Subpar - Cooper Manning talks his recent round with Larry David, favorite pairing at the Zurich Classic

Episode Date: September 24, 2024

On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz are joined by Fox Sports personality Cooper Manning for an exclusive interview. The host of The Manning Hour dishes on a recent golf outing with Larry David, which PGA Tour pro has been his favorite pairing at the Zurich Classic and what it was like watching his son Arch get a win in his first start for the University of Texas. -- Thanks to Ralph Lauren, the Official Outfitter of GOLF's Subpar. The RLX Golf collection is available in select Ralph Lauren stores, exclusive private clubs, and resorts, and online at https://RalphLauren.com. -- This episode of Subpar is presented by Zone Nicotine pouches.  Warning: This product contains nicotine.  Nicotine is an additive chemical.  Underage sale prohibited.  Introducing Zone Nicotine Pouches - the perfect balance of unparalleled comfort - longer-lasting flavor - and nicotine that satisfies.  Whether you’re zoning in for an important putt or zoning out after a tough day at work, Zone gets you there faster and keeps you there longer.  Available in seven flavors and in six and nine milligram strengths.  Find Zone at https://zonepouches.com and retailers near you.  Own your zone with Zone Nicotine pouches.

Well, hello, friends. Welcome back to golf subpar with Colt Nost and Drew Stoltz. So it's football season. It's also known as the fall. Let's talk about golf. Let's say strictly on golf today. Well, we will. But before that, talk a little bit about RLX in their new fall collection. Introducing the RLX polo shirt featuring the new true stay collar from the RLX fall 2024 collection. The RLX true stay collar for performance polo shirts offers a sophisticated blend of style and functionality, perfect for both the golf course and everyday wear. It's innovative design features a removed hidden button, delivering a sleek, streamlined appearance that enhances the shirt's overall tailored look. Additionally, the collar is reinforced with advanced materials ensuring it maintains a crisp, pristine shape even after prolonged use.

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and online at Ralph Lauren.com. We've got the new fall collection going on right here. It's rather nice. Beautiful, per yush. Not quite fall here, Scott, still, but we're getting there. We're not quite to the pullover slash cashmere weather yet, but it's tolerable, at least. We got out there and golfed our ball a little bit this past week. That was nice.

We did. Let's give it. Some other people golf their ball. Really well. Very good. We had two groups up at Whisper Rock on Friday after Friday morning-ish. We had a pros group and a Joe's group. By the way, your boy, Wyndham Clark, wanted to play a match, pros versus Joe's.

wanted to give us half of our strokes, which is just not enough. As will be evidenced by what you're about to hear. So we go out there to play. They're the first group off. I get a text from Wyndham. They just finished. We were finishing up on 17 Greenhead and 18T.

We couldn't agree on a team bet, so we just said, you know what, forget it. Nobody deal. I played Max in an indie. Windham text me, he goes, we'll take that team bet if you want. Okay. Really after you finished, guessing y'all played pretty good. We'll come to find out. The foursome included, Windham,

Clark, Max Homa, Kevin Chappell, and JJ Spawn. Combined for zero bogeys, Wyndham was the high man in the group at 66, Kevin Chapel 65, Max Homa 63, I beat him 3 and 2, by the way, and J.J. Spawn, 61. With a putt on 18 that the rest of the group thought was for 59, but they have no idea how to keep scores, so it turns out it was actually for 60. Regardless, good golfing by the squad. They hit the golf ball really nice. Their math, not so good.

How do you think it would have shaken out with half-handic caps for our squad against that? I did. It would have been boat race. So I proposed a best to next. So first ball, it's just one best ball out of the group. If it's tied, it goes to the second one. They shot 18 under on their first ball. Okay, we would have lost one down because none of us birdied 18.

Oh, wow. That's when you typically get to them. Yeah. Good golfing of the ball. Good for Team USA. Max and Windham. Windham, high man was 66. But, yeah, things feeling a good.

good spot going up there in golf is really the only thing that happened this weekend so we should just probably talk about president's cup and bmw pGA dude lot to get to in that we better get to it that one was very exciting uh three-man playoff billy horschle roy mackroy and thurston lawrence uh billy ho 30 17 and 18 to get in the playoff and then eagles the second playoff hole for a win his second win there in three years roy mackroy just continues to play unbelievable consistent golf just can't hoist the trophy this has got to be like the most crushing year that he's had. He's played really good golf.

He's played a ton of golf, by the way, more than I think you're ever going to see him play again. But not just that he's not winning, but the weight that he's losing. I mean, of course, highlighted by the U.S. Open, the miss on the 72nd. That one's pretty tough. A little bit later after that,

Irish Open, I would say probably the most meaningful tournament to him outside of the major championships, I would think. Loses that one, close. Goes to Olympics, finishes fifth, just off the podium, no medal there. and then back-to-back runner-ups now on the DP World Tour. Played four events on Deepi World Tour runner up three times out of those four.

I just feel like everything is close, but no cigar, and it's not just that he's losing. It's the way that he's losing. Billy 35-foot, just beautiful put-for- Eagle ballgame. He's losing tough, tough ones. I think he's ready to turn the page on the year, or I would be at least.

But shout out to Billy Ho. That was awesome to see him go over there. I mean, take down one of the best players in the world, and Roy McRoy are going to do, a lot for his confidence going forward. I mean, he has just turned it around going from last year at the memorial where he was in tears doing an interview because he was so lost

to now winning on the PGA tour again this year and now winning on the DP World Tour at their flagship event against a loaded field. Congrats to him. He looks great in his polo. Props to him, that's hard to do to go from like, I'm broken. I'm going to air it out on national television, be very honest, which most people would just hide, you know,

wouldn't even go do that interview. But to say that, like, I'm lost. I got to restart. and then to come full circle like he has that's you don't see that a whole lot especially for like he's not the youngest dude on the PJ tour now speaking of broken you want to talk about it I was trying to you want to talk about it I don't really but um I will because I'm a man of honor time out I need to zone in for this this is this is going this is going to take some this is going to take some uh some heart here that's a little nine milly all right well here we go get me proper because we had a little wager going heading into the iron skillet SMU versus TCU and beautiful Dallas Texas on a Saturday afternoon. My Mustangs just threw those 66 points at your horn frogs.

Give it to me. Give me everything. I want it. I want the pain. It was embarrassing. We agreed on the bet that the loser has to order the other team's shirt, a nice polo golf shirt,

with the SMU logo on it. You got to rock it the next time we play and film a little video saying how great SMU is and how TCU sucks. I will be buying the shirt. I'm sure they'll be on sale. Not a lot of demand for those.

Good news for me. But I want all the hate. It is, y'all stop. That was not the, that's not the most hurtful loss that T-C. Because, like, the expectations weren't that we're going to be great this year play of when the Big 12, any of that stuff. But I think it's the most embarrassing loss ever. Not just losing, getting dumped shrug, giving up 28 points without your offense even being

on the field. Tough to win games. Three defense and a special team's touchdown. Didn't stop a run one time. We're as soft as shit. We're poorly coach. Oh, and by the way, our coach gets kicked out one play, one kickoff into the second half, which I've, I've watched a weird.

amount of hours of football in my life. I've never seen a coach get tossed. And I was just like, well, that's the first. It was a horseshit call. Would it change the whole game, possibly? But, dude, we're on a fast track to mediocre right now. You take away that one season where we went to the Natty. It's been very, very mediocre.

Figure it out. Fix it. It's shit. This is what you did on radio. You just, all the talk was about TCU. Why can't you just say SMU played a really nice football game? You pick up fumbles and return them to the house very nicely. Exactly.

Here you go. Want some points? There you go. I think we worked really hard this week in practice about punching the ball out. My attention's not on SMU. My attention is on TCU. And right now, somebody better step up in that room and figure it out because we're trash. We're going to play Kansas this week.

They run the ball every play. We're going to fucking lose to them. And then it's going to be, that seat's going to start getting warm. Wow. Just a year and a half. By higher, old coach Lashley from SMU. Maybe call him up to the big. year and a half after going to the national championship,

you're already calling for it. I'm saying the seats getting warmed up, dude. The seats getting warmed. I'm convinced. I'm a big conspiracy theory guy. I'm partly convinced that Sonny Dykes is an SMU plant. You send them over to sabotage the program. You know what I mean?

I'm not saying it's out of the realm of possibility. That's why I got ejected and all the favor of booing the shit out of it. Yeah, you got to sell it. He's doing a good job with it. I look forward to seeing you in a very nice SMU poll. I want that logo to be big. too. Yeah, we'll see. Red, white, or blue, good news. I look good at all. Maybe we call Malbin and have them design something really nice. Something loud. You really stands out. Yeah, something aggressive. Yeah,

I wouldn't be mad at that. I love it. But way to go, ponies. Winner of the Iron Skilet. Rhett Lashley also cooked his breakfast Sunday morning in the Iron Skilet. I respected that. I respected that. You need some hate back and forth, and you need some of both sides winning football games for it to be a good rivalry. Similar to what we could, what we need actually at the President's Cup. Like, the internationals need to find a way to make this an actual event because it's headed towards like nobody caring. It's just like a tune up for the Ryder Cup. Yeah. The internationals have 1-1 President's Cup back way, way back when Frank Nobalo was a part of the team down at Royal Melbourne. With mashies. We had the tie over in South Africa.

