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Episode Date: September 2, 2025

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Should you get stationed up by new tattoo? Just tell us you like Fizzoli's and Mark McGuire, bro. It's pink. It's not showing up because it's healing, but it's not red. Go cards. Shut out. Not bad for the fat guy. Oh, the sweetest thing.

That's what I was just listening to. God dang. Don't you just want to be riding? a bike with a girl on a date. Bro, that's what I was just going to say. I was listening to, oh, the sweetest thing. I was putting on this jersey. I was like, God, I feel like I'm getting ready for like to go out, to take a girl out.

Hey, they got blue skies up ahead. Should be in a movie. It should be in every movie. It probably is in every movie. Who knows? Oh. The sweetest thing. Do we got a jersey off here?

I saw that. Dude, I saw that on Instagram, and is that the, is that the, Rod Woodson? It's the Rod Woodson. I was like, he's going to get that. Should I even say anything? Boom. I was like, why wouldn't he get that? Why wouldn't he get that?

It's too, too tough. Old DBs suck on these. Let's go. What is that? Seahorn? Oh, the sweetest thing. Hey, with the patch. up. Everybody go to hell. Everybody go to hell. What a patch. Patch work. Any jerk, anything with a patch.

I mean, dude, they need to bring that back to where they need to bring a lot of things back, but they need to bring it back to where because the bottom part there with the Roman numerals, that's the only logo I remember for that Super Bowl. I didn't realize that they had a full Lombardia's a palm tree accessory. Might be a whole fake patch, but we're not asking questions. We're not asking questions. We don't want the answers to. I just saw it and I was like, nope, that's it.

Seahorn? Come on. 31, 31 DB number? Not sports podcast. It's not sports podcast. It's a jersey off on TG 149. And that is a good call to action for you to subscribe on YouTube. These guys, L.O.L.

So you can watch. Benny wears a jersey pretty much every week. I sometimes every now and then pop in there with a quick station on Barnard's got to Jersey and every time I wear a jersey they're like

okay and every time you wear a jersey it's like Daddy's on here Daddy's home oh the sweetest thing is one on air

oh oh the sweetest thing is it sweet potato pie or is it peatop pie about sides. Thanksgiving coming up

just around the corner. We'll hear from you after the break. Don't go anywhere or talk about sides. Oh my God. Okay. All right. We're recording this on Monday night. And so another YouTube poll here.

Old Daddy's got himself a little whiskey glasses. Wow. if I was drinking that right now tears would be rolling down my face because I was just watching I watched North Carolina's first drive and they paned to the press

box and Michael Jordan was up there I was like I'm gonna cry dude it's crazy I was watching it on zero volume and I was just like oh no sound in the whole apartment oh my God dude I love how they're doing

like this is not a sports podcast but how they're doing like college football just got into this and it's probably like five years go they started doing it. But when they score, the lights, like NBA, they have NBA lights. I was wondering how long it was going to take them to do that

or if they'd ever do that. But that changes everything. Does the NFL do that? It's, uh, I don't think so. I feel like the NFL's too corporate for that. Yeah. No, no.

Some people have a seizure. We don't want that to happen. Litigation. Litigation. Stationed no about this litigation. Litigation. But college, yeah, gets a little bit more freaky, you know, the student sections. Even, you know, Purdue does it.

Like, I know you want to think that, but that night game, yeah, they fire that up. They got the lights. They got the flickers. Oh, man. And with the phone flash, I'm like, where am I? Spencer's Gifts? Spencer's Gifts on Halloween with that one light. Talk about the scary day.

Still scared. I had to go in there and get a beer bong like two years ago for something. And yeah, I felt like they wanted me out of there. I was like, I know, I just let me, I know, I know, I'm not the guy for this. I'm a sports fanatics guy, all right? I'm not supposed to be in here. I know. I walk by this place all the time.

I'm scared. You could, not a high school podcast, but you could go around the cafeteria at every high school, at least when we went to high school and say, okay, Spencer's table, Schwarzenatics table. We got here. We got a little bath and body works table here. I dabble with the Spencer's kids all the time, dude.

They're funny. They go to the dark side to go over there, Hot Topic Kids. Spencer's Hot Topic Kids, Sports Fanatic Kids, problem at an open house. Yeah, yep. And like that last week of school, you always became like real big homies with the Hot Topic kids.

I was like, they're funny dog. They have like, yeah, they have like Healy's on and they're fun. They're like roasting. Just that meme of those two Bloods and Crips members just holding the flags tied together. That's sports fanatics and hot topic by the last week of school. It was the Abercrombie table. I didn't want to be near. I was like, I can't figure you guys out.

Really? See, because that's kind of a weird, like kind of a crossover with the sports fanatics table. I know, but I just wasn't the upper echelon always dressing up guys. I was like, I don't know how you do it. Hey, how you do it. I don't know how you're going to house parties with polos on. Soccer team. There's always like two hot kids.

I was like, what, God damn it, man. Yeah, they kind of encroach on your girl territory. You're the group of girls that you hang around with. Hold on there, Apostle. This is our, this is our game. Hey, American Eagles, slow down. Oh, not a high school podcast, but damn. There's always a kid.

The dude on the soccer team with the longer hair, I'm like, I mean, he looks good. Can't deny. He's dressing nice. He's got a hot mom. I don't know what to do. He could have been a DB on our team if he really wanted, but played soccer. Yeah. Yeah.

And so you're like, that kind of, you know, you're like, weirdly, that kind of gives him the upper hand. Always piss me off when kids who should have played football played other sports. I was like, no. Or the dude that just played basketball, you know, it's like, you could have been our quarterback, dog. Like, what do you think? Yeah, yeah. Chiller. Yeah, we know.

For those for club for clubhouse out there, when we're talking about sports fanatics, we're not just saying that they're huge sports fans. that is your local, whatever the store was and your mall that was where you wanted to be on your birthday every year. The first place you're going to when it's your birthday or when you're going to Christmas shopping, you stop there first. That's what we're talking about.

Nobody knows sports fanatics though, because that was like a standalone place. I've been to every mall almost in the whole world. There was never another sports fanatics. I was like, so wait, like I'd be with my cousin be like, so you guys don't have like a jersey store? Like they'd be like no. Like finish line some would have but like not nothing was like that bro.

That was a whole entire wall of college basketball shorts. I'd just be. Uh-huh. And then above it, the entire ring around, it was kind of like an L-shaped store and the entire ring around all the way around top. Authentic, every jersey you could think of. NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball. When they started getting the authentic movie join. in there?

Forget it. I was like, this has got to end soon. Like this is like this. You know what I mean? I was like, this is too good. It's got to end,

you know? It's like, it's like, it's like when you're in high school and college and like these things are going super well with a girl, but you're just like, I'm preemptively getting ahead of this.

Yeah. Before it gets bad, it's so good right now, I'm going to remove myself. Mm-hmm. You're at a party. You're at a party. It's too good.

You're at a party and it's like peak. party. You're like, well, here come the cops. You know what I mean? It's just like this place is closing down soon. You have totally messed my head up so much, dude, because yeah, I genuinely think like that. Like whenever I'm having

like, dude, like when I was out at Wrigley, when I was at Wrigley, about a month ago, yeah, literally a month ago. When I was up on the rooftop, right? I was up on the rooftop and I was just so, you know, you're thinking about that pre where you're going to all the bars and you're in Wrigleyville. It's a beautiful day. Oh my God.

Fourth inning, I'm on the rooftop. I'm like, pack your bags. Hey, game's over. Have fun on the way home tomorrow. Just saying. I know. That's bad. But I mean, it's never failed.

