The Fumblerooski Podcast - Super Bowl 57 -A Fumblerooski Special

Episode Date: February 11, 2023

Listen to our 3rd annual Super Bowl special! Packed with prop bets, favorite game goods, Super Bowl memories, score predictions, and much more! Special guest the Down To The Wire Podcast!

Thank you. is no sign yet. Edelman comes down with a football. They're saying it's a catch. It's in. Oh! Diggs! Side-bind! Touchdown! Unbelievable!

Swings it way down the field. The walk-out! Sammy Watkins for the touchdown! We are officially here. It is Super Bowl 57, and we are on to our third annual Super Bowl special and second collaboration with our favorite podcast besides ourselves, Down to the Wire. Brian, how are you doing today, dude? Everyone, welcome in to this Down to the Wire Fumble Rooski special. I'm really glad to have you guys on for this today.

It is a blast having you guys with us today. Joined alongside me is a fellow WJMF-er. He is the voice of the Bryant University Bulldogs. Zeke Kransdorf, welcome in. Yeah, I'm glad to be here, glad to talk some football. I love football, favorite sport on planet Earth. Could talk about it all day long, but we've got a bunch of other people to talk about it as well. Absolutely.

Going around the roundtable, obviously, Adam, thank you for having me back. We got big Justin Tucker in the bottom corner and then we got the man, the main man himself, CJ Medeiros. Obviously it's going to be a great show. This is actually going to be part of a little special that I'm doing. I recorded an NBA segment earlier today outside with Chris Dring. So stay tuned for that and let's get on with the show. All right. Well, we are going to kick off our Super Bowl coverage. It's going to be a very fun episode. So it's very bit while off but we are going to ensure that this last episode of football coverage is going to go out with a bang so starting off brian i believe you have some super bowl 57 prop bets yes i do adam uh this is something i like to do every

year while i'm not a betting man myself, I got to admit, these prop bets are pretty funny to watch and see. So my first prop bet that I have for you is a classic one. It is the Gatorade color. Now, there have been various colorations over the years. Blue has typically been a favorite, but this year we got orange, we got yellow and green clear or water blue, red and pink purple, or there's no Gatorade port at all. Um, Adam, I have a orange is plus

two 50 yellow and green plus three 50 clear plus 500. Same with blue, red and pink plus five 50 purple plus 900. And then no Gatorade poured is plus 1,600. For all you gambling people at home, you understand that. So I just want to know your guys' opinion. If you had to put money on the line, what color is going to get poured on the winning coach at the end of all this? Adam, I'll throw it to you. If you had to take a guess.

All right. So the only thing I'm familiar with about the gatorade and the super bowl is that it's that it's a very low likelihood that the um that it's the same color two years in a row so what i'll ask last year was last year's blue blue so we can take blue out of the i'm just going to take blue out of the conversation okay um let's go with when the seahawks won it was orange i'm just like throwing different colorations i don't know if that was the last time it's happened but i'm gonna go green i'm gonna go green i think the gatorade bath is going to be i i know who i'm picking for for the super bowl it's becoming apparent yeah i got i'm gonna i'm going green

here okay dj i'll throw it to you thank you uh brian you're very generous absolutely i would like to point out that i believe i guess blue last year and last year's super bowl show let's keep that streak alive orange is speaking to me. Give me orange. No rhyme or reason, but I believe in orange. CJ, I'll agree with you there. I'm also feeling orange for this. I'm feeling it. I could see it being poured on Andy Reid or Coach Sirianni. It feels like it's the destined color to have.

Zeke, the man in orange, what are you going with? Money on the line, what are you taking? I would love to say orange. I really would. In my heart of hearts, I'm feeling lemon-lime, baby. I'm feeling that yellow Gatorade. Why are you giving, like, a politician's answer? I don't know.

It's for the people. All right, sure thing. And then, Tuck, I'll throw it off to you. What do you got? I don't know. Are you going purple for your Baltimore Ravens? No, no, not this time. I would be the worst.

I'm feeling red this year because it goes with the Super Bowl color. So I was thinking red. Yeah. All right. Is that everyone? Yeah, I think so. All right.

The next prop that I have is will a player propose after the game? Now, this is something that – now, here's the thing. There is a little caveat to this because it's something that happens after many games. You see many players propose. It's something you typically done. Whether it's a college game, the NFL, it's something you see a lot. And while some people are saying no like maybe there

won't be a proposal i want to raise you this game this year being played two days before valentine's day so i don't know if any of these fellas are going to have any ideas here so uh justin you have you i did with you i'll start with you this time will we see someone uh be getting married at this game i want to say yes and i want to say yes and i'm going with jalen hurts if the eagles do win all right i don't know who to go for the chiefs true all right zeke what do you got listen both both these rosters fairly young rosters uh I think that that will play a factor. They probably have not already proposed, probably not already married a decent amount of these players.

So I'm going to have to go with yes here. I feel like whoever wins, there's definitely some young talent. That's a highlight moment right there. That's a good point. Yeah. I'm going to double off that. I'm also going to say yes. I think that there's just going to be some love in the air.

And when it comes down to it, if emotions are riding high and you're that winning player, I think you're going to feel like you're on top of the world and you'll do anything in that moment. So I'm going to say yes. I think we're going to see a proposal on Sunday. That's my best guess. Who hasn't answered yet? I haven't answered yet okay oh so i i looked up i did a little bit of cheating i looked it up to see how

many to see oh my god you suck if it makes you feel any better, I didn't find anything. But I was just looking up how many Super Bowls players have proposed at. I found nothing. So I guess it's just not something that people just post. But I think Zeke's point that there's a lot of young players between both sides is a fair one and I think somebody it's just going to be the right occasion if either of these sides win that somebody says I'm just I'm gonna I'm gonna propose so I think I I'm gonna go with yes all right uh CJ have you said your answer no I have not all right's hear it. So I did some thinking.

We have a lot of yeses right now. So are you going to be the one that strays away from the pack? Well, let's find out. All right. So I did some thinking. And, you know, there's like you said, there's a lot of young players. And a lot of these young players happen to be some of the more carefree ones, you know, like Jalen Hurts or Juju or anyone like that. So if they win, I think they'd do it.

So I'm going to have to go with yes. Okay. However, I feel that if the Eagles win the Super Bowl, a proposal is more likely to come from them than the Chiefs. Fair enough. Yeah, the Chiefs, they're kind of locked in. But, yeah. All right, guys. I got one Yeah, the Chiefs, they're kind of locked in. But yeah. All right, guys.

I got one more prop bet for you. We did a lot last year. I'm going to keep it to just my three favorite ones. Those are pretty popular ones that we have now. This one is a little bit more specific, and it would require most likely a Chiefs victory. This one is, will head coach Andy Reid eat a cheeseburger before the end of the Super Bowl broadcast?

Now, I want to say, there are two separate betting lines. One is that he'll eat it before the end of the broadcast, and then the other one is, will the words cheeseburger be brought up during his post-game interview? Now, those are two separate things. I feel like if they win, it's going to get brought up during his post-game interview now those are two separate things i feel like if they win it's gonna get brought up i think there is a clarifying uh clarifying question here is the bet that he is going to bring up the word cheeseburger or anyone in the media because that that's a different line the bet said will the words burger or cheeseburger be said by

andy reed during a post-game interview oh i think he'll say it i think that's but but okay so is is that locking in your your in your team for the super bowl i know we'll talk about that in just a second but i keep going back and forth on it because listen i'm not i doubt uh coach reed's gonna get 50 pieced and then just you know, munching down on a Big Mac at the 50-yard line. I don't think that's happening. So, you know, you got to believe in the Chiefs if you have them – if you have them eating that burger. What do you got?

