Pardon My Take - Bengals Vs Rams Super Bowl, Championship Game Sunday Recap And Brady Retires?

Episode Date: January 31, 2022

Championship Game Sunday has occurred. We start with fastest 2 minutes and then recap both games (00:02:43 - 00:05:06). Bengals going to the Super Bowl. Chiefs choke down the stretch ( 00:05:06- 00:46:40). Rams vs Niners and the curse of being Kyle Shanahan in the 4th quarter ((00:46:40 - 01:09:12). Tom Brady retires? Maybe? (01:09:12 - 01:25:49) Talking Soccer, Talking Tennis and Who’s back of the week (01:25:49 - 01:43:02)You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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We start with the AFC championship game where Casey and JoJo linked up as Bengal fans have been waiting all their life for someone like Burrow and Mixon. Kansas City came out fast as Michael Jackson Mahomes brother said, Want to be starting something, want to be starting something. And the Chiefs looked like they would beat it going up 21-3 in the first half. But these Tigers stole the show in a manner similar to a Las Vegas residency with Zigfried and Roy. Too soon, boom.

Jamar Schmello Chase wants more points for the Bengals when he scored in the third quarter, kicking off the incredible comeback. And Lindsey Von Bell got his hands all over the ball from a guy who wears red on Sunday in overtime. And Evan McClerson proved he was TSA pre-check on steroids. It spreads. When he hit his fourth and final field goal to send the Bengals, the Cincinnati Bengals to the Super Bowl.

Huh? Huh? The Bengals? The Bengals are going to the Super Bowl. 27-24. In the AFC championship game in Tinseltown, the stars were on display as Debo Samuel Jackson and Bradley Cooper Cup opened up the scoring. Downtown to start the fourth quarter, Sean Gary McVaynerchuk told his whole

team, imagine your entire family just died in a car crash. Now go out and win the game. And it almost didn't happen. But Jack whiskey tart. Oops. Oops. Dropped an easy interception to keep the Rams hopes alive. San Francisco won't be feeling gay tomorrow as Matt kicked the game winner

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We are taping this during my birthday, but you're listening to this during PFT's birthday. Whoa. Time travel, baby. We always kiss at midnight. We do. That's our tradition. It's an annual tradition.

Nobody will ever see. Actually, subscribe to the YouTube. Yeah, we'll kiss. We'll make a special PMTV about the kiss that happens every year. I said I always put a lit candle in my mouth, and then PFT puts it out with his mouth. With my butthole. With my butthole.

And then we kiss. And it's beautiful. That's just what you do when your birthdays are back to back. Birthdays. Great. Let's just do a full show about it being our birthday. I'm so impressed. Birthdays suck.

I had a good presence. Yeah, the dab from George Kittle was sick. We'll get to that. That's kind of nice. Yeah, it was whatever. Birthdays are dumb. What's the old saying, you only get 20 birthdays in your life? Isn't the patent Oswald said that you get like 20 birthdays to celebrate?

He starts, I've never heard of that before, but it makes sense that you would start celebrating around six. Yeah. It's time to start and then probably you probably even don't get 20 birthdays. Maybe after you get old. Yeah. When you turn 100, do you get a birthday then? No.

Yeah. When you're like three to, I don't know, 15, and then you get your 21st, your 25th, 30, 40, those birthdays. 37 is in terms of the birthday scale. It ranks at the very bottom. Way down. It's the saddest birthday. It's a really nothing birthday.

I would actually say that we should be able to subtract two years from our age. These last two years should not count. I'm on top of the 10 you've already subtracted. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm 25 now. Yeah. I'm 25.

I'm comfortable in 37. I'm old and washed. Who cares? I've actually just been thinking about being 37 ever since I turned 36. So this will be, it's like I get two years. Yeah. The age of 37. Yeah.

Billy did ask. Billy did ask if we were seriously turning 37 or if that was just a bit that we were doing. He's been eyeing us up for a long time. He's just been looking at us like, all right, these guys carry the two big cow will be dead by 42. The DFT will probably, it's like twins dying. He'll die like four days after my heart will just give out.

Yeah. I will say though, in my 37 years on earth, I never expected to see the Cincinnati Bengals in the Super Bowl. And here they are. Incredible. Yes. They've only been there yet. They are.

What a fucking game. Let's start with the AFC championship game. The Cincinnati Bengals are going to the Super Bowl. Joe Burrow. Let's clap it up for the city of Cincinnati. Unbelievable. Incredible, incredible performance. They come back second half.

It was basically identical to the week 17 game where it looked like the chiefs were going to run them out of the building. It's 21 three. They get a they get a touchdown to end the first half and then the chiefs go all the way down and I the only thing I can think of is they just like the chiefs get greedy. They get times where they get greedy and they got greedy with five seconds left running a play that ran out the clock instead of running a play to the end zone and then kicking a field goal.

Like a minor victory for the Bengals going into half that we all thought like, oh, okay, maybe we'll keep it close. No, no, no. The Bengals basically use that to catapult. Their defense was insane in the second half. So the first half, the chiefs go on drives 84 yards, 75 yards, 72 yards, all touchdown drives, 80 yards for that last drive that they then get stopped at the one. In the second half, they had five drives, 34 total yards, two first downs.

They got completely bottled up. It was an incredible performance by the Bengals defense. And then you add in Joey B, Joe Cool. I like what he did. I think the game was actually decided with his running on those two third downs in the fourth quarter. A third and six and a third and seven where there was no one open and he ran and he got out like escaped sacks and made big plays and the Bengals are going to the Super Bowl.

So going back to the first half, when you were talking about that drive at the very end of it, there was actually, there was too much time on the clock for Patrick Mahomes to the point where they did the thing that the chiefs do from time to time and they got cute with it at the end. They got the chiefs as much as we've joked about the chiefs like to get cute with it and they're too cute to play football sometimes. It actually happened today. The chiefs officially got too cute with it.

This is what being too cute looks like. They like to play with their food before they eat it sometimes. And they got caught by a mouse that wasn't quite dead. Well, so it's, it's crazy. This is going to sound crazy because you obviously don't want, if you're playing defense, you don't want the other team to score. But if you look, yes, this is a Trent Dofer moment. But if you look at what the chiefs did, the first half, they, you know, tried to, tried

to rush more, tried to blitz a little bit. They let, let up some big plays. The chiefs were rolling in the second half. The Bengals just dropped eight, pretty much the entire second half covered everyone did an insane job in coverage. And it felt like Patrick, Patrick Mahomes actually admitted it after the game that he was not taking some of the easier stuff and trying to hit it deep and trying to hit those big plays.

Talk about him being a check down artist and he, and it got right in his head. But there's something to be said, they, they basically gave them one look in the first half and a completely different one in the second half where they almost lulled them into a false sense of security where it's like they can, they can beat the Bengals deep and the Bengals did the reverse in the second half and you saw the chiefs offense completely fall apart. They dropped a lot of guys deep and then Sam Hubbard turned it up a little bit in the second half.

Their pass rush kind of came alive and they got to them. There was like multiple times where they just, everyone was covered. It was crazy to see because you don't usually see the chiefs getting like with all their weapons, but the Bengals were incredible defensively in the second half. And there's something about Mahomes in the pocket on plays like that where you have a team that drops everybody into coverage. Mahomes when he does like the three consecutive spin moves, every time he does that, I'm like, well, this is going to go for six.

Yeah. There's about to be a bomb after he gets out of it, but they did such a good job covering them on the back end. They were able to limit some of the bigger plays that they had in the first half when it was like the chiefs were doing the paint by numbers thing where Andy Reed was like, all right, just throw 17 yards to Kelsey real quick. And then they got execute that. All right, throw 30 yards to Hill.

Yeah. Okay, I'll do that. And Eli Apple looked like dog shit in the first half, but it kind of it changed. It turned around when Eli Apple got that tackle, young Tyreek Hill, yeah, that that play changed the entire outcome of the game. And we got some drama going on some of this league drama between Eli Apple and Tyreek Hill after the fact. So Eli Apple quote tweeted his one good play of the game where he tackled Tyreek Hill

and called him a baby, which is very funny when you're a smallest Tyreek Hill. Like if somebody calls me a baby that plays, that's just a good insult. And then Tyreek Hill said, hit my line, no beef on Twitter, let's talk this out in real life. I like that. So Eli Apple is going to hit up the baby monitor that Tyreek Hill keeps him up next to his crib and talk this out. But in the second half, Joe Burrow, like he's, we'd say how cool he is a lot.

And I, I wanted to figure out different ways to say that Joe Burrow was cool. But really, you just have to say how cool he is. That's it. He's, he's so cool that I'm not cool enough to describe how cool he is because I would, I would just sound like a nerd if I tried. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not a big fan of the Joe, whenever the fuck people are doing, yeah, I don't sounds like you can't roll your Rs.

Joe. I think I hijacked Joe like a machine gun. I just think he's Joe. Cool. I love a nickname that, that like it was obviously Joe Montana's nickname and he deserved it. But Joe Burrow deserves it as well. Joe Burrow just went and fucking had two back to back road playoff games where he drove his team down late in the fourth quarter.

He's in it. What? Like those two scrambles, they, they, that changed the game. He was able to keep them a lot. Jersey Jerry was next to us when we were watching and he said, he looks like young Big Ben a little bit there. Yeah. Take that with a grain of salt because any time a quarterback does something good, Jerry's

going to be like, that reminds me of Big Ben. But he actually does look like young Big Ben when he was a little bit more mobile and was able to get around and the way that he's not afraid to just like run at somebody fall forward after he gets hit. And like the, there was a couple of times where it like Chris Jones that one time where Chris Jones was basically hanging on Joe Burrow and he was able to keep the play alive. And on top of all that, like you lose your tight end, Usama, like in the first quarter, they, you knew the Chiefs were going to do what they did to Stefan Diggs with Jamar

Chase. Like they were going to try to put everyone on him because they weren't going to let him get 250 yards of whatever he had in week 17. But then Joe Burrow found T Higgins a bunch of times for big plays. Like he's basically a tight end. It's crazy. It was, it was such a gutsy. Like I'm not afraid moment.

Why would he be afraid? He's been in these big games before, but it was like you, you just, and it's got to be so deflating like that Chris Jones play when, when you think that you have them stopped and Joe Burrow, who's not known for his like legs, but he makes too huge. It was third and six. He had a seven yard run, third and 70 had an 11 yard run, both of those plays in Kansas City territory where if that gets stopped, like the, the game completely changes because then you have to punt and, and the chiefs maybe find a way to, you know, get some offense

going. That drive ends up being in their field goal. And yeah, I mean, like people were saying that the chiefs choked and we can get to that, but I think it was more the Bengals defense was just stepped up in such an incredible way and played lights out in the second half. You could say like, you could be like, Oh yeah, my home's choked. I just think, I think the defense was that good. I actually think the chiefs just had, they had a let down half.

