Blue By Ninety - E89: Andrew Vastardis

Episode Date: September 24, 2021

Michigan Captain and Center Andrew Vastardis join the Boys ahead of Rutgers game day to talk team energy, his growth from walk-on to team captain, NIL deal with It's Just Wings and much more. Crack a cold one and enjoy the show.

This is the University of Michigan. Touchdown, Michigan! The Beats of Michigan! And they've caught extra pass. And it goes for the win! The three-pointer by Jordan Poole! Down the sideline! Peebles-John!

Touchdown, Wolverines! All right, welcome back to Blue by 90. I am Justin, joined by Jack and Kalen as always. And now we've got another special guest. We've had him lined up for a few episodes here, but we're excited to have him on. Senior Captain Andrew Vistardis uh Michigan Center uh Andrew how you doing man I'm doing great thanks for having me on no problem yeah no thanks thanks for uh joining us so I mean let's get right into it with uh with your journey in you know at Michigan started off as a walk-on,

right. And so going from that to a starter, to a captain, I mean, what has that been like to go from a guy who coming in as a walk-on, you kind of figure there's a decent chance. You never, you know, really see the field much. Right. And then you just kept working your way, working your way, working your way. And now you're one of the, you know, really see the field much, right? And then you just kept working your way, working your way, working your way, and now you're one of the, you know, really big leaders of this football team. Yeah, no doubt. You know, before I got here, I was like, oh, there's – I'm going to get there.

But then first year hits, and it's hard. You got one of the best D-lines in the country hitting you in the mouth every day on the scout team. And just early on made that decision just, know whatever's gonna happen like you said just keep chipping away keep grinding and along the way just made great bonds with the guys around me I mean especially this year like it's easy to love the guys around you everybody loves it everybody's into the team and we're having a great time but you know going back like just continue to work every day and building those bonds with the guys I think just that helped me grow as much as you know my mindset was the

collective mindset with the team yeah it's been a crazy journey. It's only been five, six years. Feels like it's been forever, though. I was going to say, you're definitely the old man on the team for sure, right? So do you bring some wisdom to the guys after being around just Ann Arbor for so long, but being on a football team, going through that brutal schedule and camp and all that stuff. Have you taken some guys under your wing too? Oh, for sure. I wouldn't, I wouldn't call it wisdom. I don't know how wise I am. I've definitely been around the block a couple of times here and yeah,

I mean, you got a great group of young guys too, and they've been fun to bring along. And like I said, everyone's just eager and excited and just taking them by the hand sometimes bringing them along but for the most part they're they're itching you know coach Morris says it all the time it's better to say like hold on than you know come on you know so they're all ready to go you just gotta settle down sometimes and you've been through I mean at least two offensive line coaches right Warner and I've got coach Moore did you have another O-line coach before uh yeah I was here at Drevno for two years so three okay so so what's that like going from I mean three different coaches now I mean are you

seeing different different styles and in coaching and different concepts? I mean, what's that look like? Yeah, for sure. It's definitely styles of coaching. We've really gone, like, to, like, offense shifts. But the styles of coaching, each one's been very different. And, you know, I think I've learned from each of them. Each has helped me out a lot, especially the latter two, because that's the two I had the most experience with when I was really uh making my biggest strides and with coach Warren and now coach

Moore who's a blast um you know they're definitely different coaches like one's a youth like coach Moore's more youthful than coach Warren or coach Warner was he did have some wisdom he's a bit older he's been through a lot but uh, for sure. Just the differences between them, being able to learn different things from them. And, you know, right now with coach Moore, we're having a blast right now. So much energy every day. Well, I know, I know Justin mentioned it on the last, we just talked to Joel and you know, we've, we've talked about it.

