Pardon My Take - Christian McCAffrey, NFL HoF Pres David Baker and Super Bowl 54

Episode Date: January 31, 2020

Super Bowl 54 is here and we’re finishing off a long week in Miami . We talk about the big Penn National Gaming deal and how we may end up on a slot machine (2:23 - 6:07). Coach K is losing it (6:07 - 9:00). Preview of SB 54 and picks (9:00 - 27:58) . Carolina Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey joins the show to talk football, how he needs to apologize for skipping the Sun Bowl, and his sick traps (27:58 - 41:50). NFL Hall of Fame president and CEO David Baker joins the show to talk about his job as historian of the game, being too big for football and the famous knock (41:50 - 77:36) . Segments include Fyre Fest and PFT getting verified, Mike Greenberg’s dumb rules, and a special birthday FAQYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

Hey, pardon my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. On today's pardon my take, we have Christian McCaffrey, future Hall of Famer, Christian McCaffrey, which works perfectly because we also have the president and CEO of the National Football League, Hall of Fame, David Baker, the man too large to play football, an enormous man you know him from the knock on the door. We have him, we talk about the NFL Hall of Fame, we talk with Christian McCaffrey about

some fun stuff, and we have the Super Bowl 54 preview. Hey, guess what, P.F.T., there's a game being played. Let's go. It's crazy. Football, it's the last NFL game until September. It's very sad, it's crazy that this is the last game, so we're going to embrace it, we're going to enjoy it, we're going to preview it, we're going to do all of that in a second, but before we do that, it's also birthday week.

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about our birthdays right now. I'm not going to talk about the fact that it's my birthday today. I'm a very special boy. But happy birthday. Yeah, thank you. Happy birthday. You too. Happy birthday, Big Cat.

Thank you. Hank. It's not my birthday. Yeah. Okay. That's my June. When is your birthday? June 13th.

Loser. Super Bowl 54. Yes. Super Bowl 54 is here. We are finally here at the last game of the season. It's a really weird Super Bowl week. It doesn't feel like there's anyone talking about anything when it comes to the game. It's also the fact that it's in Miami.

Miami. Everyone's just kind of walking around. Here's one thing I've noticed about people in Miami is everyone looks like they work out for a living. Oh yeah. Like it's their job to be in the gym all the time. So I'm feeling very inadequate walking around here. But yeah, you're right.

There haven't been any like huge storylines that have come out this week. The biggest one is probably Andy Reed comparing his grandchildren to sweet and sour pork. Yeah. So he said his grandchildren are great. They keep them young and they keep them. But sometimes they also keep them old. Very similar to sweet and sour pork. So he compared his grandchildren to his favorite dish.

He invented the concept of the yin and the yang. Yes. Except if it was a fried dish from a Chinese restaurant. I would actually if I'm Andy Reed I would say they're like your grandchildren are like your appetite because there's so much fun to spoil. There we go. They're like uncrustables. It is a very weird feeling for Super Bowl week.

I think it's Miami. I think also not to toot our own horn. But the story of the week was Barstool got a strategic investment from Penn National Gaming. You probably saw it happen late Tuesday, early Wednesday. What does that mean? You're right. We're going full tout.

I'm going to be a pit boss. So dude, could you imagine if I was a pit boss? I'm going to be a slot jockey. I would love to be a pit boss and just kick everyone out right in a second. I actually so when I was meeting with some of the guys from Penn National Gaming, I actually asked them like it was kind of a serious meeting and I just raised my hand. I was like, hey, do you think I could go see the eye of this eye in the sky room? And they're like, definitely not like legally no way.

You're going to. Well, but maybe and they're like, no, they knew that you were just going to try to put together an Ocean's 11 squad. You'd have like Zah being lowered from the ceiling, walking out with like duffel bags filled with money. It was just a funny moment because these guys are very serious, obviously, you know, really good at their jobs and great. We're very, very happy that they're part of the barstool team now and we're part of them.

But it was just a really weird moment where they're just like, this guy's serious. Like he just wants to go look at the cameras. Like I've always wondered that. It seems really cool. I'd like to get room. I'd like to get a part of my take slot machine that would be cool to work on that Stella Leroy. Yeah. Maybe some buffalo wings.

What would the other symbols be? So the cherry and the bar. Tom's would be one. Maybe Mad Dog 2020. A three quarter filled Mountain Dew Dipspitter. Yeah. Maybe a low man trophy. Just a tire.

The three quarter Mountain Dew Dipspitter with just PFT on it. This is not PFT. Right. Taco Bell Bell. Taco Bell Bell. Yeah, that seems good. It pays out in Roman Swipes only. Maybe maybe a picture of Coach K laying on his side.

He is the pass out thing. My favorite gift ever. Mike the Tiger maybe. Are you worried, Hank, that Coach K is maybe losing his marbles after yelling at the other Cameron Crazies? I think it was a wild move. No, I think if you're, I think it was a recruiting thing and I think if you're a prospective player and you see that, you see a coach that like fights for his guys, even if they're

on the other team. Right. That is a great leader. That is a guy that paid everyone that's on your team gets respect when he comes back home. It was because of loyalty. That's his players so much that he loves them more when they're opponents. No, he just loves them equally.

He's, it's a brotherhood, brotherhood for life and that's a great example of showing that. But what about the kids? Now, here's where we get into the, to the deep stuff. Is this going to affect recruiting for the Cameron Crazies? If you're just a nut job basketball fan, are you going to want to go to Duke knowing that your coach doesn't have your back yet? That was a bad moment for the Cameron Crazies.

It's Cameron Crazies until dad yells at us. Yeah. It's not really the Cameron Crazies anymore guys because once Coach K starts going, he did look a little, Coach K looks crazy going nuts and then they all look like they were scolded by their parents. Yeah. This is the Tom Izzo thing though. It's like you guys, you guys want coaching.

You guys are like football guys. What do you mean? You can't. Tom Izzo has never done this to me. No, when Coach, when Tom Izzo is yelling at his player, everyone is like always coaching too hard. His players. Coach K was just, he was coaching.

He's just yelling at random kids. Right. Those kids don't even, here's the difference. You guys are too soft. You can't take a little, take a little. Now, here's the difference. Those kids in the stands, they don't get paid to go there. Okay.

They are essentially, they're making money for the NCAA. The Cameron Crazies are being exploited. You can yell at your players if you're secretly paying them with Bitcoin all the time. They're professionals. They know what they signed up for. But if you're a student, you're helpless. You're the victim in this situation. Yes.

I think the NCAA needs to take a long, hard look as well as the National Labor Board should look at how Coach K is treating his unpaid employees, the student section. My favorite part about that entire clip was when Coach K turned to the camera and he's like, did you get that? Did you get that? Do you need me to do another take? And then he kept on going. That was my favorite part.

That was really nice. Yeah. It is Super Bowl week though. It is Super Bowl week. But we had to get that in because that was, I mean, he might be losing his marbles, Hank. I'm just saying. This is actually sad. Roy and Coach K.

All in the same year. Roy's going back. That's fine. Well, no, he's going to kill himself. His team keeps losing. No, he's asking them to fire him. Yeah. No, he said that.

Didn't he say? Yeah. He said he's going to die before they get good again. Okay. Yeah. Coach K just needs to take away. He needs to take away all Duke gear from the camera crazies. Give him a game to get back into it and they'll use it going forward.

They should make them all wear Jeff Caple uniforms. Yes. Yes. That would be good. All right. Let's do some Super Bowl talk. Let's talk some bets. Let's do everything.

Put it down the game. Here's a real quick underrated storyline about the Super Bowl. Okay. I just uncovered this one. Sammy Watkins is thinking about just taking a year off if they win. A sabbatical. No one's really talking. He said he just might chill.

A leap year. He's just, yeah. He might go backpacking around Europe. Some rich kid who's signing all his emails using cheers at the end. Yeah. Yeah. He's a rich kid who goes, yeah, goes to Germany for a year right before he goes to Harvard. Yeah.

Andy Reed is, how would he describe that in food terms? He's like a brisket. You need to let him rest for a while. Slow one. Yeah. Yeah. Let him rest. He's one of those.

But they only serve like, they only can serve like five people a night because that wouldn't take so long. Now this does back up my theory that I've been investigating over the last couple years that Sammy Watkins is in a cult. I think that there is some sort of cult behavior that he has planned for his options. So then go, maybe go down to Northern South America and develop a Kool-Aid recipe. Northern South America. So we're talking like Peru?

We're talking like French Guiana, Suriname. People forget about Bolivia. Do they? Yeah. Southern South America, like South America, it's Argentina, it's Brazil, it's, give me another one. Chile. Chile.

That's Australia. Give me another one. Colombia. Venezuela. Ecuador. Nicaragua. Nicaragua. Central America.

They don't talk about Bolivia. Bolivia, yeah. They've got some nice hikes there. Well, fading to Bolivia. They've got the road of death. Yep. They've got excellent stimulates. I'm actually going to look real quick.

I'm going to do a quick map, deep dive, South America. We've been getting really into geography on this podcast recently. Yeah, I like this. I'm going to tell you real quick which country I don't think about enough. A great tourist attraction. Yep. Peru. Guiana.

What the fuck? I never even thought about Guiana. Mm-hmm. All right, there it is. That's the answer. All right, let's do Super Bowl talk. Let's get there. It's the week of the big game and sadly the last week to been on football until next season

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Absolutely. Yeah. That means he's done just enough. He's adequately polished. I know who he is, but yeah, not enough to, you know, really make me be able to pronounce his name correctly. It's also, there's also something that happens every Super Bowl week where we get to the end of it.