That was a good one. Which was awesome. But other than that, it's been all USA and, listen, I want USA to win. I know Jim Furrick got pissed off when he said, some reporter said, hey, I want it to be closer. I want the internationals to actually win to get some juice in this thing. I want USA to win. I do, but as people that cover golf, they'd have to talk about it. Like, I want to be into it on Sunday. I don't want it to be a six-point blowout. And this thing doesn't really matter in half the matches on Sunday. Don't matter. Let's keep this thing somewhat close with USA pulling it out late. Yeah, Liberty National, where it's like, hey, we want this thing to be over before singles. And it wasn't mathematically, but it basically was. We were one point away. Like,

that's just not good for the event. And I think it's tough sledding for the internationals. I hope they can make it competitive. They got decimator. Their team took a big hit with live guys going and not being able to play in that thing. In the U.S., I mean, you just look at average world golf ranking. It's hugely lopsided. And there's a situation where depending on how they were to match up the singles,

where they'd be dogs in all 12 matches. I just think with that many points, that few people sitting out each session, you know, unlike the Ryder Cup, it's just, I mean, the law of averages like that. They're going to have to do something really special, or USA is going to be, they have to be really rusty or really bad. And by the way, the USA, Team USA getting up to Montreal

with more time before the competition than they did actually going to Rome. Yep, I like that. We're adapting and we're learning. They're going to be ready to go. I'm interested to see if USA does happen to win rather easily again, when does this conversation start about like,

let's mix up the format here at the President's Cup. Let's make this thing where we can somehow figure out a way for it to be more competitive if we're going to keep doing it because we all get so excited for the Ryder Cup. Even though the last like five Ryder Cups haven't really been close, we still get so hype for it. I feel like the President's Cup doesn't get all that much love. But at least they've been back and forth, you know? Like each side's winning.

They haven't been close, but each side's winning. It's a rivalry. It's not just you guys never content. You guys never even make it a competition. At this point, I don't know what there is to lose. If this is a runaway to the U.S. side, it's like, what do you got to lose? the events kind of losing juice. Instead of just being a worse version of the Rider Cup,

turn to something else. Turn to the best version of whatever. Like Zurich did when they said, we're going to be a two-man team, two-man event. Great. Now you have an identity. Now you're something different. You know, we've talked about it on our radio show,

possibly make the President's Cup a mixed team event. Get the women in there. Have six men, six women. I change it up. And let's go. I mean, the Korean women are so strong. You got Lydia Coe from New Zealand who could help out the team quite a bit.

She obviously doesn't get to play in the Solheim Cup. It'd be awesome to see her in one of these team events. I think it'd make it a lot of fun. I think it'd make it very competitive. But let's just sit back and see what happens. I mean, the Canadian fans are going to be rowdy up there. They've got three Canadians on the team to cheer for it. And I hope it's close.

Last time they played it role in Montreal, I believe, 2007, Mike Weir beat Tiger in singles, but Team USA still went on to win. I'm excited for it, but I just hope it stays somewhat close. You mentioned the live guys that aren't allowed to play. on the team because the PJ Tour owns the President's Cup, and that's never going to happen. Shout out to the Rippers, the Ozzy Boys, Cam Smith, Mark Leashman, Lucas Herbert, and Matt Jones, who won the Live Team Championship. Rather exciting.

I'll be honest, I was watching the Cowboy game, and they were getting their shit kicked in. So I was slipping back and forth to the Live quite a bit because it was really entertaining. I caught a little bit as well because TCUS and you actually played on the CW, which I did not know that they actually aired football on the CW, but caught some of it. I was a little, I kind of, I knew the format was like match play, you know, two individuals and then a team match for each one. And you go the last day, I turn it on and I see like minus eight, minus six. I was like, what's going?

Are we back to stroke play? So I didn't know that the final day was stroke play. But as we mentioned with like East Lake, props to them is like they're making this. They're end of the year, the ultimate prize, right? The team championship. They pumped the team element so much over there. They had one round for all the marbles. And it was close.

And there was volatility. And it went back and forth and changed hands. Like, that's kind of what we're, We're talking like East Lake Lacks. There's only a couple guys that even have a chance of making this a competition. It could be a snooze fest all the way through. You and I have thrown out some proposals to, you know, whittle it down and then have one day for all the marbles. They did that.

So, and just tough for that. Like, they're in Dallas on a Sunday when Dallas Cowboys playing a home game during football. I think you'll see that tweak as they go forward. It's just you can't compete against football. Like if the U.S. runs away with this President's Cup on Sunday or on Saturday. if it's a landslide going into Sunday, it's not going to get many eyeballs. Yeah, I'm with you.

But it was exciting. And two teams that really had terrible years in the Ironheads and the Four Aces were right there in the mix. Four Aces had a pretty big lead before the Rippers ended up catching them. So it was, shout out to them. It was actually pretty exciting.

And Legion had a rough go with Rom getting deathly sick. Your horse goes down, basically. Yeah, he's got a lot going on right now. Obviously, I mean, they said severe flu-like symptoms. him and his wife, Kelly, are expecting a baby girl any day now. I just saw he withdrew from the proam

over in Spain. He's supposed to be playing the Spanish Open this week, which obviously is his home country, and I know he wants to be there, but that still sounds kind of up and there. Hope he gets better soon, hope everything goes well, and John can get back to playing.

But tough for Legion 13 to lose the best player. True. The hat can only do so much. Best suit on the tour. Yeah. Not playing. Shout out John Catlin for coming in. He filled in a bunch of teams this year.

I better get to a permanent spot next year. Fun to watch, but congrats to your Broncos. They now have one win. Just need four and a half more. That was a big one for both you and, by the way. And I just need something good to happen in my life football-wise. It's been tough sledding for the kid for a while. They looked like a real football team.

It was fun to watch. Threw it down the field a few times, haven't seen all year. And the bucks, I mean, leading up to that, you can make the argument they look the best in the league. One and two, not great, but one game closer to five and a half, which is all the matter. Tied with the Cowboys, who suck. Yeah, we're both shit. Can't stop the run, can't run the ball. Somehow almost made an incredible comeback against the Ravens.

Got an on-side kick. Onside kick, you never see. Shout out, Brandon Aubrey, best player on the team. It's not even close. Our kickers are stud. That's about all we got. He makes less than a mill, and he's going to, he should probably break off just a sliver of Dax's new deal.

Maybe kick it to him. When you can, when you're lethal or you're dangerous from 70 and in, that's a nice piece to have. But we suck. It's going to be a long year. We're going to stink too. By the way, the NFC East just sucks in general. The Eagles pulled out a miracle.

Somehow they ended up winning against the Saints. But NFC sucks. We got Producer Marks Giants this Thursday. Cowboys Giants Thursday night. If we lose them, I might not just talk about football. They're coming up a big dub, too. Huge dub. They doesn't get any big.

Daniel Jones is back. NFC is lethal. Lamar Jackson, the stats going everywhere now, but 28 and 1 against the NFC. He owns the Lyssey. He should just get to the Super Bowl. Just trade conference. You get a Super Bowl every year. Just swap it out.

Just swap out with somebody else. I'm sure Baltimore's really looking to trade the two-time NFL MVP. Let us in. We'll take Lamar. Y'all can have DAC. That feels fair. Okay. That feels fair.

I like it. Before we get to our guest this week, another big shout out to golf Kohler. We had an awesome time up there. Whistling straight is a straight course. I think it got my game down. I think it got me back. You played this week. That was the best I've seen you looking along.

Hit it the best I've seen you hit it in a long, long time. Yeah. It is weird that I didn't have a sip of alcohol for a week and I actually slept like eight hours every night. That actually helps. When you don't shake on the first tee, I've found that it is helpful. It's not as much fun. Much better. But our man Charles Barkley was actually up at Whistling Street.

We probably killed it. We think Chuck shot at Whistling. Hopefully our caddies that we had that were fantastic. Didn't have to deal with Charles. Great tipper, by the way. But you're going to have to work rather hard looking for that golf ball. That ain't going to be a fast round around whistling with old Chuck. By the way, shout out to them.

We didn't even talk about this. It's a nice, look, it ain't cheap to go up there to play world-class golf courses. One of the best public courses in the country. They give you a free, brought, or hot dog at the turn. I think that's a nice token. You know what I mean? Just like, thanks for coming out. Here's a dog.

Get you correct for the back night. Anything free is nice when you're paying a bunch of money. Birdie brought, whatever you want to call. Maybe that's built into the fee, but it just feels better to not have to pay for the dog, you know? 100%. Yeah. If it's free, it's for me. All right, let's get to our guest.