And basically it seems like every single podcast since, you know, preseason started with you guys. I mean, that with that, the energy is coming through. Do you think the younger coaches play a huge part in that or is it just the team coming together? I mean, what's the biggest thing you've noticed? I think, you know, it was a big push kind of in the preseason moving up, even just working out like it was just energy focused. When you're here, it's all go. And I don't even want to say who started it, but it's just one of those things, or it just feeds

back and forth and everyone's just going. So definitely, you know, having younger coaches, like they'll take that and they'll, they'll pump it up even more. So that's just a ton of fun. Yeah. I mean, I love that. that and it is it's probably for our listeners pretty annoying because we talk about it every single podcast but it's like the one thing that defines you guys right now as a full team you know and so it's really cool Joel was talking about it on our last episode you know he's just like this is such a tight knit team. You know, you guys, he's never played with with a team that has been this physical, been this together, been this all on the same page. And so, you know, he's been, you know, obviously playing for a long time.

He's a fifth year senior. You're a sixth year senior. So, you know, coming from your perspective, when you're talking about what you, you were on the 2018 team that obviously played really well, you were on the 2016 team, which is like, you know, I mean, you're six inches, you know, from a lot of other things, which I don't want to bring up. I'm sorry, but you know, what are, what is the you know what were those teams like obviously it looked very energetic or you looked you were

doing well what's different about this team that was you know maybe not quite there on those teams yeah I mean those teams and these teams like have talent, all have guys that are, like, striving to be out there, striving to make plays. It's just I feel like from top down, like, from seniors to freshmen, there's a connection. Like, I enjoy talking to guys that are 18 years old that just got here. And I don't know of guys that were fifth years would have enjoyed talking to me back in the day, you know.

But, you know, it you know it's it's definitely that team camaraderie and i think you know going back to the staff has a bunch to do with it like they want to hear like how everyone's doing they want to set the uh set the energy and then we want to we want to match it and exceed it and you know it's really just the the relationships and want to know like how you are in football how you are out of football you know and um you know, it's really just the relationships and want to know, like, how you are in football, how you are out of football, you know. And, you know, that's a bond that's really going to last forever. And, you know, hopefully this season keeps on rolling. That's wild because the feeling of how together the team is, that's like palpable for us as fans.

Like we can feel that as well. Yeah, for sure. I'm glad, too, because the stadium's in bumping i love it yeah because they put on pump it up after that first touchdown i'm like throwing the towel around all that and have a good time i love it we were just talking to joel about it first of all he said he claims that he brought pump it up to the to the team so i don't know if you want to dispute that or not i don't know but joel is uh he is a great bj oh you know we're getting taped and all that there's a little uh aux cord he's always putting something on it's never twice it's always awesome love that love that. Love that. All right. So, I mean, I think we should start petitioning for pump it up to be the official

touchdown song. Every time you guys score, what do you think? Love it. We need you after every score on the sideline, you know, going crazy too. By the way. So Joel Oh, man. Love it. By the way, so Joel told us the funny story of himself where how he transitioned from O-line to tight end last year, how he just basically got up and walked out after Coach Harbaugh came in. So he told us a couple other stories too about Coach Harbaugh. Do you have any – you're probably, as a six six year guy, pretty tight with coach Harbaugh.

Do you have any funny stories about coach? Oh gosh. Funny stories. I'm going to be honest, guys. I'm one of those guys that comes over the lunch, but I'm like talking football. He probably loves you then for sure. Hey hey I had a lot of growth to do in my time here and uh I definitely uh kept my nose down the grindstone you know I was gonna say you so you came from like the DMV area correct or mostly Virginia I mean what was that like because

correct me if I'm wrong I'm assuming that that's not like a big football area. Right. Or is that, am I wrong there? Um, as far as competition, I mean, obviously you're talented, but like, as far as a whole in that area, I mean, do you guys travel to play like other bigger schools or is it pretty competitive out there? I mean, what's that transition like going from there to Michigan? Yeah, it's definitely competitive, but we don't like travel like to the math. It's, we're just pretty close. Okay. You know, we're still, it's just public schools in Virginia, but it was very competitive school. Like my school, uh, we've been successful for many years since we opened up in football, but yeah, we're not like a traveling team like a DeMath or IMG,

but we definitely coach Thompson down in Virginia and coach ran all those guys. They hold it down. Great program down at Stonebridge high school. Have you talked to Hunter Dickinson coming out of the DMV too and DeMatha? Oh, shoot. Not much. He's, he's big dog shoot. Not much. He's big dog on campus now, too. He's like a celeb, you know, after this. Oh, for sure. I love it.

