Aug. 18, 2025

My Co-Host is Hunter Price, We discuss coaching, faith, Kirk Cousins, Kirk Herbstreit, Anthony Munoz, Eddie Gaedel & a lot more.

My Co-Host is Hunter Price, We discuss coaching, faith, Kirk Cousins, Kirk Herbstreit, Anthony Munoz, Eddie Gaedel & a lot more.
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My co-host today is Hunter Price, former High School coach, now youth paster and host of the V3 Podcast: Voice Vision Victrory, devoted to developing Christian leaders in sports and in life. Check out the website -V3 Content  He has two other podcasts you will want to listen to.  Today we talked about Eddie Gaedel, the shortest player in MLB history, baseball, auto racing, the Olympics. 
Todays birthdays we talkaed about - Kirk Cousin, Patrick Chung,m David Boston, Kirk Herbstreit, Bobby Hebeert, Anthony Munoz, Gary Gaetti, Bobby Richardson, Thomas Jones, 

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Well, hello everyone. I am Jeff and welcome to Sports

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History Today. We're going to talk all about what happened

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in the world of sports throughout history on August the nineteenth.

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Now on most of your mamby pamby little podcast out there,

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if the co host is feeling a little ill, or

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they're heard or something, sure they just postponed. Not on

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a sports podcast, Mark, we have to go pull through,

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just like my co host is going to do today.

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How are you doing there today.

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Hunter, Jeff, thanks for having me. You're right, I am

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under the weather. But that's when it's most important to

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show some grit in athletics. When you're not feeling it.

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You wake up, your throat's a little sore, your ankle

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is a little sore, whatever it might be. Jeff, you

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got to lock in. Your team needs you, and I

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committed to this podcast. So I'm ready to go a

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little under the weather. And thanks for having me.

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Man, I guess that's nice. I could have joined the

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sprinklers off on last night and gave us a rain

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to lay, but no, you're not going to do that.

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Absolutely absolutely, So. You're in the Denver area and I'm

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super interested in that area. Jeff, because my brother moved

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out there yesterday and I just heard amazing things about

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that area of the country, the mountains, activities, people being outside.

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So I'm pretty jealous of you and him.

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Yeah, an exciting time. Like you said that, a lot

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of optimism this year for the Broncos when we've got

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the Nuggets, who always a contender. I can't forget about

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the Avalanche either.

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Absolutely. No, I'm not a huge hockey guy. There's not

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really any teams near us in Springfilldinois, you know, Chicago,

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which that's a decent drive. Big Nuggets guy. I love Jokic.

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I think he is entering like top ten NBA all

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time range. And if you don't agree with that, I

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think you're a little bit of a hater. And I'm

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not even a Nuggets fan. So and the Broncos are

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my sleeper playoffs in this year. I've got two playoff

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teams i'm pretty high on that weren't great last year,

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Broncos and the Buccaneers. So those are the teams I'm

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right in this year.

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You know, I just saw yesterday, remember Gruden. Absolutely, he

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predicted without a doubt the Buccaneers are going to win

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the Super Bowl this year.

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You know what, I'm a little bummed because these are

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my two stealth on the rise teams. I've started to

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see it more in the media, and it makes it

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look less stealth when people are talking about them.

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See we got see we got it on there today,

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so you can always go, hey, I predicted it on

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you know Meaca in April, all right, in at the

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beginning of August.

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Anyway, That's absolutely true because I think the Buccaneers have

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consistency in pro sports. Now, in college sports, consistency is

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so rare with all the player movement, salary cap and

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things like that. And they have one of the few

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teams that it seems like most of their guys have

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been there for a while. And I think that is

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extremely valuable in sports.

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And I never did figure out Chicago or not Chicago

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Cleveland what they were doing with Mayfield. They didn't make

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any sense. I mean, he was given them the best

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that had in years, and all of a sudden they

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just kind of ran him out of town.

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That's got to be one of the biggest regrets in

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their franchise's history, and that's there's a lot of regrets

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for Browns fans that they could have. There's got to

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be a lot of them. But they got rid of

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the guy who showed a lot of grit, who loved

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the city. Not many people love the city. He loved

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the city. He showed talent and promise, and he was

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dealing with a brutal shoulder injury and played through it

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for his team, and then they cut him directly after that,

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they got rid of them, And I thought, man, what

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a big bummer it is that they have someone who

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loves Cleveland. So if you're not small town, blue collar America,

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you want someone who loves your small town like a

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honess in Milwaukee. And he did, and now he's thriving.

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That's got to be a big time regret for them.

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Yeah, good for him. I'd rather be in Tampa than Cleveland.

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Too, No shade of Cleveland, but me too.

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So up there, White Sox are a Cubs fan.

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I gotta tell you, the Cardinals run pretty deep. I

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think most people associate Illinois with Chicago, so they just

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assume you live in Illinois, you must be a Chicago fan.

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But Saint Louis Cardinals are actually in the closer proximity

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to most of the state, and they dominate the region.

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I know people in Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee. There

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are huge Cardinals fans. And if you go to a

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Cardinals game, it's one of the few MLB teams that

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treats it like an event. Everyone's watching, the stadium sold out.

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They love their baseball in Saint Louis.

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Yeah, and they've been good for what one hundred years

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or something like that. I mean, they've always been good.

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It seems like, I mean, they have the little spurts, but.

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That definitely helps. Being good definitely helps be a fan

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of that team.

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Yeah, we used to have a major league team, but

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now we have the Colorado Rockies. I don't know what

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they are, that's right.

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And you guys gave the Cardinals holiday back in the day,

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and that was a pretty good gift.

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Oh yeah, and I don't even know is Nolan or

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Navista there?

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Off the top of my head, I don't see. Here's

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a deal, Jeff. I'm not a huge baseball fan. I

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guess I should have answered your question first. If I'm

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not a huge fan, I am a fan of sports

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that move quickly. Because I'm a millennial child and we

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are plagued by instant culture. So baseball is a heart

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is a hard watch admittedly.

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Yeah, and you're a basketball guy too, right.

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Big basketball guy as a high school basketball coach for

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eight years up in Wisconsin, and we had a great run,

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had school records and coaching awards, and then felt a

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mixture of burnout but also just a clear call from

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the Lord to step aside and go into ministry. So

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now I'm a pastor, and so I operate out of

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the church in Springfield, Illinois, and I own a content

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company where we produce blogs and podcasts and articles, and

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I do some speaking and leadership coaching as well. So yes,

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love basketball.

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Oh cool. And we'll get to your pastoring and your

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content and your podcast as we go out throughout the show.

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Do you want to start off to day time? Well,

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then in Springfield, you're pretty close to Indiana. Are you

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a fan of the Indianapolis five hundred?

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You know what, my grandfather was a huge fan, and

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when he was alive, I would sit down and kind

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of watch, you know, off hand, So I wasn't super

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into it, but he loved it. And whenever you have

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a family member you revere, you kind of takeing what

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they take in so I'm familiar with it and I'm

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super intrigued by the concept. So kind of but why

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don't you go ahead?

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Okay? Well, they held the first Indy five hundred in

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nineteen eleven, but the Indianapolis Motor Speedway had been built

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before that. They held their first big race in nineteen

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oh nine. It was for the Presta Life Cup. It

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was one hundred laps, which is two hundred fifty miles.

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Nine cars started the race. Oh while Bob Berman he

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won the race. Only three cars finished that race, but

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one of the drivers and his mechanics they were actually

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killed during the crash. And a lot of people don't

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realize that. If you look at those old videos of

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the racers drivers back, it was always a driver and

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they had mechanic in their car with them. So if

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they were going around the track or something like that

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and they need a gas or retire, the mechanic would

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just hop out and fix the car right on the road.

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Oh my goodness. You know what shocks me, Jeff, is

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how few injuries there actually are if you really think

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about it, and how how fast and dangerous that whole

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concept is. It's pretty shocking that that doesn't happen more often.

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Oh, exactly. So as a coach, when you were up,

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there was there one school that you just could not beat.

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Yes, there was in my conference. Actually, even we had

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the best years. In twenty twenty two, we had a

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state run and it was kind of a Cinderella story

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where we beat several high seats in the tournament. And

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even in that year, there's a school in Beloit, Wisconsin,

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and we just could not win there. And part of

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it was their gym had this just dark five. The

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bleachers were small on one side, and it was kind

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of like a cavern, and I really think that entered

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our psyche, and we just could not win a game there.

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So I went everywhere in our conference, in our county,

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in our area except Beloit.

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I think that's how the Cincinnati felt about a future

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Hall of Fame pitcher. His name was Christy Mathison. Christy

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had beat him twenty two straight games in a row.

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I mean we're not even talking like no decisions. He

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had beaten him twenty two games in a row. Yeah.

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But today nineteen eleven, the Reds finally got him. They

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got him seven to four. Nineteen twenty one Detroit Tigers

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ty Cob. He became the fourth player to get three

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thousand hits. He was only thirty four years old at

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the time, so that was the youngest player to do it.

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Today there have been thirty three a tay Cob. He

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ended up for four eighty nine hits that second to

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Pete Rose two and fifty six hits all time. You're

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wondering thirty three players in baseball history have gotten to

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three thousand hits. Nineteen forty one, in the second game

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of a doubleheader. It was in Brooklyn, now the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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They were playing the Brooklyn Dodgers, and it was a gray,

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rainy day who kind of drizzled and rained all day long.

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In the second game, the manager for Pittsburgh, his name

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was Frankie Frisch, came out of the dugout holding an

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umbrella to protest the weather conditions. Well the Empire Jock

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O Cullen, he didn't like that at all. He kicked

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him out. Didn't matter. Dodgers won both ends of the game.

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Let me ask you a question, Jeff, real quick. I

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hate to interrupt you, and this maybe it's a podcast,

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so it's me. Have you seen the Savannah Bananas.

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They were just in Denver this last weekend.

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Okay, so whenever you talked about the hijinks of baseball,

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I think they're onto something because I have a co

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host on my podcasts. He was drafted by the Braves

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and played a high level college baseball and he doesn't

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even watch baseball because, like I said, our generation has

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that desire for constant dopamine hits and baseball it takes

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a while, it takes patience, right, and the Savannah Bananas

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have unlocked something I've heard and seen on the internet.

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They're selling out football fields to watch these baseball games.

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Do you like what they're doing or do you think

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it's an insult to the game.

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No, I really like it. Well, like i'd hear, the

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big deal was when they came to coors Field, you know,

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outside of Wrigley or is it Stokaminski. I don't know,

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but anyway, just the regular Major League baseball stadium. They

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sold out the entire weekend series in four hours.

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Wow. Wow, I mean, but it's really cool. It's a

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spectacle on TV too. You're kind of mesmerized by it.

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Like I've told you, I'm not a huge baseball watcher

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and they came across my TV the other day and

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I stayed with them for a little bit and I

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was like, this is interesting. So I think they might

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be onto something here.

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I are I mean, baseball's tried. I mean now they

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have a I can call it a shot clock, but

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it's basically the clock to try and get the pitchers

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and actually throw the ball. So they're trying to get

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a fast moving but it's just the way the sport

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is is just not made for any kind of pace

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pretty much absolutely.

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Now the kids, the kids nowadays, it's you know, their

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at tension spans getting shorter and shorter by the year.

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I don't want to sound like an old man here,

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but it's going to be harder and harder to engage

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them in that game. And you're reading off all these

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legends ty Cob, Pete Rose, and I just wonder where

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baseball will fall in that next generation of any kind

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of relevance, because if you ask the average high schooler

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who certain baseball players are, I don't think they can

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tell you more than four or five f other than Otany,

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Bryce Harper, baby Mike Trout. Which is it super interesting?

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into this legend. In nineteen fifty one, have you ever

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heard of Eddie Gable? Eric Gagle?

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I did not until the pre show notes.

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Well, Eddie, he became the smallest player to ever appear

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in a Major League baseball game. Eddie, he staid three

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feet seven inches tall, weighed sixty pounds. Sure he did

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some entertaining on the side. Well, Saint Lunis brown is

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their owner, and Bill Vick he actually signed Eddie to

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a contract to play for him, but notre to do it.

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He submitted it to the league late on a Friday

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afternoon when he knew they just rubber stamped the contract

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and then he'd they'd look at it closer. On Monday morning. Well,

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in the second game of a doubleheader against the sat

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Or Saint Louis Browns. They're playing the Detroit Tigers. First inning.

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At the bottom of the first inning, oh, three foot

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seven inch Eddie. He had the number one eighth on

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the back of his jersey. He walked up to the plate. Well,

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the umpire was like, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no get away. And so the manager for the Browns

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he already had it. He came out and gave him

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the contract that was approved, and so the Empire he's like, well, okay,

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well Eddie bill Beck. He covered his backside too, though,

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so he told Eddie, he said, if you ever swing,

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I will I'll have you shot. So Eddie knew he

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was supposed to get up there put the bat on

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his shoulder, you know, because Eddie was an entertainer, so

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he thought, well he might try and actually swing at

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one of these. So Eddie gets up there and he

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gets into his scouch. Well, the pitcher for the Tigers,

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you know, he's six feet tall, so he's twenty in

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twenty nine inches taller than Eddie. He is just laughing

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so hard. He couldn't believe the absurdity the Eddie to

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pitch this guy. Well, the catcher, he just got down

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on his knees and you'll thought, hey, he might want

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to keep these pitches low. So the guy first two pitches,

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he'd actually did throw them and try and get you know,

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but they were both high. So then he just kind

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of lobbed the next one, and so Eddie got a

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walk on four straight balls. So it's Eddie's going to

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first base. He stopped twice to take bows in front

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of the eighteen thousand crowd. There they're giving him a

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standing ovation and all that kind of stuff. Then Eddie,

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he was replaced by pitch Runner Browns. They still lost

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sixty two. So that's kind of Savannah Banana like it is.

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And I have two major thoughts after hearing this story.

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Number One, I've always been a huge advocator for an

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NFL team signing. Let's say Dwight Howard. You can't tell

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me that when they get in the red zone and

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they have Dwight Howard just run five yards and they

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just throw a jump ball up in the air. He

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dunked on a twelve foot hoop and a done contest

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fairly easily, right, So you can't tell me that that

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wouldn't be an extreme advantage and he would probably get

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that ball ninety five percent of the time, those jump

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balls are thrown out a thirty percent, so I would

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think there'd be more gimmicks like this in athletics. You

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tried to find someone who is exceptionally suited physically to

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take advantage of something in the game, which I thought

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was finding. The second thing is real short and sweet.

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Jeff Detroit seems like a city that's known for something

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like this, and that's just maybe my shade as a

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Packers fan to the alliance. But those are my two thoughts.

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So you're a Packers guy yet, major, I haven't missed

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a Packers game in about twenty years.

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So you were you happy as the Love takeover?

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I was on the side of Rogers, and it's hard.

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It's really hard because of who he is as a person.

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How it's hard to defend his character as a football player.

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I never wanted to give up on Rogers, and I

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know Green Bay's probably smart for moving on early rather

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than late. And I think Love the jury is still out.

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I'm a I'm a realistic fan. I'm not one of

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those it's always positive all the time. I think he

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has shown a side of being really good, but he

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also has lost a lot of big games. So I

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think I need to see a big winner two this year,

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not just beating the five hundred teams.

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Right were you were you born when Rogers took over

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for FARV I was.

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I was pretty young yet I think I was in

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middle school. So I actually became a Packers fan from

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Illinois because they'd be on Monday night all the time.

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Because of Far Right, and he had so much fun

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and it was like a really cool team to watch

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and root for, and it was super exciting, and I

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just kind of stuck with it. And you know, I'm

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a sentimental guy. So if I remember back, I think

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I wanted Rogers. I'm glad they took him, but I

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think I wanted far to stick it out through till

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the end. I'm a pretty sentimental guy. Jet. I think

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that's what I'm learning as I'm speaking right now.

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No, I get that because it's like Karen Denver least,

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you know, we had Lway the entire time. You know,

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he retired her, and with far Are you kind of

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like he still wanted to see him walk out as

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a Packer, not as a Viking.

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Yeah. Yeah. And you know it's interesting because as a

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Packers fan, you know, you're probably not going to be

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signing a bunch of free agents like we We inherently

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know that that's not what we do. And also, guys

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don't want to go live up north in a small

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town as opposed to tropical cities in the winter, right,

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So so that that drafting that quarterback is so important,

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It is so important, So I understand them wanting to

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get ahead of Rogers leagues. It's not like we're just

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going to go out and sign the next best guy.

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We're going to have to keep drafting while and invest

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in that. So I understand why they did it, but

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I still thought Rogers had a lot of juice left

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in which he did. I think he went MVP the

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next two years after that, so I don't know. We'll

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see about Love. I think it's a big year for him.

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Was Adams just a head case for the whole organization

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and that's why they had to get away from him.

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I don't think he was. I think Adams was really solid.

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I think Adams left because he was really good friends

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with Carr from President State, who is the Raiders quarterback,

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and he wanted to move back out west because he

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was from that area of the country, so it made

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sense for him to go to Las Vegas with his

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buddy at Derek Carr, and him and Rodgers were really close,

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and I still think they are because I watched all

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those Pat mcafeeer and Rodgers episodes of the podcast Weekly Podcast,

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and I don't think either one of them had anything

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negative to say about each other. And he was blessed

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with some great receivers. You have Jordy Nelson, Donald Driver,

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Greg Jennings, James Jones, on and on and on. So

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I don't think there was any attention there.

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So as a pastor, we'll talk about this throughout the

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show too. As a pastor, do you think what David

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Carr did this year's probably one of the most selfless

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things probably done in sports history.

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I think I think he's been someone I've really admired.

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As it's hard to I want to be careful I

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say this because you don't want to judge people, but

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you can tell through the TV screen whose faith is

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like a parent and real, and Car's faith has been

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and I think like Nick Foles, for example, he left

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football to go into pastoring. I think he wrote a

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book after two and I think people are starting to

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realize that being a Christian Schoolian, you know, there's this

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wave kind of coming through people realizing I can love

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God and still have success in life, or I don't

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even need the success in money because of relationship with Jesus,

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or my family takes precedent. And I do have a

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lot of respect for that because I think it goes

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a long way because I work with a lot of

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kids through sports or through youth group and they look

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up to these guys and them putting their faith first

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on that stage is massive for the growth of that

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next generation.

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And if the listeners don't know car he basically walked

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away from thirty million dollars he could have gotten it,

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he didn't believe he earned it, so he basically just

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walked away and said, Nope, I'm not going to take

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that money.

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That And I mean it's very clear if you watch

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the Netflix show Quarterback. I think Kirk Cousins is kind

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of that guy as well. I think it's very clear

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as faith is real and he wants to do the

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right thing by everyone. And I think so there's there's

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hope for humanity, especially in the world of sports, which

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excites me.

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Well, do you think this could be the Tim Tebow effect?

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You know, he was really the first one to really

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go out there, and now do you think that made it?

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He was kind of like a trailblazer for being able

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to do this kind of stuff.

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And you know, I've thought a lot about this, and

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I think Tim Tebow's too far removed for that to

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have an impact on today's kids. Because not many of

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these kids, even the younger man, really remember Tim Tebow's run.

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I'm aging myself, but that was when I was a

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freshman in college, just Denver Broncos run. Maybe in college,

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high school. That's been fifteen years. So I think it

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as as a country, I think people are realizing cool

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is whatever you want cool to be. So I don't

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have to fall under any type of stereotype to be

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quote unquote cool. Like I can have a faith that's

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outwork and a parent and it'd be cool because that's

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what matters to me. I think we're slowly kind of

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figuring it out, and the pendulum swings culturally right, swings

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one way and then back to the other. And it

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was very hard to be a believer for the last

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five six years. I think it's going to start swinging

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back the other way where people are coming out with

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their faith, which is really cool. Cool. Hey.

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In nineteen sixty five, Cincinnati Reads pitcher Jim Maloney, he

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threw a second no hitter the season. Yeah, they beat

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the Cubs win and nothing. Well, nineteen sixty nine, Cubs

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pitcher Ken Holtman, he no hit the Braves three to nothing.

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The reason I always mentioned in all the no hitters

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whenever they do. There's only three hundred and twenty six

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in baseball history, so I think that each one gets

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their shout out. Now, this is a nice way to

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start your career. In nineteen ninety Los Angeles Dodgers Jose

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Offerman hit a home run in his very first career

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at bat. He went out and played for seventeen years.

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In the seventeen years, had a total of fifty seven

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home runs. So how much, lady, they had to pay

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you to be this guy?

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Now?

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After serving three years in prison for rape nineteen ninety five,

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Mike Tyson, he returned for the ring, knocked out Peter

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McNeely in eighty nine seconds.

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You know what, I'm ary For a split second wondered

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what it would be like to take one of those punches.

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I don't really want to, but part of me wonders

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just how hard that is. And I don't think you

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could pay me enough, to be honest, to try it out.

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But I wonder, Jeff, do you think boxing one day

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will ever be looked back upon, kind of like a

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gladiator sport from the Romans, Because it's almost dying out

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here in popularity. Because of how aggressive and dangerous it was.

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Yeah, but think about your generation, so boxing isn't as

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cool anymore. But now the game with MMA where everything.

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That's sure, that's true because I wonder if, like in

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one hundred years, people look back and goes, they did what.

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Yeah, you're doing with you guys don't even realize what

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Tyson was like back in the mid eighties. Man, when

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he was coming up, there was this guy and he

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was just beating. I mean, you talk about his beat.

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None of you didn't want pay per view because you

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know the fight wasn't going to go two rounds.

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So yeah, Well here's the thing that's interesting. In nineteen

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ninety five, I was three years old, so I'm not

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super familiar with with early Mike Tyson. And I reading

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your pre show notes whenever it's a three years in

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prison for rape, it kind of surprised me because I

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didn't know that. But also he's got tons and tons

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of fans, and it just surprises me. I guess that

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some people, some people's character can really do whatever and

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people will still root for them because you know what

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I mean, that's a pretty serious prime. Yeah, everywhere you go,

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he's got a high approval rating.

472
00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:57.839
Yeah, see, he was judging that. Everybody knew he had problems,

473
00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:00.319
you know, they knew that he was kind of mess step.

474
00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:02.400
And then he was married to this one actress. Her

475
00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:05.079
name was Robert Gibbons, and every can tell she was

476
00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:07.039
just trying to take his money. Then he had this

477
00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:09.680
guy named Don King who was his boxing promoter that was,

478
00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:11.680
you know, trying to basically ruin him and all that

479
00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:13.759
kind of stuff. Well, he ended up he was judging

480
00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:16.640
a Miss Black America pageant out in Indiana and he

481
00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.119
raped up one of the contestants. Did his three years,

482
00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:22.440
came out and he was never the same, you know.

483
00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:26.079
Plus he's obviously you know, he's been a probably his

484
00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:28.839
prime in the prison. Then he came out and he

485
00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:32.240
was just a space case. I don't know if you know.

486
00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:34.599
He fought found there Holly Field and bit his ear

487
00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:38.319
off and all kinds of things, and his career really

488
00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:41.759
went down. Basically he became a non person and all

489
00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:44.759
that kind of stuff. And then I honestly think it

490
00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:46.400
was the Hangover movies that made him popular.

491
00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:49.319
Again, that's a great point. I think you're right.

492
00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:51.799
In the two thousand and four Olympics in Athens, United

493
00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:54.920
States gymnast Carlie Patterson. She became the second American woman

494
00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:57.279
though when the gold medal all around in the Olympics,

495
00:22:57.440 --> 00:22:59.039
but carl she was the first one to do it

496
00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:02.440
in the non boycott Olympics. If you remember, merely retting

497
00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:05.559
they were Soviet Union block they boycotted that year. Twenty

498
00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:08.920
twenty three, a Philly shortstop trade turner. Yeah, two solo

499
00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:10.680
home runs and one inning the Phillies went. He had

500
00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:13.000
to beat the Nationals twelve to three.

501
00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:18.640
Now, real quick, real quick, Jeff. That Philly and Nationals

502
00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:21.279
is interesting to me. I'm not a baseball guy, because

503
00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:24.599
that Bryce Harper thing is a pretty big deal. And

504
00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:27.200
if baseball is in more major sport, I think it

505
00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:30.319
had been a huge storyline of the twenty first century

506
00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:32.559
that you had the face of the sport leave a

507
00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:34.880
team and that team won the World Series a few

508
00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:37.279
years later. So I don't think that's really happened in

509
00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:38.880
any other sport any other time.

510
00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:42.400
No, that's a pretty good point. Great, Well, you said

511
00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:46.319
you you were no longer would you teach biology? Yeah,

512
00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:48.599
and you were coaching and now you're doing your podcast.

513
00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:50.079
You want to tell us all about your podcast.

514
00:23:50.519 --> 00:23:54.160
Yeah, I'd love to. So back last year, I started

515
00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:58.599
a basketball high school basketball coaching podcast called B three

516
00:23:58.680 --> 00:24:02.200
Voice Vision Victory, and I really wanted to utilize the

517
00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:05.160
connections I made as a coach, and then as that grew,

518
00:24:05.640 --> 00:24:09.319
me and my colleague Johnny Standard started a Christian leadership

519
00:24:09.359 --> 00:24:12.119
podcast as well, and that was part of my job

520
00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:14.079
now as a pastor is we're going to get back

521
00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:17.759
to it weekly and talk about theology, Christian leadership, Christian

522
00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:20.839
living and be very vulnerable about our own experiences and

523
00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:23.920
the things we're learning. And I also have one now

524
00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:25.960
with my old high school friends called Old Dogs, and

525
00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:29.480
it's actually, believe it or not, when you podcasting, it's

526
00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:31.799
pretty surprising what things work and what don't. So my

527
00:24:31.880 --> 00:24:34.519
highest rated podcast, and it's me and my two high

528
00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:37.519
school friends who are both successful in sports, and we're

529
00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:41.039
just talking about things in sports culture like weight training,

530
00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:44.119
youth sports and time just shooting the breeze and having

531
00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:46.759
a couch style podcast. So you could find all those

532
00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:51.119
on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, B three Voice Vision and Victory.

533
00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:52.759
Okay, and we'll put the links on the bottom of

534
00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:54.720
my show notes today to everybody too. But no, I

535
00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:58.079
think those podcasts, they coming to you different, like this

536
00:24:58.160 --> 00:25:00.559
one is more kind of an inform or many of

537
00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:04.319
you know, I don't know what they'll it system. But

538
00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:06.319
then you get the ones where it's like what you said,

539
00:25:06.359 --> 00:25:08.119
and I think people really just get that when they

540
00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:09.759
just want to turn in and hear good conversation.

541
00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:13.920
Yeah. What I've realized too, there's two things I thought

542
00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:17.640
about is one and podcasting. What's surprised me is you're

543
00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:20.039
not really shooting for a great episode. You're shooting for

544
00:25:20.119 --> 00:25:23.079
some great thirty second breakout clips I can circulate and

545
00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:26.799
bring people to your channel. And the second thing too

546
00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:28.839
is you want to you want to figure out how

547
00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:31.519
to become someone's background noise. So like I listen to

548
00:25:31.559 --> 00:25:33.759
podcasts and all my friends do, and I'm mowing lawn,

549
00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:36.480
doing the dishes, or driving, and someone's got to be

550
00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:38.480
so comfortable with you that that's just what they want

551
00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:41.880
to listen to when they're doing those mindless tasks. So

552
00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:44.920
that's kind of what I think about now, is instead

553
00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:48.240
of producing you know, ninety great minutes where it's like,

554
00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:50.960
what are some very interesting topics that we can discuss

555
00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:53.279
that would give us enough to kind of bring people in.

556
00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:55.720
Yeah, and it works out very good shows. I hope

557
00:25:56.640 --> 00:25:58.279
definitely will put the links on there, so you guys

558
00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:00.960
make sure you listen to those about some people were

559
00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:03.920
born on August the nineteenth. Well, we're going from Eddie Goodell.

560
00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:06.519
We're going over to Bill Schuemaker. Now, Bill, he was

561
00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:10.559
born in Fabans, Texas, in nineteen thirty one. He's born premature. Now,

562
00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:12.480
he only weighed thirty eight ounces at birth. He wasn't

563
00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:14.839
supposed to survive that night. Oh he did. He lived

564
00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:17.440
to be four feet ten inches tall, weighed ninety one pounds.

565
00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:19.680
One of the best jockeys in the history of this

566
00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:23.279
horse racing, won eighty eight hundred and thirty three races.

567
00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:25.400
That's third all time. Now he's gotten passed by two

568
00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:27.640
guys since then. Now he started as a jockeys. This

569
00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:29.839
is a teenager in nineteen forty nine. Remember that in

570
00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:32.839
nineteen forty nine. Say he won his first race a

571
00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:34.960
month later. Now, I never did win the Triple Crown,

572
00:26:35.119 --> 00:26:37.880
but in Triple Crown races he run four Kentucky Derbys,

573
00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:41.319
two Preakness Stinks, five bell months. He retired in nineteen

574
00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:44.920
ninety fifty years old. Righting up, he's still riding. He

575
00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:46.759
died in two thousand and three at seventy two years

576
00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:49.279
old from natural causes. You ever did in the horses?

577
00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:51.960
I did it, but on old dogs. Last week we

578
00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:55.000
did was your favorite event to watching the group of

579
00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:56.839
people and one of my co hosts said it was

580
00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:59.319
the Kentucky Derby and I never I've never done it,

581
00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:00.799
and he said, you to do it, you have to

582
00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:02.240
try it out. So now I'm intrigued.

583
00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:05.839
Cool deal. Second baseman Bobby Richards and he's ninety, still

584
00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:08.480
with us. He's born in Supter, South Carolina. In nineteen

585
00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:10.680
thirty five, he signed with the Yankees right out of

586
00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:12.839
high school. Played for him from nineteen fifty five to

587
00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:16.079
nineteen sixty six. Five time gold Glove Wimmer won three

588
00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:20.079
World Series with the Yankees nineteen fifty eight, nineteen sixty one,

589
00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:23.079
in nineteen sixty two. He was the World Series MVP

590
00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:26.359
in nineteen sixty and said that was that possible? Well,

591
00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:28.319
he's the only player to win the World Series MVP

592
00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:31.039
on the losing team. Say the Yankees were playing the Pirates,

593
00:27:31.039 --> 00:27:33.319
and the Pirates did beat the Yankees four games to three.

594
00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:35.960
Bobby had a good series. He batted three sixty seven

595
00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:38.119
and he had twelve RBIs and h had a Grand Slam.

596
00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:41.440
But see back then, voting for the World Series MVP,

597
00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:43.680
it had to be done by the seventh inning in

598
00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:44.599
the deciding game.

599
00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:45.480
Oh wow.

600
00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.640
So in the seventh inning the Yankees were ahead and

601
00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:51.319
Bob well, the Pirates came back and won in the

602
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:53.559
bottom of the ninth, but the votes were all in,

603
00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:55.519
so Bobby got to keep the Corvette.

604
00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:58.799
That's amazing that. You know what's funny is we had

605
00:27:58.839 --> 00:28:01.200
a basketball tournament my last year at coaching where the

606
00:28:01.240 --> 00:28:04.319
coaches voted in the semi finals and we were We

607
00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:07.039
beat the teams and the games before that like forty

608
00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:09.680
points and arrested my starters and we won the championship

609
00:28:09.720 --> 00:28:12.960
game in the tournament and had zero players win awards

610
00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:15.799
because the voting was before the championship and we blew

611
00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:18.359
so many people out that they didn't even play. So

612
00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:19.519
it's kind of interesting.

613
00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:22.839
Well that God, like the NFL Pro Bowl, I think

614
00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:24.319
they vote with like three games to go.

615
00:28:24.839 --> 00:28:27.599
Right, absolutely, and the Pro Bowls the joke as is now,

616
00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:29.200
so they got a lot of they got to mess

617
00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:29.880
on their hands there.

618
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:32.440
Yeah, but I think it's kind of amazing. Some of

619
00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:34.400
those contracts you still get, like a I don't one

620
00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:36.200
hundred thousand dollars to get named to the Pro Bowl.

621
00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:37.880
So for them that is kind of important, even though

622
00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:38.680
the game is worthless.

623
00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:39.640
That's true.

624
00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:42.519
Gary guy Eddie, he played third base. He's sixty six today.

625
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:44.319
You know where Centralia, Illinois is?

626
00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:47.839
I do. Their high school mascot actually is called the Orphans.

627
00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:49.680
Oh really, it's very interesting.

628
00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:52.200
Born there in nineteen fifty eight, he made his major

629
00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:55.079
league debut in nineteen eighty one for the Minnesota Twins.

630
00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:58.279
In nineteen eighty seven, he was the American League Championship

631
00:28:58.279 --> 00:29:01.960
Series MVP as they Twins beat the Tigers to go

632
00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:04.400
to the World Series. Now, he's still the only player

633
00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:07.599
in Major League Baseball history to have two home runs

634
00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:09.519
in his first two bats in the postseason. But the

635
00:29:09.559 --> 00:29:12.000
Twins actually won the World Series that year. Now, he

636
00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:13.880
was with the Twins from eighty one to ninety. Then

637
00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:16.200
he was with the Angels, the Royals, the Cardinals, the Cubs,

638
00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:18.319
and the Red Sox. Retired in two thousand. Even a

639
00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:20.839
two time All Star, four time Golden Globe winner, It's

640
00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:23.759
one time Silver Slogan win hit three and sixty home runs,

641
00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:26.559
also sixty six years old, is Football Hall of Famer

642
00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:30.119
Anthony Munios. He played tackle. He was born in Ontario, California,

643
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:32.799
played in college ball at the USC then he was

644
00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:35.359
an All American, got drafted in the first round, third

645
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:38.400
overall by the Cincinnati Bengals. Started thirteen years as the

646
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:41.799
Bengals left tackle. He scut four touchdowns. Yeah, was that

647
00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:45.839
well for those tackle eligible plays. Now it's up to debate,

648
00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:48.119
like all of sports, but he is considered probably the

649
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:50.680
best tackle of all time and maybe the best offensive

650
00:29:50.680 --> 00:29:52.839
alignment of all time. It was a nine time first

651
00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:55.279
team All Pro, two times second team All Pro, basically

652
00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:57.680
won every award, So he was way before your time.

653
00:29:57.680 --> 00:29:59.319
You definitely went in the alignment probably, HU.

654
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:02.400
What's interesting is I do know him because I'm a

655
00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:05.880
football at the Shinado and he has got to be

656
00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:10.559
the all time unknown, all time great, if that makes sense,

657
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:12.880
Like he is the guy that not many people know,

658
00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:15.319
but I think he is the best ever at the

659
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.200
tackle position, which makes you wonder that an offensive lineman

660
00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:21.240
ever become a household name because you have some of

661
00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:24.200
the greats that the average football fans probably never heard. Me.

662
00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:26.640
We have to win with him too. That was all

663
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:28.519
in Cincinnati. You have to wonder what if we've benefit

664
00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:31.759
was in Chicago or LA or Dallas or New York.

665
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:35.720
Right, will Zach Martiner retired for Cowboys right guard. He

666
00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:39.039
allowed zero sacks and past place in his entire career.

667
00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:41.319
That's the most shocking stat I think I've ever heard.

668
00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:44.680
But it's not only in ESPN shows, It's on podcasts.

669
00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:46.880
It's unfortunate because I don't know how they get me

670
00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:47.559
more credits.

671
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:50.839
No, And I think the only way you could actually

672
00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:53.200
be a popular offensive line, I guess you just have

673
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:56.000
to self promote like crazy on social media.

674
00:30:56.200 --> 00:30:58.160
Right, I agree the caging.

675
00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:01.799
Cannon quarterback body a there is in Galiano, Louisiana. In

676
00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:05.000
nineteen sixty sixty five today played his college ball at

677
00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:07.880
Northwestern State. Wasn't drafted, so we went to the USFL,

678
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:10.319
the original one. There was one before what's being played now.

679
00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:13.079
And he went back in nineteen eighty three. Now he

680
00:31:13.160 --> 00:31:16.400
led the Michigan Panthers to their first USFL championship game.

681
00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:19.240
He won it. They beat the Michigan or they beat

682
00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:22.240
the who was at Birmingham Stallions. I believe, well, after

683
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:25.039
three years the ESFL folded, so he went to the NFL.

684
00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:28.039
The near New Orleans Saints signed him. He played eight

685
00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:30.440
years with the Saints. Well, he was there. He was

686
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:32.799
the first and this is the franchise history. This goes

687
00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:35.440
back to the late nineteen sixties. He led the Saints

688
00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:38.079
to their first winning season and he went into their

689
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:41.240
first playoff game. That's pretty cool with them. So after

690
00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:43.799
eight years with the Saints, he went over and played

691
00:31:43.799 --> 00:31:45.599
with the Falcons. He got to the Pro Bowl once

692
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:49.279
with the Falcons. Now, Bobby, he's act there in New Orleans.

693
00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:52.119
He has an afternoon radio sports stock shield that he

694
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:54.319
does every afternoon out there in New Orleans. I think

695
00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:56.680
this guy, you're a big curb of Herb Street fan,

696
00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:57.000
aren't you.

697
00:31:57.480 --> 00:32:01.240
I am I Am and her care Street. You know,

698
00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:04.319
college game Day in the morning Saturdays, calls called college

699
00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:06.519
game Day games in the afternoons on Saturday. So it's

700
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:08.519
Thursday Night football with Al Michael's on the name of

701
00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:11.680
the prime. Kurt was born in Centerville, Ohio, in nineteen

702
00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:14.839
sixty nine. Play quarterback at Ohio State from eighty nine

703
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:17.480
to ninety two. It's hired from He was hired by

704
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:20.400
ESPN to be a silighted reporter in ninety five. And

705
00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:22.960
I'll tell you what's the most important impressive thing about

706
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:24.799
him is the one time he was on a podcast

707
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:27.680
he was talking about his schedule and he did Thursday

708
00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:31.240
night Amazon games and would fly back home to Ohio

709
00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:34.359
to watch his son's Friday football games in high school.

710
00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:36.680
That night, he would take a flight back to where

711
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:39.160
college game day was, and then he'd do college game

712
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:42.359
day in the morning. Then he would fly to wherever

713
00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:44.279
the game that he was calling was in the afternoon.

714
00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:49.039
And that's just Thursday through Saturday. And isn't it unbelievable.

715
00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:53.599
That's that's yeah. I don't know, I don't know how

716
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:55.799
some of those I guess you just love it and

717
00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:58.960
you'd have all your priorities and straight like you can

718
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:00.960
tell he's a man of faith. I mean, what's the

719
00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:02.319
most important thing is he has to go back to

720
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:04.480
Ohio just about his son play football, and you know

721
00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:06.640
when he could very easily just call it in from

722
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:07.319
the hotel room.

723
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:12.319
Absolutely, Kirk Curve Street is one of my sports media idols.

724
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:16.599
If I'm allowed to say, strong fai, great family man,

725
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:21.319
good morals, doesn't say anything controversial, super informative, and fun,

726
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:23.720
and he's kind of living out the dream that I

727
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:26.799
have to do content and also be in sports. And

728
00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:29.440
I think he's part of what makes College Game Day

729
00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:33.319
after NBA on TNT the best sports show going right now.

730
00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:36.240
Yeah, I wouldn't agree with you. This is kind of

731
00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:39.480
an unknown fact, but Kirk, I mean, obviously, if you're

732
00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:42.880
a quarterback in the big Den at Ohio State, you've

733
00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:44.400
got to be pretty good anyway. But you know, he

734
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:46.680
wasn't a pro quarterback, but he was the captain of

735
00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:49.359
the senior year. Now, his dad had been the captain

736
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:51.839
at the whole Ohio State before. You know, obviously before

737
00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:54.599
he was born. Only three times in the whole Ohio

738
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:57.799
State program as a son and a dad been captains

739
00:33:57.839 --> 00:33:59.920
and they were the second father and send to middle

740
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:03.920
do that all right. Wide receiver David Boston, he's forty seven.

741
00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:06.480
He's won on Humble Texas. In nineteen seventy he had

742
00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:09.079
his first team All American in Ohio State. He was

743
00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:11.280
drafted by Arizona Cardinals in the first round. He was

744
00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:13.840
eighth overall in nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and one.

745
00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:16.119
That was his best year. His went first team All Pro.

746
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:18.760
He led the league in receiving yards that year. Then

747
00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:20.960
he took the money and went played for the Chargers

748
00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:24.480
and the Dolphins Tampa Bay ended up in Toronto playing

749
00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:26.440
for the Argonauts in two thousand and eight when he retired.

750
00:34:26.679 --> 00:34:29.199
But what makes David interesting is his dad was an

751
00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:31.960
NFL referee, So when he got drafted, the NFL had

752
00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:33.360
to put a degree out there that his dad can

753
00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:34.559
never work one of his games.

754
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:38.360
Wow, David Boston underrated Madden video game player?

755
00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:39.079
Really?

756
00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:41.239
Oh yeah, great, great Madden player.

757
00:34:41.559 --> 00:34:43.480
So when you were coaching, did you work the referees

758
00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:44.119
very hard?

759
00:34:44.280 --> 00:34:47.679
You know? I did. I was earlier in my career

760
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:50.559
I would say it was too much, and then later

761
00:34:50.599 --> 00:34:52.320
in my career I kind of figured out what was

762
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:56.280
appropriate what wasn't. Early on, i'd have this trick where

763
00:34:56.320 --> 00:34:58.239
I kind of find out which ref was the soft

764
00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:02.119
one that I'd really go after him them and make

765
00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:03.920
it and make it tough on them, because you know,

766
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.199
everyone's competing coaches, players, and we're all trying to find

767
00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:10.039
ways to ethically win, and you just kind of find

768
00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:12.000
out where the ethics is too much and then what

769
00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:14.440
is actually in the competitive atmosphere.

770
00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:16.360
I know in your podcast you talk about it, but

771
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:19.480
that's a really fine line to walk when you're coaching

772
00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:21.320
high school because you know most of the players aren't

773
00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:23.599
going to play beyond high school. But you still want

774
00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:26.760
to give them the skills to succeed growing up, and

775
00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:28.320
you still want them to have fun, but you still

776
00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:30.360
want to win. So there's kind of quite the line

777
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:32.039
you have to walk there as a high school coach.

778
00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:35.199
There's a major tension. And my coach is Bible Study

779
00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:37.519
I do at the high school in town here. We

780
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.280
talk about that pretty often. As where as that line,

781
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:42.960
because we all want to win, you should I think

782
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:46.079
people mistakenly say if you're a Christian in sports, so

783
00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:47.599
you shouldn't want to win. It should be about fun,

784
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:50.559
and that's not true. Although it should be about fun

785
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:53.039
and a good experience. But the only reason you're doing

786
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:55.400
it is because you're competitive and you have a desire

787
00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:58.760
to build a program and succeed. So finding that spot

788
00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:01.280
is hard, but I think it's there's some clear lines

789
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:04.679
that you don't cross, and then you try to gain

790
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:09.039
influence with those around you, players, parents, administrators, and hope

791
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:11.360
that they trust you to do the right thing. And

792
00:36:11.480 --> 00:36:14.199
you got hard decisions to make it's a tough job.

793
00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:18.599
Yeah, I'm glad hopefully, and some of the coaches. I

794
00:36:18.599 --> 00:36:21.119
mean you probably even crings down the bench when you

795
00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:23.079
watch some of the coaches on the other side, going, man,

796
00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:23.519
don't do.

797
00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:28.320
That for sure. Absolutely, when you're red face screaming, that's

798
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:31.079
just that you've gone too far and you probably should

799
00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:34.079
take a step back and call down. I think when

800
00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:36.280
you get to that point you're stomping and screaming and

801
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:38.840
you're kind of looking like a who again, that's when

802
00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:41.000
you probably need to relax a little bit.

803
00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:45.760
Right now, we'll talk about Anthony Muno has been underground. Well,

804
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:48.559
he's a Hall of Famer, but you know, unknown, this

805
00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:50.440
guy surprised the heck guy. To me, I didn't even

806
00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:52.280
know who he was, to be honest with you. Running

807
00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:55.280
back Thomas Jones. He's also forty seven years old. He

808
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:57.559
was born in Stone Gat, Virginia. He was a consensus

809
00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:00.440
All American at the University of Virginia. Was acted by

810
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:02.679
the Arizona Cardinals in two thousand. He was the seventh

811
00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:05.480
overall pick, but he was really injuring prone for three

812
00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:08.440
seasons of Arizona only ran for sixteen hundred yards, so

813
00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:10.360
the next year they let him go. He played with

814
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:12.920
the Buccaneers. Then he played for the Bears for three seasons,

815
00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:15.159
and then the Jets for three seasons, Kansas Toy Chiefs

816
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:17.920
for t seasons, then retired after twelve years. When it

817
00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:20.360
was all said and done, he'd rushed for ten five

818
00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:22.920
hundred ninety one yards. That's twenty six most in then

819
00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:26.079
NFL history. He hit five thousand yard seasons during that time.

820
00:37:26.159 --> 00:37:27.519
Have you ever heard of Thomas Jones?

821
00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:30.599
I have because I'm, like I mentioned with David Boston,

822
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:33.119
I'm a big Madden video game guy my whole life.

823
00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:37.159
I've loved that game and that franchise in Here's another one.

824
00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:40.039
A consistent nine year were all maddened for about ten years,

825
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:43.239
and a really good player in the NFL for a while.

826
00:37:43.559 --> 00:37:44.880
You know, it kind of reminds me. I think the

827
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:48.159
number two all time rusher I think is Gore, isn't it.

828
00:37:48.639 --> 00:37:52.039
I think he might be right, because Emmitt Smith's number one,

829
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:56.719
Peterson LT They've got to be up there, but Gore's

830
00:37:56.920 --> 00:37:59.440
probably at least in the top five because he played

831
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:01.360
a really long time time for San fran and then

832
00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:02.920
later in his career in other teams.

833
00:38:03.079 --> 00:38:05.360
Yeah, it's kind of some of those people, like you said,

834
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:07.079
you see him in Madam, but you don't really ever,

835
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:10.320
you know, they don't do commercials. You know, you don't

836
00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:12.039
see him in the Pro Bowls and all that kind

837
00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:14.599
of stuff, because I mean, Thomas he never went to

838
00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:18.599
one Pro Bowl. And here's twenty six. I'm gonna do

839
00:38:18.639 --> 00:38:20.800
this little bit out of order. Here, We're going to

840
00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:24.320
talk about football safety Patrick Chung. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica.

841
00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:26.280
His mama was a singer. She had actually a couple

842
00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:28.880
of hit songs over in the UK, and when he

843
00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:31.320
was a kid, they moved to California when he was ten.

844
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:33.199
Then he went to the University of Oregon and he

845
00:38:33.239 --> 00:38:36.239
was a second team All American Patriots. They drafted him

846
00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:38.960
in the second round. Won three Super Bowls with the Patriots.

847
00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:41.639
He's a member of They're All twenty ten Decade team.

848
00:38:41.719 --> 00:38:43.760
He retired in twenty twenty. And I think you want

849
00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:46.000
to talk about quarterback Kirk Cousins. I do.

850
00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:48.800
I love Kirk Cousins and just giving you his background

851
00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:51.559
here for the listeners. It's thirty seven years old, born

852
00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:54.960
in Barrington, Illinois. He's a quarterback at Milking State. He

853
00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:57.480
was drafted in the same class as Robert Griffin the

854
00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:01.800
Third for the Washington Redskins, and Robert Griffin the Third

855
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:05.320
was a great rookie in the NFL, and his injuries

856
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.519
ended up leading to Kirk Cousins getting the shot, and

857
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:11.000
he really took advantage of it and saw success because

858
00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:13.000
he sat behind him for three seasons and then the

859
00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.480
fourth year he beat him out, having four thousand passing

860
00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:17.880
yards for the Redskins, and he went and played for

861
00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:21.320
the Viking successfully for six seasons, and then last year

862
00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:24.079
he signed a big contract with the Falcons. And I

863
00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:27.679
believe he's one of the more underrated quarterbacks we've had

864
00:39:27.719 --> 00:39:29.639
in the last fifteen to twenty years, because I think

865
00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:33.079
he's better than Dok Prescott, Joe Placo, guys like that.

866
00:39:33.559 --> 00:39:37.800
He's a consistent four thousand sh yard passer, guy that

867
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:42.480
made the playoffs, super accurate team first guy, strong faith.

868
00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:44.960
I might be biased, but I think he has had

869
00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:46.760
a very very underrated career.

870
00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:49.960
No, I'll give it, but I mean, any day, I

871
00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:51.559
guess it. Can't use that an excuse. You I's going

872
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:55.239
to say, well, Minnesota, but I mean, but now, now

873
00:39:55.320 --> 00:39:57.480
that might have been in the seventies where they might

874
00:39:57.480 --> 00:39:59.920
not know you, but now everybody knows everybody. He's good.

875
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:03.599
And then I mean his stats real quick, his stats

876
00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:06.280
for the Vikings. He has forty two hundred passing yards,

877
00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:08.519
forty two hundred passing yards, forty two hundred passing yards,

878
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:11.360
forty five hundred passing yards. Just to think that the

879
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:14.039
Chicago Bears have never had a four thousand passing yard

880
00:40:14.119 --> 00:40:17.920
quarterback in their entire organization's history. And he did it

881
00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:20.519
four times just for the Vikings. And then I think

882
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:23.599
two times for the Redskins. Right, So that's you know,

883
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:24.760
that's super interesting.

884
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:28.440
I think part of it. Maybe I was saying, maybe

885
00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:30.480
it's just because he's never had success in the playoffs,

886
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:32.760
but nobody's ever had success with the playoffs on the Vikings,

887
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:33.719
so you can't.

888
00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:35.960
That's true, that's true.

889
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:38.719
I'm thinking it's probably just the lack of playoff wins.

890
00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:42.480
Might be Well, then how do you explain Dak Prescott?

891
00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:46.320
So right, I agree, but yeah, I.

892
00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:48.920
Think I would take him over Dak. I'd still an

893
00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:51.599
extent I would as well. I still understand what in

894
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:54.639
the world why do the Falcons would give him that contract?

895
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:56.800
And then draft a quarterback in eighth overall.

896
00:40:57.280 --> 00:40:59.400
Yeah, yeah, it was strange. She talks about that and

897
00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:02.639
that TV series Quarterback and he said, I want to

898
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:04.440
just stayed in Minnesota had I known they were going

899
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:08.800
to draft somebody, to which is He's right. It's just

900
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:12.559
doesn't make a lot of sense, especially in today's NFL

901
00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:14.559
where you play if you're a rookie. You know, back

902
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:16.280
in the day, you would have sat at least one

903
00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:18.440
to three years and that wouldn't make sense, right, But

904
00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:21.360
today those rookies played Ryan Away and Pinnix was an

905
00:41:21.360 --> 00:41:23.880
older quarterback too. He had that COVID year, so he

906
00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:27.039
came out at twenty three is years old. So yeah,

907
00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:28.320
it didn't make a whole lot of sense.

908
00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:31.800
A lot of rumors though about him going to Los

909
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:33.360
Angeles for the Rams. Have you heard those?

910
00:41:33.800 --> 00:41:36.840
I believe it because I'm hearing rumblings of Stafford being

911
00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:40.559
hurt and he's almost forty now and they're going to

912
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:42.400
have to figure out some sort of backup playings. They

913
00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:45.239
have a fantastic roster and an awesome coach, and you

914
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:47.599
can't do anything without a decent quarterbacks. That would make

915
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:48.119
a lot of sense.

916
00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:50.960
Yeah, that's when they're saying that Dafford his back's not

917
00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:54.840
gonna the best one to be Cousins. But then I

918
00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:56.960
don't know, it's so hard now because you don't know

919
00:41:56.960 --> 00:41:59.360
about the salary cap. Can the Rams actually take him?

920
00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:02.800
You know? Oh, he's made so much money, Like the stats,

921
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:06.639
like Kurt Cousins' money is shocking because he got franchise

922
00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:09.159
tagged I think two years in her own Washington, right,

923
00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:11.679
which is pretty rare. And he's made more money in

924
00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:13.800
his career. I don't want to be wrong on this.

925
00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:15.960
I think he made more money than Tom Brady in

926
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:18.440
his career. So I would have to say someone like

927
00:42:18.519 --> 00:42:20.199
that would be okay taking a little bit of a

928
00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:21.280
cut to go where he wants to go.

929
00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:23.519
Yeah, And he was the first one when he actually

930
00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:26.400
he was franchised twice with the Redskins, and then he

931
00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:30.159
went to Minnesota and he signed that. Now, it wouldn't

932
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:32.119
be that big back then, it was huge, but it

933
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:34.199
was the first one that was fully guaranteed, the first

934
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:36.280
one to have a fully guaranteed contract, right.

935
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:38.679
And then there's Deshaun Watson and that didn't work out

936
00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:40.360
too well. Man.

937
00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:43.400
That you talk about bad decisions by the Browns that

938
00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:47.039
I think that's even bigger than Baker Mayfield.

939
00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:49.559
I would clump that into one majorly bad decision.

940
00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:53.880
You go from Baker to DeShawn that's well, now you

941
00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:58.039
got Joe Flacco. So I mean looking up. Oh oh okay,

942
00:42:58.199 --> 00:43:00.440
so we're gonna I'm not think we're gonn but links

943
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:01.880
to it so you guys can listen to this podcast.

944
00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:03.679
Its podcasts great. Do you guys want to listen to that?

945
00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:05.599
And you want to promote anything else while we're.

946
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:07.039
Here, I do. If you just want to go to

947
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:11.960
our website www dot v the number three content dot org.

948
00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:16.360
You'll see our blogs, our podcasts, what we speak on,

949
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and our resources. And I've got a couple of guys

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writing for me now and they do a really good job.

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And we just want to be a light in a

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dark world by using sports. I think a lot of

953
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people come together through sports, and it's a beautiful thing

954
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that brings people from all backgrounds, ethnicities together, and we

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want to utilize that that medium to bring hopefully a

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sense of faith and community to them. So it's a

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big passion of ours and we're really excited. We're almost

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coming up on one year of being in existence as

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a company, So definitely check us out and support us.

960
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We'd love to see it.

961
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Yeah, it's awesome. And like you said, faith and community,

962
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that's kind of what it's all about in life.

963
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Absolutely, absolutely, because we're designed for community. Human beings need

964
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to be around people or hear people talk to people.

965
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That's how we were made it to be. So it's

966
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it's huge.

967
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And sports is great because when we were around a

968
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group of people, if you have nothing to talk about,

969
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you can always talk about how bad the color out

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of Rockies are.

971
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Or the Bears. And over in this area, it's the

972
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Bears that we talk about being bad, So that's that's

973
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an option too.

974
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Is there any buzz on the Bears this year?

975
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There's too much buzz on the Bears. I mean, you know,

976
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I live in Illinois. It's all Bears fans, and every

977
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single year they think they're winning the super Bowl and

978
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they don't even make the playoffs. So you know, it's

979
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a sore spot for me.

980
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I'm sure. Yeah. And some of them. I've seen some

981
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people they're already calling their quarterback a bust after going

982
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near It's like, come on, man.

983
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Well he plays for Chicago. They're just assuming based off

984
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the pattern, I think that's true.

985
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Well, you know you have been awesome there, Hunter Man.

986
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It's great talking to you.

987
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Thank you for having me. This is a really cool concept.

988
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I love this idea of going through sports history as

989
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a sports myself is a cool refresher hearing about these

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people that I haven't heard about in years. So I'm

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rooting for you and I'll keep following you along with you.

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All right, Thanks. Make sure you check out his shows too,

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and check out V three there we will be on

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the bottom of the page. You guys, have an awesome day.

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We'll all talk tomorrow.