The Show Episode 547

LIV Golf, NBA Playoffs, NHL Playoffs, NFL Stats, Rodgers Update

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Now I realize let's go we may have had some technical difficulties with the sound in the background. Uh no, there's no theme song, there was no uh song played at the end that uh the host usually plays a little clip of a song, and there was no sound effects either on the show. Uh if I had hit a button or so. Now, I have no idea what could have caused it. The only thing I could think of was when I went to record the last episode, 546, uh, and I again appreciate all the downloads. I sent that out on a I did it on a Friday, I sent it out on a Friday, and you guys responded by listening to the show. So I appreciate everyone uh that did that. I appreciate everyone who listened to that show. Uh thank you. And you know, even though the audio was screwed up, you guys still uh listen. And I guess there was some uh ringing going on or something uh you know in the background. And I I I don't know what that was. I have no idea what that was. And again, as I was saying, I was telling you, the only thing that I could think of that happened was when I went to record the show. My recording device that I have right here in front of me that's all lit up in different colors, has all the buttons for the sound effects, has the button for the opening theme. So I turned it on in the battery visual, and I said, Uh-oh. I wonder if this thing has enough juice to get me through a show. And I didn't want to start recording and then run out of juice and then have to stop. So I hooked up my charger to charge it during the show. That's the only thing that I can think of that messed with the sound. That's the only thing I can think of. Because I normally do what I normally do hooking up a recorder, talking into this microphone, and that's the only thing that I completely got to see. Now, the ringing in the background, which some people, there's a little feedback on that. Um, I don't know what that was. Now, uh, there's some construction going on uh with the uh house behind me, so I don't know if that had anything to do with it. I don't know if they were using some tools that were interfering with the frequency. I have no idea. So it could have been any, and again, I apologize for the uh bad audio mix-up in the beginning of uh the last show. Hopefully, you got to hear the uh theme song to open this show, and then we are at 547. And like I said on the last show, I got I just have so many things to talk about that I've been saving and putting to the side, and you know, just just waiting to get to some of these things. Now, at the end of this show, and I kind of teased it on the last show, we got a tipping story to discuss here and it happened in Las Vegas. Now, some of you that listen to another show that I know of that listen to this show already heard the story. Oh, wait till you hear what the host has to say, and you know how the host is, but anyway, now this has been a story that's been going on. I haven't really commented on it, and I'm gonna comment. Live golf! Oh no host, oh no, no, you didn't. Oh no, host, no, you didn't. You're not gonna go back to talking about golf again. Um yeah, I am for a little bit. Live golf may be over at the end of the 2026. That's it. Maybe done. At a five-year run. Piff the Saudi Arabians who pipe in all the money for the live tour are pulling all funding at the end of the 2026. Therefore, if live golf wants to continue, they will go and have to find other investors and other people who want to invest money in the live golf. I don't think anybody's gonna be funding anything for the live golf. Especially, especially if the live golf league wants to continue with their 25 to 30 million dollar purses each tournament. There's no way anybody is gonna put up funding for that. Now, the Washington DC tournament is going on right now as we speak. As I record this show, they are still playing. I think there's five events left after uh this current tournament, and those events are supposed to be full on. Their purses will be 25 to 30 million, the team event is still going on, and all the players who are currently on the live tour are still gonna be now. CEO Scott O'Neill has also come out and said that they will be seeking more funding to continue on with the Live Golf League. Now, as you know, if you've been listening to the show for the last few years, you know the host backs the Live Golf League. And again, you could you can mock the host for saying that. And I I know a lot of you do. I think the live golf league has better, not okay, not better, more known name players than the PGA. I go again, go look at a live golf, look at the everybody playing. You recognize more people on that list than you do a PGA tour event. And if you don't believe me, go look at the list of people who played in the truce open that's currently going on right now, and go look at the list of people who are involved in the Myrtle Beach classic. That's awesome happening right now. That's awesome on PGA tour. Oh yeah. One time live player, Brooks Copecka. Oh, he's not playing in the Trust Championship at Well Hollow. This past this weekend. He's playing in the Myrtle Beach tournament. You know the purse for PGA tour, the Myrtle Beast, Myrtle Beach purse this