I'm running on fumes. I got not a lot left in the tank. So I apologize to everyone. Rough ride tomorrow though. Yeah. Rough ride tomorrow. I'm going to be able to get the anthem out. You can do it.

I believe in you. When there was one footprint in the sand, that's when I was carrying you big cat. Thank you. Let's get to the finish line here. I appreciate that. So Super Bowl 54, by the way, I love the tails bet. Do you think I could carry you? I'm looking back and I probably can't physically carry you.

No, you probably cannot. Okay. No, maybe, maybe. You can maybe carry me. We'll see. Super Bowl 54, what do you guys like in this game? Where do we want to start? I guess we can just start with tails.

Tails? I love tails. I bet tails every single year. I've never bet tails. I mean, I've never lost betting tails. That's absolutely false. I've definitely lost betting tails. I think there was one year actually I didn't, couldn't figure out who I wanted in the game.

So I just bet all my money on tails. It lost. That sounds like the start of a parlay and uncut gyms is getting that going right off the bat. But I lost. Yeah. I do. Yeah.

I do every year. I also like purple for the Gatorade. At the end. You don't anymore because it basically has been bet all the way down because there was a rumor that one of the teams has purple and then there was a rumor that both teams are going to have purple to celebrate Kobe Bryant. So now purple is all the way down the board. It's basically the worst kept secret.

Purple I think is like plus 150 now. It's so stupid. You see. So they were all the way down to minus 120. There you go. I bet purple. Not good value on purple. Here's another one I like.

Will Bitcoin price be more at the end of the game than it was at the start. That actually is a smart bet to put out there because everyone who gambles uses Bitcoin. So I was thinking about that like you could bet on that using Bitcoin and you kind of hedge yourself. Don't you. Right. Because if you end up being wrong and you bet that it's going to be worth more than I don't think this makes sense.

You lose less money because you're Bitcoin devalued over the course of the game. Right. OK. So if you use Bitcoin to gamble on Bitcoin you'll always make money. What is you. What are you actually picking in this game. I actually think the 49ers are going to win this. I'm taking the over.

You're not picking a side. You're not going to give us a side. I'm picking the over right now and I'm also taking the chiefs. OK. I I have a lot of conviction in that big gap. Yeah. That was sounded like it really came from the bottom of your balls Sammy is they're doing it for Sammy.

What do you have Hank. What's going to happen to this game. I like the over pick. I just I've thought about this game flip flop in my brain a million times and the thing that I keep coming back to is the chiefs defensive resurgence which has happened in the last like six weeks. They've been very very good against the run. Everyone's talking about them.

I just think that the 49ers are a different animal and they can pass the ball if they want to and Kyle Shanahan is a different beast than everything else the four the chiefs have faced. So I I just think the 49ers have that like they've been the best team all year. That's the thing like right because they were so bad last year and it took a while for people to catch on in myself included. I think we forget that they have pretty much wire to wire been the best team all year. They played that gauntlet schedule in the middle of the season where they went to Baltimore

to New Orleans than the Packers at home. Basically they played three teams over eighty percent or eight hundred percent winning percentage. They lost close to Baltimore. They beat the Saints in New Orleans. They killed the Packers. Then you go to the playoffs. They killed the Vikings. They killed the Packers like they won in dominating fashion those last two games.

They had obviously the weird slip up against the Falcons that was kind of a weird like lol in their schedule and the Seahawks games are instant classics. Otherwise the 49ers have been close to like a juggernaut. You know what I mean like they have played really really well all season long and the Chiefs as good as they've been in this last stretch. I just I think we're going to walk away being like that team was so good. The 49ers I'm talking about and they were so good all year. How how do we not see that coming.

You know what another different animal is the honey badger. The honey badger is making the difference in this game. He's going to have at least one turnover. He has been the key to the Chiefs defense stepping up like that dude is a guy that you you can't game plan for him because he's just so instinctual is such a smart player too. So he's smart enough to get in the right position and then instinctual enough to just like make these snap motions where he gets a shoulder or a fist on the ball creates a turnover. He tackles people very awkwardly in ways that they're not used to being tackled.

That helps to create turnover suit and he's got good hands. I love the honey badger. I would love to see him score a touchdown in the Super Bowl not because of Patrick Mahomes but because of the honey. No I'm saying we're talking about the defense right now like I think that he is such a key contributor on defense and he does change things up. So I like the Chiefs defense more than most people do. They haven't lost since November 10th.

Right. They've been on a hot streak. I think they've got like eight. They're on eight game winning streak right now. Patrick Mahomes has been laying up. He's super super healthy. I think that as long as they don't spot the 49ers 17 points which they very well with the way they've started they spot them 14 points.

I'm still OK with it. If they spot him 17 I feel like that's when they have to overextend. What about 16 16 not. Yeah I'll take 16. He's won. It's a score. I got you. I got you.

I got what you're saying. Yeah. So I really like the Chiefs. I like the offense. I like obviously everyone likes the offense but they've got they present a lot of problems in the secondary for the Niners. And I don't know if the Niners have enough people to cover Hardman Sammy Watkins. Well of course you can't cover all of them.

They're not possible to cover all of all of the weapons that they have. I just do 49ers defense has been very good and their front four will get pressure without having to add extra guys like they will get there and Patrick Mahomes he's not going to he's too good to have a bad game like I do not expect Patrick Mahomes have a bad game. I just think it's going to be a close game and the 49ers are going to win and we're going to look back and be like that was a team that was an all time team. Do you think that Kyle Shanahan has been kind of sandbagging us and slow playing Jimmy Garoppolo.

Yes. Not letting him pass the ball because like he has enough confidence that he can make people think like oh we're a one dimensional team and then boom we put in the Jimmy package. So that's it like kind of a joke but I agree with like the reality of it because you go into this game the the chiefs go into this game being like we have to stop the run they have to because that's what the 49ers have shown the last two games and then they can open up. Here's a little thing there might be some wind on Sunday check that I will be that wind

I'm also going to make a bold prediction. I think that the Niners are going to hit them with a play action bomb on the first drive whoa play action bomb. Okay. So watch watch out for that one. Flea Flicker George Kittle. Maybe Flea Flicker maybe I'm not getting Flicker vibes. Who's catching it.

Who's it going to. Yeah. It's going to Debo. Okay. He's going to Debo for six. Nice. Nice. Oh yeah score Debo.

Yeah. I like that. Yeah. First score Debo Samuel for six points. I mean it'll be the perfect time to do it. Right. After Jimmy threw eight passes in the last game and you're right they're going to be king on the run.

I'm just rooting for Greg Kittle to get Super Bowl MVP so he has to get tattoos of us. Yes. I remember that. The biggest prediction is basically a repeat of last year. The old timer is going to beat the Patriots. Beat the new guy. Well no. Can't former Patriots perspective.

Who you rooting for. Under and the Chiefs. But so you're rooting against former Patriot Jimmy Garoppolo who learned everything that he knows from Tom Brady and Bill Bellachino. But I'm not really looking at it from like a Patriot perspective. I'm just looking at the game 29 to 1. You look at it like what you're going to order for dinner. What about if Mahomes wins this and then he is well on his way to be in the grace of

all time. He's got to look at that. to win six more after this one right to be in that conversation so but this is the early start yeah it would be hmm I want Andy Reid to win I do too I do I do I just I'm gonna bet on the Niners I do want like this is this is probably why the Super Bowl has no buzz this year is because I really I if when I bet on either way I want I don't really care either way when I yeah when I bet on the Niners and I lose if I lose my bet I won't I'll be mad that I lost the bet

but at the end of the day I'm like that's pretty awesome that Andy Reid has Super Bowl it's I'm excited for him it's a motion insurance that you're putting on yourself I like that I like that technique a lot I'm really I would love very much to see Andy Reid I think what could happen is you're right that front four on the 49ers they can get pressure on a quarterback pretty easily what is Andy Reid really really good at like ever going back to his Philadelphia eating ribs that's number one he eats ribs and he throws screen passes hmm he's his screen game is awesome it's on point it always has been I think that that's

actually a good matchup for the Chiefs I don't want to say it's a good matchup because obviously those four guys up front are really good but it's a matchup that the Chiefs are more uniquely suited to counter than most other coaches would be I just really want to have the Chiefs go down big and then say thanks for coming out Chiefs and Patrick Holmes like it after that he wins the Super Bowl mm-hmm that would be a pretty cool moment I'm also just rooting for them to win to get some fire tick tocks from Patrick Holmes his brother after oh boy he might win to roll MVP confetti come out wins to roll MVP a little inside tip I'm told

this is huge news by the way I can't believe Darren Ravel hasn't spoken about it yet the confetti that's gonna pour down after the game is gonna have tweets on it how was that finally we've we've screwed up tweets and we're dumping them on players God that's stupid it's so fucking stupid the NFL gets the NFL finally gets social media they're printing out tweets and then dumping them on people's heads who's doing halftime Shakira and JLo hips don't lie I knew that I do I did know that I always like to bet on the first didn't know that song of the halftime performance as well mm-hmm I am leaning towards hips don't

lie because that's the only Shakira song I know Jenny from the block yes she's from the block I hope I hope Jennifer Lopez where she the rest from from the awards ceremony is is it Jen Jennifer Lopez featuring Shakira or other way around that's you go headliners oh whose name comes Jen from the block is always such a banger to start with mm-hmm is like you announced your rival I'm still I'm still Jenny from the block right who's coming first though who whose name appears first on the it's also gonna be pit bull pit bull will show Jennifer Lopez comes up first okay so she's had a block mm-hmm put it in the bank all right

