The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Football AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (feat. Dave Dameshek)

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

Dave Dameshek is set to host our new football podcast (Football America!) and is immediately demanded by Dan to do improv that, transparently, makes no sense. So, between that, his technology delaying him from actually joining the show, and dorking out with Mike over uniforms, he's going to fit right in here at Meadowlark Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the Dan LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. This episode is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. I have not seen our show swoon and fall in love with somebody like that in a minute. It's been a second before since a guest came on here and there was such a mutual fawning all over each other. You guys are still in the glow. You guys are post-coital. I'm looking at you guys. And you guys fell in love all over again as if it was the first time. You're talking about Dave Damishek in the zoom right now?

The make-file. I am not talking about Dave Damishek in the zoom who no one can see but you right now. No, that's not what i was talking about i was taught i was talking about boban and maltsy in here got the honest car cannot fit i was talking about boban and how he made us i never thought of how hard it must be for him to drive a car i'm possible that it has to be very hard but what kind of call what car is he driving that someone is going to be able to sit behind him in that car if he presses three. I mean you didn't know that he could watch movies

where he was from too, so it was that. That's not true actually, I got caught up in the air and I got distracted. Have you seen the first one? Have you seen Happy Gilmore? I'm going on vacation because I am not getting my, I am so bad the last couple of days and I just needed a transition,

and so I said, have you seen what Jaws 007 looks like? Because I didn't know the name of the character. I'm from Serbia, not Moon. Yes. Had you ever heard of Adam Sandler? So Dave Damishek, the aforementioned Dave Damishek, I will ask you in a couple of weeks, and now really, to support our new football show with Dave, and every time we ask you to support something you support it I saw that

echoes climbed right up the charts as soon as Jessica comes on here and the 30 for 30 that we did with Adam McKay chasing basketball heaven that released yesterday a shot right up because you guys remain the most loyal and supportive audience that there is just a giant you make you change everything and so Demishek is our new football show and that will be debuting next month. And so that shows name. Are we willing to unveil the show name?

Is that something that we could put out there now before we've actually released it? We will ask you at the appropriate time to announce our new football show. The name of the football show we'll announce it is Football America, which I honestly could not believe was not taken. Yeah, it was available. What? Yeah, Football America. Yeah, that can't be true. Football America. Are you saying it with an

action? No, maybe Football America was probably taken, but Football America is there for the taken. So yeah, that's that's one. That's shocking. Yeah, right? Great name. No one, no one, we got Football America, that's ours? We got all of Football America. I'm sure there are internet sleuths that will find out that there's another one, right? But I was in complete and utter shock that, you know, it's just there for the taken. Football America.

We just lost Dave, but he will be back shortly. No, that's fine. And going back- I'm still swooning going back to what it well He was probably scared off by all of our behavior there, but going back to what we were talking about How do you imagine I wish we had more time to ask him this? When Bo man tries to use a hotel shower like how is that going in a normal like the hotel showers? Do they how is the water not going up,

or does he have to unscrew something? He needs the one where you could take off the hose. Needs one of those. Or it has to be, what is it, what is the one called that they put on the ceiling? Rainfall. Yeah, rainfall. An overhead?

I don't know how to, I don't know. I remember there's a commercial for General Insurance that Shaxson, where he's looking over the shower curtain, and you can see that the shower head is like at his nipple like it's like he's standing over a normal human shower these people are too big in order to shower normally. I'm sure texting becomes a laborious affair because their fingers I mean bow bands hands can you imagine them trying to text? I can't it's horrible. I once saw Taco Fall, have to try to get into an elevator, and in order to do so on UCF's campus,

he had to sit down and slide himself into the elevator and just basically huddle his knees together until he could then have the elevator door open, spread out his legs and then stand up. Not only is it sad, Chris, I was getting ready to ask him an assortment of questions about whatever kind of pain his body is in, but I'm like, I'm not going to ruin how nice this feels.