weekend. Four million. Brooks Colpaka's playing. That's what's gonna happen to any of these live guys who end up trying to get back on the PGA tour. Now, I don't know who saw uh any of the comments from the players. A lot of the players know uh that are on the live that are that are not gonna be playing it. A lot of live players have already said, There is no way I'm going back to the PGA tour. Okay. Where are you going? You're gonna be uh a golf pro at uh a driving range out in the middle of nowhere on Buffalo Road across from the uh convenience store? You're gonna be the uh you're gonna be shagging balls out there? You're gonna be maintaining the miniature golf course that's out front, stocking the soda machine that's at the 18th hole? You're gonna be taking the colored balls out of the uh you know, clown's mouth at the eight at the end of the 18th hole. If you get it in the clown's mouth, you get another free round of miniature golf. Is that what you're gonna end up doing? I love these live golf guys that are acting like they're above the PGA tour. That that when the live tour is over, I'm not going back to the PGA tour. Not me. I'm too good for that. I don't want their money. Okay. You took the Saudi money from the Live Tour, but now you're too good to go back and play in the PGA tour. I I I just don't I don't understand. You're a pro golfer. You obviously are good enough to have once been on the PGA tour, you are also good enough to be on the Live Tour, and you don't want to continue playing golf and making big bucks if you're halfway decent and score well, you can make a really good living on the PGA tour for the amount of money these guys get every day. You don't want any part of that, you're too good with that. Okay. I would love to know who said that. I would love to know who said that. Now, the rumor has it that the PGA tour is only interested in four players. Now, Brooks Copeka had already left. Patrick Reed has already left. He is gonna rejoin the PGA tour next season. He's gonna play in a few DP tour events. So there's only four big names left, big names, that the PGA tour thinks will help their tour. That's of course John Rom, Ryson DeChambeau, Cameron Smith, and Dustin Johnson. But Dustin Johnson's frame of mind is nowhere close to even being on the PGA tour. That guy is Mr. Partier, I could care less, and I don't want any part of the PGA tour. I got enough money. That's that's his that's his mentality, and he don't care if he wins any more major champions. He's gonna be playing in the Masters for the rest of his life. So he doesn't care. Now the other three guys, Cameron Smith has not come out and said anything yet. Jon Rahm has not come out and said anything. Bryson DeShambeau has, though. Bryce of the Shambe says, I don't know if I would be willing to go back to the PGA tour. I got my YouTube channel, I can just go on there and play golf. Okay. Um you're only eligible to play in the majors three more years. After that, the only majors you would be able to play in are nuts. Now you've won two US opens, but you have to qualify for the US Open if you want to play. Your exemption runs out. You've never won the PGA Championship, so you can't always play in that. You've never won the Open Championship, so you can't play in that until you're 62. And you never won the Master, so you can't play in that either. So after three years, Bryson, your exempt status goes right out the window. But you're gonna be on YouTube now. Maybe you can make a living being on the YouTube. Maybe you can be on it, you know, make a living on it. Because one, you're very popular. A lot of people like you. When you go and play any of these events, people cheer you on, they follow you around, and you got a big following. And you also have a big following on your YouTube channel. I went and looked, I saw the number. So hats off to you. But these other lip guys, you know some of them are gonna go to the DP tour. You know some of them are finally gonna, you know, swallow their pride and do what it takes to once again qualify for the PP. You know that's gonna happen. And at the end of the day, at the end of the day, it may be better for golf because all these guys are back on one tour. But we don't know yet. I'm still for the live tour. I like how uh they have their season. I like the whole team thing. I like the whole how they start the tournament. Start the tournament, everybody plays at the same time under the same conditions. Unlike the PGA tour. Now I know the PGA tour has 144 guys that play EB. The Live Tour only has 60, so it's way easier to get everybody on the golf course and play at the same time. I I understand that. I understand that. You can't do that on the PG tour. But all those guys, you know, on Live when the tournament starts, they're all playing with the same conditions. I just think that makes a big difference. Big difference. The PG Tour. An example again when I'm talking. There's everybody plays Thursday, everybody plays Friday. There's a group that plays in the morning, there's a group that plays in the afternoon. That group that usually plays in the afternoon on Thursday usually plays in the morning on Friday, and vice versa, the group that usually plays Thursday morning plays in the afternoon on Friday. Those conditions from the morning to the afternoon are way different. And those guys that maybe have gotten a break playing early on Thursday doesn't mean those guys that played late on Thursday are gonna get the same kind of break weather-wise and course condition-wise on Friday morning. That's what I think the PGA tour needs to solve, and I don't think there's any kind of resolution for it because of all the players that are jammed up on the court. So you can throw that window out the window. That's what I that's my one thing that I really like that the Live Tour does. But the Live Tour, as I said, is probably going away. There's no one that's funding this tour to continue on. No one. No one. No one is gonna do that. And it's gonna be, you know, a bunch of people, players scrambling around. What's the PGA tour gonna do? What kind of rules are they gonna set for these guys to come back? It'll be a complete mess for about a year or two years until it gets all settled back in before the whole live tour came around. Oh yeah! Well, I you know I give an NBA update. Why do we got a little spice to it? Yeah. As we go to talk about the uh NBA here. Well, what did I tell you, people? I told you the Knicks are going to the final! Man, did they take care of Philadelphia? They're killing Philadelphia right now by 30 points in game four. I told you the Knicks are going to the final. There's no way they're losing to the Pistons. Once the Pistons uh, you know, finally uh get their act together after that loss yesterday and uh take care of uh the Cleveland Cavalier. There's no way that the Knicks lose. The Knicks are playing so well. Hey, they're missing the Obigani guy, whatever his name is. He's now they're gonna sweep Philadelphia. The longer the Detroit Cleveland series goes, the more rest this guy's gonna get, the better off this guy's gonna get. The Knicks are gonna be well rested because all those guys play tons of minutes. Josh Hart, he plays almost the full game. Bridges almost plays the full game. Brunson is their best player, obviously. And he has just been playing great. The only thing that would worry me about the Knicks moving forward is I just hope they don't cool off and get cold. Because they're gonna go to the final. And man, that massive square garden is gonna be electric. How about Philadelphia though, the way they they played in this series? All that talk about taking care of Boston, all that tough talk by Joel Ellen B saying, we're sick of losing to Boston, we're sick of losing to Boston. Aren't you sick of losing to the Knicks now? Is that gonna be the theme next season? When you're playing the Knicks? We're sick of losing to the Knicks! How about you're sick of losing to the Celtics and the Knicks? I mean, Joel L and B. How about you don't get injured for uh 80% of the season? How about you can maybe play a full seven games in a series, do not handicap your team? Maybe maybe that would help you out, Joel L. All that talk, all that bragging of beating beating the boss is helpful. And you can't beat the Knicks one game. Oh here's here's the other here's my other rant about Philadelphia. Every home game. Every home game, we gotta see Alan Iverson. Hold on, let me let me check my facts here. Allen Iverson, NBA championship. Zero! How many times do we gotta hear how great Alan Iverson is? NBA Philadelphia 76 to royalty! Allen Iverson! What? What? He's got zero championships! He made it to the finals once, won the first game, and then the Lakers swept him four in a gentleman's tweet. But somehow Alan Iverson is sixes royalty? Julius Irving's not? Dr. J? Moses Malone's not? Andrew Tony, Maurice Cheeks, Bobby Jones? They're not Philadelphia Royalty. They went to three NBA championships in four years. Yes, they only won one one of them against the Lakers. They lost an 80, in 82, and they swept the Lakers in 83. But that team is not royalty? That 80s team is not royalty? But Allen Iverson is for winning one game. They bring him out like he's some kind of hero, some kind of icon. The guy's a bum. The guy looks like an old school rapper who should be on one of those 50 cents shows on stars. That's what he looks like. Looks like an old school rapper hitman now. And they wheel him out there like he's some kind of superstar. Alan Iverson. It drives me nuts every time I watch Philadelphia play. It drives me nuts. Thank God. Thank God the Knicks are taking care of business and taking taking him out. But we don't have to see him. Now I got issues with the Knicks too. But since I came on here and I said they're gonna make it to the finals, I gotta back the Knicks. I gotta root them. I'm jumping on the bandwagon, people. I'm sorry. There's room for the host on the Knicks bandwagon, and I'm jumping on it. Even though I don't like any of Players. I think, I think, besides Jalen Brunson, if Josh Hart, Laquel Bridges, any of these guys played on another team other than New York, we would never hear a word about it. They don't turn the dial for me to turn on the TV to watch it game. They just happen to be on the Knicks, and the Knicks right now are one of the hottest teams the last few years. By the way, the Knicks have played in the most playoff games the last three years without making it to the finals. They've played more playoff games than Oklahoma City. They've played more playoff games than the Denver Nuggets. They've played more playoff games in the Timberwolves. And they haven't even made it to the finals. So think about think about that stat about the Knicks. But I'm on the board with the Knicks until they get busted out of it. Now, like I said before that, I think Pistons are going to end up taking out Detroit. I just see uh I mean I'm sorry. I think the Pistons are gonna end up taking out Cleveland. Excuse me. I just don't see Cleveland uh doing anything. I mean they got they got lucky yesterday to come back and win that game instead of being down three games to none. Uh James Harden hit some miracle three-pointer. Uh and uh he finally he came alive, had nine points in the fourth quarter yesterday in that game. Uh Donovan Mitchell's doing everything he can uh to carry this team on their backs, but nobody else wants to hop on, except you know, an occasional uh, you know, performance that lasts maybe uh 10 to 15 minutes from some of these guys like uh Harden, like Allen, uh, you know, these scrubs off the bench for Cleveland, they just can't seem to uh get anything going. And you know, the pistons got honey. To me, I know he's still young, he's still learning, but to me, he's already a better player than Donathan Mitchell. He just seems to understand when it's a big moment and he can get the job done. And I think uh they will, and I think they'll end up playing the Knicks in the Eastern Conference line. Now, on the Western Conference, Oklahoma and the Lakers. I try to tell this guy I work with that Oklahoma was sweeping, and I was gonna send him uh I was gonna text him some uh some uh you know website options at the Home Depot for uh a new broom. Because that's what the Oklahoma City is gonna do to the Lakers. Uh I was gonna send this guy some links to some nice looking brooms because Oklahoma City is sweeping the Lakers right underneath the carpet and right out the door. And Oklahoma City doesn't even have Jalen Williams. Jalen Hoyams first hamstring in game two of the first round, he hasn't played yet, and they're brooming the Lakers. The Lakers ho-host! No, no, no. Lakers don't have Luka Top. Oh, okay. What's he gonna do? Yes, averages 33 points a game. As Lee Broad keeps on telling us after every game when they interview. Yeah, they're missing him. Do you think anybody else is gonna step it up for the Lakers, other than Luca, if that was the case? Oklahoma City's defense is so great and so dominant, and they they know how to cover guys and get around the court. They're just so fast that it wouldn't have made a difference. Maybe it would have been a gentleman's sweep if Luca would have played, but Oklahoma is gonna get the sweep. They're gonna be 8-0 so far in this year's playoffs, and they're gonna be waiting the winner of the Timberwolves Spurs. Now, which I thought was gonna be uh a better series between uh the Timberwolves and the Spurs because of the Ant-Man. He came back, and he's still on a limited minute basis from game to game. When he's out there, the Timberwolves look great. As soon as he goes to the bench, the Timberwolves can't really muster much against Wemby in that defense. And I'm not a big fan of uh Wemby, yet I think the guy is like I said before, I think he's just way too skinny for uh to be a legit stud NBA player. He doesn't have like that body on him, like Akeem Lajwan had, or that Patrick Ewing hat, or or uh, you know Robinson hat, or uh what's the other big guy? Uh David Robinson, David Robinson, Tim Duncan. He doesn't have that body that those guys have. Now, I know he's still young, he can still put the pounds on, he's gotta eat, but I just I just don't see him uh getting there. And uh, you know, it just doesn't seem that, but he does have that three-pointer, which is pretty impressive. Uh what's the NBA three-point like 22 feet? Oh, the what the with this guy's wins wingspan, it's probably like taking a free throw for him. Uh the way he shoots that three-pointer. Uh, he lets the ball go. His hand looks like it's at the free throw line. When he lets that three-pointer go. So, I mean, I'll give him credit for that. And he had 12 blocks that first game uh that they played in this series. That was pretty impressive. Uh, the 12 blocks he had. So, I mean, he's he's out there, and uh LeBron Fox, he is uh, you know, being his companion and his buddy out there. He's doing a great job as well. And I just don't see the Timberwolves. They're down two games to one. Oh, we're gonna bet them tonight, in case anybody's wondering. Uh, I'm gonna bet them tonight. Uh, whoever ends up listening to the show tomorrow hears me saying, Oh, I host Ted Timberwolves last night. They got killed. But uh, so yeah, so we'll we'll see what happens. Um, I I thought it's gonna be a better series, but uh Minnesota dismissing uh you know minutes from the Ant-Man. So I think eventually the Spurs will outman the Timberwolves. I think that series is gonna go to six games. Now, uh, so we'll see Oklahoma and San Antonio in the Western's conference finals, and we should see the Knicks and the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals. And hey, Oklahoma's 8-0. They're gonna be 8-0 once they finish up the Lakers. They had a lot of trouble with the Spurs in the regular season, and they tried to play it. It wasn't like guys were sitting, they tried to play it. So we'll see how that ends up turning out. