Speaker 1: Good evening everybody. Normally I would be allowed and obnoxious
Speaker 1: and say fire up. But in the beginning, before I
Speaker 1: even introduce my crew, I think we all should take
Speaker 1: a moment and a moment of silence for those that
Speaker 1: we lost in that plane crash. There were sports figures
Speaker 1: in there. Whether you're a figure skating fan or not.
Speaker 1: Young prospects, sixteen year olds were on that plane. They
Speaker 1: had just gone from training and they were going home.
Speaker 1: We lost at least sixty four people last night, shortly
Speaker 1: like twenty four hours ago when they're plane crashed into
Speaker 1: Blackhawk helicopter. So let's just take thirty seconds or twenty
Speaker 1: seconds of silence to show Okay, now I'm going to
Speaker 1: introduce my crew. Thank you for that moment, everybody. Pettin's
Speaker 1: man is right next to me. Pettins man, how are
Speaker 1: you tonight?
Speaker 2: I'm all right? And you forgot to add that we
Speaker 2: had three military people in the helicopter doing training. So
Speaker 2: I'm a huge military back back boy. Won't call it defender,
Speaker 2: So just won't let you guys know that we had
Speaker 2: three people at the helicopter.
Speaker 1: And they were army.
Speaker 2: I believe Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 1: Yes from all the reports and we and we're not here.
Speaker 1: We're not here to place blame. We're not here to
Speaker 1: talk about any of that. We're just here to pay
Speaker 1: our respects to all those that lost their lives as
Speaker 1: innocent as they were. Like you know, I was talking
Speaker 1: earlier that a couple of them were sixteen year olds
Speaker 1: and they were great prospects that were doing really well,
Speaker 1: and some of them had actually won national championships that
Speaker 1: were from Russia as well. So I know the figure
Speaker 1: skating community has suffered a huge, huge loss over this,
Speaker 1: and I know that the Olympics is going to take
Speaker 1: a hit coming out up.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah no.
Speaker 1: Also on my panel, mister Ralph Williams, how are you tonight?
Speaker 3: I'm doing good, Thank you, Candy. That's pleasure being here
Speaker 3: as always, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you. And then none other than the person that
Speaker 1: wrote the forward to my husband's book, mister George the
Speaker 1: Uncle Icorn, how are you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I'm well, Eddie.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Couldn't make it last week, a little bit of health
Speaker 4: issued by h on my skin, but you know, getting
Speaker 4: trying to get over that, and and I agree with
Speaker 4: everything you said. It's a terrible loss for this country,
Speaker 4: not only that, but for Russia and the military. So
Speaker 4: we got to keep these families in our prayers and thoughts.
Speaker 4: Just a terrible, terrible accident, it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's good to see you back here. You
Speaker 1: haven't been on Thursday nights on a regular basis for
Speaker 1: a while, so welcome.
Speaker 3: Back, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Good to have you as part of the show. And yes,
Speaker 1: you're doing a doubleheader as Pencil and Sports Knows.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: Okay, on too. We're going to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about Dwayne Wayne and I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: saw the story that came out, but this tells you
Speaker 1: that you have to take your health seriously. You do
Speaker 1: need to get checked out because he actually had cancer
Speaker 1: and lucky for him that it was on I believe
Speaker 1: it was on his liver they said, or no, his kidney.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, he had a cancerous tumor removed from his kidney.
Speaker 1: In December of twenty twenty three, he visited the doctor
Speaker 1: after he turned forty to undergo a physical for the
Speaker 1: first time since his playing days. The Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: guard had been experiencing cramps and slow urination. He underwent
Speaker 1: a full body scan that showed a potential cyst or
Speaker 1: tumor on one of his kidneys. They were able to
Speaker 1: see that on my right kidney, and they didn't know
Speaker 1: at the time if it was a sister a tumor,
Speaker 1: but it was nothing that could be biopsy, so the
Speaker 1: only way to take care of it was to actually
Speaker 1: go in and surgically remove it. He consulted multiple doctors
Speaker 1: to confirm his cancer diagnosis before undergoing surgery, which required
Speaker 1: removing forty percent of his right kidney. I had a
Speaker 1: personal decision to make if this is cancer, if this
Speaker 1: is tumor, this cyst is cancerous on your kidney, you're
Speaker 1: forty one years old, you probably need surgery because it's
Speaker 1: something that needs to be removed so it doesn't spread.
Speaker 1: Wade said, I made the decision to have surgery. I
Speaker 1: had surgery on December eighteenth, twenty twenty three. Find out, obviously,
Speaker 1: at forty one years old, pretty healthy guy, that I
Speaker 1: did have cancer. Thank God that I did do the
Speaker 1: surgery because the tumor was cancerous. He played fourteen of
Speaker 1: his fifteenth I'm sorry, fifteen out of his sixteen NBA
Speaker 1: seasons with the Heat, leading to the franchise to three
Speaker 1: NBA Championships. He was a thirteen time All Star in
Speaker 1: eight time NBA selection. He remains Miami's all time leader
Speaker 1: in several categories, including points, assists, steals, and games played.
Speaker 1: The heat retired way it's number three in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts, George.
Speaker 4: Well, they said in the article too that he had
Speaker 4: been putting off having a physical but then as you
Speaker 4: mentioned about having some issues there with with urinating and
Speaker 4: things like that, you know, and it just was things
Speaker 4: weren't right, things weren't right. He also said that he
Speaker 4: did not want his kids and his family to see
Speaker 4: him weak. Well, Dwyane, You've got nothing to be ashamed of. Okay,
Speaker 4: you're not weak. You're a strong man for coming forward.
Speaker 4: You're a strong man for getting yourself checked in and
Speaker 4: checked out, as they say, physically, there's no shame in that.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I got a lot of friends
Speaker 4: and family that have been through a lot, a lot
Speaker 4: as far as health issues as we all have. And
Speaker 4: really that's not anything everybody likes to talk about or
Speaker 4: sometimes converse about out But uh, you know, and I
Speaker 4: know Dwayne is you know, part of that whole Macho
Speaker 4: you know, I macho Macho I be. I mean, uh,
Speaker 4: macho NBA player, macho athlete that always is is is
Speaker 4: prevalent with a lot of the men especially, but the
Speaker 4: women as well. But anyways, I plaud you, Dwayne for
Speaker 4: stepping forward, for doing this, and uh hopefully that'll give
Speaker 4: you any many many more years of joy and and
Speaker 4: and pleasure here on this earth. And uh, I've always
Speaker 4: admired you as a player too, I really have. Uh
Speaker 4: With the Piston said, it's a little bit of rivalry
Speaker 4: at one time against Miami, not recently, but you know,
Speaker 4: there were always great games against the two teams. But
Speaker 4: more importantly is his health now that he's retired. So
Speaker 4: I'm just so glad that you know that he found
Speaker 4: out what was wrong. Candy and guys, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Ralph, your thoughts, Well, here's a Hall of famer here,
Speaker 3: I mean this guy. Uh, you know, we played for
Speaker 3: the Miami Heat. As as George's head indicated, there had
Speaker 3: been some competition there in the NBA with him, and
Speaker 3: you know, but you see, sometimes everyone here, people let
Speaker 3: pride get in a way. And I know this because
Speaker 3: I was the personal cab driver for Mike Webster and
Speaker 3: Mike Webster told me that it took him a lot,
Speaker 3: a lot. He had a lot of pride to accept
Speaker 3: money from his fellow teammates when he was broke and
Speaker 3: couldn't afford a Hall of Fame jacket and then didn't
Speaker 3: have a place to live and he was homeless. Okay,
Speaker 3: Elsie Greenwood, Rocky Blair, they all chewed him out because
Speaker 3: they said, why didn't you come and talk to us?
