Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - We can't believe this happens at stadiums!

Episode Date: March 11, 2024

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Because we're talking about a wild story that happens in American football Now you're just new to American football Megan You love the Super Bowl final I jumped on at the NFL This is a big sporting year for me Because I have got into Formula One. Oh, you have? Like, real deep. Producer Taylor,

you've been watching that documentary as well, right? Yeah, I love the Formula One. Drive to Survive. Love it. All about it now. And I understand when there's news stories about it. And also the NFL. I'm like, I kind of get it. I've watched one Super Bowl game and I'm like, yeah, okay, cool. You felt quite boring at the start and then you're like, by the end you're like, I'm into this.

I didn't want to leave the TV. It was gripping. Well, a couple of weeks before the Super Bowl final there was because in America there's some very cold conditions during their winter time. There was a game between the Kansas City Chiefs, who of course won the Super Bowl. Travis Kelsey. Patrick Mahomes.

They were playing against the Dolphins and it was so cold. Temperatures were, in fact, negative 4 degrees at kickoff with a wind chill of negative 27 degrees. Oh, my God. So that is freezing. I think it was that game. I might have showed you that footage that someone in the stadium

went to the fridge, and they brought the water out of the fridge, and it froze in their hands out of the fridge. It was colder out of the fridge than in the fridge. It was wild. Well, anyway, several fans that attended that game have now been advised to have amputations because of the frostbite that they got while attending that game. They had American, you know, American, say American idiots, I'm going to say, but passionate fans.

Some of them shirtless, some of them cheering. Oh, yeah, right. You know, like through it. And other people were just obviously very, very cold in those conditions. So amputations from a game. Was one of them Jason Kelsey, Travis Kelsey's brother? He likes to get his shirt off, doesn't he? He's the real lad with the puku who likes to, yeah, get his shirt off and drink.

It's a very wild thing. So I wanted to know from Producer Taylor, and it scares me a little bit asking you this question, because you've been around, you know, not American football, but football in Australia for many years. Yes, for many years. When I was a cheerleader, I spent a lot of my 20s on the sidelines. Wildest thing that you've seen in a stadium? It was my first game cheerleading, actually, for the Bulldogs.

It was Easter, Good Friday, and it was Bulldogs versus Rabbitohs. I was cheerleading for the bulldogs it was easter good friday and um it was bulldogs versus rabidows i was versus i was cheerleading for the bulldogs sorry and there was a real bad referee call um that pretty much lost the game for the bulldogs and when the whistles blew for the end of the game the refs walking off and suddenly like we all just got pegged with um bottles so like because everyone's trying to aim it for the rest and hitting us and was this back in the day where there wasn't plastic bottles or plastic cups or anything were these glass bottles these are glass bottles this was in 20 2015 yeah 2015 you were holding a plastic bottle when you said that. So I was like, oh, they're just chucking the empty bottles at you. No, it was wild.

And it was like people were trying to get on the field to tackle the ref. The security guards were like in overdrive. And ever since that point, the cheerleaders got their own security guards because of how mental. The cheerleaders then? Yeah, just because of how like in kind of the vicinity you are to get pegged in the head yeah yeah very scary so people were still throwing bottles at you guys yeah you know like like

herd mentality it's like even though the refs walked off the people are just still so angry anything to cause an uproar for the nrl to see it was bizarre you're like we're cheering for the bulldogs we wanted them to win. I'm just trying to shake my palms and go, yay boys! Good game! B-O-T-T-L-E! Oh my god!

Did you actually get hit by one? I did, yeah. I clipped onto the back. But nothing to like... The guy throwing it was quite close. You don't think of that actually happening, you know, as part of the job that you could be hit by bottles or hit by anything? And they were extra passionate because the Bulldogs and Rabbitohs in the NRL have such a longstanding rivalry.