I think regardless after the Super Bowl, he'll eat it. I think regardless if he's offered. Fair enough. All right. Let's pass it around. I mean, listen, I'm a man of food. I've packed away a couple Big Macs in my lifetime. If someone offered me a Big Mac sandwich on the sideline,

I would take off my helmet and I'd be eating it, even if I was a player. So I feel like if someone offers him one, then he's going to chow down on it. I think yes, regardless of win or loss, if he's offered a cheeseburger, he'll take that cheeseburger. Now, whether or not he'll say the words cheeseburger, I think he will, regardless. Now, I just want to say for anyone who's ever listening to this show for the first time i'm sorry you guys are in for a very confusing experience well we're going to get into the game in just a second but

um to wrap it up who who hasn't said their vote on this uh on this particular prop bet haven't i haven't and i don't have you i i have not so i will say this i this is going to depend on you know the winner of the game Have you? I have not. So I will say this. This is going to depend on the winner of the game. If Philly is to win the game, I don't know if I see Andy Reid eating a cheeseburger. But if we're going KC, here's the thing. In the event KC wins the game, it's happening. Oh, yeah. event Casey wins the game it's happening but oh yeah but but that's but really I think this bet ironically has a lot tied to who you have in this game because you're not just going to see

this guy just sorrowly eating a cheeseburger and just and just crying as like his team is getting blown out by the Eagles like that's not going to happen so this this pick really does reflect a lot of uh who you got in this game. So I'm going to say, I'm going to say, no, I don't know if we're going to see it because I'm also feeling pretty interesting.

I'm feeling a certain way about the team in this game. Yeah. I think I'm going to listen, whether he it's so you, so we have two different bets here. We have one, whether he eats one, one, whether one, one whether he mentions the word. And I think that's an important distinction.

It is. Because – It's a very different distinction, Adam. Thank you. Shut the heck up. I'm about to say, we're on radio. I know. I know.

I know. I'm pretty sure you can still say the H word, right? Heck yes, you're good. Either way, I hate the FCC. Let it be known. I meant the other H word, but listen. All right, listen. So, yeah, whether they – so you took the words out of my mouth.

Whether they win is going to fringe upon whether or not he eats a cheeseburger because he's not going he's not going to eat he won if they lose if they lose though dirt so he can still mention the word because during the postgame press conference maybe he'll mention yelled we didn't, so I won't be eating any cheeseburgers today. Something like that. Maybe like a small joke. I'm going to say this. If he loses, he's not making any jokes, Zeke.

No. We're not getting any jokes. We're not getting any jokes. No, no. Probably not, but I see a better chance of that happening, like him just mentioning the word cheeseburger during a postgame press conference than to eat a cheeseburger, I would say. Sure.

I don't think either of us happening because I, they have to win in order for him to eat a cheeseburger. I'm just giving away my Superbowl pick. Yeah, you really are. All right, Adam, I'll, I'll throw it over to you. What do you, what do you have after these prop bets? I didn't, I didn't know vote yet. Oh, sorry, CJ.

I'm sorry for the impromptu. Go ahead. When I said you were very generous, I was lying. Let me tell you something. Do I think he eats a cheeseburger? I do not. But

as far as saying it, because remember the bet says not that he says it. No, it says that he says it wait hold on i thought you said if anyone in the media said it he has to say the words so i you got confused with my clarifying question what if he's mic'd up if he's mic'd up oh yeah what are you talking about the like and an nfl films thing comes out like two weeks later people are gonna get like this massive refund no No, no, no.

This is the actual Fox broadcast. We're not going to like sneak mics onto this guy to try to get him to like slip a word. No. You can overhear players on a Fox broadcast. I've seen it before. You can read it. Is reading lips a possibility? No, this is not a possibility.

Adam, are you trying to tell us something? Are you really trying to push for this uh for this particular bet no i'm just i'm just thinking like what i'm just thinking about the the limits to the to uh this bet like you know fair enough fair enough if he says it and you can read his lips and you see i'm eating a cheeseburger if we win or something or something like that yeah so okay so fair, fair enough, fair enough. I don't think he eats a cheeseburger. And there is a small part of me that really believes if he loses,

a reporter will ask him. Because there's always that one stupid reporter. Yeah. That's like, hey, Andy, are you going to eat a cheeseburger? And he'll be like, no, no cheeseburgers for me. I'm Andy Reid. So, yeah, I think he does say it because a stupid reporter will, like, coax him to say it.

Okay. All right, Adam, I'll throw it over to you. All right. So the one that we had was how long will the national anthem be? Over or under two minutes? I think we were under last year, correct? Or no, was it over? I don't remember.

It was really close last year. It was incredibly close. Because there were a bunch of people that were watching the Super Bowl with me, and they were like, come on, come on, come on, come on. Actually, you know what? I think it just hit the over last year. It just hit it, but it was very close.

Traditionally, it goes over. Do we know who the singer is this year? I'm looking that up right now. Chris Stapleton. Oh, that's going over. Over. Hit that over. Hit the over.

If you listen to Tennessee Whiskey or any song, it's over. Yeah, that's what that is. Listen, Chris Stapleton, he has some songs where he sings fast, like on Arkansas, different projects like that. But as someone who listens to Chris Stapleton, he is as melodic and as drawn out as they come, and for the best. He's a great artist. But this thing is going to be over if it's Chris Stapleton. 100% over.

Yeah, it's over. It's such an upset if it doesn't happen. That's free money. If it's under, then that will be one of the greatest upsets. He's going to have his thing his heart out if it hits that. No, if Chris Stapleton, it is 100% going to be over. I am telling you guys right now that is free money. Bet that.

And I'm not a betting man. Bet that. It will hit free money. Bet that. And I'm not a betting man. Bet that. It will hit the over. All right. So I wanted to move to our next segment of the show, which is favorite Super Bowl foods. So I just wanted to go around the table, just give your go-to, like one thing that you just can't enjoy enjoy the super bowl without it could be anything

is beer an option i don't know if we're allowed to mention that on air right and what you can mention i mean i'm 21 years of age it's legal cj is not legal wow way to out me adam geez is that dean i'm at bryant university this is more than oh it's something that you have to talk about but no in reality um i'm a big fan of kind of like cheesy kind of stuff i'm not not a big chips guy um but you know if like always like some good uh some good pizza if you got some mozzarella sticks um you know since i've been going out to stuff more recently i love some good old pretzel bites um just any any of those big kind of like stuff you know really kind of stuffed foods i like that i like that stuff so like nine layer dip something like that yeah i'm not really a big dip guy but sure

all right i'll throw it uh right. I'll throw it. CJ, I'll throw it to you. Huh. Now, whenever I watch Super Bowl with my dad, he does make a lot of food and stuff for that, but I'm going to keep it short. I like ribs. You know, you got that tender,

like fall-off-the-bone ribs, and you just get yourself a plate of those, and you're laughing. I'm crying tears of joy right here uh you gave me an idea you just you just started a tradition for me good no when you have that super bowl party you better have ribs i swear to whatever god there is well you know what at this super bowl party i'm requiring everyone bring one thing so i think i know what i'm having you bring. Actually, CJ, you make a good point. Not ribs, but I forgot to mention this, steak tips. Oh, yeah.