This is going to be a fun one. knows a little bit about football, loves him some golf. He's absolutely hilarious. He's a Manning, but not Eli or Payton. We got Cooper Manning joining us on this week's subpar. All right, we have got a fun one on our hands here today. You've seen him as the host of the Manning Hour on Fox. Without question, the most athletic and funniest member of all of his siblings.

And not to mention, his son, Arch, just picked up his first win, a starting quarterback down at the University of Texas. Cooper Manning is here. How are we doing, Coop? I am great. So glad to be part of this dynamic duo. What a treat. I've been waiting for my day, you know, and I'm glad it's today. Well, we are glad to have you. And we were just talking before the show. There's actually been a little incident up at the President's Cup in Montreal. Some people stealing some of the gear up there. And here you are rocking a nice new presidents cup piece. Sick. You're the only guy. I just bought it on the corner of Bourbon Street and Canal right here, you know, about an hour ago. felt hot, but it's really good to know that I'm, you know, buying stolen goods.

My boys at Summit brands, they always send me some great swag. I'm a, you know, zero guy and a bead ready guy. So my man, Jack Lessing, always makes sure I looked apart, even though it might not be in Montreal. You're looking good. You're looking good. There's a nice black market for golf quarter zips out there, if you're willing to look hard enough, you know? Yeah, well, you can go in Peyton's closet alone and get all the quarter zips you need for at least two calendar years. so I'm glad to keep the manning thing alive with the quarter-zips.

Does he have more quarter-zips or jobs? Man, that is a hard-working dude. I will tell you, he is not let the grass grow under his feet. He was cool. He came down. He actually did a little surprise visit and made his first trip to Austin for a football game this week. Didn't tell anybody. He didn't want Archineau and came in and over to our little place and had a few pops

and then snuck in and snuck out before the game was over. So, yeah, he does not. He likes being on the move and going and action and working. And, you know, he's not slow down. How about his little appearance in Knoxville, Tennessee with Morgan Wall and the walkout? Do you see that? Put on the old gear, look sharp. He mentioned that to me.

And also he goes, I'm going to go to Knoxville tomorrow night. And, you know, Morgan wants me to do the walkout. And I'd seen Eli do it. I saw Brady do. And I saw some guys. And they all kind of look like. He goes, I'm not sure I'm cool enough to kind of just, you know, be hyping it up and dancing and getting fired up. And so his old trainer suggested maybe he wear a jersey.

And he's like, I don't know, I had him wore a Tennessee jersey in, you know, 32 years. So I guess. And he goes, no, no, no, we're going full uniform. And I was like, you know what? Shit, if you're going to do this, go ahead and let her rip. You're going to, you know, you're going to get heat anyway. Go ahead and go. I like those white cleats.

He always wore black cleats when he was there. Those white cleats make you look a little faster, even though he was just. just kind of doing hidey, he's getting loose. So I thought it was pretty funny. The place went nuts when they showed him, because that's the first thing they showed on the screen. Then when he put the helmet on and started hitting his helmet, I was like, oh, boy, here we go.

Yeah, that's all he needs to get hit in the head a little bit more. Exactly. He filled it out nice, I thought, though. It looked great. It looks like he's in that gym. Yeah, you know, it looks like he slimmed out. We were in Denver playing, but I think it's also good. You know, you want to roll in and wearing that uniform

when Tennessee's undefeated, playing well, coming off a big winner. in Oklahoma, right in Knoxville. The timing could have been better, so I think you read the room right. Yes, he did. No doubt. You mentioned your son, Arch. Got to talk a little bit about him.

I mean, off to a rather nice start down there in Texas with Quinn Ewers being injured. Texas has got a really good team. Quinn had a little setback and it was fun to have Arch get some experience, you know, and he made the most of it. I think he enjoyed playing well. And, you know, kind of like any time your rookie, your opening night, you're going to make a few hiccups. but also he made some plays, and I think he loved being out there. And, you know, selfishly, I kind of look ahead to next year,

and Texas goes in their opening game. They go to Ohio State in the opening game. So selfishly, I think I'm glad he had a few, some snaps, know what it's like to start, play a little bit, because going into Columbus for your first start of your life would probably not be the ideal opener. So I'm glad he's got some, you know, got a little gray hair there. Yeah, the shoe, tough place to open up your career.

No, kidding. I don't know who was drinking. But dear goodness. Yeah, that's a, that's a, hey, props to them for doing it. It's nice to see these non-conference matchups where the two big programs collide. But given the hype that Arch had coming out of high school, how important was it? And he went to a place where he didn't have to be the guy right away, right? Quinn Ewers was going to be that guy more than likely?

How important was that to you guys? Like, let him be a kid for a minute. not just be thrown into it? Well, I think, you know, you got to remember when Arch committed to Texas, they were coming off of five and seven seasons. So I think a big part of why he liked Texas is because they had a great history. They had a new coach coming, kind of a new program feel, and knew they had the potential to be great.

You weren't just falling in line to one of these programs that's been great every year. And the idea of being a part of something and growing it and getting some other guys who are kind of seeing the same momentum. And he loved the way Sark runs a program and play calling. And then also, yeah, again, not have to come in there and be the guy and go ahead and learn, get better. So when you do, when your number is called, you're ready to play and you perform well. There are too many scenarios.

And we're seeing all over the NFL where guys are getting thrown in and, you know, not doing as well as they should. But shoot, they're not supposed to. I mean, I have fond memories of Peyton's rookie year and Eli's rookie year in the pros. and it wasn't always so pretty. Eli, Peyton still dying for someone to break his interception record. It hasn't been broken. But he said, it'll never be broken because once they start throwing interceptions, they pull them.

He's like, leave them in, let them finish the job. So 28 picks, rookie year, that might be, you know, that's something. That means the coach really does believe in you. That's awesome. I was going to stand for a while. Yeah, unfortunately. What are for you, obviously, growing up and then watching Peyton and Eli play in the NFL, what are your nerves like watching them

compared to now watching your son, Arch, play at the University of Texas? You know, it's just nerve-wracking. I've gotten a little more calm, I guess, because, but yeah, you could always tell on a Monday or Sunday after a loss, I was in a pretty bad mood. I thought I took those games pretty tough,

but I don't know, I'm enjoying this a little bit more. I kind of bit my fingernails and grinding it out with Peyton and Eli playing, and I'm trying to enjoy it and just I want him to enjoy it. So if he's happy, I'm happy. If he's distraught, I'm probably a little bit that way. But you just want your, you don't want your children to be happy. And, you know, I think he's got great friends on that team.

They've got the best, he's got great teammates. And I think his teammates think he's a good teammate. And those small things that maybe, you know, the fans don't see and the critics don't see are important to me. And he's enjoying it and learning and getting better and, you know, just kind of growing up, which I think is what college is all about. Now, is your youngest son, Hyde? Is he at Texas as well? Yeah, Hyde is a freshman,

and Hyde the women and children is an absolute treasure. He's probably more qualified to be on this show than I am. He is a fool, but he is a freshman, and he is a pledge and going through the ropes of that, you know, always carrying his cigarettes and lighters for in case an act that needs something. And he is loving Texas. He and Arch don't see each other a whole lot right now,

but he's got, I think not many people wouldn't trade with him right now. He's a happy camper. He's a five-star frat kid. Five-star recruit. I was watching some of your stuff last night, and there was actually like a commercial or something that y'all did where he was on the couch, and Arch Archie comes to the door with some signs,

and you just read, he says, you said Alvin Cameras at the door or whatever, and Hyde's doing some acting. Hyde has made multiple cameos in the vending hour. I had him driving my old 1975 Chevrolet Caprice, and the producer's like, can he drive him? Like, he's 12. He can drive? He's from New Orleans. You know, it's fine.

He's been drinking gin at 13. So, I mean, this is nothing. Yeah, he's got a little bit of a face for, you know, radio. He likes the mic, so we'll see what happens to him. I love it. Well, you got two at Texas then. You're an old Miss legend. I don't want to curse anything, but given the way things look right now, and they don't play in the regular season, there's a possibility of a Texas Ole Miss in the playoffs.

What's a fellow like you do in that scenario? Is that a split jersey situation? I probably just get beat up in the parking lot by somebody. One of the sides. Yeah, Ole Miss has got a great team. Lanes obviously got that program pumping. And, you know, we spend a ton of time in Oxford. I love Ole Miss.

I love Oxford. I have great friends there. and I know some of them were sad to see Arch choose another spot, but that's good for everybody. And he'll always have a soft spot for Ole Miss and got great friends and family there. And so I'm excited that the SEC has got, you know, some new blood and some new faces that are really making moves. And it's going to be a heck of a heck of a season. I hope they don't have to play just because, you know, I've done enough of that when Tennessee was playing Ole Miss or when Peyton and Eli were playing each other.