Because playing basketball at that size, I can't imagine daily, you know, Andre the Giant was in a great deal of pain, and so he became an alcoholic, and then he's in a French hotel drinking so much that when he passes out in the lobby, they have to throw a sheet over him, and he becomes a sofa, because, and people used's in a French hotel drinking so much that when he passes out in the lobby they have to throw a sheet over him and he becomes a sofa because and people used him as a sofa.

He used to poop in the bathtub. It's a true story. Because he's big. The giant. Andre. That's how he got his name. I make foul. He used to he got his name. I make Foul. He used to poop in the bathtub. Yeah.

I know it's true. Have you ever tried to poop in a European toilet, even for us six foot and over? It's tight. I know that it's true. The documentary, I think Bill Simmons did it on Andre the Giant, was very good, but I would have ruined that interview if I'd asked him about pain.

Yeah, I'm glad. BoBan, his Giant was very good, but I would have ruined that interview if I'd asked him about pain. Yeah, I'm glad. BoBan, his joy was so infectious, and we were so happy to see him, that a rarity happened. We got him away from grief eating. Maybe the first time in show history that a guest has been so wonderful.

I mean, look, you guys have been here longer than me, but I don't remember as a listener or a member of this show that someone has been so kind and gracious that Dan shied away from grief eating. I can't believe you didn't ask him, what on you hurts? It wouldn't have been grief, it would have been pain eating, right?

It wouldn't have been grief eating. And you got there at the end. You got there at the end. Well, okay, but I could have gotten there a clever way. You guys remind me when to unveil this question, okay? At the end of an interview that's otherwise going in all other directions, you guys tell me, I want you to write this down, and somebody at some point

remind me when will be the funniest time to ask the question to end an interview that we are doing with, just out of nowhere, do you poop in the bathtub? Or have you ever pooped in the bathtub? Or whatever it is that would reveal the story of what happens when you're kind of in this kind of pain that you can't walk through a normal life like every other normal human being and So you have to poop in a bathtub because the toilet because every toilet is too small for your ass Which I can't believe that that's not a joke that somebody has made at my expense at some point over the last 56 years

Dan your your There is no toilet big enough for your ass. What do you think the? Laboratories are I know these team planes are a lot different lavatories. Yeah, I'm sorry This is unbelievable what's happening the last laboratories are used to sorry sorry sorry laboratories Yeah, do you are they much larger for NBA teams? Laboratories are used to sorry sorry sorry laboratories Yeah, do you are they much larger for NBA teams? They gotta be right, but but there's only you can only make it so big I know that they try to make the the aisles a lot easier for NBA players

But can you imagine Bo band trying to use the restroom on like a commercial airline? I'm completely average size, like height, and I struggle in those things. He flatly can't even get in. Who were they making those for when they made them that small? Like were people, when we- Oh, it's barbaric, the capitalists.

When the Wright brothers, okay, maybe, but when the Wright brothers started, and wherever it is we got to the first bathroom in an airplane, were they trying to save space or were they building them for human beings who are much smaller than the fat ones and the giant ones we have today? I don't know if the Wright brothers, when they first invented flight, were like,

and one day people are gonna shit in these. Maybe people were just smaller when they. People were smaller, but that doesn't explain how the newer models keep replicating the smaller, the only thing that can explain it is capitalism. I mean, you ever been in one of the showers on a cruise? It's impossible. Tight.

You guys didn't really answer my question, but I do think there's a good skit around the Wright brothers talking in that old-timey way you just did. One day people are going to shit in this. That's right. Talking in the old-timey way of like, we'll develop flight, and then we'll get to the point where we capitalize and do that so much commercially that you no longer fit in them in any way.

We're gonna take, we're gonna give you a bag of pretzels and we're gonna tell you to shit in a bucket in the back because we need all of those seats in order to get the 69 extra dollars that we need for luggage in your internet. And we'll make the fat ones buy two. There's a skit there. Figure out how to do the right brothers

talking about flight in the future. Because at once, I still say this is a shocking fact and I get no reaction from anybody every time I say it. Do you know that they used to serve prime rib in first class where they'd have it and it's not coming back from a microwave. They've got somebody there with a prime rib like you would in a fine restaurant.