anything else Super Bowl Joe Buck Drake man good crew I ran Joe Buck last night yeah at a party I he was kind of walking towards me I was gonna go over and say what's up Joe and he just makes a beeline right to me and he gives me a massive hug I'm talking how big was his erection I'm talking he had it tucked right I could see the head poking out of the top right which is a pretty cool look mm-hmm and he was giving me this hug like both hands full embrace around my back I was like hey Joe I guess I guess you're on MDMA right now or so so Joe Buck was a pacifier in his mouth Joe Buck was tripping on Molly last night he

had a candy necklace around his neck he was shirtless he's like I love you shorts on there's a whole thing touch your face dude yeah it's so awesome he looked good though it is great this is definitely I feel like the most CNB scene Super Bowl we've had in five years cuz of my mad money see you see yeah yeah right the Miami vibe though everyone's here you know I mean you don't skip the Miami Super Bowl you skip the Minnesota Super Bowl you don't skip the Miami Super Bowl so you just walk down the street there's people everywhere mm-hmm and celebrities everywhere and people going to the beach and not going to

radio yeah listen I'm I'm very much enjoying the NFL like the the shirts and stuff that they put out I know we talked about earlier this week how I enjoy just Super Bowl merchandise the shirts that they've got here in Miami are fire like they are it's the pink it's the green it's the crazy 80s designs on them I'm gonna go back with like a whole new order of that shit kind of candy ass little bit of candy ass but guess what we're in Miami is Damarino doing the cornflip I hope not maybe Joe Montana who would Damarino get brought out there to flip a rolled up $100 bill really totally that's really mean Damarino is

just a really good guy and I like him a lot he's just a well adjusted like he loves life and so we didn't get to catch up a year later what it's how you know catch up the one year anniversary interview Damarino again and just type out the transcript and try to ask him the exact same questions in the same cadence or we can see if we get him to stay a little bit longer or we could do a table read with him of last year's interview might be actually better it definitely with his answers we would be better being able to read it we could change his name to like a different quarterback that he hates who does

Damarino hate every quarterback with a Super Bowl ring right that I'm trying to remember on CBS when someone referred to Trent Dillford he definitely is Trent Dillford when they said Peyton Manning might end up like a Dan Marino oh yeah Super Bowl and Dan Marino was right there like what the fuck Phil Simms alright so yeah we'll print out the transcript and have it instead of Dan Marino say Phil Sims mm-hmm for all his lines and then at the end Dan Marino be like man that Phil Simms sure as an asshole right right like that was you Dan yes the was you all right let's get to our interviews we got a great interview with

Christian McCaffrey and then an all-timer with David Baker the largest man actually probably look yeah probably the largest guy we've ever had on it's either David Baker or Kane I think David Baker I think he might be bigger than pound six foot nine he is a massive should have been a wrestler massive man before we do that Phillips Norelco has the most innovative electric grooming tools to help you do what feels right the Phillips Norelco one blade is the one tool that will help you trim edge and shave any length of hair with a single pass it's easy to use for both face and body perfect for Miami your style made

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question I have to ask you you're doing the one more Sunday campaign with Verizon and here's what the the campaign is PFT they want us to use all the time we watch football and then use that time for volunteer service community service in the offseason do you realize how much you guys are gonna be out of a job I was reading it I was like I don't think we have enough time I know to volunteer with how much football not only do I watch the games I grind tape I'm like an all 22 junkie I sit down and break that down so that's yeah that's like 80 hours a week I'm gonna have to volunteer you're gonna have to open up

your offseason right yeah so my other Verizon question is you are you now in charge of getting us good cell service in every single stadium yes that's my job so we can tweet to you when people can come to me with any of your Verizon questions okay that was a bad mistake yeah so yeah you're gonna you're gonna pay for that one we'll have we'll have all business Pete escalate or why Christian yep if you can't get service yeah so can we call you a future Hallfammer I wouldn't say that well I mean you can I would you know I don't know if I'll I'll agree I mean I was looking through it like you now you

have your 23 years old now yep you have most receptions by a running back in one game you have most receptions by running back in a season you're one of three guys to do a thousand yards receiving a thousand yards rushing in your 23 I think your future Hallfammer appreciate that so thank you say that to everyone that's how I'll start yeah that's how I'll start introducing myself yeah you are a Swiss Army knife but the big question is how quickly can you decipher a text from Cam Newton it takes a minute yeah I have to go see translation on the on the Instagram feed but I end up getting it done it's tough you know it's another

language that that I don't know how he understands it but he makes deal with it you know that's his thing have you ever watched him like type it out I've never seen it I think his keyboard is set to that to that whatever call it so he types normally but it comes out the way you know it comes out that makes it but yeah we're friends with Greg Olson he said that he thinks a lot of the reason why he gets passes is because you can decipher what cam better than anyone that's why he's been in a league so only reason Greg has stayed in the league so right because of that have you met and talked with your new coach I

have yeah okay I talked with talk with coach rule talk with coach Brady a little bit I'm really excited I think those guys are you know you look at the history of turning teams around who have been struggling and you know coach rule what he did at Temple what he did at Baylor and I think I honestly think we got the right guys to do that too you know we need a lot of guys to step up but we got a good young bunch mixed with some veteran guys so should be good did you bring up the fact that he spit on himself in the bowl game I didn't even see that cliff that's news to me we actually said yeah we like Matt rule

yeah we think he's a great coach yeah but if you're an NFL owner when you see him spit on yourself that's a no go awesome off the list yeah I love to have him but right that's like basic things that's something I would do I would see myself all the time Matt drool yeah when he talked did you get to meet him face-to-face yeah I met him face-to-face was he wearing a smock he wasn't wearing a smock no he changed it right I think he said he's retiring yeah I hope he I hope it makes it makes it come back though I'm a fan of the smock to be yeah me too here we go it's bad he spit directly on himself like

right down like it wasn't even I think it was indoors too wasn't a wind you know crazy way yeah no white boxes right now yeah he's dehydrated I'm stressed for that game that's for sure that's a thick spit yeah it means he's working hard I can respect yeah yeah I kind of have a serious question here because I've always wondered about you know when teams change ownership the actual like day-to-day stuff that impacts the athletes like how because I always figure you know you go about your job you've got you know the things that you need to work on that you know when you go in there does is there like a palpable sense

in a building when a new owner takes charge I think you know I only I only know from you know the transition from mr. Richardson and mr. Tepper and I would definitely say there was a new there was definitely a new feel in the building and anyone who knows mr. Tepper knows that he is such a presence he wants to be a part of it he loves talking with the players you know he loves being in the end and he is and and he's a guy who's not afraid to make moves that he thinks are gonna help us win so as a player it's exciting because you know that he wants to be on the forefront of you know new technology

new treatments you know he's building a new facility obviously done so much with our team already so from a player's perspective it does matter and it's really cool to when you have an owner who's like that what about the the shield at the 50 yard line do you are gonna miss that they change in the shield to the I love the things I just don't know these things yeah I got to come on a process over that's over yeah we obsess over Mr. Richardson was he wanted to give respect to the league so I kept it as the shield at the 50 yard line I like I yeah I mean you know not my decision but yeah I mean we have the I think we

have the panther now right yeah I like very disrespectful yeah yeah well speaking of questions that you know we try to always ask questions you may not get asked by every other interview would you like to use this time to apologize for skipping the Sun Bowl that's the greatest question I ever got I mean Donovan McNabb said that it said a bad message for the kids bad message for the kids that was his direct quote so would you I have a son shouldn't say things like that when you have like a history of like not good things you know I don't go that far but you know what I apologize to everybody I apologize to

the kids what what's the actually like you to apologize directly to my son so apologize to my son for missing the Sun Bowl go ahead what's your son's name it's little cat we call him little cat little cat born yet little cat I'm so sorry that I can't explain to you enough how apologetic I am for for missing the Sun Bowl you know if I could do it again you know I will replay a Sun Bowl just for a little while I'm actually gonna hold that I yeah I am actually upset that you skip the Sun Bowl because the Sun Bowl is the famous game that Ryan Pace went and watched Mitch Trebisky and was like damn they lost to Stanford I

gotta draft this guy if you had played you might have been drafted by the Bears yeah history might have been different hey you're absolutely right you know that's my fault yeah that's my fault yeah because you and see might have fallen behind by a lot more points right then Mitch would have tried to press a little bit right your exceptions right and then they would have that decision by me do you do you feel like a little slighted that everyone talks about who passed on Patrick my homes or just Sean Watson in that draft and not who passed on Christian McCaffrey I know I mean I I I get that from me like man they picked

Christian McCaffrey instead of Pat my homes that's terrible you know I'm happy with I mean I it's hard to complain when you go eighth you know obviously you're a competitor and you want to be the first pick but you know I couldn't go into a better organization great show me Charlotte's the best I'm not just saying that either so I like I went to a great team you know with guy I got guys like Olson on the team where I got a coming to the league and learned from him hanging out with him so it's been good yeah I feel like things worked out pretty well for you overall yeah and I grew up a Redskins fan we got you know Ron

