Hour 1 - The Baker Shaker

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4:08We stayed up all night for fresh pod. I know. And you're in seven heaven right now because you're not, okay, just pretend like you're in seven heaven. I know. I work the day shift. You have to work a day. That's how it works. Well, here in our number one of the Ben Mallor Show Tampa Bay quarterback Baker Mayfield says he remembers the good more than the bad from his time with the Browns. The reason we bring this up is because the Buccaneers and Cleveland are playing this week. And now with that as the backdrop, someone named Ken Zampezi, another NEPO coach, says the Browns messed up by letting Baker Mayfield leave Ohio. He used to be in a coach with Cleveland back in the day. Is that fact based? We'll take a look at that. Also do you feel bad for Tony Dungee and Lisa Salters who were stripped of their pro football hall of fame votes along with a bunch of other people you've never heard of? We'll talk about all that and see if we see eye to eye. We're just getting warmed up here.

5:09It's our number one. We play it by ear in our number one. The Baker Shaker. Well, kind of welcome in the beginning of yet another night of the Ben Mallor Show. We are in the air everywhere driveling into these microphones as we have a wildly fun time unless we don't coast to coast, sport or the border and beyond on the vast and classically powerful microphones of FSR emanating lies. Do it long the craze. Your sports craze were hiding out in this audio maze. Hey, wrong teed human from the world famous Fox Sports radio studios were legends like Matt Kaye in Worcester, who's a regular at those Wusah games and Scott from Northern

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7:09They spend all that money on a crappy stadium and it'll take on the Detroit Lions and we'll have that game. Benny versus the penny against the spread at the end of hour two. But our lead this hour, don't bury the lead, mom. Our lead is from Tampa, the Tampa area there. There is no city called Tampa Bay. It's a Tampa and St. P. They form that area. So the Buccaneers have a play date with the Browns and you're probably saying, well that's not that big a game. That's, you know, a couple of teams that got off the shaky starts this year. But the games got some juice if you haven't paying attention. So this is a classic revenge opportunity for Baker Mayfield as he gets to play his old mates from Cleveland, although this game is in Florida. And Baker was asked about this matchup like this is big. Baker always complains about everything. He just bitches non stops. I'm sure he had a lot to say about this.

8:10Did you hear what he had to say? No, you did not. All right. Well, did he tear up the dance floor? And not really. A Bucks quarterback Baker Mayfield was very diplomatic publicly about playing the Browns. He said, quote, ultimately you remember the good more than the bad while noting the Browns organization is now a very different building. He said, that's a quote. All right. So that's it. He said ultimately you remember the good more than the bad and a very different building. So that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. You got Tampa quarterback Baker Mayfield saying that he remembers the good more than the bad from his time with the Browns. And how does that one hit you? How does that one hit you? So it's reminiscent of like a car accident, right? As a car. He's in a car accident.

9:12You kind of block out the bad stuff. I've got meatloaf, potluck, and squatters rights. And we will combine all of these things together. And we are going to draw a line in the sand is what we're going to do. All right. So a, as I mentioned, kind of like a car accident or something bad happens in your life. It's a part of the DNA. We all have it. No matter where you're from or how much money you have or how poor you are, whatever. And something traumatic happens. You block it out. Because boy, that would suck if you remembered it every single day. That would be bad. So when he plays like this weekend, I mean, Mr. Cool. I don't, I'm not worried about the Browns. I don't buy it. Like Baker being diplomatic about Cleveland. It's akin to a divorce guy complimenting his ex-wife's meatloaf. Boy, that meatloaf is really good. No, it sucks. Meatloaf sucked. Okay.

10:12This is just Baker may feel regurgitating the talking points memo of what you're supposed to say. And he's, when he called it a very different building, his old stomping grounds there in Cleveland, that is just Baker's speak. What does that mean? It means I recognize the address, but I don't recognize the crime scene. And unless something has dramatically changed. This is just how he is hardwired. He's hardwired. Baker may feel without a chip on his shoulder. It's like going to an Applebee's without a laminated menu. It's not Applebee's unless they have the laminated menu. And it's all the rest of it. Baker may feel doesn't just carry grudges. He has them delivered by the pallet. Do you understand like a big box store like Target or Walmart or Costco? He's got pallets, pallets of these. Grudges that are delivered. And if he doesn't have a boogeyman, he'll invent a boogeyman.