In the second half, it happened in the second half because in the first half, everything was working. They could, they could have screwed up every play call that they brought in the first half and it was going to work out. That's just kind of how it felt where somebody was going to be open. Mahomes was hitting people in stride, but then once Mahomes kind of gets like that, when he has a little bit of doubt, he misses a lot of easy throws, right? He gets off schedule and he's no longer Patrick Mahomes.

And I said in the overtime, I was like, Mahomes going to throw an interception. The next play was the one that Eli Apple dropped. And then the next play was interception because you could just, you could feel it. You could feel that something wasn't right, that he wasn't seeing it. And he tried to do that. I'm Patrick Mahomes. I'm going to throw it deep to Tyree Kill in what ended up being the interception and the Bengals winning the game.

I, all right. So I have a take. I want to hear what you guys think. I think that this loss for the chiefs is more heartbreaking than the bills loss. Okay. Because here's why. I disagree. They went shot for shot.

They gave it their all. They played like a perfect game. They almost beat the chiefs. The chiefs were up at halftime. Before halftime, they're on the fucking five yard line, 21 to 10, they're, they, they're about to put the Bengals away, go to the Super Bowl and they, and that all falls apart. Like that to me, it's bad game that you just keep replaying in your head. And then not only that, we didn't even talk about this.

The fact that the chiefs at the end of the game were down, Romo had them basically in the end zone was talking about how the Bengals should let them score. When the Bengals, when the Bengals had the ball with like 11 minutes left, Tony Romo was like, the Bengals are going to take it down and probably kick a field goal here. And then the chiefs are just going to go down and score with the last possession. So you got to think this game might actually be over at this point. But think about it. They have that first down to Travis Kelsey that was basically the perfect play where

they get the first down. The Bengals have to use the both their timeouts. So now the clock is gone. Like you're the chiefs are either going to kick a field goal or win the game in regulation. If you're a chiefs fan, like again, the bills game is heartbreaking. But you know, like, all right, we went shot for shot. It didn't work out because Patrick Romo was ridiculous. If you're a chiefs fan, you're now sitting there being like, we had first and goal from

the five to go to the Super Bowl and we didn't score a touchdown twice because they had it on the end of the first half. Then at the end of both halves, they had first and goal from the five yard line and they didn't score any points or they scored a field goal in the second half, but they didn't go to the Super Bowl. Like that will haunt you forever. I know this is going to be mean to chiefs fans. I think that would haunt me way worse.

I don't think it's worse just because I do just because of the two words 13 seconds. There were there were 13 if you're a bill's fan, there were 13 seconds left in the game. You're on the 13 you're on the step to your your right there to the Super Bowl. If you've never been there, if the I get it, had never been there, then I could say that it's probably worse, but you you got to start like this is now four straight AFC championship games at home and Patrick Mahomes had a chance to win a second Super Bowl as fast as Tom Brady did. And like that's where you want to do perspective.

That's fine. But the reality is chiefs fans know this. You have Patrick Mahomes, who is the best quarterback in the NFL. You're playing for different stakes now. It's not like, oh, I'm happy we won one Super Bowl. You got to win multiple Super Bowls like this is this is mean again to chiefs. At least get there. This is reality like this is what you're living with now.

And you were at home on the five yard line first and goal and you didn't score a touchdown with your offense. And again, I'm not taking anything away from the Bengals. The Bengals deserve to win. I'm saying that would haunt me so much worse than what the bills had to go with because the bills are like it was just the bills got got beat by Patrick Mahomes in an incredible fashion. If you're a chiefs fan, you're sitting there like, how did we not score?

We fucked that up. How did that happen? I think it's going to be one of those things where in 10 years you'll look back at this run that you had and you'll just chalk this one up like, oh, yeah, the Bengals get we should have. We should have made it to that Super Bowl because it was the Bengals who were playing it. Not a little more.

Yeah, you're going to look back at that as being like one of the ones that you definitely should have had. I don't think it's bad. It's not as bad as the bills one. It's it's just not the 13 seconds left at the end of regulation. You had them beat if you're the bill 21 to 3, you 21, 3 at home. Listen, don't be wrong on the five. It's bad.

I'm not. I'm not I'm not arguing that this is a second year. Great Monday. Nobody goes. And it's also like now you're thinking about it this way. The AFC like if you look and I know everyone's been tweeting it, but it deserves to be repeated like you have Borough, you have Alan, you have Mahomes, you have Herbert, Joe Lamar Jackson, Matt Jones, like you have some maybe Aaron Rodgers going to the Broncos, like you have

some insane quarterbacks that look like they're going to be franchise guys for the next 10 to 15 years. It ain't going to be easy every year. And you were up 21, 3 and you had first and goal from the five again. Chiefs fans. I'm sorry because this is just this is just what I thought coming out of this game. I was like, if you're a chiefs fan, that loss will haunt you. I actually don't think that this is as bad as the off sides against the Patriots where

you actually won the game. Everyone was a lot younger. But you were lined up. Offsides. Everyone was a lot younger. Right. That's what it was like. You're going.

They were the contenders going against the grace of all time. They're the powerhouse going into second year QB at home. You should win that, especially if you're up 21 to 30. Also, if you beat Tom Brady on the way to Super Bowl and then you win a Super Bowl and you can always look back on that and be like, well, our guy just lined up off sides. I think that one's even worse. Travis Kelsi is 32. Patrick Mahomes huge monster contract is about to start hitting in.

I'm just talking about the losses compared to the losses, not not putting in the perspective of, well, how many more years do we have in this window? I just think like the next day after the Patriots is probably worse, but I'm doing this. You won the game. You literally won that game. I think this one, they're going to like that and you don't know overtime. You don't know how many Patrick Holmes and get to touch the ball. Right.

This core, like all these guys, it's brutal. They're also really cocky when they won the coin flip. You got it. Yeah. Well, we dodged a bullet because I believe the Bengals sent their kicker out there to call the coin flip. That's fuck up number one. Oh, was it Allen?

I think so. I think it was. It was Brandon Allen. Okay. So they sent Brandon Allen out there. The whole world knew that that call was going to, we knew the coin was going to land tails. It landed heads last week. Anyone with a remedial understanding of probability knew that tails was the play this week.

It was statistically due. They called heads. It was tails. And like we said last week, I can live with losing a coin toss if I call tails and its heads. Yeah. I can't live with calling heads and it winds up being tails. So it looked for a little bit like it was going to be another situation where the opposing

quarterback doesn't touch the ball and the chiefs win in overtime. And then everybody spends an entire week, actually two weeks now debating the rules of overtime. But instead, you know, ball don't lie a little bit. Yeah, Billy. I think that the Kansas City loss is way worse than the Bill's loss. Yeah. Being with big head because a collapse is way worse.

To me, yeah. To me, the losses, like when losses really, really sting is when you can just sit there and just be like, wait, first and goal from the five and where the chiefs and we didn't score. And like Roma was like, there was actually a realistic possibility when we're sitting there watching the game where we thought maybe the Bengals would try to let them score. Yeah. That was actually a real conversation that probably the Bengals were having where they

were just like, you know, let's figure out the clock here. It's right after that Travis Kelsey first down where he basically got like an inch over the first down line that erased the clock. I just that would that would fucking I just feel me. If you look at the history of the NFL and say, what's the win probability difference between having a lead and going up against a team with first and five going into the end zone versus having a lead and going up against a team with 13 seconds left in your kicking off.

I get that. Probably way less likely that the 13 seconds one is more dangerous. Yeah. That probability for sure. But you also have another game like that. This is the soup. You're going to the Super Bowl. You're going to the Super Bowl like everyone's rocking.

I did. I again, maybe Chiefs Kans fans who are brave enough to listen to this podcast today can let us know which one would hurt more. But I this one, if I were a Chiefs fan would would destroy me. So and you were popping champagne after the divisional round. Yeah. Popping champagne. You're pouring champagne on three plays like that.

Like the fact in that last play where Patrick Holmes has to scramble and you're thinking yourself, oh, maybe you'll get it. And then he fumbles like the whole thing would just haunt you. And then you can. That's not even bringing into the fact that if you had kicked a field goal at the end of the first half, everything could have been different there, too. It would have been very funny if Koto was in the suite directly above Brittany Mahomes and he's just like sort of pouring hand grenades out on her.

Yeah. Let's try to celebrate there. What do you say, Jake? One thing you guys are forgetting about the Chiefs is against all odds. They're never supposed to be here. They were never supposed to make it this far, but against all odds they did. What a season. Thank you for the incredible ride.

We will always be Chiefs Kingdom. Nobody believed in us. Who tweeted that? KMBC, their local news team. I love it. No one believed in us. No one thought we could be here. I've got favorites.

Yeah. Even when you sucked, everybody knew that the Chiefs were probably the best team when they play at the Pink and the Bellers. It is kind of house money for them. What a terrible hangover that would be, too, because you probably got so drunk in the first half when you're just rolling down the Bengals and it looked like it was going to be easy all day. Do you think Andy Reed gives himself some consolation chocolate pie?

Maybe just like a small slice. Oh, man. People are definitely planning out trips to LA. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The tax were flying. They probably had the ticket spot. Look at the flights, yeah.

A year ago, yeah. Yes. No, at all. And then the Bengals, again, the Bengals deserve to win this game. I'm just talking from like a Chiefs fan perspective of how awful is this loss. I think it's got to be really, really, really high up there. I think it's also fair to ask, does this happen if the Chiefs don't ban X Factor from the stadium?

It's a good question. In the middle of the year. It's a good question. Who has he been? Is he sneaking in? It's a good question. Yeah. He's undercover as a real person.

Is he going in? Shout out X Factor. He's four months sober. Oh, nice. Oh, which four months are those? Not sure. Yeah. Good.

We're fans of X Factor's work towards sobriety because I think that's probably a good thing for him. I got a question for you about Zach Taylor, because I think now, officially, America is going to learn what Zach Taylor looks like, even though he's been an NFL head coach for what? This is his third year. He does not get as much camera time as the other coaches at all. Well, I think that the cameraman can't find him on the sidelines.

If he walked into this office right now and sat down in the lobby, not wearing any Bengals gear, would you recognize him? I think I would. At this point, yes. A month ago, no. I think I'd be like, wow, Patrick Reed lost a lot of weight. He looks fantastic. Yeah.