Adam, we will discuss that later. What? We will discuss that later. All right. Zeke, what's your pick? It's a tough call to just kind of narrow it down to one because there's a couple. Well, what's going on your plate? Give us a few.

Give us a few. We got to take us through some cocktail dip. Yeah. We got some potato chips and onion dip as well. Sure. And then you got to go classic chips like tortilla chips with the three piece option. Salsa, quesoeso guacamole wow i mean i have a diverse listen i'll give it up to you i'm a man of food i've said this before

already earlier on in the show i like to eat and when i'm gonna be eating at the super bowl i'm doing it right fair enough that's like part of the super bowl experience is oh yeah if you're not if you're not eating at the Super Bowl, then you're not watching. Are you even watching the Super Bowl? Super Bowl parties, it's a crap Thanksgiving. You're literally eating just like junk food. Yeah, it's junk food galore. And that's the beauty of it all.

It's the American dream, baby. Oh, it's amazing. Maybe throw in a buffalo chicken dip. Maybe. It's amazing. If you have room, maybe throw in a buffalo chicken dip. Maybe. It's amazing. If you have room, maybe throw in a buffalo chicken dip. Tuck, have I thrown it to you yet? No, not yet.

What should we call it? You know the usual, the chips, the dip, the salsa, the guac, the queso. There's also the pizza. But who could forget the wings? Adam knows where I'm coming from. The wings are the most important thing for me. Every time we have a Super Bowl party, we can't have it without the wings because those are the best part of it. So when I think of the Super Bowl and food, I think of the wings. All right. Listen, man, that was my pick and I'm going to double down on that. Listen,

if you are watching the Super Bowl and you don't have wings, that's like – I don't even have wings that much, but like you have to have wings at a Super Bowl party. It has to be that. I think it's only Constitution, yes. It's like turkey at Thanksgiving. You have to have it.

Exactly. You have to have it. And you got to have like my – so a lot of people have different – some people just have them without dipping it into anything. Some people have it with ranch me. So I just recently started dipping my, my wings in blue cheese. And ever since I tried it, when I first tried it, I can't do it without, I can't do wings without blue cheese. Like that's, it has to be there. Sure. It just has to be there. Um, and then, so call me basic

with the wings. Um, but I also, and I also have Doritos, nacho cheese, Doritos are like my favorite chip of all time. I got to do that. No basic, basic. It's it's a, it is, it is basic, but I, I am, I like what I like and I, I don't know. I, so I like what I like. And I don't know. So I like a lot of things. And all of these picks have been really good, and I would probably have all of them at this crap Thanksgiving. But that is, as I mentioned before, that is the American dream. I just have a bare minimum for what you need, um, at your Superbowl

party wings, Doritos, um, and then basic Buffalo wings or like barbecue wings. Like what flavors are we talking here? Sweet and sour, maybe like a Thai sweet chili, something like that. I don't know. I'm a, I'm a Buffalo guy and I'll eat anything, but like it, there at least has to be Buffalo. But as I said, if you're hosting a Superbowl party, there are certain things you need. You can't just buy for yourself. So I usually get some barbecue, um, whatever I'll text in our, in the Superbowl group chat and be like, Hey, what flavor wings do we like? And then we get boats. Um, yeah. So like kind of, I'll go, I'll go multiple, but my favorite is definitely a Buffalo

like Buffalo is that's like my slam dunk favorite have to have to watch a game with Buffalo wings. I respect the pick. I respect the pick. Another one that I have that hasn't been mentioned yet. Taquitos. Oh yeah, dude. Those are nice. So for those of you who don't know what taquitos are, so it's basically it's kind of a tortilla rolled up. You roll up some cheese. There's sometimes chicken, some sort of meat and spices. It's really good. It's like it used to be my all-time favorite snack whenever I got home

and absolutely my Super Bowl thing. Yeah. Besides that, I would also say pretzel bites. Yeah. Some beer cheese. Pretzel bites slap. Oh, yeah. Those things.

I know you like them. You say beer on air. Like, Adam, it's our radio station. We're good. I know. I know. I know. I was like half joking, too.

And of course, if you're if you're of age, it's good to have a few drinks, you know, loosen up, be at a Super Bowl party. Yeah. Speaking of Super Bowl parties, I want to mention this, Adam. I know the NFL has been expanding their schedule. And, you know, after adding a 17th game, it only seems, you know, like a matter of time before we do eventually get another week added to the season. I do want to say this.

If the NFL were to add an extra week to the NFL season and basically do what they're doing now to where they're pushing games back further in the schedule into the spring, what could be really interesting and just think about this. If the Super Bowl was pushed back one further week, it would be held during President's Day weekend, and that Monday would be a national holiday, and people would have that day off from work. Just think about how more chaotic Super Bowl parties could be. So I wasn't a huge fan of the NFL expanding to 17 games.

Actually, I wasn't a fan really of them expanding. You mean 18? No, no, no. When they expanded to 17, I wasn't really too big a fan of the NFL expanding to 17 games. I'm a, I actually, I wasn't a fan really of them expanding. You mean 18? No, no, no. When they expanded to 17, I wasn't really too big a fan of that. I'm a huge fan of them expanding to 18 games.

If that is a possibility now, don't, don't spoil this for me. And then what I don't want to see happen is they put it at the beginning of the season that would ruin my day. But if they put it at the end of the season and push the Superbowl back further, I did just want to say that.

I think Super Bowl parties could get taken to a whole nother level. I have an alternate solution for that. Instead of 17, instead of 18 games, 17 games, two bye weeks, player safety. I think George Kittle actually suggested this on a podcast appearance. He was like, OK, 17 game game season that's fine whatever yeah add an extra bye week in there so that way you have more prime time games like more games that everyone is watching kind of filters a lot of viewership in yeah you get player health up and then you also get that same benefit of super Bowl weekend, President's Day weekend, and that Monday.

Hey, man, I'll take it 100%. If it just means that we – Oh, yeah. Any way we can push the Super Bowl back one more week, I am all for it. Seriously, I'm all for it, man. Yeah, and like as you said, like if the league were smart, which I'd like to believe they are. Not really, no. I'd like to believe they are. Not really, no. I'd like to believe they are.

Adam. And I'd like to believe money grows on trees. I'll say this. I don't believe the league is smart, but I believe the league wants to make money. And if they are interested in doing that, then it will happen. Yeah, well, in some ways those can go hand in hand, being smart and looking for money.

And that would make money. I don't need an NFL game in the summertime. I just don't. I'm having way too much fun anyways. We're on the beach. We're enjoying ourselves. The weather's nice. Wow, look at Adam.

He's living the life. We don't need a game in the summer. What we need is games in the wintertime when the weather is horrible and we have some other things to look forward to. And to get the day off after the one obstacle that we get for Super Bowl Sunday, to be able to eliminate that, how could you not want to do that? And plus, the NFL is getting more business by doing that and people always talk people have always said hey the day after the super bowl should be a national holiday and you'd be able to do that if you did this you would be able to do it

and listen the u.s wouldn't have to i'm not even getting into politics you wouldn't have to pass any bills or dining sign any laws it would just fall into place. It would be perfect. As Homelander said, it was perfect. Down to the last minute detail. I love that quote. Yeah. That's a beautiful quote. All right.

