The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Peter Burns, A&M Punishments, Brian T Smith, Non-Florida Stories

Episode Date: July 2, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 12 o'clock at H-town. What's happening, luncht timers? Good afternoon to you, and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. I'm Matt.

is out. Speedy Recovery for a sports RV. Joe George is producing the radio program today where Joe George returns to the scene of the crime where at one point he had so many lousy now in Florida stories. We almost abandoned the second

because of him. He has a chance to rally with a great story today at 2.30 this afternoon. Are you prepared for such a task? No. Perfect. But I will be. I mean, yeah. If you can't find one decent story that's not from the state of Florida in two and a half hours, it just never

was meant to be. It just wasn't. All right. Let's get you guys involved in a variety of ways. One, your ears listen to this radio show means a lot to me. 713-212-790. You can lend your voice as long as you bring decent commentary. You don't swear.

You conjugate your verbs. And there's some point to your conversation. And then the last way is to reach out through Twitter at SportsMT at Joe George Radio. On the radio program today, we will spend some time with Peter Burns. Long time in front of the show, he is part of the SEC Network in ESPN. He'll join us at 1 o'clock. I'm very curious how the most powerful football conference in America is going to handle the next handful of weeks. And does Alabama and Auburn and Georgia and Florida,

see the resumption of college football the same way as say Arkansas and Kentucky and Vanderbilt. So we'll talk to him about what the future of SEC football is, even if there's some other conferences around the country, are not going to be nearly as anxious to get back to playing college football as perhaps the SEC is. So Peter Burns, ESPN SEC Network coming up at 1 o'clock. We are off tomorrow to celebrate the July 4th holiday. Ryan T. Smith, who normally with us at 2 o'clock on Fridays, we'll be with this at 2 o'clock today.

And non-Florida stories at 2.30 this afternoon. So we're kind of a few things to get to. But we are going to be a little looser today because it's not anything goes Thursday, but it's pretty close to it. So if you'd like to join us on anything that has got you thinking about sports, both good or bad. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

Got an interesting tweet from our friend Joan who listened to show all the time, and it has been publicized the last couple of days much more than the original email that was sent out. This is the Houston Texans sending out an email to its season ticket holders about what you want to do for 2020. And basically the Texans, and I'm sure a lot of other NFL teams are doing the exact same thing, saying, hey, if you just don't want to come be a part of the games this year at Energy Stadium,

we will let you keep your PSL. We will not charge you obviously for this year. And we will, you know, welcome you with open arms come 2021. And that's just the right thing to do. you don't want to irritate a fan base, the ones that are paying the PSLs, the ones that have been season ticket holders, they're going to say, look, the virus concerns me,

being around crowds, concerned me. It makes all the sense in the world. So what I'd like to ask, and if you are a Texan season ticket holder, what are you going to do this year? Have you thought about it? Are you still very much in a wait-and-see mode, or have you already made your decision

about what you're going to do with your season tickets in 2020. And now, I don't think if I take four calls or nine or one that it's going to speak on the majority of the people that are going to games. I would just like just a little bit of a cross-section of people that listen to the show that I also happen to have the investment that is season tickets and what you all are going to do with it. So if you are in that group,

and maybe you're undecided at this point, I just want to know if you received your email from the organization, If you've talked with your family, talk with your friends, and my guess is there's quite a few of you that also share season tickets. You know, you guys buy four tickets and then each one of you gets three or four games. You know, does that really muddy the waters a little bit because maybe half of you are like, I want to go this year, and the other half are you like, hell no. So where do you stand if you're a Texan season ticket holder?

And that's what I kind of would like to get a few thoughts from you guys on if you're out there today and have yet to make a decision. or have already made your decision about what you're going to do with watching the Texans in person. My guess is they're not going to be surprised and frankly probably not disappointed because I don't think there's any chance anyway anyhow. There'll be 70,000 people watching a single Texans game this year. And that they're probably thinking that it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if they're going to reduce it from, say, 70,000 to maybe 15 or 20,000,

that they're going to need a fair number of people to see. say, no moss for 2020. Now, if you're not in that category, you could very well be in the, well, I want to go see them play a particular team. I love going to the Texans game when they play the Titans. I can't wait to see Minnesota come into NRG Stadium. Or, you know, in whomever, whoever's coming in.

Would you sign a coronavirus waiver? to attend a game. Now, attorneys will tell you that sometimes these type of waivers are not worth the paper they're written on. Obviously, the NFL is trying to protect themselves from a great amount of lawsuits of, hey, I went to your event and I got the virus, and I'm going to have you pay my medical expenses. I mean, that's just a class action lawsuit waiting to happen. As a matter of fact, you don't want to do it. We might have to get big angry on the show here in a little bit and see if these waivers really will do much. Of course, those of you know Charles Adams, he's an official legal analyst of the Matt Thomas show.

I'll text him during the break. As a matter of fact, see if he can join us. Would these coronavirus waivers really hold up if someone was to get the virus and not only just get the test, but was to suffer any sort of serious issue that would require hospitalization. So I don't know how much that plays into it. So these are just kind of little things. And on top of that, the NFL announced yesterday, or at least unofficially, through pro football talk,

that they're going to shave the preseason from four games down to two. Joe George, you've been with me the last few weeks. You know my star count has gone up about the delay of the NFL. season, right? Yes. It started at about 25,000 stars. I bumped it to 48,000. I got it to 50,000. I'm now prepared here at

12-08 on a Thursday, July 2nd, to bump it to 91,000 stars. There will not be an official September start of the NFL season. In fact, I'll give you one more. I can't make this a super, super star guarantee,

but Joe, let's be realistic here. There'll be preseason games? Why put these stadiums and these fan bases in such a predicament for games that don't mean Jack Squad? All right. I'm not a preseason fan. I was very excited to see a good out of two.

I hope it's permanent. I think they're going to have to play some preseason games. How many college preseason games do they play? None. Okay. It can happen. You can play football without a preseason game. Yeah, I just, the difference is we don't see teams in the end.

NFL shared time like we do in college. I guess maybe that'll change this year, but teams that have a quarterback competition in college, you play a guy for a half and then you play the other guy for the first half and play the next half or you play every other series. That's not going to happen in the NFL. So for teams that have quarterback competitions and just

position competitions, I mean, you don't think Bill O'Brien wants to have preseason games? Who the hell is his other safety besides Justin Reed? He needs those games. I don't think this is what they want. Yeah, but it's what they need. There is nothing about what I'm just saying that they want. I mean, I guarantee you NFL coaches like four preseason games.

Because they're always, you know, excuse me, they're always, you know, in their offices for 18, 19 hours a day, drawing up plays and trying to figure out defenses and trying to catch teams off guard. And they want to constantly tie and evaluate. They want to make sure their depth chart is always up to date. And preseason games can make that happen. help that. But just because coaches want it doesn't mean it's going to happen. I don't know. I just these games, when they get played, will be such a logistical ordeal that they're probably going to say that it's better that we don't take the additional risk of putting people and fans in stands or just doing the whole stadium bit

or just putting players out there just so coaches can work on plays that they may use in week nine of the season. I could see them playing one preseason game just to ramp up the season where you travel a week early to your week one opponent and you do play a preseason game.

And that is just mainly to get to your final 53-man roster. So like when the Texans could play the Chiefs, We wouldn't see probably Watson or Mahomes out there, but your bottom guys on the roster, they would play in a game just to figure out, okay, let's make these final cuts. I could see something like that happening, though. Okay. That makes sense. But outside of that, you're probably right, honestly.

And honestly, they probably don't need it. These guys can figure out who's the starting quarterback for the, you know, like the bears, the Patriots, the dolphins, the Chargers are probably like the four teams of the quarterback competition this year. And like I said, nobody's a fan of the preseason. Nobody ever goes, man, I cannot wait to sink my teeth in to breaking down a preseason game. Well, there's some dorks that do that, but that's neither here nor there. Nobody generally speaking likes up a preseason.

Unless it's just the turn of the calendar and say, all right, here we are. It's August. We're one step closer to the start of the NFL season. So I can get it. I can buy that. but I just think with how close we're getting to start of training camps to the fact that we still have not heard an official manual that has been passed around to the players

I mean we even know what Randall Cobb said on Twitter a couple days ago he's still very much in the dark on this I'm sure most players are I have not seen a lot of people that play in the NFL tweet hey got my manual today understand why they want to do this let's go I think there's still way too many reservations about how to put 150 people on a football field and hopefully keep everybody healthy. I hope they can figure that out, gang. I'm telling you, we're going to be devastated if we can't get a football season.

And I'm not saying there's not going to be a football season. I'm just telling you, I think that in the NFL offices, they are moving, at a snail's pace, and I don't think it's coincidental. 1213, the Matt Thomas Show, would you sign a coronavirus waiver to attend a football game? It's a very simple question. 713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Matt Thomas Show, 1213.

This is Sports Talk 790. More Matt Thomas now. on Sports Talk 790. Sports FFT legal analyst Charles Adams. He's going to be able to stop by at 1230 for a couple of minutes to talk about whether or not the coronavirus waiver is worth the paper it's written on. So anybody that is thinking about going to a game this year, whether it be in Houston or somewhere else,

we'll see if Charles has anything to do on that. Did you just check out ESPN a minute ago, Joe George? You want to maybe it'll fire off a little breaking news. sounder here. Texas A&M football placed on one year probation. Coach Jimbo Fisher was given a six-month show cause order after he and the football program were found to have violated NCAA recruiting and athletic related activity rules. These findings stemmed from violations between January 2018 and February 2019, including an instance where Fisher and an assistant coach had impermissible contact with a recruit. As part of the negotiated resolution, the school had to end recruitment

of the recruit in question. Fisher, who was found to have found, who was found to have found, how about that in the ESPN story, to have, quote, failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance and quote, did not demonstrate that he monitor his staff was forced to serve a nine-day ban on phone calls, emails, or texts with prospects in January. Fisher's show calls will be in place through the rest of the 2020 season, and that assistant coach who was not naming the report

was also given a six-month show-cause order and other penalties. So Jimbo Fisher hired in 2017. Correct. of 2017 on December 1st. He cheated within a month? Yes. A month. Yes.

And they don't win that much. Good for you, Jimbo. Aggie fans, come on right now. I'm just going to bait you. For the next five minutes of the show, Joe George, let's just bait these Aggies. Your coach cheats. He has one of the richest contracts in college football coaching history. And you can't go anywhere.

except like the Belk Bowl. Come on Aggies. Which is a mayonnaise bowl now, by the way. That's right. It's a Duke Mayo Bowl, which actually probably is a better bowl than it was the Belk's spot. I'd rather than be a bowl made of mayonnaise than a bowl made out of department store. Come on, Aggies. I know you're out there.

You finish what, primarily third or fourth in the FCC West, mostly fourth? At best. You get your obligatory seven wins because you play Texas State and Lamar and other crap like that. early on in the year? Come on. I'm right here. Tell me what, tell me what misunderstood standings that we in America don't understand about the fact that your coach cheated within three months of being on campus.

Show cause probation for a year. And you can't even, you haven't even been to an SEC title game yet. You don't even know what it's like to taste a championship, except for when you put up faux championship, on the side of Kyle Field. Am I missing anything, Joe? Because I feel like I can just go on for another three.

No, I think you're okay. You want to take a shot? Come on, Aggies. Johnny Mansell while you're at it? Oh, and Johnny Mansell? Yeah, the pride of your first round picks. The best quarterback to play in the NFL that was an Aggie. Your school wasn't intelligent enough to play him at quarterback.

You made Ryan Tannahill play wide receiver. Oh, Ryan Tannahill, the wide receiver. Yikes. Aggie bowl appearances. Belk. My guess there's a sun somewhere in the mix, holiday, music city, just the, who gives a blank bowl games? And by the way, just so you know I'm consistent, when Jimbo Fisher was signed away from Florida State, it was a fantastic hire in my mind. You went and got the coach that a lot of people wanted.

you found the money to make that happen. And you guaranteed it was it $70 million, somewhere in that range? Some absurd amount. And he was going to get your team at the very least to play in an SEC championship game and at the very best playing for a national championship. And not only can he not do that so far, but he's cheating on top of it. To do what? I'm guessing.