People are smoking. They were smoking. Smoking on an airplane is crazy to me. People are smoking and you're in first class and the experience is so classy that there's someone up there shaving meat so you can eat it in the front and they can have a classy experience. Prime rib. It's just amazing that there was a smoking section and a non-smoking section on a steel tube as if

You know the smoke is gonna stay away from the non-smoking section. You don't have to worry. You're in the non-smokers It was one of the things I missed as much from my childhood Dan from the early 90s and 2000s I missed having going into a restaurant. You don't miss this and being in a smoking section. I miss that I of course I do you weren't here for it Dan. Very, very. Smoking or non-smoking? Like just that question when you walk into a restaurant. It was a great list. I mean, it's how Mrs. Dalfire almost got away with it. Would you like go into smoking if you didn't want to wait? If there was a long wait for non-smoking, would you like, I'll take smoking. I don't think, I don't think we ever sat in smoking as a family ever. I hate waiting

for a table though. I feel like, he's got a couple of cigarettes. I just thought that bad. It's like it's got a couple cigarettes. It's not that bad It's gonna be commonplace the world over and then we'll get the dude from the real world to oversee everything so you guys say that my grief eating soils all and I am about to take a break here for a couple of minutes because I have I have been the last couple of days lost while it is that we're doing the show and As happens often this is a criticism. I've been getting here now for many years I will end up ruining the fun around here in some way So yesterday you guys and I'm getting a little better of a governor on this

But I want to ask you guys a question because I thought there was a story that you guys might find interesting around the fun We were having about eating at a bar and eating right at the bar instead of having dinner at a table. And I wanted to get in some point with a story that is a little bit heartbreaking to me about what actually happened to change my entire viewpoint on what that is.

But the story bums me out and I thought I was going to ruin what we were doing here and so I didn't tell the story. But I think it's a story you guys would want to hear so just put it, as we go out here to Damashek, I want you to guys put it in the file and remind me to tell the story at some point, whatever the subject is, Dan didn't want to ruin the show, but here's this story. Don't ruin the show story, okay. Yeah, but here's this story he wanted to tell that he thought might be interesting,

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For additional terms and responsible gaming resources, see dkng.co. Don Lebatard. While there's nothing official and conversations are still ongoing. Was that a fake Schefter? Because it was pretty good. Yeah, I feel like there's legs. Yeah, I tried at the beginning and then I lost confidence in it. Why?

Good. It was good. You got this. Nothing official. Conversations are still ongoing. Stugats. It is trending towards Nick Sirianni, remaining the head coach of the Eagles. This is the Don Lebathorpe Show with the Stugats! Damishek, you welcome, you fit right in, your equipment doesn't work for 20 minutes and

you hold up the whole show by way of introduction and we have to wait around for you. You'll be great at Metal Arc. We can't wait to have you on board here. Football America, we got your name nobody has. I hope your equipment works the next time you debut so I can celebrate you with the public uh... in a way that feels good to everybody but welcome aboard we're happy to have you were you also surprised that the name football america was available i was and uh... and first of all i think this fits perfectly with my agenda here

which is to keep the bar real nice and well i I think that to set the expectations as low as possible. And that's what I just did with my audio. Big success so far. I've achieved that. Let's move forward. Let's not live life in the rear view mirror, shall we? Very well done. Dan would have stayed there.

Keep it moving. Wow, he's a pro. No, but I asked him a question he didn't answer, which will also make him fit right in. Were you as surprised as we were that that name is still available? Well, I think that Lebatard swooped in at the 11th hour and really saved it. Football America and Lebatard, if I'm not mistaken, you suggested the exclamation point. And that's really what sells it. I think that's what really takes it up to the 11th.

