Games with Names - Stavros Halkias Stories

Episode Date: August 2, 2026

Stavvy talks about living on a tour bus, his hatred for the New England Patriots, and his Mount Rushmore of Baltimore athletes.Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Is there like, I saw your big green bus. You take that everywhere? Pretty much. I mean, this is the first bus tour. This is the first year I'm rolling. Madden style. Cool. Full, yeah, it fucking rules, dude.

I just, I'm trying to, every tour would just ruin me, dude, because it's so, you have access to the best stuff. Yeah. It's just like, you could just get, like, and I did, I was just getting really fucked up. I was just, like, eating, you know, just so, you just eat whatever the fuck you want. Though, it's just such a, like, it's such a, like, heathenistic lifestyle if you want that, and if that's your thing, and that is my thing. I mean, I'd like fucking having a good ass time.

and it would just fuck me up so bad. And this is before the bus. This was when we were like flying places and you'd be fucking hung over and just taking whatever just to kind of get through the day. And so I decided like this tour every, like I had gained like 30 pounds on every tour

and it's just been creeping up and I'm like, you know, not a young man anymore and it's just like I had to get the bus. We got a little fridge stocked with Costco meats in there. I'm in the pre-slice Costco. That's good. Like London broil or whatever.

fuck sirloin with some fucking canned canned beans. We're living like real divorce dad style in that fucking bus right now. But the macros are pretty good, you know. And if I get two to three good meals and then if we have, you know, if we have like, you know, a couple of slutty meals a week, that's not the end of the world. No. Now do you sleep on this bus? Sleep on the bus.

You fucking at night, you just, it's like time travel. You just, like, we were in Phoenix last night and I woke up in Burbank. This morning. Is it comfy bed? Dude, it rules. You're so... Like, it's the feeling of being a little-ass kid and your parents put you in a car seat

and you're just for a ride until you go to sleep. Like, it's incredible. I didn't think I would like it. And then I did Bert Kreischer had... Had a tour a couple years ago and I did, like, a weekend on it. And I slept in...

Like, I sleep better there than I did on, like... We got this gorgeous Airbnb in L.A. last time I was here. Way worse than the fuck. Like, we were missing the bunks. It was fucking hilarious. Yeah, and then like now, nowadays, everything's on the internet. You could just watch TV on your iPad or you got TVs. You got two TVs going?

It's nice. It's fun. It's better to travel. I love taking it when I would go from Boston and New York. I love taking the train. The Amtrak's the best. Amtrak's easy. Yes, I love you.

And you got Wi-Fi. You can knock out. It's the same amount of time, damn near it because it takes you hour to get to the airport, hour back in the city to our flight. And it's shit. No one's fucking hassling you. You can smuggle things through the train. You know what I mean?

That's easy. Yeah. Now, what's into these slutty meals? What's a slutty meal? What's our slut? I mean, yesterday, what do we do? Where'd you go? I mean, just like a nice,

fucked up breakfast burrito. Like, when you add so much shit, a $13 entree ends up being $29. Well, that's just in general, that's true. But we're talking meats, guack, fries in the burrito, all that kind of shit.

Fry in a burrito guy? Yeah, we had a... Yeah, for sure. For a breakfast burrito? That's a California burrito. Yeah. I tip my cap to... Are you chorizo or are you bacon?

depends on the mood I'm in. You know, I opted for steak plus chorizo yesterday. That's what I'm saying. I got fucking insane. I did a $30, $30 breakfast beer with every dipping sauce available. I'm a big dipper too. You got to dip. Big dipper.

You got to sauce things up. It could take things to the next level. Always. Some people think it's trashy. I just think it's... Fuck that, dude. It's trashy to use dips to fucking live a little? I like putting A1 sauce on like my white rice.