I'm guessing. 7 and 5. I'm guessing so Jay Graham A&M named him. He was the other coach. He was the running back and special teams coach with A&M from 18 and 19. Now he's the running back's coach at Tennessee. He came over with Jimbo from Florida State. My guess is they were probably just texting some like Florida State

recruit though that they weren't supposed to. That's kind of what it sounds like. So you're saying that the infraction is very minor and that the incident of LA is making too big of a deal of it. Because let's be honest here, Joe, the incident of LA is screwed too. They don't know their head from their ass either. Yeah, I mean, a six-month show-cost penalty, it just means if Jimbo Fisher happens to get fired within the next five months or next six months and someone wants to hire them,

they basically have to go to a committee and a new school would have to explain why they would want to hire Jimbo Fisher. So if, you know, Jay Graham is probably the more likely candidate for using a show cost, but even then in six months, the college football season is not even over yet. So let me ask you this. You add this to the routine seven and five record that A&M football has been for a better part of a half decade. And ain't a great hire right now, is it? I think they're going to be really good this year, though.

If Kellynmond takes that next step for whatever he can, I know it's always about the quarterback. Yep. But, man, it brought a lot of talent in. I do feel like it's getting time I know it's not all right we're not already at the point in Jimbo Fisher's era where it's time to like put up or shut up or it's a terrible contract if he doesn't start winning we're getting close though

and like it would be nice for them to win this year or get close to winning be more competitive if I'm an Aggie fan and my squad is not playing in the SEC championship game this year with the fact that I mean I don't know is LSU rebuilding or not. I don't know. I feel like the, you can never

the word rebuilding at LSU because they're always going to be a top 15 program. But you tell me. I mean... They only played four road games this year. Well, okay, go through their schedule a quick.

Okay. Albulin Christian. When? North Texas. Supposed to be at North Texas. Instead, North Texas said they're going to college station. When?

Imagine that. Colorado. I think Colorado. No. Was it Colorado and Fresno State? I don't know. Two of their non-conference points were supposed to be on the road. They said they're coming to Texas A&M this year.

Colorado, should be a win. Should be a win. Arkansas. Should be a win. Mississippi State. Should be a win. Yep. Fresno State.

Should be a win. At Auburn. There's an L. At South Carolina. Should be a win. Ole Miss. Should be a win. Vanderbilt.

Should be a win. At Alabama. Loss? Home versus LSU. Does that game determine who wins the West? Possibly. I think they'll split Auburner or LSU. They could split Auburner and LSU this year.

And honestly, I don't know. Who knows about Alabama? Like, I know they're just an NFL factory, but they've had Jail Hartson two of the last, what, three, four years. Well, does not A&M have the most experienced quarterback in the division this year? But hands down? I think so. So, I mean, Alabama should be good, but,

because they're Bama, but who's their quarterback? We don't really know. And I know Nick Saban often gets by without quarterbacks, but we'll see. Well, it's a good day for us to have Peter Burns on from the SEC Network and a half an hour to further explain this. So there you go, Aggies. Your school's under probation for a year.

You've got a show cause on your coach for six months, and you've been to a relevant bowl game, and God knows how long. Actually, the last relevant bowl game they went to is when Johnny led Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl, right? I think so. That's the last one to me and that it sounds like it was a relevant, relevant bowl win. All right, let's find out if this coronavirus waivers got any teeth to it. We'll talk with our friend Charles Adams, who hosts the Big Angry Show on KPRC.

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What a pass. What a finish. Listen to your home of the rockets on your smart speaker, just last. Hey, Google, play Sports Talk 790 on IHR radio. That is something else, folks. When something comes up in sports and law, I love to get the opinion of our good friend of the show. We call the SportsMT legal analyst.

Big Angry is a multimedia star. You hear him on KPRC 950. You also see him on Channel 26. And I have a feeling someday, Charles Adams, you're going to be a bigger television star than you're even than you are right now. Big Angry, how are things? Things are great, and I'm happy just doing stuff in this great city of Houston. How are you, sir?

I'm not bad, not bad at all. All right, so I'm very curious about this waiver that the NFL may be asking its fans, sending out a uniform kind of release for fans assigned electronically or they have to fax it or I don't know what the whole due diligence is on this. But can this piece of paper hold up if fans say, all right, I'll sign this thing and then they still get to the stadium and they wind up getting sick because they catch the virus from something inside these NFL facilities? Well, waiver law is actually state-based, state contract law, so there's no federal national answer. And in some states, I don't think it'll be worth a piece of paper it's written on. On states like Texas, I think it will significantly, if not completely, reduce your ability to be successful in litigation against the NFL. With these COVID, when we're going to see a bunch of COVID litigation, causation is going to be a huge issue.

How do you establish where you actually caught this virus? I think that'll be very difficult to do. But I do think it's a smart move by the NFL. but the NFL is doing a lot of good things. This week I got an email from the Texans saying, hey, if you want to refund, and I've got four seats, if you want to refunds, you won't lose your PSL, we'll hold it until the next year.

So I think they're taking a multifaceted approach, but it would be dumb not to try to get a waiver. Whether it's enforceable, it depends on the state that the waiver was signed in, but a lot of the more liberal states with more liberal jurisprudence are also going to be closed in the way. I'm not going to let them go. So it's an interesting conundrum, but, you know, that's what lawyers are for, you know. Oh, no question.

And we like to sue people. Have you noticed that, Charles? We're a country that doesn't mind putting a lawsuit out there, especially if it winds up hitting us in the piggy bank a little bit. So even if they do this, could you see some sort of class action thing among fans that one fan says, hey, I went to the game and somebody two days later says, I was that same game and I got sick? I mean, could this create a firestorm or do you think this will be a very much? minimal effect for a very small group of people. No, I do think we're going to see a lot of litigation, not just directed at the NFL,

but directed at all sorts of entities, deep pocket entities. And whether or not it'll be a class or not is, you know, we've done a lot to reduce the ability of people to proceed with class actions and enforcing a bunch of individual claims in America. And that's been going on for a couple of decades now because there was a lot of class action abuse. And you're right, there's a lot of litigation abuse. I think my wife was talking about how I should sue.

somebody and I reflected on despite 20 years of being a lawyer, I've never sued anyone personal, right? I find it to be abhorrent. But if you look at it, if people are having people come to stadiums and they're not taking the appropriate safety measures, it is liability. It's tort liability that gives people the guillotine to see justice. And it also gives them a catalyst to take these extraordinary efforts that it looks like the NFL is taking. I never in a million, because I've already paid for my season tickets. And me and my friends were discussing whether or not we should be going. And in fact, I didn't see the email right away.

It was the guy that is the head of my tailgate, grill of me tailgateers, 2015 tailgoy the year, no big deal. But he told me that he's not, and for Patrick Horn to tell me that he's not good, this guy lives for the Texas. They travel to away games. He lives and breathes it. And he hit me up and said,

hey, man, I'm not going to go next year. I just wanted to let you know. should have got an email, and then I went and looked, and sure enough, they're giving you the option to allow them to keep the money, and if they keep the money, they're giving you a 10% discount on all food and drink for the 21-22 season, or they're giving you your money back. And it's an impressive thing, and they're also listing some of the things that they're doing in the email to keep people safe, but it would be dumb of the NFL not to ask people to sign a waiver.

They have to protect themselves from liability as well. I don't know. I'm very pleased with the Texans right now, despite being very disresolved. pleased with all season moves. But I do think that in Texas, I think the waiver will hold and it will preclude any liability on part of the Cowboys or the Texans. I don't think in states, you know, Seattle,

I think seeing the, why, if you look at the jurisprudence on waivers in Washington State, you know, it's an adhesion contract and I don't think it'll do them any good. But it is. It's a state-by-state analysis. So there's no universal answer. Big angry Charles Adams with us for a minute here on the Matt Thomas show. I was talking about the email that you received in the first segment of the show. And frankly, my guess is, Charles, they do want people to say thanks, but no thanks because

there's not going to be a full NFL stadium this year. So they're going to actually need a fair segment of the population to say, yeah, I'll see you in 2021. Right. And that's what me and my friends are talking about, too, is how are they going to determine, let's say it's a 25% or 50% capacity, which I think will be the maximum. What sort of system, if they don't have enough people declining, what sort of thing is, system will they use for the winners and losers? So you get to go to this game

but you don't get to go to that game. And I mean, I think clearly they would much, much rather you decline. And they'd also like to keep your money. I think the decision to offer that 10% discount was a shrewd move on the Texans part. But it's

you know, I mean, it sucks, man. We've all been looking forward to football. You know, it looks like baseball and basketball are going to be back. But sports does give us something to cling to. It gives us something to look, especially in this political climate where everyone's angry, everyone's mad, everyone's saying such uglyness, we need sports. And the sports we need isn't South Korean baseball. It's actual real American,

the best sports in the world. Soccer doesn't count. Why do you all watch it? But, I mean, thank God we might, I mean, I might even watch hockey just for the fights, but I mean, I think it'll be so much for the national psyche that people don't really appreciate it. I do hope we have football. I will just watch it in the penthouse on my giant screen. That's my point. Before I let you run, if we've got leadership of the NFL thinking about this, we don't have leadership at the college football level.

Is there any possible way you could put something like this into play with 140 or so schools of play Division I football? I mean, I think the NCAA, and again, it's all the efficacy of the laborers all going to be dependent on the state. But the NCAA will take the same action to some degree. I would not be surprised, however, to see football games only televised and no fans in the stadiums for college football. That's a huge loss.

People don't realize schools like LSU, how much money they make from ticket sales, and they use that to support other programs throughout the university. It's just a weird time. And while I hope, you know, I'd hate to see college athletes lose an entire year of their sports career because of this. So I hope the solution is testing, rapid testing, making sure that players are safe to get on the field. We do have instant tests available now. And they spend the money to make sure that people are safe, but they still play the games.

But I don't think there's any chance to have anyone in the stadiums at all. Are we seeing a lot of lawsuits, generally speaking of, say, people going to bars and restaurants, thinking they got the virus and then them suing those facilities. Are you seeing much of that at all? I haven't seen any personally. It's not something I would take as a case. We have seen like Houston's restaurant. It used to be one of my favorite restaurants.

And they prohibited their staff from wearing mouth cover, from wearing masks. They told them they couldn't. And so not here in Houston, but in Dallas, Hillstone Group, which owns it, sued and got an injunction, forcing them to let the staff wear masks that they want to. This was literally in my top five. You know how I like to eat.

Houston's my top five rotation. I was there. Me and my friend Zero had a regular lunch there every Friday for years. I don't go to Houston anymore. I moved over to Gooden Company, the Armadillo Palace. And it's hard for me, but people, and I see you're going to see litigation like that. I think you're going to see a lot of employment-related litigation where people are saying, I got sick at work or y'all didn't take the necessary measures. And I've gotten some of those calls. I just don't do employment work. But I do think, you know, lawyers were like piranha.

I think if they figure out a way to make money, you're going to see litigation. If they don't figure out a way to make money, you won't. But suing a little mom-and-pop ball is not going to get you anywhere. It has to be, you know, a deep pocket big chain. But it's just another testament. The lawyers do great things. They also do a lot of awful things. So what are you going to do?

That's why we've made you our sports MT legal analyst. you do all the good stuff, my friend. Thank you for jumping me on a short notice. I appreciate your insights and stay safe. Tell the family we said hello. Thank you, sir. Anytime you need me. All right, you got it.

The one and only, Charles Adams. Big Angry. KPRC radio. Late nights, you can catch him on Channel 26 with the Isaiah Factor. It's just good. He's just a good man and always brings tremendous insight to our radio show. 1241 on Sports Talk 790. We're going to find out what's happening in the SEC coming up into 20 minutes.

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What happened? I know you're a big vanilla ice fan. Stop. He was set to perform tomorrow night at something called the Emerald Point Bar and Grill on Lake Travis. I've never been there, but I've heard it's amazing. It is a venue that is known as the home of the Independence Day Throwback Beach Party. It's a multi-tier outdoor venue that can host as many as 5,000 fans, but due to social distancing, they're only selling 2,500 seats.

