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Breaking down all the excess at all. It's Steve Rivera and Jacin Salvez.

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This is I on the Ball on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome

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back to tying the ball, you
know, Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm

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Steve, He's Jay, and now
we have breaking news. This is I

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on the Ball, breaking news on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty and apparently one of

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the biggest stories in the history of
Michale Center. Last night, let's hear

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this just stroying the history of Michale
Center. Adam Sanders showed up and played

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the pickup basket. It was not
your sarcasm. You're not good at sarcasm.

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It's such a big deal that even
Sports Illustrated reported on it. I

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wasn't it wasn't gonna be in my
breaking news. I was just gonna break

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it up at some point. But
then I'm flipping through getting some last minute

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things that during the break. Sports
Illustrated has a story on the fact that

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Adam Sander was playing pick up.
Yeah, but you know, Sports Illustrate

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isn't the same sports It's not the
one that we grew up with. Everybody

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doesn't right for them anymore. No, Ricky mannis does, but he's in

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like some Hawaiian shirt and and some
bag. What time did you get there?

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You were we left here? I
think he had just left when I

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got there, because people were still
buzzing about it and talking about it.

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But I also when I when I
get there, out of walking into then

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I get there and I go straight
to the bathroom. I pretty much do

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that anytime I get out of it. That's where you get it. When

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you get here, you do the
same thing exactly. In fact, my

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lead was exactly that with him,
and Coleendo was there too doing his stuff.

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I heard it with there too,
doing imitations of Tommy and uh and

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Bill Walton. Yeah, but he
he uh shot some some loose my understanding.

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He's he's a he's a friend of
somebody on the on the U,

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a staff, one of the managers
or something like that, and and they

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sort of and I guess he's he
comes here his sister, his sister lived

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here and she's getting some medical treatment
or something like that, so he comes,

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okay here people after this came up
he were saying, oh, I

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see him all the time, you
know, but he was here and he

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was playing. And now it's it's
apparently become big big, you're sarcast Your

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delivery sucked. I thought it was
pretty good. What happened? What happened?

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They beat him by forty seven?
Well? What could have happened?

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All right? Okay, okay,
this is this is a head scratcher.

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We had reported that Jacob kong Geka
had jumped into the into the transfer portal,

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and so then his mom, uh
today or yesterday or last night,

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reports that Jacob is taking a visit
to Asu. I'm you doing right?

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Is it? Because you know you
can start over there and you're not sure

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that you can start here. So
he's taking a visit. Let's see.

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Don't go into you don't even take
the visit. Come on, man,

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come on, let him go.
You said, you said, if you

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don't want to be here, Yeah, but if you don't want to be

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here, don't be here. But
don't go there. Okay, you can't

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go there. You can't go there. You can't. He may not go

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there. You can't, you really
can. You know you put on an

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a s u shut a. You're
gonna burst into flames. You just can't.

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Well, to each his own,
no, no, not to each

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his own. You can't do the
zone. You can't do that. I

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wish you weren't a bitter man,
but it's not my life, you know.

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I it centers me to be bitter. It's funny because I have a

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friend, not so much like you, but like you. He's one of

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my best friends back home, and
he's a pain of the ass. He's

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a he's a bidder. The bidders
have the word, and I can't really

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say the word on radio. He
goes to church every week. It doesn't

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miss it. He's very religious.
He says, why do you go to

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church all this time and you're pain
in the ass. Says, I'm a

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paying the ass because I have to
go to because I am a pain in

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the gas. I don't rub it
off like that. Never. I'm not

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even I'm not eve gonna see you
need You've given that. It's just all

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your ticket was punzed a well long
time ago, long ago, and it

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was like, what are you doing? What are you doing? All right?

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More Transfer portal news h Tulia tongue
of I Loo Hyeah his brother,

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his brother uh. He's been the
quarterback of Maryland Big ten career passing leader

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in passing yards eleven eleven thousand plus
yards. He's been at Maryland for four

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years. He's jumped into the portal, but he's got he's trying to get

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another season of eligibility. When he
was at Alabama, uh, he played

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two games. He played one game
beyond the mact. He played a fifth

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game his one year where he just
took two snaps because his brother got hurt.

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It was kind of like, go
on, or your brother, go

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take a couple of snaps. And
now it's come back to haunting because now

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he lost that year of eligibility because
he played those two snaps. He's trying

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to appeal to the n C Double
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so we can play. And if
he gets that, he's in the poor

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he's gonna go somewhere else. If
not the NFL, he done if he

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doesn't get that extra year. And
and you know, uh, there's been

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a lot of discussion about transfer Portland
tightening up the transfer rules and the waivers

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and all that. So good luck. But he I, you know,

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I I have a tough time thinking
that he's gonna he's gonna get that.

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Get that some dude just got seven
years. Yeah, and who knows,

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you know, who knows what what, all the what, all the considerations

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are another name hard to pronounce,
but Ken Neo Matlo, former Navy coach,

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went to u c l A as
a director of something. He's been

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hired full time as the tight ends
coach. You who he is? Right?

