Games with Names - The Hotline Bling Episode!

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

We're hitting the ol' hotline HARD in a very special Hotline Bling episode. We can only get to so many voicemails each episode, so we figured there's no better way to celebrate the 4th of July than by catching up on a jam packed hotline. From game and guest recommendations to the burning questions that must be answered, we get to it all. We also go through some of Julian's favorite items from the wall and open a couple mystery boxes from Julian's playing days. Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeartTrue Crime Plus only on Apple Podcasts. What's the fan base name? Nameys. Namers. G. Like gnarly? Yeah.

I've heard the nuts. Some people have. A lot of nuts. Nuts. What up, nuts? Nameys, Namers, Bajee. Like Gnarly? Yeah. I've heard the Nuts. Some people have. A lot of Nuts. Nuts. What up, Nuts? What up, Nuts? Yeah. I mean, that's what I hear anytime I go anywhere with kids that are like 10 because of Randy

Moss impression. Hey, Edelnut. Yeah. Hey, Edelnut. Edelnut. Hey, Edelnut, get my hot tub about 103 and get my Gatorade. Today's episode in honor of the United States of America 1776 on July 4th, we'll be celebrating America by cleaning out your hotline.

Jules, what's going on, brother? Vicky Malloy out of Marshfield, Mass. We have so many messages, and we can only get to so many in our post segment, so this will be a great opportunity only get to so many in our post segment, so this will be a great opportunity for us to dive into those messages. We're talking Madden, my best memories from the NFL. We go through memorabilia on the wall.

Got some cool stuff back there. Got some interesting stuff. My favorite things are the weirdest things. Amen. Or stolen things. And then we unbox. Pat sent you a bunch of Tupperwares full of shit. And now we're going to go through them.

Get some fun stuff in there. We'll see what we got in there. Games with Names is a production of iHeartRadio. July 2nd, 2024. Nuthouse Studio, Los Angeles, California. The hotline is blowing up and the people need answers. This is the Hotline Bling episode. Welcome to Games with Names. I'm Julian Edelman, they're Jack and Kyler. And we are on the mission to find the greatest game of all time

and celebrate the birth of the United States of America, land of the free, home of the brave, by going over these messages with you. That's right. The land where the voicemail, the answering machine was invented. One of our best inventions ever. Was it? Probably. Well, the phone was. The phone was. Alexander Graham Bell. Well inventions ever. Was it? Yeah, probably.

Well, the phone was. The phone was. Alexander Graham Bell. Well, was it? Alexander Graham Bell. Do you know the first line that was ever spoken over the phone? He said, you up. Right?

What did he say? What did he say, though? No, that's it. That was it. What was the real one, though? What hell hath wrought? Oh, nice. one, though? What hell hath wrought? Oh, nice. What is it?

What hell hath wrought? What is that? I don't know. He's just trying to be poetic. Alexander Graham Bell is like, oh, what did I fucking do? What the fuck did I just do? You connected everyone. That's right, brother.

It changed the world. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hell yeah. Cambridge, stand up. Let's go. one that's right brother it changed the world cambridge massachusetts oh yeah cambridge stand up let's go i'm wearing a a usa hockey jersey but hockey's probably you know when you think of america when you think of america when i think of fourth of july i think of baseball same yeah what do you think about yes i think of baseball i think I think about that last vacation before football season starts. A nice burnt hot dog.

I want burnt hot dog, potato salad. Yes. Macaroni salad. I want a frozen patty on a goddamn charbroiled. I love a shitty frozen patty. Yeah, those shitty patties your parents used to get because they were on sale. That's probably what you could only afford, or at least I could only afford. and sitting in the backyard in a folding chair doing the

the patented cookout knees together making a plate or making a table for your your paper plate you know what i mean yeah and remember guys hit that number 424-291-2290 for the hotline hotline episode happy birthday America you know Benjamin Franklin had to go over to France we sent him over there I believe August 1776 during the Revolutionary

War to gang up with the old French create a pact to defeat the Brits from trying to come over and take our goddamn land. So men and women in the militias that fended them off, and it was Ben Franklin that went over to France, you know, puckered up against them, and, you know, we had to, hey, guys, you don't want Francis.

They take us. Who's next? Amen. And that's why we got Cajun food. Let's go. Let's go. Hi, Julian, Jack, and Kyler. This is Renee from Augusta, Maine.

And I just have a question for you. My question is, what is one important lesson you've learned from your time as a professional athlete um i love your podcast keep it up and i've missed you on the patriot go pat uh you know the thing that came off my mind right away when i was hearing the question was realizing that there's always a tomorrow whether you have a spectacular day you hit you won the last game of the year, you won a Super Bowl, there's still a tomorrow, meaning you're going to have to do something again.

Whether it was the worst day, you tear an ACL, you get suspended, there will be tomorrow. Realizing that, that there's a tomorrow and you can always have an opportunity to improve yourself is something that through my years as a professional athlete, the highest of the highs, there's still going to be tomorrow when there's going to be some low to lows. You know what I mean?

So that's something I've learned through being a pro athlete, being able to shake things off, whether it's good or bad. The good, too. Yeah, I mean, you can't stay on it because you still want to get back there. You know, and the lows, you know, some of the times, the worst times of my life. Good support group. There's going to be tomorrow.

Your family, whatever, who gets you through it. You know, just Belichick just used to say, guys, we just need to stack them together. Good day after good day. It takes one day to turn into two, to turn into three. Just stack them together. There will be tomorrow. I love that.

Thanks, Rene. Thanks, Rene. Dear Julian Edelman and Games With Names podcast, absolutely love this show. My family watches Games With Names Together Thanks everybody so much for the consistent wisdom And legendary stories So

I think Stacorn Barkley on Games With Names Would be a great addition Because he's the stud of a person And I think he is the true Walter Payton man of the year Once again thank everybody so much Keep up the good work of a person, and I think he is the true Walter Payton man of the year. Once again, thank everybody so much.

Keep up the good work. So he wants Saquon to be part, like he wants to be on the couch always? No, I think like four games. Oh, 100%. That would rock Saquon. Just random new permanent addition. Saquon, man. Even Saquon used to kick it a lot. Really?

We went to the Met Gala once together. We didn't go together, but we went to the Met Gala. And when you go to those kind of events, athletes always kind of congregate towards each other. Right. So it was me, Saquon, Odell. And they wore skirts because it was camping or something. They wore like These

Nelts or something Some Scottish shit Tight I just went James Bond I just went cool with it You know But we ended up changing

And we went out afterwards Remember we went to McDonald's Like Two in the morning One of those city McDonald's And Saquon was still a young guy And he's like Man we can't eat this

And Odell looks at him or something. He goes, dude, it's May. Shut up and order that quarter pounder. He said, you grew up on this or something. He said, we grew up on this. Look where we're at or something. It was a great night, man. It was fun.

