myself. Don't tell my therapist. I said that, No, I get it. And like you said, in baseball, you want to be a storyteller, where hockey you're just you're just the eyes. You know, it's like here you go.

16:52 Yep, and you know the greatest to ever do at the Lake, great Vince Scully. You know, I would always get mad that there is a baseball game that interrupts Granpa Scully's old time Dodger stories. Yeah, he was, Oh man, you talk about a legend. I mean, and that thing is he was basically the Dodgers that everybody knew him. You know, anywhere in baseball you knew Vin Scully calling a game. Yep, what do you do? He finally was it ninety two or ninety three when he finally stopped Vince Scully? Yeah? Was he ninety two or something like that? Close twenty seventeen? Oh I know, But wasn't he like ninety two years old or something like that? Oh? Yeah, I think he was about ninety two when he hung up the headset. But I mean that was the second Saturst Day in LA Sports where you know, he decided to call it quits, and there were one game away from making a miracle run because Scully, from what I read, was still calling the games and they were looking for that final game against Houston and just couldn't get it done.

17:55 Yeah, I honestly never heard him do it. But I'd not quite as good as Skull. But oh, Bob yucker up there in Milwaukee. He had that kind of a career. Yeah, that he did. You also have the new bloods coming in with Joe Davis. You also have Steve Grimer and all of these all of these new baseball announcers, you know, they're great and they have great energy. You know, they bring you into the game. But no one can ever top the great Vinscully. No, no, So the greatest call in sports history. I think it was hockey got to be win that al Michaels. Do you believe in miracles? Do you believe in miracles? Yes? The uh it was the gold medal clinching game against the USSR. Or well, it wasn't the clinching and they still had to play Finland, but it was the greatest upset at the time in hockey.

18:47 It was a bunch of college kids taking on the Red Army. But I mean that's all he needed to say. I mean that summed it all up perfectly right then and there. Yep yep. So do you ever do you kind of practice like I don't know, would you go walk off walk off lines or anything like that. I'll tell you what. If you meet a broadcaster, it's like, oh, you know, I wing it in the moment, I can tell you they're lying. Yes, I have every single team. It doesn't matter if it's the team that gets beat twenty four or nothing, or if it's uh, you know, a team like the Zydeco that have a good shot this year. You know, I always I always have a little bit of tidbits that I was like, you know what, I think I'm gonna say. That, you know, I don't even know if he's with the Avalanche anymore. That he was with them when they first came over from Quebec. His name was Mike Kynes, and he did he did this just for a long time.

19:33 He was so good. You honestly it was not as good as calling, but you listened to the Avalanche kans when you didn't even know any of the players yet, just because that guy was so good he could tell you all about what was going on. Yeah, it's all about paying their picture, you know. Uh. The one rule that I go by is I always try to talk as if I'm talking to my late at sator who sadly passed this past year. But she was severely near sighted. We took her to a Vegas Golden Knights game and that was the watershed moment that showed just how important play by play guys are because she couldn't see it. So I did an impromptu hockey announce for her, and I liked I like to joke and say that that's my first ever professional game that I broadcasted.

20:18 For sure, why not? And so what's your goal? When I'm not your goal goal, ultimate goal? But when your game score is a goal? Are you gone? Do you have anything in particular? You know? I just try to get it as excited as I can, and I try to, you know, make it, make it about the player rather than the moment that the player put in. But I think the coolest goal I've ever called is I I I ripped from my good friend Joseph and Joseph Ertado, Uh he called a Michigan for the BATSI to go, and you know, I'm not to toot my own horn, but when this player did it, and you know, the Michigan goal is where you take the pocket and then you wouldn't whip it around that the net. He was just traded to the Zydeco for the Mississippi Sea Wolves now they're the Biloxi Breakers. He was just traded and he was one of the central players for the Sea Wolves and we got him on a whim and first game at home, Ross Bartlett had it behind the net. Nobody from the Watertown Wolves was in front of him. So just decides to Michigan, and all I could say is, yes, he did.