11:14That's how it works. That's how it always works. Now page two. So the Buckingeer senior offensive, Nepal assistant, Ken Zampeasy. His dad was an NFL assistant. So it runs in the family and it's a family business there. A lot of nepotism in the NFL. So this guy, Ken Zampeasy says the Cleveland football team made a major mistake moving on from Baker Mayfield. He said they messed that up. Now Zampeasy, as I said, is with the Buckingeers now. He believes the Browns failed to properly develop and support Baker Mayfield after drafting him number one overall years ago. The question, Ken Zampeasy of the Buckingeer coaching staff says that the Browns messed up by letting Baker Mayfield leave. They didn't support him. Is that fact based? Is that fact based? So this whole Cleveland made a tragic mistake with Baker Mayfield narrative that's bouncing

12:21around the echo chamber is a steaming bowl of revisionist history gumbo is what it is. So unfortunately, I've been doing this job a long time. So I recall what the story was at the time Baker Mayfield was with the Browns and it wasn't pretty. Now apparently everyone else has amnesia and forgot, but we did not. It's a classic, now it's a classic results based storytelling where Baker's had some level of success in Tampa. So Cleveland must have been wrong. They must have been a police. Now the Browns made a poor choice on who they replaced Baker Mayfield with that schmuck Deshaun Watson. However, the move to get rid of Baker, let's keep it clear, the Browns did not dump Tom Brady 2.0 or baby mahalms. They didn't get rid of that guy. They ended a toxic marriage where both sides were only speaking through lawyers and that's how it appeared.

13:22Baker's personality and Cleveland around the team based on what we knew at the time he had turned into a 80 grit piece of sandpaper. His resume featured enough peaks and then valleys, up and down, peaks and valleys there to qualify as a new attraction at six flags coming soon. And every Sunday, every Sunday was an unpredictable potluck, all right, unpredictable potluck. One week with Baker Mayfield you'd get a nice big piece of Texas brisket. Tom yum, tom, tom. And then the next week somebody would drop off, ant vitus radioactive jello salad. Well, I don't want ant vitus radioactive jello salad. Don't give me that. Why would you give me that Baker? Well, I don't know. I just have no control over it. And then he left the Browns. Remember, he went to Carolina. People are, he's going to be great in Carolina. He sucked. Rams picked him up for a cup of coffee and they didn't fight to keep him.

14:22And then he goes off to Florida. It's not a franchise altering quarterback. That's check luggage. That's a lot of tags on your luggage. And so Tampa rehabilitating Baker to a point. He is now, what I would say is a mid-level starting quarterback in the NFL. That does not retroactively though. Does not retroactively turn the Cleveland Baker into Bernie Cozar, our friend Dick from Dayton. Lobs him some Bernie Cozar. And in addition to that, for a former Browns assistant coach, which old by the way, now for the rest of the story. This is guy, Ken Zampisi, the NEPO guy, family business. That's what they do in the NFL. He's higher, you know, relatives of people that have worked in the league. And so this guy, Zampisi, is a former Browns assistant coach who was there when Baker Mayfield was with the Browns. And he's now blaming Cleveland and their development program is what is, which is fascinating.

15:30Considering his name is in the credits. Like, dude, what are you doing? Your name is right there. You cannot stand inside the factory and complain about the defective manufacturing when you were one of the people that was running the equipment. Hello! Like, what are you doing? This guy used me. All right. Now, final point. We stay in Ohio. We go to Canton, Ohio. The hallowed grounds with a pro football hall of fame where legends are immortalized. Well, the pro football hall of fame is dealing with some shrinkage. Like, we have a pill for that. Yeah. So, I guess this is a different kind of shrinkage. Yeah. The pro football hall of fame, the selection committee, which has always been similar to how they name a pope where they get together at the Vatican and then they release the smoke. It's pretty similar to how they decide who gets in the hall of fame and who doesn't get in the hall of fame. So, the selection committee is downsizing from 50 members to 28 members under the new

16:37bylaws. You probably don't care about that. It is interesting to note, though, from what we're hearing, this is retribution for Bill Beller check, not making in the first round of voting. He even knows one of the great coaches in NFL history, one of the top two or three coaches of all time. And he did not make it his first year of eligibility. And that upset a number of people. I said, what are we doing? What's the point of having this? It's hard to argue with that. So from Canton, Ohio to Caccus, New Jersey voters have been voted off the island. Having the notification now, among the high profile names that are no longer part of the process to elect members to the hall of fame, we've got Tony Dungee who's in the hall of fame, not for broadcasting. And the sideline reporter, Lisa Salters. Yes, Lisa Salters had a vote for the hall of it.