Okay. That's how I'm... I like A1 sauce I see where they're coming from A1 sauce is dog shit A1 sauce is like when people are like well I'm not going to use ketchup I'm not an animal let's get A1

You know what I mean? It's trash trying to be classy, no offense No I know it is A1 you got to let go of Any other dip I'm with you I hate to I'm really stab you in the back Are you ranch guys? Like whenever I eat

A big ranch guy Whenever I eat trashy too So maybe I'm a hypocrite here Whenever I eat Greek food I always bring in Ranch Oh God damn I like to dip my euro in ranch

ranch with Greek food Zaziki have you read Zadziki I think we have our fucking I think Taziki and Tziki I think it's a bad ranch No What the fuck are you talking about We don't even Tini's not even us

That's more of the Middle East We're you know Right in the middle right on the other side But no you gotta go Zadziki You can't do ranch Like what are you dipping in ranch I just eat or a hot sauce I like to put hot sauce like a different hot sauce

I like my Euro in there Or I like when I have a kebab Or like I like You gotta get Zatziki You might just be going to a place with bad Zadjiki There's some great shit out here Now what kind of ranch Because this is important too

There's a ranch here in L.A I forgot what it's called But it's like a mom and pop ranch Okay you might be winning me about Comes in like a mayonnaise looking thing Oh yeah Good Yeah it goes bad after a week

That's how you know it's a real sauce All right Then maybe there's some This ranch is killer And they got a great blue cheese That I always have to get for a raw because he loves blue cheese. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I get that. All right, I'm willing to, I'm going to have to try this ranch before I come in with the ultimate, like, deciding whether that's trashy or not. I use that ranch with everything. Okay. I like ranch.

That is good. Yeah, pizza on ranch, fine. Yeah. I don't, I don't, I can't give a fuck about that. But we have every, so Middle Eastern food, whether it's like any kebab style cuisine, has their own garlic sauce.

I know, but you just have to tap into the right one. I like those garlic sauces. like the garlic sauce that they always give you. It's just a little too much garlicy. See, that's, so that's more of the like pure middle. That's why I'm saying Zadziki. You just haven't given Zadziki a chance. I gotta get to Zaziki.

Like good Zadziki. The way I do it, it's just full fat Greek yogurt, good olive oil. You fucking plain, you hit the garlic in a zester. So it's fucking tiniest as shit. It really gets in there. And then just salt and pepper. I don't even fuck with cucumbers because cucumbers don't hold as well. This is just a very nice garlicky, slightly healthier than ranch also.

You can make it healthy, too. Yeah. I know you kind of need to lose a couple pounds, so I just go want to give you a couple tips. Dude, I'm an eater though. I love food. But anyway, that's my, we tapped into sauces. This is when you know at this, at every podcast, whenever some kind of food item comes up, I will go off for 12 minutes uninterrupt.

Now, Stavrosalky is on his hatred for the New England Patriots. In one sentence, why did you pick this game? In one sense, I guess just because it feels good to be able to rub in a humiliating loss to a guy who was on the... I think you were probably hurt. I was hurt. Because you weren't, you know, I just checked back. I didn't remember you, but from that game, you didn't really remember a lot of Patriots players because you guys fucking shit the bed in a hilarious manner.

But you didn't even... We talked about a couple games, but you weren't even playing. The other game we talked about, you had a good game. I didn't even want you to have that satisfaction. I would rather we stop. I said in one sentence. Oh, sorry, it's a runoff. These are a lot of semichols.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's separate clauses, but they're connected. One tweet. So, yeah, just there's a lot of ideas. And it's Flacco's run. It's right after the Mile High Miracle. It's right before the Super Bowl. It's just like a beautiful, it's a forgotten game in that run

because it wasn't as memorable as a Super Bowl or the Mile High Miracle, but just because fuck the Patriots, man. We had to do a game where you guys fucking sucked. Is this the greatest game of all time? It's not, but it's a really, it's a really satisfying game, you know? It's a really satisfying game. Because, again, you don't get to tell to a player's face how shitty his team was, and your team being the one to do it.

And I do hate the page. It's tough because I do have, you are the most likable, I think, from the, like, from what's happening. Grom's pretty likable. Gronk's likable, but yeah, so's a fucking golden retriever. You get fucking Gronk a little treat, he'll fucking, he'll be good to go, dude. You give him a little bushel in your hand. He'll come up to you. He's easy to win over, I have a feeling.

But, you know, so anyway, you're the one person I have some fondness for, because, you know, just role player to, I like to think of my kind of entertainment career is that. Neither one of us had any business being successful in what we did. And so I respect you for that. But still, not the greatest game. Just really just have to get on record how much I despise the teams you were on and just want to celebrate a victory over them. You know what?

I think that's the highest sign of respect from a fan is when they hate your team because of how successful you are. So like, I don't get mad at that. Yeah, yeah. Because I remember being a 49ers fan and I absolutely hated the fucking Green Bay Packers. They used to knock us out every year in that divisional round or that fucking first round playoff. I hated it.

