The Bobby Bones Show - 25W: Which Olympic Sport Would We Be Best At + Rich Eisen on Getting THE Call from ESPN + Ranking College Powerhouse Programs + Bobby's Parlay of the Weekend to Give You More Smiles Than Frowns

Episode Date: September 23, 2022

The guys warm up talking about which Olympic sport they would be best at if they had to compete right now. NFL Networks Rich Eisen joins Bobby to discuss the balance of being a fan and professional in the industry, and the story of going from high school games to ESPN when he got the call from to join their program. Plus, Bobby gives his college football powerhouse programs rankings in the eyes of the general public. Bobby also gives his parlay of the weekend to see if he can keep his 15-0 streak alive to give you more smiles than frowns.  Download the DraftKings Sportsbook App today: https://dkng.co/bobbysports If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/MI/NJ/PA/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 1-877-770-STOP (7867) (LA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/LA/MI/NJ/ NY/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. N/A in NH/OR/ON. New customers only. Valid 1 per new customer. Min. $5 deposit. Min $5 wager. $200 issued as eight (8) $25 free bets. Ends 9/19/22. See http://draftkings.com/sportsbook for details. Follow the Show: @25Whistles Follow the Crew: @MrBobbyBones @AdamHambrick @KickoffKevin @ProducerEddie @MikeDeestro @reidyarberrySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm probably not gonna win my bets this week I'm just gonna say it right now I'm thinking about it too much I've won 15 in a row and that's absurd. Even the greatest of the great. This is like throwing two perfect games in a row. To throw one is incredibly lucky.

Because you've got to have a lot of luck and you've got to be playing well, and feeling well. Then you've got to have a ton of luck. But imagine doing it two games in a row. And a double header even. It feels like a double header where I'm pitching both games

and I've thrown two perfect games. Yeah, there's more pressure. And I'm like, my arm should be falling off. Yet I feel like I'm angels in the outfield. They're throwing it for me. Like somebody, somebody's doing this at A. me. Somebody's guiding you there. Somebody's I've been given the Biff Almanac.

Yeah. Have you? I say nothing else. Here's the thing. I have been accused of being in the Illuminati. And I'm going to stop talking now. I believe it. So we're here. Type in Bobby Sports to get in on the action. And I am being told that I can now

say if you gamble alongside, if you bet, whatever it is, if you bet alongside us, I can say more smiles and frowns. Yes. So I can't say, bet with me and you'll get rich. Because I said that as a joke, like four or five games in. I was like, wow, I've hit five games in a row. And I was like, gamble with me, get rich.

As a joke knowing that eventually it was going to come to an end probably right then. And then I'm being told by lawyers and Mike D that I cannot say that. But we did check, who did you ask? Just an email? Yeah, email. Do you know who you email? Draft Kings. Okay.

Is it just Mr. Draff King. Mr. Draft King. And so did you say verbatim? Can Bobby say this? Yeah, I said exactly how you said it and they said, that is fine. Okay, run alongside me, bet with me, more smiles and frowns. How would we feel about that?

I love it. The more smiles and frowns merch coming soon. You know it. You know that's right around the corner, don't you? We're here. We're good. Let's do the warm up question. All right, what sport would you be most competitive in in the Olympics?

They say you got to play an Olympic sport or we will kill you. No. So you have to sign up, and it's the sport that you think with your ability now, you can actually do the best. Warm up question. Mike D. What do you got? Track and feel. Give me the marathon. Yeah, you would do really well.

He's a runner. I could at least finish it. They do it in like two hours. I couldn't do that, but I could compete. Mike's the guy on Instagram who posts his runs, but he posts running so much. I don't get annoyed at him. I start to root for him weirdly. Like, you could do it, Mike.

14 miles. You can do it. to see your next one. Because usually if someone posts the run, you're like, okay, shut out. But Mike does it so consistently. And then he's like talking about shoes. What's the brand that you wear that you show?

Brooks running shoes. And he's like, Brooks. And so I'm like, man, when I run a marathon, I'm going to, never mind. I'm not running a marathon. I'm not doing it. But for a second. So, yeah, that's a good one for you. Eddie?

Oh, mine's speedwalking. Man, I can walk. It's a good one. Like, crazy. Like, I could literally, I did walk. I walked from West Virginia to Tennessee for charity. No problem. Like, I could walk like nobody.

somebody else. When you and I will, for example, we went hiking in Northern California. And you said to me, my foot still hurts from speedwalking. Correct. Or from walking from West Virginia to Tennessee. So there's a problem. You hurt yourself while walking. I think that's like planter fasciitis or something, something that if I really put some time into it can heal.

And the right shoes. And the Brooks. I need some of those brooks shoes. Kick off, Kevin? Mine would be rugby probably. Yeah, you're a big dude. Some shoulders. And going back to the football days, like I just feel like.

I just feel like I would be able to acclimate easiest to rugby. How big old boy are you? How big, my height and weight? Yeah. What do you think I was talking about your wiener? You just said how big old boy are you? He answers you. Jesus.

Okay. He's like, say win. 6-2, 210, 212. Yeah. Do you still work out? Yeah. I mean, you look like it. Yeah, all the time.

At least five days a week. Really? Yeah. I was going to be mad if he said no. He's like, no, not at all. I'm like, God. I invited him to pizza the other day. And he was like, no, man, I don't eat that stuff.

Are you that dedicated? Not very strict. During the week, I'm pretty good. Monday through Thursday and then Friday through Sunday kind of goes down the drain. But it's a, you know, the balance. Your week is a little off. That's either Monday through Friday or Sunday through Thursday. You've given yourself an extra. No, Monday through Thursday. Yeah. Like I said, balance. He adds a day. That's my balance. Yeah, yeah. Because I think Kevin is the biggest dude out of everyone here. Biggest for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But who's more fit? Kevin or myself? I'd say Kevin. Well, I don't know. You're pretty fit. He's stronger? Because he's a bigger, dude, taller and... Because I'm, I just weighed myself to the day.

I got back down. I'm 169. Nice. This is a big deal for me. I got there. Yeah, so I'm 6.1-ish. 169 right now. You don't drink alcohol, though.

None. Which is huge. I haven't had sugar in three weeks. Yeah, see? If I didn't drink alcohol, that would be a lot better. You know you can not drink alcohol, right? Eddie, I like alcohol. That's Boston Kevin.

I know I can. I'm just saying. I like to have a good time. Yeah, Kevin, you look good. Thank you. I'm glad that you work hard for it. I'd have been extremely jealous. Yeah, no, no, no. Yeah. Adam, what Olympic sport would you be most competitive in? The only thing I can think of is basketball, which is ridiculous. Oh, you get killed.

I would get killed, but I feel like I could contribute on, like, the Azerbaijan national team. I could be a role player for one of those kind of teams, you know. Yeah, I would go with badminton. And they're lightning fast. Uh-huh. But we play badminton and pee? That's pretty good. Yeah, me too.

Don't take my game. I'm just saying, like, I was pretty good at badminton too, man. I was knocking around that shuttle cock, you know what I'm saying? Is that what it's called? Yes. You picked that just so you could say shuttle cock. I actually didn't remember that the shuttlecock was in there until we started talking about how big old boy are you. And I was like, so, yeah, I would go badminton.

And that thing flies, but it doesn't fly like table tennis flies. because I thought maybe I could play ping pong, but then you watch those guys. They're just like Forrest Gump crazy. Yeah. But I think badminton would be my best chance to actually make a difference. So there's your warm up,

and now let's start the sports part of the show with the Tiddle Taddle. Remember you have a whistle, blow it if you disagree. Kick off Kevin, question number one. All right. At 101, the Jaguars sit atop of the AFC South. Do you think they are legit contenders

to win that division? I guess mostly, yes, because everybody else is Owen 1. Oh, and 2, excuse me. And the Colts are probably still the favorite, even though they suck. But are they, can they? Yeah, sure. Trevor Lawrence has been playing pretty good.

You know, especially considered these are Jaguar. Everything's relevant. But can they? Yes. It's not Tennessee. What are they going to do? Yeah. It's probably not the Texans, but I don't want to write them off completely yet.

Because I feel like they have a quarterback, too, that actually can get a lot better this year. Lovey Smith is at least consistent and has won before and I think it's a conference that's there for the taking for whomever so when you ask that can Jacksonville? Yeah, because the conference itself right now doesn't seem like

there's a lot of strength anywhere. It'd be cool if Jacksonville was good. I always like to see teams that suck that are good again. Can they? Yes. If I were picking right now I'd still pick the Colts based on their head coach, their quarterback, their offensive line, but although

they suck right now, but I'd probably pick the Colts to win it. Tennessee 2nd, Jacksonville, 3rd, and the Texans 4th. But that whole thing can get flipped quickly. That's why I was going to blow my whistle. Well, you should say that before you put your mouth on it. Yeah, yeah. And he's like talking.

Hold on a second to her bones. Go ahead. Yeah, I just think it's too early. I mean, does everyone have a chance? Everyone in that division has a chance. You blew a whistle to go. It's too. It's same thing.