17:38Anyway, they have lost their vote. They each had their vote for six years. And no more, no more for you. All right, so the question, do you feel bad? Do you feel bad for Tony Dungee and this Lisa Salters being stripped of their hall of fame votes? Feel bad. Now please, they lost a hall of fame ballot. I'm pretty sure they still have their health insurance. So they're okay. Lisa Salters got six years in Canton's VIP voting lounge and is one of my good friends likes to remind me that that's a pretty good run when her main job is asking the star player or the coach after the game, how does this win make you feel? Oh, sideline questions. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. Yeah, anyone could do it. Anyone, you could have a raffle.

18:39Anyone could ask that question. Anyways, that got you because you're on TV. That got you a vote for the hall of fame, but no more, no more. And some of the other names that are just these fat old sports writers, these guys, they had votes like 30 years, over 30 years they had votes. And so I asked the question, when did the Hall of Fame selection process become a Supreme Court appointment? When did that happen? I support term limits on this. Nobody, nobody should have squaders rights on a Hall of Fame ballot. And you gotta change it up a little bit. Like what are you doing? My God. And the ballot is a responsibility. And it's not beachfront property that you hand down to your grandkids and all that. And so get some new voices in there, some fresh eyes. And we're not exactly at a constitutional crisis here.

19:42It is fascinating though, because 50 of these voters sat in a room. And somehow these numb nuts couldn't figure out that Bill Bella checks should be in the hall of fame. If Bella check isn't a first ballot hall of fame or your voting machine needs to be in unplugged, just rip the plug out immediately there, smack it twice, kick it once and reboot it, done. Like that snub was the football equivalent of like leaving Michael Jordan off the dream team because somebody didn't like his table manners. Now I should point out the dream team did leave Isaiah Thomas off it because they didn't like his table minors, but not not Michael Jordan. You let Jordan was fine. So blow it up blow it up up up up up up up blow it up. Yeah. Anyway, it is the Ben Mallor Show. If you would like to partake in this talk, Ciesta, you can hit us up at 877 99 on Fox has

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30:11Yes, we have. I don't think I shared this yesterday. That's a bad job by me, but we will do that right now. So Gilmore, why are you talking about Gilmore Field? What is wrong with you? So John called up. He lives in Alaska on a newbie night and he said that hey, when I was a kid, I grew up in LA. There were no baseball like professional baseball teams like major league teams. So I went to see the Hollywood stars at Gilmore Field and the angels of the Pacific coast league who played at Riggly Field. And so he's said, well, what was Gilmore Field named after? We did do some copious amounts of research for John in Anchorage. And this is, you said about irrelevant trivia, but Gilmore Field, the old Pacific coast league, that ballpark where there's a now a shopping mall, of course, because why not? That's what you do. Well, you build it. It's not even an outdoor entertainment venue. This place called the grow in LA. Anyway, it was named after Earl Bell Gilmore.

31:11Who the F was Earl Bell Gilmore? Well, he was in oil executive, president of the AF Gilmore oil company and the family owned a bunch of land there. And what became this place called Farmer's Market, Third and Fairfax, you should live right across the street from there for years. About 10, 11, 12 years right across from there. They owned the site and way back a million years ago for John and Anchorage, they built the ballpark for $200,000 in 1939, $200,000. You can't build, of course, how much time has it changed. You're curious what that would be in today's money because I was. I was like, 200,000, we're going back to 1939. You know what, I'm thinking, I like around Robin. I would like to do a nice round robin.

32:14Let's see, do not cheat here, no cheating. What would a school around, Lorraine and Coop here, $200,000 in 1939. If you built a stadium for $200,000 in 1939 and with inflation in the year 2026, the year we're in right now, how much would that be, that stadium? I'm going to go with $2.6 billion. $2.6 billion. That is incorrect. Do you like to play a copy? You said 1929. 1939, 1939, that $200,000 in 1939. Let's take that away. Let's go with a $400,000,000.