It can only go up from there. Well, it's like at a party, it's not only cops are coming soon. It's something, you know, it's something's like, chick's going to break a sink, uh, your buddy is going to crash through a door, break the window, like something's happy.

Yeah. I mean, too good to be true. Going off the rails. That's why you remember those. Oh, man. New segment. Daddy's going crazy.

It's off the rails with daddy. Boob, we're talking about the last drive the Colts offense of the day. Oh my God. Hey, can we reintroduce a segment real quick while we're talking about it? What's up? These guys, yeah, yeah, universe, verse, verse.

Oh, wow. We used to do this with espresso back in the day. We just talked about uni's for a little bit. The NFL dropped their rivalries uniforms. What are you thinking? Get a wish you burp out here. I need to pull it up. But my initial thoughts were...

We had bills all white. We had Rams going black. We had Seahawks going gray. We had 49ers going black. We had jets going super all black. We had Miami going black. Patriot. I'm done on the black.

You know my feelings about black when you're not. That's not as a fan of two teams. that their main color is officially black. I get a little territorial when you got teams like the dolphins and the Rams all of a sudden just willy-nilly thrown it out there a full black uniform. The Steelers can't just go and make a red uniform, not that we'd want to, but like that doesn't fly.

Why does everybody just get to claim black when you've got two teams that have that as their main color? So I don't like the 49ers ones. The Dolphins ones I can live with because of the teal, And the font, I think, is super slick and cool. Honestly, man, my favorite one is the Patriots. I know. Those are so, they're sharp, dude.

They could use, they could wear those, like, as default home. If they, if the, if the logo just had the red tail on it, we're talking. We're in biz. Uh, I like Arizona's too. They went with, the pets went with like the, the silver dome, right? Mm-hmm. So they got that interesting little, like, Heather gray, navy jersey with the classic shiny, slick silver dome. Glossy.

The Patriots and the Cardinals won that round of rivalry jersey. Seahawks not bad, though. I don't really like gray unies. It's kind of the same with black. How you could just like gray and black kind of neutral colors. Yeah, any team can use them, I guess. but yeah, it looks decent. I don't really like any of the helmet logos.

All the helmet logos looked a little washed out to me, except for the 49ers. Gray a little too, gray's a little too pajama-e for me. And like the sweat. And you just got a picture the line. The fat guy. Yeah, what's 67 looking like, you know.

We need to put out that clips, though, dude. God, that was so funny. Oh yeah, I think you got a fifth? Picture fat guy in it. Picture a fat guy in it. Every single time I wear anything, would a fat guy look at goodness? No. All right.

Next. Picture your fat friend in it. Bill's too much white. Yeah, I mean, pretty, it seemed like I get what they're going for, but kind of just like camping it in a little bit. It's cold. We're playing the snow. so they forgot the red too

I don't I don't like it when they don't utilize their colors Jets way too dark I know they're going for Gotham but I'm like it's just too dark bro and you guys already have black and green jerseys like primary black jersey what are you doing yeah yeah Patriots the winner for me I uh believe for sure out of this round it's interesting I still don't know the schedule Like, I don't know. The NFL tried to promote it big time and, you know, hype up this rivalry thing. But they're only doing like one division every year.

So the Steelers aren't going to get a rivalry, like a rivalry uniform until like 2029. I don't know why they're doing that. Look, they don't have the material or something. You guys run in. Just go to Joe in Fabrics. Mm-hmm. The NBA does it night. The NBA has 2,000 uniforms for each team.

Just do it. Just all the teams. I don't know. Yeah, there's trying to elongate it, I guess. And I don't know. Make it last for as long as I can. Maybe this is the best.

Oh, that's the Madden look of it. Yeah, Seahawks. I like the Seahawks helmet. Mm-hmm. Lickable helmet. It might be the winner of lickable helmets right there. Yeah. It's kind of reminded me of like,

I guess their whole get-up kind of reminded me of Django Fet a little bit. You're not going to know what the hell that is, but Clubhouse Star Wars fans out there, Django Fet, you'll know, episode two, Attack of the Clones out there on Camino. Also, Camino, rain planet, Seattle, very rainy. Maybe they did have a little bit of that feel to it.

Look up Django Fett real quick, Ben. J-A-N-G-O, space, F-E-T-E-E-E-T-E-E-E-E. my worst nightmare it's it's got that that silver blue feel to it and I'm just thinking of it being in rain

that looks good reminds me of a gumball that I always wanted to get in a gumball machine but I never did I'm like oh I want that gumball then I'd get a red one and be like never mind Django Fet's so cool

Anyways Had two fantasy drafts Tonight My God It was not gonna lie man It was a little I was just doing them all on my computer You know

But It was a little bit That sound just kept playing Because it was always my pick In one of the leagues Kind of hype now Yeah I was getting excited I got an A for my drafts

Text to my dad sent the screen shot. Said, you know, your a, your draft, you know, A grade on your draft. He just said, congrats. That's it. Pretty nice, though. I mean, that's stuff you show your dad now, you know. You're a kid.

Like, you don't. Hey, mom, here's my test. I got an A on when you're like 30. Hey, dad, here's my fantasy football draft. Kind of slayed. I kind of, I kind of know ball. I kind of know personnel. This guy knows personnel

The first time The word personnel I was like How do you spell that? What are they saying? I got Bijan Robinson All of a GM of the

Fantasy league Yeah I You know I get I got the So I won my league last year So then because of that

I get the 12th pick in the league So then that's the last pick of the round, first round. But it's Snake. So I go 12, then 13, back to back. I love it. A lot of value in the 12th pack. Did you scoop up? Tear it.

I hit Devin A. Chan with the 12th pick. So fast. And then I scooted back around to 13 and got Pooka Nakuwa. Pooks Nakuks. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, I can post a screenshot for everybody and you can roast me and tell me how nobody cares because they don't. Okay. Hold on.

What's your fantasy team name? Did you do something? Buddy? Got any guesses? I love Mike McKenzie. I don't know. That's what mine would be. Al Harris, Mike McKenzie, the handshake emoji in the middle.

No, that's it. Never plays after that either. Al Harris, Mike McKinsey, same guy. Can it just be that? Yeah. It can be whatever, yeah. Bring, bring Foldacks back? That's just weird.

Where'd all the cool QB names go, question mark? With the music emojis at the beginning and end. Where did all the Qibian names go? By the way, by the way, fake, got to be a fake name. Cade Clubnick. Come on. Hey, Kubey names are coming back. If it's starting with Kade Clubnik, dude.

Great Qibian. Yeah, yeah. It just makes too much sense for Dabo to get somebody named Kade. Dabo and Kade. Sound like the American Eagle kids. We need all the weirdestest first names on this team. All the weirdest first names on Clemson.

That's what we do here with our program. Weird first name, guys. Did you watch Lee Corso send off on Saturday? I saw replays of it, but I didn't watch it live. Yeah. I, uh, I of course did, you know, I wasn't going to miss that. Crying. Yeah, I was.

But also, it was so funny to me, this juxtaposition of this picture where they're in the horseshoe in Columbus. And he just made the pick. And he's got Brutus Buckeye head on all the while Reese Davis and the whole entire crew are all like saying the most sentimental sincere shit ever. And they just keep cutting to Lee Corso with a massive Brutus Buckeye head on. My dream. God.

He's the most special. Would change college football forever. An absolute legend we owe it all to you. And he's just like, what was his face like in that? I know. Hey, you were saying, you were saying a couple weeks ago around the horn that when you die, you want your, you need to be frozen and then also have Tony Reilly. So I think at my funeral, just smack a Purdue Pete head on me and just be talking about

all the good things about me. Dead, dead in his casket, Purdue Pete head. suit on eyes wide shiny face that would be so your feet you know how

Purdue always like wears actual cleats you know because everything else about Purdue is just a regular

human except his big as mascot head so yeah at the bottom of my suit it's just like Nike vapors

black and gold Nike vapors hard I'd take those right off your feet, dude at the funeral Everybody's saying they're like Last birthday to you I'm untying Nike vapors

I'm like oh my god dude I got a seven on seven game In a backyard after this Two copper sleeves on your elbows Yeah gear me out When I'm dead I want a two bar with a visor in my casket Unstrap, chin strap

plug mouthpiece pink two of them that's the best helmet every bro tyrant Matthew wristbands on dead

so pale TC bands around your knees and elbows turt turtleneck with a chain no with those sleeves eye blouse

like a prayer a prayer on my eyes like that oh God see you in hell that oh my God who did this to him

no this is what he wanted he would be happy so much gear dude and he will raise you up Now we got to talk about church bangers. Shoot.

Let's get to the clubhouse here. Face and see. Payson see. Oh, I got a new tattoo. The hell. You can just do that? What the hell? Oh, good.

Really good. Can't see it at all. What is it? Oh, it's a bird? Oh, yeah. I'm showing the camera that I sent to you. but are you Do tell

Is it a Robin? Cardinal? It's a little birdie And she's sitting on a pile of spaghetti noodles And it's for my daughter and my son Because I call my mirror girl She always looks like a little birdie to me So I call her Bertie Lou

And then my son because of Elmo And Mr. No. Yep he loved Mr. Noodle and so me and his mom always call him Noodle and Mr. Noodle and they have their birth dates on them too. Should they get a station out by new tattoo?

Just tell us he like Fizzoli's and Mark McGuire, bro. It's pink. It's not showing up because it's healing, but it's not ready. Go cards. Shut up. Big Mac forever. Shut up. That looks good.

All right. Thanks. Do you ever going to get a tattoo? Probably not, dude. It's too far gone. You never know, though. Hey, I've changed my personality many times. Why too far gone?

I don't know. Because it's just like, I don't know. I think I would hate it in like a year. How would I get that? Yeah. You're kind of indecisive about that. Oh, my God. There's not one that I've like, you know, like, people without tattoos, they're always like,

well, if I did get one, it'd probably be this, you know? Like, they have, like, a plan, like, if they're ever to get one. I've never thought anything would look good. It would just, I don't know, dude. I can't even think of what I'd get. That's fair. To each their own, I mean. Besides, like, a Jordan logo on my back, but whatever.

Yeah, I love them, obviously. Besides kiss lips on my neck. Yeah. Just think about it, you know? Yeah. I like them. It's cool. All right.

Let's go to Grant. Easy button. Boys, third time email or a long-time listener. Do you all remember the easy button? I was dreaming one day. And in the dream had an easy button that said, station how about this? That bad for a but guy.

Da-da! We. Right, right, right. I think this would crush as a desk knick-knack for the clubhouse. Can we make it happen? Slat my ass with some college ruled paper from the back to school section

while I beg my parents to give me some mechanical pencils sent from Nokia 6010, 6010. Whoops. Man. Yeah, the easy button did have There was like a weird time in pop culture where the easy button Really had its time.

It had a moment. Every meme. Every teacher had it on their desk. It was a good little thing. It was on every commercial. It was a great. Yeah. It's a great way to like have like a mascot without it being a mascot.

Because every corporation is like, oh, we need like an owl. We need a, you know what I mean? This, that, just the button, the sound effect. That's a huge thing. I've noticed now, yeah, like every football season starts to come around more and more companies are trying to copy the state farm, the flow. Like, now Best Buy has a guy. Mountain Dew has a guy.

Madelo has a guy. I mean, it does work, though. Like, yeah. Just how many Yeties were there last year? Every, I was like, oh, my, another Yeti. Like, four companies had Yeties. I was like, okay. Favorite dude, if we did, ooh, if we did like a bracket for mascot for like company mascots,

that Geico Lizard might be final four bound. Geico lizard's solid. Geico also had the cavemen that were really great in the late 90s, early 2000s, had to go away because I think someone, somewhere took offense to it, not exactly sure. But then they came, they made their return. During a Super Bowl? Or no. I can't remember if it was a Super Bowl.

Allstate or, um, Geico really, I think they might have started it. Or they really put them on, like commercials a lot. I know they weren't the first with the mascot. Obviously,

like Ronald McDonald. But like, uh, yeah, those caveman commercials. My dad love those. Everybody's dad. Yeah.

I will say, the progressive, let's see, because flow is progressive but then also that dude who, the commercials where it's like, it's not easy not becoming your parents. Where all those people are acting like their dads

and shit, that's some money stuff. Those hit real well. I've always just wanted to be the next mayhem, you know? Oh, God. That guy's so sick, man. So sick. What a job.

That is a dream job. Yeah, I'm just the guy that messes ever. You know what's crazy about those mascots? Nobody knows who they are. Nope. That guy's, dude, mayhem has been mayhem for like 25 or 30 years, I feel like.

Yeah. Never, never had a bad commercial. All dubs. So funny. You get a little sick of flow sometimes, you know. But you still. Well, it's interesting.

Yeah. Yeah. What's interesting about flow is that, like, she had to kind of bring an ensemble now. She's got the crew. Yeah, she's got the nerdy, spiky hair guy. He shows up a lot now. There's another girl.

She's kind of got like a progressive flow ensemble entourage. I don't know if it's because flow is just too busy. You know, she's got to be able to. House boat, motorcycle, all that. She's got to insure everything. What do you call it? Delegate. She got to be able to delegate a little bit.

She's got a lot of bundles. Dude, the craziest. Hey, comment below your favorite mascot for a company, but the craziest thing of all time, I think actually, was when the, can you hear me now, Verizon guy? Switch to Sprint.

I was like, oh my God, dude. Savage move. Yeah. I remember the first time I saw that that was like, this is like this is like Johnny Damon going to the Yankees. Like crazy. What a play.

Didn't last long, but can you hear me now? Good. That was so clean for Verizon forever. Didn't last long because that guy did it like twice. Probably got paid like $500 million and just lives on an island now somewhere. That's it. still waiting for the call from a beer company for Johnson and Schmitty to be their mascot. We got to keep ripping them, dude.

We got to keep ripping them. We lose 10 years of our life every time we do it. Dude, I'll at least, I think I've lost seven years of my life doing Johnson and Schmiddy takes. The amount of blood cells that just burst in our brain. Oh my God. That was a year right there, dude. Every time we do them, I'm like, today's the day I have an aneurysm. Yep.

And then if it didn't hit right, hey, run it back. Yeah. Run it back, dude. I know you got more in the tank than that. It's like, oh, man, I'm going to get a lightheaded. Uh-huh. I'm going to have to sit down after this. Oh, shit.

All right, let's go to John, Ladma-Kunky shells. What's up, boys? Listen for about six months. Second time email him. With the NFL right around the corner, I've been thinking about the different game time slots and what teams I associate with those slots the most. For Thursday night, it would have to be the Broncos. Monday night, it would be the Saints.