So I wanted to change gears, go on to our next topic, and I wanted to go around the table and touch on each person's favorite Super Bowl memories. All right. Brian, you want to kick us off? Yeah, I got a couple. So it's a favorite of mine. It was also a not-so-great moment. It was back in, oh, let's see, 2016 see 2016 2017 the Patriots are down to the Atlanta

Falcons 28 to 3 and it's listen I'm gonna say this story seems basic at first but let me explain to you the backstory so along along with being a football fan I also I never played tackle football but I played flag football growing up at like a local, like indoor soccer field. And I did that for a couple of years. Once I aged out of it, I got a job as a ref at this, at this place. And the day of Super Bowl 51 actually happened to be my first day as a referee. And that day I went in, I met with the referee at the time. I met with the guy at the time. Um, actually, Adam, you'd remember him. It's Jim Mulgrew, who is an umpire for some of our sports. So I worked with Jim and I, uh, you know, like I got my whistle and I was just running around the field, calling the game pretty low key games. Like nothing really happened.

But what did me in is the fact that I had like this metal whistle and I didn't realize that to just whistle a play dead, you can kind of just like whistle into the thing like softly. So instead of just like doing like a quick like like i was full-on blowing into this whistle and unknowingly blowing my eardrums out at the same time so at the end of the game and at the end of my work day my ears are ringing constantly and i get back home and i'm watching the game and i'm just like man i really hope this goes away and it wasn't and the patriots are down to the falcons they're getting killed and i'm

just like all right i have a splitting headache right now i'm gonna go upstairs to bed and i go up in my room and i know and i shut the lights off and i literally say to myself and and i i wanted to watch the game all the way through but i was actually dying i tell me you didn't miss tell me you didn't miss it let me tell you how how it went i just couldn't adam the sound was just bugging me i wasn't the fact that i didn't want to watch the game i was just so in pain and literally i'm sitting up there in bed and i have the espn app open i'm just like watching like the plays unfold kind of on that little like spreadsheet thing and basically i i said to myself all right if they

score a touchdown on this drive right here i'll go down and i'll watch the rest of the game. I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll push through it. And I'll just like, you know, see them try in this game. Cause who knows if this is Brady's last game ever. Cause we didn't know at that point. And I was like, all right, they scored a touchdown on this drive. They'll do it. And on that drive, it was the pass to James white for that first touchdown that cut it to a like 28, nine. So as soon as that happened, I was like, all right, I'm going to come down. I went downstairs, and the rest is history. I was losing my mind. The missed extra point by Guskowski on that touchdown was a good turnoff.

That almost sent me back up to my room. Like seriously, they got that touchdown. I was like, oh, let's go. This is cool. And then Guskowski just shanks it right. I was like, you know what? Maybe I'm not going is cool. And then Gostowski just, like, shanks it right. I was like, you know what? Maybe I'm not going to come downstairs. Maybe I'm just going to stay upstairs.

But I made the right decision. I got to witness pretty much the rest of the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, and it was a great memory to have. All right. Talk. Oh, do you want me to get – I'll go to – here. I'll go to Zeke. Yeah, let's keep it here, and then we'll go to you guys.

All right. So set the scene. It's about 2015 in February. I am at my dad's apartment. We're watching the game as a collective. What game? Patriots Seahawks. Oh.

And Seahawks are down to the, I think it was about the two-yard line. Yep. And I'm like, it's over. Now, you know, this was around the time where I was always, like, Patriots fan, 100%. No doubt in my mind, I was a Patriots fan. But if I had to choose a team out of the nfc it was the seattle seahawks i was playing with the uh i played with them all the

time on madden on no no on madden on my 3ds that's awesome that so i would i'd play with like uh marshall lynch and i think matt hasselbeck was the quarterback for those ones. I was like, oh, okay. So they were my team out of the NFC, the Seahawks. But Seahawks were driving down. They're at the two-yard line. I'm like, they're going to hand off to Marshawn Lynch. The Patriots are going to lose again in the Super Bowl. Again. This is horrible.

Seeing that interception at the goal line, my, my heart skipped like two beats. I fell to the floor. See, I think I blacked out during that interception. Cause I don't even remember the play itself. I just remember celebrating afterwards. Like,

I don't even remember like Russell throwing the ball. I remember the replays. I don't remember like actually seeing it all unfold. I remember the curse catch. I remember getting down to the one yard line. And then all of a sudden i just like the next thing i know i'm celebrating i don't remember the actual play during during the like entire time that ball was in the air before it landed softly into the hands of malcolm butler my heart did not beat no it was just still like i think i might have been legally dead at that point

but the second the second i saw butler right back like i was i was on the ground i was like like yeah actually like heaving uh but it was a fantastic moment fantastic moving adam but what about you all right so i i want to go last, but I wanted to throw it to Tuck. We got a lot of Patriots fans in this room. I just wanted to mix it up, give it to the Ravens fan. What say you, Tuck? Tuck, you're muted. You're muted, bud.

I know I am. I'm using profanity. Thank God. Whoa. That's not very nice. That's not nice, Tuck. I know I am. I'm using profanity. Thank God. Whoa, that's not very nice. That's not nice, Tuck. I have half a mind to say 52 or 46. I have half a mind to say it, but I'm not. I mean, okay. My favorite memory is Super Bowl XLVII, and it's not even the first three touchdowns Joe Flacco threw.

We're coming out of halftime. The score is 21-6. Everything's going off right. I'm still a little nervous because I'm thinking, okay, San Francisco, if we go four and out, San Francisco gets the ball. They score. Still a close game. So I'm a little bit worried. They kick the ball off.

It gets to Jacoby Jones. And, oh, my God, the rest is history. Boom, he gets through the middle. He hits nothing but pay dirt, does the Ray Lewis dance, and oh, my God, it was so exciting. I was like 28-6. I'm thinking, oh, this is going to be a slaughter. This game is over.

It wasn't over then, but at that moment in time, I was just so excited and exuberated to be a Ravens fan. And thank God we managed to hang on and win that game. But that, as far as memories go, that is my favorite Super Bowl memory. I mean, that was a great game itself. That was probably the first Super Bowl that I probably really remember being engaged in. I wasn't too much of a sports fan growing up, but I remember watching the Giants games and stuff like that. But that game was the one I was most engaged with.

One thing I remember specifically from that game too, Tuck, is that that was Randy Moss' last ever game in the NFL. Yep. I forgot he was on the 49ers for that. Yeah, he was on the 49ers for the last game in the NFL. It was crazy. All right. CJ?

There's a few. But even though it wasn't the most entertaining game, Super Bowl 53. Yeah. You see, here's the thing. If you were a fan of the Rams or the Pats, that game wasn't boring. It was stressful. Yeah.