He's now will have a shot. He absolutely will. The quarterbacks to beat Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs now, Tom Brady, Tom Brady, Joe Burrow. That's the list. Pretty good list. Pretty good list. I mean, Joe Burrow.

And then afterwards, Joe Burrow, when they asked him about his chains, if there was real jewelry, real diamonds, and he's like, I make too much money for these not to be real. He's just everything about him is cool. Everything about him is like, it's just, it's got to be such an incredible feeling if you're a Bengals fan to know, even when you're down, and I know you probably were freaking out because no one in the right mind was like 21 three. This is going well. But Joe Burrow.

Florio. Is what was he saying? Oh yeah. Florio Kirsten big time. What do you say? I did give, listen, Bengals fans. I have, we're, we're, we're in a peace treaty now. I did give out the thanks for coming out Bengals, which was it everything turned on the chiefs

from that point on. So real Bengals fans know that I helped them out in this game to my own, to my own detriment with the tease of the year. So we're saying the Cincinnati chili birthday cake. Yep. Had something to do with it as well. Also a lot of things. We were pulling, we pulled our weight on part of my take for the city of Cincinnati.

I did. I'm very, very, very happy for all the Bengals fans out there. You haven't had anything to cheer about. It's crazy. Ever. Like congratulations. If you're, if you're my age or younger, you've never seen the Bengals be good. The peak of your Bengals fandom was Andy Dalton.

Yeah. On a Saturday afternoon. On a Saturday afternoon. That's about it. Flora said games not over obviously, but it would be almost impossible for anyone to beat my homes in the chiefs today from any era. Oh, he crowned him. From any era.

Said the goat team. Damn. A team turns out the 85 bears defense showed up in the second half. I can't get over that defensive performance though, because like you again, I don't think it's like their, their offense was, was bad, but it was a large part because the Bengals defense, what they changed up and how they changed it up. They were incredible against the chiefs and you know, like when chiefs offense starts to look broken, it's, it gets like ugly fast.

We were like, ooh, this is not looking good. Yeah. It looks like a, it looks like a toddler riding a speed bike because you think that things should be able to happen and happen quickly. And where does it? You're just like puzzled. Where's the touchdown play? Why aren't they doing the touchdown?

Yeah, this is off. Wait, Patrick, I'll miss to throw. Do you think that there's a small part of Mike Brown, the owner of the Bengals that's a little bit pissed off that he has to pay for all this travel to the Super Bowl? Oh, definitely the guy who, who's still, for people who don't know the Bengals and Bengals fans will be nodding along for this part. Cheapest owner in, in, in the NFL, the Bengals practice facility, when we went to Cincinnati to interview Andy Dalton, their practice facility is, they don't have an indoor practice facility.

Maybe that's changed. I don't think it has. I don't think so. You have to walk across a street to go to their practice facility from their locker room. So it's like, it's a hilarious site because it's literally, their team is walking across, like it's almost like high school. Yeah. It's recess in elementary school where everyone's like holding onto a rope and they're walking

across the street and that's where they practice. And if there's lightning, they don't practice. It's crazy. Absolutely is considering selling the team just in this week. Like sell high. This is the time to sell. You don't have to buy that all those blocks of hotel rooms for the Super Bowl for, you know, for staffers.

You know how you always hear about certain owners being like, well, guess what they did? They're paying for every staffer, the guy that washes the cars, the guy that sits behind the receptionist desk. We're paying for everybody plus one to go to the Super Bowl. Brown is like, Hey, if you're not on the team, like I know a good bar that you can go to. Yeah. Well, you know what? We'll get a, we'll get a jumbo tron.

Yeah. Out at the park. Yeah. We'll set up a big screen out in the field. Yeah. Bring your own folding chairs though. Yeah. Exactly.

Maybe, maybe, maybe like hot dogs. $7 for beer. $7 for beers. We'll give away free hot dogs. We're gonna say Jake. Luckily, American Airlines is creating flight number nine in honor of Joe Burrow to take fans nonstop from Cincinnati to LA. Wow.

Super Bowl. Okay. Yeah. And that's good sports business reporting there, Jake. Thank you. Yeah. That is huge. That's what it feels.

We said it on Friday's show when they get to the championship game, they win it. They're three and own championship games. Bengals fans have to feel a little bit of a relief that the Niners lost because that would have been a little eerie that you have three times in your franchise history that you get to the AFC championship game, win it to go to the Super Bowl and all three times you face the Niners over like many, many years. That would be, that would be crazy. But they, they aren't, they're going against the Rams.

I mean, Terrible, terrible, uniform matchup game. If it was the Bengals against the Niners, that would be an 11 out of 10, but Bengals against the Rams. The Rams wear white. It could be good. Yeah. The Rams.

Yeah. I don't like where orange or black. Yeah. Oh, black first. Yeah. The Bengals going black and the Rams going white would be good, although the Rams going gray would be terrible. Yeah.

Those are the worst. They're going to go gray. They're going to do that weird color. In honor of Dak Prescott. He finally made the Super Bowl. Yeah. I have, I have some Cincinnati facts. Okay.

There's been a lot of Cincinnati facts. We've been trying to keep up with the city of Cincinnati on this podcast and playoffs. And they have the most like average facts that I've ever heard. I like, this is what I love about Cincinnati facts. Someone, some fan, a Bengals fan offered me the, the pig. Was it a pig, a wolf? The Stalin Wolf? Oh yeah.

Yeah. Getting off. No, not Stalin. It was, it was gifted to them by Benito Mussolini. And I've learned that the wolf is allowing Romulus and Remus to suckle on its teeth. The two twins that founded Rome. So someone, some Bengal fan, uh, said that I get that because of the things coming out Bengal's tweet.

So I'm going to take that up. I'm sure he has the power to give it to me. Are they allowed to? I think they are. So I want that. I want it. So here's some Cincinnati facts. One, the magic eight ball was invented in Cincinnati.

Oh, that's cool. That's a fun fact. Cincinnati fact number two, that's where they invented sliced bread. That one might be fake. Somebody might be pulling my chain. Yeah. Fact number three, Cincinnati is home to the world's only ventriloquist museum. Oh, that's creepy.

That's creepy. That is cool. I guess it's cool. And it's cool. I think that's cool. So that concludes. There's only one. Yeah.

It's the only one that concludes Cincinnati facts. You, I mean, Bengals fans, this is two weeks of basically your, your winter got eliminated because you now have no winter. You just have Bengals like buy all the shirts, buy all the gear, Charles Manson was born there too. That's fun. Go out to LA, Charles Manson, love the LA, uh, this is there on flight nine. Yeah.

This is it. This is just enjoy every second of this is fucking insane. And Chris Collinsworth is calling the Super Bowl. So you might maybe he'll be like a Homer for you guys. Good storylines. Yeah. Yeah. And we also probably have, they'll have the crowd.

They'll have the crowd advantage. Oh, it did better. Yeah. Yes. Because I, yes, that absolutely is true. I think anyone who had it over LA, I mean, there were so many Niner fans. What if it was the dolphins and the Rams? I'd say it'd probably be equal.

Just people wearing neutral. Oh, there'd be Miami, Miami got money. The people out there, they would, they would get out there to an arm would be out there buying up all the seats. Um, one last thing I had for this game and the Bengals again, like I, I still am a little bit of shock that they were able to do that in the second half incredible. And it's good. I, I'm going to root my dick off for the Bengals against the Rams.

The Niners would have been a difficult one because I love kiddo, but who's not rooting for the Bengals in this Super Bowl? We are officially bangers. The world is rooting for the Bengals in this Super Bowl. You think Lions fans are? Lions fans. Yeah. The city of Detroit and like whatever part of LA has Rams fans, they're rooting for

the Rams. Also Cleveland, uh, Brown's fans had the worst day of non, uh, participating teams. That's true. Yeah. They were catching ricochets left and right. Oh, no. Wait. The Bengals.

Yeah. They're rooting for, we need to figure that out. Oh, he's storied Joe Burrow's picture of him in the LeBron Jersey, but he's probably a young, he reminds him of a young LeBron, but he's a, the biggest Odell Beckham fan there is. Yeah. He's a baby. I think Odell Beckham is actually a baby.

He'll have a split. He'll have a split Jersey. It's hard when you have a lot of friends in the, both sides of the Super Bowl. That's true. We were dealing with that when, when kiddo was, I said LeBron, yeah, not so dissimilar after all. Yeah. Jared.

Yeah. And Jared. And I'm not looking for anyone to pat us on the back. I'm not looking for anyone to be like, Oh, pardon my take, you guys are always right because we're not always right. We're wrong a lot of times. We've never been more right about anything in the history of this podcast than we are about Tony Romo.

Yeah. America has finally come around to what we were getting made fun of four or five years ago. Like I finally, he was singing on a fourth down. He was like, he was like, Frank the tank, dude, he had the, he had the chiefs in the, in the end zone. They're like, oh, the chiefs are going to score here. Like they, they, I wish we could have bought stock in, in that Romo's overrated.

And again, he's not like the worst. It's not like it's the worst thing to listen to. I just think he's wildly overrated. And I think Akeman and Collins worth are better than him. And we have never been more right than we are about this. I think what you were saying about Aaron Rodgers and Brett Farve, where it's like they, you know, make him the king of the organization, like they gave Tony Romo so much money. We're like, you're so good.

So he thinks everyone wants to hear what he has to say every single time, no matter what, it just gives some analysis, but he goes on these long rants and predictions of things that just don't happen. And like sometimes we just want to hear the crowd and Jim Nance's voice, like that's, that's it. Sometimes that's really fun to just hear the crowd. You know what I really like when the, when the camera starts to zoom in from a very wide angle onto a play as it's about, as the ball is about to be snapped.

And then you, all you hear is just Jim Nance going, here we go. Yeah. But then Tony Romo goes, oh, here we go Jim. He called at one point, I think the exact quote was Joe Burroughs brain is soft and quiet. Okay. It's like, what? Yeah.

I, what are we talking about Tony? Don't need credit, but just, I think people will listen to this and you, you know what, I'm not even asking for people who hate it on us for this take to come forward. Just silently nod to yourself and be like, you know what, those guys, they might have been right. When they, when they said this four years ago, when everyone, we got, we got roasted for that member. Well, we got accused of hating something that people liked only to hate it.

It's like, no, no, we're calling it like we see it. The guy is too much on a broadcast. He doesn't let it breathe. He never lets it breathe. You got to let it breathe a little bit Tony. And if he wants to come on this podcast, we, I don't, I probably won't say it to his face. I'll say it to his face. Actually, I'd say it to his face.