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He should have been the new he
should have been the guy that they

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hired when someone someone came right,
but there was reportedly or supposedly or whatever

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wordly the one little tweet next the
whole thing. Yeah, yeah, but

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he's at u c l A now, you know, working his way back

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up the ladder. He got fired
from Navy. Yeah, you know,

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hooked on at U c l A. I'm sure when the job they gave

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him was come and do this.
A job opens, you know, you

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can get a job. And he's
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I mean I I would put an
in position that if Kelly Chip Kelly were

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to get mixed at some point,
well, I mean there's still rum yeah

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the guy here, I could go
there there's that again. I you know,

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I think I think, well,
you know, I should I'll grab

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the clip during the break, Uh, Jed was on Jim Rouman. Yeah,

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he said, he's not going anywhere, right right, Well that's he's

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not going anywhere anytime soon, anytime
soon. But I you know, I'll

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I think his next move is to
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he'll go to another I don't think
he'll take another college. I think he

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think he would go to the NFL. If you get him on, that's

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a whole We'll get him. Jim. Hey, hi, hi, Jed,

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this is Jim Roum. Can you
come back on our show. I'll

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give him our phone number. He'll
call and we'll pren general. All right,

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Okay, there's this really interesting fistfight
going on over at ESPN. I

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don't know if you've seen any of
this, Pat paw. A couple of

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days ago, Uh, Aaron Rodgers
made a very and I'm not going to

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repeat the accusation, but just a
very a wrong and stupid and reckless accusations

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by Jimmy Kimmel, and uh,
Jimmy Kimmel lost his mind obviously. But

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you know, Aaron Rodgers gets paid
to be on the Pat McAfee show,

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and he said what he said.
Pat McAfee had to come out and say,

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you know that that's just what Aaron
Rodgers does. But ESPN actually apologized

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today they did. Okay that what
they say, they said that he made,

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you know, some accusations that are
not true, and we apologize for

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Jimmy. That's that's two days there, forty eight in fact, a little

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slow, a little slow, a
little slow. But then on top of

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that, in the midst of all
of this, Pat McAfee on his show

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today said about Norby Williamson, who
I think is like the number two guy

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at ESPN's that there are folks actively
trying to sabotage us from within ESPN.

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More specifically, I believe Norby Williamson
is the guy attempting to sabotage our program.

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So this number two, he's already
accused, the number two guy trying

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to sabotage the program. Well,
I bet you that that show is gonna

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end. Yeah, that's gonna end
soon. I for one have never seen

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it, and I won't miss it. Yeah, I've seen it. I

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like it in a weird way.
Maybe because it's a train wreck or possibly

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a train wreck, maybe that's why
people listen to us, But it's I

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really listened to it interesting, it's
not really informative. I mean in terms

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of you're not gonna wake up and
say, oh wow, I got to

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see this again, or I get
the information from there, but I get

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it the surprises. He's paying Saban
and Saving and Rogers around million dollars each.

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Uh. But to be the guy
to be the group of people that

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were fired, remember and each one
of them used to be actually what's your

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name from here? Yeah? And
then they hired that guy. Yeah,

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that's kind of that's the run of
my game day and the whole bit.

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And it's like, man, and
then you say, you don't have any

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money and you're paying him this this, It doesn't make sense. It doesn't

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make any sense. Yeah, you
know there have been a time or two

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that I've turned on my TV and
his show is on and I can't change

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the channel. Yeah. But like
you said, with your sons in that

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group, they love it. I
don't know why they love it, but

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they love it. I understand.
I don't I don't understand. I don't

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understand anyway. So there's a few
going on over there. Well see how

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long? Yeah? Yeah, no, I didn't know that. When you

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accused the second the second dude in
charge, when you're poking the guy you

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know that doesn't sign your checks.
But also, like you know, if

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they're paying you millions of dollars,
you know who's gonna win that. Yeah?

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Yeah, you fire the coach,
you fire the players. Exactly related.

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Aaron Rodgers was voted by the Jets
players as the most inspirational player on

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their team. And I'm like,
wait a minute. Don't you have to

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play to be a player? I
mean, like what two plays? Three

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plays? Yeah? And it was, but they call him the most inspiration.

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Who knows what the hell is going? Well, that's a bad team.

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That's just a love fest for him. And like he you know,

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he's the he's the the guardian angel
for for for the Jets. All right,

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Uh okay, Steve. What was
Arizona's record against the spread? Is?

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Okay? Eleven games? How many
games? Thirteen? Thirteen games?

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Football? Right? Yeah? Thirteen? I want to say, uh,

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nine and four? Wrong? Close? Better eleven and two. So they

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didn't didn't I know they were going
to cover Colorado? Okay, Stamford and

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Stanford? Yeah, okay, the
only two games the didn't coach, No,

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there were no fetus. Record against
the spread is eight and one.

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It's Colorado Colorado game that they didn't
cover eight one, so he he.

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Well, the thing is we actually
network gave him some gambling Heisman awards.

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Well, the thing with us is
we we stay away from that stuff with

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Leo. We coach team that we
kind of talk about. Yeah, but

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eleven and two for overall and eight
and one for no fa fa against the

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spread. I took. I did
take him once. I did. I

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did take him in the pool and
I did too. Yeah. I thought

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that was I thought I thought that
was a good pick, an easy pick.

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All right. It wasn't easy until
the fourth poarter. Yeah, all

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right? Uh okay. So College
Basketball Report put out a listing of what

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let me let me count of there's
about fifteen twenty teams that the top twenty

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coaching staffs and college basketball that are
best at utilizing the transfer portal didn't rate

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them, just basketball mit list,
right, And I'm bringing this up obviously

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because Arizona's in there, But who
knows? What did you think is in

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there? Else is in there?
Basketball Transfer Portal? Man? I don't,

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I don't know, I don't.
And Za guys in there? Yeah,

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okay, West Virginia's in there,
Baylor Yukon. Yeah, it's called

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survival now, it's called survival.
But you know when you think about the

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transfers that that that that Tommy Lloyd
has brought in, I mean he's been,

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he's been successful. You know,
Caleb Love this year, Jade Bradley

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this year, Ela Larson a couple
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he sucked at it. I was
going to recur these people, was blah

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blah blah. Shut up. You
know that the two guards from last year,

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uh ramy uh brought me Raymie and
uh the other guy we've already forgotten

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lost the first round. You're entirely
you're entitled, right, you're got who

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is it though? Who was it? I can't remember his name now,

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but you know, but you know
he's been, he's you know, he's

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been success what with these guys,
and so you know, good good for

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just win baby, just gotta win
exactly all right. So okay, it's

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not I don't know if you call
this breaking news, but there's a cornerback

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out of a out of Carson,
California, sixty three one ninety Cornerback,

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a top twenty five recruit in the
twenty twenty five class he he put out

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his top eight. His name is
Hayes Fawcett. He put out I take

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it back, Uh, Djon Lee. He's from Oh, Hayes Fosters,

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the guy who wrote this. Dejon
Lee's a big, tall, stringy quarterback.