Fans wanting to buy tickets are hit with a warning. Important notice. Please note any interaction with the general public poses an elevator risk of being exposed to COVID-19. we cannot guarantee you that you will not be exposed while in attendance to this event. The event organizer is solely responsible for the health and safety of this event. We encourage you to follow the organizer's safety policies as well as local laws and restrictions. So apparently it was going to be Vanilla Ice and Color Me Bad in this concert. That was supposed to be the great way to kick off the July 4th weekend tomorrow night.

TMZ, 11 minutes ago, Joe George. Vanilla Ice just canceled his performance. He says he didn't know the numbers were so crazy in Austin. The rappers of the concert had been booked a long time ago, but with cases spiking in Texas and across the nation, Vanilla Ice says the best thing to do right now is cancel it and keep everyone safe. My problem is, who the hell was paying to go see Vanilla Ice in 2020? Can I tell you, I have seen Vanilla Ice

in concert once in the last three years. Why? Well, there's a little, there's the rest of the stories, the late Paul Harvey would say. Rockets are playing the Sacramento Kings. You know how some NBA arenas have that girl that throws teacups on her head? Red Pandas, I think her name is it?

Yes. And then there's some people like that Simon says, Dufus that always runs around and always says, You guys are the best fans in America. Simon says you suck. You know what I mean? And then you have, you know, drill teams and dance squads and little kids. And maybe you'll have that one guy that has four stick figures and attached to his body

and they dance like the Jackson 5 kind of thing. And then you have some that really, really want to spend a couple of bucks. So at a halftime of a Rockets Kings game in Sacramento, where usually when it's halftime, I like go to the bathroom, I like to walk around, get a glass of water or something. Vanilla Ice performed with the half and he absolutely brought down the house Really? It was six minutes

but it was really good six minutes Did he just do Ice Ice Baby? If you said another song of his I probably would be able to say Oh he did that one Like what's Vanilla Ice's second most popular song of all time I have zero idea I know he's got he's had

I know he's had a few and I mean few is maybe like one more so I was thinking to myself he's going to headline this show in Austin where I went and saw him in a Rockets King's game in Sacramento at halftime and he only he could only do a half of a halftime who would pay

major money oh you know what he was doing he was doing covers of other people I don't think he had anything on his own. Yes. This was one of the songs. Go Ninja Go. You know what? When this happens in, what is it, Teenage Mutuals 2, I think.

Right. In like the 90s version, it's awesome. It's a great fight scene. I love those movies. They're like terribly good. So, because I love the turtles. Yep. This is such a good song in that movie.

Well, that's because you're a dork. He did Go Ninja Go. Ice Ice Baby, and I think he covered another song. He did like a medley where he didn't sing the whole parts of all of them. He did sing all of Ice Ice Baby. Because if you're a one-hit wonder, that's what you got to go with, right? That's why Joe, I've got to come up with something. One song in my life that would be somewhat popular

that I could spend the rest of my life singing that one song at half times of NBA arenas and NHL games. because my guess is if you went to Vanilla Isis website he's probably and before the pandemic so let's make sure we're saying this he's probably traveled in the country getting paid God knows what for five minute halftime performances and apparently he's still popular enough that he was going to fill up an amphitheater or concert whatever this thing is unlike Travis with at least 2,500 people there

that would have brought the house down 2,500, I'm thinking relatively attractive, drunk people in Austin going to see Vanilla Ice. It's probably, probably would have been a pretty good party, right? Yeah, you know, I'm sorry to think about it. Like, just getting hammered and watching Villan, vanilla Ice, might be a good time. Like, for instance, I think everything sounds better when you're hammered. I think Vanilla Ice, after seven or eight cocktails, it's like the, he's like the greatest, performer of your entire life.

I'll give you an example that maybe for the older part of the audience. I'm not a huge disco fan, but if you and I went and had a case of beer each and all the sudden Casey and the Sunshine Band came on the stage at a concert we were at, Joe, we would be dancing with each other. Definitely. We'd be doing a little dance, making a little love, and then we'd get down the night. You know, it's like there's certain songs that just like when you're in intoxicated, like the song

quality just goes up a notch. What is the song, I should know this, that they play at the Red Sox game all the time? Sweet Caroline. Sweet Caroline, it's a, like, it's a good song. If you're with a group of people and you're fun, but if you're at a bar and they're playing it at like midnight

and they're getting ready to close, but they want to have a good time or you're at a wedding towards the end of the wedding, it just, it hits different. It's just that, it's, sweet Caroline is one of those songs that when you are heavily intoxicated at a wedding or at a bar. It's just special.

Like, for instance, Ross and I did a close the bar song, Fantasy 5. That's good. That's a good one. Yeah. We both wanted the overall number one pick, and it was Tiny Dancer Elton John. Because let me tell you something. If you've had five or six gin and tonics or even taking tequila shots and Tiny Dancer comes on at like 1.14 in the morning, you're not only a screaming Tiny Dancer, but you're, you're not only a screaming Tiny Dancer, but you're, you're also screaming, hold me closer, Tony Danza.

And you are just belting it at the top of your lungs. So Vanilla Ice, I give you credit. You know your audience. Go somewhere where people can drink heavily. And let's be honest, Joe, when you're going to a Kings game and you're playing the Rockets who are beating you by 30 points of the heck, what else you can do besides a drink, correct? So true.

Vanilla Ice. Don't we know someone on Lake Charles right now? Like Travis? Like Travis? Do we? Isn't Klan out there? Was Klan going to the Vanilla Ice concert? Can we call him real quick?

We don't have time right now. All right. Well, let's call him in a little while. Okay. Because he is in Austin. I don't know if he's not like Travis or not, but I know he's in Austin. Because I see him and Teresa going to see Vanilla Ice badly. I kind of do, too.

But Klan doesn't drink, so I don't know if it hits the same way. Oh, it doesn't. I feel like being at a vanilla ice concert when everyone else is intoxicated and loving it and you're the one that's sober, not as much fun. Yeah, you think vanilla ice is absolutely the most embarrassing recording artist of our generation unless you've had a, unless you've had seven or eight cores lights. And then you think he's just magnificent. All right. Well, I'll text Adam and see if he was planning on going tonight because that would be his jam. Cutter me bad.

before we go to the break here at the top of the hour do we have one color me bad song? What's the definitive color me bad song? Because maybe the second act actually would cover up for the, you know, the Marquis Act, which would be vanilla ice. But again, how do you, if you're vanilla ice and you have these people paying decent money to go see you,

you've only got two songs, basically, to your credit. How the hell are you going to kill a half an hour? Unless you're bringing another great band and you put another song. Stop to the hot TikTok. Get on. Stop to the hard. TikTok. Get on.

Stop. Stop. This song is your cocktail? This is a jam. Oh, there'll be people having sex on like Travis. So I guess the question is, is color me bad still going? In Vanilla, I said thanks, but no thanks? I would guess no.

Yeah, I bet it's whole thing is going to push off. All right. Let's start the second hour. We'll say how to our friend Peter Burns. He is with the SEC Network and ESPN. Is everybody in the SEC going to behave themselves so that conference can play football this year? And will it matter if other conferences do if the SEC says we're going to play some ball? 713-212-5-790 is how you reach our show if you want to get in.

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Two hours to the long three-day weekend, at least it is for us. y'all be safe this weekend wear your mask, social distance, and thoughts and prayers for those of me that were trying to go see Van L. Ice play in Austin. Right now, a good friend of the show, a very talented sportscaster,

radio background, but now he's a TV star with the SEC Network, but it'll always keep to our medium when we call on them. That's our friend Peter Burns here on the Matt Thomas show. Peter, long time to talk. How are things, my friend? Well, a lot better had we actually had the vanilla ice house are going, but now that that's

and canceled. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do this weekend, Matt. I mean, that was the whole game plan and now a whole, hell, my whole summer screwed up now. I know, but as I was telling the audience, I was in Sacramento doing a Rockets game, and Vanilla only carried a half of the halftime. What else does he have in his repertoire except like two songs? I think, yeah, well, once you get plans to play that funky music and you go by Ice Ice Baby, I think that's pretty much the only thing. I remember seeing him in college over you just say I saw him once and I'm like yeah we could go after about about eight minutes like I'm good we saw it we say we came we saw we conquered and we got the hell out of there early enough so uh yeah that's

that's okay I think it's more of an IQ test like the IQ test is one did you buy tickets of vanilla ice and two do you wear masks and I think both of those kind of go hand in hand at this point yeah last question about this then we're going on some other things all right so we were talking about how if you're really drunk vanilla ice is just amazing I brought up Casey in the Sunshine Band. Normally, just to hear them sing would be atrocious. But if you're out or at a club and you've had five or seven or 11 drinks, when play that funky music, White Boy comes on, you just jump out of your chair immediately. Is there a group for you that sounds better after a few cocktails? I will tell you, you have to have 11-D cocktails. You can't just have

five or six of them. But if you have 11-de- cocktails, the one that does it, Nickelback. And I'm just telling you, because every person, I'm telling you, like, Matt, I'm talking like, Matt, I'm talking like 2 a.m. You're hammered with your boys or you know, you're in the back of an Uber, back when we'd actually get into other people's cars back in the day. And like, and it comes in, it's just so over-the-top cheesy that you're just like, yeah, I'll sing it. And honestly, I saw them in concert a couple years ago in Denver, frankly not bad. And by the way, if you ever ripped Nickelback and a lot of people do, the great Rolling Stone article they had about Nickelback going, hey, do you guys care that everyone calls you like this, like the most over, like produced,

dumb band ever. And he goes, I don't really hear a lot of that criticism when I'm flying on my own G5 jet and the $100 million I made. So that's a credit to Chad Kroger for doing it right, I guess. It makes me hate them even more. They have their own G5, but that's not here nor there. All right, Peter, a story out of ESPN within the last hour about Texas A&M getting a year of probation. How much have you guys been watching over this? And is there, can you fill in some details that for those of this may have not been watching the details of some early troubles for Jimbo at A&M.

Yeah, I mean, so I talked to the people at A&M, not officially with the athletic department, but people around the university and in the athletic department about, hey, how serious the deal is this? And they kind of just laughed, and they said, listen, I said, it was basically wanted, you know, it was a conversation that Jimbo had with a kid before he was supposed to have it in a time period he wasn't supposed to have it. And Jimbo has said, hey, listen, it was my bad. It wasn't like, you know, SMU bags full of money and, hey, all of a sudden, you know, everybody's driving Mustangs around and stuff like that, the SMU days.

But, again, at this point, you don't want any of this. You know, I mean, recruiting is a lifeblood in the SEC. And so anytime, Matt, they start taking away a couple of official visits and you get put on probation, that doesn't help. And the other thing that's kind of tricky now, too, is that there is a six-month show cause for Jimbo Fisher. Now, you know, Ross Biorch is the new athletic director over there. they're happy about this upcoming season if we do get one about where this program's at and what they're building there. But a show cause could be one reason that if A&M ever tries to get out of the contract that they could

say, hey, listen, this was in a contract that if there was a show cause, we could possibly get out of hiring you. So, I mean, that's something to look at. But again, I think it's much to do about kind of nothing at this point. You follow the league a lot closer because, of course, you're one of the stars of the SEC Network. We were just thinking on paper, Kalimann's the most experienced quarterback in that half of the division. Their schedule certainly lines up for a very favorable eight to nine win run. If there were such a thing as a preseason prediction,

which you normally do during media days, you're not going to have it this time around, at least not yet. Where do you slot A&N with all the uncertainty with the changes in LSU and Alabama? Well, I mean, you know, they played, what, 19 freshmen last year. They got 17 starters, including Kellan Mon, who, him, maybe Kyle Trask, really the only big nine, you know,

quarterbacks that have been there on, on campus for a long time. And so, yeah, I mean, I've got them in the West. I got them as kind of a, a 2A and a 2B along with LSU. I still think Alabama is a little bit of step above because of what they bring back. But right now, I think A&M and LSU are the two teams.