I would just try to get him to go. He did make a good joke about snapping the ball and third down when you're trying for a fuel goal at the end of the game. That way you can spike it if it's a bad snap or a bad hold. That was funny. Cause he knows about it. He knows about it from the game in the Seahawks Cowboys game. That was a wet ball.

As a very wet ball. Slick ball. He was also slow running to the end. He got caught from behind. Yeah. He was. We have one last hurdle to jump in our vindication of the Tony Romo take and you guys know what it is.

Jake, would you like to say anything about Tony Romo? Do you have any words? Do you like him? You say anything negative? I'm more of a play by play guy myself. So I don't think I'm credible. If Jake ever says anything bad about Tony Romo, then we absolutely are right. Could you envision yourself working with somebody that spoke as much as Tony Romo as a play

by play broadcast? You're supposed to tee things up for your analysts and let them take over. Okay. I'm supposed to take the spotlight. What about sometimes when it's going to commercial and then Tony like says, let's kick it to commercial Jim. And he tells Jim how to do a job. Stay in your lane.

Okay. All right. Stay in your lane. All right. Stay in your lane. That's Jake's take. That is the meanest he will ever be. Stay in your lane.

Stay in your lane, bitch. Stay in your lane, bitch. All right. Well, before we get to Rams Niners though, do we have anything else about the Bengals? The Bengals, if they could figure out a way to get a little bit better offensive line before the Super Bowl, that would be great. That would make me feel a lot more confident in me rooting for the Bengals. I'm going to bet on that too.

Here's a dumb thought that I had when I was watching this game. It could having a bad offensive line sometimes be a little bit of an advantage where you just know, you know, if you're Joe Burrow on those plays like that third and six, third and seven, that ball quick, those guys are going to be either get the ball quick or those guys are going to be in the backfield so quickly that you can almost run a design draw without even calling a draw. Right. Because they're going to be there already.

That's true. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's yeah. Knowing your person, I think he probably would prefer a better offense probably. But he wouldn't say anything bad about his offensive line. Then he wouldn't have Jamar Chase. I actually have a buddy who, who's a friend of a friend who told me that his friend was

a Bengals fan, Die Hard Bengals fan and like disavowed the Bengals because they didn't draft Panayasul. That's tough. Brutal. Brutal, brutal year to have that guy, that guy should get a second chance. That's an all time fuck up the one year that you can't do it. Because this was, we were joking like the game against the Titans. It's like, oh, well, Jamar Chase was the easy choice.

He fucking every made every big play for them. This game in the first half, you're like, you know, it'd be nice if they had a really good offensive line. Oh, I think that, I think that interception that BJ Hill had. I'm pretty sure he just had a baby because he did the baby rocking show. Nice. And I wish that there was a way that you could, I could have known about that and bet on it before we'll monitor the baby, the baby situation going into the

Super Bowl because that'll be a big one. Oh, I did have one last thing, Hank, um, do you have anything you want to say about the, the, uh, dynasty of one Super Bowl? This has got to be, you got to be very happy about this. Extremely happy. I mean, and you read, so I pointed out, I was like going to four, uh, AFC championships and only getting one ring is tough, tough, tough look. Uh, someone pointed out that my homes now as, as many home losses and

AFC championships more than Tom Brady ever had. He's only 25. So that's, that's bad. And Andy Reed also with the Eagles went to four straight NFC championships and you get any Super Bowls. So that, I mean, that's just, that's horrifying. I mean, Andy Reed, definitely he, he won the one and we all love them. But yeah, there's been moments in big games or like, what's going on here?

And I kind of, what PFT was saying earlier where it's like time to time, I feel like it definitely hits a point where when you start to lose a lot or you don't win what you're expected to win, like it's like what you were saying, they're going to, they're not going to be the same dominant chiefs for over and over and over and over and over again. They have to change. Like you, they're missing their window. Their window is missed.

The Patriots had to basically, you know, like they had two windows. Yeah. They had two windows, but you don't know, like once the quarterback gets paid, things change and they change fast. And I think I would still bet on Patrick Mahomes being there late in January. Do we, do we know how much money Brittany Mahomes makes? Does she make more than Patrick? Because then they can kind of play the same Patriots.

She, I, we're not going to get into family, but she does remind me of the, why does this keep happening to the Eric Andre? How could you do this? So you're posting the things. You could just not post. Um, Hank, I want to crack open your, your Patriots brain a little bit. I love the way that it works. It's so fun to see.

Who are you rooting for in the Super Bowl? Just like forget that, forget that we know anybody that's playing in this game. Would you root for the Rams? Because if the Rams won, that would somehow make the Patriots Super Bowl over the Rams look more impressive. No, I'm still, I'm still rooting for the Bengals. You still root for them? There's no, there's no, there's no rivalry with the Bengals.

And they're just a fun, it's the fan base. It's, it's one of those things where it's like the bills are similar, but obviously they're division rivals. So it's like kind of a little bit different, but I love a good sports story and the, the Bengals fans Cincinnati would be, it'd be awesome. So it would be a great, yeah. There's no connection between either of these teams winning a Super Bowl and you feeling better about being a Patriots.

No, but that's why I was actively rooting against the Chiefs. Because again, that just makes the Patriots run look so much better. Right. You, you, once a team gets one, then they get a little bit on your radar where you're like, you don't want them to start double dipping. They get, well, they get one, they get one they do are great the regular season and they act like they're the greatest team of all time, pop and champagne after divisional rounds.

They, I, I think some fans might have left after the coin toss. Yeah. No, they did. They did say that they would traffic. They're like, we got this C in LA. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, there probably are.

Oh, uh, Billy, one last thing. I want the Bengals to win the whole thing. You know why? Why? Jets beat the Bengals. Yeah. Sort of the Bears. Exactly.

So, yeah, I still can't, I can't explain the three, three interceptions bro had in three consecutive plays against the Bears. I love it though. I love that he kept throwing it. Yeah. It's, uh, that will be, that will definitely be, yeah, that's actually a good point, Billy. We want the Bengals because our, in the championship DVD, they'll have to be

like, they'll have to acknowledge it. Like, oh, we had hardship. The Chiefs Twitter, Jay just showed me the Chiefs Twitter account, all caps. We won the coin toss. We're like, I'm the maximizer. And then right after it was final. Do you think that, uh, the start of the championship DVD is actually going to be Joe Burrow hurting his knee?

I think it'll probably be that kid crawling into the cave at the Cincinnati zoo or the guy getting, yeah, that, or the guy saying that he's never going to get down from his basement or his attic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or the guy who painted his, we got to be up that guy who painted his fucking house after he got a divorce.

What a legend. I just, if we can find that guy, he should come on the podcast. That'd be hilarious. We just found out when they go there, when they go to Cincinnati. So there are two different guys. So the first guy is the guy that lived on top of his house until the Bengals won a game and he was up there for like months. I think it was a bar.

Yeah. And so the bar burned down. Yeah. And then the second guy was a guy who just the most divorced guy ever. And he was like, first thing I'm doing since I got divorced is I'm painting my house, Bengal stripes, which definitely probably got some, some. Great day. Yeah.

Yeah. The box, primo box. Primo box. And the words of our good friend, Kevin Love, primo box is getting delivered every door to his, every, every day to his door. I just really hope that if Joe Burrow went to Superbowl, I hope that he goes full deli and rocks the Hawaiian pole over double, double coronas in his hand. That was sick.

Seeing the, the, the picture of Burrow and Chate and Jamar Chase's dad smoking cigars in the, in the parking lot after wild, like both those guys. And then both the players, both smoking cigars. Speaking of deli, we'll, we'll get to the kiddle thing, but PFT got the, he got his idol wish him happy birthday. That was funny that he wished you happy birthday on Australian time. So it's, it's January 30th right now today. There's no better way to start off like an ultimately inconsequential birthday

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that he's going to a Super Bowl, I'm happy for him. I'm actually very happy for Matthew Stafford. Um, they look like they were going to lose this game. They're down 10 going into the fourth quarter. Matthew Stafford also almost throws a pick that would have changed the game, but he was good when he needed to be good. Cooper cup is the best wide receiver in the NFL right now. I mean, I know that there's that there's guys that you can throw in there, but

his ability to make like every catch, every single way, and like all the big catches, he was incredible. Odell was very, very good too. The thing about Cooper cup is when everybody knows that he's going to get the ball, he still gets the ball, he, he was so, so good. Um, and then the Rams like defense, they made Aaron Donald and their defensive line, they didn't sack Jimmy G. They were playing well.

They, it was clear they were just going to load the box and like try to get Jimmy G to win the game and then they get it at the end of the game where the Rams just like the last two possessions they had were just so, so abysmal. And it's the Rams went all in. They went all, all in, which they've done like many, many times, but this was the true all in with the, with the Stafford trade, Odell, everyone, and it paid off because you're going to a super, you're 60 minutes away from a flag fly forever moment.

So like you can't, you can't say that this is, was the wrong strategy. They, I love when teams go all in. I really do. I love when teams are like, fuck this winning a championship means everything. It doesn't let, you know, like if we're giving up draft picks, if we're doing yet Vaughn Miller, all these things, and they did it and it's paid off. Cause now they're four quarters away from a Super Bowl victory. So we learned a couple of things today.

One, Jimmy G, I don't think he's a dog. I, I think we can conclusively say that Jimmy G, not a dog. He had a chance at the end of the game on those last two drives when Cal Shanahan was like, we're going to see what this offense can do when it's not entirely predicated around either running the ball or getting the ball in Debo Samuel's hands as much as possible. And they had two just terrible, terrible drives at the end. Even that, well, I, let me back up a little bit because I think that the

game was lost by the Niners when they punted from midfield. Yeah. So at fourth and two, so they punted fourth and two at the 45. Kyle Shanahan did. Now, if Tart catches a ball that was literally a punt by Stafford, we don't remember the fourth and two because, you know, Kyle Shanahan afterwards said, it felt like the flow of the game. We were doing well and we were going to pin them deep.

That was the play that happened like two plays later. So that, that, if that happens, if he picks that ball off, we don't think about the fourth and two, but I agree with you. That fourth and two punt is like when you run the ball, like the Niners run the ball and also it was fourth and two, but remember it was second in one and they ran, and they ran two plays like basically right up the middle where the Rams are doing everything to stop the run. They didn't do anything outside and then they punt fourth and two.

It's crazy. Okay. So I agree with the game flow that, that Kyle Shanahan said where it didn't feel like it was the right time to go for in fourth and two, but Sean McVey also challenged that call, which everybody in the stadium knew he was not going to win this challenge. He had a couple of those today where he was doing the old Vic Fangio of, he was so mad.