Sunday night, Steelers, Sunday early slate, Panthers, Sunday midday slate, the Cardinals. Curious if you guys have any teams you would associate with the time slots. Slat my ass with the Fox NFL Robots hand while showing me your JV, your buddy's JV huddle tape. Oh, you mean Cletus? Our friend Cletus? that's a great question or a great like thought i can't believe he said panthers for the early slot on sunday i don't think i've ever seen the panthers play on tv before i wonder where he's from i'm glad you asked john because i do uh have thoughts about this um Thursday night for me

would be the seahawks Monday night for me would be the dolphins Sunday night would be yeah Steelers or Ravens Sunday early slate would be the Colts and Sunday midday would be the Denver Broncos. Pretty good, dude. Pretty good. I don't really think I disagree on any of those. Thursday, I always think Titans for some reason.

I'm like, hmm. Yeah, because Thursday's always kind of the shittiest game, so you're like Titans or Jags or something. And then Sunday, yeah, Coles. Colts because of where we live. Colts would play the Texans every Sunday. Sunday, one o'clock Colts Texan. Oh my God.

Dude, Colts are so 1-P. I mean, just just the most 1-P. I don't think the Colts have ever played at 4 o'clock, 430, never played at 4.30. Colts never played past 1 p.m. They have a curfew. Colts curfew. The Colts have played twice at 425,

and it was in 2004 against Brett Fav at the RCA Dome and then that game wasn't so cold and then 2007 against the undefeated Patriots it's the only two times it's it. Are you sure that was at 430? Yeah, because it was dark outside when Marlon Jackson got the pick. What? Dude, the Colts Packers game at the RCA Dome.

Yeah. I watched it on TikTok like twice a week. I feel like it comes up and I'm like, well, I got to watch this. it's like five minutes and 27 seconds I'm like I won't skip a second it's so good the fox bugs at the time I didn't even know they played

I was like where was I I remember that dude Prime Manning my dad obviously you know my dad's like the biggest Steelers fan but they must have been playing on Prime Time or something that week because I remember my dad went to that game he was like yeah Prime Manning and Brad Farve

and I'm not missing that I don't even know who we got tickets from or how he went, but he was there. Bring back the RCA dome. Yeah, I mean, you can make the argument easily for Sunday night, the Cowboys, because, you know, they live on Sunday night football. But to me, I can see that, but yeah, to me, it's always like Steelers Ravens is Sunday night football. You know, always something crazy for me was 430 or 425 Sunday. Washington and like the the eagles.

I'd always be like well it's for a while there where yeah the NFC East would be the 425 America's game of the week and then also they'd be Sunday night footballer and it's always one of those weeks where there's only two 4 o'clock games because of like buys and shit

and teams are playing in Europe dude when there's a two 425 games that's when you want to kill yourself I hate that man I'm like where'd all the teams go What are we doing? Two games? Oh,

disgusting. Yeah, and the Broncos, just forever, bright orange jerseys, bright, bright Denver sunshine, probably very cold,

425, forever. Not even 425, 405. Against the chiefs, dude. I'm like, homework's coming in hot.

Homework's coming in hot right now. Good question, John. I don't think anybody's ever asked that before. I love, when college, like you're kind of, after Monday night football, you're like, oh my God, I have nothing to look forward to all week.

Especially when you're in like prime time school mode. I'm thinking like, I'm thinking like middle school, high school days. You're just like, you're in that rhythm that all of a sudden there's like a Wednesday night college football game. You're like, what? Yeah, it does get you through. It's the weirdest team.

You're like, oh my God, Tulane plays. I have to watch every second of this game. It, it really, it really does get you through. like in the biggest way. One, one game. You see it, just one game. You're like, oh, that's fine. That's fine to me.

As long as there's something. What's so funny about that, too, is that, like, you, you really end up not even watching it. Like, it's just on. Not a second. Not a down. But it is on. It does make you feel good. There are, oh, there's people like firing up mics for this.

There's people firing up grills. Someone's at a tailgating before this. It's like, you feel good. You're like, it's almost a weekend, I promise. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. From Ryan, Jericho Kotry. Mm, God, Jets.

So good, somehow. And randomly a couple years for the Steelers. Great name. Jericho Kotry? Shut up. Fake name. The guy was a touchdown maker, man. Like, he, he wouldn't catch a ton of balls.

And he wasn't giving you a bunch of yak. but like the dude just found the end zone. That's a good, uh, where did he go? Oh, like that's one of those guys you never hear about till they're in the NFL. Jericho Katry, the name. You got a guess? Oh, God. It's so, it's so exactly like, you're going to be like, oh my God.

I don't want to say Virginia Tech. It's kind of like, kind of close. kind of seems like it, but North Carolina State. You know? You're just like, yeah, that's just, yeah. Virginia Tech always has these weird receivers that are just like Jericho Contry. Eddie Royal, dude.

Sick name. Eddie Royal, opposite side, Brandon Marshall and the weird brown and yellow pinstripe Broncos uniforms in 2009. Stationed out by that. I like those. Anyways, from Ryan. Boys, we've been listening to TG since episode one.

Crazy that we are approaching year three of this. Yeah. I agree. Hear me out. Growing up, Christmas timestamp, 41. Is by far the best holiday. Snyder stamps.

Christmas is by far the best holiday, but growing older, it changes to Halloween because there's, of course, football and you'll learn to appreciate 56-degree overcast weather and appreciate gnawling on milk duds until your back teeth kind of hurt, but deep down it feels good. Just gets it. Fast forwarding here.

It's January 27th and it's a Sunday watching your team play and you find out there's a snow day the next day. What are you immediately planning? For me, it's calling my friend's landline asking their dad if they can come over to start a new franchise in NCAA for Georgia State. Some Mountain Dew may be involved. You wake up the next morning and there's so much snow you start planning the next night because you know school is going to get canceled. Oh, that's an insane. feeling, dude. Pure bliss. What did your days look like?

On a snow day? Well, my mom and I feel like I feel like it was it was like I couldn't really call my friends because it was like there if it was a snow day like I wasn't leaving and nobody was driving anywhere.

So it's just kind of like you got to do stuff around your house. Like my mom would be feeling like I needed to like go to school still so I'd have to like do chores and stuff like the first three hours of day. I'd be shoveling the driveway, like just doing like work, like, you know, house stuff. And then I'd just be doing, I'd probably, I'd probably like, I remember one year it snowed so much, dude. I just did a bunch of like, I just like probably wrestled my sister outside in the

backyard for like three hours. Dude, my sister would own me too. Like, wasn't even fair. Dude, having your, or someone's probably done this year or you did to your sister where they press your face in the snow? Oh, dude, nothing burned more. Kind of want to be back in school now, huh? That was crazy.

I was like, you don't know how bad that hurt. The sting, bro. I was like, did I just shave my face? Why is it sting so bad? I'm 12. Yeah, I would do.

Yeah. We didn't, it was, I mean, like, yeah, because in order for it to be that bad,

where you'd miss a day and then maybe if there's going to be the next day, like a bunch of, all my friend's parents, everybody was just like, well, if we can't take you to school, we certainly can't take it to Joey's house. Yeah, no, dad, that was never going to happen. But you know what?

It was like, it was kind of better that way because it just was less pressure. Mm-hmm. Like, then I just knew that it was me and my sister. You know, my dad always worked from home a lot. So, like, even he would pop in sometimes. Like, yeah, we'd be playing GameCube.

or either like Spider-Man or Scooby-Doo or something trying to beat that. Oh my God, dude. What a day. And just eating like total shit, you know? Because like mom would be at work. Dad would be, you know, back in his office back there, making calls and stuff and then pop out.