21:37 That's how you need to say sometimes. Exactly, it's just you know, because again, if you over explain a moment, you know the moment, the moment passes. But if you just let the moment breathe, that's where the fans can get in. And the fans are a big instrument for us play by play guys. You know we love hearing either the dead silent of a road of a road win or the electric sounds of a home goal. You know, the fans they add energy towards any goal call that we have. And that's the best thing about people say, oh, they have to be impartial. Now, if you're an announcer and you're on their home, you're a homer. It's great to be a homer. That's what you want to hear. Like when I was talking about Marcaynes would go crazy when they scored a goal, the other team scored a goal, yep, yep.

22:25 I remember that I was watching the Colorado feed against the uh the Los Angeles Kings and Nathan McKennon ties it up and all you hear is. Oh, he scores. Nathan Kennon And in overtime, Cope Tar gets the goal and is like Cope Tar comes into score. It's like what happened? The audio cutout? I can't hear you, but I think unless maybe now, okay, nationally you need to be impartial. But if you're doing with your following a team, you got to be a homer. You have to be that's soul. Absolutely. I mean, if you're announcing for anything that has network at the end, you know, like NHL Network, NFL, you know, you got to be as impartial as possible.

23:09 But you know what I announced for the Zydigo on Zydeco TV. So I'm going to get excited when the Zydaco's care and I'm not going to get excited when the other team scores, right, exactly, They're not paying my bills exactly. Let's see. He was born in the world of sports on August the fifteenth. Football is Jeremy Groom. He was born in DeMont, Iowa, in nineteen twenty nine. Played college ball at Notre Dame. He was part of their nineteen forty nine championship team. Now he played both ways. Yeah, he was a consensus All American as a center, but he also played linebacker. On defense. They said he averaged fifty five minutes a game. I was a little more than a one hundred it up here in Ceeu. Now. He was only six foot three and two hunred and thirty six pounds and one of the top offensive lineman's out there. Got drafted by the Chicago Cardinals in nineteen fifty one in the first round, sixth overall. Nineteen fifty five.

23:55 He was named to He just retired from nineteen fifty one to nineteen fifty five. Well, that's good enough. He'd gone to the Pro Bowl in fifty four. Then he was kind of kicking around. Came to the Denver Broncos the very first year they were in existence in nineteen sixty in the AFL. Yeah, he was their color guy on the radio. Now he is in the College Football Hall of Fame. Died in two thousand and eight. Its seventy eight years old. Okay, football, and we have an offensive guard gen Upshaw. Have you heard of him? He's kind of a legend, you know. Honestly, as a grieving Chargers fan, cats I have. Yeah. He was a raider. So as a Bronco fan, he was in a big We wentn't high on our list, but we had to face him every year. Now. Upshaw he was born in Ropestown, Texas in nineteen forty five.

24:36 Played college ball at Texas A and M in the University of Kingsville. He was draft in the first round by the Oakland Raiders. Played guard for the Raiders from nineteen sixty seven to eighty one. Now he's five times First Team APRO, five times second team OPRO. Went to three Super Bowls in three different decades nineteen sixty seven, seventy six and eighties with the Raiders. No other player has done that. Raiders won two of those. Now he's a member of the nfl A one hundred Anniversary team. Now he went into the Hall of Fame at nineteen eighty seven. Now, after retired, he was in charge of the National Football Players Association, So that means he was in charge of the entire of the union. So whenever they had to play, stoppage and all that was Upschilds his doing and all that kind of stuff. Two thousand and eight, he was kind of feeling a little he was feeling bad, and he had been for a while.