We got to get Saquon on. He's an awesome storyteller. We hung out a little bit last year in Cannes in Cannes during that oh nice what was it that um marketing marketing sports marketing convention which was awesome so we definitely we got to get Saquon on you and Saquon just meet up in the coolest of places we really do I always see Saquon in the cool spots yeah I think he's a great fit for the eagles next year too that'd be awesome i'm excited to see how that turns out we got to get him on before the season so we can hear or actually during i don't know we got to get him on i want to know how the transition they those

those two teams hate each other i was gonna say it's yeah too yeah he was getting booed at the the game the other week the uh sixers game is or back in whatever that was back in may or that's a good one that's a good one i also like the fact that this guy watches with his family yeah they gather around there's not a child in that some of our callers there might be we might have to clean up some of the we got some youngsters calling in i mean talking about circumcising and shit there'll be at the lunch table the next day. Guys, what does circumcision in the Philippines mean? She's Team T-Mobile cleaning people.

What's up, Julian? This is Ben from Memphis, Tennessee. I was calling to ask what Coach Bill would have done to Gronk if he had gotten in his face, pushed him, and screamed at him like Travis did with Coach Reed. Thanks. You know, that situation would never come. Right. Like, Gronk's not that kind of guy, really.

And no one's touching Bill. That's true. With the amount of respect that he demanded on a daily basis, like when he came into the goddamn auditorium, people got up, shoulders were back, ears were pinned. People like, it was like, that's the kind of presence he has. So I don't, you know, maybe a defensive guy would do that, but offensive guys, no shot. No one's going near him. So you think that, because I don't you know maybe a defensive guy would do that but offensive guys

no shot no one's no one's going near him so you think that because i don't want to like besmirch travis kelsey or andy reed because they're no but they have a different relationship they're they're a lot closer yeah that's a deep that's an offense he's an offensive coach with the offensive player right there's a close now i can see willie mack or something or you go like Teddy Bruschi and Bill. Maybe that could happen, like one of the defensive guys. But I don't think that could ever happen. I think LT could suplex Bill and Bill would put him right back in there. He would allow that.

And he was position coach then. Oh, I know, I know. He was totally different. Remember, we listened to Ty. Bill was a completely different guy when he was a position coach from when we listened to ty yeah bill was a completely different guy when he was a position coach from when he went to head coach there you know he was more buddy buddy with everyone i mean ty said it himself like oh it's gonna be awesome we got bill as our head coach and then completely guy he wanted he wanted he had a vision for how he wanted the

head coach to be and so i don't know he just i don't that's a great question but i don't think that would ever happen because the i don't think that would ever happen i'm with the guys aren't like that i just thought it was mad corny that take of like you gotta kick travis kelsey out of the game like no send him to the locker room how can you let him like that's such a corny take like just twitter and yeah that's also because he's the play caller on offense now that shit happens with like play like billy o and and tom did that yeah we'd see that all the time you know i mean in In the heat of battle, guys say stupid. We all say stupid shit.

And then any time a game's over, you always go over to your coach. If you got in a fight or you said something, hey, coach, my bad. And they do the same thing because when you're in the heat of battle, it's fucking stressful. People are saying things that you don't mean. You know what I mean? There's a lot of emotions going.

Oh, yeah. You want your guys passionate and living on the edge too. Yeah. It was interesting in the conversation with Matt Light, you talked about how it seemed like Coach Belichick had a bias towards defensive players. I wonder if Andy Reid has a similar thing on offense just because he spends all his time on offense

and there's a bit of a different relationship with some of those people in that building maybe but offensive coaches are always still just a little different than a defensive coach yeah defensive coaches are like I mean you gotta think about it like the league hates them everything like there's a new rule to try to make it harder for them every year. Yeah. You can't touch it. Like, they can't do things. Defense coaches just are always pissed off. Offense coaches, oh, let's go design a play, dude. Let's go make some fun stuff.

Yeah. Look at this. We got some time. Hey, you see that new route? We got to cut up on these college kids. Let's go watch it. Defense coaches, what the fuck are we doing? That's funny.

What's up, Jules? My name's Sean. I am 26. I'm from South Shore, Massachusetts. South Shore. Jules, I am fortunate enough to have family members with season tickets to the Patriots, and I've gone to almost every single game since 2014. With that being said, the coolest game I've been to was in 2012.

Patriots went across the pond to London to take on the Rams. I just wanted to know if you had any cool stories. Yeah. I mean, the London experience was awesome because football is such a domestic sport where we travel a lot around our country, but we all have the curiosities of like the international sport people or like the hockey guys that are always out or the soccer dudes.

You know, they go to Portugal, they go to Germany, which we don't get to experience that. So, you know, going over to London was an awesome, awesome experience. We went over a couple days before. Our sports science guys were like, all right, we can beat the jet lag if we do it this time or this. We had that whole thing going. And we went out there, and you got a lot of guys from, like like the South on a football team. You got a lot of guys from, you know, all over the parts of the country, which the one thing that the biggest complaint was was the food.

We get up over there. No one liked any of the food. You know what I mean? So that was crazy. But then we also, we did a, we did a walkthrough in Hyde Park, which was cool. And Hyde Park's a beautiful, like vibrant park that there's a lot of people. Not one person knew who we really were.

Like we're over here tossing a football. People are like looking at like, what the hell is going on over there, Mike? And then I went on by myself and I did like a little tour. I got I just went and got a taxi. I went to like Big Ben and i did like a little tour i got i just went and got a taxi i went to like big ben and i did i looked at all like the sites and looked at the the soldiers and shit that don't move and stuff so like that was fun and then after like during the game it was a it was a different experience because the surface the surf the grass was like made for like soccer kit guys which is huh we played at wembley and which like our guys are

like you have 330 pound men with a lot of force or you have like a 225 pound 240 pound guy that is kicking and like just super powerful the grass was tearing up and it was super long i didn't like the grass guys were slipping on it so we had to jump in the seven studs that was something that pops off in my head uh and then after the game there was a little we went to like some some club together because we usually go straight home after a football game and and you know you move on with your week well here our flights were all weird. So we were going to fly out the next morning. So it was the first time or kind of like the situation with Matt Light where we went to Dinosaur Barbecue. We all got to hang out after a game, but in London.

So we go to this club and then the Rams were at this club and Amendola was on the Rams at the time. So me and Amendola were like, cool. Like we were like having a good time. And then I think some linemen on both teams were about to start squaring off in this club. Things got wild. And we're trying to break up a fight. Me and Danny end up going on an adventure, leaving afterwards.

It was pretty crazy. And this was a classic Tom Brady versus Sam Bradford showdown. Classic. We blew him out. Blew him out. I had a tackle inside the three, and Slate was off sides. I was so mad on kickoff. Come on, Slate.

This is also the game a few fans of the Gronk Spike will remember. He debuted the Kings Guard Spike. Yes. Where he marched one way, turned, marched back the other way like the Kingsguard. And spiked it. And spiked it. One of his best ever. But he said it was like the Nutcracker.

I think that was his quote. Close enough. I go, that's a Christmas thing. We got to rank the best Gronk spikes at something. Oh, my gosh. That'd be a whole episode. We got to. That'd be fun.