Not really ever saying much. You know, you're just housing like Doritos and like salted peanuts and apple juice and Oreos. Like, who gives a shit? Like you're just trying to all over the place. You're just trying to. stay so warm right like you see that you'd have like your back window your back door still piled up with the glass me like i don't think we're gonna have school tomorrow either

like saying just all these false claims get excited about it and shit yeah your dad would always your dad mom would always prep you like you did have school though you know lock in school school tomorrow it was just mom dude there's just back in my the back of my head was like i don't know if we're gonna have it And you watch that little bottom line in the morning. Yeah, no one, no one's more invested. No one's more invested in a weather forecast, local news. The ratings for local news is never higher than for like kids who are like, I don't know, fifth grade to freshman year in high school.

Like when that stuff's going on, that's their peak audience. How about that was the way that we got the breaking news? Mm-hmm. We just got to look at the, like, now I'm sure they're just like tweet. School's closed. Boom. Over what's done. That was amazing, man.

The snow day with your fam doesn't get much better than that. I remember there was a huge, what were you going to say? Well, I'd say we do like movie marathon or something, you know, like we pick like Lord of the Rings trilogy and just try to like just knock out as much as, you know, just be kicking it with all your junk food. but also I don't know if you're going this way either but like yeah the devastation that you would feel when that bottom line would get to your

alphabetical letter and that didn't show up and you're like something's got to be wrong man the school that's just down the street is closed what's going on Perry Moradian closed like we're right by him and nothing we have the same bus system

saying all this shit it got around to St. Ambrose on the bottom. I was like, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go. I was always just being an idiot. My sisters were locked in, dialed. I was always just like, I didn't really have to pay attention to it. I remember there's a, there's a nasty snow day. I think I, it was dude, it was when, it was when the Vikings played the Falcons in the NFC championship. So snow day. So Moss. So Moss. So Moss. Somebody, I don't know. don't know.

Something happened with a kicker on the falcons maybe. I don't know, but it was so snow day. Yeah, you're right. There was some chilly on the stove. Like, it was like, it was like, you know when you're playing outside the snow and it's dark out? Oh! Like the, I like kept popping in like the back of my house, the back of Coach Peas, like looking through that glass door to see the score of the Vikings Falcons game.

Then I go back out and like play snow football, like tackle a snowman. Look back at it. Randy Moss is catching an over the shoulder bomb. I was like, oh, dude, this is the best it's going to get. It really is. And now that we're talking about this, it's going to, the second I open up TikTok after this, it's going to be one of those videos that makes you cry where it's got like the to infinity and beyond with the up soundtrack, that sound going to it, you know, a lot of soft

piano. And it's going to be like people, remember in your childhood when you play out in the snow? And it'd be like, to infinity and beyond. I'm going to cry. Sick, man. Make me sick. God, it was such a good, such a good.

The best. Everybody was in. Everybody in the whole, I swear everybody in the whole world was watching that game. Just amazing. Gary Anderson, wide right.

One bar face mask. One bar, Gary. Fox scorebug in the corner. Oh. Oh, my God. Frostbite feet. You know, your toes are cold like three hours after you come inside.

You're like, I don't know what to do. Amputate them. Chop them off. Amputate them. Let's go vikes. I don't care. This is from Griffin. Jason Witten's arms sleeves.

He put that on. He did. Hello, Clubhouse. This is Griffin from Saskatchewan. Longtime listener, first time emailer. Wow. Welcome. Sorry it took a while to get to you, man.

We're a little backed up here, as you could see. Hearing your old youth football stories made me wish I played longer. Unfortunately, I quit when I was 12. But my fondest memory being the time I forgot my cleats for a game. This resulted in me having to wear a pair of Reebok zigtecs for the whole game. As an outside linebacker, not having any traction led to several mistackles and probably gave a small town Saskatchewan kids hope they could be the next to Shard Choice. Oh, oh, all right.

you vault to shard choice great backfield. Anyways, I'm writing this question while at work, so I'll make a quick question station, find you out about it. With football season ahead, I was thinking about the perfect Sunday of football, what it looks like. If you could pick a noon afternoon and Sunday night game

with any teams or announcers over any era, what would yours be? For example, my Sunday would be a noon game, Prime Matt Ryan and Julio Jones Falcons at New Orleans to play a prime Drew Breez-led Saints. I do like the match-up. Kenny Albert, Darryl Johnson, and Tony Saragusa.

Score would be 48 to 45 Saints. Notable performances, Jimmy Graham and Lance Moore, each catch two touchdowns. Falcons wear their retro jerseys with red helmets. Saints who are classic white jerseys. Afternoon game. Eli Manning and mid-2010 Giants travel to Dallas to play Tony Romo and the boys. Anouncer Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, score 3527 Cowboys. jerseys giants

wear red alternates I don't they wear these anymore I love them too oh man I did too they broke them out just dark navy blue jerseys Sunday night

Pittsburgh Prime Killer B's host Tom Brady led Patriots team announcer Michael's Collinsworth score 42 to 38 Steelers I will let Joey pick the uniforms and notable performances for this hypothetical game

um yeah for that one I mean I think you're pretty much just straight up white Patriots Yeah, white Patriots Classic home Steelers

Don't need much more than that I can already see Ben zoning out while Joey reads this email So I'll cut off here Stop my ass while I wear Toby Gerhard's double elbow bands That he wore at Stanford Thanks boys love a shot

Sent from Travis Kelsey's Chevy Avalanche That was a dope email From our neighbor to the north Griffin First time Hopefully a long time Appreciate you pal Yeah Anytime the Steelers play the Patriots

I was like Yeah I always felt a little Undermatched man I was like this isn't gonna be good Like I never felt good going into that one No And neither did I

You guys proven time and time again Mike Tomlin gets coached In and out And then something like that But don't need to go there Um, okay. Uh, yeah, I think, God, any one o'clock, okay. If you could pick, see, because we kind of were talking about a little bit of like what in our mind, what it is.

But if you could pick, ooh, okay. Do you have any? Any era? Yeah, I mean, yeah. Oh, man. Dude, one o'clock Pete Colts. Just putting 48 on somebody. I would like that.

I got one for one o'clock. What? Give me 2004 Colts at Titans, one o'clock. I'd say announcers would be... Greg Gumbull. I was going to say Greg Gumble and 2004. I don't know who his partner would have been. Greg Gumbull and Dan Dierdorf.

Dude, it's Sims, right? Had to be Phil Sims. No, Sims was with Nance. Oh, my bad. My bad. Titans, Colts where they're all white away. And Peyton Manning's helmet and Jersey are just like, he's like, his elbow is so green.

And he's got a chunk of grass in his face masks. Blue face mask. Blue face mask. Blue face mask, chunk of grass in it. And the Titans wear their. home Navy on Navy on Navy with the white top. Best helmets. Why'd they change? Nobody knows.

Wish I knew. Hey, dude, four o'clock slot. Greatest show on turf in St. Louis against the Falcons. Or maybe, maybe actually check, check that Buccaneers, dude. That shit is so crazy. Anytime a team like those two teams would play I'd be like this is kind of the Super Bowl Like this could be it

Rams bucks Gruden head coach Ronde Barber Just Brad Johnson Johnson here Against Marshall Marshall Falk just taking every screen To the house

80 yards out Which Rams Royal and gold or I'm thinking Royal Like the OG greatest show Yeah, with the bucks with the pewter pants, black socks, white jersey, pewter helmet. Warren Sapp. Okay, so obviously, so obviously Summerall and Madden on that one.

Oh, Dre, Bligh. He actually did play for the Rams then, too. I think. God, the Rams are so dangerous, bro. I was like, God, they could really score 60 points, kind of whenever. My, I'll round this out here with my Sunday night would be, The 2008 Steelers at the 2008 Ravens. Sunday night football.

