You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one the freak tell me,
have you ever seen such whiskers grow in all such a friendly snout? They're
playing my song a recal face, funny little flippers. He's graceful in the
water, though he's stout. The waterer, You and me, the Matys
seven down the river, Devity blue Sy they tell me we get been the
loving b Sandy playing in the water with the Vanaste playing in with Ana JJ
dancing the songs is one of my favorites. I know it like when you
do the Arosarina song to Mackarena. She was doing the full Mockerina days in
on that I believe she remembered it. I invite you to splash around in
the water with me, your friendly neighborhood Manatee for a few minutes, because
this is the no wake zone where I tell you things. Now. I'm
gonna get to my trip to Buffalo here in a minute. I think you
guys will find it interesting. Hopefully fire away with any and all questions you
might have. But I have something that needs cleaning before we get to Buffalo
trip. Now. I do appreciate earlier this morning, the caller along with
you two, I wouldn't even say we were being lenient, but being fair
and awarding me a half point for the Steve Bill Belichick argument. Heated debate,
and you gave me a half point. So I do have one point
now in total, you guys have none in our never ending and sort of
pointless game of making insane predictions about sporting events and concerts or anything that we
find appropriate and trying to predict something nuts that will happen at that event and
then get a point for it. But I heard you yesterday, oh Kevin,
or maybe Monday on the show when I was out, and you very
flippantly said, when you talked about the Ryder Cup, You're like, I
didn't even pull our predictions because they were so stupid. None of them happened.
Oh yeah, I said, no, I didn't feel good on Fridays.
I don't care because I want to play for you. My first prediction
for what I thought was going to happen on the Ryder Cup, and this
was last Thursday. And I want you to look me right in the eyes,
dead ass in the eye, and tell me that I don't deserve pointage
for the following number one world number one golfer Scotti, Scheffler's ice cold putter
stays that way. Scheffler goes over as the European team wins the Ryder Cup
with a convincing seventeen to eleven victory. Wow, what did it end up
as? Sixteen and a half to eleven and a half? Whoa and Scottish
Shuffler did not win a match? He went over damn half, sir.
That's why I needed him to have been awarded so many great prices. One
hundred points. Maybe the D magazine radio host of the your award, Hey,
D Magazine gets their van mobilized and starts heading over here for photos.
Man depressive. That's the golf mind that you would want to bid on to
get in a foursome with at Lockwood. And if you're starting a coalition that
hates America, definitely don't hate America at all. But I had a feeling
European domination was what we were going to be dealing with, and we we
damn were were So we called the over from the number one player on the
planet and missed the final score by a half a point. I think you
deserve a point where does that point go on the golf stuff? No,
No, same stuff. It all goes in the same pile pile. But
we're not making predictions for this week Sanderson Farms Classic. I'm willing to.
I hate that. I watched most of the Ryder Cup, and as the
European team was taking a fairly dominant lead, I was like, oh my
god, yeah, we might hit this perfect and even Sunday Singles, I
was cheering for certain results. Don't think that I wasn't trying to squeeze maybe
a quarter of a point out of the controversy with Rory. Yeah about the
was it can't lay that wasn't wearing a hat. Yeah, and you know
why he wasn't wearing a hat. I heard you. It probably had pasta
sauce on it. I loved Scotty with a pasta stain on his hat.
At some point, well he had a white hat on it. I was
checking for red every single day. Yeah, it was so stupid. All
I needed was one red dot. Scottie, you can't putt that. At
least you can do is pasta sling some Marinera on your visor. So yeah,
get a point. Yeah, you're right, give him a damn point.
Thank you. That's the right thing to do. That's what he needs.
No, it's not. I shouldn'tven feel like I'm arguing for this.
I would think more you guys would go, oh my gosh, take a
point, quick take it. Yeah, it's fine, you can have your
point. I was operating under fifty percent health on Friday, and I think
if I would have if I was full Kevin energy, then I would have
had those pulled and who had have paid attention to it? But Friday I
was barely surviving. You're fine, you look great. I look good?