Eight catches, 146 yards, and two TDs for Gronk that day. Gronk likes London. Whenever we would play a team out of division, out of conference, that'd be fun eight catches 146 yards and two tds for grunk that day grunk likes london whenever we play a team out of division out of conference and it's like they only saw us once they it was it was crazy because they didn't understand like that grunk was still a little young in that time they didn't know how like they were like oh we could take this guy down and guys are bouncing off them whenever you got a team that didn't play you as much, they were like, oh, we could take this guy down. Guys are bouncing off him. Whenever you got a team that didn't play you as much, we'd go and blow those teams out always because they didn't realize how much like a machine our team really was.

You know what I mean? You don't know until you play. You don't know until you play. There's an interesting phenomenon that's happening somewhere right now. The part of my take, guys, like honed in on it, with Lamar Jackson playing the NFC. That if you look back on him last season and the season before, it right now the part of my take guys like honed in on it with lamar jackson playing the nfc that if you look back on him last season the season before i think that's been like the number one

headline on every talk i mean we've talked about that 40 times well just you know bringing it back the same kind of thing but it's also like when teams play you know the chiefs they play them out of division team they blow them out they don't realize there's so much ahead. Like, you got a new head coach, and you're in the NFC West or NFC North, and you play a machine. They're not ready. Running into a buzzsaw. I think, well, what was the score of that game in London? 45-7.

45-7. And that right there tells you how, like, we went in that Thursday. They were there for a whole week. And I'm not saying anything about that organization or who was at the lead of that organization, but a lot of that has to do with eliminating distractions on a trip like that. You know, realizing we're not here to be fucking tourists. We're here to fucking win a game.

Like, this would be a lot more fun of a trip if we can talk about it as a win i remember hearing that a lot like you know the super bowl and stuff yeah your family's there you got a lot of stuff to take care of but no one really cares if you lose the game when you when you win the game then everyone will always talk about it it'll be a great memory there's also brandon lloyd was on this team that's fun brandon lloyd two tds he was game he was one of the best like route running dudes he was so smooth in his route running we used to call him like the pink panther because he was so smooth and like his when he would do cone drills he would like bob his head he'd like they had good body movement and he had some of the most underrated

hands of all time, I believe. Bro, weren't you at that game? I was at the game in San Francisco where he did that thing when I was a kid. I was like in junior college. Bro, I swear that pops up on my Instagram for you page like once a week. And I watch it every time. Hey, Julian. How's it going?

It's Nate. I was just, you know, thinking to myself, I wonder what Julian's favorite Madden is. Yeah, I got good taste. My favorite Madden is Madden 2005. Okay, you got Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Ray Lewis, all firing on all cylinders, okay? I want to know what your favorite madden is julian

favorite madden appreciate you good question nate um my favorite is probably in like the early 2000s when i was playing madden a lot on like n64 and what was the Vic one? It was 04. Yeah. I liked 04. I would go him to Crumpler. Oh, my God, on that tight end post play action. Yeah. Unstoppable.

The tight end would be the in cut, and the post would be like a cut split receiver, and you could roll out this way, and Vic had a strong enough arm where you could throw it this way and vick had a strong enough arm you could throw it there or you could just make people like miss with vick and then hit him hit algae on like coming across i like that one but i remember i remember like madden 95 on sega where there's only three buttons my brother and his boy used to play it all the time i never got to play because i was seven years younger and he's not jumping in the line yeah but i remember when he'd leave i'd go and play that

thing it was i liked that one that was like my first memory of it it was a madden 95 back when madden was still on the cover of yeah what's the what was the last one he was on the cover of 2000 um the big headset yeah let me see it might have even just been the 90s yeah 2000 that's the one yeah that's the one i'm thinking and then i think they brought him back for one of the anniversary ones recently yeah i really i liked 01 and 02 when you could play with the the mark echo team yeah yeah there's like a cheat code and exhibit was on the team they were 99 at everything dude i love playing like mini camp like doing like the like running through the bags and like doing the pocket pressure. I also love playing like those early 2000 ones because you could play with legendary teams.

Yeah, you get the card or whatever. Yeah, I used to like to play with like the old 88 Niners. The all decade teams too. All decade teams were always fun. Yeah. Made you feel like you were the best Madden guy ever. I used to play a lot of college football or NCAA. Me too. too back here yeah it's coming back counting down the days just the numbers i just hated the numbers play the impact players play the mascots versus the mascots always the

best it's gonna be i mean we've been waiting but no archie manning right? I was so excited to go to Kent and be on that game. I was like... Did you have like the number one? Yeah, I was an impact player, but I was like a black dude. I was so mad. I was like, what the... I want to be on the game. Oh my God, I got to live this up.

Were you guys playing in college as like yourselves for NCAA? Hell yeah. Kent was so bad, but yeah. Did you do that with Madden too you do you do you remember you used to create a player and like you get like the fan letters from like the university like man you had a really good you had a really good game this week i know you guys may have lost but keep your head up or something like that oh you're getting some real heisman hype there jules sit. Sit there like, oh, my God, this is sick. We're getting Heisman hype.

With the fight song just playing in the background always. Oh, my gosh. And we can't forget about Madden 2012, Peyton Hillis on the cover. Remember that? Yeah. Might be the most random guy to ever be on the cover of Madden. We went and played him. That one of those years, he lit us up.

He was a beast for a minute there. He's like an all-stop for two years. He was. Hey, I just want to say I'm a huge fan. A Virginia teacher here tries every year to convert my third graders to Patriots fans. I had a kid a couple years ago start to destroy my classroom, and he went after my Julian Edelman poster I have hanging up and told him do not

touch the squirrel that if he touched the squirrel he would bring out the nuts in his teacher it frightened the student so much he never destroyed anything else in my class again love the podcast keep up the good work miss teacher third grade I just want to tip my hat to you Those little munchkins Are probably just maniacs Rascals My sister was a third grade teacher I know exactly what that lady is going through The irony is you were probably more like that kid

Oh, 100% 100 spitballs Remember you used to hollow out your pen And you could take it out And you'd get a little piece of paper And your friend would be over You put your pen in No one ever saw

Oh my god it was so bad You mess with the squirrel you get the nut What a great teacher Virginia too Is that Commander's country? Is that Panther's country? It could be Baltimore Or the football team or Commanders. Commanders, yeah.

It could go either way there. Hey, Jordan. As a fan of NFL teams, I was wondering, why did you wear a Bills shirt when the trauma coin was on the bridge? You're a cat. You should never do that. And go house safe. Why did I wear a Bill's shirt?