Michaels, Collinsworth, on the call. So cold. You say Ravens? Yeah. Yeah. A lot of dry mud. Like their arms are like white from the paint.

You know what I mean? Final score. 10 to 6 Steelers win they're losing 6 to 3 before Big Ben takes them down the field last second drive

to score touchdown to win 10 to 6 dirty game it was ugly but we got the W one of those Ravens and they're all blacks

Steelers in traditional white top black helmet yellow Pants. When the Ravens were all black, it was so over. I was like, God, dang, dude. Ed Reed, I was like, this sucks.

He was so good. Let's see here. Then Monday night, bro. Pick a Monday night one. I'm excited. No, you go. It's your turn. I did one o'clock in Sunday night.

Monday night. This is such. a good slate. Dude, is it, is it? Bro, is it Brett Farm Packers, Randy Moss Vikings on Monday night in the snow? That's such a clutch game.

And Lambo? Yeah. That's going crazy. You're like, I can't believe this is happening right now and I'm school in like 10 minutes. This is insane. Monday night, Lambo field. You can just feel the electricity, dude.

Dan, Dan, da-da-da- Just that yellow that yellow fence that yellow fence around Lambo you know what I'm talking about it's so yellow

I want that Hey put that fence in my backyard Got a new fence You don't you don't No there's no gate You can't get any You got a Lambo leap over it every time you get in your backyard

Another edition for the clubhouse Another edition for the clubhouse bar Yeah The back air The first barges open downtown. The 14 broken tailbones. The beer garden. The beer garden outside just is surrounded by a yellow lambo fence leaping over it.

That's good. All right. Let's do one more here for this week. We go to Sam. He says, is football season over? What's up, guys? Second time emailer here. I want to ask a sports question since this isn't a sports podcast.

But what is an underrated or out? outside the box aspect of watching a college or pro football game you enjoy that comes to mind. For me, I love when a team is driving down the field and the band plays a shortened version of their song when they make a first down. Something about hearing the band finish the song while a team runs the next play during tempo is so satisfying to me. For example, every time my alma mater, Oklahoma State makes a first down on offense, the band plays, you're doing fine.

Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, O K-L-A-H-O-M-A-O-K-L-H-O-M-A-O-Klahoma from the song, and the entire stadium shouts, State afterwards. Let me know another underrated feature you guys enjoy. Also, look up Holly Rose Heights. Stacey's definitely doesn't know about that. Smack my ass harder than that Penn State player who headbutted all his teammates with no helmet on.

Is that read? Did that happen this weekend or is that a known thing? Penn State thing? Yeah. I don't know. I don't think it happened. We would have seen that. We talk about Ryan Day's nipple rings real quick.

Yeah, I see. See, I've seen a few different, I've seen a few different versions of that. And I don't, I don't know what's real and what's not. So we might have gotten got by AI. Was Ryan Day sitting by the Hot Topic kids at lunch? Oh my God. What a freak. Hold on.

I looked up Holly Row height, bro. And I'm not seeing any. I'm kind of scared to know what it is. No. I'm not seeing anything. Not seeing anything. It's a mystery. Yeah, this is fun.

I mean, you know me. I do it every year. One of my favorite parts is, and I've talked about it at length on the show. The rollouts to commercial is just so. It's just pure bliss to me. I just love one. I think that's probably it,

more specifically, when the people who are doing it, like the producers or director of the broadcast or whatever, they match up what's going on in the game and play a song going to commercial that has a tie-in to what's currently happening. Yeah. They played the injury music for the first time

and I died laughing, bro. It's just straight. No, but like, I think Fox did a really good job of this over the weekend for Ohio State, Texas. There's multiple times. I'm trying to remember more of them but like I remember at least one you know for example

if it's like if they're if Texas was driving at the end of the first half and you know this is their last chance to try to get points you know they'd be going to commercial break after they take a time out and it'd be pressure rushing down on me

rushing down on you yeah with like Archmanning getting sacked and shit like that that is so perfect that just really rounds it all together. Good vision. Nobody feels cooler than that guy playing that music though. You know it. You know it, bro. You know the producer is looking at that dude. But when it really all comes together is that guy playing it to match the moment and then the play by play guy realizing what is going on in his headset and then matches his send-off to break to both the moment and the song.

that's TV boys that's TV it's how we're doing once they're like we're clear yeah yeah 12 minutes left in the first quarter

that's TV boy I don't know how we're gonna keep doing that all game but what about you I heard I heard LSU's little like

little thing they do every now and then yo that that goes pretty hard I didn't know and I recognize it because it's in your video like I heard it I was like

oh shit that's what I was Go tigers Bambit-Boot-Boo! Yeah. Yeah, dude. I like that a lot. SEC has a bunch of shit like that

with a band playing. SEC's a whole different planet, man. Compared to Big Ten. And then USC did Bump-Ban-Ban-Ban-Ban-Ban-Ban-Ban-Bah-Bah-Bah-tah-tah-tah-tah-tah-tah-tuff. Heard that enough times playing NCAA football the video game. getting beat by 55. Okay, I know their fight song.

Jesus Christ. Trying to keep up. What else? What else? What else? I know there's more. What was the question? What's something?

Hold on. What's an underrated you're outside the box aspect of watching a college or pro football game that you enjoy. On Thanksgiving after the game, they roll everybody's credits if everybody's name.

That's my favorite part of Thanksgiving. I'm like, yeah! They do it for like two hours. I swear to God. It's just all, I'm always like at my aunt's house. I'm like all warm,

got to eat dessert. I'm like, looking at everybody's name. I'm like, what if that was like my uncle or something, you know? What about when they bring like the crew? Yeah,

they show the crew and everything and they're like wishing, you a happy Thanksgiving. Oh yeah. I'm like, thanks guys. You didn't have to say that. I love when the score, when the scorebugs says

happy Thanksgiving. I know we talk about all like the snow falling down the lights, but when it says something, I'm like, are they really put their whole ass into the scorebug this year? I'm like,

dude, they were on point with that. Cooking that up last second. Happy Thanksgiving with a turkey of like, let's go lions. I don't. I love the, I also love with the NFL since they're on networks that show, I guess college does too,

but I feel like it's always more prevalent on a Sunday because it's like leading into the week when like sitcoms and reality shows and shit are on. But with the play by play guy has to come back from break and pitch, you know, the live read for whatever show is going on. Yeah. I always like that. It keeps me excited. Like, all right, there's stuff going on after this.

Like the Super Bowl. I know I got to go to bed after this, but at least they told me Malcolm in the middle is on. Like, you know? Yeah, right. All new episode of The Simpsons up next. I was like, I don't want to watch it. Can I watch it?

My dad? No. Okay. Jim Nance talking about, yeah, what's going on in Family Guy. And, I mean, he won it because it's on Fox. But same shit, you know, whatever play-by-play guy, you won't believe

the gun of hijinks Peter Griffin's found himself in this week coming up on the West 9 o'clock except on the West Coast it's funny because like while they're pitching that the quarterback's like sending people in motion and shit I'm like yo hurry up

gotta get it in now and then like after that play if it's like a one yard game like a bullshit play or nothing happens you know all of a sudden they'll play by play guy would be like you checking that out Phil oh yeah I've been all over that that's me and my wife we really enjoy that one

it's because I have to it's for the network that they work for so they have to like hype it up never watched nothing happened on the play before either so they got a little bit of time to cook uh yeah throw it over to the color guy see if he watches what was some of the CBS shows

don't even say 60 minutes but like what were some of them uh Mike and Molly Walker Texas Ranger. Dude, that one was always on. I was like, dude, what is that? CSI, NCIS.