It's week three. Yeah. So we can't have an opinion? He asked the question. believe that the Titans, and the one thing I disagree was you saying like, the Titans, what are they going to do? They can do a lot. They can figure stuff out. They can turn their whole season around. I think the Titans could still win this division at O and 2. Anybody's going to have a chance because the division winner is going to be about 500, so it's still

wide open. I said the same thing that you just said, but literally, you just want to blow the freaking whistle. I already had it in my mouth, so I was like, just go with it. I think the thing about the Titans that I do like is they have a here. history of not performing and then having a coach that can somehow adjust and perform. Some of these non-performances have been because players have been out, honestly. You know, Henry goes down, you got to adjust. You got AJ Brown when he goes down and Julio goes down. And so they take a little step back before they could, you know, fix it and go a step forward. But they got all the players they're going to have. Yeah, they're all healthy. Like right now, they're as strong as they're going

to be, they obviously can get better. And I mean, Taylor-Lewan, he gets hurt every season. So this just part of the season. This is a regular season. I think it's in his contract now. Yeah, it's just like, at what week, Taylor, there's your contract so you're getting hurt. Exactly. Um, it's wide open because either they all suck or they're all amazing. We just don't even know. But I'm taking, if I'm picking right now, let's just do this. I'll go on record. I think the Colts win the division. I'd like to the Titans win it because I'm a homer. But I think the Colts win the division, even though they're 0-2. I would go with Titans because I believe in Rabel. You? Kevin? Yeah. For that reason, too. I'm right there with you. I believe in Brable. Titans. Adam?

Same. Vray ball all the way. But you believe in Vrable more than Frank Wright who's... Yeah. Yeah. I do.

I think they're the same. Honestly, I think the Achilles heel for the for Colts is Matt Ryan. Achilles heel, he's going to be what actually wins games for them. I doubtful.

I thought they brought them in to put them into the playoffs. That was the idea. He's going to win games for them. He's going to be the steady force. He's going to let the playmakers, Pittman, Taylor,

he's going to make sure that they get the ball. He's not going to throw for 410 yards and 5 touchdowns, but he's there to be pretty good and make sure the playmakers can make plays. I think he knows his role. Save the tape.

How about this, though? Yeah, save the tape. I agree. When it's close, you always go with the best quarterback. That's generally my rule, if it's close, and let's look at the quarterbacks in that division. Tannehill? I would love for him to be better, but just hasn't been.

And also, he's got to be looking over a shoulder. They didn't draft Mliquels for nothing. Not this season, but even for next year and the year. So, Davis Mills Possibly, okay, but has never actually shown anything other than his rookie year Some flashes last year. Trevor Lawrence, more optimism there than Davis Mills. Sure.

But who's the best quarterback in the division? It's Matt Ryan by far. Because he has more years under his belt. And he's won. And he's been in the Super Bowl. Yeah. So was Garoppolo. They put up zero point last weekend.

Yeah, yeah, no, they suck right now. Yeah. That's awful. Yeah, they suck right now. Or the Jaguar's good. Yet to be now. I'm not joking on next. We'll see.

All right, Kevin, what you got? Next one. All right, which team do you think will have the biggest comeback hangover this weekend? The Dolphins versus the Bills, Jets versus the Bengals, or Cardinals against the Rams? I think the Jets are just going to get run,

but I don't think it's going to be because of a hangover. I just don't think they're as good. So the Jets also beat the Browns. Right? Let's not forget that the Browns still kind of suck. You don't have a quarterback. So the Jets are going to get run, but I don't think it's going to be because of a hangover.

I think it's going to be because they don't have the talent in Cincinnati. Cincinnati does. And although they're o'n two, I do think Cincinnati's just waiting. I don't know what they're waiting for, but when they hit, they're probably going to hit. I still believe in Joe Burrow. I think when it comes with the Dolphins, that's going to be a fun game to watch for a minute. I have a bad feeling. They're just going to get out talented as well.

So I don't even know if it's going to be a hangover as much. Because again, a hangover I would define as they crushed. They were feeling it. They were a little too happy for a little too long. They probably did feel too much press. They're like, we are real good. A lot of mental and emotional things coming with a sports hangover. I think Miami gets run.

And I hate that. I'd love to see them win. It'd be awesome to see Miami beat Buffalo. That would be cool. Yeah. And the other game was Cardinals and Rams. Oh, that's a good. one. Yeah, I think the Cardinals

probably, I think it's the Cardinals. Just based on my other two answers. The Rams also have some wins to like collect to prove they're still legit as well. So I think the Cardinals and Kyler and they've been celebrating that, doing lots of interviews, lots of press. Kyler even getting hit in the face

by that dude. You guys see the clip or the guy? Yeah. He goes over to, Tyler after the game, he's like, yeah, over on the edge. And a dude goes, boom, it hits him in the face from around somebody else. And so they, took the video and they zoomed in on it, showed him. But it's also kind of fuzzy and kind of blurry. And so they investigated it and they're like,

we can't tell if it's done on purpose or not. Because there were a lot of people moving around. Yeah, there's an on-field camera of it too. I didn't see the on-field camera. Yeah, so there's a camera like literally following Kyler behind him and he's going up against the wall, you know, slapping the fans, hands or whatever. I couldn't tell, it's like you could say,

you could argue for either one. The guy's just kind of throwing his arms out there. He's just a goofy white dude who's just like slinging his arms around and Kyler gets hit in the face. And so when I saw it, they were like, Kyle, I'm gonna get hit in the face. The first time I saw it, I thought, but it looks just accidental. Same. Yeah. But then they were like, oh, you got hit. And I'm like, oh, did I miss something? And it was a fan? Yeah. And the guy wasn't wearing a shirt from the Raiders or anything. No. Although it was in Vegas, but he wasn't where, from what I could tell, he wasn't like a loud,

painted Raiders fan. No, it didn't look. I mean, he was just like you said, just the guy, I just, I don't know. Didn't even know what he was doing, just slapping his hands around. Yeah, it's like what I do too. Ah, just arm flailing about. Just get excited about anything. So I'm going to go cardinals are probably going to have the biggest hangover.

All right, next up. Okay. The Raiders and Titans are both O and 2, and they face off this Sunday. Which team do you think is more desperate for that win? I think the Raiders are the better team. I think the Titans are probably a bit more desperate. I think if the Raiders were to lose this game,

I don't think it will be over for them. and somebody's putting the whistle on their teeth. I hear it. I hear that already. So I think it's the Titans, if they lose this one, man, the wills could just come off for a few weeks. Where the Raiders, Remphro,

been a concussion protocol all week. He had the two fumbles. He was hurt. If he, I hope he plays. As of right now, I haven't seen an update if he's going to play or not. They haven't really established a running game that we know

they already have. And I think they could actually look at it as we're still trying to get there with a new number one wide receiver. With some new guys on defense. I think the Titans are desperate because they got all their guys now. They don't have a wide receiver. I mean, Woods. I mean, Traylon's getting the most looks and he's a rookie. The rookie.

It's not good. Yeah, and you want that to happen about week six or so. So the Titans are the most desperate. The Raiders are right now, I think, the better team. I do think the Raiders will win the game. And we'll just pray that the rest of the. the AFs, that division keeps losing. So the Titans can stay in it.

So that's what I think. Adam? My thoughts, the Raiders division is so tough. They could like theoretically be out of the run in already just having two losses. I would think the division is so tough, though, that everybody's going to be losing. I think it's the opposite of that. Because the Chiefs are going to lose because they got to play the Chargers and they got to play the Raiders. So there's going to be so many losses there by teams except for maybe the Chiefs.

Herbert's going to be out three or four weeks. Or it hurt three or four weeks. even if he's buying the way out like he's not going to be... Right. Gotcha. Although even with that rib injury game, that fourth down throw,

money. He was probably in so much pain the next day though. The third down play was like five yards straight to the ground. The fourth down was money. Yeah. I think I do understand your point,

but I think there's going to be a lot of losses in that division because they're all so good. But even still, like, having two losses already, those other teams, three, four losses, maybe? I mean, they're also,

they play each other, but they're still going to have all those other games that are going to dominate. It feels like they're just like, all, ready behind the eight ball. If they don't get on track this week, they could be really in for it. They definitely would be behind, but because the division is so competitive, I wouldn't freak out as

much if I were them. Because they're good. The writers are actually good. Or at least my eyeballs think they're good. And they've lost, they shouldn't have lost either, I mean, both of the games they've lost. The Cardinals game, what are they thinking? Definitely should have won that one. They were popping bottles. What do they think? They, they, yes. And then against the Chargers, they actually played really well. Yeah. And they had a couple chances to win that game. Chargers are really good.

So they didn't blow it. They just, the Raiders could have won that game. Next question. All right. Going to college here, which underdog this week between the ranked matchups do you think has the best chance to win?

Wake 4 is first Clemson, Florida at Tennessee, or your razorbacks at A&M. So, Mike, will you hit me with the alarm, please? I probably need to hear this now. So this alert here is because I'm going to speak from bias. This is the bias alert. Now, are you saying underdogs?