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Here are the teams that that he's
his final eight Oregon, Georgia,

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Washington, USC, Penn State,
LSU, Florida, and Arizona. And

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that's the neighborhood Arizona's running in.
Yeah. Yeah, but but and they're

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getting some of these guys, well
not all of them. And yeah,

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they may not get him right right, No, if they can get three

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like they did over the last two
three years. Yeah, but he's out

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gonna be here. Yeah. Oh, you know they're saying that you know's

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gonna leave. I'm gonna dig up
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Show. Yeah, okay, just
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our next break. We've got Eric
Eric Eric Rhoades coming coming in from the

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about, you know, how things
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WAPP, This is I on the
Ball with Steve Rivera and Jacinzalez on Fox

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Sports fourteenth fifty. Hey, welcome
back to you the ball here on Fox

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Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve RIVERA
Peace Jenkins Aus known the phone. We

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have Eric Rhodes of the Barstool Sports
Arizona Bowl. How are you, Eric?

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And envoys? How we doing?
We're doing well. Have you recovered

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from the great weekend that you'd like
that? I don't know if you ever

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really recover from, you know,
working for a year for one day,

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but uh, yeah, as much
as one can recover. I'm sitting here,

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just turn the heater on in my
house for the first time this year,

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and uh, my dog and I
are ready to have a weekend.

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So all right. So there's all. You know, when you when you

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get to the end of one of
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do a lot of wrapping up or
maybe you guys are still in the middle

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of that. But you know,
coming out of the event, you know

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a week ago, you know,
what's the first thing that you guys are

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are looking at in terms of what
went right? And then let's talk about,

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you know, things that you think
you know you're gonna work on for

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the next year. Absolutely great question, I think no problem saying what went

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right. We had a great game
day atmosphere. You know, Wyoming brought

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a great crowd. We were announced
attendants of about thirty thousand, so to

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a fantastic Chamber of Commerce day as
well, you know, up around seventy

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degrees that kickoff almost a little warm
for folks here. But you know,

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couldn't couldn't ask for a better day
and a better outcome of you know,

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storyline of coach balls, last game, things to work on. We always

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want to find a way just to
get more people educated. It's still astounds

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me when I'm out and about and
maybe wearing one of our branded shirts and

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people go, oh, what's the
Arizona ble that's in Phoenix. No,

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No, that's that's here. So
I always always working on educating and just

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getting our name out there more and
more. It's funny because you're right,

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I mean, for anything that's held
locally or whatever, it's hard to get

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the word out, even though you
get the word out almost every day,

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right, It's just kind of people's
retention on an event. You know,

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I do something like you for you
know, work all year for one day

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and you think, oh that's today, Well, well Christmas is December twenty

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fifth every day, right, every
year, So I get it. Yeah,

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it's a tough situation. I mean
we have to see those Christmas countdowns

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starting in December of the days like
just add six or seven to that and

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it's like this kind of almost like
doomsday clock that counts down of ready or

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not here it comes. So so, Eric, you guys put out some

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some what looked like or sounded like
great TV numbers that you guys had,

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you know, tell us first tell
us what you know what that is,

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and then tell us how key that
is for you guys to be able to

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continue, you know, to to
grow this Bowl game. Yeah. Absolutely,

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I mean we we announced today and
really kind of a bunch of different

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publications announced today that the CW at
its peak of our viewership had one point

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nine million viewers. Combining that with
the Barstool numbers, which we're still collecting,

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but last year was right around a
million. I would expect a little

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bit less than that because of the
CW partnership, but we're gonna be over

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two million views of the Arizona Bowl. And what that does for us day

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is that it allows us to go
to market to get bigger and better sponsors

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on a more national stage because they
understand their brain is not just seen here

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in southern Arizona, but it's seen
across the country. So, you know,

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we had Mark Wahlberg's tequila company jumped
on board this year, a couple

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other bigger sponsors, and so you
know, big numbers like that, Well

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they may not seem huge for you
know, maybe an ESPN market or something

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like that. Goodness, that's huge
for Center Arizona because it's just bringing more

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dollars to our community. I know
you're just a week removed from METT,

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but what is the status of a
sponsor for next year and beyond? Is

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Barstool coming back? Well, as
today, Steve Barstool is our title sponsor.

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You know we were. We're at
the end of a three year deal.

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So we're just stalking to them as
we would any any sponsor and seeing

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what it looks like on their end, what it looks like on our end.

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But trust me, you guys will
be the first if anything changes.

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Oh sure, I've heard that promise
before. Oh yeah, I remember me

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tell you the school you're going to
go to. Oh I'm sorry, I

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for God. So Eric, you
know, you know, we all we

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know, those of us who are
here and are familiar with that, we

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know that the game isn't the only
thing that's you know, that's part of

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this event. You know, all
the other festivities, the taco drop on

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on New Year's Eve, you know, tell us how some of that stuff

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went and what were some of the
highlights. Oh my gosh. Yeah,

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So this year. This year we
adopted a new phrase called Pachunga week,

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which you know in Spanish is it's
just a good old party, right.

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You know, there's a game up
north that has Fiesta involved us a little

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more formal than we are. We
we wanted to do that party that like

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starts at seven and ends at question
mark. So we were able to do

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that. I think our pep rally
was fantastic. The bar crawl had about

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two hundred spots available the night before
the game and sold out in about fifteen

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minutes. They had a great time
over on University Boulevard. The game itself.