What was like the sitcom one? Like premier sitcom? Was it like a, wasn't like that 70s show? It was like one of those where there's a family. Everybody loves Raymond. Yeah, probably for CBS. Everybody loves Raymond.

Big Bang Theory maybe? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Who's ever watched it? Young Sheldon? I think it was Big Bang Theory. No, I know, but it was Big Bang Theory. And then that show was so popular that they gave it a spin-off young Sheldon that I think they're still talking about.

God. That's funny. Fox would always have the animation domination or whatever because it would be like Bob's Burgers, family guy, Simpsons, all coming up after the Eagles, Cowboys. Yeah, you're always like, I don't know, that's Sunday night match. I don't know, Falcons Dolphins. I think I might pop over to Fox and see what's going on with Peter Griffin. Might be some funny stuff going on on Fox. Fox might just pull me over there.

Might make me feel a little bit better. Going to bed for this week of school. Let me hear some jokes instead of this, like, depressing game on the other end. The Simpsons episode would always slap on Sunday nights. And like the, even the colors were more like vibrant. I was like, this HD? We don't have an HD TV, but is this HD? It was always kind of like the further away the game was geographically to you.

That's where you're like, I'll go hop over here. Yeah, I was like, I don't like any part of that. It's too far. Dude, what about when a game was so bad, they just switch over to another game. Like, like fourth quarter, a team's getting blown out. they just totally switched to another game that's like closer. I was like, wow, we can do that okay, whatever you say? Dude, they can't.

They can't do that. It used to be you used to be able to for sure. You didn't pay attention in Com Law. That was a tough class. I was shooting my ass off. I was cheating my ass off. I was cheating. It really was. Because there was, no, there was.

I know what you're saying, but like there was a game that was like that to where I think it was like Dolphins Raiders way long time ago. God, that was a blowout like that. And so they switched over,

but then the team came back. And so because they had switched, so now it's like a thing where like you gotta, if it's on, you gotta let that shit ride until that's why it's funny when it's a blowout like that

and there's like two and a half minutes to go. And then they're already like thanking the crew, like literally thanking every person who's working on that game. because they have nothing else to talk about. All the shit's coming up about like the crew. Who wardrobeed Phil Sims and Jim Nance and Bill Cowher? All that's getting shown up there.

You're like, you still got 222 left. They're driving. Three timeouts, boys. Like, yeah, they're down 24, but I mean. Dude, Raiders, Dolphins, you couldn't pay me to watch that game. That's a game for sure that would randomly be on Sunday night football. and you're like, yeah, definitely either popping in a movie

or I'm gonna go over to Cohock, Quahawk. Coahawk. Was Mike Tarrico Monday Night Football? Mm-hmm. That was the, and with Gruden, that was the best Monday Night era.

God dang. Yep. Tariko's done, yeah, he's done Sunday night and Monday Night. He's doing Sunday night right now. Mike Tariko's done it all, man. Height. Haidtoe. I know this one

Because I've interviewed him in person Nice break He's so good Every dad loves Mike Torrico Oh yeah Just a pro's pro He's so gas With Gruden

Oh my Those games were special Hey hey Let me set this scene for you Steelers Ravens In Pittsburgh Christmas Afternoon

Oh it's not over yet Kind of though Mike Tarrico on the call. Steelers come back to win. Antonio Brown scores the Immaculate Extension nine seconds left. Toriko.

That might win them the division. Oh, bro. Santa hats with Steelers logos on them in the crowd. Full Santa Steelers, bro. Full Steelers, bro. Full Steelers, Santa's.

The best. All right. Do one more. Do one more. Okay. From Sean. Brian Mormon special teams highlights. So, Ben and Joey. First time, long time.

Listening to the pod's a nice, fun way to break up the week. It reminds me of shooting the breeze with the fellas at a bar or one of our houses. Perfect. I know this isn't a sports podcast or reminiscing pod, but I was curious what you guys would list is your all-time best sports play and a pickup game. or similar non-competitive environment, a play where in the moment you knew you were achieving total greatness. For me, here's that scene. I'm at my church annual mid-September picnic at a local park

with a couple of my buddies in middle school. We're all like 12 or 13 at the time. You know the deal. You got ushers and readers burning burgers and dogs to crisp grill, the hope of the early NFL season and old guys drinking Bud Light in the beer tent. We started a new two-hand touch football game with a throw-off and the kid returning the ball was jukeying out everyone and made it crazy down the field. He hit the brakes near R-20 and I saw a kid cut and run parallel behind the ball carrier to his left.

However many years, I spent watching football and playing Madden and NCAA at that time kicked in. I sprinted to hit the gap between the two dudes right as their ball carrier pitched the ball, intercepted the lateral attempt and was off to the races. A try-hard guy decided to give chase at full tilt, and as I was near the end zone, I realized three things. one, he's going to dive and try to tag me. Two, it would be super lame to get tagged down inside the five instead of scoring the touchdown. Three, my mom will kill me if I come home with an injured foot, ankle, ankle, or knee because some kid laid me out with a full force diving tackle at the church picnic.

With all that in mind, I just got enough of speed boost to avoid the dive, hit the classic Dion Sanders high step strut, the last few yards into the end zone and spiked the football. I can still remember the moment clear his day Some 20 years later But need to make a list of work tasks each morning at the office Or I'll probably forget something We're all the same guy Slap my ass with Cocoa Crisp's batting gloves While drinking a lukewarm red gatorated lunch

Sean sent from my Verizon LG NV3 Was that a poem? That was great That was a great thing about backyard football That you could do the celebrations that like you couldn't do at practice and stuff like that was so much. And you could like band up, T.C. bands.

Gloves. That was real. That's where you could be who you really wanted to be. Mm-hmm. It was a safe place. Making plays too. Out of nowhere. Intercepting that lateral, that's like some Burger King shit.

It's like what you'd see in those Burger King commercials where the King would just come out of nowhere. taking the place of Ed Reed on that like 99 yard interception return I was like God going on the field like this Dude underrated underrated another underrated like mascot yeah He's kind he might be my favorite because he didn't say anything dude and that campaign Like that's just so boss lateral Burger King Burger King partnering with the NFL like he's the guy that's like okay What if?

God, that's a genius, dude. And like the technology to be able to put him in there. I was like, this looks real. Right. Right. Crushed it. Yeah, that's awesome, Sean. Mine would probably be in kickball.

I think we're in fifth grade. Ooh. Kickball in fifth grade recess. And one of the young guys. teachers was like, yeah, like celebshot sub in, you know, to kick. And so everybody was like, Mr. Ta!

Me start out. Yeah, and this guy out here at these, like, kid. So this dude gets up there. And I'm playing like shallow left, like deep shortstop, you know? And I'm like, I know this guy's going to just try to like just bomb it. I mean, wind up and bomb this shit. So, you know, it's not going to right field and kickball. It's going to be in this like left center, left area.

And so he does. He does just that. Fucking comes up with the, with the weird brown work casual shoes, boots it. And I'm already like pretty much on the run, man, because I knew this was coming. So I'm on the run, tracking it, tracking it, tracking it, reach out. Willie Mays style over the show. shoulder, boom, hauled in.

Do you stay up or you fall down? Stayed up. But I was just like on the run, just over the shoulder, literally basket catch Willie Mays shut that shit down. Yeah, he was one of those where he could tell he was like kind of pissed, you know? What's up, bitch? Yeah. Nobody on base either.