Because Arkansas is the underdog, even though they're rated higher. Okay, got it. Talking spread here. Got it. They're the underdog. So read me again, the three, so I can tell you it's Arkansas. But go ahead. Wake Forest against Clemson.

They won't win. Although I've cursed Dabo and Clemson. Yeah, I've cursed them. You have a voodoo doll on them? Yes, I've cursed them because Dabo wouldn't come on the show. Oh. It was like, nah, we're good. Like, didn't say we'll do it in two weeks.

Hey, we can't find the time this week. Like, yeah, we're past. I was like, that's cool. He has, absolutely, you don't have to come on the show. We're totally cool with it. But I also can curse your team. So watch out. We've cursed them, yes.

But they should run Wake. But I'd like to see Wake. I think they'll compete. I guess. I mean, Wake almost got to be about Liberty, right? Liberty, pletible than one. I mean, it comes down to DJ Oweyongolet Lele, right? Good.

Sure, sure. He practiced that at home. Yeah, of course he did. The other game is Tennessee, Florida. Yeah, Tennessee, Florida. Florida can't be Tennessee. I agree. Tennessee is too good.

Florida is not near as good as we once thought for like four days. Kentucky's not as good as we once thought because Kentucky beat Florida. That's their literal only win. It's Arkansas, Texas A&M. I expect Arkansas to win. I took... It's the bias alarm again. I think almost anybody else I would have said that, but it just happens to be Arkansas.

I think Arkansas can win by 10, honestly. We have the worst pass defense in Division 1. Division two, Division three were like, you know. But you have to look at those games. The Cincinnati game, they just came out chunking because we jumped. Carolina came out chunking. We had three of our starting secondary out. I do think Arkansas can win.

If they lose, that sucks, but okay. But I think they can also win by 10, 12 points. So I'm going to go with that one. Next one. All right. Do you think Georgia has taken over Bama as the new national powerhouse? No, just because there's not as much history. I think they're better.

but unless you're watching football right now in the last couple of years, you don't really understand how good Georgia's been. Alabama has just been good for so freaking long, and they used to be really, really, really good 30 years ago. And those are the two kinds of people that aren't us that are also watching. You know, they're not hearing and seeing Georgia pound schools in the SEC, mid-skilled SEC schools. It's Alabama just based on most people aren't as into.

it as we are, which is why we do a show. So most people would think the Alabama, most people think Michigan, Notre Dame, because they've just been told that for so long, even if not. I'm going to blow a half whistle. Go ahead. Because I was going to go the opposite, but I will say you make a pretty compelling argument as far as the outside world of the football knowledgeable people. So I think Georgia is going to be there in five years from now, but I don't think they're there yet. Yeah, they just haven't done it long enough. Right. I mean, when Mark Rick was the coach, they didn't want a national championship, and that's the time, the last time they were really good.

And they weren't consistently really good. They never won a national championship. But with Bama, you have the legacy of Bear Bryant. You know, you have obviously Nick Saban. You have Gene Stallings. So you have, when you look back, you have the history and you've got the now. And even when you look at coaches, Nick Saban is the poster child for someone who's done something for many years at a very elite level.

They compare any coach who wins two or three championships in a row to Nick Saban. So because of that brand, I think it's still Alabama. But, you know, if you were going to go ranking powerhouses by general public, I think you go Alabama. Notre Dame. Not yet, but close. Ohio State, just because they've won it, they've been there, they've had some, they've had Urban Meyer, they've had, you could go through even their famous coaches.

I don't even know, I never wouldn't know what he hates if walked in the room. but I do no stories of to get history is a big part of it what about Oklahoma here's the thing about Oklahoma yes but I'm going to put them like seven or eight because they get close a whole lot but they can't win it over and over again

at least not recently where Alabama's been able to win a couple Oklahoma would get there constantly if you were an 80s kid you're 20 in the 80s Right. You for sure would see Oklahoma and Nebraska as those. But Nebraska's completely falling off.

But Oklahoma would still be a top 10 overall power to me right now. Is Clemson there? Clemson's there right below Georgia. Because new but really dominant. Clemson didn't do much last year. They only lost two games. And they actually were really good, but they lost early so they were out of the conversation. Yeah.

So I would go one Bama, two Ohio State. And I'm talking about not just us, but even mild sports fans that just catch up. Then I'm going to go, man, like a Michigan, although they haven't been great, and they've lost a lot to Ohio State recently, except for last year, Michigan, Notre Dame, and then I put Georgia and Clemson right there together. And then teams like Oklahoma right there to Texas, too,

even though they've sucked for a while. Yeah, but they're so well-known. They're so well-known, and that's a big part of being a national powerhouse. And when people expect you to win every year, it's because they have an expectation that you win. And the fact that Texas still has an expectation, It's crazy.

It's in a lot of it too. It's their history, but it's also they keep getting recruits and they just can't keep a girl. You know? They're like some of my dude friends who are just absolutely bonkers and they can't keep a good girlfriend.

And they're like, man, these girls all suck. No, you suck, bro. What's the common here? You're the sucky one. You've had five great girlfriends. You know why it's ended every time? Because you suck. Man, this one was sucks.

Biko. No, this one, man. Her mom was crazy. No! It's you! And so Texas is going through Herman. Texas is going through Charlie Strong. Texas, we could keep listening them off. It's you, bro! It's your boosters! It's the culture! It's the... Yeah, Texas is it's you, bro. Yeah. They've ruined some good coaches. Yeah. You have one more? No, that's it. Okay. That's a tittle-tadoo. That's fun, dude. That was a good one. Good talk. Hey Rick, cut the clip about the girl that's a psycho. That's a pretty good analogy I just came up with right then.

What you say, Mike? I said I marked that too. Sometimes, listen, nobody gets annoyed with me like me. I don't even like, I don't like to watch myself. But sometimes I'm like, oh, I see why you do this at a pretty high level. It's pretty good. Make some merch off of that. More smiles of frowns.

So I want to update everybody on the Jerry Jones situation where I was like, it would be cool to get Jerry Jones on this show. Right. Come on. Yeah. Well, of course. It would be elite. And so I thought, well, let me just go after it myself. And I don't book guests.

I don't know how to book guests. I don't know how to fix my car. I just hire people to fix my car. If I had to learn how to fix my car, I would now, but I didn't have to learn. Either drove an old beater that would so close to dying, we wouldn't spend enough money to fix it because it wasn't worth it. Or I got to a point in my career where I would just buy a car and have somebody fix it for me. Same here. I never had to book a guest because no one would come on my show anyway.

I didn't have a show to come on. on. It's so small. And then all the sudden I'm jumping. And now I'm like, just book me a guest, Kevin, Mike, here's what I want. And now you guys have all the skills to do that. But I thought, I'm going to do it. I'm going to lay out there. And I send a note and say, hey, Dallas Cowboys organization in case you miss this. He said my name's Bobby Bones. I got a show on USA Network, got a show on Nat Geo, got a radio show in like 185 cities. I've got a honorary doctor from the University of Arkansas. I'm a booster. I have two New York Times, but I was really laying it out there so they would respect or feel like I actually had a platform that they could trust.

So I said, I'm not trying to got you. I'd like to talk to Mr. Jones about a couple things. The Cowboys and, you know, where he comes from. And that's all I talked about. I have two updates. Oh. Come on. Come on.

Do I have these printed out, Mike? Yeah, you got him in there. Okay. Because I emailed him to Mike this morning. You kind of had a little half smile there. Well, because it's only half smile worthy, but it is. Worthy? smile worthy.

We got a lead. More smiles than frowns. There we go. Okay. I got this email back after we talked about it on Wednesday. Bobby, I appreciate you reaching out.

I've added our SVP of Communications Tad Carper to this reply and we will check out Mr. Jones' availability for your request. Thank you, Scott. Yeah. That sounds very positive. And so

got another email. Email too. This is from Tad. Great name. Thanks again, Bobby. It would be a pleasure to work this out. Which are your platforms this run on? Tad Carper, senior vice president, communications.

Interesting. My response. Greetings. It would run on the national radio show and the sports podcast both. It'll also be featured in the radio show podcast feed, and that feed does between 12 and 14 million streams a month. Also on social media with clips at Bobby Bone Show

and featured at Mr. Bobby Bones, combined about 2 million followers on social. Have a good day, guys. Love it. Big period. Have a good day. And no lies, by the way. No, no, no, that's all true.

No lies. Tad hit me back. Already. Of course. Last night. Let's go. Great info and big numbers. Back at you soon-ish on this.

Tad Carper, senior vice president communications. What up. Dad. Hey, look, it may not happen, but I'm like it now I feel. Yeah. This would be so cool. We're making some progress. Yeah, let me check me emails if there's a...

Yeah, keep, you know, scrolling down. Refresh, refresh, refresh. Dad? No, nothing from Ted. But I do think we got a shot at this with Jerry Jones. Fingers crossed. That'd be pretty cool. And then what you do, this is the story of doing any sort of podcast or interview show.

When you get, we've got enough great guests. I mean, Rich Eisen's coming up, which is super cool to talk to him. But when you get a Jerry Jones, then you pitch yourself to other owners and be like, we just had Jerry Jones on. You know, would you like to come on? And they're like, wait, Jerry Jones is on? Well, then I definitely want to be on. Let's go, baby.