I just, I just really hope that the result of that play isn't what I already saw. So I'm going to challenge it. Yeah. They had no timeouts with like nine minutes left. Yeah. Sean McVey, you probably have someone else do the challenges in the Super Bowl. I love nothing more than when people are like, that's coaching malpractice. Yeah.

It's malpractice, Sean McVey, but I agree that it wasn't the right time to, uh, to go for it on fourth down. I didn't feel right until McVey did the dumb challenge and then lost the dumb challenge as you were already in punt formation. At that point, I say you just stick it to him. You're like, this idiot gave me too much time to think about my fourth down play call. So I'm going to go for it and make him feel stupid as shit.

If we convert this fourth down, I think that was the right opportunity to masculine them right there. Yeah. No, and it's just, I don't know what, like your fourth and two on the 45, on the opponent's 45, you run the ball better than anyone in the NFL. And one, you didn't give the ball to Debo Samuel at all in the fourth quarter, which is crazy. That is crazy to me.

Debo Samuel is your fucking everything. He is your everything. Like it was the Niners offense works because Debo Samuel, like every time they ran the ball with anyone else and I like Elijah Mitchell, but Debo Samuel is just a difference maker every single time he touches the ball. And it just was like, what are you doing? So Kyle Shanahan now, and I like Kyle Shanahan, but it's, there's enough evidence out there to say something is up with Kyle Shanahan late in game.

So the last four times, uh, and there's been a Super Bowl or championship game where a team has blown a double digit lead in the fourth quarter. Kyle Shanahan has been part of three out of four of those. He had the Falcons were up 28 to nine against the Patriots going into the fourth quarter. Now he was the offense coordinator. So you can't, he doesn't, he doesn't, it's not all him. They Niners were up 20 to 10 in the Super Bowl against the chiefs going

into the fourth quarter and the Niners were up 17, seven against the Rams today going in the fourth quarter. So four times it's happened. It, the last four times, three of them have been Kyle Shanahan. Something happens. And I even think like with the last drive, you have a minute and a half, do they have one timeout or no timeouts? I think they had one timeout.

I think they had a timeout. Why not run the ball? And first down, when finally the Rams are probably in a light box because they think you're going to throw like you have a minute and a half. You need a field goal to go to overtime. You need to touch down to win. Like they just, I, it made no sense. Hey, panic, like let's try to get it all in one play.

That's not what Jimmy G. Does run the ball a couple of times. And I know you have to get fast and you have to do it quickly, but at least you get yourself going in the right direction. Cause they're last, what, like five or six offensive snaps. They didn't get any yards. It was crazy. I think it was even more than that.

And they, I think they got a sack too. Yeah. So it was like, they got negative yards, at least they completed, they completed a pass that was behind the lines. So they got negative yards. I think it's, it's not unrealistic to think that Kyle Shanahan was letting Jimmy G decide his own future in the fourth quarter. I don't know about that.

Whereas like we're going to see what he can do and we'll see if he's the guy or not. I, and if he's able to go out there and win the game and prove, cause listen, I liked, I liked Jimmy G. I think he's like a perfectly fine average quarterback, but they're paying him. I think his contract was like 125 million and he's do another 27 million or something like that next year. But he's got, they got a big decision to make on the Niners this off season,

which is you can cut Jimmy G or trade him and save almost all that money. Yeah. No, I, I, I know, I know you're saying, give him a chance to, to prove if he's going to be the guy for the longterm. And, uh, you know, there, there were a lot of factors that went into the last couple of drives. Are you saying they didn't give it to Devo Samuel for that reason? No, I'm just saying they probably trusted him to go out and make a bunch of

throws instead of using more of the running game. I think he's got, I think he's got an issue with fourth quarter tight games. Like we've seen it. He, it's something happens. He calls the game one way and then they get to the fourth quarter and it's like, Hey, what happens here? And it's happened multiple times to him that didn't have to do it.

Not going to Devo at all is, is very, very puzzling. Yeah. I think they just like, I something, something doesn't click for Kyle Shanahan late in the game. I agree. I think that the Niners should fire him and that the Washington football team should sign them to be their head coach immediately as punishment. It's just bet.

So six plays, 36 yards in a punt, three plays minus five yards in a punt. And then the last drive was, was three plays in an interception. So which I don't, the interception at the end, I had to do something with the ball, but it was, the Niners had this game and they, I mean, the tart drop will just haunt them because that was, that was as easy of interception as you could ever get. I'm not a math guy, but they had no time. Not until that happened.

Like, could they have not even given the Rams the ball back? Yeah. They could have just run the ball if they got first downs. Yes. Yes. They absolutely. And the Rams didn't have any timeouts because they lost two challenges. And then McVay called a timeout on first down to prevent a delay of game.

I say, just, just eat the five yards. It's five yards, bro. Yeah. Come on. Five yards. You want, I keep five yards underneath. I can find five yards, five yards, like in the cushions of my couch, five yards, doesn't matter.

That timeout is going to be worth way more. Yes. Actually, I'd be interested to see somebody do like some sort of conversion to timeouts to yards. How, how many yards on average? Cause I'm sure someone's figured out. Someone's figured it out. Someone absolutely has.

So hit me up. If you've, if you've gone to the links to figure out some equation of timeouts per yard, it was, um, but they probably couldn't have, it was like nine 55 left or so when 10 minutes left when Matt Stafford almost threw that pick. And it was, I mean, he closed his hands before the ball even got to him. It was crazy. Crazy. I, it was, it was nuts at the end of the game.

Like McVay and Kyle Shanahan both were just trying to lose the gate. Like they, between McVay's crazy challenges and Kyle Shanahan doing God knows what it was like, who the hell is going to win this game? You have no idea. And like the Rams kept on trying to run it on first down and they wouldn't get anything. And man, it was, and yeah, I, that was a tough, tough loss for the Niners. Matt Stafford's hands look pretty cool when they're all bloody.

Yeah. He's a warrior. He bloodied up his right hand. Fucking guy. I think his left elbow was all cut up. Probably going to get stitches on there. I'm, I'm very happy for him. I'm happy for Matt Stafford.

I'm happy for his family. I'm happy for any, any Lions fan that has stuck through Matt Stafford for thick and thin, happy for a lot of guys in the Rams. Do we still get a sweet at the Super Bowl? Does McVay owe us a sweet because he never paid us that sweet last time. That's true. He said, and I quote, I'll get you guys a sweet with a dessert cart and open bar if I make a Super Bowl.

Yeah. That's a direct quote. And he remembers it because he remembers everything. He does. He's, he, the man forgets nothing. I'm looking at it again. The, yeah, it's, it's baffling what like the fact they didn't try to get Debo Samuel the ball even in a screen because the Rams did run the ball.

I mean, they did stop the run pretty well. Like the, the Niners rushed 20, 20 rushes, whoa, 20 rushes for 50 yards. So it was very clear they were going to, they were just basically going to sell out on the run, but yeah, that was that Kyle Shanahan's got something, something's up in his head when it gets, when it gets the fourth quarter and he's got a lead. You almost rather him not have a lead because he just blows it. Do you think there's like a specialty position on an offensive play calling staffer guy that just takes the fourth quarter?

Kyle Shanahan needs that. He needs that. He needs, he needs a clutch or he needs someone to come and just be like, Hey, it's a new rule. We're actually going to play the first quarter again. Yeah. It's going to go first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, first quarter. In the back of my head, I'm always like, can I really trust the guys judgment?

Who has Chris Sims's initials tattooed on his leg? No, probably not. The answer is no. And the Rams, I mean, they, they just like, they're a really good football team. They're a really good football team. Their defense is like, did enough. They're, I Cooper cup, I can't get over how good he fucking is. It's crazy.

And they also had two Odell and Cooper cup had over a hundred yards. So they were like, they moved the ball pretty well. They just didn't get touchdowns when they, you know, they needed to at certain points in the game, but they're a really, really good football team. I don't know how the Bengals are going to block them because I felt like Aaron Donald was neutralized a little bit today. But even then, like we had that play at the end of the game that basically was the interception and you still have on Miller.

You still have a lot of other good guys. If we were to try to do our Sabre metrics thing that we did last week with the guy off, I think it's a bloodbath in favor of the Rams. You want to try? Yeah, I'll do Bengals. Okay. All right. Joe Burrow, Matt Stafford, Mark Chase, Cooper cup, Hendrickson, Odell Beckham,

Eli Apple, Jalen Ramsey, Joe Mixon, Aaron Donald, T Higgins, Vaughn Miller. I don't know about a guys. There's some defensive guys on the Bengals have Sam. Oh, reader was good. Was it? Yeah. He's a fullback. Um, Eric Weddle.

You even save on Miller yet? He's a dude. No, I'm saving him. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's bad. Oh, Evan McPherson is definitely a guy. Uh, Matt Gay.

Not a guy. Mr. They got the kicker. That's very close minded of you. They got the kicker. I kiss through fire. Love is love. I mean, oh, shortly it's almost been.

Yeah. Happy birthday to Stu. Yeah. We're about to kiss. Yeah. Yeah. Happy birthdays to find her. Uh, you want to talk about your pregame conversation with, with Greg and how

that all unfolded. Yeah. So, uh, well, it actually started, I think Greg got duped by, uh, memes because he sent me so memes tweeted an Adam Schafter tweet, uh, during the Brady hysteria, Adam Schafter, Schafter. There was his Castellanos. He, he's been a hundred favorite. He's just been sitting there waiting it out and he did it.

Hundred K. So, uh, Greg, George, uh, DM'd it to me and I laugh. I was like, let's have a fucking day. And he hit me back. He's like, if I get the opportunity, I'm going to dab in the end zone for your birthday and then he scored and then he dabbed and it was incredible. And then they didn't score after that, but I love them forever for it. Not that I didn't love them before that, but I felt like the little sick kid that

Babe Ruth hit two home runs for. You should ask him for two dabs. Yeah. It was, it was a good dab. It was a great dab. It was an aggressive dab. I wish he was in the Super Bowl. It was, it was actually just a sick catch too.

Yeah. It was sick catch. We knew we could see it too. We were like, oh, kiddos open. That's one of the throws that Jimmy G is elite at. Yeah. Jimmy G can make some, he can make some plays. I just, I don't know.

I, I, uh, I think this actually makes me think how, how bad does Trey Lance look in practice? Yeah. That they haven't even tried to bring him in on certain packages. And Jimmy G wasn't playing that bad all game. He wasn't. He, the problem was Jimmy G threw a couple of touchdowns. They only, they only win playoff games when Jimmy G doesn't throw touchdowns.