That could contend and get into Atlanta. It wouldn't be an unbelievable surprise. And, you know, I talked to Jimbo about how disappointing last year was. And, you know, he kind of told me off the cuff saying, listen, he's like, the reason why we knew that we had Clemson, we had George, we had these tough games on the schedule, we were going to play a boatload of young guys, get them developed because these were the next two years in which A&M was going to break through. And so the plan was kind of going to plan until this little hiccup in the road today. But again, I don't think any of the A&M stuff today really puts a hurdle of them not being able to at least compete this year, and especially in 2021. Busy with Peter Burns, SEC Network here on the Matt Thomas show. I'm just curious from a pure programming aspect on your network.

You've showed a lot of great games and features and that type of thing behind the scenes kind of stuff. How forthcoming had the coach has been to join your radio, your TV shows and whatnot, knowing that, you know what, at least once in a while showing your face isn't the worst thing, especially when a lot of things in the sport of college football, at least right now, is pretty dormant. Oh, it's funny because for the first two or three months, they were just bored as hell, Matt. I would actually have coaches going,

hey, if y'all want to have me on, this is the week to do it. So, I mean, I pitched an idea of the SEC network. I said, well, let's go back and go look at some of the famous times in SEC history with some of the coaches. And Mileson had reached out and said, hey, let's watch Kick Six together. So we watched part of kick six, the crazy game in the Iron Bowl a couple of years ago, where they won on the return of the extra of the field goal.

And so they have been great. I will tell you this, though, after about a month and a half and continuing to have them on the shows, they were like, all right, we're good. Like, we've run enough to do it. And, you know, I would tell you this. There's a level of frustration right now among SEC coaches and athletic directors of people not taking this coronavirus. seriously. And I think there's a medium ground. Like, you know, the athletic directors and the coaches are

looking at going, man, we are, we're socially distancing. We're doing everything we can. We've got all of this testing set up. We don't like any of them. We're wearing masks, but we're doing it. And yet, as soon as we leave the facilities, we're seeing the bars are open and nobody's wearing masks. They're like, why the hell are we working this hard to have a season if all of a sudden everybody else doesn't think this is a big deal? Because the athletic directors and the coach, know that their university presidents aren't going to allow them and shouldn't allow them to have college football if these numbers keep skyrocketing like we're seeing all throughout the south. I have no doubt in my mind, Pete, that the Pac-12 SEC, Big 10, Big 12, there's all different sort of concern levels, optimism, pessimism. There's nothing.

Is there consistency within the SEC or are the folks in South Carolina and Georgia and Auburn feeling differently than, say, Arkansas, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt right now? No, I mean, they're all in the same boat. They're all in the same boat right now going, listen, we don't like this any more than you do. But now you've seen every single coach. I mean, you had Phil Palmer sending out a tweet a couple days ago saying wear a mask if you want to be in Neeland Stadium. Like, do it now. I mean, hell, Matt, you had Nick Sabin. Think about this.

Like Nick Savon is like does not want to put up with any BS. Nick Saban filled the PSA about wearing a mask with their mascot, the elephant. So it's like, you know, it's gotten to the point where they're like, they understand how important it is. They just want to get back to football and they're just befuddled about how the people around them right now, especially younger generation, won't do at least the bare minimum, which is, hey, we're not saying stay home all the time. Could you at least wear a mask?

could you do it? And I haven't heard an unbelievable amount of frustration because now they realize that these numbers don't go down within the next two weeks. They're going to at least postpone the season, I would imagine. And then the question of having kids on campus in the fall and even having a college football season in the fall is at jeopardy because people won't do the bare minimum. It's affidon and crazy to me. Yeah, Peter Burns with SEC Network with us on The Matt Thomas show. So give us a timeline, if you even believe there is one, about some come-to-Jesus decisions about kids returning on campus, kids playing football, fans and stands, maybe a pushback of the season. What have you been told? Because let's be honest, your network is going to have a huge

saying in this because they've got a program their lineup for the next handful of months. Yeah, I mean, we're three and a half to four weeks. I mean, that's what I've heard from Greg McGarity, the AD at Georgia. And I've talked to Scott Strickland at Florida and all these athletic director said legitimately they've got three and a half four weeks before they have to say, okay, we're on, we're starting on Labor Day weekend, we're good to go first week of September, or there will be some type of postponement at this point. I mean, you know, Matt, they don't want to play in the spring. Like, they just don't want. They want to be able to play as many games as possible. They want to have the season. They want to have as many fans in the stadium right now.

But the reality is that you can't continue to have these cases go up. up, regardless of what the death toll is or whatnot, they're just not going to be willing to put university and student athletes at this risk because of the liability and because, A, it's just not the right thing to do. So they've got three weeks, and that's why these next two weeks, Matt, I'm not lying, the next two weeks right now are probably as important for this college athletic world in the last hundred years, being bad serious. Because think about it, college football doesn't get played how much money that normally

has about 80% of an athletic department's budget, then all of a sudden, everyone else, how do they get funded at that point? I don't know, especially with the NCAA, only giving out about 30% of their funds after the March Madness this year. It's crazy. Any thought of you thinking the SEC saying,

we're going on with a one or two conferences saying we're out this year? Any thought of we're pushing through, or is it all, do you think the Power 5 has to come collectively together to play this season? I don't think they have to collectively come together. I think that they're communicating as much as possible. You know, but right now, I mean, the story came out today. Southern Cal had said, hey, we're going to have players, you know, all of our students on campus. They have already switched that as of today saying almost extensively they're going to go online campus.

You know, they're going to be doing school online. And remember, you know, Alabama opens up the season or supposed to open up the season against Southern Cow, USC to begin the year. So, I mean, again, the bad part about it is I'd love to have answers. But as the commissioner of the SEC, Greg Sanky, said, this is legitimately changing every 48 hours. You know, every day they have these conference calls. They get more information and they talk to more people in every single day. I mean, if we had this conversation a month ago, we're looking great. But ever since Memorial Day and all this new spike that's going up right now,

there's a lot of people that are worried about what's going to happen. And they're not making decisions right now. They're going to give it three weeks to four weeks and figure out. And by that last week in July, you're going to know one way or another. Last question. What SEC Network show or game have you seen so many times you've memorized the exact moment of every important play in that game? Well, the LSU game where Warren Morris hits the walk off against Miami, That was always our rain delay game.

Oh, my gosh. We'd have a ton of them. So we'd probably play that 800, 900 times. But I still, honestly, I still love watching LSU beating Texas this year in Austin. And just the fact that, you know, Joe Burrow threw for, what, seven touchdowns against Oklahoma, in the first half, I could watch that 9,000 times and it won't be enough. All I will say is this. I need to start watching more your network.

because the Big Brother Channel ESPN shows Celtics Lakers games almost at nauseam, and I'm just over those two teams right now. So I will now spend my hours of sitting at home watching SEC Network because I want to make sure that we get enough Peter Burns airtime and honoring all that is LSU athletics because, of course, I work with that. As long as we don't show Trace McGrady's score in, what, like 37 points in 8 seconds against the spurs a while back. I'll be in big stage. That's actually a pretty good idea, NBA TV, if you're listening.

Wouldn't be the worst. As long as you don't show money, Genobey blocking James Hardin in game six. Hey, can we at least agree here, even though I'm a spurs fan, you guys are Rockets fans, that we just don't like the Mavericks. Can we all agree on that personally? Yeah, yeah. We don't really count them. Oklahoma City's more than division, foe, than Dallas is, to be honest with you.

Peter, it's great to hear your voice. Congratulations again on all your success. You worked your ass off and I'm proud of your efforts. And we hope to bother you maybe closer when we'd actually have some real football in a few weeks, hopefully. We'll have eight margaritas and drink and sing nickel back together. Matt, I can't wait. That's not going to happen. But thank you, friend, ice ice baby to you.

That's the one and only Peter Burns, ESPN, SEC Network. A great, great visit to this radio show. 1.15 is a time. Up next, Daniel Snyder, the owner of Washington's, NFL football team wants a new stadium back in the district of Columbia. Only one thing is going to hold him back, at least. It sounds like today. We'll tell you what that is in a moment.

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Ross is off a little bit, and we hope he has a speedy recovery. Joe George is with us here today. 713-212-5-790 if you'd like to join us on anything that Peter Burns had to say. We had Charles Adams on about whether or not these coronavirus waivers have any sort of oomph to them. The NFL has reduced its pre-season schedule from 4 to 2. I'm going to call my shot. not nearly with as much vigor as I have on the delay of the season, but I think there'll either be one or no preseason games.

I just think the risk of putting people, not talking about fans, just talking about just putting 200 people on a football field without some sort of slowdown of this bad boy is going to really put the NFL in a situation of, you know what, let's just not worry about trying to set up these things and just go right to a season, whenever that season may come into play. So, the Washington Redskins

built a stadium back in the late 1990s called FedEx Field. It's actually in Maryland. Landover, I think, is where it is. Don't hold me too that. But it's somewhere in Maryland. And if you've ever been in that part of the country, you've got Maryland, you've got Virginia, you have the nation's district of Columbia.

They're all really close to each other. So if you live in the Washington, D.C. metro area, going to a game at FedEx Field is no big deal. It's just a suburb. Well, they want, they being the Redskins and they being the owner, Daniel Snyder, wants the stadium wants to put the games back at the site where the old RFK stadium was. I think the RFK is still around. They would essentially tear it down, rebuild it, and really put it in Washington, D.C.,

just like the Nationals have their stadium in Washington, and that the Wizards playing downtown D.C. The Washington Post said yesterday that legislators in that area have said, no way, no how, no chance, are you going to get that RFK stadium site for you to build your new Taj Mahal unless you change the name of the Washington Redskins? They have been the Redskins since 1933. Joe, I've been doing radio for 28 years, at least in front of the microphone. And it's one of those all-time topics.

Ficking about what's happened in our recent world here, the Redskins name of all the names that has been talked about, discussed, has always been to me the most absurd and the most offensive of any of them. And I'm not one of those PC police. I've just always thought that it was just a very, very poor logo. It's a poor name. It doesn't represent, in my mind, what any of those that are Native American would want in terms of a logo and who they are. So it has been an age-old conversation about why you keep it.

When I was in Utah, and I was doing the University of Utah games, they're the Utes, there were lots of different studies and polls and surveys and focus groups about whether or not the University of Utah should keep the name. And the number one reason why the University of Utah kept their name the Utes is because the Ute tribe

found it to be an honor. They had zero problem with it. I can't find anybody. Not that I spend a lot of time Googling whether or not Native Americans love the name Redskins. But that's where if you're Daniel Snyder and you're the owner of the Redskins, you fall in your sword and say,

well, I know you may not like it, but Native Americans that gravitate towards my football franchise love it. They find a sign of respect. I've not been able to find that from anywhere. So what I want to know is this. Is Daniel Snyder going to fall on his sword for a team name and he loves when he knows he's not going to be able to get the stadium that he wants in downtown Washington, D.C.

because he's not willing to change the name of the team. Yeah, he's going to change it. You're going to get your new stadium, and I don't know, Matt, if you saw the story out of Ad Week, the ESPN put up too, but investors and shareholders worth a combined $620 billion from Nike, FedEx, and Pepsi

are saying they want their companies to sever ties with the Redskins in case they change their names. So you're talking about three major companies and a new stadium being on the line for a name. So you're saying that those companies will drop if they don't change. That's what the investors and shareholders want to happen. Look, it's at this point, like I just, it's time just to move on. I don't really get it from my personal experience.

I know yesterday you asked me about or this week about my relationship with Adam Sager. Well, growing up in Illinois, the high school he went to was the Morris Redskins. And I went to, when I was in middle school in elementary school, the high school I went to was the Huntley Redskins. And before I went into eighth grade, our school districts, made the determination that we weren't going to be the Redskins anymore because they found it offensive. And they changed. And the only thing that's left of it is just because they don't want to completely disomely. or the athletes that came before us was there's still photos up and you see guys

in the Redskins jerseys and things like that and volleyball players and such. But besides that, that's it. Now Morris, where Seeger went to high school, they're still the Morris Redskins today. But I remember there being this uproar for like a year. And then it's

just over. And just change it. And if you do it, right? If you change your team name and you come up with something better, then it's going to be fine. You can change the jersey colors and you can do all these different things. You can become a team that's red, white, and blue,

just like your counterparts with the Wizards and the Nationals and the Capitals. Right. Like you can become uniform, just like what Pittsburgh has. There's plenty of ways to do this and make it a positive, but now with those three major companies and the stadium being on the line, is it crazy to think they have it changed

and have new uniforms before week one of the NFL season? Yes. So week one of next season it's changed? Yeah. Here's what I don't know, because I don't know. I have just one friend that lives in the D.C. area. And I don't talk to her enough to be able to say, hey, why are they having not change her name?