Robert Kraft? Robert Kraft. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my goodness. So Jerry Jones would be awesome because it's Jerry Jones, the most famous sports owner in all of the NFL. Maybe sports? Him and Cuban.

Cuban's right there, too. Oh, for sure. But Jerry Jones is bigger. Yeah, Cuban recently because of the things like Shark Tank. Jerry Jones is because he's Jerry freaking Jones. But, yeah, that'd be awesome. You see where the sons are, he's having to give up the sons and the mercury. And so one of the buyers, they think would be Jeff Bezos.

He's one of the people. I think he's second up. I saw odds and who they thought would actually be the person to buy the NBA and WMBA teams, and Jeff Bezos was second up. He's a sports fan. Well, we thought he was going to buy the Broncos. Listen, he could buy the whole NFL if he wanted to, of course. Every team, that would be no fun.

He owns every single one. And just switch players up every week and do what he wants to do with them. That'd be pretty cool. Wouldn't it be so cool to own a team? Yes. Yeah. I mean, I say that, and then I'd be like the cons and be like, you know, I don't want to spend $18,000 on a new jerseys.

And I said all of a sudden get real cheap. Oh yeah, I didn't think about all that. I know. Then you got to like pay stuff. It's like getting a nice car. My first nice car, I don't want to figure. I don't want to get a repair. I just keep driving.

Because you're like, I don't want to spend the money to keep this thing up. Yeah. But it would cost a lot too. But it would be so cool to own a team. It would just be so cool to be a minority owner. How about that? Sure. There you go.

Then you can get in any time. Does it count to be like one of those shareholders like the Packers? No. Because that's a bunch of garbage. Okay. They just ripped you off. But it is cool because you do feel even closer. Like you're part of the group.

Yeah, there you go. So that's the update on Jerry Jones. Love it. Now it's time for Adam's stats. All right, Adam, what you got? So you were talking a while ago about how you like underdogs and how when underdogs come up. Everybody loves that.

Everybody loves an underdog story. Well, third. That's your stat. Third, that's where the Kansas Jayhawks find themselves in scoring offense in the total FBS, which is bananas. Yeah, it's bananas. Think about Kansas being good. Even the jury's still so far out on if they're actually good.

But they've been playing not nobody. They played West Virginia and Houston, which, you know, Houston was supposed to be good. Houston was supposed to be good. They were ranked. And they got wins against both those schools in their third and total scoring offense in the FBS. I think that they are pretty good. That's about as tough as schedules as anybody else has played, honestly.

Just two pretty good games. You may look this up because I never know what Adam's going to tell us about stats. but maybe 2007, that might have been the year that Kansas was playing for the Big 12 championship. 2008. Was it 8? Yeah. Yeah. So 2008, was it the 2007 season?

Then they played it in 2000? Or just straight? Whatever was, I remember being about 27. Sorry, sorry. I think you're right. It was 0.7. 08 was their last winning season. And then 07 was the year they competed for the title.

It was, I believe, Missouri in Kansas for the Big 12 championship. Just going up from the brain. Chase Daniel. Kansas used to be good for a minute. It was the weird. thing. I hope they're good again. Same. I hope they're good. And the fact that they've won two quality

games, that's pretty cool. I like it. All right, there's Adam Stats. Go ahead. Adam Stats. That's an Adam Stats. He's got those stats for you. That's the best jingle at it. You think? I think. Kittle Taddle's the best one. Do you have an NFL one coming up too, Adam? Do you have one for a college and NFL? No, I just...

The answer is no. Okay. Here's a step. He's got one stat. Well, I had a NFL. I had a NFL. another college stat, but I was also good old. Okay, let's do it. Here we go again. Let's hear more Eddie. It's. Oh, boy. Adam Stats. Adam has all your stats for you.

Adam Stats. Thanks for that. Awesome jingle, Eddie. 12%. 12%. I find myself obsessed kind of with the transfer portal and what it's done for college football. 12% that's the percentage of total FBS players that hit the portal last year. Oh, that's significant.

12% of everybody. So like every 85% of,000. scholarship roster, about 10 and a half of those dudes are going somewhere else. And you know about 30, then we're going, I'm going to get into portal. Yeah. I'm going to get to portal. I think it's playing. I'm going to get to portal. And then they're like, ah, no one's going to else. No one else is going to want me. No one wants me. I'm going to drop down. I'm going to the portal.

What else? The other crazy thing about that, only half of those, only half of those players are finding new places. So, like, a lot of those guys are like not even playing football anymore. It's really sad. They're not going to college. They're kind of just completely out of the game. My thought really is that the transfer portal has actually been good for college football. There was so much like gloom and doom and so much boomerism about how it was going to ruin the game, and people were just going to go and do their own thing, free agents and all that.

But I think we're seeing maybe something different. Do you think that the transfer portal has been good for the actual product on the field? Yeah, I'm going to say, yeah. I mean, I think you see teams an example like Missouri State last week, Cincinnati. who has been a good program, they lose their quarterback. These schools can grab kids that maybe didn't develop

and they went to a small school. Maybe we're overlooked. I think that's great. If a coach can lead, by the way, a player should be able to leave. First of all, I'll say that. So it gives kids a shot

to play at a bigger level to be seen more. And it gives people who kids who aren't getting to play a shot to drop down if they just want to play to go to a smaller school and play. So it works great in both ways. Yeah, it's annoying at times,

But I mean, coaches have to always recruit now. Not just high school kids. They have their own teams to make sure they stay. I'm sure there's some shady stuff happening and there's some tampering. But that was going to happen one way or another, if not this way, in other ways. Like, where there's money, there's always corruption somehow. It doesn't have to be good. I like it.

I like it. I'm trying to find a reason I don't, but I like it. I like NIL. I'm about to announce another one myself, a couple. Let's go. The one I'm working on right now that we've got the contract. done and I can say this. There's a kid that we had on our morning show who helped the

help the lady on the side of the road. Oh yeah. He plays at Iowa. And so I was like, hey, let's do an NIL do. He's like, I'm into it, let's go. And I email and went to all the Iowa. Talk to the Iowa NIL compliance guy. I will say that. Talk to him for a while. Went and talked to Zach. I just can never get a hold of Zach. I text him all the time. And I said, he's not answering?

Well, I said, hey man. Email. Boom, boom. Send. He said, hey, just call me or text me. I don't want to call anybody. I don't call you guys. So I text and I'm like, hey man, like four days later. He was like, sorry, man. I just saw this. Yeah, that's like a awesome plan. I was like, dude, did you die? He goes, man,

it's being a college athlete. You're just always busy. And I'm like, let me show you my schedule. Yeah, yeah, what are you talking about? Yeah. He's looking at his phone. Yeah. Yeah, who are you going to some free money? So, but we're trying to get that done. But I do have another

one coming up soon that I'll announce. I like the NIL. I think if somebody two desks down in a classroom can get money from Instagram from a store down the road a football player can't just because they're really good at football of course they can they should be able to get to do that um okay that's adam stats that's Adam stats that's a Adam stats he's got those stats for you all right you want to talk about the parley yes let me get my pen you don't need a pin just it's all digital buddy just go back to listen to this Remember 25 whistles brought to you by Draft King Sportsbook,

an official sports betting partner of the NFL. You just go download the draft king's app. Use the code Bobby Sports and get in on the action right now. Here's my parlay of the week. I mean, you can bet it if you want. Eventually, it's just not going to hit. It can't. This is probably the week it doesn't hit.

I'll be honest. But now everybody's going to bet it, and I'm going to feel like a loser when it doesn't hit, and you're going to be disappointed in me. My success is making me feel like a loser. That's not how it should work. there are no SEC games in this parlay this week. I was looking at all the games.

I just wasn't wildly attracted to many of them. Which I usually am, which usually I'm looking down. I'm like, swing. That's what happens. Really? And I'm like, that's my, and I save it. Here are my two games. First up, Baylor and Iowa State, Baylor plus two and a half.

And I would take Baylor plus one even. If you get any more than that awesome too. Baylor's 2 and 1 They lost to BYU That was in a double overtime game Iowa State is 3 and O Iowa State And Mike you may pull up their schedule

I'm going straight from memory here Because I looked at it all A bunch of these games to figure out Who I wanted to bet Iowa State has beat Iowa And that was like a 10 to 7 game Other than that They really haven't played anybody

They do have a good team But it's a projected good team And they haven't really Been blowing people out of the water so I'm going Baylor because I know they're good and I feel like giving Baylor points you're going to give me points with the team I feel is better even though I do think it's on the road

so I'm going to go on Baylor plus two and a half because I think they're mad back to the emotional teams again it's what can you tell me Mike were they played? Yeah Iowa State who they played South of Missouri okay nobody Iowa State like you said they played Iowa yes And then Ohio.

Oh, yeah. Ohio of Miami. And people were acting like that was a big game. Like, it was a heck of a game versus Ohio. Miami of Ohio. Oh, no, just Ohio. I think just Ohio, yeah. Even worse.