Football America! Right, right. That's what I am. up to 11. Football America! America! Right, right. That's what I am. Coming from you, Dan. I'm swooning, just as I am swooning to be here with you now, I am swooning also for the approaching football season. I think all football Americans are, right? Well, he's a television writer and podcaster

who wrote for Jimmy Kimmel, but I think we're onto something there. I think we need to say the name of the podcast every time in a way that moves around the fact that somebody else might have had this name, so say it differently, Football America! Football America! And I don't know if you were already caught on,

he knows what he's gonna call his listening audience, Football Americans. Woo! That's tremendous! It's like Hulkamaniacs! It is the unifying force of our society right now, for better or worse. It's the one thing that we can all rally around and agree on, Football Sundays, right?

Can I go around the room here then, please, and have you each say it differently and see if Damishek prefers any of the different ways that you guys pronounce it? Because I want to learn how it is that I will say the name of MetalArk's new football show now that we are a Chorus of just football America's all right. Let's do this real quick

Regional accents and such right yeah, we all have the same accent down here Yeah, but I also but I also want the exclamation point in there so Tony Do you want to go first or who wants to go first football America see I like that one yeah football America football America? Football America I go the way you want it? Football America. Alright, I mean that was a good, you know, no bad attempts there I guess. We're gonna break some eggs as we attempt to make this omelet there. I wonder if anybody there can do the Pittsburgh version of it though. Football America doesn't really lend itself to the Yens or Accents. Football America, Yens.

Yens, hear about Justin Fields. Dude got hurt up in Jersey already, dude. We got here at Roger's Day, so we ain't worried about that anymore. I'm sorry, were you patronizing us? You didn't like any of our efforts there? Yeah, sure, we can't do Pittsburgh, we're in Miami. I'm sorry that you can't translate what Tony said, football America.

I love the America more than I loved whoever it was. Was that Mike who just did the mid-century guy? Yeah, right. Look here, fellas, look here. Buster, it says football America. It's gonna be the B's knees, the cat's pajamas, and so on. So here what, this is what we need. We need Damishek and Mike Ryan to do the right brothers.

You don't have to do it now. Oh please stop. You don't have to do it now. You don't have to do it now. No, no, stop. Terrible idea. You don't have to do it right now. We'll do it when you're on vacation.

Just trust us. Okay. Flap your wings and let's get up in the sky. ASAP, fella. You don't think he'll be good at this? Please stop. Go ahead. I'm asking you.

All right, you have a better idea? Do you have a better idea? Yes, I do, I do. Do you have a better one? Yeah, well, interview him. that would be one of my ideas. Number two would be going through some of the new looks in the NFL, because if you followed Dave, and Dave is a talent, he used to have a great show

on NFL Network, he did a segment in which, I wouldn't touch that with a 10-foot pole, would be the segment, but then he would get out a literal 10-foot pole and make guests touch him. Just a classic idea. But he and I are one in the same in that we're both obsessed with football fits. Really, uniforms throughout all sports,

but I would throw to you in the audience, all the football Americans out there, that the NFL is in desperate need of a uniform czar. And it should be Dave. Because he is an expert. And one of the things that really grinds my gears, Dan, is when uniform looks go out there and you have a bad color clash, like you got Steelers,

Packers and it's just a nightmare because they're both wearing gold, it's just an assault on your eyes. A good color clash makes for the viewing experience. Dave, briefly, tell all the football Americans out there about your passion for this. Well, it's where we fell in love, Mike, maybe a half decade or more ago was that unified you and me is, you know, to your eye, think about the Dolphins versus Washington in those two Super Bowls in seven and then 17.

It doesn't make any sense. Maroon and gold, the aqua and orange. It shouldn't make sense to your eyes, but you love it. It's a great look. I think that's the best one. My ongoing concern, as I'm talking with some Miami people is, and I've been belly-aching about this since the day that they did a new mascot or a new look or a new logo for the Dolphins is, in the age where we're wringing our hands, we're so worried about head injuries

and otherwise, we took the helmet off the dolphin? It makes no sense. Why does that guy out there playing football without a helmet on? I don't know what message we're trying to send. And what's further, you know, I'm pretty loose on the subject with it too because that dolphin, the old Miami Dolphins logo, he had the white helmet on with the orange M on the side of it. So by definition, he's not on the Miami Dolphins.

He's on some team that wears an orange M on the side of the house. What team was that dolphin on? That's how loose they were with bringing in. That's how they were so anxious to bring sea creatures into the experience. They're like, we don't even care if he's on our team. Oh, Dan, we didn't all miss it. There were football Americans out there that seized on it. And now their new logo doesn't make any sense at all

because it's a dolphin swimming in the water, but the sun is still behind it. Before you had a leaping dolphin and you can understand how the sun is in the picture. But what are you shooting this dolphin from beneath? How is the sun in the frame? It makes no sense. I've never thought about this.

Commis cadet, oh, we're so worried about the player safety, are you? Doesn't look like it. He's not wrong about this. I'm telling you, he should be uniformed, Zarakadell, oh, we're so worried about player safety, are you? Doesn't look like it. He's not wrong about this. I'm telling you, he should be uniformed, Zahra. The opposite, he's very right. How did I not notice this? It's the local team.

How did all the local journalists get beat on this giant story that the dolphins have hypocrisy on their helmet by not having a dolphin with a helmet anymore? That the dolphin actually should now have one of those giant Lego helmets that they've got, right? That, well listen, Pablo Torre, I'm not here to diminish him.

He's doing great work, but you know, if he ever takes a day or a week off, Damage X here with the investigative reporting as well. Here's another one, logo specific. The other one that fascinates me with the alongside the Dolphins, their 70s rival, the Raiders. Take a good look at the Raiders logo. First of all, in fact, much like you remember the 70s Pittsburgh Pirates logo, same thing. They're a Raider is a pirate. Their derivations are the same. And what fascinates me about both those cats is that they're pirates, but before they

go out for a day of pillaging, they both give themselves a clean shave. I like that. I think that's a bold move. They're clean shaved guys. But look close at the Raiders logo there. He's got the eye patch. Everybody knows that. Take a closer look.

His good eye is closed. What's the message? Really? It's subversive in a way. He's got his eye closed? Why? How have I not noticed that before? You're not a uniform loving football American.

Why doesn't he have a mustache? Why doesn't he at least have a mustache? But I mean, more disconcerting is he's out there on the grid iron. It's live out there, as the players will tell you. It's dangerous stuff. He should have his one good eye open. Well, let's run through some of the new looks. Well, some of these are throwback types of looks.

You're a Steelers guy. The Steelers unveiled this look. Harkin and Back to the old days, the 75th anniversary of the NFL, they dabbled in this look before, but here's my biggest issue with this look here, Dave. They decided that they're going to trot this look out against the Packers! The Packers are going to be wearing it, there's going to be so much yellow on the field! That can't be right, that'll be confusing, will it not? It's not going to be good, and Mike, you're 100% right. See this is the attention to detail that few

have, you and me, that's why we connect on this. What are they thinking? Who you're playing when you're going to wear the throwback is an essential ingredient to making it work. This is a terrible idea to unveil those against the gold-hatted Packers as you say. It's a terrible get-up to begin with, it's D- among all the Steelers. The Steelers' throwbacks, they're kind of like the Star Wars franchise. You only really need to see the top two of them. After that, they're all garbage, and this one belongs in the garbage. What's going to be even worse out there against the Packers who themselves have now painted their modern hats to look like 1920s leather hats. I'm on the fence

about whether or not I think that's good. I dare say I am not keen on it. The one I did like ironically, because the Browns are usually pretty laughable, but they now finally have done the right thing They this is a team named Brown and their hats are orange. It's very confusing now They have brown hats though at least as a throwback or as an alternate getup to wear out there at some point in 2025 Dave Dave, why is Pittsburgh the only city where all of its sports teams share the same colors? I like how they do that. I think it's the best. You know, if you're a fashionista, it's limiting because, you know, if you're like from Boston,

you know, one day you might want to go Navy and red and the next you might want to go Kelly green and white depending on what event you're heading out to. But yes, I think it's the coolest thing in all of sports. And I think it's why it's important to dorks like me, when Terry Bratch are Ben Roethlisberger, Mario Lemieux or Sydney Crosby or Roberto Clemente or Willie Stardale, go their whole career in just that uniform. I think it makes it resonate all the more that those guys are playing for Pittsburgh teams and only for Pittsburgh teams. More than it matters. We obsess about that in Pittsburgh about TJ Watt can only be a one helmet guy. Let's move on to the next look in the NFL. This is not a throwback. This is a new alternate look.