Well, I'm glad you brought up basketball, too. It seems like the basketball guys are at every home game, right on the field, with you guys for football. You think that the football team's going to reflect that for basketball season? Oh, heck, I know I'm going to be in a ton of games. I don't know if I'll be on the court.

Hey, maybe. Maybe if Hunter needs a breather, man, they've got to put you at center. Oh, gosh. Basketball is not my strong suit. I had fun with it. I used it to maybe lean out a little bit but zero skill now coming from virginia did you have to kind of come to michigan and learn about like the michigan ohio state rivalry or is it something you're already very familiar with oh no actually my uh my mom's family's from

michigan and my uncle played here late 70s uh oh okay yeah yeah Brayman and um basically I was brainwashed as a little kid to love Michigan perfect that's why you know like time came right before sign day when I was gonna go to ODU and I got the call to walk on and I was just I could never look back and say like what if I had gone to Michigan I had to do it and that's right that was six years ago and now I mean with you being named captain was that like one of the most special moments of your life and with your family too oh 100% yeah it was um definitely probably the most meaningful especially like I said with the bonds that I have with the guys around me and just the work that I've put in to know that those guys see me in that light

and accepting that responsibility. And I feel like just been running with it and trying to kind of try to serve them as they see me at that position. I mean, that is super cool. I, I, obviously if you're a legacy type guy, you know, with family that is, you know, graduated from here and played football, that is like, it's just one of those things I feel like you probably get emotional about sometimes too, you know? And so it's a, it's a great honor. And I think you're, you're, you know, you deserve that for sure. But, you know, I think, too, people, I mean, I don't know. Did you hear people that were doubting you in the past year or two that you couldn't be the guy that leads this team, especially at center? A little bit.

But one thing, especially early on, is I knew it was just kind of how I conducted my business like nothing else was going to get me better but myself nothing else was gonna um push me harder than myself and really just yeah I heard a little bit of that but um you know it was really competing against myself competing against guys on the team and just really trying to bring out the best of the line. Because, you know, on offensive lines, five is one. So. Trying to just do the best to bring them along, be the best fit in the five and really just, you know, work with the strength staff all summer uh just trying to improve my body improve my uh health and just yeah it motivated me but at the same time i've uh i've historically been very uh internally motivated so you're more of a lead by example type captain than than a rah-rah guy right

uh i'd say so yeah okay. Okay. I love it. I'll probably pull a guy aside and talk to them one-on-one, but get in front of the team. No. Yeah, not you. We're going to need some karaoke nights from you, man. Get that going. I can't say. So the word on the street is that your nickname on the team is Gramps.

Is that true? Yeah, that's, that's, it was a couple guys. And then I think it was the daily posted that article. And then, yeah, people are taking it and riding with it. It's, it's people are taking it and riding with it it's uh it's all right yeah he's like i'm okay with not being a grandpa well that'd be okay i was i was cool big brother gramps i like that gramps is you give off big brother vibes for sure of like that that loving big brother a little bit like you said take you aside and kind of put it put your arm around you yeah yeah for sure well

i i have uh i'm the youngest of four so i have three older brothers so wow this is my chance to flip the script and be an older brother for a lot of guys so any other any other football guys in the family i mean obviously other than your your uncle um my brothers play a little high school my dad same thing um my uncle's son played at georgia tech oh shit okay a lot of athletes still on that side of the family and basically my uncle mark who played at michigan uh uncle dave played at Michigan. Uncle Dave played at Western. My mom's side of the family is big athletes. Let me think. Another one of my uncles played baseball at Central.