Speaker 3: Lynn Swann got mad, They all got angry with him,
Speaker 3: and they finally they pitched in. They got him a
Speaker 3: place to stay, They paid for his Hall of Fame jacket.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with telling your family you're sick. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, you know I have I have health issues.
Speaker 3: I'm in a wheelchair, I'm diabetic. I mean, you know
Speaker 3: I have all that. But I'm not afraid to say
Speaker 3: that to my family. And my family has been very
Speaker 3: supportive of it. And I'm not weak. I'm strong because
Speaker 3: I'm strong because I don't let that get to me.
Speaker 3: I'm here going this and that's what I like to do.
Speaker 3: But see, Dwayne Wade shouldn't shouldn't take it like that.
Speaker 3: He should say, Okay, look, I you know I'm sick.
Speaker 3: I need help, and I maybe I am weak, but
Speaker 3: you know what, his family will be there.
Speaker 1: Form Pensman, what is your thoughts on Dwayne.
Speaker 2: Wade Penceman, sports guy it right, he is in Miami
Speaker 2: legend and he is a whole famer. I couldn't stand
Speaker 2: him as a player because he always beat the sixers.
Speaker 2: He always had his the sixers number. George can understand
Speaker 2: that fan so but he's a good player. He went
Speaker 2: to the court, he kept his mouth shut. He went
Speaker 2: to the games to debt. But if you're sick and
Speaker 2: you're not feeling good, you gotta tell your family members here.
Speaker 2: You can't have the NBA ego in outside the NBA
Speaker 2: is when you're in the NBA, you have to have
Speaker 2: that ego, that batcho man ego. But when you're in
Speaker 2: the house, you're supposed to have. Hey, guys, I think
Speaker 2: something's wrong, and I'm glad he finally got to it,
Speaker 2: and I'm glad he's doing it right now.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that I'm going to say is, yes,
Speaker 1: he made Maybe he'd hit it for a long time
Speaker 1: and didn't, but kudos to him for finally coming out.
Speaker 1: And it's telling everybody because what that tells or should
Speaker 1: tell everybody is that someone that you would think is
Speaker 1: very healthy can get still can get cancer. Nobody's immune
Speaker 1: to it. So you have to get checked out and
Speaker 1: make sure that you are taking care of yourself. And
Speaker 1: when things aren't right, you have to listen to your
Speaker 1: own body. You know, when something isn't right, go check
Speaker 1: it out. Go ahead, and I don't care if you
Speaker 1: tell anybody else, but go check it out. And Pennsilman,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get too much into that, but
Speaker 1: I do agree Jimmy Butler could learn take some advice
Speaker 1: from Dwayne Wade. I have to admit I am a
Speaker 1: Wade fan. Wade obviously played for the Marquette Golden Eagles
Speaker 1: at the time, so and I am definitely a Dwayne
Speaker 1: Wade fan. Am I a Miami fan, No, even though
Speaker 1: I live down here, But I am a Dwayde Wade fan.
Speaker 1: And I'm not crazy about the statute they made out there,
Speaker 1: but hey, they're still honoring him. So with that being said,
Speaker 1: we're gonna stay in the NBA for a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: And typically that's not really a sport I talk a
Speaker 1: lot about, but Adam Silver is floating the idea of
Speaker 1: ten minute quarters as opposed to the twelve minute quarters
Speaker 1: it is now. They think it'll shorten the game to
Speaker 1: about a two hour format, which he thinks is more
Speaker 1: consistent with modern television habits. Your thoughts, and I will
Speaker 1: start with Relph.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, Candy, when things get a little too long,
Speaker 3: it gets boring. And I you know, I agree with
Speaker 3: the with with the NBA doing that. Look at Major
Speaker 3: League Baseball with the pitch count. Look at how you
Speaker 3: know they're trying to keep the make the game go shorter.
Speaker 3: You know, I've seen some shortened games this year that
Speaker 3: the Pirates played in, and some you know, and some
Speaker 3: other teams war some shortened games with baseball. NBA is
Speaker 3: trying to do the same thing. Everybody's attention span now
Speaker 3: is not for sitting there for out many hours watching
Speaker 3: a game. It starts to get boring a little while,
Speaker 3: and people's mindset starts to drift away or after a
Speaker 3: couple hours ago home, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's you know, everyone's mindset is different.
Speaker 3: But I think the NBA is doing the right thing
Speaker 3: if they want to speed up the game a little bit.
Speaker 5: George, your thoughts, Well, when I first heard it, I thought,
Speaker 5: oh my gosh, here we go again, trying to meddle
Speaker 5: with the with the tradition here.
Speaker 4: But I agree with you, Ralph. I think that what's
Speaker 4: happening now is the appetite is more more compact, and
Speaker 4: by that I mean for the sports fan and for
Speaker 4: the casual viewer. And you give a great, great example, Ralph,
Speaker 4: by the way on Manor League Baseball and the changes
Speaker 4: that they have implemented. And by the way, those changes
Speaker 4: go back to when Steve Palermo, who was a great
Speaker 4: umpire who actually had to leave the game due to health,
Speaker 4: he was the head of that committee that looked at
Speaker 4: speeding up baseball.
Speaker 3: But as far as the NBA goes.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what. And another one that really bothers
Speaker 4: me is college football. Oh my gosh, that's another day.
Speaker 4: I know, another subject, Candy, don't get me started, because
Speaker 4: they have stretched their games out way too long, so
Speaker 4: many replays and all that. The NBA, I think is
Speaker 4: a microcosm of pro sports. I mean, you know, it's
Speaker 4: it is more compact. Obviously, twelve minutes is the shortest period.
Speaker 4: I mean, hockey's got twenty minutes, and football the NFL's
Speaker 4: got fifteen in baseball really doesn't have a clock in
Speaker 4: that sense, but they have implemented this pitching clock. But
Speaker 4: I think that the NBA is still trying to find
Speaker 4: their you know, look for different ways, like Brolv said,
Speaker 4: and you guys might agree that, you know, looking for
Speaker 4: ways to speed up their game without necessarily losing any revenue.
Speaker 4: And that's the key. As we know, they can't lose
Speaker 4: any revenue, nor do their sponsors want to lose any revenue.
Speaker 4: So they may say I want to go to ten minutes.
Speaker 4: Don't think they're going to cut out a few of
Speaker 4: those commercials because obviously that pays the bills, as they say.
Speaker 4: So even though he talks like it's cutting it back,
Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna cut a whole lot because,
Speaker 4: like I said, they need their commercial space and they're
Speaker 4: going back to NBC next year. I can't wait the
Speaker 4: NBA on NBC.
Speaker 2: And George, you're on fired, Like man, I'm telling.
Speaker 1: You on fire.