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The tailgate. I don't know if
you guys to get a chance wander

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out to the mall, but it
was as crowded as I've ever seen any

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of our tailgates. So it's going
to be huge numbers, and then of

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course it's become sort of a weird
national phenomenon. But the Taco Touchdown,

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Man, it gathers. It gathers
the weirdest people, but man, it's

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a lot of fun. And Warrant
took the stage to a packed crowd.

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We had a different location this year, which was fantastic. The Weather Channel

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picks it up again. There was
a website about Arizona that picks it up

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that had about one hundred and fifty
thousand impressions on that one of our Taco

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touchdown. So it's just a lot
to offer. Whether you like football or

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you don't like football. We're doing
our best to bring an event to Southern

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Arizona that our community can be proud
of. And also that's going to bring

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revenue through our charitable giving. What
you guys know well about it's going to

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come right back here and stay here
in Southern Arizona. Well, I think

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that's is the one where I wanted
to go next. I saw that firsthand,

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in part because I'll tour gut some
money from there. You had a

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number of people who received checks a
few months ago. You bring them in

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and and this is kind of what
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they need to survive on, if
that makes any sense, and tell us

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one hundred percent. You know,
we're in nonprofit ourselves. So the ability

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to give five ten thousand dollars to
a local nonprofit, that's gonna that's gonna

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make a big difference. Well that
may not sound like a big number to

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a lot of people, that's gonna
help a lot of those nonprofits we gave.

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You know, Steve, I think
you were in the rooms this year

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when we did give those ten checks. Uh, you know, and that's

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on top of the one point two
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So you know, we're doing a
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Be part of our community. You know,

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is all the like stiff stay all
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about us and for us here into
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how well you can answer this question, because you know, I've got history

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right. I was on the Comparable
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committee. It was a tough sell. It was always a tough sell.

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This ball seems to have been generating
momentum from you know, from day one,

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you feel like every year it gets
a little bigger it, you know,

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it gets more eyes on it,
more eyes on TV. I mean,

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you know part of you know,
with the Comparable it couldn't even get

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a sponsor. What's been key to
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to have this success when previous Bowl
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I mean we always say thanks to
folks like you, Jay, who

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we stand on your shoulders. I
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was a brand new idea to have
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know, I grew up here too
and went with my dad to watch it.

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Drew Bledsoe in Washington State play in
the Coppa Bowl when I was younger.

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You know, those games were fun. I think the difference that that's

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made us sustainable and grow and grow
and putting us on a larger stage is

408
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that, you know, you guys
had such a strong group of people leading

409
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it, but it was a small
group for whatever reason. And I think

410
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it does have a lot to do
with our charitable gives back. We've had

411
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a large swath of Tucson get involved
and a large swath of organizations put their

412
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support in their hat and the ring
behind us. So you know, we

413
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have a volunteer army or Blue Blazers
of over one hundred people who are small

414
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business owners and just business folks here
in the community who once a month come

415
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together to help us and then spend
their game week, you know, between

416
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Christmas and New Year's helping us make
sure that this product that people see is

417
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as top self as we can get
it. So long story to your short

418
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question is I think we were able
to engage more of the community aspect than

419
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the football aspects. Because football is
great and we've been fortunate to have some

420
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great games, but it really is
a community event and a community buying and

421
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that's what allows us to continue to
grow to well. That strategy had to

422
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come from somewhere, That thinking had
to come from somewhere, and you're right,

423
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you know, we were selling the
football, right you know, when

424
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we were selling the comparable at the
inside dot com bole as you say,

425
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you guys are selling an event with
you know, the community, the give

426
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back, all that kind of stuff
that came from somewhere, any idea and

427
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:11.599
where did it come from? I
think that's that's large credit to our founders,

428
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:15.920
you know, Mark Irvin, Ali
Farhang, Fletcher McCusker, and then

429
00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.440
you know Nova Home Loans Canmidire is
now our executive director, and John Bolpi

430
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.880
jumped on immediately and said, uh, you know, what do we need

431
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to do and their their group came
together and said it's got to be about

432
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the community. So you know,
they've spent a lot of those a lot

433
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of those names have spent a lot
of time trying to revitalize downtown right in

434
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our community, and this was another
tool, another arm of that effort,

435
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:44.319
and it's just turned out to be
one of those ideas that's worked. Yeah,

436
00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:48.160
no question. But those are guys
that yeah, and those are guys

437
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that have had success in that.
I mean we talked about Fletcher McCusker and

438
00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:55.720
Mark Irvin Bolpi, all those guys. Yeah, they've had success doing stuff

439
00:29:55.759 --> 00:30:00.680
that looked undoable in this town.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, and

440
00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.400
I'm one of those folks, much
like you guys who say, like,

441
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:07.640
I've been a Tucson most of my
life and I get real tired sometimes and

442
00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:10.640
saying well, this is the way
we've always done it. Well, okay,

443
00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:14.559
and that may have been mildly successful, but maybe if we put just

444
00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:17.240
a tweak on that. Going back
to the credit to you guys, Jay

445
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and you're committee with the Coppara Bowlnninsight
dot Com bole, we're not doing a

446
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bunch different. We're still you just
put some good football teams out there.