Trying to be hospitable. Trying to be hospitable for Shady. Yeah. I was just trying to bring some peace between me and Shady. I'll go and I'll go do coward at fox on a weekday and shady's getting ready to do speak on because that's a show right so there's a lot of always crossover we will sit and argue on his on our ways to set about like stupid things andy reed belichick all the time andy reed belichick andy reed belichick we'll be walking up

like through the stairs he's all miked up i'm miked up and you got to go two different areas dap up right before like we're like heated argument dap up all right good luck on the show thank god for those call times otherwise that that argument would go on forever oh it would just never end it reminds me of the locker room when when you're with you're you're talking with a defensive guy or someone that you're not in the same meetings with, and then, like, till, like, three seconds are going when the dial hits your time where you're supposed to, like,

guys are arguing, and then all of a sudden, coach, why are you here? Shout out to Shane. What is this? Is this the new Pats logo? There's some rumors this is the... Talk about the new Patriots logo. That's not it, is this? Is this the new Pats logo? There's some rumors this is the... Talk about the new Patriots logo. That's not it, is it? There's a whole thing on the internet.

I guess Brandon Spikes made a post about being back in Foxborough, and he included this in the post, to which Patriots fans reacted across Twitter, much with a lot of dismay. Like, I mean, the overwhelming consensus was not. It's not bad. It's not bad, but it's not great. And then the Patriots came out and said,

like put out a meme saying like, this isn't our new logo essentially, but then have since used it in a post and it was in the background of like an interview with Elliot Wolfe. So I guess it's some sort of new alternate that will be used in certain situations. I don't think it's going to be on the side of the helmet or anything.

But I don't know. Depends on the execution of it. Not a fan, personally. I like the established in 60. They're trying. It feels a little MLS-y. It is MLS-y. We're trying to make a badge. Wels-y like we're it is mls you know and we're trying to make a badge like we're a european soccer team it's like soccer club you soccer club yeah it's

just like i don't know it feels a little a little forced we gotta get back to pat that's what i'm saying every day we stray farther from the truth which is pat the patriot i like pat i like that i think this feels to me white and red is Amen. This feels to me like a shoulder patch for a hockey jersey. Yeah. Is what they're in. There's no really use for that in football. That's what I'm saying. It reminds me of a Joe Judge like t-shirt.

Joe Judge used to make these special teams t-shirts for all like the special team guys. It'd be like a hockey jersey hoodie thing. And it'd have like some fucking like wild cat like we're all wild cats or lone wolves like on a mission to like do stuff and it'd have like a logo like this and some saying shout out joe judge for his uh joe judge t-shirts i love the team only merch like sometimes you'll see teams do like the weightlifting champion and they'll have like the best shirt that you could get when I was playing was the Ironman shirt when you didn't miss a practice in training camp.

That was a big thing because it was a month training camp. Now it's like two weeks. You're off every other couple days. Training camp was a grind to get through. And guys would be fighting to get that stupid Ironman t-shirt. Did you ever get one? Got a few. I got like three, maybe two.

What did it look like aesthetically? Terrible. Guys would walk around with that stupid t-shirt on, Iron Man. It's like I went to every day for a month and almost killed myself just for this stupid t-shirt. Like, that's a stupid t-shirt. Yeah. We'll be right back after this quick break.

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What's up, Julian Edelman? This is Nico Andragetto. I play for the University of Michigan. Just won a national championship. I'm from the Bay Area. Actually, right next to Woodside High School. The question was, my older brother grew up and trained with Billy Ring. And I was wondering if you played Redwood city 49ers with philly ring because uh i my whole family played for menlo athens and vikings and i don't know i've always been a good great uh big fan of yours and yeah i love the podcast go blue and hope you respond to this

question man well congrats on getting an Addy. That's a cool thing. Especially with the University of Michigan. I'm surrounded by so many Michigan Wolverines in my life. My agent, Steve Dubin. My quarterback, Tom Brady. My new teammate, Charles Woodson. I swear there's a Michigan person everywhere in my life.

Everywhere in my life. And then as far as Billy Ray, yeah, we played football. We started playing football together when we were eight years old, I believe. We both started in 94. And, you know, Billy and his family, you know, I grew up with those guys. And just through Pop Warner and, you know, throughout high school, we were always really close. So that is a true story.

I played a lot of football with Billy Ring when we were kids. And then I wonder what position this guy plays. We found him at one point. He's a running back. He's a running back? What's the book? Appreciate you calling in. I said I booed the Menlo Atherton Vikings.

I don't know. Did they change their name? Let me double check. Yeah, he's a defensive back. A DB. He went to St. Francis. St. Francis. That's the same high school that Billy went to.

My brother went to St. Francis. That's a really good football school. Back when my brother went there, they won like seven ccs championships in a row with this guy calcagno he was the head coach and then they changed changed over to this other coach mitchell or something my brother's senior year the team went oh and six because of the new coach this guy calcagno was like the guy of the like that area or that generation and then uh they went oh and six and somehow

won the rest of their games and it was like it was kind of like bcs powerpoint stuff in the bay area and got into the playoffs and beat oak grove in the championship against who was my defensive andre carter andre carter was on Oak Grove. My brother played in them. Whoa. Yeah. In San Jose State Stadium in like the championship. They smoked in like 30s. They used to have this. My brother's team had this team, this running back Charles Tharp.

Tharp. Such a good running back name. Great football name. They played Pop Warner growing up. He was actually brothers with, remember Chris Reese from my dad's episode? Yeah. That was his older brother. Oh, wow. Okay.

And he was like short little running back that was all like yoked up and just, I was such a big fan of him. He was 21. He was swagged out. Their colors were brown, yellow, and white. The Lancers, St. Francis Lancers. I used to love them. Wyoming vibes.

Then I didn't get into St. Francis. I went to Woodside. So fuck St. Francis. Fuck them. We don't like those guys. We don't like those guys. Hey, Nick. We were 13-0 when we were at Woodside.

Let's go, baby. Division two. The orange and black, baby. Three. Nico, all academic Big Ten honoree in 2023. Shout out to Nico getting it done in the classroom, too. Let's go. Let's go.

Classroom all American. We got it. That's go. Classroom all American. Do you think that you and Rob will do more TV and movies together now that you're retired? Okay, that's all. Bye. I hope. I love working with Gronk. He's the man. We love him. Not even just working. It's not

work when you're with Gronk. When we're just sitting and shooting shit, it's just, it reminds me of what we did for 12 years. Oh, we got to go, let's, yeah, let's podcast and then like hot tub, do a cold set, cold plunge. Oh, let's go do some push-ups. All right, let's go. Well, he's, he was fun.

Like a lot of those TikToks, the like retired athlete thing, that was from him. He was like, let's do it. Here's some ideas. Let's go. Which is nice. He's fun. We love Gronk. We love him. We love Gronk. Hey, go. Yeah. Which is nice. He's fun. We love him. We love Grant. Hey, Jay.

Love the podcast. I just want to know this is Steve in Florida. And I just want to know when Tom would lose trust in a receiver. How did that always go down? I know it's a tough subject to talk about, but you could tell when Tom lost favor or lost confidence in a receiver, and I was just curious about that.