It's just a part of the country I'm not overly familiar with. I love Baltimore. I love the Inner Harbor. I love Annapolis where the Naval Academy is. But that's not D.C. That's the Baltimore metropolitan area there. I just don't know enough people. And it's not like, you know how you have Pittsburgh Steelers fans in every part of every city?

You have Dallas Cowboy fans. You have maybe Chicago Bears fans. You know the Patriots have a bunch of hangers on because of what they've done. I just don't know any Redskins fans. They're not important. They're just, they're not. Because they've been good forever. Yeah.

Who cares? On all honesty, like, the thing they're most famous for is Alex Smith's injury. But why? If you've got your three major financial backers of your organization and you want a stadium and you're facing tremendous pressure from everybody around America, does Daniel Snyder just lock himself up in his office and shield any of that? And again, sometimes if you bow down to public pressure, I get that, you know, that sometimes is cruel too. but this is something that has just not been brought up today or before the passing of George Floyd

or any I mean this has been something that has irked people for a long period of time I don't even think and I don't I think Greg Gumbull who does games on CBS doesn't even when he does a Redskins game doesn't even call them the Redskins he just calls him Washington every single time There are a lot of places that do that some of the television I think it might be Fox they just put Washington up there

I mean there are a lot of people that that they do that. They just completely avoid that part of the name. I am by no means the PC police. If anything, I think there's sometimes there's way too much of it. But if you listen to me 10 years ago, I was talking about this name needs to be changed,

20 years ago. And the logo isn't good. The name isn't good. I don't think it represents anything positive. And I just don't understand why it has become this name that is just not even being up for conversation. And I don't like things being held up money-wise before being hostage,

but if this is what it has to take, then you've got to do it. And I love the name of the Washington Bullets. It was a great name, great logo, great uniforms. And the Wizards just doesn't do anything for me. And I didn't think there was anything wrong with the bullets. But you know what? That's the area in the country they live in, and that's their fan base, and that's, you know, they represent a community. So I can't speak to whether or not that was the right decision or not.

But it is so odd that Daniels, I mean, the most patently offensive name community, so I can't speak to whether or not that was the right decision or not. But it is so odd. The Daniels, I mean, the most patently offensive name. I mean, give me another. name in sports that is more offensive than Redskins. I mean, I cannot think, I mean, let's go to the ones that have been knocked out in the last handful of years.

We're going to go to a break here. Braves, Indians, Seminals. Seminoles, Warriors. None of that bothers me. Yeah, mostly it's been logos and mascots that have been changed. Correct. University of Illinois. Right.

They're getting rid of the part of the Indians mascot. They've changed. Chief Waho's. part of it. It's mostly mascots. It's not team names that have been the offensive part, and that's why they've been changed. Yeah.

The only name that's constantly is the Redskins. Yeah. It's crazy. I just, this might be the fate of complete, because if he wants to be in downtown D.C. Or not so close to it, and he wants to be the Washington, in the district of Columbia is compared to Maryland,

that's not going to happen unless he changes the name. And frankly, he'll want to be a hero. after being hated for a long time, right? Don't you think the Redskins need, that organization needs some positivity? It's been an embarrassing franchise for a long period, long period of time. 1.30. We're halfway home to Matt Thomas Show. 713-212-5-790.

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Just say hi Ask a question Thoughts, beliefs About the Redskins name And will this finally make the move Basically the city of Washington saying No you're not going to get RFK Stadium To build your new Tajmo

hall unless you change the team name man the corporate dollars that would be would be lost if they decided to keep the name why they just call themselves the americans wouldn't that be just about the opposite ross uh joe i think right now i wouldn't do that no oh no i think there'd be a lot of blowback so just stay away from anything patriotic at all yeah even though they'd probably be red white and blue whatever they are i just man you talk about focus groups I know. Good luck.

Does this work? Does this work? Do you think there's a possibility where they change their name, but they changed the Washington and they become the Maryland Redskins because he's so upset about this? We don't know. Has he been public about this yet? Does he say anything about what D.C. told him what he could do with his name? Nothing, yeah.

He's probably a PR nightmare right now. I mean, they don't handle anything well. Yeah, they don't. Man, when I was a kid, that was the franchise, too. Holy smokes. The Hogs, a big offensive line, Thysman, Riggins, Art Monk, Darrell Green. Oh, man, that was a, I was never a big fan of the NFC as a kid,

but man, the Cowboys and Redskins were the game you had to watch every, you know, when they would play twice a year. You had Summerall and Madden calling the game. Well, you still have Joe Buck and Trichmann do half of them, right? I mean, that's part of the reason why the NFC East is still the NFC East, because Jerry Jones is like, I'm not giving up playing the Giants and the Eagles and the Redskins. They're all great rivals of ours. No disrespect to New Orleans or Atlanta or, you know, Phoenix,

but I don't want to stay where the ratings are. And the NFL is like, yeah, you're right. Dallas v. Washington is going to greatly outdraw Dallas v. Atlanta. Speaking of focus groups, I think I've mentioned this a couple of times in the show, and I don't know if it's been with you, darn out, Joe. when the Texans were trying to figure out their name. And I've told this story a couple of times, so if you've heard it before,

I apologize for repeating myself. Bob McNair came on our show. This is when I was working at KPRC, and we were doing sports over there in the afternoons. And I had said, he was talking about, you know, the process and there's focus groups, and they were getting broad sample sizes of different ethnic groups, different age groups, people that would buy uniforms, people that wouldn't,

just to get a good cross-section of what would be the right name. And they narrowed it down to a handful of groups, and ultimately it was going to be the decision of Bob McNair to decide what the name of the team was going to be. So we had McNair on the show, and I told him, this is after the name the Texans was announced. And I told Bob on the air, I said, Mr. McNair, I got to be honest with you,

the name I was hoping that you were going to be named, the name of the team was going to be the Houston Toros. I love the Bull. I love the Texas feel to it. You know, we're a big rodeo community, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he told me in no uncertain terms, he said, that was the name I wanted myself. But it failed really, really badly in one focus group.

And it was among Hispanic males. Hispanic males thought the name Toros, was a slight or it was just was just non-preferred. So I knew that when the name of the Texans were going to come out, and I knew that Bob McNair loved the name Toro, that he was going to add something with the word Toro involved in the franchise. And he certainly did. The mascot's name is Toro.

I've seen the list. I think I would have got on Apollos. What was the list? You got the list in front of me? I don't, but I know the final four were the... Texans, Apollos. Toros. Toros. Wildcats.

I think. Wildcats sounds like a West Texas high school team. Apollos? No. But it's like the... I'm saying about Washington. Like everything's uniform. Everything in Pittsburgh is uniform.

You'd have the Astros, the Rockets, the Apollos. What is an Apollo? Well, it's the name of a mission. It was not really a person. Well, here's the thing. I don't necessarily would have minded the team name besides the Texans because that would have, I don't, could you imagine Clay Walker singing its football time in Houston with the Apollos is the team name?

Okay, actually, no, sorry, here it was not the Wildcats. It was the Bobcats, the Apollos, the Texans, the Stallions, or the Toros. Those were the shortlist. Oh, Toros hands down still to this day. Anything to not have Clay Walker sing the fight song would have been a win-win, right? I mean, it's not that bad. What?

Is that a bad take? Yes. It's kind of catchy. For whom? I don't know. I don't hate it. Maybe I like it so much because Adam Clanton hates it so much. It sucks.

And I don't like to use the word sucks. But it's football time in Houston. No. No, it's not. Well, not yet. No, it's corny karaoke time in Houston when that song comes on. They still would have done the football time in Houston. You just would have changed the lyrics.

It's not like a name change would have got rid of the song They would have come up with something Let me tell you if they had been called the Apollos You still think Clay Walker would have said the fight song to it Maybe would have come up with something Oh, all right Naive Ruin My Dreams of a Better Fight Song With a better recording artist

Now I'm sure Clay's a wonderful human being It's just the song so bad When you think of fight songs You want songs that are going to get 70,000 people fired up. Not 70,000 people all to go to the restroom at the same time. Quick update, Vanilla Ice wants to move his concert just to July. That's what he's hoping for.

By the way, quick update. Apollo, Greek god of mythology. Okay. That would have worked too. But I think the spin on the Apollo was because of the Apollo missions, right? I'm assuming that's what it was for. I think either one would have been fine. Yeah, I don't know if you go. There's no way you're singing an intergalactics.

Hold on. There's no way you're singing a song with a space vibe to it and Clay Walker singing it. No chance. Okay, so Vanilla Ice was saying. Oh, Vanel Ice? But he's from Dallas. That wouldn't work. Or is he from Miami?

Huh? Remember that was the big riff of many, you were too young. The big jam with him was when he was first a recording artist, he was talking about he was from the mean streets of Miami. And everyone's like, no, you're not. You're from Dallas. He lied about where he was from. That's funny. His Wikipedia says origin, Dallas, Texas, Miami, Florida.

I'm not lying to you. He has two. I have you two origins. Because he lied about one of them. It would be like you saying, I'm from the mean streets of Hallstead Street, Chicago. You're not from there. You're from a nice, you know, nice lily suburb, right? Did you grow up in the mean streets of Chicago?

Yes or no? No. No. See? 144. Thomas show, Sports Talk 790. So Vanilla Ice wants to come back. You know what?

If I don't have any rocket responsibilities, we should take a bus up there to go check out vanilla ice. Problem is, it would take us, what, three and a half hours to get there, get comfortable, watch him sink for seven, eight minutes, and then leave. I got family in Austin. We can stay up there. Really? Can we feed him deer corn?

Sure. Because that's what you're doing, like Travis. You get one of those lakeway houses and then you just feed deer corn everybody, to the deer. And you smoke pot and you complain about the traffic in Austin. And you go to Vanillaise concerts. And go to Vanillaise concerts. 144 of the Matt Thomas show. 713-213-212-790.

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Alabama. Okay, that's very encouraging because Alabama is a neighboring state to Florida. Yep. So it's pretty good and juicy then, basically. I think so. Okay. Now in Florida stories, 40 minutes from now here on the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Let's go to, in terms of longest wait. Thomas and Galveston on 790. Hi, Thomas. Hey, Matt. Love your show, brother. you so much. Thank you. You got it. My pleasure. Hey, just got off the waves. I don't know if you surf at all, but the break is beautiful today.

By the way, you're, you're bearing the lead. You're bearing the lead. There's no beach starting tomorrow. Well, why do you think I surf today? I had to get it in. This COVID is killing me, man, and I'm missing my sports, brother. I've got to get it back. I mean, I don't, I'm a surfer and I'm a kitchen manager. I'm a chef by trade. I don't have money to fly around the country to watch sports, you know, live. And I was an original PSL season ticket holder for the Texans in 2000. And, you know, I can't watch anything now.

It's hard. It's a hard way to live. Well, I'm very curious. So you surf and you cook. And I'm assuming you're not married with kids, I'm assuming? No, I have, well, I'm divorced, but I have two beautiful daughters, 18 and 20. Nice. And so you're just kind of living the easy life then. Well, I'm living, I'm living the life that was dealt.

I understand. Do you live in Galveston? But you know what life is what you make of it, Matt? I understand it. Do you live in Galveston? I do. How's business? Well, I'm busy. I'm a kitchen manager at Nix. If you're familiar, you're with Godot, it's the restaurant right next to it. Oh, yeah, very much so. Yeah. So I'm the kitchen manager, I guess what they call the sous chef there.