447
00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:26.319
We're still trying to do that.
We're just you know, make stuff the

448
00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:30.799
recipe a little bit. So what
did you make or the organization make of

449
00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:36.440
the words about the other other other
bulls that are unimportant? You know that

450
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they're not the big guys, So
why even have the little guys? If

451
00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:44.920
we get that question a lot,
Steven, that's a good question. I

452
00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:48.440
would always urge them to just come
see the two hundred plus student athletes who

453
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come to compete in this game.
And you can tell us all day long

454
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that these games don't matter until you
watch a young man put it on his

455
00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:00.680
shoulder pats for the last time,
or go to top golf to hang out

456
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.759
with his teammates one last time,
or this year, you know, Coach

457
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:07.319
Bowl. Not a lot of people
would have said Wyoming is a juggernaut or

458
00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:11.039
like even you know, big time
on the landscape of college football. But

459
00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:15.599
that storyline was incredible, And you
know, a guy who's had forty years

460
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:19.079
and with coach Osburn and Nebraska and
all kinds of national championship success in North

461
00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:23.000
Dakota State to bring hands last game
and his legacy and put it on the

462
00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:29.440
line in Arizona Stadium. You can't
tell me that doesn't matter to the people

463
00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:33.279
like Coach Bowl, who's been in
just about every Bowl there is. Well,

464
00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:36.559
or just a few years ago when
New Mexico State and brought came here

465
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:41.400
and brought the whole time of Las
Cruces to you know, But I was

466
00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.799
just gonna say, Eric, the
teams themselves, the teams you bring in

467
00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:51.359
are huge, are huge part of
the success of it. Yeah, I

468
00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:55.000
think you know, part of that
formula is due to our staff in kim

469
00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:57.960
Adaire and del ar Bio and Ben
and that who do it a great job.

470
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:00.839
I mean, we sit down,
I'm starting in about week four weekly

471
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:05.759
and we have a whiteboard kind of
going through one our matchups could look like.

472
00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:08.279
And we pride ourselves. You know. I did a television interview this

473
00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:10.920
morning when the guy's like, man, you've got lucky with your games,

474
00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:14.799
and I pushed back a little bit
and I said, sure, there's some

475
00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:20.440
luck involved. But then the matchups
are intentional. You know, Wyoming wouldn't

476
00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:24.119
have necessarily been on anybody's radar this
year to come back to the Arizona Ble.

477
00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:29.240
That's very you know, non traditional
on the Bull space. But when

478
00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:31.720
they did and we would pick them, and we went through these conversations,

479
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:35.559
Man, we're like, this is
going to be a good football game.

480
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:39.640
You know, the eleven win Toledo
against an eight win Wyoming with Coach Bowls

481
00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:43.920
legacy on the line. He was
sixty and sixty going into that game.

482
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:47.559
You know, just some great storylines
and you know, you guys have been

483
00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:51.279
there for most of them. But
that's now four out of eight that have

484
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:53.519
been walking off wins at the Arizona
Ble. I was gonna say that,

485
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:57.480
and those are fun again, I
mean, it's an added bonus when you

486
00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:00.559
have a great game, and those
have been fun, you know, you

487
00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:02.759
know, as as they do right
there. People always ranking everything and in

488
00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:07.319
terms of ranking the games in terms
of were they good games? You know,

489
00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:10.160
the Arizona bil was at the top
of the list. Yeah, we've

490
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:14.920
had three. We have three.
This is our third straight year game rights

491
00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:16.960
in the top ten by CBS Sports, which is you know, one of

492
00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:24.000
the obviously we follow their publication and
you know it's able recueable organization ESPN the

493
00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:27.880
rankings to come out. But yeah, I mean our games, when you

494
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:30.000
have walkoff wins and you have storylines
like we do, it seems to have

495
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:34.160
You know, you had mentioned New
Mexico State who hadn't been to a bowl

496
00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.720
game in fifty seven years. You
know, storylines are important, which you

497
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:42.319
know harkens back to the question of
why bowl games like this are important and

498
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:44.920
wins like that. You know,
the kicker who made the walk off field

499
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:46.680
goal, you know, I'm a
stats nerd. I'm a sports nerd much

500
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:51.640
like you guys had missed seven of
eight field goals coming into the Arizona ball

501
00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:54.640
seven of eight and then he went
he went three for three and wound up

502
00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:59.200
being our game MVP with the walkoff
winner. So you know, that's a

503
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:02.079
game and I'm moments that might propel
that young man's in some different things.

504
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:06.880
So you know, if you answer
a couple of questions, that's why our

505
00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:09.639
games matter, That's why the other
bowls matter. It gives young men a

506
00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:15.519
chance to show something they might have
shown or to cement their legacy, even

507
00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:21.239
if it ends that night. Great, Well, well congratulations again. Well

508
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:23.480
I guess hear from you guys again
one more time when you guys tell us

509
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:30.239
what you guys are giving away in
what you earned. Yeah, yeah,

510
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.519
I mean well that always takes a
couple of months because you know, as

511
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:36.920
things start to trickle in. But
yeah, right around that end of March

512
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:39.440
early April, we'll have that number
and we'll put it out. You know,

513
00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:43.079
we can say a couple of numbers
already. We gave twenty five thousand

514
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:47.760
dollars to Southern Arizona teachers this year
in thousand dollars increments, one thousand dollars

515
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:51.920
for every touchdown scwarding our game,
although there weren't a ton, but that

516
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:55.039
ended up we gave five thousand dollars
to that fund anyway, you know,

517
00:34:55.239 --> 00:35:00.000
just some those hero tickets we still
sold. I think we had six thousand

518
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:05.039
and plus Heroes tickets, which are
tickets underwritten by folks in our community for

519
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:08.679
you know, military both active and
veteran, first line work, frontline workers

520
00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:13.440
and first responders and educators to come
to the game on the community's behalf.

521
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:15.800
So we'll have those numbers and you
guys can hold me too. I'll give

522
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:19.639
you a little tease, you know
when we we have an announcement here in

523
00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:22.199
a little bit. Well, I'll
do my best to come and break it

524
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:30.079
on your show that we'll come find
you. We know where you're at gonna

525
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:32.000
say, you know, I can't
pay that light because you guys being nowhere

526
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:38.280
to find exactly. Thanks, I
have a great date. You to Eric

527
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:45.639
Rhodes from the Festival Arizona b what
I say, although I will say Steve

528
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:47.840
when I think what John I think
of Like, you know, my uncle

529
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face down in the driveway, well
said seven to whatever it was. That

530
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:55.599
looked like a big party. So
that's a lot of fun, all right,

531
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I stick around. We'll take your
cause or no, we're not going

532
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to take you. O. We
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Hey, welcome back to Win on
the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen

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fifty. I'm Steve, You're Jay. Final week of this disas well disaster.