Take care. There were certain little things that would piss Tom off. With younger receivers coming flat to downhill on in cut not letting a defensive back under cutting it like you you got to like run almost down downhill and if if you didn't do that that would that that would like scar them you know and so that was always tough and how how you would get that trust back is you'd have to go in practice and you'd have to show them maybe the one opportunity you had at that specific practice that you were going to do it.

And then you had to show in all the drills we were doing that you were going to do the right thing. Like that's, if you didn't know where to go, you didn't know the play, you didn't know how to do the right thing. Like that's, if you didn't know where to go, you didn't know the play, you didn't know how to read the coverage, you didn't know how to, like those are the things that he didn't like because he's ultimately trusting you to know what you have to do to do the right assignment, do the right technique. And if you don't do that and something bad happens, you know,

that it's hard for guys that have played such a high level for a long time, like quarterbacks, to get back on that. You know, when you're in the doghouse, it takes a while to get out, and you've got to work your way out. You know, you've got to show that you want to get out of the doghouse. You can't just put your tail in between your legs and quit and, oh, you know, quarterback's mad at me. No.

All right, what do I do? Be attentive. And, like, that's how you get it back. And the one scary thing is with a coach or with even, like, Tom, because he was, like, a coach out there for a lot of these guys. I remember he used to yell at me a lot. And I was a young player. And, you know, he would get on me because he knew I could take it.

He knew what kind of guy I was. And, you know, one day he got on me, and he could tell I was a little down. He goes, hey, babe, the day I stopped yelling at you, he goes, damn, I don't love you no more, babe, or something like that. It was something like that. He goes, the more I yell at you, it means the more I like you, I love you, or whatever.

I go, you must really love me, though, bro. You know, but that's how it is with coaches and guys like Tom. You know, the day that they stop yelling at you, they've moved on. Good answer. I believe it. I stopped caring. Julian, this is Nate.

One of the best games ever, 2006 Rose Bowl, Texas versus USC. I mean, you can't get any better than that. Awesome finish. Nate, yeah, I agree. Going for the corner! We've referenced that game a bunch with a lot of guys that we've had on the podcast. We just haven't.

I want Vince Young for that game. We want to do this one up, so we're taking our time with it to make it the best possible. Because this was such a memorable game in our lives because of our age and this was bcs time this you know what i mean it was that was in college football it was crazy vince young was god level at this point young was god and then also the sc was freaking people were arguing that they could they beat the niners remember when the niners were really bad i remember

being in the bay area when this was going down. People were like, SC could probably beat the Niners. That team was so stacked. We got to get Vince. We got to get maybe Matt Leiner back. McConaughey. Got to get McConaughey. Reggie Bush said call him up when we do it. This would be a fun one.

Turn this into a pay-per-view event, bro. We need that one. Thanks, Nate. What up, Jules? This is Drew Baer. I was just calling because I wanted to ask you a question. I always see all your footballs and all your trophies and all the sick-ass memorabilia behind you,

and I want to know, you've got to tell us what your, like, top three things you've got up there are. What's the most memorable or most valuable what you got what's your favorite love you jules keep it up man my most valuable three things i have on that wall den gate ball yeah the the the ball that i threw that i thought i was throwing like a make-believe pitch to rob tube on when we were throwing out the first pitch after we won a Super Bowl and Gronk

actually swung the Lombardi trophy and dented the trophy. We have that ball. We got Dentgate. That's one. The cleats that I stole from Tom.

The Moonman shoes? Moon Man shoes. I show every professional athlete that comes into that house those shoes. He goes, man, how did Tom move? Clunkers. There they are. These. Epic. And then lastly, I stole Matthew Slater's inhaler,

which is one of my favorites. There it is. He used to have his inhaler, and we used to be locker mates for like a long time. And every day before practice, he'd be over there. All right, let's go. Slater runs on albuterol, baby. Oh, my God.

God, I love it. I think the Brady shoes are up there. I love the Jewel Super Bowl cleats because they still have the confetti stuck to the bottom. Those are cool. Those are so cool. The confetti really sets it off. Let's see. What else is over there?

I love the Tiffany football. The Tiffany football MVP trophy is cool. Honey, get me something from Tiffany. Here you go. It's a football. There's also the Seahawks Super Bowl catch. That ball? Yeah.

Yeah. That's a Seahawks touchdown. MVP ball is sick. GC Sabathia cleats are always Those are cool Jordan cleats those are massive There's a TB12 title list over there It's pretty cool

That's cool And then my favorite thing too is A pop there's a lot of game Like balls not game balls But balls from actual specific plays I actually pulled a few Would you What's what do we got

Will you like as much as you can remember, these specific balls? So 11. This was the punt return touchdown versus Denver, the one that we broke the record on. Heck yes. Four for the franchise. Troy Brown had three.

I had three. It took me a couple years to get it, but we got the Denver one. Brandon Bolden almost blocked the punt. For this one? For this one. I think I just saw this clip because it was like a – He almost blocked the punt because the punter dropped the punt. And because of that, the rush, it was a low punt.

So whenever there's a low punt, that means your coverage team can't get down there so you can split them you can that was a cool game what else we got uh this is just a touchdown from miami this is uh i had the second one it was a they were playing some form of a three on two it was like a triangle in this low red area and what you're supposed to do i think is you're supposed to if i'm right it was like a return route so snag seven flat a lot of people you have the flag route you have the flat route and then you could bring it in and whip it out so this was a snag seven flat or some sort of return route you sit in between the two guys and like it's a very big timing play you gotta be on the same like page of the quarterback because once you go and you have

a decisive route and you flip the ball is on you super quick because he's got to throw he's got two guys converging you're sitting in the middle of the zone. And so we used to practice that a bunch. I saw it. Tom clearly saw it. He knew pre-snap that it was going to be cover seven, which is a form of zone, four on three, three on two. And so we were on the three side, I think.

And he zinged it to me, and they converged, and I was able to get vertical. On those plays, if you can catch the ball and get vertical immediately, that's when you can split it potentially. And that's what that one was. Is this the Michael Floyd play? No, that's not. Okay.

This is the, was this like a Thursday night game? Yes. This is one of those Thursday night games. Yeah. I had two tugs on that game. Nice. I was in Mexico that game.

I didn't know we had this. This is my first touchdown in the NFL in a real game. 94-yard punt return. 94 out the door. Caught the ball. It was against Miami Dolphins in 10. I had long hair, I think. I caught it, and the gunner, I think McCourty,

rode his guy, and I sidestepped him. And then I tried to get to the return side, and then you try to bring the ball up so you converge. You can make the coverage team come down. So the punt return, if they're all wide and you run, they all have the lanes. So when you catch it, I sidestepped someone because he was right there.

I was never really scared of that. If a guy's coming full speed, all you got to do is a quick move and they're going to never make the tackle. You make him miss and you try to bring the ball up because in the coverage team's gonna they're gonna try to go to you and then you get to your return side and when you do that you're all you're looking for is scotty o'brien is one ass and another ass you're trying to cut off an ass he would literally draw it up on the fucking we'd be doing he's like you're gonna look for this a butt here and a butt here you put your foot in the ground you go and that's literally what it was you got them sideways they were all coming to the ball

and then you you widen them a little and that allows your blockers to get around and get cover that allows them to get the angle on them so and you you bring it up, your blockers are going around. Then you bring it out, then they run into your blocker, and then all you're looking for is a butt and a butt. You put your foot in the ground, you go, and we got it. It was crazy. 94 out the door. Heck yes.