That's just kind of Saints for playing the Colts, that sort of stuff where you're kind of pulled, but it's fun to be able to pull for all the teams you love. It's going to be a fun season, especially with 12 getting in the playoffs. Can't wait for it. We're talking about the Manning Hour, 10th anniversary, 10-year anniversary of the Manning Hour. I was watching a few of them last night. I must say, the one in the spa with Cam Newton, where you are getting the Mani and Paddies, fantastic.

Might have been my favorite, Cole. That was my rookie year. and you know when I started doing this they all no one really believed we could even do it because I was kind of right most of it and I was trying to also track down the talent

and they were like no one's going to do this with you and Drew Breeze rolled his dice I called him and said will you come over here and just I'm trying to get this thing off the you know off the page here onto the camera will you come over and just can I bar you for 30 minutes

and he came to set of my front steps and then the next week I called my buddy the Giants and he got me Odell so then I had a veteran had kind of a hot shot youngster. I went out to Denver, got Von Miller, and then, bam, I had Cam and them, they were three or four and oh with an off week, and I said, let's go get manicures and pedicures. And I wore a short robe and with nothing underneath except, you know, a smile. And Cam, I had two girls,

you know, massaging his feet and giving his nails a little freshen up. And we, he could have sat there for an hour. I thought he was going to be tough. He was a delightful. And I remember that look he gave me when I you know we had the we had the uh cucumbers over our eyes and just said two SEC legends and he kind of looked over like who do you think you are so we've been the one girl that the one girl that was uh handling his feet I mean you could tell she was just trying her hard as not to die laughing especially when he started he's like please tell me there's something under that robe coop uh yeah you know now I tell them all the camera and whenever we do anything just if you find something funny laugh, it doesn't need to be quiet in here.

You know, enjoy it. So, he was a good sport. And then the great folks at Fox have just given me a ton of rope to go ahead and just do whatever you want. And more inappropriate, they try to sneak it in on network television. It's a family show. But before kickoff, and it's been fun. We've done, you know, well over 100 of them. And you kind of get a chance to show people's, you know, personality.

And I think that's why people like to do it. You know, if you have a talent, if you're an opera singer or a magician or a dancer or can do something and you play Interval football, you know, the manning hour will find you and make sure we show you in a good light. Can you get that mentalist guy on or have you done that because that guy is that unbelievable wizard. Yeah, he's tricky. I need, yeah, I would like to get him. He's probably a little overqualified for what we're doing. He needs a manny paddy probably too. Yeah.

I'll say it. We did do, there was a magician who was a deep snapper for the Eagles named John Doran boss. And one of your, he's, he was on like America's Got Talent, et cetera. And man, he did one of those deals where he had it, picking a card, yada, yada, yada. And he goes, next thing you know, he goes, take off your shoe. I mean, I had a tennis shoe tied that I've gotten off an airplane, gone to do the deal. And sure enough, you know, pulled out my six of hearts, whatever. And I'm, man, it's a, I don't know how they do it.

Makes no sense. I don't understand that true stuff. It kind of actually freaks me out in a little bit of a weird way that I can't figure it out. And maybe there is something there. I don't know. But are you still going and getting your own, you said you were getting your talent? You were doing the writing of the bits, which I find very impressive. Are you still doing that or do you got some help?

I do have some help. And so what these guys will do now is they'll help me go, hey, look, there's a guy in Cleveland who can, you know, juggle blindfolded. He's also got six sacks, you know, here in the last two games. Let's go get him. And I said, great. And they'll kind of frame it up, but they give me a ton of, I read it and kind of barely know it into where I know the premise of what they're going and what the theme is. And a lot of times I'm in costume or whatever, but let me, you know, just kind of react and

make them comfortable and try to have some fun and try to show. I always say, I want to look terrible and I want your parents to be proud of you. So they all, let's probably agree to do it. So mission accomplished. Do you have anyone like you haven't been able to get on the show that you'd really like to? I've never done a New England patriot. Belichick did not like any sort of fun going on during the week. So I would love to get Bill on.

I think it would be hysterical. Speaking of Bill, Bill came down to the Manning Passy Academy this year, and my son Hyde, who we were talking about, was kind of, he said, Dad, I'm going to be down here. My goal this weekend is to make Bill Belichick laugh hard once. And I was like, son, pick a new goal. It's not going to happen. You're not going to do it.

So sure enough, first day, Bill's standing there. And he's, you know, he's kind of always in a little salty mood. And Hyde is just standing there and they're watching these people throw. And he looks over at Hyde and he says kind of in a demeaning way, like, what's your job here? And Hyde just said, I have the same job as my dad. And Bill goes, what's that? He goes, nothing. And Bill chuckle in.

I'm leaving. I did. I did it. I made him laugh. So he was at a high. I'd love to get Tom Brady, too. I mean, I always wanted Tom. I have Edelman now that he's retired,

but I think those, you know, those would be two good ones since Peyton and Eli have been on there a bunch. I don't know if there's anyone else I'm dying to have. I was fortunate up to get a lot of guys before they got too famous to do it again. So Jalen Hertz is a good buddy of mine. I think he'd be a good guest because he's a lot better guy, a lot more fun than he kind of seems so serious, but he's really a good-hearted dude and got a good person at all.

Yeah, Belichick's in the media now, dude. We'd have never guessed that he'd be a media guy now, and all of a sudden, here he is. He's in front of a camera all the time, so maybe now's the time to strike. I think you may be right. He's really good. I really enjoyed listening to him.

He's, you know, he came, I hung out a little bit at that camp, and if you want to talk about football, and, you know, that's the topic he wants to talk about. Don't try to, you know, tell him about your, you know, your pickleball skills or something. He wants to talk ball and great. old players and history and stuff.

So he's always been great to me. I'll say one guy that made me jealous that you just got to hang out with, and that's Larry David. I think you played golf with him, if I'm not mistaken. Need to hear about it, what Larry was like, all the stuff. I was so excited. I went out to play this tournament at Cherry Hills, that Peyton has kind of resurrected this great event.

It's a pro-player deal, and then they have a bunch of Cherry Hill members play. But yes, Larry agreed to play this tournament. I got to play a practice round with him. And he is just like you think he is. It's kind of like anything. You want things to kind of go wrong where he gets mad and aggravated because that's where he shines. So even on the first green, he had a putt,

and he started yelling at it, you know, too hard, too hard. I'm like, it's all number one. And then he kind of busted his catty. he fussed his catty catty told him it's a little uphill of course he hammered it and he's like don't ever tell me

how hard or how soft to hit it unless I ask like caddy's like yes sir you know you can't tell these serious stuff but he was great and played nine holes and he was done practice round nine holes he didn't need to see the back and he was ready for action he hit it pretty good too that is awesome he's obviously a big golfer

slees and I actually had dinner we're lucky enough to be a part of a dinner with him at the Kentucky Derby several years ago And like a whole Curb Your Enthusiasm episode busted out because another table sent him a dessert. And it was fantastic. Yeah, he was doing, he's doing like a little Levin City circuit to where he goes around and answer question. Peyton was actually, you know, going to do the kind of the moderator part, I guess, this week. But, yeah, he's, you know, he's 77.

He looks great. He drove it well. But, you know, he just doesn't, he doesn't. he's just looking for things to get annoyed by, which is, you know. Yeah, like when we went to that dinner, he came in and we were like, I was like, dude, this is one of the few guys that this one, this one matters right here. This will be cool. And he came in and he went on, didn't say hello or anything, just went on this.

He was like, you're not going to believe what happened to me. I just went up and bet right before the last race. I had a trifecta, this, this, and it hit. And then I got a cocktail and I accidentally threw away my ticket. But I went back to the lady at the ticket. I was like, you remember me. I just had the winning ticket, trifecta. like you got to pay it out and he didn't get paid out and it was like this whole thing and

I was convinced I was like dude they're recording this is this is for an actual episode I you know I was trying to you know ingratiate myself with him because I don't know he plays golf a lot of people but we had done a commercial with jb smooth um as caesar's commercial which was and jb was it was his most fun patent sometimes in those commercials it's kind of like all right we're going to hold you know ready to go ready to go and when jb could just go off script and he he would do we would be crying and they would have to shoot from the back of our head because we couldn't you know contain ourselves because he doesn't follow any of the rules or any of the

script and that he said that's exactly how they shoot curb just they just kind of give him a little like we're going to talk about this and just let him fly and he can't he cannot hand larry cannot keep a straight face around jv it's uh it's tv gold those caesar commercials were awesome yeah i mean I've never met that guy, but he cracks me up on the show. And even those commercials, when he gave you a little shout out at the end of the one commercial, that's Cooper. I love that. All that, I was going down, you know, I don't get noticed very much and stuff.

But I mean, I would be like in Baltimore and someone would be like, you know, Cooper, you're my favorite. I'm like, you know, and Larry made, I mean, J.B. made up all that. That was, none of that was scripted. He went totally, you know, we were sitting at this dinner table for, it seemed like forever, like four hours. We were delirious. and I would be, you know, waiting on people and they're trying to move sets and lights and stuff. And we had like all this fake food.