Yeah, they were all in Michigan. That's awesome. Playing college sports in Michigan. So how did you guys end up in Virginia then? My mom and dad met working for Nissan North America. And they ended up working in Virginia, Northern Virginia. And that's where I was born and raised. Love it.

Well, we're glad you ended up here in Ann Arbor. That's for sure. I'm glad you got that call. And, you know, going back to this offensive line where you know again not to keep bringing up the doubters but i feel like there were a lot of people talking about that a big question mark of this team was the offensive line now all of a sudden we're three games in and it's the strength of the team, you know? And so what do you think, you know, obviously you're, you're one of the leaders of this whole line. What do you guys,

what do you think that you guys have done as a group that is really just separated yourselves and made you, you know, so successful through three games? I think just every opportunity practice game, no matter what, everyone's trying to get better. Everyone's just going hard knowing that, you know, all the bank reps are going to put you at another level. And, you know, right now people are talking,

and the big thing is don't get complacent. We are not as good as we can be. And we're just trying to get better every day. And, you know, kind of like block it out, but at the same time, like you want to hear what's going on because and you know kind of like block it out but at the same time like you want to hear what's going on because you know it gives you a it gives you a little affirmation at the same time you have to just know what the guys in your room are thinking know what the guys in your room are going through and just push them to uh keep the foot on the gas but i don't think we need to do much pushing because everyone's amped and just continuing to ride the wave and trying to get

better so we can be the best team at the end's amped and just continuing to ride the wave and trying to get better so we can be the best team at the end of the season. And that's huge. We've heard it from – obviously, like we said, we've had Dan Valarion. We just talked to Joel. But it just – it's like – Kalen mentioned it. We can feel it as fans. It seems like the energy is different.

It seems like everything is just like really, you know, such a family atmosphere. You guys care for each other. Everybody's holding everybody else accountable. Coaches, you know, players on and on, so on and so forth. I know Justin brought it up earlier, 2016 against Ohio State. I mean, you were there for 2018, right? Like everybody thought, you know, it's Michigan's year.

You're going to beat them in Columbus. And now we're hearing about this 7-on-9 drill. It's now named the Beat Ohio drill. Like, what's the focus on Ohio State? Is there actually a big shift where it feels like there's more focus on that game this year, or has it always been that way? Personally, it's always been there. As a team, I'd say it's more than ever right now. And truly, it's what are you doing to beat Ohio State

today when you come in the building when you wake up what are you doing because it's that old saying if you're you're not staying the same you're either getting better getting worse so we're trying to get better every day you know like I said we're not at our best right now we have a lot more room to grow and how we're going to do that is just not being complacent and going as hard as we can every day and going back to the Ohio. Yeah. We renamed the drill and it's violent. It's fun. And kind of the energy and the focus for that game, everything is building up to it. How good can we play each week and how more,

how much can we grow every game every day of the year I know we uh so typically with this podcast we just do audio so nobody nobody else is gonna see this but you smirked a little bit when you said the beat Ohio drill and how physical it is and I'm not I can't lie man that got me hyped up a little bit. I'm ready now. Sure. Yeah. And I think that the attitude part, you know, obviously we've talked about the energy, which is just positive, it seems, but the attitude part, we, Joel said it on, on our last episode. And then Zach's inter came out and said it too,

where you guys have this attitude where you want to make the other person lining up across from you quit. Right. And so that seems like it's a, it's a different attitude than you guys have had before where you wanted to, to win. You wanted to do something. Now it's like almost over the top where it's like, we want to make this person not want to play football anymore yeah for sure and I think Zach said it best to be honest it's just one of those things where

there's no letting up like we we dealt with enough pain last year we dealt with enough disappointment embarrassment and every opportunity we get we want to punish somebody we want to just give it all we got we want to i don't say embarrassed but we want to like make a statement yeah no every chance we get i i love that as a as a former football player as a former athlete i think just as a anybody who is out there as a competitive person it's like that, that is what you want. Right. And so I, I know, you know, we try to win the tailgate each week, which we, we think we do. We do our part. But you know, I think it's, it's kind of, it's, that's contagious to the fans as well. Right.