Yeah. That kid will touch down the fact that he dabbed for my birthday in the NFC championship game. I'll always have that best birthday gift I got by far. And that's including my son scribbling on a card nonsense. So thank you. Thank you. And I, I mean, I love George kill.

I hope he wins the Super Bowl. I fucking love him. He's like, he's like a one AWL. Wouldn't you say? Definitely. He's got to be like all the way up the first time we met him. It was like, he interviewed, uh, it was a Joe, Joe Staley. Yeah.

And they're like, Oh, this guy can, can you come take a picture with one of these guys on that team? Yeah. On that was almost like a Babe Ruth sick kid moment. Like, can you come say hi to this young kid that really likes it? And then he's paying it back to me with birthday dabs. I mean, what's better than a birthday dab? It was great too.

There was like some other people being like, did George kill just dab. It's like, he did it for a young 37 year old boy. Well, kid was smiling. He was Jersey was up in our radio studio too. And nobody knew who kiddo was at that point. Yeah. They're like, Oh, we just have a random niners Jersey.

I just wish you that one because that's, but I'll have it forever. I'll have the dab forever. I'll be like, you know, that guy who's going to be a hallfamer. He dabbed for me after, after touchdown in the NFC championship. I hope he doesn't get fine for that. The dab. Yeah. No, it's actually showing how to cover your, your nose when you sneeze.

He saved lives. Yes. You saved lives. He did. I did not realize going into this game that Sean McVeigh's dad was named Timothy. Who? That was, they didn't put, they didn't put that on the screen. Yeah.

For a good reason. I think. Yeah, they definitely didn't. That would have been, that would have been a bad screen shot. We're going to save Bubba. Another random PMT connection. I once went on vacation with Sam Hubbard. Really?

When I was like very young. Yeah. My, my, my, my best friend, Tim, I like went with his family. And I guess they're like family friends were like, have the house next to them. So I met the kid when I was like eight years old, but like didn't know. So we got to try to, we got to try to find him super weak. Yeah. We should like, you remember him.

I'll try to get him on. I like only knew when he like went to Ohio State. I was like, oh, that's really funny. He's an AWL too. Like a very long time ago. All right. Shout out Sam Hubbard. Yeah.

Shout out Sam. Yeah. Tell us about that vacation. Also Rob Lowe, no longer neutral. Whoa. He was rooting for the Rams. Yeah. Sad.

I do feel bad. And there's like a few Rams fans that are like, why don't you guys give us credit? You guys are a fucking really good team. Just America is going to root for the Bengal. Sorry. Just know the fact that you're going to live in LA. You're getting out cheered at your home. Yeah, you live in LA.

Your life is pretty sick. You have like an infinity number of free agents that you sign every year. You're very talented. Probably the most talented team in the NFL on paper. Yeah. I think they went a guy off against any other team actually. Yeah. Very good team.

But guess what? When you're a very good team with elite talent, we're probably going to root against you when you're going up against the scrappy guys from the Midwest. Featuring a quarterback that we love and adore. Yes. And I mean, this is, this is what I was explaining to the Chiefs fans before the weekend started. It's like, Hey, guess what?

Chiefs fans like America is not rooting for you guys anymore. Like this is what we do. Also a winner. You get, you get most people rooting against you. Also, you won't find a bigger St. Louis podcast than us right here. We're standing up for the city of St. Louis. I don't know about that. Yeah.

Yeah. No, we love St. Louis. All of us. Truly. Do you think Stafford has to win for it to affect his hall of fame? No, he's the Hall of Famer. I actually, this, the Stafford Hall of Fame take is aging beautifully for me because I got laugh.

I just went back and looked people were fucking roasting me for it. And I always said, if he, he has insane, like he's amassed an insane amount of numbers because he's so durable and he threw so many yards and touchdowns. All he needed was a deep run. I think this is it. If he wins one, it's an absolute no doubter, but I think if he gets, you know, he's gotten to this Super Bowl who probably have, I don't know, four or five more years. He's going to probably win a few more playoff games.

It's, yeah, he's, if you look at it, his resume is up there. I agree. He will definitely, I mean, it will be a, it's a sign of obviously the times and the way the league works now with passing, but Matt Stafford has had a very, very good career that like, when you look at it, you're like, whoa, he's got that. I'm going to look at it right now. I actually think that anybody that plays for 11 years in Detroit

should make the hall of fame as a general thumb. If you're, if you're able to survive kind of like Joe Thomas in Cleveland, if you play through that much shit for that long and you keep coming back and you keep playing at a pretty decent level, I feel like that cements you as a hall of fame. So Stafford has, uh, let's see yards. He's got 45,000 yards and he's got 282 touchdowns. I mean, he's going to end up like, I don't know, 60,000, probably more.

And he's getting up like north of 350 touchdowns. That's going to be, that's going to be up there. He's going to be like top 10 for both, which is crazy. Ooh, we've got two first overall picks planning against each other in Superbowl. Yes. Also as the SEC conference, uh, tweeted out to, to SEC quarterbacks. I love it. SEC.

I love it. Yep. Just keep winning. Matt Stafford Southern LSU. Yeah, it's good. I mean, I'm, I'm excited. It's a fun, something different, a different Superbowl. It's great for new LSU people because they love OBJ too.

Yep. Oh yeah. New colors in the Superbowl. Yeah. Happy birthday, PFT. There we go. Fish. Oh, wow.

Happy birthday, PFT. Now we kiss. Okay. You want this? Yeah. I want to look up top 10 passing. I think Matt Stafford might already be there. And I guess you'll just have to judge if he wins the Superbowl, it's over, right?

Yeah. Then, then, no, I agree with you. I think that he is, I think he's a Hall of Famer. Yeah. He, right now he's 12 overall passing. So passing yards. Yeah. No, he's going to be a Hall of Famer.

And I'm going to dig up those tweets. Fine. Cause where I get a win. Got to, got to celebrate the wins. Speaking of Hall of Fame, let's, let's do another ad. And then we will talk about Tom Brady. I just got a text, the first text. Guess who sent me the first happy birthday text?

Mincey. No. Nate. Oh, Stu. Steven Chey. Oh, there we go. And he says, happy 37th, buddy. The Bucks won the Superbowl in 37.

And hopefully this year is super for you. Oh my God. Thanks, Steven. I appreciate it. Like he had, he had that one a hundred percent. Like, can you draft a text to send at a certain time? I think he had that one. Anyone could attend.

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I'm part of my take. We're going to see which one of these younger guys can, can build the biggest portfolio and start saving right now. Okay. Uh, Henry. Yes. Tom Brady retired, we think, but maybe not. Not according to, you know, hasn't come from his mouth yet.

So I'm saying he's not retired yet. So the news broke on Saturday, like a bombshell, you know, everyone, that's all anyone's talking about all day Saturday. It was Adam Schefter and Jeff Darlington. I choose to, uh, ignore the Jeff Darlington part if he's wrong, because I like Jeff, um, and I like Adam too, but I also like to stick it to Adam. Who doesn't he, they announce it, they report it. Then we get a report that Tom Brady's not retired, or at least he hasn't made

a decision yet. He called the bucks said, I have not made a decision. Bruce Aaron's like, I talked to him. He's not made a decision. Uh, then Schefter goes on half time of Kentucky, Kansas, basically says I'm sticking with it. He's retired. He's going to retire.

This is the story. I, I don't know what I, I'm hoping that Tom Brady comes back another year just to stick it to Schefter. That would be so incredible. I, I just thought when I read that, that, um, he jumped the gun a little bit. I think that Schefter and Jeff Darlington have some sort of information because I saw Seth Wickersham wrote that article for ESPN.com, alluding to, uh, Tom Brady and his team, putting the finishing touches on a retirement video

that apparently wasn't done yet. Apparently they know that there is a video that's being produced and it wasn't ready to drop. And so when Schefter reported it, Brady's pissed off because he's like, Hey, my video is not done yet. We're not able to publish this. Well, he's also on vacation with his family and I'm sure when the news got came out, he got a bajillion texts.

It was like probably chaos. I'm sure he was like, I'm going to go on vacation with my family and then, you know, announce it when I get back. Right. And, and I mean, Brady on his face tie with Edelman on Friday, he did say that he was going to try to punk Schefter. So we did know that part. Yeah.

I know he literally said like, just wait until Saturday. That's why we had, couldn't put it in there. I've got something up my sleeve for piss boy. But so what do we believe now? I mean, I do hope he comes back just to spite them. I believe that Schefter might be on drugs to deal with his torn meniscus. Yeah. That's true.

Or maybe, maybe he's, he's feeling the heat on his neck because his daughter's a better reporter than he is. That's also true. Yeah. There's a lot of interviews for the MVP. She's pretty good. I, are you thinking he's retired? I do.

I mean, that was my initial reaction too. And I feel like kind of what you said that it probably came out because they had put forward the motion of like, let's get all our stuff together for the retirement, which is probably how it got leaked because it wasn't the inside, inside, inside anymore. Yep. So I do feel like he is retiring. It isn't, it's obviously emotional and you go back through the memories and

stuff, but the fact that he is not retiring from the Patriots, uh, make, doesn't make it as like bad or it's not like you have to worry about the Patriots how they're going to rebuild because they already kind of moved on from that. So you just kind of go, go through the memories. Think about how young you were when he started and now he's, now he's still in the league, still in Super Bowls, greatest ever do it. You think he should, he should sign a one day contract for the Patriots. I heard that's what he's going to do.

Okay. I would imagine he would do that. It's, it's insane if he does retire, like it would be so fitting that, you know, because everyone expected him to just keep playing forever because he kept saying he was going to play forever. But the fact that he outlasted like the Max Kellerman's of the world and he never went, he threw for the most passing yards he has in his career, I think this year, like he, he is arguably, he's probably second in MVP vote.

He never declined. He never declined. He literally outlasted the cliff and people are going to be like, well, he could have played like, wait, wait, did, did he beat time? He beat time or time? No, he did. I think time took a rare L. It's crazy to think about that a guy is retiring at 44 from quarterbacking the

NFL and you can reasonably make the argument that he left two or three years on the table, like that's actually something you can say that like, Oh, he probably could have played for two or three more years. The only thing like, if he had won a Super Bowl in his, in his last year, that would have been the ultimate like, fuck you to time. Yeah. I'm going out on my own terms. I'm better than I've ever been.

I think he's done. I think he's actually done the, the Bucks cap situation is not good, especially looking at what they have to deal with next year, the different holes that they're going to have to fill. They do have, this would be a good time for him to walk. They do have the ability to go one, one more all in, like this could be their one last all in. Like if you look at it, they, they, they have enough flexibility.