Right. So that game every year is so important to both teams. Oh, well, that makes it okay. Yeah. Definitely bottle the cheerleaders. And, like, why wouldn't definitely bottle the cheerleaders why wouldn't you bottle the cheerleader they have so much say in the outcome of a game so i went to a game in palmer north the league game many years ago it was a test match and they had many test

matches between um australia new zealand let alone in palmer north i remember as a kid going along and every time they kick a ball into the crowd someone would steal the ball and so they got to a stage where they had no more match balls to play with because everyone has just stolen the ball they had to go around on the announcer go hey guys can we just get some of the balls back otherwise there's nothing to watch so new zealand though hey it's like oh sweet i'll keep that and put it up under my top it's like such a random everyone who's got one is like no i don't have one someone else give it up i don't have it yeah did the game actually get going again?

It did go again. I can't remember exactly what happened. Some people must have thrown their balls back at the crowd and were like, oh, come on, guys.

You must have seen some sights, though, as a cheerleader. Yeah, yeah. Die-hard fans. Even now with the Warriors, you've got the die-hard fans with the face painting

and all that stuff. And people yell out all sorts of stuff, don't they? And that's now, imagine like 10, 15 years ago. Yeah. There was some, ooh. I used to get into some fights for sure.

You got into fights? All the time. Really? Yeah, when my husband played for Bulldogs and I was in the stands, I had retired from cheerleading by then. Should clarify that. Put your pom-poms away. So as a spectator, and all it takes is for one person

to say something and you just go mental. Especially when a spectator and all it takes is for one person to say something and you just go mental. Especially when you're sitting with all the other families and they bag someone's dad out like the kids are sitting right there. I take it on my shoulders like I should stand up for us.

It must be hard. It must be such a rollercoaster for you watching because if you don't know, I'm going to say it again, I know you hate it. Marcelo Montoya plays for the Warriors

these days, your husband. But, you know, like he made an amazing tackle on Friday night's game. He smashed the guy. But, you know, but then other times I imagine he gets smashed. Yeah, hell yeah. And you'd be worried there if that – what happens there, you know? He's been concussed a few times, so I'm sure that'll catch up with us later in life.

Oh, jeez. But, yeah, and just the injuries and stuff. Like even if they touch wood, get through a normal 80 minutes, still the day after, regardless of injury or not, they're so sore. Like Marcelo, it's round one obviously last weekend. He's literally just started walking normally again today. Yeah.

A few days after the game. And that's like being injected with like cortisone. I don't know what it is. PRP, I don't know. I don't know. And they do ice treatments, I don't know. I don't know. And eventually they do ice treatments and hot cold and all that sort of stuff. Yeah, he's in the sauna three times a day and mixes that with ice baths. I actually saw them train yesterday.

Oh, you were out there, weren't you? Yeah, and I met Marcelo for the first time. Gosh, he's nice. I didn't know who any of them were. And Chance, Chase, were. And Chance Chase. Oh, Chance. He's so lovely. You know, he just had a baby.

Did he? Like literally on the weekend. He was so interested in everyone. I was like, you're a nice boy. And what I did notice is there was one of them running with like, it looked like an ice pack strapped to their knee during training. And how hard they throw the ball, even when they're just mucking around, being like so close to them.

When you're watching it on TV, you're like, oh, they're just, you know, playing, but they throw the ball so hard. Yeah, me and Marcelo usually go for a game day walk the morning of the game and he'll bring a football and he'll practice his passing to me and without a doubt it always ends up in a fight because I'm like, don't throw the ball so in hard man. Like I'm not an opponent and I'm not a teammate. And then I put up some high kicks for him so he can practise his catching.

They're never high enough. And again, I'm not sure why he thinks I'm capable of things that people have paid lots of money to do. That's nice you do that though. Yeah, well, I'm bonding, mate. You I'm capable of things that people have paid lots of money to do. Yeah. It's nice you do that, though. Yeah, well, I'm bonding, mate. You know, you've got to fit this in. So what's the pre-match before him?