And it's like the fans now all of a sudden feed off that. They want to give you guys an atmosphere that gives you an advantage against these teams. And so I'm excited for, you know, the games coming up here once. Not that none of these games are meaningful. Obviously they are. But once you get into Big Ten play, where it does mean more, right? It means more to everybody that's a Michigan fan.

It means more to the teams. And it's just going to be a super fun stretch here, I think, where, you know, to go in and feed off that energy from you guys is going to be really, really cool. Yeah, totally. Especially, like you said, big 10 seasons here. It's time to flip the switch. Love it.

Love it. We had a couple other questions here um so the you guys as an o-line going back to that dan valari calls you guys the hogs is that a nickname that that is caught on too because if we i think this o-line because i think you guys are a bit different and you you're playing well we need to give you guys a nickname is the hogs a good one and you you're playing well we need to give you guys a nickname is the hogs a good one or do you need something else roll with it I love it love it love it we love it there we go we might have to make a shirt with uh the hogs on it get you guys out there too oh that'd be electric yeah so so I do have to ask you about that because we're

talking about a shirt but uh I can't remember who put it up I think it was Zinner that spring game the celebration with the shotgun oh my gosh we haven't seen yet when is that going to happen this year or did I miss it

you've seen football I'm sure everyone's cracking down on these taunting things we might do it on the sideline but I don't think we're not going to risk putting Moody in a bad situation after a touchdown. Hey, dude, I'll tell you what. That field goal that he kicked that I think it was officially like a 52-yarder, that would have been good from 70.

I mean, he's got a leg, dude. He has a fucking leg. I know you're going from Quinninn nordine to moody but like moody's got it too like that that's incredible i say it's worth it go for it see how far you can get him back to get an official uh official yardage on it you got you got the blue by 90 but um and uh and you know talking about the rest of this offense too you know obviously Cade you guys have run the ball like crazy you know but Cade has been super efficient he's done everything he's been asked to you know what has he been like as a leader of this team coming in

obviously he started the tail end of the uh the year, but, you know, these almost feel like his first real games with fans, with, you know, all that stuff and with, you know, a full off season to think about it. You know, with you snapping it to him, what has he been like as that guy that's leading this offense? Yeah, Cade's going to be a leader for years to come. He's calm, cool, and collected. And, you know, the way he knows the offense the way he studies film the way he just carries about his business he acts like a pro and you know whatever is asked of him whatever is asked of us it doesn't it doesn't

matter what the coaches call I feel like guys are gonna execute their jobs as hard as they can and we're gonna get it done and whether that's throwing the ball or running the ball kade does kade doesn't care as long as the team does well and same same as all of us so definitely having him behind the helm it's a it's a good feeling there's a lot of like i talked a lot about trust uh early in the season and it really just goes back to that there's a ton of trust between all the guys on the offense, defense, top to bottom on the roster. Well, we actually put up a post on Instagram that had, like,

the stats of your guys rushing and then Rutgers rushing. And then if it's going to be 60 and rainy, we know how that could possibly go. And then JJ commented on it and said, RTDB, run the damn ball. And so I just love that coming from a quarterback to say, to like be like, all right, screw it, let's run this damn ball. You know, I feel like you said that trust, like it doesn't, it seems like from this whole team, but your offense, especially even with Blake and Hassan and Donovan Edwards,

it doesn't matter who gets it done there as long as it gets done, which in past years, even on this team, but just in general in sports these days, you have so many guys who are me, me, me, and want to do it themselves. It's really cool to see those guys feel like it's whatever happens, can, you know, it's whatever, whatever happens happens, and it doesn't matter who it is, you know, is that kind of your guys mantra from a from an offensive perspective? Yeah, for sure. Even heck, one of the best things I can say is, looking at receiver, we have freak athletes at receiver, and they care just as much about blocking as they do, you know,

