The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The Rolf Benirschke Show

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

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You're walking into an asylum. Dan Lepetard! Tell me the big game that a Mario Cristobal coach team has not shown up for since he's been at Miami. I double dog, dare you! I think they're actually going to be shocked at how not home gamey this is going to feel for Indiana.

They thought that they were going to fly into this helm because no one on my plane is a Miami fan. It's crazy. And they're going to be hit in the mouth by not just a football team, but by the crowd. The same folks picking you have been pouring dirt on our grave for two and a half months. We're still standing. Miami's going to average at least four yards of rush.

Miami matches up really well here. I think Miami's going to go on 14 play drives. I think Miami's going to lean on these guys. They present a matcha problem that they haven't really encountered. And I think we're going to see a team wear out over the course of the game. I think Sal's make fights. and this is a really good matchup, and it's going to be a difficult one for Indiana, I think.

I think Indiana's going to know right away, they're in for a fight, and I think Miami wins. Go Kings. We're forged in fire and been fighting for our lives longer than you've mattered. See you in a week. Spot the goddamn ball. All right, I stand by it. I will be beating it for number six.

Go Key! How do I get put in the parade of gas bags? Just reading a quote from Mike Ryan. None of those were my words! None of them. You said it. It's unfair. Jeremy, you were secretly delighted last night, weren't you?

Secretly? Midway through the second quarter, he's like, I'm going to get going on the montage. Greg, do you have a back in my day? It's Tuesday. No, I just didn't have time. I've been a little busy lately. Can you guys get me as much Rolf Benershka information as you can here? So again, hold on.

Let's rewind this for a second. Who are these people? They're Rolf Benershka? It's Uvei von Schaman and Rolf Benershka. Uvei von Schaman. Dig up a picture of Uvei van Schaman. He was quite a looker.

That was a professional athlete. You have to keep in mind as you stare at his bald head. Is it Ralph or Rolf? Rolf. Rolf. Oh, hell yeah. Rolf. Shaman?

Rolf. Let's go. Can you find out for me the why he was hosting Wheel of Fortune? Was Pat Sejek on strike? What was happening that made Rolf Benershka be the host of Wheel of Wheel of Fortune? for a very brief period of time. It was a very strange thing,

and I'd like as much information on this as you guys can get me. Passion Project. Is everyone just going to look at me, and no one's going to look this up? Because I'm sure it's not that hard to find, whatever it is that Rolf Benerski, he didn't host for very long. Incidentally here...

It's an R-O-L-F-F? I think it's just one-F. One-F. Yeah. I was remiss in not mentioning this yesterday, so forgive me for this. He had all sort of colitis. Good for him. Inspirational story.

Forgive me for not mentioning this yesterday. Stugats returned to live radio yesterday, 3 to 5 Eastern Fox Sports Radio on 270 affiliates. You should check out Stugats and Company. He is building out an empire, and he's going back to his first love. I've expected him here for months. I don't know why he's not here.

Hopefully we'll get some clarity on. that soon we do not have clarity I expected him back this month Tony what did you find on Rolf Benershka so in 1989 he hosted Wheel of Fortune for a short period while Pat Sejack left to do a version of his own late-night TV show about six months worth of Wheel of Fortune for Rolf Bernerski can you guys imagine that like I don't even know I really don't know who I can put as a kicker in the the modern game with a funnier name as the host, as a random host of Wheel of Forces. Sebastian Janikowski. Then Rolf Bernershka. If people know he was a kicker, they're like, oh, that guy, I know who he is.

No. No. He's like, who's this guy? No. If you think kickers are not famous now, I had an idea, actually. I didn't pose it yesterday, and I meant to. I really failed in this regard. Xavier Lucas was out for the first half of the game yesterday because of the targeting call in the previous game. And given the general anonymity of football players inside the uniform, I was actually thinking, what if they just put Xavier Lucas in another uniform and didn't tell, didn't tell anybody that it was Xavier Lucas and everybody like, me, holy shit, that guy's who is that guy? Just put him in a different uniform that no one has seen play all season and don't tell anybody.

Oregon's kicker is named Atticus Sappington. Oh, that name I've heard. That guy's nice. Yeah. Sappington. What a name. Atticus. I love that guy. Lucy, the game last night, because one of the things that was most wrong, that we got most wrong around here is wasn't really a home game for Miami in terms of the feeling and the energy of the crowd, right? Yeah, I feel like I said that I thought there would be a lot of Indiana fans.