Now did some healthy? Yeah, you're missing a couple of teeth. The
voice is lower because there's more room in my mouth. You hear that a
little more? Tamber No, Jeffrey tamber over here, all right? Two
points too, to nail to nail in Ryder Cup, standing insurmountable leads suck?
Should Jordan Speed hit a fairway? Dude? Justin Thomas head out of
ass. At least he carried speeth a little bit early almighty. That pissed
me off. That pissed me right off. They didn't play golf for a
month leading up to it. Yeah, and the Europeans were. Yeah,
they were busting their ass, grinding and we were cool. Plus we had
the doofiest captain of all time. That was the smartest thing you said,
is that we have the worst captain of Ryder Cup history. And you're right
also that the only competitor that should have been Luke Donald, who hasn't won
any majors at least say anything. At least Zach has somehow won two majors.
Zach stupid, Zach stupid. But they got smacked. Yeah, but
hopefully that's a lesson for four years from now and they get their ass in
gear and finally win one on the road. Yeah maybe, so all right.
I watched a handful of Ryder Cup, but I was mostly locked into
my events of the weekend where I because of my brother who on my birthday
in May handed me an envelope with paper in an unfold. The paper and
it's had Miami Dolphins at Buffalo Bills October first, twenty twenty three, and
I was like, WHOA, we're finally doing it and for us that for
some reason, Buffalo maybe being the most exotic of the three locations in the
AFC East, which you have the meadow lands and the Patriots, which is
way out of Boston. It's not even I guess you can still mix in
a Boston trip with that. But we wanted to go to Buffalo, this
crazy ass place that we've seen for years as being one of the hardest road
stadiums to play in, seemingly one of the wildest. Wanted to do it
forever, and he got me that for my birthday. I'm like, oh
my god, I've been looking forward to this past weekend for months and we
went off. We go destination Buffalo, New York. We got an airbnb
within walking distance of the stadium. Really yeah, in Orchard Park, because
we don't know Buffalo. I don't know the city of Buffalo, don't no
idea what even dealing with what to expect. But we had a great I
mean, most of the houses are old in Buffalo. It's a really you
know, the best way to say it is we felt like we were in
a fifteen percent alternate universe. Like it just felt odd up there and it's
like a little bit weird. Some things were very normal. I mean,
replace every Starbucks you see with a Tim Hortons, because that is most definitely
on every street corner that is their coffee and donut morning pit stops. That
to them what Duncan is to Boston. Yes, I guess because there were
you know, I don't see any Duncans, but I saw a few Starbucks.
But Tim Hortons is everywhere, and I knew that going in, and
that was on my list of food stuffs that I wanted to check out.
I mean, I think one it's what's gonna be. It's gonna be coffee
a donut. But anyway, we were walking distance from rich Stadium, which
is now high Mark Stadium, but for most of our lives it was rich
Stadium and they are under construction across the street for a brand new, amazing
stadium that the Bills will play in for years and years. But we didn't
know if this or next year is gonna be the last year of playing in
their current digs. And that's what we wanted to see, you know,
I wanted to see the old stadium, the one we've been watching for so
many years. So nice little airbnb walking distance from the stadium. I want
to cut to game day and there's plenty of other food we can talk about
in just city of Buffalo and crossing the border into Canada Niagara Falls, if
we have time or whatever for any of that. But the point of this
thing was the game. Man, We're going to the game. And I've
discussed with you guys. I wouldn't even say concerns, but just knowing that,
you know, nowadays with social media, it looks like there's a deadly
fistfight at every sporting event. Why because we all have phones. It's not
any more prevalent. It is less prevalent than it ever was for all of
our lives, but we think it's more prevalent, much like so many other
things in our society that sucks. It makes us think things are more haywire
than they are. They're not. But I was concerned. I'm like,
I'm gonna wear the dolphin gear into the belly of the beast in Buffalo,
and they hate finger quotes hate the dolphins. So we were there. We
got dressed up, the girls were decked out. I was rocking the Mark
Duper jersey. Cash had the Marino, we have hats on, and we're
like, off we go, step outside of the house. Hell, when
we stepped outside of our airbnb, we were in a neighborhood that has people
flagging cars into park right there. We were that close, damn. And
the second you walk out, I mean you're in enemy territory. And the
walk maybe not even a mile, you know, that was really close.