catching that long touchdown, you know? Like, it's just whatever your job assignment is on the play, how good can you do it, no matter what it is? And, like, that mantra for the whole offense, for the whole team, I'd say, is whatever your job assignment is, just do it as hard as possible and get it done. So, to bring up a former teammate of yours i'm sure you've seen this cup a million times but it was notre dame 2019 in the rain the thing that i always my mind goes back to is stephen spinelis just blocking that dude

all the way into the sideline like if if i was a receiver like i'd like i would love to do that let me get my highlight every every week right like you know everybody makes a catch but let me block this guy into the you know the sideline throw him into the brick wall it's going on right there i mean that like you said i mean the receivers are blocking everybody's blocking you guys i mean obviously quorum haskin edwards like they're all getting the highlights but you guys are creating huge holes for these guys to run through and it's as a fan i love seeing that. Love seeing the O-line do well. That's like the Michigan that, you know, I grew up on. Right. So it's just, it's just cool to see. And you guys are dominating and love.

I can't wait to see it this weekend. Yeah. We're fired up, especially big 10 Rutgers. Last year was too close. We know this isn't the Rutgers of old. They're a good team. Yeah, they're 3-0. Shiano's bringing them back, man. For sure. Well, I'm curious. You guys have been killing it so much in the running game, right,

just racking up these yards. Is there any feeling amongst the O-line group that, like, hey, man, we can also do pass pro, too. Let's throw some dimes out there. Oh, for sure. Yeah we we can do it all but uh you know what did coach harbaugh say in his meeting uh patten did it by land neil armstrong did it in the air everybody decided to do whatever is asked of us we're gonna do it maybe maybe the best harbaugh quote of all time i know that was incredible that was incredible the The Harbaugh-isms are unreal here. I feel like the more comfortable he is, the more successful,

and the better things are going, the more Harbaugh-isms seem to come out. I feel like he's making an effort to be like the modern Yogi Berra, right? Just like have quotes. He's getting all the quotes out there oh he is that's for sure love it love it well i'm sure too blake and hassan and and edwards they they've got to appreciate you guys right i know you know i saw actually blake i think tweeted it out he said shout out to the wide receivers and then shout out to the old linemen so they've got to be appreciating you too right oh for sure but hey they make some freaky moves out there they make tons of guys miss now we'll get our job is to get it started for them and then they'll take it from

there and i don't like and to bring this this up too i mean zach charbonnet like can you like there's this i feel like it almost feels like that room last year was just so clogged up with so much talent. And then you bring in a guy like Donovan Edwards. Like, it's almost expected for somebody like Charbonnet to transfer, right? Like, is that cool for you guys to be, you know, former teammates of him and see him do so well at UCLA? Yeah, for sure.

He's a great kid, freak athlete. It's awesome to see him do so well at ucla yeah for sure um he's a great kid freak athlete it's awesome to see him do well out there yeah he's got some crazy things i mean i the the pictures of zach this summer too he was like just jacked out of his mind um but um yeah i mean i honestly the Um, yeah, I mean, I honestly, the last couple of questions, or I guess the last question that we have, um, is, you know, going forward, looking into this big 10 season, you know, I know Aiden, Aiden tweeted it out. He said, time to lock it in. You've talked about it. This is time to like, truly like get down to business. Right. And so, you know, as you go through this, there may be ebbs and flows through this big 10 season. There always is, you know, guys may go down with injury, you know, or,

or you may take an L here and there, you know, obviously you guys are going out to win each ball game, but, you know, going through it, what's like the, that one attitude that you guys are looking for or going to week in and week out through this Big Ten season? Yeah, adversity is going to hit. And we don't know when it's going to happen, but it's going to happen. And I think the attitude is stay together because we talk about this family, this brotherhood, like how the fans are feeding off of it,

we're feeding off of it. No matter what happens, that's got to be what we fall back on. And, you know, the effort's always going to be there. There's, there's going to be no issue with effort. It's just going to be when stuff gets hard, we got to pick each other up and the very next play, keep attacking and flip the script, make it go back in our favor. Love that i mean i i i believe in that i believe in you guys for sure so i'm excited so i've got a question for you so you were the first guy to come out with uh it's just wings uh sponsorship right but now there's dan now there's now there's alan i don't know who else might be coming on here but let's say we try to throw a little uh