33:14I'm not sure if you're going to get it. No. According to my, I have a little gadget thing. Your Gismot inflation calculator. It's 4.8 million. That's what it says. Yeah, so we both overshot it by a lot. Yeah, yeah, unless my math is wrong on this, I don't think I am, but you can double check. I have it 4.8 million. I think it should be more than that, though. Shouldn't it? I feel like it should be more than that. It seems like it should. It's 4,000. I must have messed up my calculator thing. I don't know, but that's what it says. So, just go with it, and then everyone will call up and say, you're an idiot. You didn't get it right. Bad job by you. What's wrong with you? Bad job. Bad job. Late night drug tester says, so, are you next on the list to be added to the NFL Hall of Fame? They have, they have to have seen your work as a player of the year, wooden player of the year of voter. Well, I am a John R. You know, I'm a wooden voter. That is the most coveted award in all of sports for the

34:16top men's basketball player in college and basketball. I've had that vote for many, many years. And so, I'm so the more than qualified. You know, our buddy Hartman, Steve Hartman, who works here on the weekends, and known him for a long time. Steve is in charge of a lot of the Heisman voting on the West Coast. So, Steve, I guess I didn't suck up to him. He's in charge of who gets to vote for the Heisman and who gets to vote, but he's been doing that for a long time. Herbert writes, and he says, eight plus on the opening of the monologue, I finally understand the Baker Mayfield Trials and Tribulations. And yes, Bill Bellicicic got screwed only because of those Hall of Fame dummies, or jealous of his accomplishments. Now, a dog who called up from South Korea, monkey-biz-dug, says, Baker's vanilla flavored statement was passive aggressive, one-on-one. Somehow, he managed to say absolutely nothing, well, making sure everyone knew exactly what he meant.

35:18Yeah, and should the buck in here is win that game on Sunday? You know, Baker's gonna say something about, oh yeah, I just, I downplayed it, but it meant a lot. And if they lose the game, then he'll just keep his mouth relatively shut. Chip in the cues writes in and says, eight plus on the opening of the monologue, maybe Bill Bellicicic didn't make it into the Hall of Fame because he was a big part of all the Patsys gate scandals, spy gate, deflate gate, et cetera. Funny how when the Black Sox got caught, they were kept out of the Hall of Fame, but Bill wasn't. Well, Bill's not in the Hall of Fame, and they have no morals and football. If you thought they had morals and football, come on, Chip. The NFL is formed by degenerate gamblers, losers of society, formed the National Football League. So are they gonna have high standards? Come on, please. They don't. They like to give the illusion they have high standards, but they don't.

36:18Michael and Tulsa writes in says, eight plus on the opening monologue, but here's a non-sequitur of the night is Kupeloop trying to compete with the mather chicken fingers inside of Arrowhead. And he sent me a photo here. There's a, apparently a restaurant inside Arrowhead called the Kupeloop. So, well, I'm sure that my chicken fingers are better than whatever that is. So not really worried about that. That's true, because what I'm actually doing, it is owned by me, but I'm just trying to poison all of the Kansas City Cheese fans. You just said that on the air. You might want to dump that. Neil in Fall River writes and says, hey, a big Ben, even. Do I need to dump that? Yeah, opening the door with the football hall of the fame comes a knocking should be fun to watch. Nature Boy says the dumbest sideline reporter question take me through that last play.

37:18Yeah. My favorite part of the sideline stuff, and I did the job, actually, I did believe it or not, years ago. I got hired to do a side, I was a sideline reporter in Norman Oklahoma for an Oklahoma Sooner or Nebraska game, and they were both good. That's how long an ambassador has been good in like a generation. That's how long ago that was. So I did the sideline thing, and it's all planned out for you. It's like, oh, a second break, second commercial break of the second quarter. We're going to toss it down. Tell the story that we learned. We all knew the story in the coach talked about it in our meeting. So you're going to talk about, okay, fine, I'll talk about it. Sure, no problem. And then the interviews are all, what do you need to improve, coach? How you feel in coach? Yeah, that whole thing. It was like the same three or four questions. It's the easiest job in the world. Anyone, anyone, the village, it you could do it. No, St. Denis writes, and says Baker may feel doesn't impress me. He says he's no drew lock.

38:19Yeah, good luck. Enjoy that. Enjoy drew lock, no, St. Denis. It appears my voodoo doll is working. So you're screwed. You are screwed. Even overnight Joe says you are screwed. Milkman Mike in Colorado, right since his fantabulous opening monologue and fitting with the start of the NFL's week dose, eliminating these old geezers should help to correct. To get the correct players and coaches to finally get their flowers, no dangling chads here. So he, so he says that's everybody, the one and only milkman Mike in Colorado. Absolutely. All right, let's go to the phones here and any meany, mindy mole. Let's say hello to Anthony in Louisiana. Hello, Anthony. Welcome. Hey, how you doing? Anthony, if I was any better, Anthony, I would be laying down taking a snooze, but I'm here.