Man, if youah, less than a mile, less than a mile beautiful
weather by the way, I mean seventy maybe seventy four or five it got
up to, but it was gorgeous. So the walk was lovely. And
right when you kind of enter the main flow of traffic, people are yelling
stuff at you. I will say, overall, absolutely lovely people in Buffalo,
lovely fans. The worst thing yelled at us was essentially and this was
this was a lot a lot of times was if you you know, it's
not bad. I don't know. If they had nothing else queued up.
Now you'll take that, yeah, and you smile and you kind of laugh.
And honestly, as far as the fan interaction, I wouldn't change it
one bit because I wanted some of that. I wanted some of whatever.
The worst of it is obviously nothing physical, no throwing crap, and nothing
personal. Nothing personal. Yeah. They had a couple queued up standards for
when dolphin fans are in town, including a guy who was standing on top
of a van. He's like, hey, points at us. Were you
guys swimming in the ocean because you got dolphin s all over you, like
wearing dolphins stuff, which took me like one second for it to register.
But that's clearly when the dolphins are in town, you get that one.
I mean, that's terrible. Where are you swimming in the ocean because you
got dolphin s all over you? I don't know, dolphin s is kind
of a funny. Yeah, you know, you just feel like you could
do better. That's one of the go tos. That's you know, yeah,
a lot of boot you know, standard booze as you walk by boat
and you know what, and some people going out of their way to offset
it with hey, good luck, how fun? You know? Did you
get you suck? Oh my god? Yeah, dolphins saw that day completely
loaded with all that I did have. When we were in the stadium,
one dude who's in a wheelchair seemingly popped out of nowhere and just like he
was at ramming speed, coming right at me, and they clicked the air
brakes and he leaned forward, just gave me a f you, and I'm
like hey, and then I kind of looked back Cash He's like, I
don't know how we handle that one. Did you what was the most creative
insult? Did you have any that? Uh? The one I can't say
the word properly, which makes it funnier when you think of the whole thing.
But it's an older stadium, so we were taking a leak before the
game, and there's just a line of urinals and a line of people and
I've been minuted before. I've had some stage fright, you know, you
never know, and I was I was suffering stage fright because I'm like,
these dudes are behind me with a stop watch. But I had Yeah,
but I had a Mark duper jersey on, which I love, and I
got a bunch of shout outs for like, all right, I'll give it
to you. That was a badass duper jersey because you don't see that that
often. Everyone's got Marino or two or whatever. And I was taking a
leak out the urinal going, you know, I was there for a minute
or two, whatever it takes, and I just hear from behind me they're
all muttering in line, you know, and some dude yelled, come on,
duper shake that tiny d obviously said that really helps the urine. Yeah,
exactly helps them. Oh wow, here we are and obviously thanks,
he said the full word and I laughed. I laughed instantly. I was
right done. I turned around and I saw the guy and he's laughing,
and I'm like, that's that's amazing. That so fun. Yes, in
any territory could be so fun if you if you just don't make it personally
get mad. Now we smiled and laughed off everything, and I loved it.
There was something cool because we got there early enough. We did a
whole walk around the concourse, the entire three sixty. I love doing that
too. I love it. I just want to see it all, check
it all out. And it's just this wave of that sort of stuff.