To me, we were up top, so we got to kind of see the overhead. It looked like 60-40. I did not expect this to be, I mean, 50-50 was probably closer to what maybe I thought it would be, but I never expected it to feel like entirely Miami because the thing with Indiana fans is one, they have a wealthy alumni base. They have a top 10 business school. Also, they've never been here before. So, like, why would you not splurge and get this, you know, ticket?

I thought it was a great crowd. I think it was interesting of, like, walking around the stadium before the game, you could feel the difference in the sections where Miami, there was an intensity to it of just, like kind of knowing how much this game meant and whatever. And Indiana was like, we're just here and this is awesome and life is great. It was very different vibes. Look at Tony back there. He will never forgive Roy Bellamy.

I don't know if there's anything that we've taken from today more than Tony promising us that 60 years from now he will still not have arrived at forgiveness for Roy Bellamy. Never. Never. I said never. Like I will never forgive him. Look at that face, Dan. As the ball's in the air and all of a sudden number 22 is intercepting it. And I'm just thinking, interception's coming here.

And I'm like, I'm going to never forgive him. Do you guys, I don't know if you find it funny, but do you find it interesting in the way that history forgets the details that you may remember going forward the way that that game ended? And it'll stick to Carson Beck forever, that he's got six losses in college football, and four of them. He had the chance to win at the end and threw an interception.

But the fact that very possibly he was concussed. and he's telling you, my ears were ringing, okay? I'm taking snaps and it's not crowd noise, it's not anything else. The fact that history will forget that in that moment, you've got a quarterback who's quite possibly impaired, making a decision that ends up being a, the totally wrong decision to make you do not throw to that receiver in double coverage in that spot.

Marion took the blame for that, which I don't even know what he's doing there. Like he said he never saw the ball and that he's supposed to go and contest the play, quiet as it's kept, Pooka Nakua got the Rams to advance because he played defense on a throw that would have been intercepted against Carolina. He said that interception was all on him. Marion said the interception was all on him. But how do you do this?

We're famously bad at concussion talk. We become doctors and we do diagnoses. But when on 2nd and 15, you're getting the penalty that is showing you on video, oh, he's hit the back of his head there on the... the turf and now he tells you his ears are ringing. That's an impaired quarterback. And I wonder whether those details matter at all. They don't, right? History forgets all of them. Yeah, I think it matters in the immediacy if Carson Beck admits that he may have been woozy.

But he kind of did. He was woozy. He doesn't have to admit it. The way he got up made it obvious. He was wobbly. And everybody was like, let's still roll with concuss Carsonback. Spoiler alert. If the Patriots go on to win the Super Bowl, it will be a footnote that they beat the backup of the Broncos to get to that Super Bowl. Oh, well, let's talk about this for a second. It's not just merely that they've had the easiest schedule, which the Patriots did this year. Go look at just the history of good fortune here

that they've had the entirety of the season, which is nuts. But all of that stuff gets forgotten. Nobody cares at the end if it's an imperfect measurement system. It doesn't matter. I don't discount what Diana Rossini said on this show earlier today. I think that the Broncos now have more incentive than they did, if that's possible. I think the defense is good enough. I think New England is overrated enough based on their schedule. It wouldn't shock me in the least for Denver at home, minus five or plus

five and a half to win that game up. I'd be pretty surprised. I mean, it would be shocking. I don't think it would be. It will definitely come up as a factor that I think is one of the most overrated things mentioned in sports, the advantage that Denver teams have at home. Oh, it's the thin air up there. Then why don't they all go undefeated? Why don't they all have remarkable home records? They don't. Spoiler alert once again. I don't think that's how spoiler alerts work.

I don't think that... You can't spoil it. I was spoiling you looking up their records to disprove my point. I am right. None of them went undefeated at home in any given season. Aren't they like 8 and 1 at home? I could be wrong. I'm talking about the nuggets in the abs.

You get my larger point in the what? Can I jump in real fast? If you think you've got the boldest take of the week, we want to bring that segment back, prove it. Call 305-486, Gats. Also, per Jeff Passon, the Miami Marlins are acquiring right-hander

Bradley Blaylock from the Colorado Rockies for a minor league pitcher. Blaylock was DFAed by the Rockies last week. This will give Miami additional pitching depth after trading away Edward Cabrera and Ryan Weathers. I'm still confused by what happened on that phone call between Barclay and his bookie. I know.