25:19 So finally on August seventeenth, that's why I said honey, just go into the emergen's room and get this check out of and I'm tired of hearing you bitch about it. Well, he went in and found out he had pancreatic cancer. Died three years later at sixty three years old. He was married and had three sons. So guys, don't put off go in and get chair self checked out. Yep, all right, okay, we do have a hockey guy today. His name is Craig mcdavish. He was the last player in the night NHL to play without a helmet back in nineteen ninety seven. Now that surprises me. He'd gotten grandfathered in. See if you had been playing before the rule that he had to have a helmet and you didn't have to wear it. Nineteen fifty eight is when he was born. He's sixty seven years old today. He played at the University of loll which is now the University of Massachusetts, though he's drafted rather the Boston Bruins in nineteen seventy eight, played seventeen years in then AHL nine season with the Edmonton Oilers. Now he won three Stanley Cups with the Oilers, but he said he won another one too.

26:11 Yep. Nineteen eighty four with the New York Rangers. Well, when he was done, he went into coaching. His head coach of the Edmonton Oilers for twenty or two thousand and two thousand and eight, still in hockey, but he's kind of in the backgrounds doing that kind of stuff. Quarterback coach Gary Kubiak. He's sixty four. He's born in Houston, Texas in nineteen sixty one now, and in high school Gary threw for six thousand one or ninety yards. That was a Texas state record back in nineteen seventy nine. Now, he was an All state football player, basketball player, baseball player, and track. I wouldn't have thought Gary was that good an athlete, but apparently he was. Wasn't a big guy of six foot hundred ninety pounds played college ball Texas A and M. He had a good career, you know, it was all conference. The senior year, in a game against Rice, he did throw for six touchdowns once. Nineteen eighty three, he was rafted in the eighth round by the Denver Broncos and out here in Deniers like, okay, well whatever, we don't have a quarterback. Well, a couple of weeks after he was drafted by the Broncos Broncos trader for John Elway, so Kubiaki was able to back up away from nineteen eighty three to nineteen ninety one.

27:09 Now he was a really good backup quarterback. I mean he did good. He had to start five times for LA he went three and two, so that's not too bad. Plus he won He won three Super Bowls or he went to three Super Bowls with the Broncos back in the late eighties. And that's when the Broncos would get beat by forty times or forty points every one of those games. So yeah they lost. But Gary in nineteen ninety one, he just decided, you know, he wanted to start his career, you know, whenever gonna be the starting quarterback. So he retired, went into coaching, went home to his alma mater for a couple of years down there in A and m. Then he went up and he hooked up with Mike Shanahan and they went to San Francisco. Shanahan was the offensive coordinator and Gary was the quarterback. Coach won a Super Bowl. Well that was pretty cool. Well, then they went down to Denver. Shanahan was the head coach, now and Kubiaki he was the offensive coordinator. Yeah, won two more Super Bowls there. Then after a while Kubyaki would said go home. We went to Houston and was the coach of the Texans from twentusand and six to twenty thirteen. He had to retire then because of health reasons.

28:05 So then they elwait, who's the charge of a player Personnellen all that, he brought him back and said, come on, man, we have a really good team. See if you can't do it. So they came back and they actually won a Super Bowl again with Gary Coachen as the head coach. That still had health reasons. So Gary, he's basically doing just consulting. Now. But get this, you know, I'm sure it goes unto the Mike can't Shanahan coaching tree. But Kubiak, he has two boys, one Clay. He is the offensive coordinator for the San Francisco forty nine ers. Clint offensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks. Day very interesting and again as a Graving Chargers fan, not a big fan of the Broncos. But you know what, Koobi act, I can't say he wasn't good, especially specially as a coach. So speaking of football, quarterback Buddy brister In is sixty three born in Alexandria, Louisiana. In nineteen sixty two, out of high school, he was drafted by the Detroit Tigers to play baseball and went into play football at TWU Lane, then transferred to the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round, sixty seventh overall. It was was the Steeler was with the Steelers from nineteen eighty six to ninety two. He was a starter in three seasons.

