Shutdown Fullcast - Shutdown Fullcast 40 for 40: The 2017 Liberty Bowl

Episode Date: December 29, 2017

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Welcome to the 40 for 40 for the Liberty Bowl. This is, we're going to get a Liberty Bowl as much of a preview as it possibly deserves. Can you, can you do more of a Memphis welcome? Welcome. Thank you. You got to swallow the whole word. It's got to like happen like, welcome. Okay, thank you.

To the Liberty Bowl. That's not right. But yeah, welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Also, you need a musical backing that sounds like every rap song of now. but 20 years ago.

You just need like the caveman 3-6 mafia beat that like makes you wonder when you go back and listen to it. Like would modern music even sound like anything if this hadn't been made? You also need a refrain that's just a bad idea. Most Memphis rap songs always involved just something that's just a- Breaking and entering. Don't go to school. Get your money.

You're like, what? No, wait. Lose to Iowa State. Lose to Iowa State. No, come on. Text and drive. Text and drive. All my home is we text and drive.

Losing the Iowa State gets him in the playoff. Yeah. That's true. This is a combination of two teams where, you know, like one is Memphis where, yeah, it's probably a hit song called Text and Drive, right? Or like, you know, keep paint next to a heat element, right? Keep flammable goods next to open heat. Yeah.

And then there's Iowa State, which is just nothing but like good living. right clean living good water yeah so you're saying the Memphis rap song you're like throw out all your water throw out all your water just drink juice hot just drink juice convert all your water

into tang what the fuck is water bathing tang bathing tang all my all my people don't know H2O what is water H2 now

H2 hell now broke boys on that water we don't drink that water this is also the battle of two coaches who looked at the available coaching landscape because neither Iowa State nor Memphis are places where you're like yes I'll stay here forever and that's fine

and they said no thank you nope I have seen the options available to me and I choose not to level up is it no I will stay a level three mage thank you and I don't want your spells Tennessee they're bad Yeah, because this is fun of them games with you, so there's no point in leveling up.

My spells are the greatest, but there's no spell that can ensnare Paul Johnson to be our next coach. He's impervious to magic and bullets. You know he has some theories on the magic bullet, too. I mean the blender and the Kennedy assassination. The first one is a countertop magician or the vibrator. All, all three. And both of those things coincidentally make up. a big part of the Memphis economy.

Jesus Christ. Hey, would you all like to hear a great Liberty Bowl story? Absolutely. Yeah. Okay, so you may or may not know that the Liberty Bowl started in Philadelphia, which is a big reason why it has, you know, the fucking Liberty Bell on the logo.

It was not very popular because it was an outdoor bowl played in the middle of winter up north. Hey, Pinstrype Bowl, we did watch you. You looked fun and bad for everyone. one involved. After like, after like three or four years, uh, Atlantic City came calling to the Liberty Bowl organizers. And they said, hey, what if you had this bowl game indoors at a convention

hall? Interesting idea. Do you think AstroTurf was invented at this point in time? Spoiler. No. No, it was not. So what did they do? They took the convention hall floor, uh, over the concrete, they put burlap, and then they put actual grass, and they left artificial lights running all day and all night so that the grass wouldn't die. The convention hall...

It is extremely like what people in the 70s thought like a moon base would be like. And the convention hall floor was not big enough to hold the whole field. So each of the ends

had to be cut down by a couple yards. And that's how we played the Liberty Bowl in Atlantic City. Still better than having a football game at Wrigley Field. Which I'm pretty sure the game we're talking about here was Utah versus West Virginia. And the fact that West Virginia got to play in a bowl game in Atlantic City is just, oh, just love it. Just fucking love it. How many people in the stands were like, we're like, yeah, we'll go to the bowl game. It'll be absolutely great.

Oh, God, there's one leg, Johnny. I never thought I'd see him again after that thing in Dearborn, Michigan went wrong. Fans still after us both. What will happen? Like every, like, there's so many Elmore Leonard novels just like waiting in the prospect of a West Virginia Mountaineers game that happens in Atlantic City.

And then Utah fans, too. They're the ones who get shot. They are. I thought we'd have a nice time with their family. Why did you think that? This is why Utah fans have those wide calves and ankles. It's easier to get a flesh wound on them. the uh by the way i this is great value it's a noon game but you get iowa state in memphis

which are two teams that like are probably better than the liberty bowl like tbh like besides the cotton bowl for sheer value the liberty bowl's right there because these are two teams that had really good years just managed to have like an unusual spot in the bowl draw and um like dynamic offenses to watch cool players you got a landing you got a ferguson You got a, you got Mike Norvell, who at one point, remember, only coach I know of who had cornrows. Have we got Brett Belema's Facebook pictures from? No, we need, you know Beelma probably did get cornrode up in college at one point, but we don't have any photographic evidence. You know where he had corn road, too.

No, he was actually trying to grow corn up there, is the thing. See, it's an economy. I could have a still, and I could feed myself.