Rivera now up there I'm actually very excited I'd kind of the Redskins and I have had a mutual parting of ways over the last five years let's put it that way but now I'm I'm actually reinvigorated because I believe in that guy and I think you know when when he left the Panthers everything you heard on his way out was nothing but admiration yeah and glowing praise so can you just like convince me that the Redskins are going to win a Super Bowl yeah well I think when you know you I mean you said it best when he left I mean the Carolinas were you know just thankful that you got some time with them and he's a great leader great

coach he's got a great staff and he's a winner you know I mean the league is such a revolving door I mean no one lasts forever and you know it's very rare at least so you know when I think about coach very I think of a great leader who's consistent you know he he's not afraid to to put the hammer down you know when needed which I think is something that you know in the league as much as it's needed a lot more than you know people think so he's a great coach he's obviously got a lot of the Carolina staff going to him and I'm excited to just for me except for when we plan but yeah I'm excited all the other games yeah

so your your whole family incredible athletes like your obviously your dad put in the NFL your brothers are incredible athletes your brother who is a quarterback at Michigan Dylan yeah he's in love with football he loves football yeah he's in love with football he's in love with coach Harbaugh yeah he's a good friend of ours and he is gonna sniff him out he's going to sniff him out oh no he's so Dylan's been there three years now okay so he's Harbaugh and him are close obviously so I hope I hope he's the guy I hope that you know they can finally get over that little hump of beating Ohio State and yeah and

go from there but yeah she's in love with football do you think you would have been able to make in the NBA oh that's tough man I mean you an unbelievable basketball player and you played all the sports yeah I'd have been a great 10th man the same you're the whole back defense is that we need to foul yep I'm in you know we need someone to maybe turn it over but probably not I'm in did you get recruited to play yeah I mean northern Colorado actually where my dad's coaching now okay they recruited me to play I was gonna play football and basketball and I wasn't going to but they asked me to CSU and then Detroit oh

yeah which would have been fun okay yeah I think you made the right choice so yeah yeah yeah recruited I just saw some highlights and you were just I mean you have obviously incredible athleticism throwing it down and yeah damn I may because it's tough though the guards are six five in the NBA yeah point guards so I mean I would have been an anomaly I'd like to see you do the dunk over the goalpost as a celebration one time because I think that would that would like surprise a lot of people yeah maybe I'll do that next year I'd have to be early in the year when the legs are a little fresher though yeah and in the

first game when you have a lead because I think it's a penalty now fourth quarter the legs are pretty gassed though you know that's a lot of volume through the game I might have to be a tone-setter first you know first series touchdown I like that yeah I think that might have to be the play I like that here's a little multiple choice for you would you describe yourself more as a gym rat a ham and eggs guy sneaky athletic or a coach on the field hmm Jim rat Jim rat first one and last one to leave yeah that's what I big big gym rat guy I've always wondered about the first and last out guys because

eventually that is that have two of them on the same team now there's only one and at what point is it too much at what point do you get there too early like I'd rather sleep the extra 30 minutes and be bet you know I mean right I think that's a that's more old-school now I actually love to sleep and I love to you know do my process but if my process now is over I go home it's Christian McCaffrey lazy yeah that's the new narrative question off season good question did the Heisman voter really tell you that they didn't vote for you because they just didn't watch it yeah that's a true story there's my face me

and my my mother's right next to me at a dinner Heisman dinner and just like sorry dude I had to go to sleep should I go like I didn't know if I should have gone to the deal but yeah I don't know that's a wild story yeah alright I have one last question it's kind of a stupid question but how do you get your traps to look so awesome I think traps are genetic honestly fuck or like I wanted you like all right here's the guy do 20 minutes in the gym now I don't know I mean I think you know do do like cleans I think that might get that's an underrated trap workout don't focus solely on the on the trap okay about

deadlifts yeah I'm big deadlift guy like that look like a bag of chips from the ground yeah it's fine yeah dropping your chips and then picking them up you know you get better getting worse you know stay the same yeah I like that yeah they're getting better getting worse I do like that good quote good football quote yeah great football quote is there anyone in your family that's not athletic that's my last question no yeah because I'm here's such a jerk like no we're all pretty good athletes everyone that just like shows up to a family dinner and is like hey I'm doing my crosswords now I mean no we all play

yeah my older brother play you know obviously I play and little brothers both play football played multiple sports I we got lucky we had to hit the gene pool which was nice and very fortunate do you ever did you call John L. way Uncle John I do not call it John never we've been when you're going never called him Uncle John okay all right well Christian McCaffrey thank you very much appreciate it go check out Verizon do community service it's gonna be a lot whatever we're basically doing community service till next football season because of a rise to quit yeah and if you have problems with Wi-Fi in the

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before we start I want to read the business card you gave us okay so you handed us a business card almost instantly which that's a classy move because you're like hey I feel like I'm a friend for life if I ever get in trouble I'm gonna give you a call well that's good that's good for free admission to the pro football hall of fame big yet oh yeah oh I thought it was just like it is I'm David Baker here's my mission yeah here's a mission you let me you know what you're coming and we'll roll out the okay perfect so on the back it says honor the heroes of the game preserve its history promote its

values celebrate excellence everywhere so you you know explain how you guys came up with this mission statement and what it means yeah the mission statement is something that drives every decision that we try to make at the pro football hall of fame and it's not always easy but to honor the heroes of the game not only the pro football hall of famers but every guy who ever played in the NFL has an archive and that archive can be added to so it's not just the 326 guys who have a bronze bust it's all those other guys 27,000 guys who played and we can talk about that in a second to to preserve its history we got 6 million

pictures 40 million documents that preserve the game and then it's to promote its values it's not just about the worship of the football hero or even the worship of the game of football but you know we as fans think every one of these guys fell out of bed great not one of them did right there's not a guy in the Hall of Fame whose quarterback who didn't you know throw a lot of incompletions or running backs who fumbled the ball or linemen who missed a block or defensive guys that mistackled these guys had to earn their greatness they had to fight for it they had to overcome adversity and it's

really about the values that they use the you know they are truly committed people they persevere they don't give up they they're disciplined their diligence and how do they use those values to drag a lot of other people to greatness and then lastly is celebrating excellence everywhere you know when you look at the life of a of a Roger Stabach you know or a Bill Cower Jimmy Johnson who just made it in with the blue ribbon committee you know you you may not be a Hall of Fame coach or Hall of Fame quarterback but you know those same values can help us learn how to be a better dad a better mom or a better you know broadcast

professional or thank you that was very nice and it can also help us learn how to be a better community and country now I learned a lot of lessons from Brett Farve about how to become better at the internet notably like it doesn't matter how many times you screw up as long as you succeed like one or two more times and you screwed up you can be a Hall of Fame or anything look look at what got you here PFT yeah I mean it's incredible but I will tell you we you know Brett was one of those guys you know when we selected his class it was 10 hours of work with all of our elite media selectors who really worked hard on this

thing all year long but it took 10 seconds for him to be selected I turned to the Green Bay Gazette because they were supposed to give his presentation and I said the next you know finalist is Brett Farve and I turned to the guy from the Green Bay Gazette and he says hey I've got a presentation but do you really want it yeah and I kind of paused and looked at the room and said now let's move on it's Brett Farve yeah that's interesting so I did not know this as part of the selection process there's a media organization that is assigned to like make your case for you almost like they're a trial attorney

trying to convince a room of jurors it starts with a presentation of five minutes for those guys and we didn't even hear the one for Brett but when I knocked on his door he knew I was gonna knock on his door I knew before I ever came to that city I was gonna knock on his door but when I told him he was one of the 302 best players coaches and contributors to ever play the game at that time I gotta tell you he stuck his hands in his pocket like a 10 year old kid and he just hung his head and the word I would express was humility yeah he knew the shoulders he stood upon even if you're Brett Farve right and then if

I could big cat yeah we take him over the honor show our guys who are in the audience who are hall of famers walk up on stage and shake his hand we then have a press conference afterwards and he happens to be next to me as we started and I said how you doing he goes are you kidding he goes I just shook the hand of Roger Stabach and I would have thought these guys played golf or do something no you don't understand all my life I dreamed of being Roger Stabach right and he pause for a second he goes hey I guess I'm on his team now right right and I said forever it's pretty cool and so it's a it's a it's a great moment when

that happens I mean that's fantastic because it is like you know every single generation the generation before then they looked up to the guys that were there and then they joined them so I just want to really quickly go back to how the actual selection goes down because I think it's fascinating so you guys are all in a room it's 50 people right 48 48 elite selectors elite selectors and you have people come up make the case so you whittle it down from a pool of how many to generally every year this is a different because it's a centennial year and we're having 20 for 2020 but you know most years it'll be 18 finalist

okay you know generally that's a senior and contributors that make up three and then it is players and coaches who make up the other 15 finalists right and the seniors and coaches you know kind of go out on their own and then when we get to that 15 you go from 15 to 10 and then you kind of whittle it down to five and now what is that room like our people arguing is it the greatest sports debate of all time like it's King complaining about the coffee yeah it seems like a fascinating place to be well listen we we've learned a long time ago the way to get elite media there is food yes okay so I mean I think it's it's one of

those things PFT where the Peter King told me that he does a ton and 20 interviews all year round just to prepare for that one day and and we've got guys like John Clayton and sell Palantone and Jared Bell from USA today and these guys take it I wish fans could see yeah how seriously they take it and most of them say that it's the most important day of their year well knowing how much NFL fans love the NFL I think we should probably put it in like the middle of April and make it a TV show well listen we you know we watch it the New York Times endorsement where they had the whole editorial board sit

down they put it out that would make a very I'll watch the whole day well yeah I'll tell you there's things that we're looking at in the future that might be a little bit different right but I will tell you these guys you know I didn't get this job just because I'm smart and good-looking I got them 400 pounds and you need a big guy who to run this meeting no one's gonna give any back talk you literally have the best knock of all time I think that was really just the resume right well he's took a piece of wood and they're like here knock on this action can do my knocking on this table right absolutely that's why you

got the job okay yeah but you know let me tell you we've got to be done by a certain time because we announce our guys live to the world right really in the middle the kind of a high point of the honor show right and so we got to move and but it'll take you know many times that I've been here it's taken 12 hours for the blue ribbon committee that selected this centennial class you know they met together for about 21 hours wow and and guys are passionate about it and one of the things I'd love for I can't share what goes on in that room or what said but I can tell you that good stuff bad stuff right I mean

the guys really get into it you have to have an honest conversation and that's why it's confidential so that guys can share stuff and bounce it off and but I do think it's when you make it into the Hall of Fame you have gone under an incredible level of scrutiny by a whole lot of people who are experts at doing it yes what's interesting is that you know you've got the the centennial people that are getting in right now can you expand the class a little bit I think as the as years move forward you're going to run into a lot of log jams along the way because of how the game has grown in the media it's

expanded so much that people are more way more familiar with players that played in you know the early 2000s late 2000s up to the modern day then they were even with guys that played in the mid 90s those guys are you know since TV rights weren't ubiquitous they weren't everywhere you couldn't watch them on every single bar those guys are in danger of kind of falling by the wayside even though they had great careers is there something you guys have planned going forward where you make sure that there are some spots in perpetuity for the older players pft that's really what the centennial class was about you know