29:19 He went and was a backup in Philadelphia for two seasons. Then he went to Denver to be John Elway's backup with Gary Kubiak as the offensive coordinator. So Kubiak making another appearance here won two Super Bowls, and the year the Denver won their second Super Bowl, Lway got hurt and embracers started seven games that season and actually wasn't the only athlete to make a major transition from two major sports. And let's see if you had this on in your Bengo card. Tom Glavin, the Hall of Famer from the Atlanta Braves, was originally drafted fourth round by the Los Angeles King in nineteen eighty four, and he was actually drafted two rounds ahead of the great Brett Hole and five rounds before the LA Kings Hall of Famer Luke Roboti. Glavin on August fifteenth made this in the decision to play baseball full time, and made his first major league start two days later on August seventeenth, on my birthday.

30:22 That's that's very I would have never pictured Glavin on skates. Yeah, I would not either. There's actually a Sports Illustrated where he was wearing an Atlanta Braves jersey and he had hockey pads on and he was skating on the ice. So I mean, you know what, if you ever want to get confused, look up Tom Glavin hockey shoot and you'll see him in full baseball gear but with hockey gear on and even had a hockey stick. That's pretty cool. The Colorado Rockies actually, well, since they're not a competitor Los Angeles, you probably don't care about the Rockies. We had a guy who's in the Hall of Fame. It's called Larry Walker. Yeah, he tried his whole time grad and go play hockey, and he kept getting cut and kept getting that. Finally this coach sent him down and go sign, go play baseball. So he ended up in there.

31:11 I mean, I can imagine two major league teams from two separate sports trying to fight for you to see who you're going to be going with. And you know, of course Tom Glavin he made the right decision going with the Atlanta Braves. But there was an alternate timeline out there where he was dotting the purple and gold right next to Luke Robati And you know, that would have been an alternate history that would be very confusing, to say the least. What do you think he played? I think he was like wing or defense. He was a winger. Actually he would have played on in the off wing of Luke ROBATAI, so he would have been on probably the same line. That would be pretty interesting. And moving on here to Eric bay Marie. He is fifty six, born in New Orleans, so we're sticking to the Bayou back in nineteen sixty nine. Grew up in California, so you know, a buy you from the Golden Gate, and you know, as same as a kid here before you today. His senior year in high school, he was second All American, rushed for two thousand, rushed for two thousand and two years and scored yards I should have said, and scored thirty touchdowns. Went to the University of Colorado four years starter still holds the school career all time rushing record at two at three thousand, nine hundred and forty yards. I can't even do one yard rushing. His senior year, he was a unanimous All American. He finished third in the Heisman and won the National Championship. Eric was drafted in the second round by the San Diego Chargers.

32:43 There we go, We're ripping the San Diego Chargers. Played it for the Chargers for four years, the Bengals for four years, and went into coaching. The biggest success he had an offensive coordinator with the Kansas City Chiefs in at twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two, winning at two Super Bowls. Rickicks currently the running back coach for the Chicago Bears, and finally here volleyballs. Carrie Walsh or Carrie Walsh Jennings was born in Santa Clara, California, in nineteen seventy eight and stands at forty seven today. Coming out of high school, she was the first volleyball prospect in the country and went to Stanford. She was a four time All American, first Alid American and won two national championships.

33:29 She went pro in beach volleyball. She turned. She teamed up with Misty May Treanor and they were the best of all time. Won the Olympic gold in two thousand and four, two thousand and eight, and twenty twelve, and in twenty. Twelve Carrie was five weeks pregnant. All at one time won one hundred and twelve straight matches, which beat her own record at eighty nine matches. Misty retired after twenty twelve and Carrie and her new partner April ross one bronze in the twenty sixteen Olympics. Carrie won one hundred and thirty five beach volleyball tournaments. She is married to beach volleyball and played cat and Casey Jennings and they have two sons and one daughter.