Oh, the Bobcats. Yeah. Because I put them on NCAA football. Yes. And I'd pick them sometimes thinking that was Ohio State. So I'm going Baylor plus two and a half just because it's kind of like dance with the devil, you know. And I know Baylor's good.

I have no idea about Iowa State because they haven't played anybody. Next up, I got OU minus 12 and a half And OU playing Kansas State And here's why I think that Oklahoma Is actually going to beat them by more than 12 and a half I think it's gotten a little more real for Oklahoma And that they're just not a really good team I think now that Dylan Gabriel's in the Heisman

Conversation I think now there are other things on their mind Other than just winning games doing the conference I think they see a bigger, bigger picture now I think you're just a bit more focused just when you have exact focus, not just let's just go blow them out. I think when you're going with real tiny goals,

I think that's very helpful. And I think they're going to really kick the crap out of Kansas state. So I'm going Oklahoma minus 12.5. I will tell you this, though, that most of my Oklahoma betting, because I do mostly just so I can root for the... alongside my wife. Because mostly I won't root for Oklahoma.

I grew up in Arkansas. We didn't like Oklahoma. But my wife is a big, OU fan. I have people that I know. I know the OU athletic director now. So I'll bet on Oklahoma just how I root for them. It's like a forced. Smart. But they don't win a lot. They don't cover a lot.

Yeah, that worries me a little bit. Last week they looked like they found something. Last week. And I bet them last week when they just took it to Nebraska. Yeah, I agree. And I think, but they have specific goals in mind now. And I think those small, specific goals will help the actual big goal of just winning games

by a lot. Is anyone angry in that game? Well, here's the thing about OU. They're angry. The people are going, that was a fluke against Nebraska. Okay. I knew there was going to be some emotional. Is anybody saying that was a fluke against Nebraska?

Yeah, I am. Yeah, I'm making a mangrove. I'm trying to make them angry. I'm giving them bulletin-bore material just a little put it up and beat them. So those are my, it's a two-game parlay this time. It's Baylor plus two and a half,

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In New York, call 8778-Y or text Hope and Y 4-6-7-369. So, okay, there you go. my two picks. I think we feel pretty good. We're going to go now and hear from Rich Eisen, who for me, I knew Rich as an ESPN Sports Center anchor. Super cool. It's our second one. It's pretty cool. Yeah, he's a, I mean, he's a legend. We've had some

really cool people. And Jay Glazer on Monday. Oh my gosh, amazing. Yeah. We just did it. It's awesome. He was awesome. And so, uh, got to talk to Rich Eisen, who I'm a big fan of. I listen to him constantly even now. I mean, it's not somebody I'm like, man, back in the day, he was cool. Like, I'm still a Rich Eisen guy. So, super cool to talk to Rich and we're going to go to that right now. Hey, Rich, I was in California this past weekend for a wedding and now that you live out there full time, do you still appreciate how early you get to watch games?

9 a.m. I was watching Oklahoma, Nebraska. Well, Bobby, look, these are first class problems that we're, I think you're leading me into to start our chat. Because of the time difference, I host NFL game day mornings for our pregame show up to the 1 o'clock. Eastern Times out here in Los Angeles. So that's a 6 a.m. kick for my show, a 4 a.m. wake. It requires lots of coffee, lots of Java, lots of energy, lots of gumption. But thankfully, I've got those still in my mid-50s or soon-to-be mid-50s in spades.

So it is great, though. It is amazing. The Sunday night game over at 8-something. The best part about it, though, is to be honest with you, during baseball season. I've got an 11-year-old boy who's really into baseball. And if he lived on the East Coast, he wouldn't see a World Series game past the third inning. And here in Los Angeles, he sees the whole damn thing. So that's pretty cool out here.

Yeah, it's difficult if I'm in California doing anything television-wise. I have to get up at 1 a.m. to do my morning show because it's 6 Eastern. And so it's just brutal. So I enjoy the early games on the West Coast. Have you – because I watch your show – you're the reason I got the Roku out. if I'm being honest. I'm a massive, yeah, massive fan and have been for a whole long time and I watch you, if I listen to your podcast, each hour is loaded separately. So I try to, I'm a big fan. If you can't tell, I know all the nuances of the Rich Eisen show. But I have the Roku app that I can

watch you guys on. You've had to transition a bit with all the new technologies. You know, you have an 11-year-old son too. Does he help you stay on what to what's cool? I've got a 14th and 11 and a 9. and they are, it's amazing because back when I was a kid, you know, back when I was a kid, it would be what's on channels two, four, and seven, right? Now they know what's on an app and they get pissed at me when I go to try and search for anything on the old Roku device. They're like, dad, that's on Paramount Plus. Dad, that's on Disney.

And they say with such scorn. I don't understand it. But that's, you know, I take it. I absorb it and I try to get better every day. That's why I have this sign on my desk every day. I don't know if anybody's ever going to try to take this away from me, the best that ever. But, you know, that's, I'm on my hopefully 14th consecutive year of that title run that I'm on. You're a big Michigan guy.

I'm a big Arkansas guy. And sometimes people will tell me, hey, chill with the Arkansas stuff. Do you ever get notes or did you ever get notes going, hey, man, you're talking a little too much about Michigan? Michigan. No, I haven't gotten that, but I do get some looks sometimes from my guys here on the show, like when I had Jim Harbaugh on last week. I did sense a little bit of, you're like, okay, break it up, get a room type stuff from my colleagues here. And to be honest with you, you know, it is, again, to be completely straightforward with you, or not like I wasn't in the last few minutes, but that, look, I mean, Sure. Michigan, when I talk about Michigan, it is still just of interest to a specific region, a specific conference. There may, you know, I could point out that we are the largest alumni base on planet Earth from the United States. And so we are a significant bunch, but it is still somewhat provincial to talk about that. But I'm assuming you're tuning into the show to hear what makes me tick, what makes me really fired up, what, what, what, gets my goat, what gets me interested. And that's one of them. You know, I've been very fortunate to do what I do for a living. I do have a no cheering in the press box mentality for the last 25 years. But there are still things that personally get me fired up and do emotionally affect me

sports-wise that make me wonder if I'm if I'm off kilter. And that's Yankee baseball and Michigan sports. So those are the two things that still get me out of my chair. Do you ever feel like you're getting too close to the sun at times because I felt too like I've been so involved in the program like I don't want to hate a coach because then I'll feel slightly different about the team so I try to keep a somewhat healthy distance. Yeah, I mean I I hear you on that like I do sometimes don't want to interview Harbaugh because I don't want to interrupt him you know and trust me I'm very glad they beat the crap out of Yukon 59 nothing even though I am friendly with Jim but I never want them to lose the week after I've spoken to him.

I am that sort of, I guess, superstitious type guy. Well, you don't want to get like the Mannings because everybody that was going on the Manning cast, they were like, oh, it's the curse of the Manning's. And all of a sudden, he loses after talking to you, God forbid, there's some sort of Eisen cursed University of Michigan now. It's the exact opposite. We call it the Rich Eisen Show bump around here, Bobby. People get nominated for things when they come on this show.

their show gets picked up, you know, for another season. That's the way we try to flip it. Glass half full around here. I want to talk about getting the call, like the big call. And, you know, just knowing your history, you know, just being, you know, a sports anchor and reporter back at a local station. But moving up to ESPN, when you got the call that we want you at ESPN, where were you? And what was actually said on the call? So I was in Redding, California at the ABC local affiliate.

K-R-C-R-Telvision, and I send a tape to a headhunter, three of them across the United States. I was 25 years old. This was 1995. And I'm like, you know, I was there for a year. I'm like, what does it matter? It's just first-class postage. I'll send these tapes out. So they send the tapes out to a headhunter.

And I get a phone call at home from a headhunter who says to me, I've got a very interesting, an interesting bite. A big time shop is interested in more of your work. Send the best written material. Another tape. Send another tape. And then I go to work one day. And it's a phone where it would ring once, one loud ring if it was a local call,

and a ring ring if it was outside of the area code. I mean, again, this is 1995. And whenever it would ring, ring, it would be my parents or my brother. because I'm from New York City and they lived in New Jersey and my brother was in Southern California. So it never would ring, ring twice. And it ring ring. And I pick up the phone.

And it was an agent named Henry Reich from the William Morris talent agency saying he wanted my reel immediately because I was the hottest up-and-coming sportscaster in America according to him and what he had been hearing. And I'm like, all right, because I'm about to go drive 50 miles into the Shasta Mountain Range to try and cover a local high school volleyball game with my three-quarter-inch camera connected with a coaxial cable to the deck with a huge, you know, strap over my other shoulder, one man banding the whole thing. And so I'm not feeling very hot. He goes, send me the tape. Great. Hang up the phone. Call my brother up and I'm like, you'll never guess what just happened. And I tell him, he goes, get out of here. No kidding. I'm like, yeah, this just happened. Hang the phone up, ring, ring. And another one. And this is in five minutes of each other. And I'm like, watch, I am such hot. That's ESPN on the phone.