Speaker 2: The second other sports that were not I know, I
Speaker 2: know George is on fire, really really really look out
Speaker 2: the apple don't fall from the tree. So I was
Speaker 2: gonna say, is it's the twelve minute quarters. College basketball
Speaker 2: has two twenty minute halves, so they want if they
Speaker 2: want to speed it up, why don't they do like
Speaker 2: college basketball, just do twenty minute hals. Nobody's complaining about
Speaker 2: college basketball. And I'm a big Duke fan, and I'll
Speaker 2: watch any other any other team, but Duke's. My teams
Speaker 2: is all the kid. But I have no issues with
Speaker 2: college basketball. Hit runs smooth. Half taunted is about fifteen
Speaker 2: to twenty minutes, and then they get back to the
Speaker 2: second half about hour and a half two hours, and
Speaker 2: that's it. They don't need the four quarters if they
Speaker 2: want to speed it up, I don't think ten minutes
Speaker 2: is necessary. So that's my opinion.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why Silver has proposed this is so that the set
Speaker 1: of rules is for basketball is consistent across all leagues,
Speaker 1: because right now in Olympic basketball they do it, and
Speaker 1: college basketball already play forty minute games. He also believes
Speaker 1: shortening quarters could solve some of the NBA's issues with
Speaker 1: rest and load management, which we all have complained about.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, that's what I said, is just embiid.
Speaker 2: Emba. It's the only one that complaints about rest and
Speaker 2: he has his own chair.
Speaker 1: They all do load management. Well, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 1: Silver is keenly aware that MLB has implemented changes that
Speaker 1: have made a positive impact. So he said if the
Speaker 1: league that is more locked into tradition like MLB can
Speaker 1: do it, the NBA should be open to more changes.
Speaker 1: He also recently addressed the narrative that NBA games have
Speaker 1: too many three point shot attempts, and I know that's
Speaker 1: been another point of contention with some people. He says
Speaker 1: he likes the three point shot and appreciates the skill
Speaker 1: level of big men who are able to shoot from
Speaker 1: deep because it shows how the game has evolved over time.
Speaker 1: My issue with that is it's taken the physicality of
Speaker 1: the inside game out of the game. I think, and
Speaker 1: he's and people don't defend where's defense really on these teams?
Speaker 1: I mean games? You know, that's what I miss A
Speaker 1: lot of that. But to each its own. So any
Speaker 1: other thoughts on ten minutes or changing any other rules
Speaker 1: for the NBA, guys.
Speaker 2: College basketball has three pointers. There's no issues there.
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, a whole different animal with college, the NBA,
Speaker 3: the NBA about showing off college. They're worrying about the ones,
Speaker 3: you know, worrying about making their careers, you know, and
Speaker 3: stuff like that, just and just like college, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you gotta admit, Rah Ralph. The college game especially,
Speaker 4: I think it's gone way too much to the al
Speaker 4: ups and the dunking and the.
Speaker 3: Yeah it has yes, I know.
Speaker 4: I know, and it didn't used to be that way.
Speaker 4: But when the kids see it happening in the pros,
Speaker 4: they're obviously going to be trying to emulate that. And
Speaker 4: I don't know how the coaches are. I mean, Tom Izzo.
Speaker 4: I see a lot of Tom Mizzle being in Detroit,
Speaker 4: man at Michigan, and he don't like all that shenanigans.
Speaker 4: You know, you get some of these coaches that are
Speaker 4: really good about it in the college ranks. All I'm
Speaker 4: saying is, no, I do like the college product better
Speaker 4: I do, And I think you guys nailed it. The
Speaker 4: two the two twenty minute halves would be would be better.
Speaker 2: I think cal Perry doesn't have a has a problem
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 3: Two Okay, Yeah, A lot the college basketball has could
Speaker 3: work in the NBA. If they make it work, you know.
Speaker 2: Keep the is, keep the three pointers, make it competitive.
Speaker 2: Get rid of the All Star Game and the All
Speaker 2: Star Game they get like two hundred and fifty points combined. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's like it's like, it's like the score the final
Speaker 2: scores like one forty five to one thirty five. It's like, hello,
Speaker 2: where's this that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Exactly, Get rid of the All Star Game and get
Speaker 2: like college and.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 1: Okay, guys, we're gonna switch topics. We're gonna switch sports
Speaker 1: to the sport that we all know and love and
Speaker 1: talk probably the most about. We're gonna talk about NFL,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna talk about it in a little different way.
Speaker 1: A report came out today the concussions are an all
Speaker 1: time low this season since NFL began tracking. NFL players
Speaker 1: suffered the fewest concussions in the season of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four since the league began tracking data nine years ago.
Speaker 1: The total decline from twenty twenty three was seventeen per
Speaker 1: That includes all practices and games in both preseason and
Speaker 1: regular season. Number of different things, safer equipment, enforcement of
Speaker 1: safety rules, broader efforts to foster a culture of safety
Speaker 1: regarding concussions. They said. One of the things that I
Speaker 1: thought was very interesting. They said that twenty eight percent
Speaker 1: of all players evaluated for concussion are diagnosed with one.
Speaker 1: The number of players self reporting increased to forty one percent.
Speaker 1: There was a thirty five percent increase in the number
Speaker 1: of players upgraded to safer helmets or position specific helmets
Speaker 1: that are designed to reduce the impact of hits. So
Speaker 1: your thoughts and we'll start with pensmen on this topic.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that the concussions are lowering down. I'm glad
Speaker 2: that everything's going to a safer route because NFL is
Speaker 2: buy apple Pie in America. You could ask everybody that
Speaker 2: knows me. I love football with a passion, college, high school, everything,
Speaker 2: I'll watch. I'll even watch UFL sometimes.
Speaker 3: So but.
Speaker 2: Why I was talking to somebody that if you go,
Speaker 2: if the quarterback goes out of the pocket, he should
Speaker 2: be notified as a running back. So it does not
Speaker 2: matter how he's hit the flags of him going out
Speaker 2: of the pocket. Once he leaves that pocket, he's a
Speaker 2: It's a free game, like there's no safety thing. Once
Speaker 2: here in the pocket, that's where the safety comes in.
Speaker 2: But I'm glad that they lowered the concussions. I'm glad
Speaker 2: the injuries are going down, so Roger Cadell's doing something
Speaker 2: right in that category.
Speaker 3: Ralph your thoughts, Well, the NFL had to start stepping up, Pensman,
Speaker 3: because you know, they got sued and then you know,
Speaker 3: and what all these concussion problems and everything else and
Speaker 3: the settlement. Uh you know, I know, uh a professional
Speaker 3: wrestler name Baron Corbin who played for it was alignment
Speaker 3: for the Jets and offensive lineman. Uh, he ended up
Speaker 3: getting a concussion settlement and he had to sit out
Speaker 3: for a couple of years because of concussion syndrome. And
Speaker 3: now he's uh he works with well did work with
Speaker 3: the w w's now moved on. But I know some
Speaker 3: other football players who have, you know, concussion problems and
Speaker 3: committed suicide. Terry Long drank Annafrees and committed suicide. Former
Speaker 3: Steeler lineman, Justin Straulzik, former Steeler lineman. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: just to name a few of the ones that because
Speaker 3: of concussion syndrome, had major problems in their lives and
Speaker 3: and and with what was going on. Watched a movie
Speaker 3: and uh, you know you'll understand it a little bit
Speaker 3: better about how how the concussion thing worked, you know,
Speaker 3: with the NFL players.