We're talking alternate jersey, alternate shell. The most shocking thing about this New Orleans Saints look here is the fact that Brandon Cooks is yet again a New Orleans Saint. Had no idea, very strange career for the man. Well, very strange to begin with in life that I took this issue to Brandon directly and I asked him about a number of years ago. I understand that when it was time to name you, that you want to be distinctive.

Your child, your progeny, let's give him a name that's gonna be unique as he goes out into the world, but really it created a headache for poor Brandon, because his name is Brandon, but the O has been replaced with an I. So now that has added on untold minutes, nay hours, to his life of explaining, no it's not the O, Brandon, but not with an O, with an I, and then when he's filling things out, he always has to do that. And maybe that's only four seconds every conversation, but as it goes along over the course of a lifetime, that's probably 20 minutes, he's never going to get back. Don LeBattard. I saw a post on Twitter yesterday how the Toronto Maple Leafs, that they won the division.

Guess what? It's been two years and that's two years too long. Stugats. You can take that ass too. Oh, we're taking two asses. This is the Don LeBattard Show with the Stugats. Just so that people understand that it's not gonna just all be fun and jokes, though

there will be fun and jokes, Football America, because of the man doing it, is also going to have a startling amount of good information. Because this man, if you followed his work over the years, combines the nutrients with the light. So, when I tell you that Brandon Cooks infuriates me because I always bet his overs because all he's got to do is catch one Ball and he won't do that for me all the time. Why am I an idiot for betting the over on? Mo Ali Cox one catch over eight and a half yards and Brandon Cooks just get me like 24 and a half yards

Surely you'll do that by catching the ball once because you're faster than everybody. Well, listen, I'm not here to knock that strategy. I love treating the 60 minutes of football and you're just looking for one thing. My favorite version of what you're getting at, LeBattard, is the QB scramble bet. I'm not talking about if Lamar Jackson is the quarterback. I'm talking about the statue back there.

Yeah, Eli Manning, two up, more than half a yard. Sam Darnold's big. And then you lose it when they start kneeling at the end of the game. You get him, he runs for one yard and then they go in victory formation at the end of the game, he's got negative one yard. Right, betting on the goal and a half, the puck line, the puck, because that's almost always in play. You can watch the entire game and then in the last minute it's decided by an empty netter or not. And that's a fun thing. This football specific version of that is, yeah,

Sam Darnold or otherwise nine and a half rushing yards. And they can get that in one run. Brat Purdy, 11 and a half or whatever you think like, it happens in one play and then you're satiated but then you have to turn back on the game much like you have to do to see if they hit the empty net or to see if he's going to kneel his way out of that. Yeah, that's intriguing betting. I love it. Let's go to a look that received universal praise because Washington, in a tricky spot. Everyone loved the uniforms except for that one little pesky helmet thing and they changed their name to the commanders. How do they tap into their history without offending? The commanders

came up with this sweet alternate look that taps into their heritage with that classic majority home look that the Washington football team went with for so many decades. Well, as I understand it, breaking news, some people have called for the commander's name to to go away and that that I I don't know if you guys follow the news. But yeah I heard that somebody is upset about that. Either way, you know the old name obviously offensive to a percentage of society. The new name should be offensive to even more football Americans. They're in our nation's capital, you understand, and they're the commies. They're the commies? They leaned right into doing that? This is not as bad,

though, as the hockey team up there in Washington, D.C., that they're now back to wearing the appropriate colors, but for like 20 years or so, again, this is our nation's hockey team. And they call themselves the Capitals. So they're embracing it. And they skated out there for a long time in turquoise, black and gold. What the hell is the message of that? People should have just booed and thrown stuff on the ice out of principle. Though the Washington Capitals wore turquoise, black and gold.