And I would be, I'd go, J.B, did you eat a lot of gravy when you were, you know, growing up? Oh, let me tell you about gravy. And he would just go off on these deals that we would, I mean, I don't know. Peyton forgot about the deadline, forgot we were, you know, had a cut coming up and all that charades. He did all that, you know, ad-lib. It was one of the more enjoyable days stuck in.

a room under lights in, you know, in someone else's clothes than I've ever, I've ever had. What a treat. That is, that is beautiful. I think I watched the Manning Out. I think it was Manning Hour. Y'all did at Live Nightclub. Was it at Live? In Miami for the Super Bowl?

It was you Peyton and J.V. And he comes in, like, I don't know if he's like that all the time as a normal person, but he was basically like in character like he is on curb. And he talks about, you know, bringing the ruckus to the ladies, you know, and all this type of shit. And it's like, there's no one that can write this. Like, this has to be just, you know, ad lib, I'm going to do what I do. It is. Yeah, it is innate.

He is, no, there's nothing prepared about him. He is truly a ad-lib, gifted comedian and can tell what the crowd needs and hits it. And all I do is just sit there and laugh like an idiot. And I wish I'd come back with something. He's a nice, he's a nice person. And I enjoyed my time. I'm glad to be, you know, I would have loved to work, to ever spend a little time with Bob Einstein, you know, Funkhouser. I was talking about him.

I got Larry talking about him, but I was always a big Super Dave Osborne guy. So at least two of the curb your enthusiasm stars I've got on my checklist. That's so cool. I love it. You mentioned Larry's golf game. Where are we at right now with your golf game? Is your golf game better or worse than your musical talent right now? Hmm.

You're talking about my harmonica skills? What are we talking? I've heard a little bit about this harmonica. You know, both are kind of all. effort, no talent. I think both are getting worse. I definitely both are getting worse. Yes. How much time do you log in on the old harmonica practice? I've never had, well, when I'm around people that I'm going to be playing before, I tell them how I've been playing for a long time and I'm a trained guy. Therefore, when you don't sound so good, they think that they don't, they can't

really tell. I've never had a lesson. I've, you know, dittled around on the, you know, some guy trying to teach me how to do it, but I can. I play it when I drive and for no one else is in there and just playing, you know, I'm here I am, playing the harmonica to the Turnpike Tributors as best I can, but, you know, my handicaps going up on both harmonica and, you know, and Nine Woods. Oh, and Nine Woods. Yeah, we'll get to that. We did, we did play the member guests at New Orleans Country Club one year, had a blast, had some orange slushies.

Yeah, they do, I have a good frozen there. The one's because it's been shut down, so it cranks back up October 1. So I'm excited. It's been a year without golf. That's probably why my, you know, handicaps going in the wrong direction. Is that because your man, heavy biosteros, destroyed it? And they had to totally regress it or what? Heavy biosterous.

That round we had with Wiggins and Heavy Biosteros goes still is just a, it's kind of a locker room legend. And, you know, Drew, you know about it. But, you know, I was hitting, you know, three woods around a tree. up, you know, threw a bunker up there to 12 feet and making it. And, you know, and it was driving him crazy. And then Colt was just steady as ever, made a putt on the end. And, you know, heavy who's from Cuba, you know, I told him, I told Colt, he can go, he can go bad if it doesn't go right.

And that's called the Cuban Missile Crisis when it goes when he gets hot. And he threw the pin at me and walked off and, you know, all the balls and gloves and everything. And it was, I knew it would be great pot. podcast, you know, information for your viewers. I know a lot of your listeners around here enjoyed it because they'd seen it before. So the legend lives. The putter at the big oak tree. Walking off the green.

But the best part, Sleeze, was this putt was to win the match. And it literally went up and went all the way around the hole behind and then fell in backwards, like at 12 o'clock. And heavy just lost his shit. It was so great. Hard to believe. The Cuban Missile Crisis. By the way, once I heard his name was heavy biased there. I was like, this is the greatest thing of all time.

and then now seeing all the text that they send, I'm like, these dudes are the, this is the greatest crew I've ever heard of. This, the crowd, I play golf with on Friday, you know,

normally has got, it's nothing but big characters. Everybody's got kind of a nickname, and it's, no one is safe. It's very, but the name of our text chains are the deplorables.

So that gives you an idea of how we think about ourselves, but I'm flattered to be amongst them. They're, it's a witty bunch. That's a good, good squad. Let's just say you and Eli and Peyton go out. Everybody's a golfer.

What's the game? And who wins? It depends kind of who our fourth is. Peyton is so competitive in a grinder. Eli's been working at it a lot. He played a lot this summer. And he got really good when he retired. He retired and COVID happened.

And he got a simulator. He was nowhere to go. And he came out. He went from like a 11 to a 4. And now has kind of come back to reality. but yeah, I'm usually losing and paying all the money and hopefully, you know, telling a cult story or two and making them laugh and forget that I can cut it in half maybe. We have great. That's really the best place for us to meet.

We don't, everybody's kind of, you know, got kids and going in different directions and Eli's up in the Northeast and paints out in Denver and I'm down here in New Orleans. And if we ever can figure it out, golf is the best place for us to bring a pal, bring two pals. I had a great trip down to, we had 16 of us meet at O'Hoopy. I turned 50 and it was kind of a good excuse, Eli. I said, let's get a big group down there. I brought Arch, you brought highs, first there a golf trip and had my dad. So anytime we could get on a golf course and be around pals, that's our sweet spot. It's the best.

I was actually lucky enough to go up to Pine Valley. Your brother, Eli, hosted us up there and we had ourselves a time. I might not be invited back. I don't think he was too impressed with my tequila. consumption, ran the bill up pretty good, but we had an incredible time. Eli doesn't care about anything. Eli's going to live, he's 115. He doesn't, he's, he never gets mad, he never gets sad, he doesn't care.

I'll tell him something and I'm like, oh, hot and bothered. And he's like, who cares? I go, okay, you're right. I mean, who cares about what? When do you start caring? He's got the best attitude and outlook. And he's, you know, if, someone ever thinks Eli's mad at him, they're wrong.

They just read it wrong. He didn't care. He forgot something. He just doesn't, he's got a great easygoing pace. I'm sure it drives his wife crazy, but I'm jealous of it. He is awesome. And I mean, you know this. Like, I'm a diehard Dallas Cowboy fan.

So I've never been an Eli Manning fan. But that was the first time I ever got to meet him in person and to play golf with him. I was like, damn it, I actually really like you. Yeah. There's nothing. If anybody doesn't like Eli, I always kind of say something's wrong with him. Because there's nothing not to like.

He's generous and fun, and he's going, and he loves to play. He doesn't live very far from Pine Valley. So that's a treat for him to go over there and just do a little night, afternoon, eat them up, drink them up, and play in the morning and get out of there. I think that Manning cast is, I'm sorry. Yeah, sorry about that. Cut out for a second. I was just going to say, I think that Manning cast, like, the way Eli comes across and that,

because prior to that, I think you just saw the post-game interviews and the pre-game interviews and things, which are tough to, like, show your personality. Manning cast, I feel like there's a ton of people that maybe more a huge fans of him when he was playing football now are like, this dude's great. He just likes to have a good time. You know, I think he's come out of his shell even more and more on this Manning cast. Kind of free to be himself and, you know,

you're a little guarded when you're doing interviews and in your New York and, you know, they're probably 10 times more people interviewing the Giants quarterback than they were interviewing the Colts quarterback. Just, at markets, you know, I got multiple newspapers and overfollowed. And so he probably didn't

get a chance to really show who he is. And now it doesn't matter what he says, he's got kind of a freedom of freedom to be himself. And, you know, it's fun to see him shine. I've enjoyed kind of seeing this side of him. I know he finds it probably liberating. I really enjoy it when he even gives the hand signals occasionally on air. That's a good one, too.

Yeah, double burns are kind of his own day. I guess anytime you're talking about the Philly fans, it seems like both fingers just start kind of coming up. You know, just kind of right spot. I agree with them about those Philly fans. But I did see one, you were doing an interview last night. You said y'all were doing speaking engagement. And your dad said, yeah, I didn't know Eli had a personality until he was 40.

I know. I know. I'm like, Eli, I kind of looked at each other. You know, when you get, yeah, he did. He did not say much growing up. He was very quiet. And, I mean, the fact that Eli was 22 or whatever. 23 and going off to New York.

I mean, you know, he, I thank God, we had some friends who kind of took him by the win because he didn't know. I mean, he just kind of looking around. And Eli still has the amazing ability to this day to walk anywhere. I mean, I remember we could walk down when he was, you know, in year eight of playing for the Giants. He could be walking down Fifth Avenue and, you know, in a collared shirt and a pair of jeans and tennis shoes. And people, like, that looked like Eli, that's not him. It can't be him.

He can kind of be still unassuming. Peyton walks in the whole place, just, you know, he can walk in 7-Eleven in the middle of Scranton, you know, Scranton, Pennsylvania. The whole place, you know, they know about it. And before he got out of there buying Sunflower Seeds, somebody have a mini helmet. Eli can still go incognito. It's a gift. That's a little bit of a mini helmet. Yeah.