So I understand. Where did your start, like your sports fandom come from? Yeah, I mean, I grew up in Baltimore. So this is, and I mean, I'm a fan of Baltimore teams before the Ravens existed,

so that's, you know. So what's the rank? I mean, now the rate, in terms of like, true fandom, true fandom, where it's like just tribal, you kind of turn your brain off.

You're not even like, because if we were being serious, it's like this is a waste of all our time. Like our Sunday, We lose one day a week just on a couch doing shit. And like, we should stop. Like, when there's by weeks, I have, I go to the park. You know what I mean?

I might go to a fucking museum. Like, I'm a better person when football's not on. But, you know, I, like, you just have to watch. You can't help it. You can't have to watch it. And so on that level, definitely the Ravens. I mean, I remember it's cool to be a little kid when the team is coming. Like, I had that experience.

And I was a fan of football. How old were you? I must have been like we won the Super when I was in sixth grade So I was pretty young I don't remember it was like And I remember going to I went to like a punt pass and kick When the fucking Vinnie Testa Verdi

And Matt Stover there Like I was like I was the demographic To get won over by this team And like you know the shitty The shitty weird like Uh Logo that we had that was that was bad I remember them thinking about calling us

The Baltimore Americans or like the Baltimore Brown Like we got saved Ravens is the best You know name we could have gotten And so it's like, that's how it started. And in terms of like overall, I mean, I like the O's because, just because I, but I don't really, baseball's kind of. It's tough.

The guys are talented, but I just want to fuck it. It's there to drink a beer and eat a hot dog. But it's changed. Like, the new rules of baseball is awesome for TV because it keeps it going. But like, like you said, when you go to a baseball game, you want to drink a beer and eat a hot dog and you pray for the longest game possible because you're in like third, seventh grade and your mom's there. If you get too late, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Maybe you get the next day off. Like, now they have no chance of getting past three and a half hours. But, yeah, Orioles, I used to love the Giants. Sure, yeah. Cow Ripkin Jr. He's the man. I mean, that's the other thing. That's why the O's still have some fondness, because, like, before the Ravens,

I had those Cal teams. And, like, they were fucking, it was so weird to go from the, the Orioles being awesome. They were just dog shit until my senior year of high school. That was the year they were like, they led to AL East out of nowhere and then we fucking collapsed. And so that was the last time

that I believed in the Orioles. And then it happened, you know, we lost to KC when they went on to win the World Series. So I'll always have some fondness for them. But in terms of the day-to-day, it's also just easier. Like football's, I've learned football is so smart in how they kind of schedule things

because just what we were saying earlier, one day a week, even when you're busy, you can commit to one day a week. And you can watch fucking Thursday Night Football on your phone if you need to whatever. But, like, actually, my favorite sport is probably basketball. But it's once I started getting busy, it's kind of hard to follow. It's impossible to follow these big sports. That's why I love football, like you said, schedule-wise.

Yeah. And there's no first pitch. Yeah. I've heard about your first pitch. Sam hit me up and said, yeah, yeah. Your first pitch. Not bad. It wasn't videographed well, but you can't really tell, but it was fucking heat right down the middle.

It was heat? Yeah, right down the middle, dude. I think they must have slowed down the video they published. Because in the moment, I remember the fucking girl that was catching being like, ah, you know, that fucking, you know, she had to go see the team doctor. Afterwards, they had her fingers in splints. I was right down the middle. I would say probably 98, 97, 97.

Yeah, so I'm like that. You ice her up after? Yeah, I was like, my bad, I'm sorry. Yeah, I remember when I threw, actually, when I threw this touchdown pass, remember the double pass? I do remember. And that, that was the ball. I do unfortunately remember that.

So like you throwing that 98-mile-an-hour fastball? Yeah, this is dangerous to give to me. Alex, where's the incinerator? Don't put in this, loves. I'm just showing you. No, but right after I came into the team meeting on Monday, we're all having fun, we're watching the thing, and I was like the last one to walk in the office.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I taped up my arm because always the quarterbacks after a big day, tape up for our arm. I threw one pass. I came in like, yeah. All right, guys, everyone started laughing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that was fucking horrible.