I mean this year we have 10 seniors in that class and you may not know Max Speedy or Bobby Dylan or Duke Slater you know but Duke Slater was an African American who played for 10 years on the NFL from 1920 to 1930 let me tell you better be a good player at that time you know to play in the NFL during that time a great player and so we have our senior committee and our senior committee meets all by itself a lot of time and it's to find guys who may have fallen between the cracks right and then we have our contributors committee because the league isn't just those guys who are on the field it's those guys

who were owners who paid for payroll out of their kids college fund because they had to make it or those general managers who put these teams together or or a great guy like Steve Sable you know I mean you guys are a little young no no no big part of the reason why we got in the game I'll tell you I fell in love with this because of Steve Sable it wasn't just the score all of a sudden it was the frozen tundra of land row field and that clot of grass coming out of your face mask and a horrible you're right to me that showed you the determination right courage absolutely and the character of things and and then

we're looking at a special category just for coaches because sometimes you know for a lot of modern era guys and and one of the things the Hall of Fame does that's pretty cool is you got to wait five years after your retire to be considered so if Tom Brady or Drew Brees you know was to retire now or Eli Manning retired just the other day there's gonna be five years from now before he's eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame and I think that's a pretty smart move because it gives perspective it allows time for history to settle and to go into it but it's a very difficult process it is you know

with so many media outlets like yourself with you know the cell phone and you know Brett Farver on the internet it is there's an opinion everywhere and it's extremely controversial but what I would say is it should be hard to make it into the hall yeah absolutely it's not the hall of very very good yeah it's the Hall of Fame people forget that I love it I want to be your position I want to be the president of the Hall of Very Good do you what steps do you recommend I take to achieve that dream you know what PFT I'll tell you you know you to me and I've only known you here for maybe you know 20 minutes right but I would tell you you

excel at mediocrity whoa that's nice that isn't a compliment I've ever got anything not everyone can do that I got butterflies in my head you're on your way can we talk about you first knock on my own door congratulations PFT thank you PFT you didn't play football because you were quote to literally too big to play football yeah what does that mean you were a great basketball player you played in college you know in pros where I grew up they weighed you to play football as a kid okay okay and you know when I was eight or ten years old you know I was about PFT side and they would have put me in with you know with

15 year olds right but I we kind of corrected this in the next generation with both my kids right you know Sam played in the NFL and yeah three time All-American ISE and Ben played both in high school and Summit Duke and and but I've always loved football the most yeah I love basketball yeah basketball got me to college right and for me it's important because we all come from someplace yeah you know for me my mom and dad couldn't read or write and if it wasn't for sports I wouldn't have gone to college I wouldn't have gone to law school had the opportunity to play around the world and I certainly wouldn't be

sitting with guys like you here which is probably a downgrade yep you know we're sitting in a pretty special place I love that story though because you are you know the guy who's basically in charge of the history of the game you're the president CEO of the Hall of Fame and you love football from everything I've read more than pretty much anyone who's ever walked this earth and you didn't play but that almost is like poetic and perfect because that's how much you love it you know that's kind and and I appreciate it I do love it and again what I love about sports and this may be a serious topic for you guys no but what

I tell you what I care about it is there are so many lessons you can learn from sports yeah I get I got the greatest job in the world because I'm hanging with some of the best football players in the world but I've learned that they're pretty good people and the game isn't just for those guys who have a bronze bust or those guys who got paid for it like my son the game is for guys who become firemen and soldiers and police officers and fathers and respectfully you know when your life is you know screwed up and every one of us are at some point okay when your life is screwed up you don't go back to your

chemistry teacher your calculus teacher if we're life advice but I'll tell you almost all of us go back to that coach yeah and I really believe big cat that it's because that coach teaches you how to keep going when you don't think you can or how to get up when you can so I love this because there's so it's it's great football and man I love football but I don't love it as much as John Madden does yeah or some of the other guys that I've been with I mean that's hey they you know Bill Belichick Bill Belichick was on our blue ribbon committee okay and he said it was one of the best days of his career this guy

with eight rings you know talking about you know being at the Hall of Fame on that day making history by selecting the Centennial class these guys love the game right and to me it's it's it's a fun game to be with your friends to scream and yell to cheer for your team to drink a beer but there's so many wonderful lessons in it and it's done it's done a lot for me sports has done a lot for me it's done a lot for my two boys right and I hope that I and we can give back to it yeah so you've been all over TV the last couple weeks you surprised Bill Coward he's surprised Jimmy Johnson the waterworks started to

flow you were saying that there was so it was great because you got to see them in the moment where they realized and it all hit them like the culmination of my career is that I'm amongst us a league group and you've got to see that that reaction just from looking at you and you've kind of you've been famous over the years for like we said you're knock on the door that's what happens that's Saturday before the Super Bowl right you go around you tell everybody congratulations you made it I'm wondering if there's one person whose door you may have knocked on that was more memorable than the others whether it's for a

strange reason or for something that spoke to you well you know that's like asking me which one of my kids do I love the most actually let me ask you that the kid that went to USC or the kid that went to Duke my son Ben says I love him most I love them both the same okay but I will tell you PFT it's you know I learned a lot my first year we didn't have time to knock on the door so we had to call guys we had to get them across New York to Radio City Music Hall where they were going to be revealed again live to the nation so I called Michael Strayhand first because he was at his house I then called Derek

Brooks because I knew Derek Brooks I considered him a buddy and wanted to give some news to a good buddy my third one was to Ray Guy, punter, been a finalist 29 years he'd been eligible and my area code on my phone is 714 from Orange County so it's not 330 from Ken he almost didn't answer but fortunately I don't like the fifth ring he did and he's got this great Southern Mississippi draw and he said yes sir and I said hey Ray this is Dave Baker I'm the new president Hall of Fame I've been there two months I said he said yes sir and I said I just want to tell you that it is my great pleasure and I got that far and

I could hear him fall to the floor his phone is rattling around his wife is saying honey baby are you okay and I thought I'd killed my first Hall of Famer but it was like two minutes the one thing you can't do it was two minutes to get him up and which is a long time when you're trying to get somebody on the air right radio City Music Hall and it occurred to us a man you know we need to let fans see how important this is and so from there you know I knocked on Jerome Bettis's door and he got he got he there been a couple times that he hadn't made it so he got tired of waiting and felt he didn't make it again

and he left and the maid came to the door I told you you know a little bit about Brett Farr right yeah Kurt Warner was special for me because I'd been commissioner in the arena football league you know but Ron Wolf was an interesting guy because he came to the door you know thank goodness and he had a we was resplendent with a tie and his shoes were signed but he didn't want to wrinkle his pants so they were hanging over a chair you know so I had this camera crew with me like you're guys here and I said I said hey Ron I got good news and bad news the good news is you're in the Hall of Fame you're going to

Ken I said the bad news is you're on national TV and he said it didn't care most of them cry and and specifically for Bill and Jimmy when I don't have a vote in any of this I just run the meeting I don't have a vote but when I open up the envelope which is done by auditors you're Ernst and Young you know did this one and I'm always surprised and I was surprised that it was Jimmy and Bill and within about 10 minutes we realized that hey ones on TV on Saturday and ones on TV on Sunday and we started to go to work on that because again what was really cool about that wasn't Dave Baker being on TV I mean quite honestly

a terrier pigeon could do my job I disagree you add an element of yeah you had an element of woodpecker pageant woodpecker to the presentation that we not similar yeah but but I think you get what I try to do is tell them three things number one you're going to Canton Canton's a special place with 4800 volunteers that take two weeks of vacation to put on this instrument and every player wants to begin his career at the draft but they want to end their career in Canton the second thing I tell them is that they're going into the pro football hall of fame and the third thing is that we're going to keep their

legacy forever Chris Dolman who passed last night we will tell his the guy who's got Dave Baker's job a hundred Dave Baker's from now will tell the story of Chris Dolman not just a football player he is but I think a very special man so you know for us it's just telling that story and then it's getting out of the way I mean Bill Cower is a private guy and he's got that chin out there on the sidelines showing that determination but let me tell you once he heard that and once he saw his wife and daughter and Jimmy I thought he I thought we're gonna have to give him oxygen yeah but yeah that's what we want we want fans to see

how important this is to these guys because when when it happens you know respectfully I've had the opportunity to do this maybe 60 times now and I and look into the eyes of these guys I mean Randy Moss was I think Randy Moss you know I think I got privileged to watch him not just be a great football player but be a great man you know he's taken in as you know his son's kids he's I think very highly of Randy Moss but you know when that happens they're not thinking of records and Lombardies and statistics they're thinking about their mom who drove them to practice when they were 10 years old they're thinking about the dad

that didn't let him quit or the coach that inspired him or the teammates you know that sacrificed for them and man it is all that in a flash it's just a thousand images so much so that you know Jimmy Johnson just couldn't doc right so it's it's it's real special and the special part of that when we can do it is to have fans see that and for fans to see how special that is so what we do in the media is we like to say someone's a future Hall of Famer whether they may be or not would you be interested in possibly consulting with us so we can call you up and be like hey David Baker can we say this guy's a future Hall of