And sure enough, it was a guy named Al Jaffe from ESPN, their headhunter, who I had sent multiple unsolicited tapes and resumes to over the previous five-year period. And it was him telling me that he had gotten my tape. They really like it. And they want to set up an interview and an audition. And I thought it was my brother telling all of my friends back home, call Rich, say you're Al Jaffee. I thought it was all my friends trying to mother me.

And it was not. It was the real deal guy. And I almost cursed him out thinking it was a friend like, who are you? But it was really him. And I flew down to Los Angeles a few weeks later to interview. I did with a whole bunch of executives that were there for the Cable Ace Awards, which no longer exist. And then a few weeks later, I auditioned for the gig on.

On a Monday after, by the way, a snowstorm prevented me from getting halfway across the country in the initial time of auditioning. So it was a long wait, a lot of ups and downs, but I got the gig after auditioning with Al Jaffe. And that's my story. Did you ever have imposter syndrome or at any time did you have imposter syndrome while you were there, especially the early days? What do you mean? Like you're like, okay, I'm probably not at the level. Do they think I am? I'm about to do this and I'm not really that good.

Oh, my first sports center was with a Larry Beale was the sports center anchor. He's now out in Northern California. And it was, this is before ESPN News. So I was the last guy that they hired that they threw directly on SportsCenter. And so ESPN News is what they would put guys and gals on to get their teeth cut and get up to speed. So I just remember it was a half hour sports center. on a round of 32 day, I believe, or it was a Sweet 16. It was the middle of March.

So it's probably a round of 32 day. And I had 11 highlights. I'd only seen one of them. So they were going to hand me 10 paperwork shot sheets where you could follow along what's written there to know what the highlights were. And I would have to add lib the whole damn thing. And I remember walking downstairs and saying to myself, I have two choices. I can either pee down my leg or I could just suck it up and say,

I'm ready for this. And I think I did both. And it was wild. And I just looked around and the people that were in the newsroom were all the anchors who I had emulated or wanted to emulate or had watched for years and what made me want to be a sports center anchor. And they were automatically my colleagues. And it was overwhelming. No question about it. Keith Olberman and Dan Patrick and Kilbourne and, you know, Robbins.

Robin Roberts and Dave, you know, Charlie Steiner, Bob Lee. I mean, my God, these were all the people that I was now colleagues with. It was overwhelming, but, you know, I was age 26. But it's time of my life. Seven years met my wife there. My children are ESPN babies because of that technically. And unbelievable. What a run. I watch a lot of your work with the draft. And I wonder with people being a big fan of you, people admiring what you do, do you sometimes get a lot of a lot of inside information that you can't share? Like there's a fine line of things you know and things you can actually say. Yeah, I mean, yeah, but I mean, I don't think I'm, I do this thing to break news, you know,

and I say that having a journalism degree from Northwestern. I know that that, that's not something you want to say. I think I'm here to just kind of guide everyone through what I'm hearing and understand what I can say, what I don't say. You know, I'm not Schefter. I'm not Ian Rappaport, my colleague at. the NFL network. That's not what I'm doing. If I hear something that can break something, I will do that. But, you know, a great, for instance, is it prior to the 2018 draft,

all I heard, this is the draft in Dallas, that it went Baker, Mayfield, and Sam Darno, Josh Allen, Josh Rosen, and then Lamar Jackson was the last quarterback. That was the quarterback draft of 2018. We had heard quite a bit on this show from people who we spoke to off camera. and what I heard at the combine leading up, we heard a lot that Russell Wilson was in play. We're like, you get out of here. Like, what the hell? Really?

And, you know, we didn't say anything, which is good because Russell didn't get traded. But now we found out literally in the week before his home opener in Seattle as a member of the Broncos, he let it be known that they did try to trade him prior to 2018. So what we heard was actually accurate. But had we said it, we would have created this huge stir, or I shouldn't say that what I say creates a huge stir.

I shouldn't say that. I would just say that we would have definitely put something out there that might have gained attention, potentially significantly, that would have been inaccurate, even though it was accurate. And I don't like to traffic in those waters. I would just prefer to kind of make you smarter by talking about the things that I think are going to happen, not what I'm hearing could happen. Like that is not what I like to traffic in. We'll get back to more with Rich Eisen in just a second.

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In New York, call 8778-Hope NY or text Hope NY. All right, back to more with Rich Eisen. You've been running the 40 for a bunch of years now. Are you ever going to hit a time where you're like, all right, I got to stop. If you hit like a seven, seven seconds, are you going to go like, I need to pass this down, let my son do it now? No, Bobby, if I need a walker, that's when I'll stop. Okay.

I'm going to add actual help, you know, doing that. But to be very straightforward with you again, yeah, there is. Like at some point, I don't think people want to watch some guy run, you know, with a limp and do something particularly bad. My wife wants me to train for it. And I don't know. I mean, I go back and forth. Like, should I really, really train for it?

Like, it was sort of like an everyman approach where just like it's just anybody coming off the couch and running it. But now maybe, as again, I'm 53, perhaps me training for it could be, could be, I guess, an example to people who are advancing to stay in shape. And maybe that's another aspect of it that I need to focus on because the reason why I do it now and don't want to give it up is because of the fundraising aspect for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. But it has been, you know, amazing. It's the, as you could see here, the logo of my show and what so many people do associate me with. And it was born, like many things in television, out of complete boredom waiting to shoot a television show as I was sitting next to Terrell Davis under the. buzz of the old RCA dome, which got blown to smithereens for the news stadium in Indianapolis, where he said, I said, how fast do you think I can run the 40? He laughed at me. I cursed at him

and went down and ran it, had no idea that the NFL network crew on a break was actually recording it. They played it back as a surprise to me on live TV, and it kind of got a life of its own that still lives today. Well, Rich, I appreciate the time. I'm a big fan. Again, and if you guys have Roku or Roku channel, which I have the Roku app, and I'm able to catch Rich on. I listen to on podcast as well. One of the interviews that I really enjoyed was when you talk to the guys that do the town halls, the Chad Kroger, you know, when you went and you were like, hey, because they go into these town hall meetings on like proposed water towers named after Britney Spears. Like I thought that was such a funny interview. And I'll end with this, because you are interviewing

celebrities and athletes. Have you had to change your style or research a bit more because your interviews are a bit different now? Well, you know, I've got a great production team that's stuck with me and this show through the pandemic and through many different partners. Hopefully the Roku channel is the last switch that I make. And I appreciate that you got a Roku device just to keep watching. That's pretty cool. But we dig in to see if there is a celebrity sports cross-section, because that's the idea of this show. is, you know, that sports is a touchstone of pop culture just as much as movies and television. The greatest sporting event that the American sports scene puts on in exports,

the Super Bowl is stopped in the middle for a rock concert and nobody bats an eyelash anymore. So it really is something that I love to put together. And I'm thrilled that the folks at Roku and the Roku channel are into it too. So whenever a celebrity comes on, we see, you know, did they play sports? Or if they're a diehard fan of the team, happy to dive in and let them be a pundit and give opinions. Because I think when a celebrity who's into that comes in to promote his or her movie or television show or music or album, they prefer to talk about that rather than the funny story from their vacation. and then there are some celebrities who don't know sports very well and are deathly afraid that if they come on,

it'll be like if you saw the movie Diner where one of the characters won't get married to his fiancé unless she passes a quiz on the Baltimore cult successfully. They feel like that's what I'm going to do with them or to them, which is the worst thing for a host to do. So I try to make it comfortable and just talk about their movie or TV history. And so we've got, as I said, a terrific crew that we put together here and we all, you know, I think really like each other,

that we come up with a segment called Celebrity True or False where we just go through their history about, well, this story was on the Internet, this story was on your IMDB page, is it true or false about your TV show or about your movies? And it's just a great way. And fans eat it up, thank goodness. I mean, we had Henry Winkler on the other month, And we talked to him about Jump the Shark.

We had, you know, Gerald McCraney here the other day from so many terrific shows. We asked them about Major Dad. And that's what I love to do, just having people from across a pop culture landscape talk about their movies and TV. So yes, my long-winded answer is yes, there is a lot more research that goes into it. But you put up a production construct to place it in. And not only is it something enjoyable to watch and listen to, live. It's very consumable on an on-demand podcast or YouTube or YouTube page,

YouTube.com slash Rich Eisen Show has 28,000 videos from our near eight-year history on it. And so, yeah, I do love having celebrities on and it does require a little bit more help. Certainly, if you mentioned Chad and T.J., they come on and drop the word perineum for the first time in my show's history. Well, listen, big fan. You guys follow at RichEyeson. at Rich Eisen's show. Roku, as you say now, you'll be announcing a serious channel really soon. Like, I'm a total fanboy. I'll admit it now that it's over. And I've admitted it six times during, but just keep doing it. And I'll be listening every day. And hopefully I'll meet you in real life sometime soon, Rich. Thanks a lot. When you're back here in Los Angeles after waking

up at one in the morning and you're done with your show, you come in here and sit next to me. We'll have a chat. All right, buddy. Thank you. See you later. Hey, it's Kickoff Kevin here. And for most of us, you know, learning a second language growing up in high school or in college, we didn't really prioritize it. I know I didn't. Took a couple years of German. I got my credits. I said, I'm out of here.