I got you. So how is this closing of Galveston going to affect you guys this weekend? It's going to kill us. But being in upper management, I'll probably hold my job, hopefully. I mean, we'll see what happens. The last time it closed, I was down for two months. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. But you know what? I mean, you just, you manage your money and you do things right, and everything works out.

And that's just the way it works. Well, let me tell you something, Thomas. But you know what? All I do is, you know, when the stress comes on, I just grab my board, strap it on top of my truck and I hit and I go to Madagorda and I hit the waves and and everything everything always worked out. Well, you've got a really good approach to life

and my friend and I wish you'll be able to spread some of that optimism to some other folks. I know that people are pretty sad and depressed right now because the business are going down and health's not great and whatnot. But you kind of lifted this up a little bit. Let me just say you something. As soon as life resumes normality, I will bring my family to your place to eat because I love that whole part of Seawall.

The Thomas family loves Galveston. So we will out there as soon. Please come by and ask for Thomas and your meal is on me. You know, we don't need to do that. We've got to take care of. We've got to support local businesses. But, Thomas, glad the waves did you well. Get some rest, my friend, and we hope we get you back on your feet very shortly.

All the best to everybody. Bye. Thank you very much. Appreciate the phone call. I have a feeling. Thank you again Joe Thomas You know look he's stressed out clearly

Works in the food industry Galvison's a huge tourist town But he just put his board on the back of his truck And he went surfing today And he got in his car And he called the radio show And he's feeling better about life I think we should have 790 surfing lessons

Oh I'm down I would love to learn how to surf Let's handicap who would do well and who would not I'm going to start with myself I will be an unmitigated disaster. I think I would be, I think I could pick it up pretty quick. I got good balance.

Salisbury, yes or no? Yeah, I doesn't need a shot. Adam Sager. But, you know, I think Salisbury does surf, though. I just don't know if he can do it anymore. I mean, he's from San Diego. He's got to surf. Yeah, but we're talking about 2020 here.

I know. I'm about 87. Sager, yes or no. Depends on how many beers he's had. We don't want somebody drunk going out and learning how to surf. Oh, no, I think the more, the better for him. Okay, Connor? No chance.

Let me tell you about Connor. He bites off more than he can chew. He... Connor's the guy we got to send the lifeguard after because he tried to go too far. We were talking about him hitting a home run at Consolation Field. He's like, oh, I can do that easy. We said, no, you can't.

He goes, oh, yeah, I can't. So we set it up through the Skeeters that he went out there and took batting practice. before a game. And we just said, look, take as long as you want, swing as many times as you want to. I think one ball on a bounce hit the warning track. He is the king of

I can do anything until I go out there and do it, and then if I can't do it, I'll blame some reason. Like he said there was the reason why he could do it because he didn't bring his gloves. Well, of course, if you didn't bring your batting gloves, you're probably going to, your hands are going to be arthritic after about five minutes, right? So I will put, yeah, I'll put Michael Conner

in the, I cannot do this category either. Next, Indy Kalu. No way. Gordy. Nope. I say no. Ross, yes or no?

Maybe. Maybe. Clanton? No, I think I put him in that Michael Connor category. Wexler. Sneaky, yes. Adam Wexler can serve? Yeah, sneaky, yes.

So basically of our entire 790 crew, there's about two of us that can do it. What are the rest of us doing? Just laying on the beach crying because we can't do it? Or are we like, what do you call when you just get on the boarding? You just kind of just wait out there. Not what do you call? When you get on a board and you just ride the waves? Your stomach gets on the board.

Is it boogie boarding? No. No, boogie boarding isn't it the small ones? What is it where you just get on a raft? We would just basically get on a raft and just lay there and watch y'all try to succeed in this. I mean, no, you guys would try.

I think you'd fail. Oh, I know I would fail. But it would be thoroughly enjoyable. No, it wouldn't. I think it would be a little less enjoyable than the YouTube video, Ross showed me, of you, Matt, and Wex playing soccer against 13-year-old girls

and getting killed. That was in 2010. And the video's awesome. Yeah, it never. disappoints, does it? Never. Brian, you're the worst. Brian T. Smith to join us on Sports and More. Final hour, Matt Thomas show next on Sports Talk 790.

Is the Matt Thomas show. Two o'clock, Sports Talk 790, the final hour of the week of the Matt Thomas show. Hope you guys have a happy, safe, really super safe, relaxing weekend. We'll have Best of the Matt Thomas show 12 to 3 tomorrow If there's such a thing And back with you for a full three-hour get-together on Monday We appreciate Brian T. Smith Nobody's with us on a Friday visit of the show

Stepping in today to help us out with a segment on this radio show BTS one thing I've not talked to the audience about Today that we did a little bit yesterday Was the Rocket Zoom call which I think you were a part of Are you a little weirded out by the fact The NBA has not called Mike Dantonian and said yeah, you're definitely welcome to come to Orlando and that he's kind of just interpreting it as

you didn't call me, so I'm coming? Yeah, it's a good point, Matt. Yes, I was a part of the Zoom call. I am a part of all Zoom calls now. My life through at least 2020 will now only involve Zoom calls. It is odd.

Now, there's two ways to look at it, and I thought, Mike, as almost always, captured it perfectly. Nothing in this case is better than something. You know, if they had called him and say, hey, you've got an issue. Or you've got to see a doctor or Mike, I'm sorry, you're just too old to go to Disney World. Then that would have been a real issue. The fact that they haven't said anything and they're technically this close is encouraging.

That being said, shouldn't they say something? Like, how is they not officially told Mike Dan Tony and I believe Greg Popovich and Alvin Gentry, hey, guys, you are going to Orlando. You're going to be able to coach your team on the bench. the only way that's going to change is if you come down with coronavirus. So, again, Major League Baseball, the NBA, it's like, I guess there's just so much going on. It's incredibly clear in a lot of ways they're just flying by the cliche seat of their pants, and they haven't had time yet to have a chat with Mike Dan Tony.

I'm just afraid they're, you know, when someone has bad news for you, it's easier just to just wait to the last second and tell them as compared to just, being out and forthcoming. I mean, I hate that about people, but I hope I'm wrong, but there's just a part of me that believes that they don't want to tell those gentlemen the bad news until it's just about time to do so. Or maybe they're still wrestling with it. I don't know, but I don't think it's fair because I got news for you, Brian T. Smith. The COVID virus is hitting everybody from 17 to 77, and it's not going after age groups and going, well, we'll skip you or we're going to make more of you 65-year-olds more susceptible to

than others. I would hope that the NBA is not as dumb as major league baseball right now, and the NBA is smart enough, which they take a lot of pride in being, Matt, and not telling Antonio and Popovich and Gentry, you know, the week before, hey, sorry, guys, you know, you have to coach from the stands. I mean, if they wait that long and make a call that close to it, that would be absolutely absurd, and that's 10 columns in waiting in the Houston Chronicle. I have to think the NBA smarter than that. It's not going to be an issue, and the only way it changes is if MDA gets the corona. What did you think of Randall Cobb tweeting at the NFL and at the Players Association saying, hey, I'm supposed to be going to Houston in four weeks, and I've heard Jacks go off from you all.

Again, right? I mean, it just, it shows. It shows for Major League Baseball. It shows for the NFL. It shows for the NBA that there's just, and on some level I'm not knocking them, right? it's really easy to talk on the radio, to be the host of a major market program in the fourth Augustine in the country, to write in a print column what they should do. And it's much harder to actually make it all happen. That being said, if they're going to pull this off, and not just do it, if they're going to pull it off successfully, it's clear that the communication has to be better in the NFL, in the NBA, and Major League Baseball.

And, you know, again, the test came out today for the NBA. there were, what, nine more positive? That's probably percentage-wise, just fine in terms of how the rest of the country is going. But when you look at, you know, college football and all the positive tests, major league baseball, the NFL on and on and on, if they don't have, and I'm using cliches here, because I've been talking about Corona for four months, that they don't have all their ducks in a row, Matt. If they don't have it all figured out, it's going to fall apart at some point. And there's no reason, much like MDA, there's no reason that Randall Cobb, shouldn't have any idea, according to him, you know, when he's supposed to show up in Houston or whatever the case is.

It feels like to me that all these leagues need to have their guides put together, and the NBA's done so, the majorly baseball folks have. I don't know if the NFL's put together a big guide. But just because you put out a guide doesn't mean that every single day you can email anybody that's involved, here. Here's another rule. Add to your list. I mean, for anybody to think that just because it's put down on paper on June the 15th, meaning it's gospel the wrestleway is crazy everything is changing in fact i'm the first one that

thought honestly brian that if you get to your bubble meaning Orlando it would be the safest place on earth the fc dallas team proves otherwise they jumped on a plane covid free and since then they've had nine positive cases of it there's a there's a shot and i don't have clarification there's a shot that i end up going to orlando right to cover the rocket and the NBA five. I'm not so much concerned about, and I'm going to do it. The right is in the finals. I'm going to go, and I'll get the corona for the greater good.

But I'm not so much concerned about the bubble as getting, yeah, getting off at the Orlando airport, getting the rental car. I mean, you know, Uber is apparently a mess, you know, right share is a mess right now and has been for months. There are so many steps. There are so many dominoes, Matt. and I applaud all the leagues for trying ultimately. I've never believed the season should be canceled until there is absolutely no other answer. But in some ways, they're almost thinking it more complex than it has to be major league baseball by dragging negotiations out for three months. The NBA by having it in this bubble.

And we thought all along that there's a shot that the bubble backfires. We're about to find out. Yeah, Brian T. Smith from The Chronicle with us here on Sports Talk 790. obviously MLB didn't waste any time. I'm trying to make a buck off of this new spring training 2.0. Let's not call it that. We need to call it summer camp. It's brought to you by a particular sponsor.

It starts an earnest tomorrow at Minute Maid Park, and I've been reading online on your paper. It is going to be, it's like a circuit training. Every part of Minute Maid Park is going to be used to get workouts in, but they're also going to make sure that there's very small groups, and they're going to use Houston. They're going to use the universe. to Houston. They may even use Corpus Christi.

What, I mean, what a logistical mess for the Astros and James Click to do any sort of talent evaluating, much less Dusty Baker, who's still trying to figure out who he's got? You know, and I think fans will know this better than I, because I've had a lot, with all

the leagues, there's a lot to keep track of right now. What day do they run the bases? Is it after the Sunday games? Yeah. Do they run, they have the kids run the bases? I've run the bases on Sunday. It's amazing. And it's, I'm not knocking. It's awesome.

But it reminds me of that. You know, you have these kids running the bases, trying to make their way to home plate. And it just, it's super cute. But it also is chaos. It reminds me of fan fest. Fan fest is a lot of fun. And it's great for the fans. But it's, you know, before this year, it was the last few years, it was total chaos.

Increasingly, the idea, and I saw this in the Chronicle, obviously, that they're going to have, they're going to use the opposing dugout, you know, I believe Joe Espada said, rightfully so we're going to use every inch of this park you know et cetera et cetera et cetera i don't know what it's going to be like i mean it's it's going to look like eight different little league fields right you know how little league is you have like eight fields it's going to look like they have eight fields all stacked together and one team's you know doing batting practice and one team's catching flies and one team's learning how to fly it again one team's taking grounders i mean i guess this is what it takes to get it done but it's one more reminder of just how

surreal and unprecedented and this all is. We opened the show today talking about the Texans making a smart business decision about allowing fans to skip this year and push it towards 2021. It's always funny. I've always thought the Texans business operation operates at a Super Bowl level. It's the football side that just can't get out of its wall. Jamie Roos is a money man. Yeah, there's no way around it.

Business-wise, the Texans do just fine. Texans are NFL leaders when it comes to business. That's never been a problem. Yeah. What about this? Would you sign a coronavirus waiver to attend a game? Let's ask a more important question. Would I sign a coronavirus waiver to attend a Pearl Jam concert?

Yes, I would. And I don't want to wear a mask. I've been wearing a mask. I'm going to be wrong. But I don't want to wear a mask at a rock show. I would wear a mask. You could distance. And I think it's going to be the same thing for sports at some place.

I felt it's all along that. like it's going that way, right? Like, hey, if you actually want to come, we're not liable for anything. You bring your mask, you bring your hand sanitizer, everyone separates, you know, don't screw up, don't break the rules. You know, everyone takes care of themselves.