588
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:12.480
I'm falling fast. Been a disaster
for me, Skip, but I

589
00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:15.199
got a four last week, which
is my high score of the season.

590
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:19.280
That means that I'm not going to
have the lowest score in the history of

591
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:23.840
this pool that we're in. I'm
still more than a thousand spots out of

592
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:30.239
first place I've got I've got twenty
four points, You've got fifty two.

593
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:36.719
So this contest ended a long time
ago. My winning percentage is thirty seven,

594
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:39.719
Yours is fifty nine. That's a
pretty good year. That's for me.

595
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:43.119
It's thirty seven is not that bad. I thought you were liking on

596
00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:46.519
twenty fives. I was for a
while I've been on a tear. I've

597
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:51.880
gone in the last uh in the
I've had two two, two and three

598
00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:53.920
in the last four weeks. I'm
getting. I'm getting I've gotten more games

599
00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:58.719
though, anyways. But okay,
so this is it. This is the

600
00:40:58.840 --> 00:41:00.159
this is the final. You won
the best. So I've got to pay

601
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:05.199
your your entry feet next year.
And don't forget the five bucks every week.

602
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:07.159
When the five bucks a week,
I think you're up by forty dollars

603
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:12.960
something like that, me and so. But I'll use it to pay your

604
00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:15.199
dinner. Sent Well, you owe
me a bunch. I've been adding up

605
00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:19.159
the bets that you lost it.
Tell me what We'll do this for another

606
00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:21.519
day. Yeah, but no,
real quick, you lost it. You

607
00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:23.599
lost it over under on Arizona.
Yeah, well I haven't paid that yet.

608
00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:25.880
No, you lost I haven't paid
that yet. No, okay,

609
00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:30.800
you lost uh the USC game.
Remember when the spread was twenty one and

610
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.760
I and you only gave me fourteen. You haven't paid any of the bets.

611
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:39.559
We have just been collecting these in
Washington and then uh then Washington,

612
00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:42.760
right, I had Washington. I
thought I paid the second one. Well

613
00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:45.639
maybe you did so, but I
know your dinner and that was the first

614
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:49.280
one the over under on air on
area. That's probably right too. Yeah,

615
00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:52.159
okay, I get you probably only
well, we'll settle it all.

616
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:54.039
You're probably a lunch and said,
shoot, you're you're you paying for your

617
00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:58.159
own dinner with my money that I
want for you exactly. So anyway,

618
00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:00.880
all right, so we've got our
last fab five Friday picks. It's a

619
00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:06.440
it's all all NFL, with the
exception of the College Football Championship Game,

620
00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:09.119
which is our special game that we
both got to pick Washington in Michigan.

621
00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:13.559
So you know what, Steve,
I'm gonna let you go first because you

622
00:42:13.639 --> 00:42:16.960
are the champion. Okay, I
need to do at least three here.

623
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:21.639
I need to to stay in the
top one hundred because I've fallen fast.

624
00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:24.880
It is bad. Okay, So
I'm gonna go with Obviously there's only one

625
00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:30.280
college in four pro I'm gonna go
with Las Vegas Monastery over Denver. Wow.

626
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:34.599
I think this is going to be
a game where if they win it,

627
00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:38.400
it makes no sense that your guy
Antonio Pierce gets a head coaching job.

628
00:42:40.840 --> 00:42:45.039
How do you fall forward as much
as he has in the last couple

629
00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:49.800
of years. A su I'm sure
must either. Well, I'm sure they

630
00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:52.039
don't like him. Yeah, well
he's got They're gonna be on probation because

631
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:55.840
they and his herman. Right,
they already, I mean already, you

632
00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:58.960
know, gave up a not not
that they were going to go to a

633
00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:01.039
bowl game this year, but you
know they gave that up at the beginning

634
00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:05.920
of the year. Uh. You
know, you know it was hard to

635
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:07.719
look you're looking at the at the
schedule, it was hard to find games

636
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:13.039
that mattered to enough, you know, to either or both sides. And

637
00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:15.760
and so you know, there were
all these quarterbacks. I think I read

638
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.719
you the list of quarterbacks. Yeah, and I didn't pay attention. Well

639
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:22.440
who aren't who aren't playing on?
Yeah, you said that some of the

640
00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:25.719
key ones. Yeah, it's it's
it's crazy here. Let me let me

641
00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:32.039
call it up real quick. But
it's uh, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson,

642
00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:36.599
Matthew Stafford, Brock Purty, Joe
Flacco. You know, none of

643
00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:39.119
those those guys are all starting quarterbacks
aren't playing. So that took five teams

644
00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:44.400
out that you don't even want to
try and pick. I left them all

645
00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:46.719
alone. All right, my first
pick, You're gonna love this because you

646
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:51.559
are a Cowboys fan. I'm taking
the Cowboys. They're still trying to get

647
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:57.119
They're still trying to get an old
game, a Cowboy fan in fact,

648
00:43:57.159 --> 00:44:00.559
to get my the Cowboy fan always. I have a pretty good life now

649
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:04.679
and then. And the Commanders are
so bad. The Cowboys are giving thirteen,

650
00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:07.920
but they're they're they're, uh,
they're they're I think they're just gonna

651
00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:12.679
kill the Commanders. They're playing for
something, right, They're playing to keep

652
00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:15.920
keep their high seats. I'm going
I'm going with the Commanders, I mean

653
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:19.119
the lot the Cowboys. Sorry,
okay, that's my thirteen. Okay,

654
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:22.159
okay, So my second pick will
be the Bucks. I took him last

655
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:24.559
week, I think it was,
and they killed me. They killed me

656
00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:29.840
with with Mayfield. I'm mistaken one
more time with them because they need to

657
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:31.840
win, I think to get you
know, he's questionable, right, I

658
00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:37.639
think, yeah, but he's well, yeah, he's just a questionable guy

659
00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:40.519
for sure. Okay, So I'm
taking the Bucks month four and a half.