Famer are you allowed to do that you know I don't know if I'm allowed to do it I'd be glad to do it okay James Winston but but you know my answer is probably I was gonna sit be the same yes could be oh okay you're not saying no all right that's good for us we'll take a not no for James Winston but that's we'd love to say future Hall of Famer this future Hall of Famer that I think we need a committee who's like someone who's heading that committee the day you say future I feel like that could actually be us would you give us the you know mission you act on your behalf legally as long as and you know finding the

ad not involved in payment or pay absolutely we can sign all legal documents as you security number yes I'm actually I'm interested to know you mentioned the phrase the elite committee of deciders that get in that room it's almost like a 12 angry men situation if what what are the qualifications how does one get into that committee well it's generally somebody who's very respected in the media number one our bylaws say that you've got it to be in the media covering football okay and now we also have two Hall of Famers in there but they happen to be guys who are involved in the media James Lofton

from CBS and you know Dan Fouts who I believe is with a CBC as well CBS as well yeah but you know these guys are you know the best in their business but there also happen to be Hall of Famers right and again what we did with the Blue Ribbon Committee this year was a little bit different you know we had 13 elite selectors who are media guys we had seven you know football professionals you know we're Hall of Famers we had John Madden, Dick LeBow, Ron Wolf, Bill Polin, Gil Brandt, and then we had five historians and I'll tell you it was a wonderful perspective and and and how can I put it this way you know for guys

from Barstool Sports it's like being you know in the bar you know talking about stuff with enormous information that's available yeah right you know film data other stuff and and having a great conversation but the concession the conversation you know involves stuff like hey what if a guy's career was interrupted by four years of military service and more war to how do we treat that guy what if a guy happened to be a great player but he's also a great coach or a great GM and you know and they're just in-depth conversation from really really good intelligent football people that bring different perspectives

to it. Alright a little bit of a different question, Canton August it's hot you sweat through your suit yeah yeah that's impressive you know what it's a lot different than Newport Beach California yeah yeah yeah and by the way it's different during the winter right yeah okay yes but it's a it's a great place to be but Canton is a magical place yes and and what's to have all those Hall of Famers to have all those volunteers there if guys haven't been you know I would welcome them the first week of August. Okay so I told you we're gonna say this so we've been our goldfish is actually buried in Canton. Oh

we had a goldfish that picked 60% against the spread for an entire NFL season we made him a little gold jacket and we buried him in a tree right on the other side of that highway okay yeah we had a whole ceremony so our goldfish is in Canton. Is the grave marked? Yes you put a plaque on the tree he's buried right in front of it. I will look for it. Does that sound weird to you? Is that a weird move? Not coming for you guys. In the grand scheme of things it's strange but given the two individuals you're looking at it's by far for the course. Yeah I understand. Maybe that's the start of the Hall of Very Very Good.

That's the start of well that's disrespectful to Larry a little bit because he was he was very very good 60% he's very very good maybe is there an animal wing of the Hall of Fame for animals? So for example if Swagger too the new Browns dog I think he's still undefeated at home if he ends his career undefeated at home I feel like there should be an animal wing. You know what we have talked at one point in time about having other Hall of Fames there we do have the Ford Hall of Fans. Okay so on Friday I will also knock on the door of one of the three finalists here. The Z Hotel I'm room 15. I'm 14 but I mean we can

we can be in the same room. I'll keep the room open I'll keep it open you don't even have to knock. Who's nominated this year for fans? You know let's see it is Tampa Bay I know that. Steven Shea. Oh the guy with is it big nut or whatever it is. These are always guys who you'd recognize. Yeah of course. Of course. Different stuff but the guys who won last year were from Pittsburgh Miami and from Chicago. Okay. We actually picked three that first year. What about but there's a Ford Hall of Fans that is very very cool. I love that. What about the Seattle Seahawk you know him the guy that sits in the front row. Yeah I don't think he's nominated this

year but all those guys participated. What's the process is there just like who's the best fan or is there like a community service element? It's online and you know can I say. Yeah you know it's I think they vote on it. Okay yeah say one more time we'll bleep it again. Bleach report. Yeah. I actually you're speaking of different Hall of Fame. Can I interest you in the Big Dog Hall of Fame. It was an idea of mine a few years ago. The Big Dog shirts memories of lifestyle brand but you don't understand if I'm not in a coat and tie which I live in Big Dog shirt. I'm a Big Dog short guy. Yes. So this is this is actually like

serendipity because I'm on the porch. Yes. So I said when I when I said I want to make the Big Dog Hall of Fame. I said inaugural class Glenn Robinson Big Dog the big show from wrestling Beethoven the actual dog Frank Thomas and Robert Tractor Taylor and I said we need you to be the commissioner of that Hall of Fame as well. Let's get an endorsement get a sponsor and let's go. It's I mean it's I could go on and on every year we just induct two new big dogs. They don't have to be great. They could be whatever there's big dogs guys that are just you know they come in the room. They're big dog celebrating excellence everywhere. Right. Yeah. He went in the

field of large animals. Right. My dog my dog Leroy is a big dog. He's an English Mastiff. So at his peak he was about 180 pounds. Okay. But he's also a dog. You think he's in the business. You strike. No French pull no no French Mastiff. That's Doug de Bordeaux. Okay. Let me see. I don't know if you can get this here. Well so you're in the Big Dog Hall of Fame. This is a great stay in my life. Let's see. I've got you just knocked on his door and put him in the Big Dog Hall of Fame Commissioner. Oh there it is. Four pound Yorkie. There it is. Yeah. He's almost lost his life several times when I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Oh yeah. Yeah. What is your

favorite most obscure item in the Hall of Fame. My favorite one thing you walk by and you always stop and maybe look at a little bit more. So not a Hall of Famer but an item I always am interested like cleats footballs however it goes. I think for me I mean you're probably I mean we've got stuff there. You know Tom Brady got in trouble for deflating a ball. Right. Okay. Let me tell you Paul Brown Hall of Fame coach. He had a ball warmer that looks like this pineapple thing that you put the ball in. Right. You know so that his quarterback would have a warm ball on cold days. There is enormous stuff there. Like I said six million picture 40 million docus and a ton of stuff. Right. But I would

tell you seriously my favorite place is the gallery. You know I mean there's a lot of nights that I'm leaving work and it'll be midnight. You know and nobody's there and I'll walk through those bronze busts and Coach Madden had the famous enshrinement speech where he said that he's convinced that when the last fan is left and the janitor you know turns out the lights and all those guys talked to each other. I believe that he actually believes that. And I believe that. He believes it. I know you are right PFT. Absolutely that's it. You can't convince him otherwise. When I go into that sometimes I'll take an extra 15 minutes walking through that bronze bust room just me and them. And it's the coolest

job in the world. Does ever occur to you that one day your bust might be in there as well. I think there's a weight limit. You know so they probably wouldn't go with a head this big. I don't think so. You know it's nice of you to say that. In a moment but there have got to be some moments where you're like one day this could be me. Yeah. Never. Whoa. Never I mean I don't I gave me chills. You know these guys are so elite and so special. I don't think it's just about the worship of football heroes. Right. Or just the worship of the game of football. I think there's a lot of good here. And you know you guys I think you've interviewed Belichick but we have not well in my room. Can you set that up. Yeah. Let me tell you

a bill is a guy who you know you better know commitment if you're going to play for him. But but you know all those things are really important in the NFL. Yeah. But they're more important on the battlefield. They're more important in a family. They're important in your company and what you do. So that's what I love about it. You know I'm I'm I'm getting paid for doing something that I really love. This is why he's actually going to be in the Hall of Fame. The question was do you ever picture yourself in the Hall of Fame and you just went on to describe all the great qualities of the people that are in the Hall of Fame and football and how much you love football. Right. You that's that answer. You saying why you shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame

was actually the best campaign ad that you could ever have to be in the Hall of Fame. Right. And my only last my last question was going to be what suit size are you for your jacket. You know I'm about a 64. Okay. And again we'll get it set up. You guys you guys saw Bill Cower and Jimmy Johnson. Right. Yeah. And you realize that the camera adds five pounds. Sometimes more. So yeah something. So I was probably about four or five on that. Okay. It's okay. But but you know I appreciate that. You know someday when I'm through with my job and and you guys are still doing yours. What I'd love to have you say is man that guy cares. Yeah. I'll say it right now. You care that guy cares. And I 64 64. It'll actually be a big dog's jacket. Yeah. Perfect. All right. Well David

Baker. Thank you so much. It's been great. This weekend. I do have one last last super quick question. What do you need to have on your resume to be eligible for the pro football Hall of Fame. Do you have to play in the NFL. Well you have to be a professional football player or be involved in professional football. So a general manager might not have played an owner. You know Pat Bollin last year. What he's asking is arena or XFL players be eligible. Yes. Pro football. You know we haven't had one kind of stuff. And by the way we've got a broadcasting award. Yeah. Something you know we've got the Pete Roselle award. We're going to focus on the fan award. Yeah. Again we'll give you I'll actually give you my room key. That'll make it easy tomorrow. Yeah. Come by. No offense. But I

suppose I'm not the only person you said that to. Yeah. It's mostly to deliver guys. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. We talked about the ice cream. David Baker. Thank you so much. Thanks. I appreciate it. Thank you guys for all you do for the game. That interview David Baker was brought to you by Roman Swipes. Most guys have tried different ways to last longer but counting backwards from 10 doesn't always work saying the Pledge of Allegiance in your head doesn't always work. Thinking about baseball doesn't always work. The folks at Roman and online men's health company are changing the game with Roman Swipes. The secret to longer lasting sex. Roman Swipes are a clinically proven way to last longer in bed. That's probably what my dad used. He probably