You know, both offenses locked in a stalemate. You know, you can't take your eyes away from the TV. I mean, at least that's how it was for me. Everyone says it was boring, but most Pats and Rams fans that I know just said it was stressful. Oh, yeah. And you knew whoever gets the first touchdown wins and there are many points that you know made me worried like the ball bounces off hogan's hands for a cory littleton interception i thought golf had like a wide open

brandon cooks you know then jason mccourty turns on the jets that was awesome and then i see michelle get a touchdown and i was like oh this isn't over i don't have a good feeling and no it's like we just gotta stop them rams march right down the field and oh gilmore calls game and then you know we we give it back to the rams and i remember how the announcers were talking about how johnny hecker i mean not him uh who was their kicker yeah zerline how that was zerline's like career year and he hadn't missed since like week eight and he just shanked it and i was shocked because you and i was worried in my head i was preparing myself for he makes it rams recover the onside kick and get a touchdown because remember the miami miracle happened that year so and and then he shanked it and i was like

oh my god oh my god and i remember i still like i still have like the film of like me reacting to it and the best part is i went to a awful place for and to an awful high school. Okay. And a hexcape called Smyrna, Delaware. That was, which is crawling with Eagles fans or as Obi-Wan Kenobi puts it, a wretched hive of scum and villainy. So I roll up with my Gronk jersey. I'm like,

Oh, remember last year. Remember now? Well, I'm back. Mother bleeps. Yeah. I can say that. Take fcc no i will say

oh yeah i'll say i'll say this like super bowl 53 has a weird place in my in my heart because as a pats fan you kind of knew that was likely it i mean at the time we didn't know brady was going to play what was it like another three to four years it wasn't really known and even if he came back there was just something about that game it just there felt it kind of there was like a finality to it where it was like Brady kind of led them through the end that was that last game I give a lot to Belichick for that last Super Bowl that is a Bill Belichick Super Bowl if there ever was one so and it just it just felt like you know what Belichick got Brady in the league. Then he took over and was like that juggernaut for like that middle run.

And then at the end, Belichick gets him over the hump. And that was the narrative that I had for a while. But yeah, just a lot of other good memories. I remember that was the only Super Bowl parade I went to. Oh, I went to that one too. Yeah, that was a great day. I ran into Adam at that one. He was coming from Gordon at the time. Which? Oh, yeah went to that one too. Yeah, that was a great day. I ran into Adam at that one. He was coming from Gordon at the time.

Which – oh, yeah, yeah. 53. 53. We were on the opposite sides of the street, and then once the parades – once the duck boats went through, the cop let me go onto the other side of the street and meet up with you, and then we ran into Beatrice. It was a crazy day. Oh, yeah. That was great. Yeah. And, like, I went to everything for that. I went to there. I went to there cause I had a feeling it was one of their last, I went to their rally. I went to want to my first Patriots

game ever. And so far, my only one was the divisional round against the chargers where they blew them out of the water. Wow. And listen, that's like just a side note for that, for that Superbowl run. It will never be looked at as one of the best Patriots teams ever, but it's one of the most, can I say it bad? What are you trying to say? One of the most bad-ass Patriots teams I've ever seen. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. I just want, I just want to make sure that was okay to say. Yes. Um, one of the most badass patriots patriots teams out there listen there's always been that narrative teams that lose the super bowl almost never go back and they certainly don't win it and that team had to overcome that and they use it as a chip on their shoulder remember that one time where uh jules

where edelman is miked up during the AFC championship game. One of the best games ever. Brady threw a touchdown to Philip Dorsett, and on the sideline, Edelman's yelling at him saying, you're too old. You're too bleeping old. He was awesome. But all right, let me tell you about my favorite Super Bowl memory. This kid gets on radio and doesn't know how to act. He's asking me all these questions. What a rookie. Yeah. Come on, Adam.

Just swear like the rest of us. I'm kidding. I'll be dropping F-bombs, S-bombs. Adam. I'll be saying all kinds of colorful language. One thing, one thing I will say, he sounds like a fifth grader right now.

Looking, looking back on it. I am very surprised that that Patriots team that put up 13 points in the Superbowl was able to beat the 2018 chiefs. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

I mean, for me, that was the last time Brady looked like Brady in a, in a Patriots uniform that, that next season, he didn't look like, like the Tom Brady. We all knew the lastots uniform. That next season, he didn't look like the Tom Brady we all knew. The last time we saw Tom Brady balling out for the Pats was that AFC Championship game.

So that's what was really special about that game too. That season has a special place in my heart. I wouldn't trade it for any of the other rings or any of the ones that we could have had between Super Bowl 57, Super Bowl 42, 46, the undefeated year. I couldn't. All right. But I want to get to, I want to get to my, to my Superbowl memory. Listen. So back in 2013, it's the Superbowl 48 run for the Denver Broncos. They didn't, they made the Superbowl. They got through Tom Brady

louded as arguably the best offense in NFL history led by Peyton Manning through 55 touchdown passes. They get demolished. They got crucified by the, by that Seahawks team and me 13 year old little 13 year old Adam said, Oh, and 13 yearyear-old Adam said – Oh, and 13-year-old Adam. For you guys that don't know, 13-year-old Adam was something else. And I'm not going to lie. At the same time, 12-year-old Brian was equally as bad. We were torps.

We were some weird kids. We were weird kids. We matured. And we didn't really mature. We just got older. We gotd. We matured. And we didn't really mature. We just got older. We got older. And we started a podcast and got some of this stuff on air. They were not that mature after.

All right. So little 13-year-old Adam made the Super Bowl prediction right after saying, I want the Seahawks next year. I want that. Seeing how bad they were in being the Broncos were and being the Brady zealot that I am. I wanted to see Tom Brady do what Peyton Manning couldn't. And so fast forward, you get through the regular season, both teams, both teams finishes number one seeds, the Patriots. They had a tough time in the divisional round, but they ripped

right through the AFC championship. The Seahawks, on the other hand, they fell down big to the Packers. And the rest of my family and everyone else at the party, I was with some family friends. Everyone was happy. They're like, okay, the Packers will be an easy matchup. I wanted the Seahawks. I was the only one there who was upset. And when everyone else was upset seeing the seahawks come back i was happy i'm like let's go we're getting this this is what i wanted a challenge a game for the

ages yeah and everyone was like i hope you're happy adam you got what you wanted i did get what i wanted this is gonna be and going into thel. So it's as a famous man once said, who is a fictional character. It's not about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. Looking at that Superbowl, the Patriots fell down by 10 points. Brady threw an interception at one point. It looked like the Seahawks were starting to take control going into that fourth quarter. Then the Patriots came all the way back. It was one of Brady's best games that I've ever seen on a big stage. It was incredible at that point. And it was all summed up in that in one play where, where Brady goes to Edelman and Edelman gets clocked. He gets his stuff rocked by Cam Chancellor. And instead of just falling over and watching Cam

do his stupid little, his little, that stupid little celebration, he got, he stayed up. That guy stayed up and he, and he moved another 15 yards. Now he was ultimately ruled down, but to me, it was the effort that counted. It was, we're not going to be intimidated by you. We were met with your energy, but we're going to match it. And they came all the way back. They took the lead with about, what, three minutes left. Then that one faithful drive where the Seahawks came all the way down, there was the curse catch where they got lucky.

That was a lucky catch. Lucky play where they wound up inside the five-yard line. They get to the half-yard line. They didn't run it with Marshawn Lynch. And Russell Wilson throws the ball. Interception. And the Patriots win it. Wow.

That was little 14-year-old Adam at this point was, man, he probably aged about a year, but the greatest thing like that was, that is what got me into football, making that preseason prediction way before the season. And then seeing it come to light, seeing Brady do, do his thing and seeing that great Patriots team.

That was my, that's my all-time favorite Super Bowl of all time. I mean, those are some great Super Bowl memories, obviously. Just looking back on it, being a Pats fan and seeing Tom Brady, since that's a recurring theme, go through all of these Super Bowls, it's crazy because when I started watching football and really getting into it, I was too young to really see those first three. So I knew the narrative behind Brady.

I knew he was a Hall of Famer. But the question of the greatest of all time really wasn't a discussion up until that fourth Super Bowl. It was like, oh, can he catch Montana? And then when he did, it was, you was – even once he had four Super Bowls, people would say, well, Montana was perfect in the big game. He was undefeated, and he played incredible, and it was like, all right, some people are still going to give that edge to Joe.

