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Episode Date: October 24, 2025

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Visit Hamilton tell.com for more info today. Yeah. So, again, if you guys aren't. hanging out with me and Harrison at night. You're missing out on some serious craziness and shenanigans. But we go down rabbit holes and we never quite get to, like we can play in a full two hours, but since you're reacting to the day's sports and the day's news and then whatever vibe,

you know, whatever downtown Lincoln has got going on. And there were several people with sashes running around last night. Like you don't know if it's a concert or, you know, some big, some big fine, fine affair you never know what we'll walk by the window at at 1130 in downtown lincoln so a lot of the stuff that we play and we never get to we never get to it's like we're gonna talk in b a no we're

not no we're not we're just not we're never going to get there like we're never going to get there like oh we're going to talk world series no no no no it's a good idea it's a good thought it's a good thought but uh ADD exists and in full uh I'm I'm I'm I'm a member of that club. But I did want to go down a lane today because I think a big part of sports is the way it's portrayed over the years. And there's some fantastic sports stories, some fantastic sports stories. And some of them end up in movies. And I was asked, you know, from the 70s, what made it different?

Now, I have to be clear, we did sports movies better in the 70s. So I'll repeat that again. We did sports movies better in the 70s than we currently do. One, because we have so much access. We have so much access to the stories as they currently exist. But we miss a lot. We miss a lot. Now, if I asked each textor to text in their favorite sports movie from the 70s,

favorite sports movies from the 70s, Bach, if I'm just going to rattle off some and you can tell me if you've seen them and whether they resonate with you. Okay, ready? All right. Ready? Pumping iron. I have not. I have not seen that one.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's story of traveling from across the world, the Americanization of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the storytelling behind maybe the first original real peak behind bodybuilding. and the coverage in it. Rocky. Yes, Rocky F. Rocky 1, Rocky 2. Which the better Rocky? I think Rocky 1. I mean, my personal favorite is Rocky 4.

I think we have to wait through the 80s for that. Okay. Yeah, you do. Yeah, you do. 79. It was 3 and then 82. 81, 82, somewhere along those lines. But yeah.

Now, Rollerball. Are you familiar with Rollerball? I don't think so. So this was the futuristic. So imagine roller derby with a, with a WWE villainous twist. And any sports movie with James con, like James con was the Kevin Costner of the seventh. Like if James con was in the sports movie,

it was going to be a great movie. It was going to be a great movie. So James, it's the game. Now, there was an off-tale. take because America loved us. Movie makers loved us in the 70s. They were like, look, we're going to give you a reason to get out of your house and go to a movie theater, right, around people you don't know. So we have to move the masses.

This is before a blockbuster and movies at home. Like, you got one movie a night, maybe, maybe. When was the blockbuster, like, you go and run a movie thing kind of start up, 80s? 80s, 80s. It may have started in the 70s, but 80s. Not too popular, yeah. Yeah, I mean, were videos where you could, well, HBO kind of changed it because Home Box Office,

the whole principle in the late 70s was to, through cable, was to be able to show these movies. And then the Turner Network really focused on older movies. But they were, you know, focusing on movies from the 50s and 60s. turn a movie classics along those lines. The Super Station would give you, every now and then you'd get a little Jimmy Stewart along the way. But yeah, the 70s would give you one.

So they figured out that there were certain people that if you put them in the movie, people would show up. And then if you told certain stories, because sports was the mirror of the country. Sports was the mirror of the country. Bach, have you ever heard of the Kansas City bombers? I don't think so.

The Kansas City bombers, and in particular, the Kansas City bomber, was Raquel Welch, Rolla Derby with, they said, listen, we're going to tell, they knew every Saturday and or Sunday that America would gather around the TV. They would watch Roller Derby. they would watch roller derby. They literally would watch. It was in every home. And they said, how can we make money off this?

How can we attract the masses? Nicole Walsh. That's the answer. That was the answer. And they put her in a roller derby outfit. And of course, they did all the things to push buttons and triggers, right? They changed it. They promoted.

They did some of the storytelling of the things that happened in the business and behind the scenes. but the Kansas City bomber was when it came on ABC, brough, every house. These are all movies that when they came on, when they finally made it to the house, every TV in the house got this movie. And I am interested, by the way, in the Kansas City aspect of that, because I was thinking about this the other day, how Kansas City wasn't, you know, the worlds of fun. There's some things, something, I think Midwest destination maybe,

but it wasn't all that cool. And I wonder if with the chief, you know, winning now if it's, you know, the last decade, if it's more, more of a destination or more kind of a cool place? Was it like that before? I mean, why were the Kansas City bombers, I guess? Well, because middle of the country, middle of the country. You know, think about the ND 500 being, you know, the toast being milk. If you won, most races, champagne and beer, no, Indie was milk. It was milk. Middle of the country. identified that if you were going to get the big cities,

you were going to get the big cities because of the StarFact. StarFat. Recall Welch could sell ice cubes in Alaska. So, and for you young guns out there that don't know Raquel Welch, hey, Google. That's what I will tell you. Google, Google, the Kansas City bomber, Google that. Because just the trailer,

alone is enough. In any of these the trail alone, I sit Bach about 10 trailers. And Bach, his response was, I was like, grab a line from each one. And Bach was like, I don't know these movies. I don't know which line to grab. And I was like, this is why

we're going to do this. This is literally why we're going to do this. The bad news bears. Of course, that story. And the fact that they mastered this with Tatum O'Neill. and Walter Mathau, right? The most unique, weird pairing

that somehow absolutely worked. Bach, if I asked you about Heaven Can Wait, heaven can wait, any idea? Definitely heard of it, but I couldn't give you much more beyond that. Heaven Can Wait featured starred Warren Beatty, Warren Beatty. I have to say his name right,

because in my hometown, it was Warren Beattie. but when he got to Hollywood, it was born, Beatty. He is a shared alumni of my high school. He is the younger brother of Shirley McLean, and they went to Washington Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia. But in this movie, he plays a quarterback. And it tells the story of the angels who will swoop down and pick up bodies, you know, after they pass.

except for there's just one angel in training who gets a little trigger happy and pulls out this quarterback before his time. So he throws a tantrum and decides, listen, I need to go back. I was going to be a star quarterback. I was going to be a star quarterback. Like, how can you do this? I was in the prime fitness. You know, the guy drank, you know, he drank wheat shakes and protein shakes

and he rode his bike and he was just eccentric. So they tried to find him a body to go back in. right and some of them weren't really good because if you got a mangled body wasn't going to do the quarterback any good well he picks a guy rich guy and they send it back to earth is this guy but the guy wants to play he wants to play football so he buys the los angeles rams he buys the rams and then tells the coach hey listen i want to try out for quarterback bach the movie works the movie works And it, shout out to them because they used a lot of those 70s, Los Angeles Rams, the Deacon Jones and Merlin Olsons.

Great story, right? Well done. Extremely well done. And I did want to ask too, because we've talked about North Dallas 40. I was looking through some of these movies. It seems like a lot more maybe allowed to use real teams like the Rams, for instance, here. Was that common before?

I mean, was there a time where that kind of stopped? Well, because because when it became, big business. Well, when people realize the value of using the Rams, right? Like, and, and they filmed a bunch of it at the Coliseum, right? I mean, they let you in the, they let you in the stadium and wear the uniforms. They actually wore the Rams uniforms. That, but that's a throwback to another movie to talk about, which was the paper lion. And the paper lion, Bach, you familiar with the paper lion? Only because I was trying to find out one line. Right. And that's what I was.

referencing, though, as I noticed they had real teams in there. Right. So George Plympton, the renowned writer. And he did a bunch of this stuff where he would put himself in real sports situations. He would write the stories, but he would, he went in and of course, Sugar Ray Robinson broke his nose. He went in and played for the Boston Bruins. I think he played goaltender or tried to. And then he wrote a story on playing quarterback for the Detroit Lions, where he was. He went to the Packers and asked Vince Lombardi.

As a matter of fact, the beauty of it was, Vince Lombardy was in the movie. Vince Lombardy was in the movie telling him, and Alan Alda from Mashvane played Plumpton in the movie. But they showed, you know, they had Vince Lombardi in the movie, explaining why he didn't think it was a good idea for George Plumpton to come to training camp

and try to play for the Green Bay Packers. They tried the Bears, and he ends up with the Detroit. because the lions of that ilk, the Vikings, the Packers and the Bears, the lions were the lowest common denominator and more likely to need the positive pub. So they said, sure, this is in the Alex Karras era of the Detroit lines. So they allowed him and they went into camp, right, training camp. And there were some shenanigans going on.

Like the famous story was they were going to put him in an actual scrimmings. So they put him in practice. But what they did was the players put weights in his shoes and his cleats. So when they went to the live scrimmage, he couldn't move. He couldn't move. And they beat him up.

They beat him up bad. And then there was a moment in a preseason game where they put him in the game at quarterback. They actually, Detroit Lions actually put him in a game at quarterback. And there's a funny thing that one of the practices, they set him up, you know, in a live scrimmage, right? It's maybe the second or third scrimmage. And he throws the touchdown pass.

He actually throws a touchdown pass. And he goes bonkers, celebrate. And then he looks around and everybody's just kind of standing and they're smiling the day it set it up for him. It was good. But the Lions figured out what the value of that sort of promotion was.

The Bruins figured out the value of it and what you know what that was um slap shot slap shot slap shot slap shot and all of these are amazing movies and i think it's because of the time because these were feature films these weren't this wasn't netflix release this wasn't amazon prime video this was america getting up getting its butt off the couch and go into the movie theater or that the entirety of a household or community watching this movie at home together. So everybody saw it pass along. But Slapshot, oh, Slapshot Youngblood ice castles are probably three of the best hockey movies.

Right now there were three, there were triplets in the movie who were kind of, you know, clowns and, thugs, but Paul Newman and elder Paul Newman playing hockey telling the story, kind of, you know, a Gordy Howl tribute along the way. We talked, if you talk, I mean, bang the drum slowly, which was story, you know, there was some sadness in it because you're telling stories that sometimes the athletes in the major leagues don't make it. Like they don't make it. And bang the drum slowly, I don't even, that's one hard to talk about.

another one that's hard to talk about. Bach, if I said, the champ, the champ. Any familiarity with the champ? No. Okay. So John Voight plays a boxer. Down and out boxer usually kids, right? Downout boxers.

Rocky's the only one that could take the downed out boxer and make him a star and still keep telling the story. But all of his flaws, all the things that made him a boxer, a fighter, and then all the things that kept him from being the guy, they tell the story. And young Ricky Schroeder from Silver Spoon plays his son. And he's a divorced dad. The mom tries to come back because Ricky likes hanging out with his dad, the boxer. But there's all the vices, all the things that go on around boxing. And one of the most profound scenes ever is the final scene from the movie.

And I don't want to give away too much of any of these movies. case people want to watch it, but the scene at the end of this movie is iconic. It's iconic. And it's hard, like a visceral reaction to the final scenes of this, of this movie, but certainly watchable, certainly makes the list. The fish that saved Pittsburgh. No. The fish that saved Pittsburgh. Sounds like a Dr. Seuss. It was the Dr. Jay movie. Dr. Jay movie. It was the Dr. Jay movie. It was the introduction of America outside of the ABA and the NBA to Julius

Hervin. But Gabe Kaplan, I mean, it was soccer Channing plays, plays one of the female leads who was kind of misguided and misleading the marketing behind this team, right? that a down and out steel town relies on a basketball team to change its fortunes. And it's a group of misfits. It's a group of misfits. So before Joanna Man, there was the fish to save Pittsburgh. Maybe.

I know that we think of Hoosiers as the best basketball movie. But can I tell you that one-on-one with Robbie, Benson is one of my favorite basketball movies. One-on-one is the story, and it is based on, so imagine UCLA. Like, think, what was the other, blue chips with Nick Nolte? Ah, crap.

Nick Nolte was this coach at UCLA, and they built it on that. But, one-on-one, and it's the same, the funny thing, it's the same coach in one-on-one that is the coach in North Dallas-40. It's the same guy. It's the same coach. And it's literally the same character. So take Tom, take Tom Landry.

This guy was the perfect Tom Landry offset. But Robbie Benson is an Indiana, middle of the country, Midwestern kid, right? who just happens to be a little pistol Pete Marevich-ishish, fancy iconic high school basketball player, recruited by everybody in the country, recruited by the powerhouse that was and is UCLA basketball. He chooses UCLA, except for he gets there, and the coach wants him to put away all the bells and whistles,

and he wants you to play traditional basketball. and the battle of them beating him up and trying to mold him and setting the team brutes on him, right? He gets a tutor that tries to help him along the way. And then there's the moment where the team actually needs him. They actually need him. And Bach. The beauty of most of these movies is there's an iconic moment at the end of it.

where in this day of NIL and transfer portal, the coach did a thing back in the 70s that said, I can get rid of you at any time, young man. If I make you quit, if I cut you from the team, I have fiscal responsibility for you. But if I get you to quit, I owe you nothing. So he tries to get him to quit.

through a variety of vices and flaws, like just terrible things. The kid hangs on, right? He goes through it, and then in a big critical game, they need him, he comes through. And then at the end of it, the coach, Bach, says, you know what? You won me old. You won me.

And I just have to say that we're going to honor our agreement. We're going to honor the four-year scholarship. We're going to, and the long. that Robbie Benson. And Robbie Benson didn't look like a basketball player, but he certainly, you could tell, he put it at the work to ball. Drip ball handling behind the back,

shooter, that sort of player. And he, he, he utters the line. The guy goes, yeah, we're going to honor our agreement. And Robbie Benson looks at him and goes, well, thank you. But you see,

I can play anywhere for anybody. And well, the way you treated me, you can take that offer. And to paraphrase, put it where the sun don't shine with a red hot poker. And I can tell you that the crowd that I watched this with as a teenager, the movie stood up at a plot,

the whole theater just stood in a plot. It was amazing. So if you haven't seen one-on-one, if you're a basketball guy, Bach, yeah. I could see, like, if Bach was going to be a college player, he would be the Robbie Best in character in this movie.

So we'll get to some of the iconic movies of the run and try to figure out what are the, what are the Mount Rushmore of those movies. I think Rocky certainly falls into it. We need to come up with three more, and we'll do that over the course of the rest of this episode.