It feels like that's where we're going to get any of this stuff back, to get 50% of the fans in the stand, 25% to have concerts again, all this stuff. I mean, that's just how it's going to be. Until the coronavirus goes away, which according to the president will any day now, until the coronavirus has a vaccine, which according to Fauci could be in, you know, 2020 or 2028 or tomorrow, until something positive happens with it and it goes away.

I think that the leagues and all entertainment situations, at some point the waivers are going to stop popping up. It's like, hey, if you want to go, it's on you. Yeah, I mean, I don't even know what the point of the waivers would be. I guess that it would be just to say don't come soon. Yeah, don't come soon. You know, on the back of tickets, they say you're not, you know, we're not responsible for things that happen. They're going to add a COVID-19 or COVID-20 or whatever the hell they're going to call it from future years. So we're going to do.

Yeah, but yeah, because the last thing, I mean, just imagine the disasters that are waiting PR-wise to where you do everything right. It's not your fault. And there's some, I'm just making this up, there's some drunk guy who stumbles into the, you know, the stands, falls on somebody. The beer spills, the nach spills. the guy cough, you get corona the next day, who are you suing? And in our modern day world, you're suing the organization, you're suing the team, you're suing the owner, you're suing Major League Baseball. It feels like to me, there's going to be waivers across the board.

Hey, if you want to walk through these doors and you want to support your team during the time of the coronavirus, we're not going to be liable. All right. Lastly, on a very light note, we were having some fun in the first hour of the show about Vanilla Ice is going to perform. was supposed to perform in Austin. He obviously postponed that. Joe and I were discussing how

if you've had a lot to drink, vanilla ice sounds really good. And I also use an example of Casey in a Sunshine Band, okay? Where if you just sat and heard them perform, you'd be like, oh my God, this old man singing old disc of music we hated. But if you've had a case of beer, you love him.

So Brian T. Smith, the music man that I know that you are. He's only got one song. that stole Queen's baseline, right? Isn't that under pressure? And David Bowie, the last time I saw O'Ice, and it's the only time I ever saw him, he was performing at halftime of a Texan's game,

and he's, Matt, he's horrid. Oh, I saw him. Hey, I saw him at a halftime of Rockets and Kings in Sacramento. That's not my point. My point is this. You're not a heavy drinker, but when you've had a few in your life. Wait, I didn't say that.

I'm setting you have to be a very politically correct person. If you were to have, when was the last time you had too much to drink that you remember hearing a guy sing a song or a group and going, man, I love this group, only to realize that you didn't think they were nearly as good when you were sober? Honestly, every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night in my backyard, when we're listening to the Bluetooth speaker and, you know, you're three hours in, and you're three hours in, and you're, you're, finish off the second bottle of whatever, Prosecco. Yes. And he's the Sirius, the bridge. And what's the Christopher Cross comes on? What?

No. No. No. No. He's amazing when sober. He's amazing. So we've decided so far today, we had Peter Burns on from ESPN last hour. He said Nickelback was his band. That just sounded better when you're drunk.

Okay. I don't know who. Peter Burns. Is that what you said? Yeah. SEC Network. yeah okay well he has to lose his pres credential because he should

nickelback is the worst fan of all times I don't know what I'm talking about I don't even think if I was if I just drank a bottle of tequila I think nickel back sounded any good but for me nickel nickel back is so bad they could cure the coronavirus mask well you mean like if you go outside if you don't wear a mask

I don't know I'm making it up on the spot all right I got you all right there you have it so yeah vanilla ice is good for a five and a half time how in the world is he going to fill up a 5,000 seen amphitheater. Well, we'll have to come find out. BTSA...

Clay Walker, I guess Clay Walker would sound better at Texan games. If you were, you know, eight beers in, I don't know. That's true. Think about this. You're a Texan fan. You're at the 40-yard line. The Texans score 47 points in a game against Buffalo, because it can't be anybody good.

It's going to be Buffalo. Yeah. That's it. I think that's why Clay Walker gets to perform every game because some of the fans are quite inebriated before it starts, Clay Walker sounds pretty darn patriotic by the time you walk in that stadium. Amen. That's a great call. BTS, happy fourth. You and the fame. We'll talk next week.

Thank you, Matt. You too and everyone else. All right, buddy. That's it. Joe, George, he hit it. Clay Walker sounds better when you're drunk. Well, duh. I mean, you tailgate all morning. You go to the Texans game, football time in Houston. You're jamming. Because you're not, like right now as you listen to this show, we put it on, you'd be like, get that garbage off. If you've had a case of beer, you're like, play it louder.

Yep. And now I just need to find a way to get invited to Charles' tailgates he was talking about. Yeah, Charles Adams, if you're listening, we want to be invited to your tailgate. And then we'll go watch Clay Walker and we'll be real excited. By the way, are they even tailgating this year? There's no chance, right? I don't know. Why not?

It's the same thing as a waiver. Like, if they're loud in the stadium, why can't they be spread out tailgating? What's the difference? This year sucks. Hey, let's get nine Florida stories. I have a doozy from Louisiana. I mean, this is one of my better efforts. 15 minutes from now.

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Chip Brown. All right, Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 is how you reach the show. I was just talking with Joe George during the break about the Texas A&M situation. If you've not heard, Jimbo Fisher is trending on Twitter. Today, the A&M football program was placed in a one-year probation. Head coach Jimbo Fisher was given a six-month show-cause order, basically illegal contact with a recruit.

There's no bull ban. There's no scholarship ban. It's just you better behave yourself over the next year or we're going to come after you as much as the NCAA could. So while it is a minor penalty, it is still a penalty, and it's still, I mean, there's more probation time than championship time in Aggieville. And I wanted to see what the ultimate Aggie defenders and the ultimate defenders of Texas A&N would say. So Billy Lucci is, he's Tex-Ags.

Is that right, Joe, George? Yeah. He tweeted out at 1239 today. Headlines. Probation. Show cause and a picture of Jimbo Fisher. Reality. No bull ban.

No scholarship cuts and punishment almost entirely behind A&M by January. All about the retweets and clicks. Now, if you follow Billy Lucci, you're like, yeah, Billy Lucci. You tell us, Billy Lucci. But if you don't believe Billy Lucci and you believe that Billy Lucci is just a Uber-Honk fan, you're like, shut up. Your squad's on probation. You've got nothing but Music City and Belk Bowl appearances and nothing else.

Back off. So I'm just looking to see if it's, uh, let's see, his replies. nor the part about how he cheated. Still cheated. Okay, A&M, they're okay with it. Those $75 million, they're getting every penny worth of an 8 and 4, 7 and 5 every year. Yes, this is really good news to know we are cheating. Well, your tweet just publicize it further. I woke up feeling it was a good day.

That's from a Langee fan or a Longhorn fan. They still cheated. Bad Jimbo bad. So, yeah, I mean, Billy Lucci was not going. was not going to all of a sudden go, man, I'm certainly concerned about my school because they've got more probation periods than big than SEC wins.

It's actually not true. You're just a 7 and 5 football team in a really good conference. So say what you will. Just win some games. Don't get on probation. And by the way, the show calls probably benefits A&M more than else

because if things really fall apart A&M, they can fire him and not have to pay him out on the big contract. But it wouldn't be in their best interest because they started from scratch by going to get him, big free agent hire and Jimbo. And the end game is to pay him because they knew they could from to win football games and to finish outside of fourth place in the SEC West. Hadn't happened yet, but you know what? All he's got his time and a bunch of years left in that ridiculously big contract.

Brian in downtown at 224 on 790. How are you doing, Matt Thomas? Good. Good, good. Hey, man, you know what? I can't wait to hear you yelling nothing but nylon, Matt. It's been a long time. Long time.

It's an anticipation thing. You know, I was blessed. I really loved it. I hope you get to broadcast some games. That's kind of one question I wanted to ask you. I hope we get to hear your voice on something. Yeah. I think we're going to split the games, at least for the first,

the rest of the season and the first round. It all just depends on what Bill Warrell wants to work, and so I'm going to pick up what he doesn't want to. But yeah, we'll have all the games on radio for surely. It would be Craig or myself. Oh, that's great. You know, man, I was blessed. I grew up listening to guys like Ben Scully, Chick-Corn,

and probably the best NHL voice of all time, which is Bob Miller for him. Oh, for sure. I don't know if you ever heard him. Oh, yeah. But that guy can call a hockey game. And anyway, and I feel blessed that we got you here Houston, Matt, because I really enjoy it.

Thank you. I appreciate that very much. Yeah, thanks, Philip won't call, Brian. I have a great weekend. Yeah, I don't know how many games I'm calling you. We haven't figured that out. But once we do, I will be very happy to do so. By the way, Rockets making a little bit of news yesterday very quickly. And it's very end of the radar.

Toposophilosia is not going to come back. He's going to forego $250,000 and say, you know what? I don't want to go to the bubble. How good is your life, Joe, Georgia? You say, you know what, a quarter million dollars for eight games? I'm good. Pretty good. I mean, really good, right?

I would love to hear why, though, for Ta-O-O-Po. Well, yeah, but, I mean, I just want to know why. Like, I'm just curious. Selfishly. Let's do role-play. I'll beat Tabo. You be the reporters. Go ahead.

Ta-Bo, why are you not playing in the bubble? Because Jeff Green's taking my spot, and I wasn't playing a whole lot to begin with. And I don't shoot particularly well, and I foul a lot of people. I'm a nice guy. I'm French, but it's only $250,000. And I've got plenty of money. How about that? Was that a good impersonation?

I think it might be accurate. So, so, Luke Bamute, apparently it's going to be re-signed soon. Welcome back. By the way, can I give you all a little constructive advice ahead of time? Uh-oh. Do not pronounce the M.

it's don't add a syllable to it. So just Luke Bahamute. Bahamute. Bahamute. Not Mba mutte. Mike Dantoni even does that. There's no M.

Are we sure? Because athletes change how they pronounce their names all the time. Oh, you're not kidding. Remember Namanya Bializa from the Kings? One night it's Namanya Bialita and then the next night it's Nemania. I mean, that's like, for Tom Fianna. Fibito's an entire time. Life. It was

Tibido. And then he got to Chicago and he said it's Fibito and Tibbs. Why? I don't, I mean, Tibbs is better than Fibs as a nickname. But it's Thibito and Tibbs. And there was someone else recently too that changed their name.

I'm telling you Bialita was the one the first one. It was the one for me that I was like, are you kidding? Because he He had that game winner against the Rockets and that three-point shot he had earlier this year. And then the next time they came in or something where I saw the PR guy and he goes, yeah, I just won't let you know that

Namanya has changed his first name again. I'm like, to what? Nemania. And he's like, was that because people were mispronouncing us? No, he just wanted to change it, I think. Like, okay, whatever. But yeah, Luke Baamute,

until Luke comes back and then he says, hey, put that M in front of there. Great defender. Here's a problem. He just can't stay healthy. And honestly, I just don't know what kind of rotation time he's going to be able to get with this team, right? Unless he is strictly brought in for defensive purposes for a very short period of time. I don't think he's going to play a time, but I think guys like him and Corey Brewer are looking at this opportunity to show teams how badly they want to be in the NBA.

JR Smith, too, with the Lakers. Yeah, they're saying, hey, we sat out all year. And now you're telling us the first time we're coming back, we're going to be into a bubble. we can't see our families for three months plus, but we want to make that sacrifice. This shows how bad I want to still be in the NBA. And there's a chance to make a nice chunk of change. Definitely.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a dozy of a non-Flority story. It comes from the great state of Louisiana. Joe George's story comes from the great state of Alabama. SEC Country. What? It's SEC Country. It is.

those stories straight ahead. They're non-flora stories. 229 on the Matt Thomas show. We're here to tell you about those non-flora stories next. Put your arms around me, please. Oh, smart device. So hot. Want to touch the heinie.

No need to touch me, Mr. Sandler. Just ask me for Houston sports. Thank you very much. Tell your smart device to play Sports Talk 790 on I-Hard Radio. 233. Sports Talk 790. It is a Matt Tommy's show. Dateline for my non-Flority story this week is Bojure City, Louisiana. There's a gentleman that lives in an area. His name is Kevin Wise. He's 26 years A of age, 26. He likes TikTok. Joe George, you a TikToker?