Speaker 1: George your thoughts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I'm glad to see that there's an indication,
Speaker 4: like you said, of the downward trend, because it is
Speaker 4: a very serious issue, very sensitive issue. There is so
Speaker 4: much hitting and so much piling on and everything else
Speaker 4: that goes on in a football game, whether it's you know,
Speaker 4: high school, college or professionals. You know, A couple of
Speaker 4: people even what you know said to me during a
Speaker 4: while we're at Alliance game, you know, Georgia, I can't
Speaker 4: believe there's not more injuries the way these guys go
Speaker 4: at each other and hit each other. So what could
Speaker 4: be the reason? Well, obviously our medical advances. Obviously they're
Speaker 4: testing different helmets, at least wearing those helmets in training
Speaker 4: camp and that practices. I know those helmets are not pretty,
Speaker 4: those new helmets that protect the skull and the tissue
Speaker 4: and the and their faces.
Speaker 3: Better, but.
Speaker 4: That doesn't matter to me. I mean, I know, you know,
Speaker 4: you know, a helmet is a big thing. We all
Speaker 4: I know that. But I'm sure some of those new helmets,
Speaker 4: if we do adopt those league wide, they could be
Speaker 4: painted in the team colors. That's a that's not a showstopper,
Speaker 4: but yeah, it's a very serious issue. And we all
Speaker 4: have seen some of our favorite athletes in our favorite.
Speaker 6: Teams, you know, and and and you know you Candy
Speaker 6: with Green Bay, myself with the Lions, and Ralph the Steelers,
Speaker 6: and Pensman with all the football that you watch. I mean,
Speaker 6: we've all seen so many young players and no matter
Speaker 6: what age they are, but I mean going out and
Speaker 6: having these terrible injuries and concussions, it's just so sad.
Speaker 4: It's so sad right now. Lem Barney is really struggling.
Speaker 4: The former Detroit Lions great Lem Barney, a member of
Speaker 4: the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Keep them in your
Speaker 4: thoughts in prayers, I ask all of you, because he's
Speaker 4: one of the greatest Lions of all time and he's
Speaker 4: had a lot of issues again coming off of his career,
Speaker 4: lengthy career with the Lion into the NFL's Alembarney is
Speaker 4: a great guy. But yeah, it happens to a lot
Speaker 4: of that happens so much. So I am glad though, Candy,
Speaker 4: like you said, the statistics are I'm looking at a
Speaker 4: little bit more better exactly.
Speaker 1: It was the Guardian cap. I think that's what you
Speaker 1: were looking for, right And I'm glad they came out
Speaker 1: with that. Whether we've seen some players adapt to it,
Speaker 1: some players haven't. We've seen the change and the kickoff
Speaker 1: rules obviously that I think has teamed some of the
Speaker 1: hits down. Whether that's completely done it or not, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but it's a sport I love to watch,
Speaker 1: So they need to do something because I feel, even
Speaker 1: though these guys make a boatload of money, they only
Speaker 1: play a short time for their life, so they need
Speaker 1: to be able to continue on. And we hear of
Speaker 1: like Brett Favre, now that he you know, he's taken
Speaker 1: how many hits, now he's developed a serious disease. So
Speaker 1: whatever they can do to make the game as safe
Speaker 1: as they can for the players, for all of us
Speaker 1: that like to enjoy watching it, kudos to them.
Speaker 2: And and far best part of the bounty too. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: don't forget that.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Can't. So speaking of which, I'm headed to
Speaker 1: New Orleans starting on I'm leaving Saturday. I get to
Speaker 1: cover Super Bowl week super stoked. So with that being said,
Speaker 1: we got to talk a little bit about the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl because it's coming up. It's the next big game.
Speaker 1: It's a rematch I have to say all these Kansas
Speaker 1: City chief people that say they could possibly three peat,
Speaker 1: well great, then you'll be in good company because you
Speaker 1: are not the only ones if you do that. There
Speaker 1: have been NFL teams that have won championships three years
Speaker 1: in a row, and it's namely my Green Bay Packers,
Speaker 1: and they did it twice. Yes it's before it was
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl era, but they did do it. So
Speaker 1: thoughts about what you're looking forward to for the game,
Speaker 1: and it can be whatever about the game. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to start with you, George.
Speaker 4: Well, it's not really the matchup I wanted, obviously, and
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to sound like a Homer, but you know,
Speaker 4: the Detroit Lions were just thoroughly beaten and shocked by
Speaker 4: what happened in their playoff opener, which as we know
Speaker 4: was was the divisional round. They got to buy the
Speaker 4: first round, and to be quite frank with you, guys,
Speaker 4: I would have preferred to see wash it Jack. They've
Speaker 4: done a great job over there and Dan Quinn and
Speaker 4: and Jalen and and all the stars that they've got,
Speaker 4: but they just again, you know, they were beaten fair
Speaker 4: and square, obviously by a better team Philadelphia. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: stick with the NFC. I would like to see Philadelphia win.
Speaker 4: I'm getting just a little bit tired of the Kansas
Speaker 4: City stuff, as you all know. And I'd be interesting
Speaker 4: here what you guys all say. No question, they're a
Speaker 4: great team and a great franchise, but all that other
Speaker 4: stuff and that we have to put up with. And
Speaker 4: now now we got teams saying that the referees and
Speaker 4: fans more so fans, I guess maybe than team executives.
Speaker 4: You know, the favoritism, whether it's true or not, some
Speaker 4: people think it is. I happen to think not, but
Speaker 4: that the officials are in on it as well. But
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. I mean to me, you know, made
Speaker 4: the best team win, but my heart is going with Philly.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm a National Football Conference guy. I would like
Speaker 4: to see keeping that Super Bowl over here, and quite frankly,
Speaker 4: i'd like to see Kansas City. I guess denied to
Speaker 4: get three three beat should be a hell of a game.
Speaker 4: And Candy, you and Scott and your team, and that
Speaker 4: is going to be down there. You're going to enjoy it.
Speaker 4: I've had the privilege of covering two Super Bowls, one
Speaker 4: was a very great one. If you guys remember when
Speaker 4: when Kurt Warner took to the Saint Louis Rams to the
Speaker 4: Champion and Georgia Frontira was the owner, of course, and
Speaker 4: and that was a great game down in Atlanta. I
Speaker 4: stayed with some friends down there, and then of course
Speaker 4: that's privileged to see one in Detroit, which was at
Speaker 4: Ford Field as Jerome Bettis and the great Steeler team.
Speaker 4: As you guys know, Ralph defeated Seattle here in Detroit,
Speaker 4: and and that was a great super Bowl from my
Speaker 4: perspective too, because we all love the bus being from
Speaker 4: from Detroit. So yeah, so I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: I'll i'll be interesting to see what everybody else does.
Speaker 4: But I'm pulling for Philadelphia and I'm hoping that the
Speaker 4: Eagles can bring home a title.
Speaker 2: Ralph.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts, well, it's a coin flip for me, and
Speaker 3: I'll tell you why. Number one, I don't want to
Speaker 3: see Casey get three in a row, and number two,
Speaker 3: I don't want to see Kenny Pickett get a Super
Speaker 3: Bowl ring. So I'm torn between the two teams in
Speaker 3: that perspective. So I call it a coin flip. I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna sit there and watch it, and whoever wins wins.
Speaker 3: I can't control the outcome of it, you know, so well,
Speaker 3: you know we'll go from there. Maybe all the swifters will,
Speaker 3: you know, move Kansas City along there or whatever, you know,
Speaker 3: that kind of thing, so you know, but yeah, that's
Speaker 3: I'm torn between the two. I'm gonna sit there and
Speaker 3: watch it. Whoever wins wins. I really don't have a
Speaker 3: favor because, like I said, I don't want either team
Speaker 3: to win, to be frankly honest with you, because of
Speaker 3: those two reasons.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Pensman, I'm in the same boat as Ralph.