660
00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:44.760
Yeah, okay, And the Panthers
are so bad and that's that's why

661
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:49.159
I'm taking the Bucks. Yeah,
yeah, all right, Uh, I'm

662
00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:52.119
gonna I'm gonna continue to smash my
hand with the hammer. Uh, you

663
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:57.320
know, taking the team that just
has hosed me all year long. Not

664
00:44:57.400 --> 00:44:59.639
that I keep track of stats,
but I do keep track of stats,

665
00:44:59.639 --> 00:45:06.159
Steve. This team for me this
year is one and three against the spread.

666
00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:12.320
I'm taking the Lions. Oh really, yeah, they're they're also they're

667
00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:16.079
also trying to get certain things can
happen that they can get the first round.

668
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:20.400
That's not This isn't good because I
took the Lions as well. I

669
00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:23.280
took them against the Vikings two three
weeks ago I think it was, and

670
00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:28.400
they covered for me. So I
think that do it again. That one.

671
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:30.519
I think they're like lost four games
against the spread and three of them

672
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:34.679
that I have. You have the
other, No, they've been they've been

673
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:38.000
okay for me. So I'm taking
the Detroit as well. Monustreenhow yeah,

674
00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:44.679
so, uh, I'm gonna look
that up Vikings because they've really let's see

675
00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:46.920
the Lions. The Lions are ten
and six against Yeah, no, they've

676
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:52.440
had three of those six timing,
baby timing. Okay, So you did

677
00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:57.360
you say you're taking them? I'm
taking them to Okay, all right,

678
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:01.239
my third pick and again I keep
taking these guys thinking that they're gonna get

679
00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:07.079
their crap together and they haven't.
But I'm taking the Eagles again again.

680
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:09.559
They're they're trying to solidify, you
know, who they play the Giants.

681
00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:14.719
They're they're they're at home against the
Giants, but no at the Giants.

682
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:19.400
But they're giving five and they have
got to get their stuff together. Yeah,

683
00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.239
they well, this is their last
chance to get their stuff together before

684
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:24.639
the playoffs. Their fans are pissed. I know if you've seen some of

685
00:46:24.679 --> 00:46:29.440
the you know, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, I mean, you give them donation

686
00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:30.880
of ten dollars and they'll say,
how come you didn't give me eleven?

687
00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:35.199
Yeah? Or fifteen? Yeah?
Yeah. So I'm gonna I'm gonna stick

688
00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:37.639
with them, and I'm gonna take
the Lions giving five to the Giants.

689
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:45.079
Okay, I'm going with the forty
nine ers minus four. Okay, who

690
00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:49.639
they play the Ram Yeah, neither
quarter neither starting quarterback is playing. Who's

691
00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:57.320
oh really? Yeah? Yeah.
San Francisco they're just crushed me. Last

692
00:46:57.320 --> 00:47:00.199
week. They crushed me last week. They've done a twice to me know,

693
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:04.719
on the stupid, frivolous extra field
goal with no time left right,

694
00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:07.400
they're kicking it and they cover,
and then last week they give up a

695
00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:13.280
ninety yard the punt return kickoff return. Oh man, Okay, but I'm

696
00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:15.159
going with the forty nine ers,
all right. I just stayed away from

697
00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:20.400
that just because you don't know what
quarterback is. I left that one and

698
00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:23.519
this is one. This I'm taking
because again, every time I've gone against

699
00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:27.920
the Texans, they've kicked my butt. So I'm gonna take them this time.

700
00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:30.880
J. Stroud is back. They're
they're giving one and a half to

701
00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:35.360
the Colts. Oh, I like
the Colts. You like the Colts.

702
00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:39.960
So they're giving in Indianapolis one and
a half, So I'm gonna take.

703
00:47:40.039 --> 00:47:45.119
I'm gonna take the Texas just because
CJ. Stroud is that guys, it's

704
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:47.679
in indian indian Okay, what's your
best bet? You don't have yet?

705
00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:55.519
Wow? Uh, I'm gonna go
Cowboys. I'm gonna go Cowboys as my

706
00:47:55.639 --> 00:48:01.760
lock, and who's your lock?
They didn't the camera? Okay, my

707
00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:06.639
lock is gonna be Uh. I
think the I think the Bucks, right,

708
00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:10.639
is that right? I think it's
the Bucks? Yeah? All right,

709
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:15.519
Okay, Washington, Michigan. It's
a cash college football championship game,

710
00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:22.320
Michigan minus four and a half,
the games in Houston, Uh, what

711
00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:24.960
do you do? Whatever you do, you're not gonna say because I'm not

712
00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:29.599
changing my mind. I know,
I'm not worried about that because it's but

713
00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:32.639
it's not between you and me.
It's me and the world or a hundred

714
00:48:32.679 --> 00:48:37.519
of people in front of me.
I'm gonna go with Washington because I think

715
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:42.119
they'll stay within the four and a
half. They finally convinced me the last

716
00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:45.639
couple of games that they're pretty good. They're very good. In fact,

717
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:51.119
Panics was fantastic and Michigan. The
thing about it with Michigan is it would

718
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:55.719
be poetic justice for the whole year
that Michigan, a team under great scrutiny

719
00:48:55.840 --> 00:49:00.360
and under investigation, wins the year
to screw it up, yeah and win

720
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:04.039
it. Yeah. It throws me
back to that member that there was that

721
00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:08.000
one year where Al Davis and Pete
Roselle were just fighting the whole year Rosette