So he goes for a walk? Yeah, so it starts the night before with pasta. 6 p.m. pasta. 6 p.m. pasta with some garlic bread. Okay. So this will be whatever night before the game. Yeah, yeah. And then the morning of we'll go for a walk. He'll have his – I think he's, like, on to, like, six wheat bix with honey and banana. Yeah, yeah. And then the morning of we'll go for a walk. He'll have his, I think he's like onto like six wheat bakes

with honey and banana. Oh, yeah. Then we'll go for a walk with the football, get a coffee and the dog. And then whilst we're walking, sipping and stuff, that's when I'll do the high kicks, the passes. Not the high kicks you used to do as a cheerleader because you can nail those. No, different time.

Different high kicks. This one involves a ball. And then we'll make our way home and then we'll maybe like watch an episode of something. Then he'll journal and then meditate. So journal to do with legal, just nothing to do with legal. I'm not sure. He doesn't like me asking questions.

Maybe it's like an I hate Taylor Dome. We don't know. But he's writing something. The kicks weren't high enough today. This bitch putting me off fight game once again. And then, yeah, he'll go have a nap and he'll allow like 45 minutes between the time he wakes up to the time he needs to leave.

Because after that nap, it's all go. It's all go. And how early do they get to the, sorry, I'm asking you lots of questions here. I'm just curious. How early do they get to the stadium before a game? So like on Friday, they had an 8 o'clock kickoff. He was there at 5.30.

Okay, so close-ish, but not. It's still a bit of time. And then imagine they have warm-ups, strapping, all this stuff they have to get. And the coach would talk to them. Talk and like captain speech. Do you know what blew my mind when I was there for training is they were doing, I don't know, drills or passing or whatever they do.

But they did that all morning and then they were going to have lunch and we were like, what do you do after lunch? Gym for two hours. Yeah. And that's after a whole morning of training. Yeah. And then they wrestle. Sometimes they wrestle.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, they wrestle, don't they? Yeah, they do. And then massage. And he's like, we'll wrap up about five o'clock. I was like, that would ruin me for a whole – that would ruin me. That's like every day. So when I wake up for this job, so what, I get up at 4.10,

Marcella is normally up by 4.30. Yeah. Wow. You just think they do a couple of practices a week. Yeah, a couple of rounds. And then, yeah, no, it's hard work. It probably used to be like that back in the day, but now it's a job.

It's a proper job. And they know so much more now about how to look after the body It probably used to be like that back in the day, but now it's a proper job. And they know so much more now about how to look after the body and rehab and recovery that hopefully it's prolonging their careers. So it's also like, you know, it's good to do the extras so you hopefully get a few more years. Do they watch, I imagine they watch film of the other teams and stuff like that during the week. Yeah, they do video as well.

There was a drone filming their practice that they apparently then go watch. Oh, wow. Am I allowed to say that? I don't know. My soloist, I'm like, where are – because they have an app where I can log in and see exactly where he is during the day. Nice. And so I'll look on it and I'll be like, that's funny.

You're meant to be home by now. Where are you? Wait, who is the app for? The team, but all the partners are logged into it. Oh, geez, that's funny you're meant to be home by now where are you wait is that who is the app for the team but all the partners are logged into it oh wait so the team like the coach can like see where everyone is at all times like it's their schedule all right yeah it's not like it was like a tracking yeah geez you want that if they go to los vegas yeah yeah like i'll say like oh finish that four and i'll be like where are you and he'll be like, where are you? And he'll be like, because I was like, you're meant to be home, cutting clips.

For or against the Warriors playing in Vegas next year? For, because me and mum and dad have already organised some fun stuff. We're going to go do an America trip while we're there. Okay. Hopefully. What about Marcelo in Vegas? Well, I will be installing a tracking device on his phone. Because did you guys, were you guys on Vegas Talk during that whole thing?

No. There were girls uploading on TikTok being like, oh, I can't wait to run into the Broncos players tonight in Vegas at the club and all that. And like some Americans, some are Aussies. And I'm like, hmm. Oh. Interesting.

Very interesting. American summer Aussies and I'm like mmm interesting very interesting but our amputations will be happening after that Taylor gets her hands on some of those people castrations, amputations there you go that's another episode of the wild wild web you never know where it's going to start where it's going to end up we'll be back again tomorrow have a great day