Speaker 2: But I can't stand the Eagles because my family's a
Speaker 2: big Eagles fans. I can't stand the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 2: I like Patrick Maholmes, but he's getting away with too
Speaker 2: much stuff. But I just can't stand the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 2: But Patrick Mahomes I respect really, really bad. But is
Speaker 2: the Kansas City Chiefs rigged his because he can't even
Speaker 2: spike the bull? What isn't his on his hands? That
Speaker 2: it was that is sticky? Is it sticky stuff? I
Speaker 2: don't know if that is or not. I put it
Speaker 2: short up and I got ten thousand views on that
Speaker 2: because of the hesitation spike. And then I don't know
Speaker 2: if they're even gonna play the game because Pat McAfee
Speaker 2: and a bunch of YouTubers are talking about the NFL's
Speaker 2: about boycotting it. So I don't know if they're actually
Speaker 2: going to boycott the gamer. I don't think they should
Speaker 2: because I want to know who the champion is. So
Speaker 2: that's what I think. But I'm just gonna sit there
Speaker 2: and watch it, and whoever wins wins. And as far
Speaker 2: as Kenny Pickett, he's a backup everybody. He might be
Speaker 2: part of the team, but he didn't take them to
Speaker 2: the super Bowl. He's a backup.
Speaker 3: But I don't want to see him get a ring
Speaker 3: at all. That's the could care Less cleans toilets.
Speaker 2: I got it, I get it. I'm just saying everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 2: Katy Picketts gotta get super Bowl. He's a backup. I
Speaker 2: get your I get where. I get where you're saying, Ralph.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying that. Everybody's like, oh, Okay, Pickett's
Speaker 2: the seruper Bowl. He's a backup.
Speaker 3: And again, but then again, you know what, maybe I
Speaker 3: do want Philly to win because I want the Steelers
Speaker 3: to be wrong about what they what they did with
Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett. That's another story, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: You know, possibly do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's kind of almost something like we're all
Speaker 1: kind of leaning leaning towards the Eagles, not quite convincingly.
Speaker 1: But here's what I'll say is I like Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: I think he I respect him wholeheartedly as a good coach.
Speaker 1: I think what he's done is has been pretty phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Kansas City has been how should I say it, finding
Speaker 1: ways to win when you didn't think they were necessarily
Speaker 1: gonna win. I don't think they've had as dominant of
Speaker 1: a season as they've had the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: For the time, it's been lucky luck. Whether you say
Speaker 1: the refs are in it or not.
Speaker 2: I'm not almost lost the Broncos. Yeah, they lost the
Speaker 2: almost lost the Broncos for a block, but black field goal.
Speaker 1: I understand. Like I said, they have been they have
Speaker 1: found the ways to win. What I will say about
Speaker 1: the game, and I would encourage all of you to
Speaker 1: watch Scott on the MotorCity man Mouth on YouTube you
Speaker 1: can find it. Did an interview with Don Beebe and
Speaker 1: he played for the Buffalo Bills, the inaugural season of
Speaker 1: the Carolin Panthers and my Green Bay Packers Championship Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champion. He and he talked about how it's about
Speaker 1: not making mistakes, not letting mental not making mental mistakes,
Speaker 1: so if something happens, it's happens to go wrong, or
Speaker 1: you don't you know, some call you don't get or
Speaker 1: whatever like that, to not let that affect the rest
Speaker 1: of your game. The fact that Philly's defense is as
Speaker 1: dominant as it has been, he thinks Philadelphia will win,
Speaker 1: but he says it's going to be up to that
Speaker 1: running game and up to Philly's defense. And I agree,
Speaker 1: if they're up for the task. And let's face it,
Speaker 1: Berkeley has had a phenomenal year. Changing teams was the
Speaker 1: best thing for him that he could have ever asked for.
Speaker 1: The caveat would be that the krem de la creme
Speaker 1: him getting a Super Bowl ring. So Jay likes your hat,
Speaker 1: mister George.
Speaker 4: I got it from a guy named Dan Cable.
Speaker 1: And hello, j It's good to see you j I.
Speaker 4: And say this our friend Butch Davids from Detroit, good
Speaker 4: to see you, Budge.
Speaker 1: Jim Pensylman. We've had a couple of little people and
Speaker 1: some people here, Eddie Prather, Ralph you commented rx J,
Speaker 1: we've had a couple of people in the chat room.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: Love it now. I got to ask you guys something,
Speaker 4: Candy and and guys. I guess I didn't see the
Speaker 4: announcement that they were changing the kick off from six
Speaker 4: thirty to seven thirty. Do you remember when that was decided?
Speaker 4: Was it a league meeting or something. I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't actually remember.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't like it because that means less kids we'll
Speaker 4: see the game. You know, they got school the next
Speaker 4: morning and that whole thing. But I mean, one hour
Speaker 4: is one hour. It's not the end of the world.
Speaker 4: But I just thought for viewership or something. I don't
Speaker 4: know what their ideal is why they moved into seven thirty.
Speaker 3: I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I honestly had not heard that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like it either. I like the six
Speaker 3: thirty seven kickoff, George, I agree with you. I don't
Speaker 3: like that either.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I obviously the owner they must
Speaker 4: have a meeting.
Speaker 3: I mean, it isn't done it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or are they just talking about it?
Speaker 4: No, I looked at my Candy's got the computer. You
Speaker 4: guys got computers there. I looked the other day in
Speaker 4: the team guy. I hate to publicize the TV Guide,
Speaker 4: but now they're the ones that had an Eastern.
Speaker 2: Time jay Eastern time what time zone?
Speaker 4: Eastern?
Speaker 3: It's Eastern time zone.
Speaker 1: It sells us to me six thirty Eastern Central.
Speaker 4: Then maybe the TV guide screwed up. Maybe they're the
Speaker 4: ones that are to blame because, uh, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: in the Eastern Times on Detroit and they they said
Speaker 4: it was seven thirty. But okay, I'll go with you
Speaker 4: Candy on that one.
Speaker 2: That's a good topic, George.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I checked myself, and.
Speaker 3: I think TV guy needs to stick to TV and
Speaker 3: then stay away from time, you know, worry about the
Speaker 3: that's right.
Speaker 1: Well, if they want to give the time at the
Speaker 1: wrong time, they're going to be missing out then, because yeah,
Speaker 1: eastern kickoff.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you for clarifying.
Speaker 1: I might have fewer readers, a few if reader is
Speaker 1: a miss.
Speaker 4: That kind of thing for that for sure.
Speaker 3: But don't worry. Don't worry if you have the catered
Speaker 3: food or you're ordering pizza man. But you want to
Speaker 3: put kickoff?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I never heard that full time.
Speaker 3: You know what, George TV Guide might be just saying
Speaker 3: something to say something, to put something out there for print.
Speaker 3: You know. You know there's a Rooney's Reports all over
Speaker 3: the place.
Speaker 2: I think George's magazine central time zone.
Speaker 4: They didn't they concuse me with the Eastern and the Central.
Speaker 1: There you go, Okay, let's reel it in. Let's go
Speaker 1: to by Town. We are going to start with Ralph,
Speaker 1: what is happening in your town?