722
00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:12.840
and then the Raiders won the won
the Super Bowl and Roselle had to present

723
00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:16.559
him the trophy. Well, you've
seen it in basketball when when Larry Scott

724
00:49:16.599 --> 00:49:23.920
had to give Tommy Sean Elliott Sean
the trophy and they bowed that. They

725
00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:29.800
the fans were relentlessly So, yes, that's one of those situations. Yeah,

726
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:30.880
it would be just like Michigan do
that. But you know what,

727
00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:35.360
I've been on the Washington train all
year long. I thought at the beginning

728
00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:37.159
of the year they were going to
be really good. I don't know that

729
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:37.960
at the beginning of the year I
thought they were going to win the National

730
00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:40.920
Championship, but I did believe they
were at least going to win the Pac

731
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:45.760
twelve and get in the playoffs,
which they've done. They were impressive last

732
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:52.039
week although that it was funny because
Steve, you know, in an Arizona

733
00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:53.679
game, you know, at the
end of the game and if it's a

734
00:49:53.719 --> 00:49:57.800
tight game, you know, my
heart gets beating and I'm like nervous.

735
00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:00.239
I felt like that with the Washington
game last this week, when when you

736
00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:05.480
know, Texas almost went down,
and I found myself feeling the same way

737
00:50:05.480 --> 00:50:07.400
I feel for an Arizona game,
and I'm like, what the hell is

738
00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:10.440
going on? It's Washington. I
mean, I really in the end really

739
00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:14.599
don't care. But they did care
almost they want them to win this because

740
00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:16.239
they almost blew it, almost blew
it. And I want him to win

741
00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:20.360
this thing. I want him to
beat Harbor. I want Harbor to lose

742
00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:25.400
and get off to the NFL and
and and then let everybody move on and

743
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:30.639
take his signs stealing a program over
to the NFL. I'm taking Washington as

744
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:35.280
well, plus the four. Okay, so there you go, you have

745
00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:38.719
the tell me I got I've got
the Cowboys minus thirteen, Lions minus three

746
00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:44.360
and a half. Cowboys are my
lock, Eagles minus five, Texans minus

747
00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:46.159
one and a half, and then
Washington plus four and a half. I've

748
00:50:46.199 --> 00:50:51.159
got you for the Raiders minus three, the Bucks minus four and a half,

749
00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:54.039
Lions minus three and a half,
forty nine Ers minus four in Washington

750
00:50:54.159 --> 00:50:58.960
plus Yeah, this last week is
always a sketchy one because of the quarterbacks,

751
00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:02.079
the and the so many guys not
playing. Yeah, I hope I

752
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:07.559
get at least three. Got to
have three step there and at least collect

753
00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:13.239
collect something out of yea. And
you know I would love to get out

754
00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:19.280
of I'd love to get in triple
digits. So we'll talk more about the

755
00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:22.880
big game on Monday. Right,
we have, like you said, justin

756
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:25.079
coming in, justin spears, and
then we're gonna have Jack McGruder as well.

757
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:29.719
Yeh, yeh Jack, Jack's been
analyzing the game, will get his

758
00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:32.880
pick. And then he's gonna gloat
about as I am about Panics in Washington

759
00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:37.400
because yeah, they've been there all
year long. We both crawl over those

760
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:43.599
guys. Don Yeah enough, already
enough already, Hey, don listen,

761
00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:45.559
listen on Monday, because there's gonna
be more common all right. So,

762
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:50.199
hey, fun week. You know
it was a short week thanks to Lamon,

763
00:51:50.280 --> 00:51:52.920
Hunley Bryant, Jeffreys on Wednesday,
Reggie Gary, Michael lev Yesterday,

764
00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:57.760
Jake Fisher missed it. If they
missed the shows, yep, if you

765
00:51:57.800 --> 00:52:00.159
missed if if you missed it,
uh, go to our podcast page on

766
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:05.599
the iHeart website. Go to our
or you can go to our social media

767
00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:09.760
either Facebook or UH or Twitter or
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768
00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:15.559
we have links to our our podcast
page there as well. We can find

769
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:19.199
us on Spotify. You can find
us on Apple Podcasts, and of course

770
00:52:19.239 --> 00:52:22.000
the iHeart podcast page. So too
Old Dude, Too Old Dude podcast.

771
00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:28.760
Yeah, okay, thanks. Javia
Morales has been posting it on on on

772
00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:32.920
social media because I'm too lazy to
do that. But I'm hoping you guys

773
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:37.480
find it on uh you know,
on on Apple podcasts and on h on

774
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:40.840
Spotify, so be sure to listen
to that. We've had some good stuff

775
00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:44.199
and we're hoping, we're hopefully we're
gonna bring you some more. But we'll

776
00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:50.800
have the College Football playoff preview for
us on on Monday, and we'll have

777
00:52:51.159 --> 00:52:52.880
that, but you already know Steven
my my peck and Steve's pick because I

778
00:52:53.039 --> 00:52:55.480
not only think Washington's gonna cover,
I think you're gonna win the game.

779
00:52:55.679 --> 00:52:59.079
Yeah. I think that's very possible. I really do. Like it's just

780
00:52:59.239 --> 00:53:01.519
pull itic just how the situation would
run well. And you know, people

781
00:53:01.519 --> 00:53:05.519
are saying, Okay, it's either
a Pac twelve Big Big ten matchup,

782
00:53:05.519 --> 00:53:07.960
where it's a Big ten Big ten
matchup. You know, Washington headed over

783
00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:12.239
there next year, so either way, the defending champion is going to be

784
00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:14.639
in the Big ten next year,
so it would be fun. All right,

785
00:53:14.920 --> 00:53:16.719
Thanks for being here all week and
thanks for your patience for us being

786
00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:19.760
up too long. So we'll see
you on Monday,