That's awesome. I want to talk a little bit about New Orleans because the Super Bowl is there this year. it's going to be a hell of a time. You know, I enjoy myself when I come down for the Zurich every year. If I was going to, if someone was coming down for the Super Bowl and it was a restaurant they have to go to, where's it going to be? God, it's so hard because New Orleans is just, you know, they're so blessed with what wonderful spots.

Maybe top three. Okay, there's a couple spots. If you're, if you, if you, if you like New Orleans and think you like New Orleans, you have to have been to Clancy's and gone dinner there. Uptown, you know, just kind of this great. neighborhood of house, house, house, restaurant, house, house, which is kind of cool how New Orleans is. You know, I'm a, I'm a dirty fingernail spot. And I'm, you know, I think to go to Domalisi's one day for lunch and get a fried shrimp

poor boy and drink a bark shrew beer and some zaps, it's just something every human being does. But football season is going on. That's one thing right now going around to Austin and, you know, seeing these games. My Saturday, Saturdays during the fall, I create. with Domalisi's at, you know, 10 in the morning and I wait until 11 and call and pick it up. And, you know, it's just, it's, and go there and sit there with your buddies. It's, it's gold. And then, um, God, late, you know, um, going over to Manalis and eating some raw oysters

and then eating that barbecue shrimp. I mean, that'll, that'll change your life. I mean, I think I remember one. That's where you said. I think that's where you set me up in a beer, eating raw oysters. I mean, just, God, it's the best. what else is there that's it that's all it's all felon needs i remember one time i'm it's a friday night we're getting ready to go over to the football game the high school football game and i got

hyde and couples buddies they're like six and they're all at the bar they can barely see over it you got about four of them and there's some people from out of town kind of learning how to eat a raw oyster and they're watching these kids these six-year-olds just you know eat dozen after a dozen of raw issues just in, you know, in absolute awe. They're trying to, you know, hold their nose and suck one down. So you learn early how to eat the good stuff down here. But New Orleans is fun. I'd probably go by the kingpin.

Go by the kingpin and have a few pops. That's my local watering hole. Okay. Put it on the tab. It's not a great looking spot, but it sure is fun. They let me DJ every now and then. So it's good. There you go.

Can we do that next year during the Zurich, please? that sounds incredible. We got to go to the pen. That'd be fun. Best night at the pen, in my opinion, is Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. Jive turkey night. Get after it.

Everybody comes and feels terrible next to that. So you all are invited. Anything you need, let me know in New Orleans. I got you covered. You know I love that city. It sounds incredible. It is so much fun.

I look forward to the Zerk every year. Speaking of that, you normally play in the pro-am. Give me your favorite tour player you've played in the proam with. Oh, you know. You know, it's got to be DA points, right? Don't stop it.

Shut up. Lego Man? That's a long story. You know, I had a great time this year. I played with Chesson, and I played with Grayson Sig. And Grayson Sig is, you know, they look like Mutt and Jeff. Grayson Sig is about five, six, all calves. And I'm talking to him like on a whole, I guess we're walking out whole one.

And he mentions, I was asking about all the Georgia guys. He's a big Georgia young guy on tour. And I said, and Chesson tells me that Grayson's father-in-law is the head coach, golf coach at Georgia. And I went, really? And I said, is that how you made the team? And he, you know, he looked at me like, you know, he gave me an F you and goes, we're going to get along just fine.

So I really have enjoyed, oh, I'll tell you one of my favorites. Okay. 2007, I'm at the draw party and I'm kind of asking advice. I said, give me a young guy who's coming up who, you know, not everybody's going to be picking forward who's going to make a run here. They said, you ought to play with Nick Watney. I said, perfect. You know, I'm in the middle draw Nick Watney next day, fresh face, 23-year-old from California.

And at the Zurich, as you know, Cole, they have multiple food stands. They have all that crawfish etouffey and remolades and alligator. and I'm trying to get Nick to eat it, and he's not really having a great day, and I'm, you know, whatever, 30-something, and I'm trying to motivate him, and he's having a good time, and I get, have a few beers, and I said, Nick, if you, I have a feeling you're going to win this tournament, you know, I just feel it. He had shot like 76 or so. He wasn't playing it. And I said, if you win this tournament, I will fly you to the next tournament. You know, I had the net worth of like, you know, a butter bean, I think, like $11. And so he goes, whatever. Sure enough, Nick gets hot and wins the Zurich. And on Sunday, he's texted me like, Cook, where is the bird? I'm ready to go. And I'm like, I've got all these Southwest free drink tickets. That's all I've got for him. So every time I see him, he gives me a hard time. We played golf yesterday in Austin, and he is the best guy. He remembered everything about that story. And so I always like that. Zurich's a fun event. Always flatter to get to get a bid to go play in the pro ham.

It's a treat. Nick Watney is a beauty. And you mentioned Grayson Sig, because you know this other guy very well, but a couple years ago at the AT&T Pebble Beach, Grayson Sig's amateur partner was Finn Ewing. Okay? Oh, boy. So combine their 11 feet tall.

And they send me a picture. I'm not going to say what it looks like, but you can just imagine, okay? One of them on each side and in the middle was Paul Gasol. So you could just go ahead and imagine what they look like standing there. It only got to Powell's to Powell's. belly button. And it was cut off. Yeah.

Finns asked me to join his band, but I'm not sure my reputation can afford to join that band. Dear goodness. Finn Ewing in the wrong direction. They need a harmonica guy? At Preston Trail, by the little hot tub right there, they have that life jacket that has Finn Ewing's name on it, just in case the three feet is too much for. Life Preserver right there.

That's good. I didn't know that. Finneuing is the greatest. Oh, man. God. Yeah. That's beautiful. I'll tell you what, if you ever do join that band, I'm coming to the first show because I got to see this.

Yeah, I know. I've got to practice a little bit more. Please send me your best harmonica instructor. I'm desperate. Maybe just a little cameo. Like one solo, in and out of the stage, boom, rock the crowd, done. You know, somehow the more the rum flows, the better you sound. I can't do it.

I've got to have a little liquid courage before I can do anything, I'm on a good. I've been in some rooms where some real talent, real musical talent, is playing, you know, post rounds and just boys hanging out. And, I mean, it's way over my skis. And I've joined and just trying not to ruin the evening. That's really the goal. I just, I want to be a part of it, but not, you know, just a little, you know, I got it in here somewhere. It's always close to me.

It's like cowbell. I love it. That's so good. It's like the cowbell. All right, let's get to the E9 here with Cooper Manning. They'll let you get out here. Yes, sir. These are nine fun ones.

Some of them might be from your friends. Some of them might not be. You can probably figure out who some of them are from. But we start this off with everyone. If you could spend a day in someone else's shoes, anyone in the history of time, you get to be them for one day. Who would it be? Oh, probably Don Rickles. I could just tear

tear everybody apart and there's no, there's no damage, you know? That's no repercussions. That's a first. I like that. Yeah, that'd be a fun one. They don't make them like wrinkles anymore. The time seems to be fast, more or less.

Someone mentioned the day about Las Vegas. My favorite, this is probably inappropriate, but my favorite line, someone asked him how long he had been performing in Las Vegas, and he said, he'd been there so long, he was there when Sigby and Roy were still pulling Jervis. out of their ass.

He's so good. You can YouTube some of his stuff and just go down a rabbit hole. He's all time. All time. All right. That's a good one. I like that answer. All right.

I'll give you one here. I'll get a shot at your brothers. Give me which is a faster top speed, okay? Arch's 20.7 miles per hour he reached a couple weeks ago at Texas. Or the combined top speed of both Eli and Peyton at any point during their career? You know, those two didn't try. The fastest they ever ran was probably either being chased by a Doberman as a young boy

or maybe on, you know, draft day when they had every, the perfect start, but not. Arch got the wheels there. Those boys, they drive fast. Running is not it. I think. Where did Arch 20 wheels from? I think I must have been. I think I must have been out of.

of town, you know, one night on business when, like, you know, Ronaldo, Neil Bia was in town and made sweet love to my wife and there's Arge's dad. Usain's Bolt snuck in for a quick minute. That's awesome. All right, we talked about some of the nicknames, heavy by Asteroes, which is so simple yet so great. Give us a few of your other favorite nicknames in the group, and maybe your favorite nickname that they've given you.

So, let's see. Well, Wiggins' brother is known as duty. And duty is probably the most, the worst person you would ever like to say, hey, play golf with this person because they don't, he's on multiple, you know, he's got a lot going on, very complicated duty. Who else? you know, Rosie's always interesting to play with. You know, he's got everything is tightened up.