They basically would be fucking themselves for the future. Um, but they could do it one more time. And I, yeah, I mean, I, it seems like he's going to retire. It does kind of suck the chapter, ruined it for him. I hope, I hope Tom Brady's people, if you're making the video right now, please, please put Tom Brady's head on top of Antonio Brown's body, flipping off the table and running away out of the end zone. That would be a great ending to this video.

And if you're a Bucks fan, you have to assume Gronk's gone too. Oh yeah. Yeah. I think that like Gronk just, he literally just follows whatever. Yeah. People were saying the bills for Gronk, which would be fun for him. That would be very fun. Um, we should prop.

So like when we, after the Super Bowl, we're going to take a little bit of time off. We'll still have episodes, but we're going to have one canned. We should probably prepare for this in case he does retire in that off time. Right. Cause it feels like that's probably what it's going to be announced right after the Super Bowl. Yeah. That makes sense.

So I was looking at it too, and we could do all this later. I think, I think it might even be this week. It might be, isn't there like a bonus he's getting paid for every four. So there's no chance that they would have structured that in a way that he gets paid a massive check right after the season's over. Right. That, that to me says that he was telling the Bucks like, I will have made my decision whether or not I'm coming back before this payday even occurs.

Because otherwise, why would you, if you're signing like a 43 year old quarterback, why would you say, Hey, a week after the season's over, we can give you a $12 million bonus and then expect that that would be something that he would not just like retire right after getting right. Let's see. I'm looking it up. The Tom Brady $15 million bonus payment to on February 4th means nothing. Oh, from our friend, Mike Florio.

All right. Yeah. He said, uh, that Brady signed a new contract and this means, yeah, it means nothing. Florio always gets to the bottom of it. He's such a legal people. It means nothing. I did, it is crazy to like, all his numbers are just so insane.

I, when I tweeted about the big Ben, cause big Ben's going to get cocked. Steelers fans, this is like war for them because there was a lot of Steelers fans like Kentons, our backyard. It will be Steelers, Steelers, Steelers for that ceremony. A lot of fights probably going to come. Yeah. Like I was, when I treated that, I had so many replies and I know Steelers fans. I do not, when they say shit like that, I'm like, you're probably right.

They're like, it's an hour drive for us. That, that fucking city will be black and gold all week. Yeah. I was at the induction ceremony for Jerome Bettis and it was like just everybody that was inside that stadium had a terrible towel. Right. So that would be the biggest draw for that one. Yeah.

Yeah. It's so, so close. But I bet you that they'll take it as a personal challenge. Yes. Tom Brady, this will be like the last, this will be the last time that, that the Steelers can face off against Tom Brady. And this is the last time Hank can like possibly go to jail for Tom Brady. Yeah.

I'll be there. I'll be there with bells on. Well, especially if it's Gronk and Tom Brady, that's going to be a big showdown and big Ben. So the, the one thing I want to do real quick, cause it's, it is crazy to look at. So I, if you break up Tom Brady's career, he's got three hall of fame careers, which is so stupid to just say out loud. If you did just from 2001 to 2006, he's got 26,000 yards, 197 touchdowns and three

rings. If you do 2007 to 2014, he's got 26,000 yards, 195 touchdowns and one ring. And then 2015 to now he's got 31,000 yards, 232 touchdowns and three rings. It's literally like, he's got basically like three careers of like Steve Yong or Troy Aikman or like name the name. Mahomes. It's Mahomes. It's crazy though.

Like the numbers are just, who knows where the league is going, but like some of the, I don't think anyone's ever going to be a quarterback for seven Super Bowls again. He's the reason why like people get so mad. You're like, you're so cocky, New England people, but it's like, he literally made an entire region think they were going to win every single weekend. And he, they did. No, he made you into winners.

Yeah. Like just in life. He, that's not, I like, I think there's science behind that. Yes. No, like quality of life, quality of life was enormous for people in New England because of this one guy and Belichick, obviously, but no, he, you think Belichick will maybe do the speech before? Probably Belichick loves that shit.

Yeah, that's true. He is a student of the game. Did you see the goats tweet that they had out there that was, I don't know if it was ESPN or it was pro football, uh, pro football focus where, uh, it was like Brady, Serena, MJ, LeBron, Messi, which I appreciate that. Secretariat. They did not have secretariat. Rafa had Kobe, which is Kobe to this.

Kobe three, they're saying Kobe's three of the all time goats. Yeah. Kobe's on there. Jerry Rice, I guess he's, I, Randy Moss over Jerry Rice, Randy Moss was in no rings, Randy Moss was better. Jerry, Jerry Rice. Better resume is greater. That's the craziest thing with the Tom Brady stuff too, is going back and

watching all the highlights. It's like the years he was the best, they didn't win. Right. That's what I'm saying. Like when you break down his career, it's like he had the, he had the, yeah. 2000, the 70 touchdowns and stuff like that. There was a, so when I tweeted the, I had chiefs fans trying to like dunk on me, cause I was like, you know, four, four in a row and not winning as bad.

And they're like, you had a similar run in, I think it was 2006 to 2011. And it's like, yeah, well that was after three Super Bowls and before three more. So it's not, it doesn't really sting that much. Yeah. The, there's like all these facts are crazy. Tom Brady, after his 38th birthday, won more Super Bowls than Peyton Manning won in 18 years and had more passing TDs than Drake and his entire career. It's fucking stupid.

Pretty good. It's stupid. There's also like, I'm just going to assume that Tom Brady could come back at any point in the next like five years. It would not shock me. Yeah. If at his like induction ceremony in the Hall of Fame. Tom Brady announces that he's coming back to the NFL as he's getting inducted,

just to fuck them over for one more year. You think he'll do any type of like, uh, broadcasting or like Peyton's place type thing? I don't think so. I, I feel like he's going to be like, he's going to be a family guy and a crypto guy. Oh, I think he's going to be like a politician or something. Like he's got like world domination, like world celebrity type of shit. He's going to be selling, he's going to start up the Brady brand active wear.

Maybe buy it. He's going to be everywhere with that thing. Yeah. Oh, if, if Tom Brady buys a football team, I might just become a fan of that football. And he just like, yeah, absorb some secondhand. Great. You know, he should do is you buy the Browns, see if you can take them to the

Super Bowl. Yeah. Yeah. The lines would be great. He goes back and coaches Michigan. Shout out Rico Bosco. He had that first. What are my favorite?

Rico Bosco, the guy, the guy who's like a billionaire, whether he and his wife are built multi-billionaires, has seven rings, Hall of Famer. He's going to want to spend his waking hours chasing around 16 year olds in like, he's going to want to go, he's going to want to go live in Ann Arbor. Yeah. And like, and go try to pitch 16 year olds to, to, to come to his school. What if he just, what if he just purchased the Colts and he literally just said, he could say, I own the Colts or like the Jets.

Yeah, I, yeah, I own the Jets. It's crazy. All right. So we will, we'll pre-tape that. Maybe it'll just be you just doing a solo. May I write a, I'll write a poem. Yeah. You write a poem, write it like, yeah.

Heartfelt letter, like a Tom Verducci kind of thing. We'll do the music and everything. We put it in there. What's your favorite Tom Brady memory? The Seahawks, I mean, the Seahawks and the Falcon Super Bowls are like we were saying, the two of the top nights of my life. I, I mean, but the 2008 season with Randy Moss was like the greatest, the, the greatest, most enjoyable thing watching every single Sunday that you just

watch it and you just throw 50 yard bombs over and over and over and over and over and over again. They obviously didn't win, but that watching that season was like the most fun I think I've had watching football. The point spreads on those games were just ridiculous. You can see. Week in, week out, they were favored by 18, 18 and a half points. Insane.

The, um, I, I do think it would be so funny if he spited everyone, it'd be fucking, like, could you imagine him saying that the Giselle has been like, listen, I know we said I was going to retire, but this little fucking dork with a sprained in MCL is tweeting, it has cocked my retirement. Well, imagine, imagine being Adam Schefter and spending all year long sucking off Jimmy G so that Donnie would be happy for you. Yeah. Only you're just trying to get this scoop.

Yes. And then you fuck this scoop up and he's going to say he's right, but it's like, dude, you can't, what's the expiration date? I actually think that would, would probably happen was I think Schefter got good information that he was going to retire that was communicated to him, probably either by Donnie or somebody close to Donnie. And then Schefter put it out. There was some miscommunication.

It wasn't supposed to come out just yet. And then Donnie had to text him via like Brady's thoughts being like, we're still making our entire decision making process right now. Right. We'll have an update as soon as possible. So I think that if the timetable was going to be late February, it probably got pushed up to next week. Okay.

So, so do you think Schefter gets credit if it's a week? No, no, I think, I think I'm being hypocritical right now because I did give Barstool Carl credit when he predicted you, Darvish, he reported you Darvish to the Cubs in December and he didn't sign till February. I said that counts. I did give Leroy credit when he reported Gronkowski was coming back. Yeah, it was like a month, a month or two in advance. That's, yeah, yeah.

So, you know what P-boy, we're going to do it for you. P-man, sorry. We did lose that bet. Uh, all right. Talking soccer real quick. We lost. Well, we won. We beat El Salvador on Thursday, but we lost to Canada and then we lost to the

Canada today, but good, good news. Greg, I don't know how many G's are on his name. There's a ton. Berhalter, the manager of the United States team said, we actually outplayed them. Oh, nice. Moral victory. That we lost. Great.

How do you say two to nothing in Canadian? Two-nil. Never going to crack the top 10. People are telling me like, oh, we didn't have to win. That should never be your attitude going into game soccer people. It's always happy. Every game had a must win. Every game has a must win.

And then, uh, uh, Nadal won the fucking Mickey Mouse trophy because they kept Djokovic out of Australia. You got anything about that? He's a goat now. There was, uh, yeah. I mean, it's Mickey Mouse. Djokovic wasn't there. He was there.

Djokovic wasn't allowed to be there. He didn't fight hard enough. He didn't fight hard enough. I mean, some writer wrote DNP parentheses, deportation. That was kind of funny. I don't think that's funny. It's like San Darno out. Modern people are not illegal.

Yeah. That's not funny. Right. I just thought the contest. Did you watch it? Uh, no. What? It's 3 30 in the morning.

No, it was ending right when I woke up. It's, it's a, it's a bubble tournament. He wanted, but his title is no different, I think, than LeBron's bubble tournament in Disney World. Who cares? Djokovic would have won. He would have kicked the shit out of everyone because he doesn't have the facts.

Right. Right. Yeah. It's cardio strength is much higher. It would have been a real big win. All right. Uh, let's get to who's back a week before we do that. We go one last ad.