Last one. This is the double pass. Nice. Versus Baltimore. Infamous pass to Dola. Gronk lead block in. Picks me up like a little kid afterwards. Yeah, that's a double pass ball.

You can always tell it's a Brady ball because he'd always, if you guys see right there, he always liked his seams on that. He liked them. He'd have to put these seams right here because you get a little callous on his finger so like a regular ball so that's a kicking ball here that's what it looks like ball see how the seam is not pulled down see that right there you want to look like that interesting so. So is that a kicking ball? Is that the other team's ball?

No. Yeah, this is the other team's ball. Okay. And then I know, but tell the people at home, what's the process like of saving these special balls on game day? If you keep it, you just give it to an equipment guy. That's where they tape it up like that, right? Yeah, they tape it up.

They'll do that. Or sometimes if you spike it, you have ball boys. They would go grab it and say, do you want the ball? You know what I mean? Or something like that. They were always cool with it. There's like a program. Nice.

Hi, I have a question. If Jack McCarthy was the starting punter for the 2007 New England Patriots, do you think you still would have had an undefeated regular season? Thanks. Enjoy listening to the pod. 100%. You think so? I was going to say 0%.

I think it was like 44 times. Chris Hansen, I believe, was the punter. I think that's a record low. Chris Hansen. Not the guy from To Catch a Predator. No, I know Chris Hansen. I remember I was a rookie, and Chris was probably in his 13th year or something.

And shout out Chris. He was always a good dude, but I remember I was at the residence inn where we used to stay for a training camp, and I was there all summer. He was there, I guess, know, like he was there, I guess. Cause kickers,

I mean, and punters, they're always like bouncing from teams and teams. Sometimes they'll just stay in the same areas. And he was driving a lifted truck. I'm like, Hey, Hey Chris, uh,

you ever want, Hey, you're going to punt at all this week. He goes, kid, I ain't putting until something like june or something like thanks yeah 44 times a franchise low yeah that's crazy you could do it flipping the field baby how far can you punt 30 yard i don't know 20 25 Maybe a nice bounce if the guy chooses not to return it.

I think they would have been all right. I think we'll be all right. We got TB. We got Iranian TB. We're good. That's it. Now it makes me wonder how long he could actually punt it. We should go hit the field sometime.

Let's go hit the field. So what would happen if Jules and Gronk or Jules and Zola are out together? Maybe they decide they want the same kind of chicken wings. Or did Gronk really only like crumb sticks and Julian only like flour? Or did sometimes they decide maybe we should just share this wing? I'd love some insight. Love the podcast. Chicken wings.

We usually order like every flavor and every kind of chicken wing they have. You can't just make one decision. You got to go buffalo, barbecue, like lemon pepper, garlic, whatever they have. You know, there's always like a dry rub one. And then it's always the sauce. And we never share a wing. What is this, Lady and the Tramp? I'm going to share this spaghetti and like,

hey, Gronkk With a fucking chicken wing No you flats or wing drumstick guy I like them both Same I like the drumsticks The little The middle piece and the flat The flats are easier because you push them down

And then you can Garfield it Pro tip. Did you guys ever did Belichick ever do anything with you guys after you guys got ejected? Yeah, he would get really mad.

If we got ejected and we lost the game, I mean, that's an easy way to get on those low lights and just have a reel of things of why we lost the game and there'd probably be like a three minute explanation on beating yourself you can't win until you keep from losing. And if we're injected from a game, you ain't helping us in the locker room. Practice, they just yell at us. And we all know the story of me and Gilmore getting ejected first day of pads.

Classic. Did you ever get ejected any other time? Yeah, I got ejected a few other times. Oh, practice though, right? Yeah. Yeah, practice. I wish I would have done it earlier. it any other time yeah i gotta check it a few other times all practice though right yeah yeah practice i wish i would have done it earlier or like sometimes if it was early in the training camp try to get legs fresh or something you just go fight real quick get knocked out would you stay at the facility like get the showers stay at the facility yeah you're in the showers you're in the

training room you're it's like when you got a bad report card and your dad hasn't come home from work yet like that's what it reminded me of yes wait to get it over with would you always get would you get called to the principal's office or is it like not always your position coach would talk to you like yo you got to cut the shit if if you went to the The principal's office It was scary Chadio getting on ya Chadio would be like What the fuck are we doing Big man's gonna kill you dude

We Can't do this You know what he'd say You're in a fucking doghouse Not even a paw out Paw out Paw out Jules what's going on brother

Vicky Malloy Out of Marshfield, Mass Yeah biggest fan. Go, Pat. I think you're going to do Tom Brady's return, Tampa Bay versus Pat at friggin' Gillette Stadium, where Tommy B played for 20 years, and he came into Gillette and kicked ass.

Are we going to get Tommy B on the pod? Talk ball. 20 years, and he came into Gillette and kicked ass. Are we going to get Tommy B on the pod? Talk ball. We got to get Tommy B on the ball, the pod. Not for that game. Not for that game. We'll have him. I mean, he's easy to get on.

He can come on whatever. This will be like one of the four or five times he comes on, we'll do this game. Maybe like his 10th appearance on the show, we'll do this one. Yeah. Or we'll get Hunter Henry or something, since he cost us the game in this one. Did he? start penalty false start there at the end and then that made folks field goal five yards longer and the field goal just barely missed if we're five yards closer

at things going in wasn't i'm looking at you hunter wasn't it like a fourth and four that they if it wasn't max rookie season, you probably go for it there. I believe you don't want to put the game on his shoulders. I thought there was a drop on the fourth and four or something. Wasn't there? I think it was, it was convoluted. It was close on the line.

They didn't get the first down. Yeah. And I think, cause I think that the false start was in that series that backed us up and got us behind the chains. And one of those is either second or third. I can't remember. Misty night in Foxborough Sunday late game.

And Nick Folk doesn't have the leg for that. It was like 60. He almost made it. He had money. He almost made it. Nick Folk had a great career. He's had a great career. He's still doing it too.

He was such a chill guy in the locker room. Good dad bod. Goat bowl. Goat bowl would be fun. Oh, yeah, that was the goal ball. Yeah, I forgot that does have an end. And great defensive performance from that Patriots team. Seriously.

Yeah. Man. I wanted that win. Thanks, Nicky Malloy. Let's do last one here. Julian, Mr. Super Bowl MVP Edelman. Steve from New Hampshire here with another question. Where did you meet these producers, guys?