The Commies look, okay, it's back to the John Riggins one, which I assume plagues many of your dreams down there in South Beach. Yeah, we don't need to talk about John Riggins and that Super Bowl run, that was unnecessary. Yeah, well, your highlight there, you know what the- No one remembers that, Damashek. No, like you realize only people of our age remember that.

That human being who ran for however many yards it was, 60 yards on one run, that human being, that size, that weight, that color does not exist anymore. That's how old what you're saying. That human being is exist, is extinct. I think you're right about that. Yeah, I'm trying to think if I can push back at all on that, probably not. But yeah, first of all, the two takeaways from that from the Dolphins, a little bit of trivia is Fulton Walker, number 41.

He's the first guy ever to return a kickoff in a Super Bowl for a touchdown. So that was exciting. And also the correct answer to the trivia question that so often people get wrong when they say, Trent Guilford was in a Super Bowl, he's the worst to ever play in a Super Bowl. No, the late David Woodley is the correct answer. I don't mean to cast aspersions on him, but he is the worst quarterback to ever start a Super Bowl. David Woodley, who was replaced, of course, by Don Strach in perhaps the greatest game I've ever seen.

Dave, if someone told you one day that you have a soda drinker's body, would you be insulted? Well you can't even see my shape. Well I'm not talking about you in particular, just if someone told you. No, is that an insult? He's asking is that if someone looked at you and said you've got the body of a soda drinker, he's asking for a ruling on whether or not that is an insult. I'm gonna say it is now. I think people now are up to speed on the high fructose corn syrup that's in those sodas,

and I think people understand that they make our youth fat. So I think it is an insult, yeah. Well, also something that's gonna change, thanks to that first guy that you mentioned. Let's ratatatat some of these looks. I want you to an install, yeah. Well, also something that's gonna change, thanks to that first guy that you mentioned. Let's rat-a-tat-tat some of these looks. I want you to pick the best one. These all received universal praise. The Bucks, not the first time they've gone

to the creamsicle throwbacks, but it is the first time they've leaned into the all-white look, the great alternate. This is absolutely, I mean, you know me, I'm a Baker guy. This one for me is tops, but let's look at the LA Chargers alternate Navy look Harkins back to their 90s look Everyone was happy to see this with a modern fun me not me I know I want the fouls cuz I want the one that I just I just referenced the greatest game ever played Or at least in the conversation Dolphins Chargers, the Bavarian kicker kickoff.

Don't dilute it, it's the greatest game ever played. Don't dilute it, look, Demishek. My favorite. Demishek, have a take and stick to it, look. Just stick to it. It's the greatest game ever played. Don't dilute it with perspective and nuance. You know, football America is about inclusion

and our sport of football. It is our national pastime. It's replaced baseball. I think we can all agree on that. And nothing says that better than that early 80s showdown, Tony Nathan and D'Oreal Harris and all the rest of it. But then it came down to Benerska v Von Schamen is the best.

The Bavarian kickoff to decide all hash was just the best. And Von Schamann getting his block by Kellan Winslow and all the rest of it. What was the question? Oh, the Chargers. Yeah. Why don't they break out the Air Coriel era? That's what I want to see.

The gold pants with the white shirt, Wes Chandler and all the rest of it. That's the snappy look in my book. They had to tow Navy. I don't know who decided that that was something that we pine to see, but I reject it. All right, how about the Red Bills helmet that is coming back, an alternate helmet. Once I saw that this was back in play,

I immediately put a future on Buffalo to win the AFC. Oh, I see. We don't park our cars in the same garage here. This is the perfect example. People use it about the Buccaneers but I think the red Bills hat is what the the When we put it away for a little bit then all of a sudden you care about it