Who's a bigger, you're a big basketball guy. You had a podcast with my boy, Sam Meryl. He's the man. Who's a bigger ball guy? You or Sam. Because you guys are both Knicks fans. Yeah, well, see, that's the thing. Sam, kind of the love I have for the Ravens.

It's like for Sam, he has channeled that into the Knicks. Because it's like, I love the Knicks. So my fandom is a little complicated where I didn't have a team growing up for basketball, and I could never root for the Wizards because DC and Baltimore is just a different thing It is. You know what I mean? It's sort of like Bay Area stuff Where it's like Oakland, San Francisco. Exactly. Everyone has their own, even like, yeah, Sacramento, Oakland,

all those places are pretty close But it's totally different fandoms where it's like, DC and Baltimore are such different cities Oh yeah, that was a great. No worst man, I'm a pro, dude. You are. You're fucking good. Yeah, I know how to pod, dude. I do this, I just do this in my side.

I'm not even awake right now. I'm obviously, I know, because I've been cutting you up. I've been cutting you off. Sorry. No, no, no. No, no. So I could never root for them. So I always, my fan would go to, like, the cooler teams.

Like, I would really connect to certain teams. I was a big king, those kings, the Vladi Divotch. I love those kings. Everyone did. I was a shitty Warriors fan at that time. For sure. But you guys were so bad back then. So bad.

Spreewell was choking out the coach. Yeah, which is cool. It was kind of cool. I had his jersey because of it. But the kings were hot that time. They were fucking cool. We were revving and baby. They were so fucking good.

Yeah, Jason Williams before they traded a baby. But I, and so I always gravitated to some cool team would, like, win my affection for a few years. But then once Janus came into the league, I am such a huge Janus fan. I mean, it's like to have a Greek basketball player be one of the best players in the world. And at times in the last few years,

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We could do a cultural. We could do a cultural. We could do a cultural. We could do a cultural. We could do a athlete. I mean, if we're talking to athletes, obviously, Cal's got to be on there. It really comes down to, I think Cal's got to be on there, Ray Lewis and Ed Reed.

And then, I mean... What's telling you in your head right now? I just... I see it. It's just hard. My answer... Don't say it. Are you going to say it?

I don't think I can. Is there something about him? There is something about him, right? I'm not going to say there's not something about him. It's a split. I know that's a fucking completely, complete coward's way. out. But it is, it's the quarterback slot. And it's for

it's a split right now Lamar and Flacco. But Lamar is so fucking, like, obviously my, this is a joke character. And I love Flago and he is, you know, he's the fucking man. Super Bowl MVP. It's insane. One of my favorite athletes. But Lamar is just like, you know, I just think he does get shit on a little

too much. And obviously there's people who love him. I'm not going to say he just has detractors, but he's so fucking good. He's so electric. I think it's got to be Lamar. man. All right. What were your thoughts on the resurgence of Joe Flacco in Cleveland last year or two years ago? Yeah, I mean, it's hard for me not to root for, like, at the end of the day, I was not scared of that team. And it's like, part of me, I mean, wait, did he, sorry, I've been out, did he actually sign with the Steelers or is that a rumor?

No, no, no, I don't know. I saw a rumor that he might, anyway, so thank God, that would have been brutal. That would have been, what is it about Joe Flacco? I mean, this run, honestly, that's also another reason I picked this game. is that like I think what is it is that like yeah he had a legendary run and I think he's fucking really good and to be able to do this you have to be one of the best like it's crazy the amount of people that go on a who have their best football during the during a super bowl run is it's the best thing of all time but I think I think there's something about him he feels relatable he's a mid-atlantic guy he's like he seems like a guy you might have grown up with

It's cool, you know, from kind of, I think he's like from the Philly Burbs. He went to Delaware. Yeah. Went to fucking Delaware. He played in Baltimore. It's like he's got that, I know, even though he's not from Baltimore, he feels like a guy from Baltimore. It was never complicated. The motherfucker just threw a beautiful, deep ball.

And he was faster than what people. Yeah. He was, we used to, I remember Bill always talking about Flanco. Like, don't let this motherfucker out the pocket. Now, I'm just telling you. When he gets going, he's hard to bring down. He's a big fucking guy. He's a big guy.