You've got 13 logos going on. He's a member of every club. You know, he's like Charles Howell. He has, you know, 14 friends in high school, and they were all in his bag. He's all clubs. Who else? I don't know him. You know, I did have, I did one time, and speaking of the, you know, great nicknames,

I did have, Peyton did invite me one time to play golf with Tiger a long time. in the middle of his run, which was hysterical. Peyton was so nervous I was going to screw it up. And it was one of the best things happened. We were at the turn, and it was right after Eli, when the Super Bowl, and some old guy kind of creeps up in a golf cart, looks right at Peyton, he goes, how you doing, Eli? And Tiger was like, yes.

Oh, no. And I looked at Tiger, and I said, don't feel so great. He thought you were Cuba Gooding Jr. And he laughed pretty hard. That's good. Where would you, because I know you have a few nicknames from the boys down there. Where would you rank Leangelo? Oh, Leandro, that's okay.

You got to give Jose Heavy Biosaurus full credit for Leangelo being the third, you know, the third. Yeah. If you get offended by anything down here, you know, you're going to be playing golf alone. So you take it and love it. Yeah. Leandro is so good. Very clever. Leangelo is, for those people don't know, we're referring to the ball family.

And Leangelo might not be the best of the ball family. It's great. I have another good, you know, I have a chat from Weird Science. He's in our group, too, the big brother. Okay. Red, Fabio, we have coach. It's a good, there's no. it's it's all golly it's i'm just not sure if this is pg 13 or r but it's it's it's a r

perfectly fine yeah demone of course demone who's angry he always rides by himself but he does let me ride with him sometimes you play you play you play you know three carts four guys demone does not like anybody riding with him i like that you better have thick skin down there in new orleans it's all i'm saying just the names of these dudes they sound unbelievable sounds like a great crew yeah y'all y'all didn't come down Believe me, we could have a fun. We could have a fun outing. Yes.

We might have to come down for that Zurich. Yep. For that Zurich next year. Definitely. Hit some of those spots you were talking about, too. Open arms. Come on. Done.

All right. I'm going to ask you one of the great questions ever posed on the Manningcaster, maybe just in sports journalism, period. Eli wants to ask Ray Lewis the following. Would you rather have $10,000 cash or one of Peyton's helmets filled with quarters? What's the answer? It's such a good question So good

What did Ray say to that? He started to just He just laughed Yeah, I don't even know that he answered it I actually kind of want to know which one has the higher value Oh it's got to be those quarters That's a big head You can put

That's got to be well into the $15,000 range I think Ray'd be making money Taking the coins That's such a good question That was like one of the first ever Manny cast Yeah I think that's when I was like Oh my God, Eli's unbelievable I didn't know.

Yeah, someone must have smoking weed on staff. Something's up there. Eli, I couldn't have thought of that by itself. And he gave it to Ray Lewis, too, which I was like, this is fantastic. On a side note, when are you going to be on the Manning cast? You know, I think they just think too many men, two is enough. I may ruin it, it could get canceled, or I might take one of their jobs. So it's probably just a threat across the board.

Good point. That's probably what it is. I love it. I've had to be on subpar any day of the week. I think that's, this is kind of more than welcome. The open invite here. But I do laugh that we got a brother who's never been on there. And then Brandon Stokely, one of Payton's best friends has never been asked to come on.

Stoke has legitimately heard about this coup. Like he's like, I don't know. I thought it'd be first season before you know. We're on season nine. I can't even get 50 minutes. Is Stoke not, does he not have the worst golf etiquette? I mean, literally, you know, big putts down, like, miss it, miss it, miss it. I mean, he is a salty little dog. I guess you've got to be just a little turd, tough, you know,

son of a gun to play 15 years with wide receiver, you know, when you're 5-8, 1-0, you know, and he's, he's a tough. Coming across the mack. Coming across the hash marks just getting leveled every time, I got to keep your job. You drop one, Peyton, rip your head off. Oh, man. So good. But yeah, he's hurt that he hadn't been on that man in cast. I wish you could have seen what Stokely was wearing in college. He looked like, I mean, a combination of vanilla ice and like the, you know, Scooby-Doo Van. You couldn't, just, you know, jean, but all that an outfit.

He was a worst dresser. He was phenomenal. You know, the frosted tips, it was beautiful. Oh, he's so, he's so bougie. He's so pretty. Awesome. Next one. True or false?

When Eli was quarterback at Ole Miss, you would go out on the town Friday night and tell people you were Eli. False. I did it more with Peyton, actually. There was a story. I was in downtown Knoxville one night, and I was drinking scotch and smoking cigars or something. And night before a game, and someone came over to me, like, you know, in a UT overalls, just huge fans like, Peyton, what in knee hell are you doing out? I'm like, look, don't worry about it. We're just playing Vanderbilt tomorrow. and we're in trouble. But, you know, no, I don't, I never tried to be anybody.

Some people would think I was someone. I was like, you know, mess with them. But I certainly was never trying to be anyone other than, you know, just head down. But we're looking like more and more today. Someone called me today and said, Eli was in town last week and I was out of town. He went to work out. And someone was like, God, Eli, you put on some nice weight. You look pretty good.

I got to go because I got to start hitting the tricep machine a little harder. Too skinny. That's all you need for motivation right there. I'll give you a little fun one here. You kind of touched on it earlier, but is it true? Your son, Arch, picked his jersey number to pay homage to the number of head covers

you have in your golf bag currently. Yes. I love that. Yes. I have more head covers than friends. No doubt about it. His number is 16, by the way, for anyone unaware. Yeah, you just, is there a club limit?

Not in the tournaments I'm playing in. Not in your tournaments, no. Oh, my caddies just hate it. Like, sir, you got, you know, I have them all different colors. And, yeah, I mean, not everybody can hit a, what are you going to hit for 135? I mean, you got to, you got to hit a high. That's a 13 would, it sounds like. The nine hybrid.

How many do you have? How many head covers are in the bag right now, would you say? Well, I don't, I don't have any. My lowest iron is a seven iron, and I have 15 clubs. So, you know, I've got plenty. I think I'm getting rid of the three wood. I can't hit it anymore, so I might just get something higher. Oh, that's great.

You got to have options. You're an artist. I don't know if I want to go to this next one, but you told me I kind of could. There we go. Maybe worst thing you've ever done to a boss's car. Oh my God, the sushi kicked in, you know. It happens. It happens, you know.

It happens. Brand numerous cities, huh? Leather seats, thank God, you know. Maneur spitter, Jack Nyfell and the Santa Ana. What are you going to do? God, that's great. Hey, what's the, they're telling us about this toilet at some bar fat something. You'll have a name for the toilet there.

Fat Harriers, yeah. That's something I don't. think I ever did. They had the silver bullet, just this, you know, metal, you know, like prison toilet, if you will, that lived in Fred Harris. That was always kind of a badge of honor if you could go in there and, you know, you have to sit, no, no stall, you know, just a euro or I don't, I don't think I ever did it. There was a nickname for it. That's tough. That's got to be in case the emergency break glass. Would it not call the silver bullet? I always thought that's what I called it. No, they called it the DeLorean.

Delorean. Yes. Even better. That's it. The Deloian. I never took a ride on the DeLorean, but I sure thought about it a couple times. I maybe ran home. Fulare.

Fed Herries is where all good stories start in the youth of New Orleans. The boot, and it goes right to Fed Herries. Those are, yeah, great memories. Yeah, I brought Eli one time. I came home. one night, I think I had to be home for curfew or something. I was probably 17 or 18.

Or maybe I was home from college. Maybe I was home from college, probably 20. And Eli was 13. And I was home, and I'd had a few pops. He was hungry, and I was hungry. And I got him to drive back to Fat Airy's at the age of 13 and come in with me. And the guy, you know, I snuck him in,

and we got caught. And the guy was yelling at me. And Eli was mad and embarrassed. I mean, 13 was probably not the right age to 15. You're fine, but 13 is way too. Perfectly five. 13's fine for the driving, just not the bar. Driving around New Orleans at 13.

Yeah, that's fine. That's no problem. The bars, you got to be 15. All right. This is my last one here for you, Coop. And I'm asking for a friend, okay? We're genuinely curious. What is the refund policy if a young man gets sent to the Manning Passing Academy

and then immediately gets moved to defensive lines? the following week by his head football coach. That's how much you improved. You're at the end, actually. We've had multiple people. Like, we've had some quarterbacks. I'm like, you know, let me see you throw it. I go, now throw it with your good arm.

You've got to be your left-handed, right? Because that can't be it. We can't help you, sir. And, yeah, we've had some, that's a great place also. I would encourage y'all to come down to Timito, Louisiana, at Nichols State University in late June. Weather's perfect, beers cold, grass is cut, and stories galore.

We've had a lot of terrific personnel from coaches. We have, you know, from the Sean Payton's going to the wrong house at a party to John Gruden to Bill Belichick. I mean, and everyone in between, every coach and every grandson and nephew, Robert Kraft, everybody's come down there. So there's stories galore coming up on our 30th year. It is a, it is the, other than the golf course, that is one place every year. You can guarantee you that you will see my dad, Peyton and Eli.

