The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast - BEST BITE: Sara Klatt joins the show and shares how she felt watching Joel play football & more

Episode Date: May 16, 2024

FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt and his wife Sara answer questions from the mailbag. Sara shows off her football knowledge and explains how she felt watching Joel play QB in college and how she feels watching Joel in the booth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In honor of Mother's Day on Sunday, a very, very happy Mother's Day to all of you mothers out there. And next week is my 19th wedding anniversary to my lovely bride. And as you know, I tease it on Twitter. We do have a guest. Give it up. It's a slow clap edition. Sarah Klatz coming in. She's joined in the program.

She's right here. This is my first guest, babe, on the Joel Klatt show, at least in. studio. It's not quite a big noon conversation. This is just more like a joint effort. Would you, is that what you want to say? So like a joint effort mailbag? Great. Great. Whatever you say. Great. Whatever I say. That's the first time she's ever said that. But that's all right. Okay. Are you ready, babe? I am. First of all, can I say I really liked your answer to Adam? Oh, thanks. Yeah, it was good. I appreciate that. Proud of you. Oh, thanks. Yeah. That's like my number one goal in life is to make her proud of me. You do it.

appreciate that. Okay, babe, I'm going to give you these cold. She doesn't know these questions. Probably not a good idea, but you know what? 19 years. We'll be fine. We'll be fine. Lucas says, you ready, babe? Yep. Hey, my name is Lucas. I met Joel at the University of Oklahoma when I worked in the, for the football team. Oh, Lucas, good to chat again. Hi, Joel. I'd love to ask Mrs. Clatt a question. As a mother, you ready? Yep. Or wife.

Would you call a run or pass play on third and four? I'm the quarterback. Cadarius, Tony is our best wide receiver, but we have Derek Henry in the backfield. It's third and four. Would you call a runner a pass? You were the quarterback or Lucas? It's a hard one, especially because I know what none of that means. Lucas.

Let me explain something. I have been married to Joel for 19 years. Almost 19 years. You got it. Let's clarify that because you have quoted 18 years before. We're in our 18th year of marriage. Coming up on 19. We dated and we got married while he was playing at Colorado.

It's true. And I did not marry Joel for his football knowledge. What? And I watch his games to watch him, but I don't understand any of it. So that was all completely. different language. I will take a team with you as my quarterback. You don't know what you want to do, run or pass. Okay. So that means that is... Do you know what we would have to do on fourth down? That's third down with four yards to go. Yes. Until you get another first down. That's correct. I know that part.

I would probably run it because then we need to get another first down. We do need another first down. And it's only four yards. So that's like pretty. Pretty easy. Yeah. Yeah. We got Derek Henry. Thanks, Lucas.

Appreciate the question. Just push over the line and you're good. Push over the line and you're good. Uh-huh. I'm going to use that this fall at some point. Okay. It says, Hi, Joel and team.

I think your team, babe. I saw Joel's tweet that his wife Sarah was going to be answering questions. By the way, this comes in from, I think this is. Susan. That's one of our lady listeners. I love it. Okay, Susan says, saw Sarah was going to be answering questions in the next episode. I thought her asked her a question. Joel has talked about how you to have been together since college. You just referenced that. Did you enjoy watching Joel when he was playing? Or was it nerve-wracking? And what's it like for you now during a game that he's calling on Saturdays? Okay, Susan, I am the oldest of four girls. And so I actually, again, don't know a lot about football. So going to football games was a social event for me. And usually I would leave at halftime to do homework or study or write a paper.

She was super cool. So when we, before we started dating, he would say that he didn't think he had a shot with me because I wouldn't even stay to watch him play, which was true. But, I mean, we were friends. We weren't dating. Once we did start dating, I obviously stayed at his games. And I actually, like, traveled with your parents to all the away games. Can you take me into, like, a conversation with my dad?

So my dad was a high school football coach, very intense. Like, get to the game three, four hours in advance. Just lots of nervous energy. My mom, too. My mom was, like, a very intense sports fan. fan. What was that like for you, like, not knowing about the game? Well, not growing up around that and then seeing how intense they were. Like, I wouldn't eat all day because we would show up multiple hours beforehand after being...

They wouldn't feed you? Well, it would be like, we're going to stop a subway on the way. And then his dad would be like, oh, we better get there. And then we'd, like, walk around the stadium five times before it would even open. So I had some, like, I remember... This is a run show for my dad. Man. He's so great.

I love you, Dad. I love you, Dad. I loved Kansas State because they had like the purple cat corn. You could get kettle corn. I looked forward to that because I could eat that. But there wasn't a lot of eating. And he would try to, he definitely was like, who is this girl that Joel's bringing around? Because she knows nothing.

And he was a high school football coach for 30 years. So, right? 30. So he tried to teach me things like the Red Zone. and I still don't know what that is. Do you know what the red zone is? It's like towards the, towards the end zone. Yes.

True. Yeah. It's somewhere over there. I love it. But so when we were dating and when we were married. Was it nerve-wracking? It was nerve-wracking. I always just didn't want you to get hurt.

And as a result, I also wanted you to make your plays too because then you would be. Happier? Yeah. Because my identity was tied to my success. see I had to do a lot of work on that. Don't worry. I helped. We did it.

We came through. But I would say that as a result, when I watch football now, unless I'm like, you know, it's like the Broncos are playing and I want the Broncos doing because we're front. Like, I don't really have a team. And so I will, or if the buffs are playing, because I do love the buffs. I root for the quarterback because I always, so like whoever's playing, I just want the quarterback to make their plays. I don't want the quarterback to get sacked because that's what, you know, caused anxiety back then.

I didn't want you to get hurt. I watched you get hurt. It's really bad when you got a concussion in the Big 12 championship. And I remember thanking God at that point because you guys were totally getting killed. And I remember sitting there and just praying like, okay, at least like, Lord, he's getting killed, but at least he hasn't gotten hurt. And literally two seconds later, you got knocked out. So it was nerve-wracking. As far as like TV, though, I don't get nervous.

I mean, because you just like, it's just what you do. Thanks. Thanks. You're doing great. You were nervous before this. You're doing great. I mean, I don't do this. So, like, I don't understand how, like, the red light goes on and you just, like, start talking.

But you do. Good job.