They seem like longtime Boston friends or the recent hires of the podcast. Question one. Question two is how did you feel about fans talking smack during the games you played in? It's always a good comeback by saying, you know, fans saying, or you saying to the fans, hey, I make millions of dollars, and you guys are talking garbage on the fans in the stands. the stand so just wondering you know what you kind of think about fans and uh you know especially games you played in with them talking smack to you while you're on the field thanks man keep up the great podcast well first question i met kyler and jack through super digital and

coast productions they used to work on a lot of my social stuff and we used to do a lot of short form content. The Burger Times, the Smoothie Times. They were the ones that, you know, were making the thing go. And we just kind of all, they knew my tongue. Pause. No ditty. No ditty, no ditty. But they like knew my language and they knew knew how like we just we developed a friendship and a bond just through all the work over the years and it made great sense you know they're

boston guys jack's from north carolina but loves boston sports what your your father's yeah my dad northborough massachusetts stand up yeah and kyler's from Western Mass. And he always gives this great hockey perspective because he's from Western Mass and likes the Penguins. It's so fucking weird. Yeah. It's weird. I liked the animal when I was young. And Marlon was fucking awesome.

Yeah. But then fans talking smack. I just remember in Philly, I had this haircut once. And I had like these two like claw marks in the back of my fade. So swaggy. And this guy made fun of my haircut for three straight hours. And it was right after I zinged on to fucking Dorset. I threw that touchdown pass.

I looked at him and I just went like this. Like I scratched the back of my head. I don't know what i was doing with it but i like it i like when fans talk i i almost liked playing more on away games that's why i loved playing in new york i loved playing in buffalo i loved being the villain i like putting i like bringing the circus on the road. Yeah, baby. Everyone came to see us. They didn't come to see their team. They came to see us. Damn right. We're going to give them a show.

That's why I run out that gate, get them all riled up. Let's go! Even when I went to away, I would do it at home games. You get the crowd pumped. I'd do it at away games. I'd sprint down the field, get my engines going. I would go and fucking do the thing, and the people would be like, boo, boo.

I just felt like a villain. I loved it. I loved playing it. When they talk, I mean, half the time you're not really hearing them. More than half. If you're hearing them time you're not really hearing them. More than half. If you're hearing them, you're not really in the game. So, like, early in your career you hear shit. But, like, when it became, you know, you're here for a mission.

Sometimes you get some creative shit, though, and you hear it. I mean, you go play against the Cowboys, you got to walk through. They're in, like, they're pretty much in your locker room, the people. That damn club Jerry's got down there. You got to walk through a club, a sports bar. Dave and Buster's down there. Literally. It's like walking through Dave and Buster's.

You got freaking cheerleaders on the poles and stuff. It's crazy. Gosh. It's fun when one will stick out of the crowd and you just like hear that there was a clip when we were doing your documentary you coming off the field like getting pulled into the locker room after all

like interviews and stuff and I just remember specifically it was on my phone and like it's just crowd yeah MVP chance or whatever and then like out of nowhere someone goes Julian Edelman sit on my face. Nice. I just like stuck out of just like ambient noise.

Oh, my gosh. I had to find that. New Orleans was also crazy. Like my first time going, we played in New Orleans in 09 on an away game. And it was the first time i saw like louisiana people like going crazy they had like umbrellas indoor this is an indoor thing like they had this like chant thing that was fucking cool those people got it place got rowdy when the saints go no but they had this thing like after first downs they would do i forgot what it was

it was i was a third quarterback because I broke my arm and I was an emergency quarterback. So I can only go in if both the quarterbacks went in. So I was dressed, but I really wasn't playing. So I was just watching these people like, man, these guys are fucking crazy. Super dumb, baby. Jets fans were always fun. I love going and playing the jets

new yorkers you know you're gonna win just that but like it was always just fun because new york people fucking hate us they hated us just inherently you'd see like a 12 year old saying fuck you did you play many mom with him did you play you played a couple giants road games yeah let's just say nah did you notice a difference between jets and giants fans or is it all just I'm with him. Did you play? You played a couple of Giants road games, yeah? It's the same. Nah. Did you notice a difference between Jets and Giants fans, or is it all just New York? Yeah, there's a difference between Jets and Giants fans.

There is. 100%. What is that? The Jets are, that Jet fan are, like, more cranky. They haven't won in a long time. You know what I mean? Since Joe Namath. You know, there's almost, like, the Giants fans think they're a little classier

than the Jets fans. That's what they think. That's what they think. They probably are, but I don't know. Jets fans are just, it's so, I don't understand it. It's hard because those people have lost for so many times. Oh, Brandon Marshall's over here telling me to pump the brakes on the Jets fans. He loves the Jets.

Guy was there for a cup of coffee. He claims them every time we did TV together. Big Fireman Ed guy. We fired him. He did. You put him in a... We fired Fireman Ed. Fireman Ed, Brandon called him.

He just said he called him at the fire station and said, Fireman Ed, we need you to come back. He caught him mid-sliding down the pole. Oh, hey, it's Brandon. What's up, dude? We'll be right back after this quick break. All right, here we go. It's Cam Jordan from the New Orleans Saints

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Got lost in storage. Now we are going to open some of them up right now let's see what we got in these bad boys this is going to be very visual so this is a good time to plug into your youtube guys because podcasting showing things is very hard oh this is this is what we got here, huh? Old Kent State jersey that they sent me. There it is. We didn't wear this one, though.

This is one of their teams. The other teams, we never had this cool stuff. I remember when I was at Kent, it was the first time we got stitch-ons. Wow. Our whites were the freaking terrible iron-ons. Screen print. Screen print.

I was like, can we get a goddamn stitch-ons? Division I football. Cliff. Our equipment guy was Cliff, I think. Cliff, can we get a goddamn stitch-ons? And we got one. Our game jerseys were stitch-ons. Let's go.

It was like a big thing. Who did you guys wear back then? New Balance, bro. Oh, New Balance. Wow, I forgot about that game clee i don't know what game these are i had to get the levin wide i had to put a freaking plate in here because my freaking clee i wore these clunkers the j11 on the back tight shout out for it's probably brandon brandon or jimmy neutron bobby balls was more my thrower but all the equipment guys were my guys and i was i was endorsed by puma as an athleisure brand and also with cutters so i was like one of the first to start painting

cleats because i had to because they couldn't they to because they couldn't have a cleat on the field. And so I'd paint my cleats to cover the Nike swoosh because I had to. In accordance with the Puma deal. In accordance with the Puma deal. I put a lily pad on the back. You can't see it, but there'd always be a lily pad for Lil. Nice. These are the rib pads i had when

i i tore the cartilage in my ribs so i'd have to wear a direct thing they would tape on me i'd get shot up it was the jets game in 8 19 right after the super bowl i remember i was going down and a guy had me at the bottom and a guy had me at the bottom, and a guy had me at the top, and he ripped. He contorted me, and it ripped the cartilage in my rib, and I went on. I tried to play it. I was like, oh, that hurts. I tried to go next play.

We were going NASCAR, meaning it was fast. Let's get to the line of scrimmage. Go, go. And Tom calls a NASCAR play, and I had an under from the F spot. It was like some bun or something, so I had to run an under. I ran an under from the opposite side. I was like, oh, we can't cut. And I tried to cut, and the guy was getting close to me.