39:20I'm here. What are you up to? Anthony, we, we, you, you, you, now you had major medical, major medical work done on your mouth. You had your mouth replaced. How's your new mouth? Now, now I'm ahead with today and today at nine thirty. No, didn't you say the other day that you were going to have it? I thought he said he was going in. Yeah, today, I'm going to you today, that night. But didn't you call us on the beginning of a week and say that you were going to be away because you were having the procedure done like the next day? Yeah, today is today. Okay, all right. Well, good luck. We're, we're pulling for you. We're pulling for you. Hey, actually the dentist is pulling for him. Hey, so you're point. There you go. I did a joke. Hey, you didn't, you didn't laugh, Anthony. That's, come on. No, I didn't laugh in my jokes. Yeah. Yeah. I'm the man. One of Anthony. Where did you get your good tattoo, the man? You know, you don't know.

40:20So just told the joke, you didn't laugh. What are you talking about? I'm just like goodness, Anthony. Unbelievable. All right. Even though I need that. For some reason, apparently I got your, why do I have your number, Anthony? What is that about? What am I? You tell me to check on the table. Oh, you want me to check? Okay, I'll check on you. I'll do a wellness check on you. Okay, right? Yes. No, forget to tell me, say it. And see how I'm doing. All right. Thank you. All right. All right. I'm going to move on now. Thank you for that. Appreciate that. I'm just drug you. They'll put that big saw on your mouth, cut your teeth out, and you'll be good to go. You and weed man can trade notes. And that'll be just frickin' wonderful. Almost as good as the story involving Troy Ackman, who apparently, good old- He was a cowboy. Yeah. Before you were alive, probably. That's true. Oh my God.

41:21Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, Troy Ackman, who by the way was not a great quarterback, is in the Hall of Fame because of his teammates, not because of his tremendous play at quarterback for the Cowboys. But you're not supposed to say that part out loud. You're not supposed to say that part out loud. I won't say it then. All right. Anyway, Ackman making some headlines here as it was pointed out. He said the thing he shouldn't have said at the time, he shouldn't have said it now. I bring this up also while some people have gone down and done some bookkeeping on Ackman and realizing that he really doesn't say much of anything during the broadcast. He just speaks in platitudes and cliches and things like that. There's really not a lot of stuff going on most of the broadcast from Troy Ack. All right. With that being said, the story, get to the point please. So the story here involves the game the other night, chiefs and Broncos and the battle royale,

42:24the battle royale between those two teams, which wasn't much of a broadcast. Now on the broadcast, Ackman claimed that Kansas City practiced in pads for six consecutive days during training camp. As you know, with the recent wastification by the NFL, the only thing the players in the NFL fight for is less work. They don't fight for more money. They don't fight for pretty much anything other than working less. And the owners are like, we don't care. The only thing people watch, we don't sell tickets to practice. We sell tickets to games and we sell the TV contract for the games. So if you guys don't want to practice and just show up and play, that's fine. And so the players are like, okay, that's good. We'll do that. Why not? But there's all these kind of rules in the collective bargaining agreement, all kinds of guardrails and restrictions on how frequently teams can conduct padded practices. Well, Ackman claimed Andy Reed had his teams in pads for six consecutive days. Oh my God. No. Yes.

43:24So it appears that this was a inadvertent situation where Ackman was trying to praise, trying to praise Andy Reed. And see if the NFL pokes around on this. They usually do. They love investigating. The NFL loves to investigate. We'll see if Kansas City's any in any trouble, as Ackman said this on national TV. So we'll see if they violated the practice schedule with the six day padded stretch of practices. So God forbid. I'd like to see these guys do the audio five nights a week and then the podcast on the weekends. That's what I would like to see. Iron man. Iron man. It is the Ben Mallor Show as we continue on through the overnight hours. Time now though for the who am I game? And here is the who am I game with a loss this weekend.