No one liked these uniforms at the time. They were terrible uniforms They were the worst thing about and this is a team that lost four straight Superballs and still the red hats were the worst thing about them So yeah, I'm not excited about the return of those. Dave, if you were on a plane... Can I tell you something else though? Can I just say one more thing about the Bills while we're talking about... Seems like you're going to do it whether we say you can or not. I'm going to do it. That's exactly right. Thank you. I think the thing that intrigues me about the Buffalo Bills and they appear to be cursed and I think I know the root of why that is, it's because back in around about 1960, the AFL was starting up and they say, hey, Buffalo, we're going to give your town one of these

teams. And then Buffalo sets about, let's come up with a name for that team. And of course, the city, Buffalo, is named after the majestic beast that once roamed the plains. And then they decided to name the team Buffalo Bills after Buffalo Bill Cody, who devoted his life to killing all of the Buffalo. So why did they do that? Wild Bill? Why did they name it? Wild Bill Cody did that?

Buffalo Bill Cody. Buffalo Bill Cody. Buffalo Bill Cody. Killed the buffalo. Killed all the buffalo. So the city is named Buffalo, and then they named the team after Buffalo Bill who killed all those buffaloes. Buffalo Bill is the guy from Silence of the Land who has the mangina. I understand.

I see where you're getting that confused, but no there was another Buffalo bill before the the one Who had the the dog and the lady down in the hole? What did you say? What? No, he's right. What did you say? sounds the lambs Damish Jack, thank you for being on with us. We appreciate your time your contributions here have been he pooped in a bathtub and that That's what you've done over the last 10 on 10 The the podcast is football Tony America that sounded better Jeremy's yours was earnest. I liked yours

I like can we try can we try this again? This is never good around this again? Oh, no, I don't Know Jeremy good job. Yeah, good for you. It's not a good one. Alright, we'll figure out how to say the name in future episodes. It's got an exclamation point. Up on America! Dave, good seeing you. Thank you for being on the maiden voyage of the show. Try to get your technology right, please.

I will try to do that. Thank you so much in the meantime. First guest, I'm working on Anatoly. I want Anatoly. Like you so much in the meantime. First guest, I'm working on Anatoly. I want Anatoly. Like, I'm excited about this. I can't talk about this enough. Was I introducing this to any of you guys? Were any of you?

Yes, I had seen the videos before. I had never seen any of that. No, but not just seen the videos, though. I'm saying, had it registered with you to appreciate the videos as something those weight lifters are not acting i've gotten i imagine this is happened to the rest of you that most of you enter some of what it is you're watching assuming some of

these people are acting and so the cynicism of that takes the joy away from it but what these people are doing cannot be acted. So the surprise of these weightlifters, who I would expect, to kick this person's ass at some point until they get to that, it is legitimately shocking to watch people who understand what kind of strength this man has discover it while watching it for the first time. That's exactly right.

Because it's like the way people respond to Nathan For You, for example, where they just assume everybody is sort of a stooge or the people on the rehearsal. But like, it wasn't that surprising because that's what happens in the gym when I go in and I do the same thing. So I understand why people are, you know,

sort of assuming you can't lift if you look a certain way. I had never seen weightlifting. We know. You got a soda. I had never seen weightlifting. We know. You got a soda drinker's body. We can agree on that, right? We're not saying somebody has a soda drinker's body and then also saying that person crushes it in the gym, right? Like just crushes it, does rigorous training.

The two things can't coexist. Even if it's not an insult, we are not saying that that person is a maniac in the gym the soda drinkers body, correct? Ronnie Belyard would like a word he would Ronnie Belyard soda drinkers body, you know, who else Miguel Cairo It seems the exclusive domain of baseball players for some reason going athlete You'll throw well, but you throw in a Kyle Lowry and a Jalen Rose every once in a while But it seems we're just doing this to baseball players with the soda drinkers body One of the few sports that you could play like looking like that. stramski George niang. Oh, there we go. That's a good boy See let's but that's love handles too. That is a good one. That's a soda drinker

Niang niang I feel for niang on that. He is not capable of muscle right there. No, but right there No, it's no it's a limitation soda. No, yes, no sodas