And, you know, I was kind of going half-assed into my cut because I was like, what the hell? And the guy hit me at the five-yard mark. And I was like, oh, shit, I can't do this. I ran across the field, and I just tapped my helmet. I was like, coach, I can't go. I ran. I can't breathe.

I can't breathe. Ah. And so then next week, we were flying my doc. I forgot my guy's name, but he was the best. And because of the whole the uh tyrod taylor remember they punctured his lung because he was shooting up his his rib they had to fly in a specialist from boston i think they would helicopter him in for practices so i could see if i could play the next week and he'd have to use an ultrasound machine to put the needle in my my rib

area and they would put it with a numbing agent a lidocaine or a markane and they use the the ultrasound so they if you go too far you can't puncture lungs so they knew exactly where it was in the shooting area yeah so after a while this is one of the rib pads I wore, which didn't really help. This is Patriots-Dolphins game. One of those touchdowns was in this ball. I think this is everyone got a game ball. So every weekend in team meeting on a Monday,

coach would always assign game balls to each of the phases. You know, Matthew Slater had two catch – or two, three tackles, you know, down in the 20. Matthew, you get a game ball and they would paint them out, you know. That's insane. Or, you know, defense, someone, you know, Hightower had two sacks, he'd get a game ball, or he had a great – he was great in the run game. You know, Ninkovich had an

interception like everyone there'd be like four or five guys that got game balls and occasionally when it was a great team win which this was the whole he would assign everyone get a team game ball so Bill would say everyone gets this is a this was a team win we all get it we clinched the division on Christmas which with a lot of distractions of playing on a christmas day it like it's hard to get guys to check in that whole week you know it's a lot of things are going on we're regular dudes you know you got families you got kids and so he signed the whole team a game ball and that's what they look like so they everyone get a painted ball and sometimes when the whole team didn't get it,

they would put on your stats of what you had that gave you a game ball, and they would paint them. Cool. Those are cool. That's sick. These are some gameys. I think I wore these in a – I started wearing the Tyson All Blacks. Nice.

When you're younger, you always want to wear white cleats because it makes you look faster if you're not really like a burner. I wasn't a burner. So you'd always want to wear like white cleats to make you look faster. You had to be a baller to wear, you know, all black cleats. I wore these, I think, against – I think these could have been practice or it could have been against the Cowboys where we lit them up. We got to look at that.

Look into that. This is a practice jersey. Every day in the practice jersey. What's with the high crop? Yeah, it's just the thing to do. If you watch from my rookie year to now, my rookie year, my ones were ironed on like way off and stuff you had a long big ass jersey you know the more more cut up your practice jersey was means you

had a little more stripes oh i still yeah definitely thanks dante or dante dante hightower. I don't know how I got this, but I'll take it. I may have just snagged that. But this is a Super Bowl. This is probably the – we used to have picture day. So you wouldn't wear – I mean, some guys would wear the mock-ups. Yeah. Some guys would wear their game ones. This is from lii 53 dante used to get so mad at me

because i used to call him danta because that's how you spell it like ta yeah like you can't be saying that because you're gonna have all these new english calling me danta it's dante bro he's on the coaching staff now yeah that's right boom right. Boom Tower, baby. Oh, yeah. Ho, ho, ho. You guys know what this is. We all know this one. I can smell it from here. So this is the yellow shirt I used to wear notoriously under my practice jersey for a long time. And I wore it as a reminder to every single guy on that goddamn team

that I didn't go to goddamn Alabama, Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, but I've been here longer than you. Let them know. Except Slate, who went to UCLA. Or Tommy went to Michigan. Oh, this is bake. Whoa. I think we did a jersey swap after a game.

Yo. That's a gamer, too. Jules, good to see you. One of the greatest competitors I've ever seen keep balling, Bake. I think I sent him one, too. Look at how cropped those are. That's a good jersey. That's a cool-looking jersey.

Captain on there. Man, thanks, Bake. How does the jersey swap go? Jersey swap, I mean, usually after the game, guys, you know, guys will come up. Usually if you're an older guy, I think I was older when they gave that to me and then I gave him mine. But Bill never liked us to, like, look, assholes,

we're not giving our fucking jersey away. Then the equipment guy's got to go get this shit hemmed up. It takes two weeks. You don't have a fucking jersey for the game. Just tell them we'll send them one. So we would do a jersey shop or we couldn't take our and you got payroll deducted so it'd be like 400 bucks because the jerseys are 400 so anytime you gave your jersey away you got payroll deducted and you couldn't give your game jersey because it would knock off our our our jersey guys and

there'd be two or three jerseys but he just just did that. I don't know. That's crazy. He got deducted. Oh, yeah. Everyone thinks like when you're getting tickets, you get, oh, I get... No, that's coming out of our pocket. Nothing's free. Dragon Ball Z's? Whoa.

Who's in those? I think these could be... This could be Josh Gordon's. I don't know how these got in here. Those are fire fire but it was probably josh because josh always had some sickle it could have been jaw was he a adidas guy i believe he was let me double check it was it was definitely josh gordon this is flash dragon ball Dragon Ball Z edition. They're sweet. That dude, he had some swag.

Amen. Is that it? And that's what we got. Cool. A lot of cool stuff in there. Man, Memory Lane. Shout out to Bake and Dante and Flash and Team. Kent State.

And Kent State. That was the one training thing they gave us that's all you got i was so happy when i got to the patriots that we got free gatorade shakes um what an episode thanks again guys for the voicemails they are the awesome they're they're so fun to be able to talk sport with with you guys you know i remember always listening to those as a kid and i'll have people come in and you know come and support us and and uh enjoy what we like to do that's that's a it's like community right amen we'll enjoy like the idiotness of you that's community it's nice that's poetry right there. It is. We love our fans. Still got to name our fans. It'll happen again.

What's a fan base name? I did a poll the other day. Fan base sounds weird. It does. It'll happen again. Listeners. I saw one general. Nameys. Namers.

G-N. Namers. Like gnarly? Yeah Nameys Namers But G GN Namers Like Gnarlie Yeah Gnarlie Gn and name But you know Namers Gamer Glamers

I've heard the nuts Some people have A lot of nuts Nuts Nuthouse Nuttalk What up nuts What up nuts

Yeah I mean that's what I hear Anytime I go anywhere With kids that are like 10 Because of Randy Moss impression hey i don't know yeah i went to like a school thousands of kids these kids first off they all have phones they're like 11 10 and look i don't know i don't know i'm like oh my god these kids are listening to this shit fuck i go this parental advisory got a principal over here looking at me like, oh, you have a podcast. I'm like, yeah, don't listen to it.

What circumcision? Randy, you've created a lot of little monsters, man. Oh, man. Well, that's been another episode, another great episode of Games with Names. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to your podcasts. Comment a game you want us to do. And remember, rate and review. Blue's Clues.

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