And once Brady got that fifth and then the sixth and then obviously the seventh with Tampa, it's crazy that it's not even close anymore. And just to see that narrative with a player change, like just like not even amongst like not talk, talk, talk, talk, stay with me on this. I'm not even just talking from personal opinion, talk like I'm not even talking about me, me saying like, oh, Brady's the greatest of all time. But just the way that the culture and the narrative and the way people react to it,

the fact that it's so universally just like this now, that's just crazy to me as to how quickly it changed. It's not universal. Talk. I'm not saying that it's universal. And listen, I might disagree on you with that. It's universal. I showed Adam what I mean by that. I showed Adam a clip of what somebody else said.

My friend Cessa, I know what you meant. And I told one of my professors, who is the voice of the Patriots, and he saw it and he thought – his name is John Rook, and he's the PA voice. Oh, I think it was like Bob Soce or something. Actually, I have a picture of Bob Soce. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, we actually had Bob Soce in actually for for a class why didn't you tell me this yeah i got to ask him a few questions actually it was great um tell me next time this guy i i i had

tony maserati and i got to ask him a few questions that's. Yeah. Dean has a couple connections, so it's pretty fun sometimes. Thank God it was in that class. I would have given Maserati a piece of my mind. He's so obnoxious. And so is Felger, too. Both of them can just rot in you-know-where together, I guess. Yeah. Look, I don't know.

That was a great Super Bowl. As I mentioned, the narrative with Brady flipped a lot after these most recent Super Bowls. I want to ask you, are we getting into the point where we're going to start picking our teams now? So we have a Super Bowl edition of the fan box. We're going to get through them quickly. I do want to make a point real quick here. And it's the fact that, you know,

with the way narratives were able to be written about Tom Brady, you're going to be able to start to make a case like that with Patrick Mahomes, depending on how the Super Bowl goes. Because I will say, if Patrick Mahomes goes and wins this second Super Bowl, this puts him in unique territory. He at this point has more Super Bowl rings than Drew Brees, more than Aaron Rodgers. So it's going to be the question is, where does he rank all time?

So he's a great talent, and it's just going to be really interesting to see how that's going to work out. So we'll discuss that further in the predictions, but Adam, I'll throw it back to you. All right. So we got to give our Superbowl memories. So what did you guys think? What were your best Superbowl memories? So welcome to the Superbowl edition of the Fumble Rooski fan box, where we post a question filter every

Monday or in this case Thursday, and you can respond with hot taste questions and more. And we will discuss it and give you a shout-out on our podcast. Respond to next week's Fan Box question to be featured on our show. All right, so question of the week or of our Super Bowl special. What's your favorite Super Bowl memory? So we had a lot of Malcolm Butler interception votes with Ian Mulhern saying Malcolm Butler interception, Brendan99882211.

He doesn't have a last name in his bio. So that's his username. Seahawks passing instead of. All right. Relax. Seahawks passing instead of giving it to Marshawn and Owen Vanslack. And this one doesn't narrow it down that much. He said goal line interception,

but that could also mean the James Harrison pick at the goal line. That was a pick six. And then the other one was Ethan D., who said either the Malcolm Butler pick or watching 28-3 at my uncle's. So we kind of really covered that pretty thoroughly, the Super Bowl 49, arguably the best Super Bowl of all time. Going on to our next set of questions, of responses, Ethan D., Diego Huertas, and Nate Motes all said 28-3. So Super Bowl 51.

So that one was, listen, that was one of the better Super Bowls of all time. I will give you that. Just the only reason why I don't have it as being top five, let's say, is because for most of it, I mean, I was doing laundry during a big portion of it. It didn't really start to get interesting until the fourth quarter. So like, yeah, it was a great Super Bowl and the largest comeback in Super Bowl history by a mile. The next closest, there's like several that are 10 points

so like yeah it was a great super bowl and i understand why people like it but um also and cj you can respect explain this one more in context but secret weapon consulting uh run by your dad said ty having someone skip school and going to the parade for the fog, confetti guns, lights, and et cetera, after the 28 to three game. I do want to. So, yeah. So what my dad watching games with him is a really interesting experience because he is like lights and music and funny sound effects that he plays. That was after 28 to three.

But after the Super Bowl, after 53, I got to take a day off school because we went to go see the victory parade in Boston. He said 28 to three. Also, he said tie between those two. Yeah, yeah. It's a tie between the celebration of comeback for 20-3 and going to the parade. All right.

Ian Mulhern also said Jermaine Kearse tip catch. That is one of the great plays that has been forgotten in Super Bowl history. One of the luckiest catches, and it's forgotten because of what happened two plays later. Yeah. Same thing with the Julio Jones catch. Oh, yeah.

I mean, since we're on the point of amazing catches, I want to say this. As a Pats fan, the helmet catch is definitely something that is etched in that it's one of the negative sides of that Patriots dynasty. It's like, you know what, you had the perfect season taken away because of a miraculous catch by David Tyree. I do want to say it was an incredible play for Eli to get out of the pocket, but if you're going to tell me what is the better play by Eli Manning,

it's not the David Tyree play. It is the throw to Mario Manningham. Yeah, I'd agree because that that played a tyree that's pure luck and the fact that that old line didn't take him down is insane but if you want to talk about in my opinion it's the greatest throw of eli manning's career i'll say this as a pats fan it is that throated to uh mario manningham he has never had a better throw than that absolute i just want to say that that. That was just something I was thinking of. Yeah, and actually speaking of great catches in the Super Bowl,

Chris Kostic said Edelman's catch, but that's biased. So we're all biased with our own opinions. Of course, yes. And this is a very subjective topic. But Edelman's catch. You talk about more luck, that catch. I mean, it did require a lot of focus to just dive in and catch it right before it hits the ground. But that was a big part of that comeback. Now, my personal belief is that they would have won anyways because their momentum was just on their side. They only had 10 yards to go they had another they had another down momentum was on the

Patriots side I think they win anyways but it was still an important play and my what my point is strictly argumentative like it's just arguable I mean I don't know if they would have won anyways it was a huge part in that drive and And I think, you know, getting the challenge, getting everything to go their way, that was a big part in it too. Because, you know, I believe Atlanta lost the timeout because of that. And that, you know, that impacted them a lot in that game. And, you know, I really don't know if that, you know, if that goes the other way. So it depends, Adam. It's a big-time hypothetical, but also that timeout,

I mean the Patriots needed to stop to manage the clock more than the Falcons did because they were the ones who were down big. I mean it's all arguable. I'm just making my argument. I just – all from momentum. It was all on their side. I just think if they uh even if they don't make that catch they get it on the next on the next down um but we'll never know

it's one of the great what-ifs um cindy madero said i attended the big game in 1996 so patriots Packers. So Patriots Packers. Yeah, we don't. Yep. Brett Favre. How about the entire Packers special teams? Reggie White was a dog. Yeah. My grandfather, actually, he went to the Super Bowl a couple. He went to a couple of them. One was when Washington beat Denver in that blowout game, and the other one was when Montana beat Osiasen and the Bengals. I forgot which one it was, but he told me that he was in the elevator one time with Reggie White and

OJ Simpson. Whoa. Yeah. Quite the classic characters in that elevator. That's an interesting one. All right. Isaac Zonana and Eli Turner and Zachary Stilson all commented on Super Bowl 50.