34:23 So what do you think those kids are gonna turn into? So Carrie she's six', three her husband he's six. Three you, know IF i were to say nuclear. PHYSICIST i who thinks so? Too, man that's got to be like the best. Gig if we've got, it man beach, Volleyball how cool would that? Be? Oh that would be fun in the sun and you get to you get to hit around a ball right. Next to the. Beach. OH i think that's the dream. GIG i don't know What i'm doing announcing. Or in hockey. Exactly you, Know i'm in the. Cold i'm in the cold all day every. Day i'm gonna go out to the beat When i'm. Laughing when at your resume about how here he grew up in sokol and your first gig wasn't it In, Bismarck North.

35:03 Dakota, yeah that's that's gonna turn a few. Eyes it's, like, hey From Los, Angeles, correct right next to the? Beaches, Correct North. Dakota you know, what your guess is as good as. Mine so do you Like? Nascar? Uh you, know, HONESTLY i FREQUENT i like watching him make left. Turns you, KNOW i would rather watch him make left turns when they do the road. COURSES i do not like. THAT i don't think it's as. EXCITING i think it's kind of boring because they can't pass or. Anything. Yeah, Well hall Of FAME nascar Driver Carl. Edwards he was picking me in The hall Of fame just this. Year he's born In, Columbia, missouri in nineteen seventy, nine forty. Six. Y'all it's probably best, KNOWN i don't know if you just kind of follow casually when you see the he's the guy who do the back flip off his car whenever he. Won that was, Him, yes, Yes now he finished twice runner up for THE Nascar Championship series in two thousand and eight and twenty, eleven and then twenty eleven was almost a flip of the coin on whether he got it or. Not they had the same amount of, points but he didn't win as many races as THE i don't remember who it was it got. It it was like one of THE i don't remember who it, was but, yeah so, anyway it did have twenty quick career Of friends of The year two and twenty top.

36:10 Tens now he's currently if you FOLLOW nascar and they split it up throughout the year when they do the, announcers he's the. One he does the commentary when THE nascar is On prime video and all that kind of. Stuff. Huh all, Right, brian you have some really good exciting news down there going out From louisiana about your. Career, Right, Yeah i'm gonna be going Back september, tenth back To Baton. Rouge we don't start until Late october when we kick off on the road against The Monroe, moccasins all of Which i'm actually going to be documenting throughout the, year just kind of like a day in the life of A fed. Announcer you get to go behind the scenes and see all the bus, trips see all the interaction with the, players and just what it takes to kind of set up tear down at each each and every, broadcast and just get to see how us in the media world.

36:59 Prepare that sounds pretty. Cool and people they can always go to your website to see like your highlight reels and all that kind of stuff. Too, yep you get to go see my wix. Page that's my portfolio page THAT i try to update every so. Often AND i also have a YouTube channel And i'm gonna be promoting that heavily prior to the, Season so just keep on the lookout for, that and you, know get to see what's life life is like in THE. Fed and you can also, yeah actually kind of when you're not announcing that kind of. Stuff don't you do graphics and videos and advertisements and? Stuff, YES i. Do i'm a graphic. DESIGNER i worked with The bismark podcasts at THE. Nhl i've made a couple of things for The, dodgers And i've been trying to plug away seeing IF i can't make a major league break at THE nhl. Level but right Now i'm just kind of plugging, away doing it a little bit for.

37:54 Fun it's a it's kind of a stress belief for. Me it's after a long. DAY i would just like to open Up photoshop and see WHAT i can create that is. Awesome we'll have links so you can Follow brian all along the. Way, Well, brian do you have anything? Else, No i'm just so happy that you had me on and you, know this was a. Blast it was great talking with, You, jeff and you, KNOW i know we connected Through. LinkedIn but if there's you, know any time you ever need to call me up and you're you're in need of a co host and a, pinch you Know i'm always. Here WELL i will definitely take you up on. That thank you very much for being. Here, hey And thank all you guys for. Listening we sure appreciate, you and you guys have an awesome day and we'll all talk. Tomorrow