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Again, Jay Glazer on Monday. Ian Rappaport coming up. Are we still with Ricky Williams sometime soon? Yes. Yeah, next week. Yeah. Yes. Man, we're lining them up.

Maybe Jerry Jones soon. Yeah. How are we doing? Just a quick check in. We all had coaches that we were trying to book for a $500 prize. So, Eddie, who is your coach and how's it going? Billy Napier, head coach of the Florida Gators. I sent, I shot off a couple of emails.

Let me tell you this, boys. I got a reply. Nice. Pretty quick. Go ahead. Pretty quick. What to say? So the reply was from Nancy Scarborough.

She is the executive assistant of football operations in Florida. and I too went very heavy with my friend Bobby. Oh my gosh. He just copied and paste of mind for that one. That's funny. This guy, he's been everywhere. These are our numbers. And I said if he'd be available, we would really appreciate it.

She says, oh, Eddie, I'm very familiar with your show. I think that's a great idea. I'm looping in Coach Napier's media communication person. Rick Hurtado. Love Mr. Hurtado. Who coordinates interviews, appearance requests, etc. So I'll let you know. Thanks, Nancy.

That's awesome, bro. Let's get that money. Let's go get that money. Okay, let's go check in with Mike D. Mike, what coast did you draw out of the hat? I have Wilcox from Cal. Okay. I've sent off a few emails, and this has been my response.

Wow. Nothing. I've heard nothing. Yeah, that sucks. It takes a while for emails to go to West Coast. I think about that. The horses got a lot farther to travel. Some patience.

So who did you message? every director I could find, every assistant I could find, and nothing. You're going to have to go there. If I even got on Instagram messaging people. I'm going to California this week, Mike. Here, that's a good technique as well, obviously, go to Instagram. I have faith that somebody will reply eventually. But if we should make a rule here, if it's just dead and you can't get it, I think you should be able to go, hear me out.

Because we can actually make the rules here since it's a money game. Sure. We can either go, everybody gets one that they can pass on. So you get one free. That's not going to work. One molliger. Or you can go, all right, this one's not working. And you can go to the next one, but it takes you back one.

What if we get a straight up no? Then you can just move to the next one. Without any penalty. And you can just show us it's a no. Okay. So which do you like? Do you like just going, I'm moving off this, but there's a penalty I'm moving off of it. Like you get, you're then minus one, Mike, if you're at zero.

Or do you get one molligan? But then if you get hung up again, you're just dead and you can never... Yeah, then you're out of the running. Then it's like you can't do anything. Because I did like the Mulligan at first. Yeah. Yeah, let's go with a point deduction. I like that one.

I like point deduction. It gives you fair. You know, you can move on, but you get penalized, but you can still survive if you do that. Okay. The other one, you're right. You're out. You're out. It's like, all right, Mulligan, next one.

You get another no. Cal State. Oh, crap. Bullerton. It's John Cox's brother. You're never going to hear from. From a moment. All right, keep on rocking.

I'm trying, yeah. Other ways to do... I don't want to give you guys into that. Yeah, yeah, don't say anything. And Mike doesn't need my tips. Trust me. I could take tips from Mike. So if he's not getting them,

I'm not even sure they're a real program anymore. I'm not sure they're playing football. It's just a totally different world that I'm used to. Like, people in sports, it's harder. Mike's like, hello, Mr. sports ball guy. Kick off, Kevin. What do you got? So I drew Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M.

I have reached a lot. out full first. I hit up Amy actually from the show. And I said, hey, Amy, you got any connections to A&M? Football, I know it's not really a thing. But hey, I'm, you know, yeah, I'm doing my resources. All avenues. And she said, hey, okay, yeah, I don't really know anybody. I'll get back to you. I haven't heard from Amy yet. So he can't even get a response to Amy. Who sits right here. I'm pretty sure she forgot 20 minutes later. Yes. So she's probably moved on with her life. Okay. Thanks, Amy. And then I sent off an email similar to, you know, eddies and yours. I throw out the numbers. Hey, we're on your phones, blah, blah, blah. We're on a call station. Like, we'd love to

Jimbo on just a little some of his time. I'd really appreciate it. And Mike, if you hit those crickets. Oh, I don't think. Dang, guys. Who did you send it to? His assistant. It says a head football coach's assistant. I can't remember her name. And there was like three or four other people that were like the communications people or relations people. And I've got nothing. So I might give her a call though pretty soon here. Yeah. And I would also, just as a general rule, if you don't hear anything back, they may not work there anymore. The Dallas Cowboys, remember the guy I sent it to, It doesn't even work there anymore. Yeah, I got a bounce back and then got two other emails.

Oh, okay. So just remember that. And then can you guys ask me for help once a season? Ooh, there's a good caveat. I like it. Where it's just like, hey, could you send a note or could you make a call? Do you guys want that? Mike, what do you think?

Or is that cheating? No, that's cheating. But money involved. It's once. Mike speaks up. That's like the lifeline. That's why I'm asking. That's my $500.

That's why I'm asking. Okay, so no Jimbo Fisher yet? No, nothing yet. I feel like I'm at a disadvantage, by the way, on the whole social media thing. Because you guys got blue check marks and your 100 followers. Mike doesn't? I've tried to get Mike one.

I don't either. On Twitter, not on Instagram. No. But I've got my Weasley, 1800 followers. And I'm like, who's this guy? I'm going to tell you, though. You have 1800, though, because you're kind of the sex symbol of the show and I keep posting your face up there on the page.

I like it. And they go follow. That's why I've followed you. Yeah. Be honest. Okay, good luck. Thank you. Let us know how it goes.

We'll check in on Monday probably. All right, Adam, who do you have? I got Greg Shiano at Rutgers, which seems equally random as cow. Yeah, I was going to say, it's like both sides. It's like, will they even hear from an email from the South? Yeah, it's like, it's almost like, you want to have us on this? Why? You know, but I made a phone call the other day.

Oh, phone call. I went straight. I went straight to the internet, found a phone number. I called Mr. Jimmy Gill with the Rutgers football program, and then I emailed them as well because I just wanted to be super annoying about it. And then I laid it on thick. I gave the good email with the numbers and the whatnot.

And then Jimmy said, hi, Adam, thanks for reaching out. I'll check in and get back to you. So I feel like that was not nothing. It was more than crickets, less than definitely. So I'll take it. Mike, what about this? Okay. Could they all, you don't need this, though,

so you're going to say no. but I'm going to ask it anyway. Instead of me, could they go to scuba Steve for advice who books a lot of people? Just advice? For advice? Yeah. Yeah, I'm good with that. But you don't want him to have, he can't do anything.

No. So you all get one coupon to go to Scoobo Steve, who is an excellent booker, because he's our executive producer with a Bibone show. He can give you lots of tips. Confession. Yeah. I already asked. Okay. He's used to.

No, but he didn't know that wasn't a rule. He didn't know that wasn't a rule. Dang it. So as of now... Confession. So now he gets two... Oh, got both of them! As far as, like, who to reach out to?

Yeah, yeah, same. Too Brutee. Yeah. Scova, can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. What is general advice you would give everybody about trying to book someone that doesn't know who we are and we have no relationship with? For sports or for music?

For sports? For sports? That's a tough thing. But I think your name is big enough to where you could use that as your starting point. Hey, I work for the Bobby Bone show. We, and this is our, give them stats of what our show does. You tell them how many million listeners we get, how many downloads we have on the podcast, all the basic stat information.

And then you go into, we do this other side project called 25 whistles that gets promotion on the national show that super serves, your 150 plus affiliates, yada, yada, yada. So you get cross promotion, you get on both shows. And then you give them some options. Never leave things open ended. You have to always give them what you need and what you want. Because if you leave it to them, it'll never close. or they give you options that aren't going to work for our time schedule.

Meaning, hey, can he do Tuesday at 3 or can he do Thursday at noon? Exactly. Don't, don't, what can you guys do? No, don't ask them that. You just tell them exactly what you can do, and they'll try to work around that. That's a great point that I wasn't going to share it. And Scoobin Nails that. He's the expert at this.

It's like if someone says, hey, let's hang out sometime. When do you actually ever go hang out when someone says hang out? Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. That's true. I never mailed them.

I never emailed them. Prime example. I never emailed them. He's like, just email me. We'll figure it. Okay. No. I think he's hilarious.

And I just like, yeah. Yeah, good. Okay, well, maybe we'll get us an interview. Good luck, guys. Thank you. You're all the same, though, right now. Everybody's sitting at zero. A couple of us got some replies.

Others didn't. Well, let's add up the points you get for replies. Not zero. I think that's going to do it for today. With some of the stuff, I think we're going to do next week because we're going to draft, I'll run through the NFL games real quick. I have to.

You have to. I have like four things I wanted to do, but I got a doctor's appointment. I've already missed lunch. Oh, boy. It's a whole situation. Now you're grumpy. I told Eddie, I was like, we're not going to go very long today. Famous last words.

Uh-huh. Every time. What's my NFL page? Okay, got it. Nope, I don't have it. Mike. Hit that sound, please. Kevin, what game you're looking forward to the most?