Isaac Zonana said Von Miller MVP because Fangio is defensive coordinator for the Finns. Can you tell he's a Dolphins fan? Eli Turner said Von Miller's forced fumble in Super Bowl 50. Fangio is defensive coordinator for the Finns. Can you tell he's a Dolphins fan? Eli Turner said Von Miller's forced fumble in Super Bowl 50. What a great, unbelievable performance by that Broncos defense. One of the few examples left, one of the few occurrences of defenses, just solely defenses winning championships at this point it's it's become a lot about balance that wins championships but that is one of the few exceptions that are left those that 2015 broncos defense um zachary stillson said dancing to the Super Bowl 50 halftime show. Oh, yeah. Because of Omar's Beyonce and Coldplay.

Yeah, it was a decent cast. Decent cast of characters. It wasn't my favorite. It was a pretty good cast. It was good. It wasn't my favorite. I don't know. Not the best performance, but cast, it's pretty good.

Yeah, cast is good. But the performance, like how it wound up going, it could have been executed a little better. A little mid. A little mid. All right. And Mallory Kleppel said Vikings fourth – excuse me, Chiefs fourth quarter 21-point comeback versus 49ers with six minutes left. So it's important to understand that. So it wasn't a 20 while it was,

while it wasn't a 21 point comeback, it was a 10 point comeback. It was still, it was still a good game, but yeah. What's that rustling by the way. I don't know. That's someone moving around.

It's not us. It's not me. Yeah, that's me guys. It's someone moving around. It's not us. It's not me. Yeah, it's me, guys. Sorry. We caught him. Oh, yes. Yeah, I'm just clearing off my desk. Excuse me.

Mute yourself while you do that. Wish there was a way to louden myself. There you go. Wish there was a way to louden myself, Adam. I'm trying to get through these fan box responses. All right. Yeah, it was a good comeback, and it was obviously Patrick Mahomes' first Super Bowl victory.

And, I mean, he's got, like, if he plays like he did in that Super Bowl, I don't know if they're winning. That's the problem because it's like this, this Eagles team is a much tougher opponent than that 49ers team was. And I don't think if, if Patrick, if my home struggles at any point during this game, then they don't have a shot. They're not winning because this, this Eagles team just has that much talent top to bottom um our last response was Daniel Blaziak who said Jalen Hurts made the game-winning touchdown and won the Super Bowl so someone has a crystal ball and is looking into the future they see some Philly Philly part two coming their way so uh that'll be something to watch adam uh what do we have now after the fumble ruski fan box all right so the good stuff to cap off our show we have super bowl predictions final super bowl predictions we're going to go around the table and give who's going

to win and scores and how about on top of that, let's give our Super Bowl MVPs too. All right. Brian, how about you lead us off? So, Adam, this has been a tough one because, to be frank, as a Pats fan, I don't like the Eagles or the Chiefs. I just – not even in terms of the way that the teams are made, both fan bases just kill me. Like it's horrible to see frankly if if both teams

could lose the super bowl i'd love to see it it's not there's no clear-cut team this year where i say like oh like if the bangles were in it easy i'd go for joe burrow if the rams were even were back in it i'd say you know what i'd like to it'd be cool to see matthew stafford or someone else get another ring but at this point there's not really any team that you're truly gunning for here. And both teams actually have won fairly recently. So you're going to see someone, you know, potentially start a dynasty here. So I've been saying this to some people around at Bryant, and you wouldn't believe it. But as a Pats fan, I think I want the Philadelphia Eagles to win this football game. And I'll tell you why,

because if Philly wins, they're only going to burn down the city of Philadelphia. However, if the Chiefs win, we may have another global pandemic, which I'm really hoping doesn't happen because that's what's happened the last time those two teams have won. And frankly, yeah, I, uh, you know, the city of Philadelphia, won and frankly yeah i uh you know the city of philadelphia they had a good run you know zeke i don't know about you but you know long living city um if the if the eagles win they can burn it all down i don't really care um like they can celebrate grease up those light poles do the best you can but um they're not making it through a second super bowl uh if kc wins one um you know i i wouldn't mind if Patrick Holmes, it'd be good for his legacy.

I think that he's a good quarterback and deserves it. But from a legitimate standpoint, though, I've been discounting the Eagles all year. I thought they were a paper tiger. I did not think they were legit at all. And then I saw Jalen Hurts go down and all of a sudden my opinions changed I realized how important he is to that team and the fact that he's back basically at full strength and performing I was able to just see him gut that um you know gut his way through the NFC playoffs regardless of him having having an easy time to get through he still went toe-to-toe with that 49ers defense which was better than the one that got him to that Super Bowl and he and they demolished them he demolished the Giants they've just been a wrecking crew the entire year I seriously got to give the Philadelphia the Eagles

the edge in this game because not only do they have that they also have a killer defense as well and if they can find a way to potentially um not shut down Kelsey, but slow him down and potentially maybe only get him one touchdown reception, keep him to a smaller kind of role in that offense, I think they have a really good shot at getting the dub. All right. I'll throw it to you since I keep it in the studio. Wait, so – Give your score, right?

Yes, score, winner, score um and super bowl mvp oh okay so the score i i will say this while i while i've been saying that philly has been like running through teams kansas city is the number one seed in the afc for a reason i think they're going to put up a fight and i had to give it a score prediction. I think it'll be somewhat high scoring. I'll say like 34 to 28 Philly. That's, that's what I'm thinking. It's going to be around.

You know, Casey is going to give it a good fight. They'll get some touchdowns on the board, obviously. But if you have to tell me who's going to get that final, that final punch to win it all. I mean, maybe that prediction of Jalen of Jalen hurts is game winning.

Touchdown is correct. Who knows? But yeah, I'm going to go Philly in this one and same and keep it like that for the Superbowl MVP. I got Jalen Hurts for MVP. Cause he's been the MVP for this team all year long. All right, Zeke. See, I'm a little, I'm a little conflicted here, right? Again, as a Pats fan, I don't want either team to win. I do have a

little bit more like rooting interest in the chiefs than than brian does uh in terms of college football i'm a missouri tigers fan it's a long story uh but they're aggressively mid every year um anyway uh so i know a bunch of people uh in that fan base who are also Chiefs fans. So I have a little bit more at stake if I don't say the Chiefs. But I really think that the biggest difficulty for me actually choosing the Chiefs is I don't trust their secondary against Devontae Smith and A.J. Brown. I just don't. You know, you have a bunch of rookies who have played solid. They've played okay.

But, you know, when you have that real top-end, high-end talent, you've seen the Chiefs' safeties and the Chiefs' corners really struggle really struggle against, say, the Bengals, where T. Higgins and Jamar Chase and even Tyler Boyd, to an extent, were really giving them the business. So I think that the Eagles – it pains me to say this. I think the Eagles will take it. It's going to be high scoring. I don't think they're going to win by much.

It's definitely more of a challenge than they've faced up to this point um but i i think probably maybe 35 31 okay uh is my my score prediction and uh mvp gotta go with jay laurence here it goes to the quarterback most of the time i mean yeah it's. Unless there's some, like, pick six. Or like Julian Edelman in Super Bowl 53 where – Where no quarterback really stood out. Yeah, exactly. It's a quarterback.