FEU's booze, good lucks, dolphins sucks. And that was the most creative,
the stuper he shake that tiny D and then some people laugh. It
was perfect. I'm like, shake it, shake that tiny D. That's
great. A tiny I mean, I'm like, well done. Yeah,
but I kind of your head. You win, all right, go ahead,
you got me? But yeah, I like I kind of loved it.
Once you realize it's nothing but tough love if any you know, like,
yeah, there's sort of a cousin relationship. I think with your divisional
foes too. It's sort of for the first dolphin fan they've ever seen.
Dolphins were well represented. I mean I would say five percent, maybe seven
to eight, ten percent. I don't know, there was a lot.
Now you notice that color popping because I'll give credit, these Bill fans are
loco. On the flight there, Cash had a Dolphin hat on or a
Dolphin shirt. I wasn't wearing anything. He's the only one I saw on
the flight from Dallas to Buffalo twenty five people decked out in full Bills stuff,
right, I don't know if they're Bills fans here. Yeah, how
it works. You get there and we had this discussion like the Friday and
specifically the Saturday before the game. I mean people head to Bill stuff and
I'm like, do you see that in Dallas? And then sure you see
stuff. We might, but you you might be just so desensitized to it
that you see it so much that it's just kind of part of people's every
day outfit. Man, there is I mean, I'm rocking a cowboy's cap
right now for no reason, and it's not abnormal, but head to toe
like you're walking into the game day before the game. Yeah, it was.
It was odd houses, six of them. Yeah, and we're talking.
You know, tons of houses have signs wooden Buffalo, you know the
bill in front go bills flags like you said, I mean, houses are
decorated. I will say this. I followed your your, uh, your
journey on social media and one of the vantage points was I think maybe one
of the girls was shooting the video or the photo and it was you and
your brother kind of standing up on the not the concourse, but at the
seating whatever they call that area before you walk down into the pit, and
just the stadium. It looked so cool. It looked like maybe just one
of a small handful of stadiums in the NFL that have a college atmosphere to
it. And I would say Buffalo Green Bay, of course, has probably
got that kind of collegey atmosphere where the bloor bowl bench seating. Still.
Yeah, I haven't been, but he said, Kansas City, Kansas City.
That's the other He's like, this felt like Kansas City and the old
stadium gives it that feeling. And I'm sorry, but you couldn't help but
think of the difference between a game there and what a real home field advantage
is compared to our Arlington cocktail lounge. Yeah, and it's almost cliche,
and I bet fans here are probably sick of hearing it. Don't care,
night and day. It's a better experience, better experience that damn volume.
So the Bills got the ball first in the game, and they march down
score touchdown, as they did a plenty in this game, and you didn't
even I didn't even think about it. So that's five minutes whatever it is.
And then they kicked the ball off, and then as soon as the
Dolphins break their huddle, it's on. It got so loud because you just
hadn't heard it for the first five minutes because they're on offense. It was
like that high pitched jet airline piercing volume. I mean I almost plug my
ears for a minute. Yeah, when it jumps into that next level of
decipels, maybe when you pass one hundred and it gets to that high pitched
like a winnying sound, that's where it was. And you can't help but
look at Tua or whoever, like, how how do they do this every
week, and it's not like this every week, but there are a handful
of stadiums that are similar to this. But these people love their damn bill.
And it was a very very unique game experience. Well started out being
what we all thought, you know, in the first quarter, this thing
is going to be a forty eight to forty five game, and it was
like watching two great tennis players. And it gets later on in the in
the in the match and somebody's serve service gets broken, dude, and you
end up trying to chase that the rest of the match and you never kind
of get it back. And that's what that seemed like. That's what happened
in Miami. I heard you say that yesterday. Yeah, and Cash and
I had It's funny because we had that exact discussion. They broke our serve
the first time that we punted, yeah, and then we forced them to
punt, and I was told, We're like, dude, all right,
we broke them back. It's like you're always in my ad. They're always
in my ad, and you never get it back to deuce yeah. Yeah,
And the beginning, that's all it was. And I think they each
team scored on the first three or four or five the first five possessions total.