We're all rooming together, you know, sharing toothpaste, eating cereal in the morning. And those are tons of memories and great friends. And it's kind of a badge of honor. That's awesome. I've heard some incredible stories come from down there. All right, my last one. Freshman year, Ole Miss. Did you happen to lose a foot race to a frat boy at any moment?

Yeah, I was touching on that the other day. There was this little sophomore year ahead of me named Billy Thompson, who, you all have similar, you know, I've heard this, physique. And he's less athletic than you, I assure you. But, you know, he had come to school as a track star, he said. And then I think he went to one track practice. He went straight to the, you know, buffet.

And he was bragging about how fast he was. And I was like, I'm tired of hearing about this. I'll whip your ass. Let's do it. Where are you going to do it? It was tomorrow morning, 6 o'clock. And this was at midnight. He was hammered.

I'm like, there's no way he's getting up. He comes down at 5.30 in his spikes in these, like, tights, stretched, ready. I'm like, oh, dear God, what have I gotten into? We go, jump the fence at the Ole Miss. track got all my fraternity pledged brothers happy and the race was a 200 yard dash and the bet was the loser has to streak down sorority row that day at noon from the five you house to the cap house about a good 120 yard run at noon and so god and that little bastard could run he was fast I don't know he'd be I didn't even finish I got to about 100 yards and it was just like he kicked it I was

gleating pretty good and then I mean I went holy cow so that day I called my dad as a dad and I lost this dumb bet I got to run it was cold I think I put on paratite whitey's the last minute just because it was cold I had a reputation to protect

kind of stuffed it with a couple socks and I hit the moment I always tell people if I had run that fast from the five view to the Kappa house as I was against Billy I would have won and I told if I get arrested this is what it's for But I made it. And, you know, Billy loves that.

Billy, every time you hear it, that's, I get a text from him. I'm like, you know, just, you know, anniversaries. I whipped your ass, you know, 18 years ago, 20 years ago, 25 years ago. So he's a- What a bat. I got a reputation to protect. Let's go through some socks in. That's good.

That's good. Were the girls impressed as you were running down sorority row? I almost hit two of them. And one of them was all of a kind of a. a bike and I was kind of weaving, almost stumbled. That could have been a serious, you know, flesh wound. But no, it wasn't much to write home about it was,

it was, you know, a brisk 50 and I was, I was moving at good speed. Nothing, nothing to write home about. You're a man of your word. That is. Yeah, you paid up. I like it. Well, Coop, man, always fun catching up with you. Look forward to seeing you in New Orleans during the Zurich, but bad. You're the best.

I'm a big fan. Thanks for having me on. come see me in Austin or New Orleans. We'll take good care of you. Yes, sir. You got it, my man. You're the man. Well, Sleeze, that was a fun one. Cooper Manning, what a beauty he is.

Can't thank him enough for coming on with us. I mean, the stories this guy's got, he is hilarious. Leangelo. Leangelo. Yes, as he will be referred to going forward. I mean, when I went down there, the first time I played with these guys, and I hear heavy by Steros and Leangelo, I'm like, God, damn, that is, that is greatness. They seem to get it.

They get it down. We need to do that, Zurich. We should go down there from a few. shows go out there. I need to meet these dudes. I need to meet heavy. I want to meet this Wiggins. Saw some of the texts. Fucking beautiful. Wiggins was the guy that's like, hey, ask him about my son who

went to Manning Passing Academy and he came over two days later. His coach moved him to D-Line. It was good, man. He is awesome. Some of those manning hours, they're great. I mentioned the Cam Newton one. I was dying laughing watching those last night. But he's just, he's a great

personality, man. It's got to be a little tough, like being, I mean, your brothers are Eli and Peyton, and all anybody wants to do is talk about them. But then you got him, he's hilarious. He's an entrepreneur, very, very successful, man, and he's killing it in the media world, too. I mean, this is 10 years he's been doing the Manning Hour. By the way, have you ever watched, like, the start of it where it says, where it says the Cooper Manning Hour, minus 58 minutes? Let's go. I catch him on, like, YouTube, and there's awesome because it's, I mean, hopefully somewhat kind of what we try to do here is just like, the dudes are just having fun. They're not really,

They're not talking about their sport or their stuff. A lot of it's just messing around. He got dudes from all different areas of entertainment. J.B. Smooth. Sounds like he's an all-timer, all-time. And he gets to meet so many people. I just play with Larry. You know, it's a nice gig,

and it wouldn't be lasting for 10 years if people didn't like it. He's tough to be. That whole family is, they're solid. They're rock solid. When we were playing the member guests at New Orleans Country Club, I mean, we're going down one of the fairways. He was like, oh, yeah.

My dad's going to come out and watch a little bit. And his dad, like, drove around and watched his play the back. And I'm like, this is Archie Manning is following us right now. This is so cool. Yeah. I mean, just, I just feel like they get it. The three, you know, they're hard not to like. Even Eli, who I would say, like, for a while while he was playing was maybe had the, you know,

it wasn't the most loved guy. And then he gets done and he's on the Manning Castle. I'm like, he's awesome. And it sounds like, you know, Cooper says, like, if you don't like Eli, then you got something, you got something wrong with you. A little trick. Just when you're down in New Orleans, you call, get a reservation. Just say it's under Manning.

Yeah, it's a good way to get it. It'll work. That's a good, good way to get it. That is some good eating down there. God, I love it. Yeah, he had some spots. We'll have to hit them. It was so much fun with him.

We definitely got to do that Zirk trip. It'll be awesome. And best of luck to his son, Arch. I mean, he is. I don't think he needs luck. Yeah. I don't think he needs much luck. Just obviously, Texas's number one team in the country right now.

Quinn Yuer is going to come back, looking good to obviously make the playoffs, possibly on a national championship, and then hand the reins over to Arch and started up at the shoe next year. Yeah, that's props to Texas for scheduling these big guys. It went to Michigan this year. They're playing Ohio State. They don't have to do that, especially after moving to the SEC with that schedule. But kudos to them. And, yeah, I mean, the hype train is going to be out of control,

depending on what Texas does this year. But then when they pass the reins to Arch, it's like nobody's expecting them to take a step back. It's going to be fun to watch him. And I think it was cool. He went to a place where you didn't have to be the guy right away and got to actually kind of for the last time probably in his life not be under the microscope as much as he's going to be from pretty much now going forward. Yep, going to be fun to watch him.

But let's get to a little gambling. We got the President's Cup this week. USA minus 220, international is plus 220. You can bet a tie at plus 1,400. It's going to be really hard for me. I'm probably not going to touch it. Bet that tie.

The tie feels like a good play. Minus 220. That's just, that's a lot of juice to lay. But I do think USA is a big favorite and they should be. Yep. It's time to zone in real quick. Let me tell you about this before we get going on our actual picks.

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We're going to be heading up to Vegas later this year and shooting a little content with Kyle Busch. Really looking forward to that. Show them how we get around in a vehicle, you know what I mean? Buckle up, Kyle. All right, let's get to some picks. So far in football this year, 2 and 0. If you count SM you, I'm 3 in0.

Games under appeal. By the way, they won in case you forgot. Is that this weekend? Is this weekend? Miss that. Big games this week. Georgia, Alabama. This weekend is going to be awesome.

I'm not going to touch that one. I'm just going to sit back and enjoy and watch it. For my football bet of the weekend, I'm going to go with your boys. The Denver Broncos. Hello, sweetheart. Getting seven points coming off a win, going up against Aaron Rogers

and the New York Jets on the road. Denver's defense is really good. Jets have been okay, not what you expect from Aaron Rogers. But seven points, I think, is a lot. I love that. Give me the Broncos. I love that.

And then we will only be three and a half games. Every win really matters. The bar's not super high, boys. We just need six out of you. Sean, go get a six. We got one last week, though, wasn't expected. But one and two, kind of about where I thought we'd be after three. But everything's fine.

Love that pit. It would be really fun to have a team to cheer for it, and that it's relevant. Again, I'm going to the college game. I'm staying in the SEC. OU went down to Tennessee this past week. Tennessee, I think, is incredibly good that freshman quarterback is a solid. stud. They're heading two Auburn, who has zero quarterback.

Huge quarterback issues. Hugh Freeze saying some wild shit, too. They're only given two and a half points to Auburn. I think OU runs over. Auburn, that's the pick of the week. Sleazy pick of the week. I could use a couple of dubs. Jordan Hare, a tough place to play, though.

Yeah, I mean, shit. There's some Cal and a few others. I don't think it's too damn tough. And then Kyle ain't OU. Myself and Mr. Peter Thomas Sulo, the Great Reverend, had a little fun with Sir Charles after Cal went down there and beat Auburn. Yeah, Kyle, you know, a lot of people. people,

Auburn's the Berkeley of Alabama. People do say, you know. There's a bunch of smart kids battling it out. All right. Well, make sure you go check out that new fall collection over at RLX Polo. Thanks to Zone. Once again, golf Kohler. Incredible place.

Whistling Straits. And Cooper Manning, you are an absolute beauty. Thanks so much for coming on. And we'll talk to you on next week's subpar.