No. Come on, Matt. You're a grown-ass man. I appreciate that. Exactly. Well, he made a promise to his followers on TikTok. He said, Kevin did, that if I got 2,000 likes, I would jump in a tank. I got way more than that, and I didn't want to be a liar. This tank I'm speaking of is the indoor aquarium at the Bass Pro Shopping in Bojure City. A video captured by shopper Treasure McGraw showed why

swimming through the tank before climbing out and running from the store with wet clothes on. Uh-oh. McGraw said, we heard a big splash and I thought it was one of the fish. My fiance was like, somebody's in the tank and we saw the guy swimming.

Bass Pro Shops filed a complaint with the Bojure City Police Department saying it cost them money to empty out the 13,000 gallon aquariums. and then clean it after Wise's swim. Wise was charged with simple criminal damage to property and release with a citation to appear in court. Wise telling a local TV station in Shreveport, he planned and continuing to make videos for his followers, but caution to others against doing similar, quote, spur of the moment pranks.

The video of him swimming in the pool, I just put on my Twitter account at SportsMT. if you want to see the gentleman in all of his glory at a Bass Pro Shop, jumping in a 13,000 gallon aquarium because he got 2,000 likes on TikTok. What a douchebag. And that's my non-Florough story. I like it, Matt. I don't have a douchebag. What?

I have a lot of them. I think I know where this is going. We are going to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where students who are already there for the University of Alabama have been attending parties with COVID on purpose. What? Why, you ask Matt Thomas? I'm going to ask. Why?

This is what they're doing. They're going to the party. They're putting money in a hat. and they're saying whoever test positive first from this party wins the pot the students are gambling

on who gets COVID these D-bags and morons like what are you doing does the story describe what means they're trying to get the COVID and how they're trying to get it it just says they're going to party

so it's not getting weird or anything like that Now, I wish it was because it would make the story that much better. If this story got a little raunchier. Well, I'm not asking for them to be a group orgy. I'm just saying that. So do we know for a fact there are COVID positive kids going to these parties? Yeah. So the article in here it says there are students where students or kids would come in with a known positive to a party.

And they would put the money into a hat to see into, They put money in a pot and they try to get COVID. Whoever gets COVID first gets the pot. What kind of money are we talking about? What kind of money do you need? Well, I mean, are you putting in $5?10, $20? Now, this is my problem with the story is I feel like they're doing it for like $10. Like each.

It's not even doing it for good money. I mean, they're probably doing like 10 people, probably for like $100. For instance, if you wanted to do this, all you'd have to do is find out who tested positive, and go out and make out and make out with them. My guessing, if you have any sort of relations with any of them, I'm not trying to get all graphic on you, but my point being is that if you went to a party and somebody said, hey, first one to get COVID wins,

any good-looking guys, raise your hand, you get COVID, the girl's going to run out there and start making out with them, right? But I'm just guessing this is guys, though. I'm going to take a large assumption that it's men doing this. because we are often the less intelligent sex, especially as college kids. And my guess is especially college kids in Alabama, where I don't think they're that educated all the time. What are they doing?

They're not going to summer school, right? Well, that's what I was wondering. I was like, how are they already on campus? Well, this seems like it's going to be frats, right? But even then, it's a little early. But I did read a story about how an entire frat house basically. got COVID at a school. How are they already on campus?

Like I thought, I mean, the school I went to, the first college I went to, we weren't a traditional school. We were a small, 3,000-person schools. So, like, our fraternities didn't have houses. But anything that was on campus related, which a fraternity house is still on-campus

housing at most schools, you still don't move until August. So there must be, like, off-campus houses that this is happening at. Here's the crazy thing about it all. We don't for a fact that those that are testing positive are testing younger than ever. But here's the one thing that nobody has a firm grip on. Some people get positive testing for COVID, and they have hardly any effects, or they have minimal ones.

And some are in respirators within 24 hours. And that includes anybody from the age of 25 all the way to 85, right? why would you as a young, healthy, 19, 20-year-old for a couple of bucks, want to get yourself put in that spot to not only get sick, because it'll sock you away for a while, and then maybe even possibly put you in the hospital? Yeah, I don't know. It makes me think when you get an Alabama store like this, that maybe that's another state needs to be succeeded from the union. I feel like the entire Gulf Coast could just go away and we'd be fine, right? Doesn't it? Yeah.

Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida. Y'all just start your own country. So basically what you're saying is the SEC needs to become their own country. Well, I mean, they kind of run things, don't they, anywhere from a football perspective? But does that mean we're part of that? Because technically A&M is in the SEC. But they don't really... Do you think SEC fans really still count A&M as an SEC?

I think they started to with Johnny and then it kind of went away. I mean, they're on probation, so I guess they now are just like everybody else in the SEC. Chimbo would still get that in the Big 12. And then again, Big 12 kind of gets away with everything. Baylor. Yeah, not inviting Houston. All right. Strong stories today, I feel like.

Yeah, I don't. I've only been to Bass Pro Shops two or three times in my life. I'm not a real big outdoorsman. But even on a bet, would I jump into a 13,000 tank of fish and other creatures? And, you know, they do go to the bathroom on themselves, right? In there? Yeah, but what's the difference between doing that and going like the ocean? I mean, I guess it's spread out.

Floats away. How much money would take? For me to jump in a tank? Yeah. $10,000. Because that covers your fine. Your court hearing. No, okay.

Now that you thought about that, let me go a little higher. 50? Well, how much is my fine? That's your story. Oh, that's true. Realistically, I do it for $50,000. I got to spend $15,000 of it to get out of my court issue. I got to do it net 35.

I got to do double my fines. So whatever the fines would be, just double it so that way I can pay my fines and still get that. So if it's only $5,000 in fines and court's fees, I'll do it for $10. But do you want video surfacing of you that I just put on my Twitter account of you jumping in a aquarium in a Bojur City, Louisiana Bass Pro Shop? Why not? You'd want that legacy? I mean, it's not a legacy. It will be forever.

It's called viral. I guarantee you it will be. People go viral and they're normal later on. Okay. Well, let's do this. Why don't we take you to an Italian restaurant and throw in a vat of marinera? Is it hot? No, room temperature.

It's all about money. You want to pay me to do that? Now, your in-laws run an Italian restaurant. Yes. Why don't we get like a little kitty pool of Mariner? You know, when you go buy it, the toy stores, Walmarts, and fill it up with Marinera. I mean, I'm not just going to do it. You either have to pay me or I have to lose a pretty good wager.

Okay, well, I'm going to think of something that's going to make you lose a wager pretty good. Like Texans Bears is. year. Texans win. You got to jump in a vat of Marinera. So I get to choose who the quarterback is first? Nope. I'm not saying that bet then.

All right. Well, let's reinvest it, reconvene on this bet coming up in when the season starts, if it ever does. Final segment of the Matt Thomas show. Marinera pool of it. Joe George, Texans beat the Bears. 244 on the Matt Thomas show with a message here for Shaw's. jewelry. They have the best jewelry and they have had the best jewelry and will continue to have the best jewelry in the city of Houston, best selection, outstanding customer service, competitive

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Have you been doing the nightcap where Ross is out or who's been doing it? No, we've just been throwing at the Fox, but I'm going to do the nightcap next week if Ross is still out. So, all right, Matt, I've been thinking. Uh-oh. Bears Texans. You want to put me in a tub of Marinera, basically. A kiddie pool of Mariner. Yeah.

We might have to buy the Mariner to do it just because I don't think that's going to get donated. Okay, so what if I just go like to Sam's or to Costco and just buy big, big jars of it? Okay. But there has to be another side to this bet. So if I'm doing this, you are getting dressed up

in full Jim McMahon headband and glasses and Bears gear and you're doing the Super Bowl shuffle and we're putting it on social media and on YouTube you want this bet that's the offer tub of Marinera for Matt Thomas

does the Super Bowl shuffle Bears Texans all right here's the thing I don't particularly care for the Texans so I would really really have to really be rooting hard for them. And see, if they win, that means Bill O'Brien's one step closer to sticking around. Okay, so that's not going to work. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I like a good bet. That's a good one. And the bet is very, very fair. Because I feel like that's a, I think the line's going to be Bears minus three. Because here's the thing. At least at the beginning. I don't have to buy a McMahon jersey, do I? No, no, no, but we'll find that.

I got Bears T-shirts and stuff we can put you in to make it work. Huh. Let me just. Let me put a poll question out on the Twitter and see what they think I should accept the bet. Okay. Now, can we force Ross into this? So he does a Super Bowl shuffle with you. So you're not alone.

Oh, he'll do it. Okay. So the bet is, Ross and I, we don't sing the entire song because that would just get a lot. No, we'll do like, we'll tape like a minute of it. Yeah, yeah. he and I in Chicago Bears gear singing the Super Bowl shuffle for approximately one minute

if the if the Texans win we put you in a kiddie pool I feel like I should just sing football time in Houston though no I know I know but like I put you in a kitty pool you know the stuff you buy at the grocery store like at the Walmart or whatever

with mariner sauce and you have to swim in it for like two three minutes No, same time length, both sides. However long I'm in the Marinera pool is how long you do the Super Bowl shuffle. Those are the rules. Okay. So if you do a minute and a half of Super Bowl shuffle, then I'll do a minute and a half of the Marinera. If you want to have three minutes.

No, I'm saying, but if you want to do three minutes, you can sing the whole Super Bowl shuffle song. Hey, but once you get in the Marinera for a minute and a half song, it's going to be any different. Once you're in, you're in. That's true. All right, here's a little. I'll put a question out on Twitter later today and see what they have to say. if I should take the bet. My problem is I'd have to really, really root hard.

Is this it? Come on, Matt. Shuffling through. Might as well fire it up, you're really going to play it. All right. Let me, let me strutting our stuff for everyone. We're not here to start no trouble. We're just here to do the Super Bowl Shuffle.

Oh, Miss Sweetness. All right, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me bowl this. over this weekend. And not to get Ross involved, too, because I don't want to, I don't want to commit him to something. He's like, no, that's a terrible bet. Okay.

Whatever you guys want. We'll figure it out. But I'm open to it. I'm glad. I'm glad you are. Lastly, speaking of food, you know how you, do you ever get dumbass emails? Yeah, all the time. Yeah.

Well, something called grill cook bake. Surveyed 3,900 Americans. I don't know why they did 3,900, but it is what it is. asking about their favorite grilled food, how they like their steak cooked, and that they prefer hamburgers or hot dogs. Some of this is duh. Okay, I'll get rid of the duh part first.

81% of these 3,900 Americans, 3,900 Americans prefer hamburgers over hot dogs. My answer to that is, duh, right? Would you ever knowingly take a hot dog over a hamburger? No. No, of course not. Italian sausage? That's different conversation.

34% say steak is their favorite grilled food Follow by hamburgers 19% Follow by chicken 18%. No, no, we're not on the eastern shores. No. I mean, you can grill a shrimp, but it's If I'm inviting you over for a cookout, do you think I'm cooking you shrimp? Yeah, you love me.

That's true. But I would cook your steak, too. I'll bring your lobsters. Lobster tails. Like a lobster bake, okay. Now it's time to play. Will Joe George know? Uh-oh.

Percentage of those 3,900 people that like their steak well done. Oh, this is going to be. Plus or minus 3% either direction. 42%. Try again. Am I way high? You are way off. 42% America likes their steak well done.

Oh, hell no. Try again. 10%. 19. I said 42 because I was worried that it was going to be that high. Because those 19% you're wrong. First of all, steak well done is gross. It's like eating shoe leather.

It's not good. I don't get how people do that. Medium rare, plus or minus 3%. So I'm going to go like 45% here. 27%. That's it? That's it. Medium.

20%. 26. Okay. Medium well. 10% 24 You failed on all four of these I didn't say I was good at this game

Clearly Ross and I tried to play one time And he made me look like an idiot Well I mean Eh come on Matt This last minute didn't help you out much Super Bowl shuffle here we come Matt Thomas

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