I'm going to go with the bills and dolphins. I know we talked about it a few times this week, but, I mean, just seeing those teams go out. It will be fun. It's in Miami, too, which makes it more fun. It's a little bit of a chat. for the bills to go down there and do that right now. You know, the challenge of going to Miami and the challenge of playing in Buffalo in the winter, different challenges for sure.

You know, I kind of like that challenge. You're going to Miami. I'll be honest with you. And I'm going to shout out Kevin here because I was looking for a page on the ground. I just do it to Kevin randomly and awkward. He was ready. And look at him. Yeah.

He bench presses. He's quick. He's good looking. Look at this guy. Golly. You guys can keep going. I love that game. I don't think it's going to be a great game.

But if it is, that'll be the game of the year. I'm a big two again. I love to her. You are. I've always loved to him. I love 2-0.40. He was a lot lovable this week. So let's go. Let's got love for the Dolphins to win.

I just don't think they're going to, but I would love to be wrong on this one. Eddie, tell me, when you talk about your game, also want to know what your NFL bet my car game of the week is. Yeah. Because you're one car down. I've already lost my car. So now it's like big time, we've got to get it back, so double it up. It's his wife's car.

Now he's been his wife's car. Now my kids can't even get to school. So I'm going to go on that game. I mean, I got to go with the Chiefs because they're playing the Colts. The Colts have showed us that they're just, they cannot get it together. I mean, the Chiefs are going to Indianapolis. It's a little worrisome. But that's why the line is at minus five.

I think that's a low line for the Kansas City Chiefs. They're the second best team in the NFL right now, right under the bills. Let's go with the Chiefs minus five against Indianapolis. That number is so tantalizing. I saw it too. The five? It was so. Oh, just dreamy and perfect

that I'm like, something's up. I can't. I know. And when you did your locks earlier, you were saying is like, and you're going to give me two points? Every time I say that, like, Vegas is really giving me minus five.

Vegas has no idea what they're doing. Yeah, they do. Every time. So you're saying, say it again, your wife's car the week. My wife's car, because I've already lost mine

is the Kansas City Chiefs minus five. Oh, it's such a, that's a yummy number. Let's do it. Get that yummy, yummy. me. All right, Adam, game of the week. Game of the week. This is

my bias siren. I'm really I just want to see what the Cowboys are made of this week. Do they actually keep it going? Is Cooper Rush going to have a decent game against the Giants? Are the Giants any good at all? I still don't know. There's so many questions about both these two teams. How much can

the Cowboys salvage? How good are the Giants actually? That's a really interesting game to me. I think I was going to pick the same game because I don't think that's such a bias to Luradak because I have no. I do have a little biased though, too. You do you have money. Yeah, we should all. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think also we should have to call the bias alarm on each other for now on. Okay. If somebody's biased, you go, bias alarm, Michael hit it. Yeah. So I do have a little bias too. But I think, can the Cowboys win two of four with Rush? That would be great for them. Are the Giants any good?

Probably not. But maybe. Giants have a chance to beat a wounded Cowboys team and go, what? Three, you know? They really do. That would be crazy. great for them. That's a really interesting game to me, so I'm glad you pick that one.

I guess I'm going to pick the Jaguars and Chargers, and mostly you never pick a game with the Jags because who the crap cares, but the Jags have been playing pretty good. The Chargers are really good, but they're down a quarter of a quarterback. Yeah, let's see how he plays.

And let's see how the Jaguars play again. I mean, the Jags have a really good defense, and let's see if Trevor Lawrence in that offense, they're just throwing the ball like in the backyard football. let's see if they can score some points on this. I think we'd learn a lot through that game. That should be a fun one.

I think so too. Yeah. Quickly, Ravens and Patriots. Let's see what Lamar does. Let's see if he keeps it up because he's been crushing it. Yeah, let's throw a little sound. Yeah, we're learning it as we go, guys. All right, next up, Texans and bears.

I mean, who the crap cares? Hey, it's a good rhyme, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, the Texans could win that game, and 65% chance they win that game, although they're playing it. Chicago and then they got another win in the division of just get a win just get a win to move up

next up raiders and Titans that's here in town in Nashville I think the Raiders probably win that one yeah wouldn't mind seeing the Titans win though that'd be cool yeah chiefs and Colts Eddie hit that one right on the head bills and dolphins let's see if Miami can keep it close and if they win holy crap right lions and Vikings that's a that'd be a fun game to watch. By the way, I talked to Dan Skipper. He's probably going to come on the show next week. Nice. I love that guy. I don't know why I forgot to mention that.

Yeah. Do you email him? We got so much Jerry Jones going on. Oh, I just messaged him. I was like, yo, Skip. Come on to show. That's awesome. And he's like, uh, he's like, win.

It's a, uh, we got a big division game this week. So I can't like right now, but next week, I'm like, let's go, bro. So who's playing offensive line for, uh, the Lions right now was on. Big deal last week. Skip, skip, skip, in the locker room. So he may, hopefully he'll come on next week. Awesome. Pretty cool.

Bengals and Jets. Bengals will wipe the floor. Eagles and commanders. Eagles are really hot, but commanders aren't bad. Not bad. So it'll be interesting to see if the Eagles and Jalen Hertz can keep that up. Rams and Cardinals, I think the Rams probably thrash. I think the Cardinals probably have that hangover.

I hope they do. I like to see the Rams elevate a bit, and we need a few more pillar, really strong teams. Falcons and C. Hawks, who gives a crap. Packers and Bucks. That's another game almost killed. I'm surprised nobody picked that one.

Yeah, Brady and Aaron Rogers. Yeah, primetime. Yeah, that's a good one right there. And 49ers of Broncos. Also an interesting game, because just the two quarterbacks I'm interested in now. Gropolo, and obviously, we're just trying to see if Denver ends up being pretty good. You know?

So, all right, there you go. That's that. All right, Mikey. My wife's calling him. You know you have a doctor's appointment. Oh, boy. And your lunch is at the house. And so I'm not going to be able to eat.

Now I've got to go. So anyway. Sorry, man. That's all right. That's on me, bro. Yeah, I know. We just got to talking, you know what I'm saying? You started chopping it up.

Sports and football and stuff. All right. Final thought. Eddie. Man, I watched an awesome video of this guy. Cowboys fan, obviously, in Arlington, goes into a Walmart and a horse. And the horse is painted white and blue,

Cowboy blue and he's wearing a Dak Prescott jersey. He's just cruising down the island. Apparently, that's not illegal. It's totally illegal. On a horse? On your horse. So cops couldn't do anything. They're like, you know what? He said it was a therapy horse. So let's go cowboys.

I like it. That's pretty cool. I like it. Kick off Kevin. The Patriots are underdogs on the spread of two and a half to Ravens this weekend. And under Belichick at home, the Patriots are 15 and 4 against the spread in his era. I hate those stats. Good stat.

Just so random. Like who comes up with those stats? Data. Actual actions of teams. You know that's going to change and then we'll never talk about that stat again ever. Like next week. Yes, stats changed. Data changes with more. So dumb. Adam. My final

thought comes in the form of a confession. I tried to bet your parlay last week, Bobby. And you bet Oklahoma. But I accidentally hit Nebraska and placed the bet. And I missed out. On 100 bucks. How much did you do that? I would have had way...

I'd like 10 bucks. Okay. I would have had way more smiles than frowns, but I was frowning instead. Very sorry to hear that, Adam. Bonehead play on my part. You know, I've been keeping up as like my second or third favorite team in college. Big Vanderbilt guy. Yeah, you are.

Told you guys about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Vandy. Yeah, I better remember every week. I've hit... They kept me from hitting a 10-team parlay, though. I hit 9 out of 10. They kept me maybe two weeks ago from into 10-teamer.

That hurt a little bit. But I've been... They're playing Alabama this week. Yeah. And the spread's like 40 and a half. Yeah, 40 or so. I'm not touching it. Usually I'd be all over Alabama,

popping Vandy by 70. Right. Yeah, I like the cut of these guys' jib. Come on. I don't really know what cut or jib means in this context. It sounded right, though, whatever you meant. And they will lose, and they'll lose by a lot, and they may even lose by more than 40.

But I'm going to say it. I think Vanderbilt is starting to have just a new culture because of Coach Lee. it may take them a while to get pretty good. Remember in SEC Media Days he was like, no, we want to be the best team of the country. And they're like, in your division? No, no, no, no.

Conference? No, no, no, no. Country. And they went, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. They all laughed at him. But like, I see some fire in these guys. And if they can play Alabama and not all die, that's a win.

That's a win. That's a win. So I'm a big bandy guy. Just want to survive. Yeah. Just don't all die. Again, thank you. This has been a great show.

And Draft King's has been all. awesome with us and be sure to bet the parlay. And other than that, we're going to let Adam blow us out of here. Whoa, let's go. That's a weak whistle. Come on, Adam. Thank you very much. That sounds like PE. For some reason, it went from

like none to like a coach going. All right, that game's over. We'll see you guys on Monday. Jay Glazer on Monday. And it sounds like everybody else next week, too. Yeah. All right, bye everybody. Theme song written by me, Bobby Bones, and performed

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