So it's just your moment, you know? You don't have to like throw anybody or like throw home or anything. And you know you do? You can't throw it back so you just Put pun it back That's exactly what I did Boom! Yeah, I caught it

Was so hype and like so kind of like tired From running like that That I just turned and just pow, see ya Didn't even care if it went back out I was like I'll just get it back in In a yard goes in a yard Sorry, it's over That's a great moment

Yeah yeah I took it from you Mr. T Because everybody was watching Everybody was watching even the other teachers the girls you know because you're like girls were watching girls weren't watching they were they were because they all kind of thought this guy was like you know you're it's like 12 year old girls and so you know the the guy was like in his early 20s you know this teacher coming in and so of course they're just like

yeah right after you catch it he thinks he's like hot shit he's like cocky he's a hot shot He thinks he's hot shit And he thinks he's a hot shot He literally smells like shut He thinks he's hot shit And he smells like shit Like doesn't even

Didn't even count anyway Can't get a dub With the girls ever bro No No No You're like kind of like Trying to hand

Like oh yeah And you're like Are you literally sweating Always would too like in your highest highest of highs they always had tear your

tear your ass down you have a huge grass stain on the back of your butt do you have one of those not grass stain a story like that yeah grass stain right now

um yeah damn I had one I kind of forget but I kind of have two I'll make them quick um you know how you all

like growing up you go to the high school's game before you're in the high school. And you always play somehow, some way, it doesn't matter how big the area is, there's always a football game. And you're like just getting kids

from other schools, you don't even know. That kid might be in high school. I don't know, he's playing. There's a field where we went to high school. There's a school like right by our high school and they had a whole football field.

And I don't know, we started playing like real football games there. Like 11 on 11, like straight up before like this. It got real dark. And nobody was doing anything in this game. Like, nobody was making any plays. There are a lot of good players on the field, though, from, you can just tell by, like,

there's tall dudes out here. Like, this is kind of a, this is kind of like a big game right now. And then you got the high school game going, so you're just like hype. And I was playing quarterback for some reason. And nothing was going our way. And I just, I just kind of, I saw this dude run a post route. And he had, like, I just knew he had, he always just had really good. good hands. And I was like, I'm just going to

like throw it as hard as I can. Because like nothing's going right. I'm just going to sling it and see what happens. Maybe it like breaks a window or some, you know, just something. Dude snagged it so hard in the back of the end zone, got a foot down. Everybody was just like, well, it was just like,

I cannot believe this dude caught that. Amazing cool. Who was it? Who was it? Who was it? Who was it? Jason Ruhanna dude. Just nastiest a crap. Nah, dude could kind of, could kind of jump to. I was like, Yeah, he was a good, like, pickup football player

Didn't play football, but, like, he was nasty in the backyard. That's a random pole there. Dude had ball skills. Another one, playing basketball in, like, your homie's backyard that had the Golilla goal. At night, my sister's babysitting. So I can go over to, like, babysitting my, my, like, friend's house in my neighborhood.

So I can be over there, like, kind of for a long time. my sister's there. My mom's like, come, come home. I had Chiller over there. So it was me and Chiller just, we're in this, in this dude's backyard that we know. He had his, like, homies over from, like, the public school that was, like, close. So it was kind of like that rival. We got something to prove. We got something to prove. Like, these kids are from Greenwood, bro. Like, they might be kind of good. Because, like, we played them, like, at, like, indie sports park and, like, weird AAU circuits and stuff like that. But also, like, they kind of thought, You guys are bitches, man, private screen.

For sure. For sure. Prank that thing down to eight. There was like those floodlights. Like his dad bought those floodlights. So it was like a real, it was real. Dude, it was going down. And like the ball, it was like a tight game.

I don't know what was going on. A lot of dunking because I was like this size. Ball was like going out of bounds. Chiller throws it over his head just to save it. Perfect oop. I come down and like, like, Cock it back. I could ask

Chiller about it right now. He'd be like, I remember that dog. It was like one of those plays. I was like, yeah, I can't believe we just pulled that off. You're like one of the security footage. Yeah,

he wasn't even trying to oop it. It was just perfect. A mini ball, mini North Carolina ball? Yeah, bro. Oh my God. Snapshot of you,

longest your tongue's ever been. Insane. How did I not crack my head open? I don't know. but good moment. Isn't that great? Isn't that 20 some years after? And like you said there, Sean,

that's what you live for. So it gets you through. I think when you, like, you know, your life flashes before your eyes before you like, before you die, that's what's,

that's what's going to be ours. Like those like, those like junior high plays that weren't even in real games or maybe somewhere in real games. Just like your highlight film that like nobody got video footage up. And somehow it's like

an overhead camera. you're like, oh, I'm taking it to the house. Like, I don't remember that. It's not your huddle highlights, your heaven highlight or your hell highlight. Heaven highlight. Cuts to me eating a whole box of gushers. I was like, oh, yeah, I did do that too. Just like all your highlights.

And me with a Purdue head on. Just, there is. No. It's good. You on Christmas. Purdue Pete. Good mascot, too. Right?

Thank you. He's right up there with the Spartan. The Spartan's a dirty mascot. Like he's he's like top tier. Sparty. Sparty is just not fair because they give them like those fake ass arms, you know? It's just part of the game though. Purdue has got some arms too, right?

No, this shit is all just regular. Oh, is it? Damn. Maybe they used to. But Sparty, Sparty on the mascot challenge on the game. Mascot challenge, man. That was a fun feature. It was, but like nobody ever wanted to play it.

Like, I'd always be like, it was weird playing like a full, like, there with your boys, you're playing a full game. It was tough because you wanted to visualize the actual guys. Option attack with the Syracuse arm. Faking laterals. And you're like, I don't know what overall he is compared to that. orange like are they the same? Yeah they got no look you can't gauge anything. The Stanford tree going down the sideline.

Just tightroping it. 98 yard kick return. Let's go! It's just rooting for a bunch of trees. That's when the girls walk in. They're like you guys are literally immature. It's fuck. Another insane idea by some marketing or some production guy there like how about this you know because they don't have features yeah

everyone on the team every one of them they're all this they're all one mascot they're all the same guy but still have nightmares that Georgia bulldog linebacker I'm like oh god oh okay

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dude if we can get a a pick of a dude, if you can pull this off clubhouse of you at the pumpkin patch with a huntie hat on? Yo, we might that needs, there needs to be a reward or something.

How many hunting, dude, like on some, on some like sneaky like just, just pretend like it doesn't say hunting. Your girl doesn't know what it means yet. Hey, also, yeah. I'll carry the pumpkin. I'll carry the pumpkins. Pretty lady.

T, hashtag T, PG-Hunty challenge. And you don't have to post it on your page, like your main feed, but just give a little story, you know, that's worth it. Yeah, your girl will like it. She won't know. Oh my God. Thanks.

Baby, you posted our pumpkin patch. You never reposted our pumpkin patch stories just because this is fun. But why are you, but why are you, why do you smile like that? Like, having fun, Auntie. Why'd you, why didn't you put the cute one on your story? You put the one where you were drooling. and short-circuiting. I thought you're pretty in this one.

I don't care what I look like as long as you look the prettiest, honey. That's the apple cider all over your shirt. Bloodshot eyes from too much PSL. Auntie. Oh my God. And you threw a bail out. You threw a bail of hay at me after that.

Hey, just an apple in his mouth Just Bobbing apples Bobbing apples comes out of the water With that face And regular Goes in regular Comes out like that

His eyes are crossed to like Oh my God, what's wrong with him? Take the apple out of his mouth I won for you auntie Hope you like Red Criss, Golden Criss we make pie later huntie oh my god

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