He's huge. And I think there was just something awesome about him where it was like, you just, again, he, I also think there's a relatability in some ways. Even though, again, world-class quarterback, you shouldn't relate to him. You have nothing. The average fucking idiot on his couch has nothing in common with Joe Flacco. But at the end of the day, it's like, he is from Delaware. Like, he is a guy from around where we're from. and he nobody really believed in him at any point this he he put his money and I think for me anyway

and for other people I think you could watch that and get inspired and be like I just need to fucking get it together when it fucking matters and like I could be a fucking legend forever and Joe had we had great years and I loved rooting for him but I think it was like the combination of getting you a Super Bowl and just like how relatable and how much like like people will ask him now in interviews like oh do you and they'll kind of try and get him to like talk about how good the Ravens are, but he's still like, I'm playing motherfucker. I'm still in the league. If I want the Ravens and I like

that attitude. He's not, he doesn't see it as like this like retirement tour. He sees it like, I still got, I'm doing this. Fucking sign me and I fucking love that dude. Even though he might, here's the other thing, he might be wrong, right? Yeah. But you need that a belief. If no one's,

if you have to believe yourself more than anyone else to be successful with these hard things. And he was like for, for like him, Yannis, like, sports guys can absolutely inspire you in your life for that. And I take a lot of that from Flacco and, you know, obviously, Janus for how hard. Janus is like work ethic, turning it coming from nothing to being one of the best. And it's just sort of that kind of underdog story.

And the fact that it ends with the Super Bowl and not just Super Bowl at a Super Bowl that has Ray Lewis retires. Ed Reed got one with us because, you know, Reed is my favorite Raven, even though Ray obviously is a legend. but there's just he was just so fucking cool and he was just so so incredibly good and it was just such a special like that kind of Super Bowl keeps you going now did I want us to win this year absolutely I love Lamar he's he's gaining on

on read for me because he's just incredible to watch and he's so fucking good and I would have loved there was like the numerology every 12 years the quarterback's 28 years old I thought for sure we were winning because of that dumb bullshit and then it would have been If we had gotten that one, I literally wouldn't have needed another Super for the rest of my life. You know what I mean?

Three at really pivotal points in my life would have been great. But we'll get him this year. So Ed Reed, we'll jump into this Baltimore team. Yes. Good segues, Ed Reed. I remember Ed Reed's last year, he lit me up in Baltimore. Yeah. Do you remember that?

I don't know if you remember that. We ended up losing. It was 2000. It was this year. It was the game that I played in. Ed Reed came and he lit me up. on a on a bank a post damn and he just was so swaggy about it like got a like he was just a competitor so cool bill used to literally show like a 40 play cut up of ed read every time we played

him and we're like bill we saw this six weeks ago he's like he just show another cut up like ed read this fuck he loves the one that's the one that's the one venn diagram for me and bill belichick is our admiration for ed read is how much we how much we respect him because i've seen him talk about that and that is fucking cool yeah and he'll show those where it's like how smart he was to like he was playing mind games with Peyton Manning yeah it's insane and not only that but he'll return kicks he'll lateral like those he'll block kicks yeah he's up and under we used to show all our special teams his up and under move on blocking kicks because he was that legendary so ed reads one of your favorite guys from this team for sure ray louis you love him joe flacko

Rayloos and Ogden. See, Ogden gets forgotten in the, like, Ray Lu... Because Rayloos, obviously... Ogden was really good. You know, but like, it doesn't happen without Ogden. They draft those guys the same year. That was our, you know, and like that's... Those are the cornerstones of our franchise.

And he's, in many ways, I feel like Ogden is what the perfect left tackle became. You know, it's like, that... He got drafted a long fucking time ago. And now, it was just like he was so good. It's insane. He was kind of like Tim Duncan, where it's like, it's kind of boring. It gets forgotten. but I don't think those teams,

I don't think we win that first Super Bowl without him for sure. And it's like he does get a little, I want to give him his credit because he, to me it's him, I think of him and Ray Lewis as are the initial stars that got us off the ground together. And I feel like he gets forgotten too much.

Offensive linemen that's going to happen. It happens. And also his personality is just like a kind of a quiet, chill guy. He's not, you know, that he's not doing the sick dances that everybody sees. Lyman are in their own world.

For sure. And you kind of have to be. You're getting it. But they're the reason. Yeah. I mean, it's the trenches. I mean, you listen to all the guys. It starts in the trenches.

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