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you guys must must be rich now. All business Pete he actually got most of that money from it so Tweeted him. Ask him for money. I think he's doing like a cash app everyone where he's cash app people. I think it's like twenty dollars for the first five hundred people to cash app him. Hit up all biz Pete that Pete Monday. Hold on. Sorry. I like it. Sorry PFT. You have it slightly wrong. So the deal is I don't think I do. No no you do. You do because it's the first fifty people to get to Tweeted him get twenty dollars. But if you Tweeted him more than ten times then you get re-entered into it. Multiplier. Right. So after the ten. Right after the tenth tweet to all business Pete every tweet after that is one dollar that he will cash up you. So if you

Tweet him a million times you will get a million dollars minus the ten initial registration tweets. In our official Super Bowl Pete money giveaway. Right. Yeah. Right. Also we're now making seventy six thousand dollars. Wow. Big check coming after every episode. Firefest. Also I know I don't take this segment seriously sometimes you know I don't really have a lot of firefests but this week I know I know it's a celebratory week parcels evaluation whatever all that good stuff birthday week birthday week you guys 35 years old. Why do you say it like that. It just brings me back to when this podcast was started four years ago you guys are just young thirty one year old whippersnapper or I think you're thirty two at that point. Yeah this whole

time works and we're just going after you know satire sports comedy podcast go after traditional sports media thirty three thirty four thirty five yeah four four years ago we were thirty one thirty five minus four thirty one thirty one thirty one and a half. I told you that math class would work out telling me we're all unverified just young guys going into the world going to going to take on traditional media and today four years later I am alone I'm the only one that's unverified you know you guys say nothing's going to change when the sale is going to happen nothing's changed but I'm just looking in front of you two guys and I'm just looking at two blue check marks people that we used to go against the most. It's fair I've been I've been verified for a long time

to help the airline industry and PFT got verified on Tuesday night randomly randomly I was verified a couple years ago and I gave it back but they kept sending it back to me it's like you move houses and your old cat follows you to a new one. So you didn't ask for the cat to come back. I didn't send an email. I don't know how these things work. Replying to the email where everyone in our company got verified at the exact same time on Tuesday night. I don't read all the terms and conditions of the Twitter agreement and the license. If Jack wants to come on and explain why he chose to give but I will say verified off that email. I did use the power of the check to hit on Cardi B because I figured that's what was keeping her from falling in love with me and responding to me

because right we got a lot in common she likes morning sex but the only thing she likes more is checks right and so now I've got the check perfect and so now I think we're going to live happily ever after. Okay my only question to you PFD is were you bummed out that Mantis, White Sox, Dave, Walk the Line. It's all of you. You're all in the same club. They're the same as you. They all got verified at the exact same time so you couldn't say that it was the XFL randomly verifying you. I didn't even notice that anyone else. I thought I got verified at least a few minutes before they did. Right because that was the plan is like oh the XFL must have verified me. I don't have a plan. I didn't have a plan because there was no e-mail. Why would I go

and make a plan and an excuse for something I don't need to. The bottom line is yeah there's blue check there. Nothing changes. I might give it back. I don't know. I haven't decided yet but you're going to wait long enough for us to forget about it and then keep it. Yeah you're also don't you were also verified. I e-mailed for it. I asked for it. I openly said that. I have no I'm nothing. I'm thirsty. I asked for a check mark. I need to go out and help the airlines. Sad. I just I'm not going to say I didn't ask for it when I did ask for it and pretend that it was randomly given to me. Also my other FireFest's jumpsuit janitor is over forever that. No we're going to come back next year. It's coming back. Yeah it's going to come back. We had to change

into our Florida clothes. You big guy you didn't want to do it. No I had stress about it and Florida was Florida was impossible. National championship. Oh yeah I told you the pocket situation. I wore a jumpsuit that day. I changed because I didn't want to lose everything that I had. I broke my new iPhone because the jumpsuit chain. Oh I broke my iPhone last night. Yeah at some point in the morning I woke up this morning and my iPhone was face down on the tile floor. Last night was a movie next to the bed. Last night was a movie. Is there a tiger in your bathroom. No well it's I want to jump back to what Hank advised me to do in New Orleans. That probably had something to do with iPhone falling off the bed. Yeah yeah jumpsuit january is not dead.

Not dead. It's not dead at all. It's not dead at all. No you're you know what you're killing jumpsuit january right now with your vibes. Bad vibes bro. You got bad vibes. We're in Miami. We haven't worn jumpsuits for the last 10 days. That's not true. That's not true. On Sunday. On Sunday and Monday. I mean we literally wore a jumpsuit on Sunday. You don't remember Sunday. I'm just. Kobe tragically passed away Hank. You don't remember the day. I do. I wear a jumpsuit. It's been an upsetting week overall. With no pockets on the radio on Monday. I'm just trying to stay true to what we started. Where's your jumpsuit Hank. I gave you guys. You guys crushed my spirit to go forward. All right. You guys crushed my spirit to go forward. All right. What's your

firefight. I take after your lead when big cash thrown up to like january 7th game and in jeans. I told you. I give you many heads up. Be mentally strong and don't just be a liming for whatever big cats doing this wardrobe. I'm just saying. I'll be a sheep. Yeah. Sheeple. All right. What's your firefest. My firefest is I was actually going to go in on how Twitter went out of their way to verify me and how much I hated it. It's so annoying. It sucks when stuff like that happens and you're not prepared for it and then everyone calls you a seller even though you didn't do anything to sell out. Right. Which just sucks. So I'm getting unfairly attacked. I feel but I guess another firefest would be more towards this is geared

towards Hank. There are some rumors going around that Leroy has been he's been getting some messages slipped under the door of his dog house and Giselle was allegedly touring a school in all boys high school. Whoa. In Nashville Tennessee. Whoa. So what's your fire connecting the dots. What should be your firefest. Yeah. I'm giving you a what is it. But if I prepare a firefest for you because I knew that you struggled. Giselle cares about her kids and will take whatever measures to make sure that they get the best. His firefest is he has to be the one to break news to you that Tom Brady is going to the Titans. Tom should explore his options and do whatever he feels is best for him and his family.

Mm hmm. Okay. Mm hmm. All right. Text for Abel real quick and see. Hey did you hear this rumor. I actually was I actually was texting was very able to say Bragg told me well no he texted me and he said birthdays are for pussies. You used to be pretty perfect. I used to never text coaches birthdays are for pussies. Reply to Joe Burrow real quick and let him know we're going to nice. Nice. Are we recording. Sell out show. My firefest is there's a picture going around of my right breast that makes it look like it might be a C or D cup. See. Solid C. I think it if you look closely enough it was the lighting and some shadows were at play. It's not. It's not what it looks like. Also my my tit was so fucking like more you look like I should have been milked. I look like

I was in pain because my breasts were so large and like hurt because there's so much milk. You looked like that meth head guy whose heart just like beats out of his chest. Yeah but it's constantly out constantly just engulfed. It looked like like a skinned coconut. This big white and the fact that it was so pale didn't do you any favors. It was bad. The whole thing is bad. I don't know what you want to say. I was looking at that. It's actually a good thing. How many beers. It's a good thing because it's like you know you have success in life and you need to be kept humble and then your very supple right breast becomes fodder for the entire Internet. Yeah kind of put you back in your place like hey you got tits dude. Yeah like you might you might

be doing well in life but at the end of the day you got tits and tits are usually for women. That's true. You got I mean you got a little treat every time you look in the mirror. Yeah it's a it's a tough one to live with. It's like hey hey actually can I not be accused of misogyny because I have breasts. Yeah part woman. That's exactly how it works. Right. It was also a good move for you to sit so closely to Brandon Walker after that picture comes out because he is if someone's looking for man tits in a picture. Yes. Your eyes are going straight to those two puppies. Get close to more tits is what I have to do now for a while. Boys are gonna hooters tonight. Yep. Yep. It was bad. It was a bad picture. I'll be the first to admit very very bad picture.

That's fine. Bad visuals. They happen to all of us. All the time. We were doing a hype video for Greg Kittle and I looked at some of the pictures of me and I whenever I play the Gordo guy I tie my hair back in a ponytail. Yep. I just looked like a woman. I just honestly looked like a woman in that picture. And you looked like one too. Now there we go. The world's number one feminist anti misogyny podcast. Love it. Love it. All right. Last up before we get to birthday FAQs the NBA All Star Game. Huh. Mike Greenberg's Dumb Rules. I don't. Okay. I don't understand. They're trying to do a tribute to Kobe. Yep. They should just make it first to 824 points. That's not what it is. Instead it is. All right. I'm going to read this tweet where someone said

you know it's always interesting when someone says people. It's not hard. Zero zero to start quarters one two and three one hundred thousand dollars on the line each quarter. Take those scores. Add them up to start the fourth. Take the score that's ahead at the time. Add twenty four to it. First to hit that number wins the All Star Game. Just watch and enjoy. That's far too much math for us by like 40 and to start the fourth quarter. Right. Okay. So here's what I think happens. Here's what I think happens. If a team is up by 40 to start the fourth quarter. Let's say the score is 100 to 140. What they would then do is they add 24 points to 40. So now you're at 164 and that means that the first time I honestly wait wait wait wait so quickly

here it is. The first team to get to 164 would win the game. Right. But the team that's up 40 is obviously going to get there first. Right. So I mean it's rewarding the team that's been playing better. Why are we resetting it after every quarter. Correct. Because they want to give out a hundred thousand dollars after every quarter. Every quarter is a game. Every hundred thousand dollars after the third quarter. But there's a box score that shows who won the quarter. Listen I'm not on the side of the NBA here. You could just give a hundred thousand dollars to whoever won the quarter. Yes. You don't have to set the score back to zero zero. Like if I turn on the NBA All Star Game and it's four minutes into the second quarter and it's eight to six and I'm like what's going on.