a little hot wing eating competition here. Who wins that? Do you think it's you by a landslide? Or do you think Dan or Alan have a chance there? If it was quantity, I would take it, but spice. Oh, that, see, that throws a whole different element in there. It's a little bit tougher. I don't know. I don't know. I'm kind of a sissy. All right. But you can throw them back if it's a competition or something competition i might uh might have to grin and bear it all right i would say maybe we can do a little bit of

a mix of everything maybe you get a random hot one every now and again and see how many you guys can finish it that'd be a little bit of fun i was telling these guys i want to do that maybe ohio state weekend we uh we do something fun with the fans but we'd love to do something fun with you guys before then that'd be uh that'd be great cool all right maddie by the way how's how's uh softball gonna be this year have you have you talked to any of the girls how are they doing uh i think they're doing well i haven't really talked to them about like softball specifically but i i mean home games are october 9th i think yeah they're coming oh october 9th so free you know throwing that in there so yeah is that so is that just fall ball or is that like their season okay yeah they play CMU um I think they play like a doubleheader or

something uh central yeah I know uh in the fall ball this year I know field hockey is number one in the country right now I've got a couple friends that are alumni and uh we talked to them we want to start tailgating everything we want to make you know as many fans at every event possible so for sure I mean softball would be easy to get a tailgating for i think because we uh you guys already have such a huge following but field hockey hockey basketball football everything i mean yeah no kidding make it fun i know for sure you guys are good at that you guys are crushing it thank you trying trying but hey we uh so plug andrew plug what you've got going you've got the it's just wings thing going so plug that uh plug anything you you else you need to do right here oh i wasn't

planning to plug but hey come on now that's wings for delivery in ann arbor it's just wings for sure hey there you go there you go. There you go. You're a natural at doing ad reads already. What do you mean? It's not written down anywhere. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah.

All right. Wait. Get the puppy on here, too. What's the puppy's name? Ovi. Like Ovechkin. Ovi. There's the Washington coming out. Yeah. i'm i'm ready to see you guys

at yost you know hockey jerseys on you do not want to see this man on ice skates okay so we were talking to joel honigford before uh before this episode and i was like man you should just get on the skates and be a goon. Be a goon and hit somebody in the board. You guys both have the hair. You both got the lettuce. I'm getting there. I got thick hair. You got it.

You need to do what LaJuan does at the Predators game and all that. He might be a little intense. Oh, okay. Here we go. I don't even know. Are we allowed to drink in there in Yost?

No, I don't think so. Outside of Yost. Outside of XPS. There we go. At the Blue 90 tailgate. Yeah, we'll have a tailgate out there. Couple of heaters. We'll be ready to go. That's awesome. Thank you guys so much for coming on.

Andrew, can we follow you anywhere? Do you want to plug social media too? I'm not big on Instagram and Twitter. I don't really use my Twitter much. You don't need to plug me. All right. No need to plug you. You're not about the plugging.

You're just about going to work. I like that. But, hey, we appreciate you coming on. We do. You you know good luck on saturday obviously uh good luck uh throughout the rest of the season go uh go buy uh it's just wings order that um and can they put in like a promo code for you or something like that or is it just are you just throwing it out there on your uh? I don't know if there's a promo code. I can definitely, I think I have cards that'll get you a free delivery.

Oh, there you go. It's a good deal. Yeah. Yeah. We'll take that. All right. Well, we appreciate you coming on. Thanks again for us. You can follow us at blue by 90 on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, at blue by 90 podcasts on youtube uh shout out to truly for sponsoring the tailgate um we'll have a couple of those on saturday that's for sure uh maybe we'll you know we might have to shotgun one with the old line at some point

um and retire after that and then i know yeah there you go um but thank you for coming on and we will see you next week go blue go blue