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Um, who's back in the week is our sweet Prince Harambe. We obviously were very early on it in 2016. We kind of helped bring it into the, to the mainstream. We always talked about when it was going to come back, you know, it's too soon. We shouldn't bring the jokes back. Yada, yada, yada. But with the Bengals making this run, then being from Cincinnati, it's kind of naturally happened and, you know, all the Harambe jokes, all the Harambe,

like things we put out, they, they do better than everything else. They were selling shirts again. It's back. He's back. Let's go. If the Hude Harambe shirt is excellent. I think, uh, you know, yeah, now if you're a Cincinnati Bengals fan, now is the time to wear the Harambe 69 custom jersey that you made.

And you have not been able to even look at for the last three years because it's just like the most cringy thing ever. It's cool again for the next two weeks. Let's get Harambe into the stadium. We have a, a part of my take, uh, Facebook page that, you know, it's, it's basically like posting a lot of stuff to Instagram posts. And I was looking at the analytics and, you know, everything's usually in the same range of numbers or whatever.

And we posted a Harambe meme that got like, it went Facebook super nuclear viral, like three million likes a million shares. Like it's just, he's back. The people that, the people that find out about part of my take from those Facebook memes that eventually start listening to the show have got to be the most confused people I love it. I love it. Let us know if you found us through Facebook, actually.

We should do a Harambe love to understand your brain. She talked to someone about Harambe death, death, death, is it death? Oh wow, I can hit up death. Not a bad idea. Uh, PFD or who's back? Uh, my who's back is vaping. Oh, vaping is back. Oh, accidentally.

So I haven't vaped for about three years. Okay. Three and a half years. Uh, quit the hard stuff, transitioned over to real cigarettes for a little bit and then dropped off that. Um, and then Jerry was sitting next to me during the stream today and I was like, let me just get a little, little puff because his clouds look pretty good. I tried it and I was like, wow, that's really tasty.

Jerry goes, Hey, well, I've got two, two others right here. If you want your own. So he gave me my own vape. I've been, I've been hitting it for the last like six hours. Oh no. I'm full on addicted again. Seventh birthday. You're going back in time on addicted and picking up vaping before a road trip is

a terrible, terrible time because that's what I'm going to be doing the entire time that I'm on this trip. Oh yeah. So yeah. Um, you're probably over, you're probably over vape yourself though. And then you'll be back by the time the Super Bowls. I'll have more in LA. You're going to be like, I'm going to be vape down.

Yeah. You're going to be vape down on clouds. I hope so. I need to get this out of my system because it's not, it's not good. What bill? It's going to kill all your vascularity gains. Wait, for all these vascularity, terrible for your gains. Thank you, Billy.

We've just been sitting here benching for the past like month. Get an actual game. I like how Billy is the adult in this conversation with UPFT, but it's only for the gains. That's perfect. There's nothing to do with my health, the chemicals, but yeah, sadly vaping is back. Look at the sick cloud though. Okay.

He's vaping and he's doing a cloud. That's not, it was mid French inhale. Yeah. That was mid. Yeah. You know, that's cause our friends and held that was a week cloud. He's going again. He's trying again.

Oh, that was a better cloud. You know, that was a sick cloud. Um, all right. My who's back is Peyton Manning. He's funny again. Everyone loves him. He did SNL and everyone's like, Oh my God, Peyton Manning is the funniest guy ever. Yeah.

That's all you have to do. But Peyton Manning is like effortlessly. I think he's better on TV than he was as a quarterback. He is funny. Yeah. Emily in Paris is the worst show ever, by the way. Never watched it. Uh, I've had to watch a few episodes and it is mind numbingly bad, but it's one of

those shows that's so bad it sucks you in because that's how bad it is. I'm sure there's guys listening right now that are nodding along to me. Oh, yeah. Exactly what I'm talking about. It's laughably bad, but it's again, so bad that like it's the perfect Netflix algorithm where they're like, let's make a show that has enough like romance and scenes that everyone will be like, this is fun to watch, but you don't ever have to pay attention.

You can just scroll your phone the entire time and you won't miss a goddamn thing. It's actually a genius idea to design a show that's for women, but also the guys that are watching it with their gals to be able to zone out and then have semi intelligent conversations about the episode later. Yeah. Like don't make, don't have too much stuff happen. Well, it's, I mean, it's the whole show is a fucking hack. It's, it's, it's a life hack.

They're like, okay, a single girl goes to Paris and finds love. Doesn't she work like for social media? Yeah. Like, it was basically, it was built. The show premise like the devil wears out of it for like Instagram. Yeah. Algorithm. Yeah.

You feel Collins daughter is the main is Emily. It's like a reverse version of that Vince McMahon meme where he keeps getting further and further excited. Yeah. If he started super excited and then he started listing the words in the show. Yeah. No. Emily in Paris.

And by the end of it, he's just completely normal face. Like, uh, It's a genius show. It's a genius show and it's terrible, but it's genius. Uh, Billy. My who's back of the week is the Irish. So Russia was about to do a bunch of war games near the Irish sea, which was like right in their backyard.

So a bunch of Irish fishermen were like, no, you can't do that. We're just going to sail our boats while you try to do war games. And the, the Russians were like, okay, we'll just go home and cancel them. That's all it took for Russia. I keep hearing how bad ass Russia is, but it was just like 30 drunken Irish guys that just like got on a sailboat and they're like, I guess we can't do our nuclear submarine test anymore. Damn.

Charlie over here is puking Guinness. We don't, we don't, we don't hold it down for the Irish sea. Exactly. That's huge. Way to go Ireland. All right. Good. Who's back Billy?

What is, what, what, what, what entails in war games? I think it's just a bunch of boats moving around. You just fire fake missiles, get radar locks on people. Yeah, it's probably really fun. Yeah. No, it's probably really fun until a bunch of Irish dudes show up and then like, we're not doing this. All right, Jake, you're who's back?

My who's back of the week is three on three basketball. Oh, so registration goes live today for the first ever barstle bench mob, three on three, Invitational Tuesday, March 15th in New York City. I'd love if everyone can join. Uh, there's going to be a barstle team too. So hell yeah, he's on it. Still in the works. Whoever wants to be on it, basically.

I know a big cat's itching to get back in. No, I'm not. I've already said I'm not, I'm going to get injured. I would get injured so fast. Is there going to be any sort of like three point contest or? Yeah, there's going to be a skill challenge. Can there be a, can there be a, like instead of a slam dunk competition, just a rim touching competition so you can get rim?

You also get that, like whoever the barstle team is, that's, they have the big fucking bullseye on their back. Oh, of course. Whoever plays them wants to kick the shit out of them. Yeah, I do not need that. All you have to do is go to barstlesports.com slash events, noon, Eastern Mondays, when it goes, I'll ref if you want me to. Okay, we would love that.

I would actually love to ref and just completely make it about myself. Who's going to do the clock? I'll do the clock. Who is going to do? Yeah, I don't think anyone else can do it first. I think that's the first step. Okay. All right.

But I'm, I'm willing to ref. Okay. Thank you. So yeah, everyone, please for everyone New York City, Tuesday, the 15th and watch party afterwards for the first four. Click off the tournament. I'm going to call so many travels. Carries.

Yeah. Oh, it'll be great. It'll be fun. All right. I'm excited. My Kentucky future looking good. Yes. 25 to one.

That was an ass kicking. Wire to wire. Holy shit. Cal might have his guys and I just love saying tie, tie Washington. Yeah, great name. What do you say, Billy? I got a quick recap, quick recap. Oh, nice.

So the Joe, I like your goatee, by the way. Thank you. And we do look like Kyle Trask. Yeah. Well, I'm going to, I'm about to shave it and just make it a foo man chew for the road trip. Okay. Say that ass that you should have saved that.

You should have, you should have fucking just done that. So then PFT was surprised. Yeah. That would have been a nice surprise. Yeah. I like it. Some plants. Okay.

Anyway, it's not Joe. It's like Joe Burr. Yeah. And I don't like chill. Joe Burr. No, it's like Burr. You know what it was? It was when they're old, when they were doing the intro.

No, it's yeah. Yeah. Nate Burlson did it. And like, I could hear him like fist bump. Like, like I fucking nailed that. It's like, this is what are we doing? I think you just can't roll your R's in your Joe's. But he just said, you don't have to.

It's not the role. It's like Joe Burr. It's Joe Burr. Hyperthermia. Joe Cool is a cool nickname. It's Joe Montana's nickname. Yeah. But that's like it's Joe Montana's nickname.

Yeah. But he deserves it. Like you could do that. I don't think you can't take Joe Montana's nickname until you want to super, but it's, but he didn't take his nickname. He's just Burr the sound cold. Joe Burr. I just think Joe like Burr.

Like I get it. He's cold. I get it. Anyway, also, I like Joe Churro Cincinnati is named after a Cincinnati, which is actually a Roman dictator who fought for the people and won. Oh, yeah. I thought Cincinnati was like a Native American name.

It turns out it's Roman. No crazy. That there you go. That's why that's why the wrong yourself. I like that. Crazy. Very good. All right.

Good recap. Numbers. 69. Eight. Seven. Super Bowl. Bangles. What number Super Bowl is this?

Fifty. I can't keep track. Five. Fifty four. No. Super Bowl. Fifty. Fifty.

LVI. LVI. Fifty two. Fifty six. Fifty six. All right. So I'll just guess 56. Fifty was the Broncos.

Panthers. Think we'll be alive for Super 100. One other thing we forgot to mention was the halftime show. Eight. Oh. Oh yeah it was. Birthday ball.

Eight. Well you guessed eight. Oh nice. We're so bad at like remembering whatever I guess that's sick. That is sick. Here we go. Birthday ball. Have you gotten it before.

Yeah. Not a first time. Just me. Oh it's just you. That's damn. Too bad. Way to go PFT. Liam got you.

Huge. Do you think how many of us in this room will be alive for Super 100. How many years is that. Forty four years. It's dark. I was going to say just Jake. Jake for sure.

I'll get there. Yeah. Not you Bill you take too many weird shits and not weird shits weird like stuff in your body. Yeah it depends on how how long you keep vaping for. I'm going to say over under. Three and a half people. Well it's pretty dark under.

Over. Over. We can make it. We got to do a bet. We can just revisit. Super 100 we'll all go. Here if there's if there's more than four of us still alive the four or more will all go to Super 100 together.

If there's less and Tom Brady will be playing if there's less than four of us alive the remaining three two or one have to kill themselves. Deal. Okay. Beautiful. Love you guys. Bangles are a subspecies of tiger currently native to the Indian

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