That is going to fuck with you if you're betting the over on it. You're going to have to have like your own advocates in your living room keeping track of what the score of the entire game is. I agree. That's that's messed up. Kobe didn't want this. Kobe didn't want this. He would he would have liked maybe eight verse 24. That's what they should have done. It should have been team eight verse team 24 or team Mamba versus team Mamba Sita. There's so many ways to to do like great things for Kobe's legacy and have this moment. They just decided to make it really really confusing and I guess it's working that we're talking about it. Yeah. It's the classic way to stay relevant baseball except basketball. I've got a couple ideas. Why don't you just have every player

whenever they shoot the ball. They have to say Kobe. I like that shoot it in the game like that or this is actually an idea that could work. You know how the NFL has their football. It's named the Duke named the basketball. The Kobe and it's the ultimate ball dominant move. I like that. The most ball dominant player of all time. I like that forever be ball dominant because he's going to be stamped right on there. Here's one last one I'll throw out there. How about you have a dunk tank behind one of the hoops and every time that hoop is scored on Smush Parker goes into a bed of lava. I like that one too. I think that's maybe the other one could be Jason Whitlock. So it's like do the Kobe haters of all time and they just continually get dunked all game long.

I would love to see what happens to Jason Whitlock's hair when he goes into a dunk tank. Oh he would staple that fedora to his head so no one could see. It's just state. It's just nailed in there. Yeah. That would explain some of his takes either way. Obviously it's going to be a very emotional all star game and they should do something for Kobe but I don't understand this like why this just make it first to 224. That's perfect too. Team 8 versus team 24 makes so much sense. Whatever. Or just outlaw passing. Outlaw passing. Moses. Yeah I like that. I like that. Or you can only shoot if you're triple teamed. Yep I like that too. These are all better ideas. These are way better ideas. I actually do think they should just name the ball the Kobe though. I like that. Or

maybe make the I don't know what the all star or the MVP trophy is for the finals MVP. That's Bill Russell so they're probably going to change that. All right. So then Larry O'Brien maybe who see Larry Kobe O'Brien. I don't want to slant slander Larry O'Brien before I know how important maybe name the the ball Kobe like on the trophy and then the stand is the Larry O'Brien stand. Oh I like it. It's like when they have a stadium and like Daryl K. Royal Stadium in the Joe Jamil field. Right. Got it. Larry O'Brien was an American politician and basketball commissioner. He was a democratic party's leading electoral strategist for decades. Name it Kobe. Great job by the way. Name it the Kobe. Yeah so now the Larry O'Brien trophy is the Kobe O'Brien trophy.

All right birthday FAQs. Can I actually start though before you do the FAQ PFT. Are you mad at me about my birthday this year. Why am I mad at. Did you see the fact. Did I see the fact. The fact. No. Today is the sixty nine six thousand nine hundred and sixty nine day after two thousand. Oh cool. I probably would have laughed at that three years ago. Oh damn. You're mad. You're mad. I'm very mad. You would have loved to have sixty nine sixty nine. I'm very what. No. Because there was no day zero. No they did the whole thing. Don't do this. You don't. Bad math. And you really talk yourself into a bear trap on that one. Hey go ahead. Quick late breaking moves but Greg Olson and the Panthers have decided to part ways.

Mutually. OK. So he's retiring. So Jason Whitten to the Panthers. Greg Olson to the booth. Greg Olson coming home to Chicago. OK. Bring back Mike Martz. All right birthday FAQs. Happy birthday boys. Congrats on being as close to 50 as you are to being 20. Shut up. That was that. No. But we're farther away from 50 than we were from 21. No who counts to 20. Call me next year idiot. Good point. Also big cats closer. I'm not yet. True. Happy birthday Mr. Cat and Mr. Commentary which is appropriate now considering you're almost old enough to start receiving Social Security. I'd like to ask if you'd consider retiring in Miami or Florida for that matter after spending some time in the Sunshine State.

No I hate Florida. I don't hate Florida but it does turn your body into just like a humidity tent when you step outside. It's been the best Super Bowl by far. I've had a good time. No I mean I haven't seen the sun really but yeah it's great Super Bowl. You went to the beach Hank. Must be nice. Yeah a couple times. Hank would you retire in Florida. Sure. Yeah I don't I don't have a problem with Florida. Me and Florida are in good terms. Humid. Dry drinking some my ties. Yeah. What's the better deal. Buy two for the price of one or buy one get one free. Two for the price of one. Two for the price of one. Two for the price of one because it sounds like it's more because you've got the number two in there and the number one.

Yeah. Yes. Also when you get to buy one get one free if you're getting let's say two pairs of like the same shirt or like the same shirt and you're getting two of them you get the first one. First of all don't buy that shirt. Right. You're doing a buy one get one free shirt. That's what I'm saying. So if you buy a shirt and you pay for the shirt and they're like oh here's another one that's second shirt even though it's the exact same feels like a piece of shit. Right. Like that's a bad shirt. Right. Why are you giving me the shirt. Two for the price of one. It's just like oh they're both on sale. Right. Right. Happy birthday to birthday cat and old but still kicking PFT. Since you are both of legal age to run for president what would the first

thing you would do in office as the president of the United States. Probably put a cigar in an intern's vagina. Nice. Nice. I think that's usually good stuff to do. Yes. In the Oval Office. Super Bowl Monday is a national holiday. Done. Also no more taxes. That's going to be a challenge. We'll figure it out later. No more taxes for me. Yeah. Well let me finish. Here's what you do. You outlaw taxes but you don't publicize it and then only nerds continue to pay. Correct. And all the bad boys that just skate on the radar. Guess what. You're home free. Yes. What is the plan for your soon to be midlife crisis. I think I already had mine because I started a podcast. I think that's like what you do. Right. That's the new buy a Corvette.

Yeah. I've been thinking about it. I don't know. I'll probably dabble with some HGH at some point the next few years. I'm going to continue to dye my hair probably even more so. I'm going to be a tattoo. I'm going to start doing some sort of weird fitness trend. I got this class pass thing which I've just been abusing and only using the points to do like massages and relaxation stuff. But I think I'm probably going to get I'm going to try to get a six pack at some point. I have a question. Can you have a midlife crisis if you've already just accepted that you're midlife. Like I don't I don't really go out. I don't do any of that stuff. So I don't know if is that am I eligible for midlife crisis. Yes. I feel like midlife crisis is when you keep

trying to chase it trying to be the young guy basically for the next 15 years any crisis you can have is a midlife crisis. Technically. But you know what I'm saying. Like I don't but you might chasing it. I don't care. I don't want to be young anymore right now. No. I. Yeah. I don't want to be young. But that could change. But when you think I'll stop going out less than zero. Yeah. No. If you start going out more that you're already going out zero. So if you start going out once a week midlife crisis would you become a club guy. Got it. Got it. Okay. Think about this. I understand. I understood. I don't think I'm going to have that happen. We could potentially die. That's the point. We could potentially die tomorrow. Right. And so that would

mean that our midlife crisis already happened when we were 17 years old. Right. And so like our midlife crisis is I want to get a high school degree. Right. And that's what I did for my midlife. Right. And bought a minivan. Is that it Hank. After hearing that Andy actually last two many many are calling age thirty five the baby back bitch year is this year we can expect a certain someone to come on the pod to discuss. Yes. I will say if I don't if if we don't get Kevin Durant on this podcast in our age of thirty five cancel my birthday next year. Oh shit. Yeah. I'll just stay thirty five forever. Yeah. Oh heaven forbid. Kevin you better you better not back out of this one.

Stay thirty five forever. That's what we call a win right there. Yeah. That's a threat. I say if we don't get Kevin Durant on this year we're not allowed to say his name ever again. Right. Right. All right. Last one. Hey boys would you guys watch the bachelor but instead of people picking their soulmate it's just Phillip Rivers deciding who his favorite kid is. Of course that sounds like the best television program ever. It's probably going to be the one with the biggest arm. Yes. Absolutely. It's just the best athlete is his favorite. Actually this is how Phil Rivers should decide his next team. He should have all his kids wear a t-shirt for like anyone who's interested in him and just throw the ball up like it's the fourth

quarter and he's down a score and whoever intercepts it that's the team he goes to. It's like at his wedding when he's throwing the bouquet. Right. So he stands tosses it over his head and then they fight for it. Right. I like that. It's perfect. I like that. No he's got to throw it real and run around and stop around and panic. Okay. And then throw it up and then whoever gets it you're going to that team Phil. And then he has to put a garter belt on the kid that catches it. I hope this isn't it for Phil. It's not. Phil is addicted to play. Again as we've said on this show he is going to be faced with a choice of staying at home with nine kids. And having more sex and more kids are going to work and getting a break from those nine kids. I think he's going to

go to work. Okay. All right. That's our show. We taped some awesome interviews this week so we got them coming up. We also have of course Monday will be the recap of Super Bowl 54. Enjoy it. Embrace it. It is the last game of the year. I don't know how we got here but we're here and we'll see everyone Monday. Love you guys. I'll be coming for your love of cake. Take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me. Take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me. Take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me.