Speaker 3: Well? Uh are Rooney the Second, the owner of the Steelers,
Speaker 3: says he still wants to win a championship, but there
Speaker 3: was a key ingredient in today's interview that he did
Speaker 3: with Channel eleven's Jenna Harnet. Today, he said that he's
Speaker 3: starting to get away from the game and he's letting
Speaker 3: his kids start to run it a little bit. And
Speaker 3: I hope that if that's the case, Art the Second,
Speaker 3: I hope they do a better job than you're doing,
Speaker 3: because I got to tell you what, You're not doing
Speaker 3: a really good job with it. This team is mediocre,
Speaker 3: have a mediocre coach, and it's getting tiring and people
Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh are hungry for another Super Bowl and you
Speaker 3: know it's getting really really out of control. Penguins won
Speaker 3: their first game in a while, and what I think
Speaker 3: about maybe six years or something. Jeez, it's been a
Speaker 3: while since they won a game against the Utah Hockey Club.
Speaker 3: They don't even have a name, They're called the Hockey Club.
Speaker 3: So you know they won that game. And spring training's
Speaker 3: coming up. Pitchers and catchers report February twelve for the parts,
Speaker 3: and this Tuesday on Sports Corner, I will have no
Speaker 3: House from the Post Gazette and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 3: the Pirates what they're up to this season, which is,
Speaker 3: of course nothing like they always are. So that's my town, George.
Speaker 1: Because I know that Ralph and Pensman are from the
Speaker 1: same We'll give Pensman a little time to figure out
Speaker 1: his George. So I'm gonna go to you. What's happening
Speaker 1: in your town.
Speaker 4: Well, we've got a great new coach of the right wing.
Speaker 4: So far so good. Uh, Tom mccollin. It took over
Speaker 4: for for Lolane, the Tampa Bay guy that they brought Stevie.
Speaker 4: I's been brought back because Steevie of course, was the
Speaker 4: president and general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning for
Speaker 4: many years. It didn't work out well. I shouldn't say
Speaker 4: that now. Last year they went to the final game
Speaker 4: of the season and the final period in the final goal,
Speaker 4: I mean, Washington edged out the Red Wings for that
Speaker 4: final playoff spot. As you guys might remember, last April,
Speaker 4: everybody was depressed in the hockey town, the city of Detroit,
Speaker 4: so there was optimism, but they started out terrible this year.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Lolone and his coaching staff just couldn't
Speaker 4: figure things out. So it was only a matter of
Speaker 4: time before Eisman would pull the plug on him, and
Speaker 4: he brought it in a real good band. You gotta remember,
Speaker 4: Todd has been around a while. Okay, he's been with
Speaker 4: the La Kings. He was a former coach under Mike
Speaker 4: Babcock when Mike had the Red Wings and Todd was
Speaker 4: He was an assistant coach under Babcock here in Detroit,
Speaker 4: so he had some familiarity at least with the Red Wings,
Speaker 4: although at that time they played in a different arena,
Speaker 4: Joe Louis Arena. He is lighting a fire under their butts,
Speaker 4: is the only way I could put it, and I
Speaker 4: don't know if they took lolone for granted, they tried
Speaker 4: to just easy, easy game, don't skate his hard. Who
Speaker 4: knows what the heck was going on, but it's been
Speaker 4: like a magic potion for the red Wings. Okay, now
Speaker 4: down two to nothing, right now on the road to Edmonton.
Speaker 4: This is a very crucial trip to Western Canada and
Speaker 4: to Seattle. Four games, four tough games on the road
Speaker 4: to Detroit right now, Pittsburgh, you're right, Ralph, you guys
Speaker 4: won on the road and Salt Lake City last than congrats. Yes,
Speaker 4: that grace for the Eastern Conference playoffs is always a
Speaker 4: dog fight, and that's all Detroit wants. They want one
Speaker 4: of those spots wild card. It's been way too long,
Speaker 4: seven eight years since Detroit was in the playoffs. Unacceptable.
Speaker 4: As far as the Pistons, briefly, they're playing very well too.
Speaker 4: Bickerstaff has done a great job. The Pistons, of course,
Speaker 4: brought him over from after he was let go by
Speaker 4: Cleveland and Kate Cunningham if you didn't hear the news,
Speaker 4: was finally named to the NBA All Star Reserve squad today.
Speaker 4: I'm very happy for Kaid.
Speaker 3: He's had a.
Speaker 4: Great year so far, and so as the team. I
Speaker 4: won't talk about the Lions. We've talked about them too
Speaker 4: much right now. Just sad, sad to see all these
Speaker 4: great coaches leave. And I know they get promotions and
Speaker 4: they all the interview and all that, but it is
Speaker 4: really sad because not only the dagger of losing to
Speaker 4: the Commanders, but then now you lose such great talent
Speaker 4: on the sidelines, especially Aaron Glenn going to the Jets,
Speaker 4: and and of course the Bear is hiring the offensive
Speaker 4: coordinator here in Detroit.
Speaker 3: I just don't like it.
Speaker 2: But hey, we knew it was coming.
Speaker 3: That's it for me right now. It's going to be
Speaker 3: a challenge real quick here, George, for the Detroit Lions
Speaker 3: and Dan Campbell to find good assistance like Ben Johnson
Speaker 3: and Aaron Klinn. You know. I mean, it's it's not
Speaker 3: it's not easy. They're not they don't grow on trees.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know there are you know, so it's
Speaker 3: going to be real difficult. We'll see what happens this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, George, you want to Jay I has a question.
Speaker 1: Do you know the answer?
Speaker 4: Well, the red Wings the logo was a winged wheel,
Speaker 4: and that that comes with Detroit being the automotive capital,
Speaker 4: and there's the great little wheel covers, and you remember
Speaker 4: at the front of the big cars they'd have a
Speaker 4: nice little emblem a statue like Well, anyways, the wing wheel.
Speaker 4: I don't know exactly where they were labeled red that
Speaker 4: I don't know, but the wings. That goes back to
Speaker 4: their logo and and and their their love of automobiles
Speaker 4: here in Detroit. I don't know where it is, but
Speaker 4: that is one traditional logo they better never tamper with
Speaker 4: that were red wing, winged, winged wheel they call it.
Speaker 4: But I'll do I'll do some check it on that.
Speaker 1: The Detroit Red Wings got their name from the wing
Speaker 1: wheel logo of the Montreal Winged Wheelers, a hockey team
Speaker 1: that James E. Norris played for earlier in his life.
Speaker 1: Norris bought the Detroit Falcons in nineteen thirty two and
Speaker 1: renamed the team to the Red Wings. Here you go, okay, Pensman,
Speaker 1: what is happening in your neck of the woods?
Speaker 2: Well, Ralph took all the teams, so I'm going to
Speaker 2: switch it up a little bit and talk about the
Speaker 2: seventy six ers a little bit. The seventy six ers
Speaker 2: are currently nineteen and twenty seven of the year they
Speaker 2: were in the last three four years, they were averaging
Speaker 2: fifty wins a season. I don't know what happened between
Speaker 2: last year and this year, but they are going from
Speaker 2: top to bottom in a hurry. And the Penguins are
Speaker 2: dropping from top to bottom quick. The Steelers are dropping
Speaker 2: top to bottom. Where is my team's going? And hal Steinberner,
Speaker 2: I am very disappointed in you. You own a three
Speaker 2: billion dollar team and you can't and you say that
Speaker 2: you can't put a team together because of fans, because
Speaker 2: you can't put the players on the team. You gotta
Speaker 2: looking at both sides of the business perspective and the
Speaker 2: fan perspective. How well, I don't know what your dad
Speaker 2: did to you, but whatever your dad taught you, go
Speaker 2: back to what your dad was teaching you. Please. That's
Speaker 2: what's going on my.
Speaker 1: Town, Okay, in my town. I'm gonna steal a couple
Speaker 1: of things that I talked a little bit about last
Speaker 1: night on the Sports Exchange. First of all, kudos to
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Probe Baseball Park District. They approved a fifty four
Speaker 1: point nine million dollars needed to winterize American Family Field,
Speaker 1: which is where the Milwaukee Brewers play. This means that
Speaker 1: as soon as next year, the home of the Brewers
Speaker 1: will be able to host concerts and other events year round.
Speaker 1: Winterize this winterrizing the stadium means the stadium will be
Speaker 1: able to be heated to sixty eight degrees inside, while
Speaker 1: outside temperatures could be dropped to minus ten degrees. And
Speaker 1: we all though Wisconsin it can get really cold. So
Speaker 1: kudos to them, because here you have a stadium, you pay,
Speaker 1: I mean, you build it, you spent how many millions
Speaker 1: of dollars, and yet in Wisconsin you can only you know,
Speaker 1: use it for a short time. So ji, Yes, it's
Speaker 1: a dome. It's a retractable dome, so they can they
Speaker 1: can open it up and during the summer when the
Speaker 1: Brewers play if it's great outside, or they can close
Speaker 1: the roof if they're thinking it's gonna rain. So the
Speaker 1: nice thing about that is that for the Brewers that
Speaker 1: means that everybody was they're always guaranteed the game is
Speaker 1: gonna happen on the day that it's scheduled, which is
Speaker 1: nice because they have fans from all over the state
Speaker 1: that can take bus they do, they take bus trips
Speaker 1: and they come down and bust them down. And before
Speaker 1: you never knew if it was gonna rain, it might
Speaker 1: have a rain delay or it might be canceled. And
Speaker 1: so I think there's more of that now. And now
Speaker 1: that they're gonna winterize the stadium. Great it is natural grass, yes,
Speaker 1: because they can open up the open up the roof.
Speaker 1: So on another note, we talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: this last night. We talked about tennis. Do you know
Speaker 1: that the new era of dominance? Four different American women
Speaker 1: have won a major title since Serena's last title, So
Speaker 1: maybe tennis is on the rise in America. The second thing,
Speaker 1: did you know the hardest row in NFL history by
Speaker 1: a quarterback Number one is Jordan Love.
Speaker 3: He threw it.
Speaker 1: Sixty one point nine to eight miles per hour. Imagine that.
Speaker 1: But the one thing I'm gonna say, Bill Belichick better
Speaker 1: shut his mouth. The Vince Lombardi Trophy has been the
Speaker 1: that's been the name of the trophy for forever. Don't
Speaker 1: change it, you change stadiums because people buy that. So
Speaker 1: do you want Brady to buy the Vince Lombardi Trophy
Speaker 1: so it can be named the Brady Trophy? Come on, then,
Speaker 1: you're gonna say, oh, Patrick Mahomes, if you win, how
Speaker 1: many times you're gonna be named It's gonna be the
Speaker 1: named after you.
Speaker 4: Stop.
Speaker 1: It's already the Vince Lombardi Trophy. There's no need to
Speaker 1: change that name. He's an iconic coach. Leave it alone.
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, you're no longer in the NFL. Stick to
Speaker 1: your new job. That's what I have to say for you.
Speaker 3: I was just getting ready to say that, Candy. He
Speaker 3: needs to worry about recruiting kids, and and and getting
Speaker 3: his team together in North Carolina, you know, and stay
Speaker 3: with that rather than sticking his nose in the NFL business.
Speaker 2: You know, can can't you have one question for you,
Speaker 2: and I have a topic for everybody if I have time.
Speaker 2: Sure did the eight? Did the North Carolina? Did they
Speaker 2: leave ACC or do they go to the SEC or
Speaker 2: the Big Ten? I heard that today. All isn't sure
Speaker 2: if that's actually legitimate or not.
Speaker 1: North Carolina leaving the ACCA. I haven't heard that.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard I heard that on ESPN, but I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's actually if it's talking or actually
Speaker 2: in the works or what. I don't know. If you
Speaker 2: were George, George or Ralph heard anything else? No, okay,
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure if that. I wanted to bring that
Speaker 2: up to the lead to make sure that see if
Speaker 2: you guys.
Speaker 3: I don't see nothing here, Pennsylvan. I'm on the North
Speaker 3: Carolina football website.
Speaker 2: Nothing, okay, they might be just talking about that. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: all right. I just want to get clarification on that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate you getting.
Speaker 3: Kevin Colbert got hired today by a college team as
Speaker 3: a consultant. Yes you are excuse me, Colorado State hired
Speaker 3: him as a consultant.
Speaker 4: Oh very good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Pensman as well. Kevin Colbert, former GM of
Speaker 3: the Steelers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard that. I heard that too. I just
Speaker 2: let you know, George that Mike McCarthy's available for offensive
Speaker 2: coordinator if you're interested.
Speaker 4: No, no, we're not interested. They already hired John Martin.
Speaker 4: John Marton got the job, Okay, John Morton got the
Speaker 4: job in Kelvin Uh? Is it is it? Calvin the
Speaker 4: uh got the head the defensive coordinator job, Kelvin Samson.
Speaker 3: I believe I thought Larry Foot was supposed to get
Speaker 3: that job. Somebody told me Larry Foot.
Speaker 4: No, he did not now they might bring him in
Speaker 4: as an assistant because the Pans have also lost a
Speaker 4: bunch of their assistant coaches.
Speaker 2: Too, or just say, you have a lot of coaching
Speaker 2: vacancies and Mike McCarthy, you don't want him sitting on
Speaker 2: the couch watching I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cam Pensman don't have to worry very long. Steelers
Speaker 3: just hired him. He's going to be the assistant to
Speaker 3: the assistant in the movie Theater.
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Speaker 1: of his own, so go check out that interview. It
Speaker 1: was a great It's a fifty eight minute video, but
Speaker 1: it's a great interview. He talks about a lot of
Speaker 1: different things, so go check it out. Check out the
Speaker 1: rest of our YouTube channel. If you like to listen
Speaker 1: to podcasts, you can find us wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 1: Let's see. If you want to advertise with us, call
Speaker 1: Scott nine five four three oh four four nine four one.
Speaker 1: If you have show ideas or want to be a guest,
Speaker 1: email us at self flirt Attribune at gmail dot com. Oh,
Speaker 1: we appreciate everybody that's been in the chat room. C Ji.
Speaker 1: He bought the book, you read it, he shared it,
Speaker 1: he loves it. It's a good book and it has
Speaker 1: an amazing forehead forward.
Speaker 2: All right down two no one more, go up one more.
Speaker 2: There you go. There's one for you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, right and thenk you know, sir Ralph
Speaker 1: for being over two hundred.