Yeah, three for Buffalo, two for Miami. We're all drive touchdowns
and it was twenty one fourteen. And then yeah, they whatever they did.
I mean, you're at the game, you can't watch it that closely.
They started stopping the Dolphins. They couldn't you know, they couldn't do
anything. And then ultimately you couldn't keep up. I could literally talk about
your trip for the rest of the show, but I do have one more
question, and we got to revisit because I want to hear about all the
food. I want to hear about Niagara. But okay, so obviously the
game didn't turn out the way you and your your entourage wanted it to.
But did you find that the experience when you guys were leaving the stadium better
or different than it was when you were arriving because you got your butts kicked.
Were the fans like, hey, nice try, or it's okay man
Miami, yeah, any of that? Or was it still kind of like
the same acerbic tone or how did it get much the same? Yea consistently
great one, dude. I wanted to take a leak in the fourth quarters.
Oh, you leave it already. And I had a few beers at
that time. It's forty eight to twenty, and I said, where would
I go? There's nothing else to do in this town. So I was
happy with that. I was the reply. He laughed, Okay, that's
close, like a shot back. Yeah, where else when I go?
There's nothing else to do? And Horton's coffee, I mean. And then
we got a little bit, I mean, separated by twenty feet, and
Christina got hit on hard when she looked like a solo dolphin, a solo
wounded dolphin. Somebody walked up and he's like, hey, you're here by
yourself. You know. We got a little after party, and she got
invited, but she's hot. I did not get it. You didn't get
invited. I didn't get hit on by anyone. You didn't get invited any
after parties. Of course, no people invite us through their their tailgate before
the game, really and after Dude, that Buffalo fans a plus. Honestly,
Ye's so great, and I wouldn't have wanted it without the f us,
Like I wanted a little bit of dirt in there. But it was
never like feeling threatened, zero percent. Nothing but great fans. That's how
very green Bay. No. I don't know what from the enemy side,
but every time to go to Green Bay, she walked through the tailgate at
ten o'clock before a noon game and you were getting invited and you're getting handed
food. Yeah, like here's a brat. Okay, Yeah. Sure.
We tried to find wherever they were smashing tables and lighting stuff on fire and
shooting mustard all over each other. We couldn't find that area. But it
seems kind of like all of it, like it was all sort of that
we didn't see that actual stuff. I wanted to see someone go through a
table, but I didn't see that. But man, I cannot do anything
but applaud the people of Buffalo. I'm putting on a fun, fun game
for a road dog. I think that the enthusiasm about a team in a
city that has an NFL team is so much more heightened in cities that have
less options than other cities. One that's all they have. Hence Tampa Bay
Rays having an empty stadium. So much to do there. There's too much
to do, and it's amazing that we have the following that we have here.
Yeah, and it's just the history. This thing's been around since nineteen
sixty. I continue to get that impression and I didn't I don't mean it.
I don't know. Kind of negatively is they ain't got anything else to
do, right, you know? And that is sort of the vibe of
this is much like the Hull, but it is in Green Bay much like
the Hulk. All he has is a signature roar like Bill's fans, if
they're being real honest, might say this is all we got yea, but
man, they love that. Damn. When you get to experience what you
experience and see these these cities like Green Bay and Buffalo and how their city
is surrounded, I mean, it is centered around their football team. It
point, doesn't it put it into perspective of how Baltimore must have felt when
the Colts snuck away in the Addle? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, terrible.
Let's hear about Niagara Falls and beef at nine yeah on weck, yeah,
I want to hear about that. Maybe about nine fifteen you got around,
then we'll do that. That was Mikey's trip to be low exciting.
Good job, Mikey. The King of Ninja City of Nickel City, the
Ninja of Nickel City. That's what I nailed it, got it, Danny,
what's coming up next? Do better than I did. I'm gonna try.
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