44:28I was caught in the Williams quarter back Matthew staffer and I don't play till Monday night against the Higgante's the Giants. So Rams quarterback Matthew staffer with a loss on Monday night would tie me for the most ever losses in the regular season and the playoffs combined with 126 again. Rams quarterback Matthew staffer should LA lose again to the Giants this weekend. He would tie Matthew staffer would tie me for the most ever losses in the regular season. The playoffs combined with 126 who am I that is the question. The answer will get to it and we will do it next. Be sure to catch live additions of the Ben Mallor Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern 11 p.m. Pacific. I. It's Marcus Allen pro football Hall of Famer NFL in DP and Super Bowl champion. I played football for a long time. One thing I've learned is nobody really knows what's going to happen next. Before the snap you can study the defense you can know the play and you can see the

45:29opening. But eventually you have to make a decision and go. For me that was the fun of football. The moment between getting the ball and finding out whether you made the right read I loved it. And it's why I understand what Underdog brings the sports fans because once you make your pick you're not just watching anymore every snap matters every yard matters every decision matters. Everybody thinks they know what's coming next. So Underdog gives you somewhere to put that opinion into play. Pick them, money lines, totals, spreads, games and more across your favorite sports. So trust your read, make your call and see what happens. Download Underdog and get in on the action today. Underdog, unleash your dog. Trading and false risk including total loss on positions. Content is promotion only not a recommendation to trade, terms apply. Cleaning starts with one small task and suddenly it's the whole house. Luckily there's air tasker. Get your task set your budget and choose a tasker to help from carpet cleaning to finally tackling the junk door. Go to airtasker.com or download the app. Airtasker, get anything gun.

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50:35All right. Back to it. I'm going to be offy. Who am I game in a minute? I did want to mention that all the chatter during training camp about Joe Burrow and everything going on with him is, I demand accountability. This is going to be different for the bills and I demand it. We're now heading into week two. And Joe Burrow already popping up with an injury. Who could have possibly seen this coming? I don't know. Everyone? Yes. Joe Burrow as a distant relative of no strut, Thomas and friend of no stradiness. He lives in Seattle. It appears there's some tightness, some back tightness for Joe Burrow who did very little during the media portion of Wednesday's practice and described as back tightness. Normal game day soreness. You want to bet it's not. You want to bet it's not. Now Burrow could not identify one specific play that caused the injury.

51:35I guess it just magically appeared. It's magically delicious. I asked whether he might sit against Houston as a precaution. Burrow dismissed that as a ridiculous statement. He says, if I'm not having surgery, I'll be out there. All right. So we'll see what Burrow does at practice on Thursday here and Fridays usually the lightest day of the week. Probably not much going on there, but something to monitor. Great moments in Bengals history. Joe Burrow one week into the season and already has a boo-boo. Burrows boo-boo. Time now for the who am I game? And with a loss on Monday night against the Giants, Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford would tie me for the most losses ever in the regular season and the playoffs with the hundred and twenty six. That is the question. What is the answer? The Blair Witch from Milkman Mike and Colorado.

52:36Speaking of Blair, we haven't heard from Blair and Maine in a while. Kevin Nash from Shane in Des Moines, Otto Graham from Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota. Jeff Hostedler from DJ Spin, my friend Patrick. I hope everything's okay Patrick. I know I said some mean things about that man named Machado, but it's going to be okay. You didn't mean it. I just have a job to do and sometimes I have to be mean to the boundaries. Carson Palmer or his family called him Carlson Palmer, the top Uber each driver there, Femi in Minnesota. Who else do we have? Post Malone from a not a burner, very funny page down Jose Albuve and George Springer, Cheetah Cheetah Cheetah, Lucky Tony from Mallor prop. Look at Lucky Tony, lean and mean. You should have him in a bear's uniform though. He's not a knight in his family, very upset if he sees that. Shipping the cues going with George Blanda. Who else do we have? Vinnie So-so, guess by Fat Daddy, Chris Everett from Steavers, Nasty.

53:39That says answer sideline reporter. How does it feel from Michael and Tulsa? Do you have an answer? Lorraine Nah. Coraline Jones. No, it's also not. Dejan Love, guess by everybody, Charlie there in Wisconsin. The correct answer. And the Daddy got it. It's Vinnie Testiverty. Vinnie Testiverty, the old time lost King for now in the NFL. Hi, it's Marcus Allen, pro football Hall of Famer, NFL and DP and Super Bowl champion. I played football for a long time. One thing I've learned is nobody really knows what's going to happen next. Before the snap, you can study the defense, you can know the play, and you can see the opening. Eventually, you have to make a decision and go. For me, that was the fun of football. The moment between getting the ball and finding out whether you've made the right read, I loved it. And it's why I understand what Underdog brings the sports fans. Because once you make your pick, you're not just watching anymore. Every snap matters, every yard matters, every decision matters.

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