Speaker 3: That's awesome, awesome, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: So with that being said, and tell everybody how they
Speaker 1: can see you watch you. I will tell everybody that
Speaker 1: we are taking a week off because we will be
Speaker 1: on the road and we do not know what we're
Speaker 1: going to be doing besides covering Super Bowl coverage. And
Speaker 1: we'll see what that means, because, let's face it, Scott
Speaker 1: has covered If you don't know, Scott has covered four
Speaker 1: Super Bowls in the past. But as we all know,
Speaker 1: New Orleans had us Scare just not too long ago.
Speaker 1: So security has been heightened, tightened, So we will see
Speaker 1: what kind of access we have and what we will bring.
Speaker 1: So I would say check our YouTube channel often to
Speaker 1: see what you might see on it, and check our
Speaker 1: social media threads as well, because you just never know
Speaker 1: what we're going to be posting up there and we're traveling,
Speaker 1: so please say a prayer and keep us in your
Speaker 1: prayers as we travel. With that, George, how can people
Speaker 1: find you and get a hold of you, Well.
Speaker 4: They can find me on the South Florida Tribune website
Speaker 4: where I'm under the Motors City Tribune as a contributor,
Speaker 4: and of course I write locally for the paper called
Speaker 4: the Downtown Detroit Monitor. In that column of mine at
Speaker 4: the very end, Candy always puts a link to my book,
Speaker 4: which is called Detroit Sports Broadcasters on the Air, featuring
Speaker 4: not only Scott and myself, but the great Ernie Harwell
Speaker 4: and Bob Reynolds, Bud Lynch, Bruce Martin, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: so many great announcers, Paul Carey, Ray Lane, Alist.
Speaker 3: Goes on and on and on.
Speaker 4: And also you can find me at Yahoo at gi
Speaker 4: Cornert yahoo dot com. I LinkedIn under my name, and
Speaker 4: you can also track me down on Twitter or ex
Speaker 4: at Sanjy Sports ninety nine. And you don't ever know
Speaker 4: where I'm gonna pop up Sports Exchange fire up an
Speaker 4: hundred each ditches maybe the Football Show. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 4: just fun because every every week I like to visit
Speaker 4: with my friends there.
Speaker 1: And you are good and knowledgeable, so hey, hey, you
Speaker 1: are good. Let's be honest, George, you and Scott go
Speaker 1: how far back?
Speaker 4: Well, we probably have hit forty five years. I know
Speaker 4: it was forty three or forty four the right around there. Awesome,
Speaker 4: it's part a number of years that.
Speaker 1: Is, and you guys started the Sports Exchange together.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, back in the day.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, today Okay, mister Ralph Holp, can people find you.
Speaker 3: YouTube? Facebook, Twitter X, please follow, YouTube, please subscribe. I
Speaker 3: just uploaded my Ralph Williams show, which I'm starting to
Speaker 3: upload stuff onto YouTube here as soon as I figured
Speaker 3: some more technical ends of it out there. But check
Speaker 3: out all my archive versions of all my shows there
Speaker 3: as well. You can also reach me on LinkedIn. I'm
Speaker 3: also in Tumbler. And also don't forget Saturday the External
Speaker 3: Bum Show. We have a new well a semi new lineup.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be Scott Well, Scott's going away with you
Speaker 3: Candy on Saturday so it will not be part of
Speaker 3: the show, but it's gonna be my off Leo Haggerty
Speaker 3: and we have a guest, Ray Fittipaldo from the Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: Post Gazette and Pensman. If you want to join us,
Speaker 3: you're welcome because Scott will be traveling with Candy, so
Speaker 3: I'm going to need a fourth person, so you know whatever,
Speaker 3: All right, there you go, so all right. But anyway,
Speaker 3: also today today I signed a new contract with AM
Speaker 3: twelve fifty ninety two point five FM. My contract runs
Speaker 3: out in March. I signed a brand new contract to
Speaker 3: be with them for another year. And I want to
Speaker 3: thank the management of Salem Media and the management of
Speaker 3: the Answer for letting me put my shows on as well.
Speaker 3: So don't forget to catch the triple header of Ralph
Speaker 3: The Ralph Williams Tony Moreno Show eight to nine am,
Speaker 3: nine AM, the ten am The External Bum Show on YouTube, Facebook,
Speaker 3: to which, Twitter x platforms and also on the Huddle
Speaker 3: Sports Network. And then also don't forget two to three
Speaker 3: pm The Sports Corner Radio Show with Me, Ralph Williams, Smoking,
Speaker 3: Jim Frassuer, Claudia Wassano and Luthor Degree and Police say
Speaker 3: a prayer. Smoking Gym's in the hospital. Uh so please
Speaker 3: someone please say a prayer for him. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Okay, Pensman, how can people find you?
Speaker 2: Well, you can find me on YouTube on Pensman Sports,
Speaker 2: and I'll apparently gonna be busy with Ralph on Saturday,
Speaker 2: so you can you can find me on Saturday, and
Speaker 2: you can find me on on X on Pensman Sports.
Speaker 3: We're gonna gang up on Leo Haggerty because Leo said.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's kind of funny.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be It's gonna be three Pittsburgh's against Leo's.
Speaker 2: Gonna I could just imagine him.
Speaker 3: I will be broadcasting it from my church because my
Speaker 3: wife has choir practice.
Speaker 4: So your best behavior.
Speaker 3: Pets Man.
Speaker 1: Originally One Last Plug. My husband wrote a book, Lessons
Speaker 1: from the Microphone Tuning in the during Wisdom of Visionary Leaders.
Speaker 1: George I. Corner wrote the forward. My husband wrote the
Speaker 1: rest of it. It talks about his forty five plus
Speaker 1: years in the business. It's got a picture of him
Speaker 1: with young Muhammad Ali. Go get your copy on Amazon,
Speaker 1: Burns and Noble, Kindle, Google and Apple Books so you
Speaker 1: can see the picture and read all his great writing. Stories.
Speaker 1: He's a storyteller any rants, So if you want to
Speaker 1: listen to his audio version of him, you got to
Speaker 1: check us out wherever you get your podcast, or go
Speaker 1: back and listen. Tonight he did NHL. He talked about
Speaker 1: the NHL and the Red Wings and he kind of
Speaker 1: went off on a rant on George. So I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say anymore. You got to check it out, see
Speaker 1: it earlier, go check it out please, And as always,
Speaker 1: I want to thank everybody that's been in commenting in
Speaker 1: chat room. We love all the people there, really, seriously,
Speaker 1: really Jay yes, and if you listen to us earlier,
Speaker 1: and if you didn't, you can hear me because I
Speaker 1: actually ranted that earlier. My voice is kind of not
Speaker 1: there to do it again. But hey, thank you all
Speaker 1: for watching, Thank you all for participating. I appreciate all
Speaker 1: of you. I want all of you to go watch
Speaker 1: and support all of our panelists from all of our shows.
Speaker 1: They you know, comment, they come in and help us out,
Speaker 1: so please go help them out as well. With that
Speaker 1: being said, we will not be back next week. It'll
Speaker 1: be two weeks, so enjoy the super Bowl and all
Speaker 1: of its glitz and glamour. I know I'm going to
Speaker 1: I can what we get when we're there, and you
Speaker 1: never know what will be uploading, So check out our
Speaker 1: you know, our YouTube station. Even though we won't be
Speaker 1: doing our regular broadcast, you never know what we're going
Speaker 1: to be uploading to the channels. So with that being said,
Speaker 1: have a great night and enjoy the Super Bowl everybody.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, good night, Welcome