All right. Yeah. Tuck? Jeez, this is – I agree with all of you. I'm going with the Eagles. I think the Eagles are the more dominant team. I think offensively and defensively they're the most complete all of you. I'm going with the Eagles. I think the Eagles are the more dominant team. I think offensively and defensively they're the most complete out of them. I still think that because it's Andy Reid and it's Patrick Holmes

and because it's the Chiefs, they're still going to put up a great fight. I still think it's going to be a relatively high-performing game. But I picked the Eagles to fight it out through the end because I trust that defense more so than I trust Kansas city's defense, even though Chris Jones has shown up like a beast this post season. Good Lord. But overall, I still trust the Eagles more.

I'm taking the score Eagles 30, 27. And surprisingly I'm going defense for my MVP, Hassan Reddick. I think he's going to be hard. Okay. Yeah. From what we, from what I can tell right now, it doesn't look like Andy he's going to be more effective this game. Okay. Yeah. From what we,

from what I can tell right now, it doesn't look like Andy Reed's going to be having that cheeseburger. So, uh, does not look likely so far. CJ, who do you have? I've given this a lot of thought.

Sure. I'm silent for a while. And as someone who also has no rooting interest in this Super Bowl at all, I think Philly takes it. And I used to think the Chiefs, but just looking over the rosters, I don't trust that Chiefs secondary. I trust the Eagles defense to stop KC more than I trust KC's defense to stop Philly. And the score.

Now, everyone expects a high-scoring shootout, but that doesn't always happen in the Super Bowl because, you know, Super Bowl is like the Wild West. Basically, anything goes. And I do think it's going to be relatively high-scoring, but I think I would argue that Philly ekes it out, we'll say, 31-23 thereabouts, wins by at least a score. And I think now I'm going to go all out, you know, go big or go home. My MVP, true MVP, A.J. Brown, I think he's going to cook that secondary and then proceed to eat them alive.

I'm talking about somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 or so catches over 170 yards and two touchdowns. Who's the emergency? Who has the medical emergency going on? It's not me. It's coming from my room. They just ran past the school. Yeah. Geez. Yeah.

Geez. Yeah. Adam, I'll throw it to you for the final thing. Who do you got? Man, I never like when it's a sweep because I like to hear the other side of the argument. But I can't not pick the Eagles. So it looks like we're all going to have them. So like all you guys say, it's going to be high scoring.

And like all you guys say, it's going to be the Eagles winning the game. Where I differ is that it's going to be relatively close. It might still be a two-score game, but I think the Eagles will have it comfortably just because they're just that much better than the Chiefs. The Chiefs are also kind of banged up on the offensive side. They've gotten a little healthier, but Patrick Mahomes is still nursing that high ankle sprain. That doesn't just go away.

He was able to work with it during the last game, but the Bengals' pass rush is nothing like the Eagles' where they will just come right at you no i'll say this this eagles team in comparison to the one that won the super bowl the one that won the super bowl i mean they were a good team that you know good enough to get to the playoffs and you know i had car you had carson wentz at one point he was an mdp candidate they were a good team but it was almost kind of like a disney movie like they were they were underdogs and everyone knew it philly is not the underdog this time. They are built to win a championship.

They are better than that Super Bowl team that they had back in Super Bowl 52. They can definitely take this game. But I will say this, Adam. I know that you're talking about a blowout. Not a blowout, just a comfortable victory. I really hope we don't have that because we've had too many Super Bowls now where it's just completely one-sided and it's boring. And by the third quarter, you don't even that because we've had too many Super Bowls now where it's just completely one side and it's boring. And by the third quarter, you don't even want to watch the thing anymore.

So I really hope that we don't even have that regardless of who wins this game, guys. I just want it to be a good game. I want it to be something that we can enjoy and in the NFL season on a high note, because, you know, look, you know, Adam, you mentioned that Bronco Seahawks Super Bowl, which was an absolute drag of a game. I just don't want one of those where it's just completely downhill, utter embarrassment type of stuff. I want a fun game. I want it to come. I'm not predicting that at all.

And I want it to be a great time. Yeah, and on top of that, this postseason has – I was really excited for this postseason. I thought we were going to get some good matchups, some great games. We really haven't gotten much of that this postseason. It's been a dud. It's been a dud. Besides that one wild card game where the Chargers blew the big lead, that was fun. But still out of that.

That wasn't even a back and forth though. There wasn't even a back and forth. Yeah, right. Besides that and then kind of the Chiefs game as well between them and the Bengals. That was a good one, but it was horribly officiating. Oh, yeah. It was a train wreck to watch.

We haven't gotten much. The close ones have been ugly ones. So I really hope I'm wrong, but I just don't see this one being that competitive. I see one team that's better than the other. And if they're healthy, I would say that Patrick Mahomes could overshadow some of the imperfections on this Chiefs team, but he's just not healthy.

And he's not going to be able to move around and avoid that rush. And Adam, I don't know if you've seen this, but there's apparently an illness going around the Chiefs locker room right now. Oh, yeah, I did see that. Yeah. Yep, exactly. So it's like I just can't take the Chiefs, and I don't think it's going to be that close either. I have the Eagles winning, let's say, 35-21.

Okay. That's actually the score of the game when the pack of when the Packers beat the Pats. We don't need to, we don't need to bring it up again. We don't need to bring that up again, but my, I'm very, I'm very indifferent on my Superbowl MVP.

I was looking between Jalen Hurts and Hassan Reddick, and I was toying with the idea of a wide receiver. Just, it's very rare where that a wide receiver wins super bowl mvp so i think i'm gonna lead i'm gonna lean hassan reddick i think two defensive picks for the mvp that's that's incredible yeah i think that that that eagles line is going to dominate they're going to take advantage of an injured patrickomes. The chiefs, the chiefs offensive line has always been okay. And this year it's kind of underperforming, but it's no match to, for, uh, this elite Eagles front seven that is dominated

all season. They have the most sacks by far the next closest in regular season. The Eagles have 70. The chiefs are second with 55. It's the same way in pressures. It's just unbelievable. So I have the Eagles, and they're going to dominate on both sides of the ball. Yeah. All right. So that's our Super Bowl prediction picks. Adam, do you have anything left, or are we about to take it away?

I think that's going to be it for me, unless you guys have anything. All right, well, I'll kind of – Oh, Zeke. I got one more thing. Even though the Eagles are a young team, I think that if they win this Super Bowl, you're going to see a lot of pieces go. Sure.

Fletcher Cox probably going to retire if, if they win it. That's my, that's my guess. At least they have, they have some, uh, older pieces. I don't see them. Uh, you know, I see them retiring. Most likely you like to retire on top. You do. Do you want me to give you, do you want me to give you some of the, some notable free agents oh absolutely fletcher cox robert quinn brandon graham jason kelsey james bradbury nadama can sue uh kind of boston boston scott miles miles sanders yeah you're absolutely right and see uh chauncey gardner johnson so yeah they're gonna they're gonna win it this year but in in the years to come, I don't, I don't think it will be necessarily a dynasty coming up. Yeah.

I don't know if it's good. Yeah. I agree with you there, but all right. Thank you guys so much for tuning into the Superbowl special between the Fumble Ruski podcast and down to the wire. We've actually been streaming this on 88, seven HD two WJMF FM radio. It's been a great time being able to do this. I will say, if you guys want to follow my podcast, Down to the Wire, you can follow that at down.tothewire. At this point, we're going to turn things over to my NBA segment with Chris Dring.

That's obviously if you're watching my show, of course. So if you're watching my podcast, we'll go to Chris Dring right now. And if we are still on the fumble Ruski podcast, we'll keep things here and Adam, I'll have you sign off. All right. Well, thank you guys so much for tuning into our third annual Superbowl special.

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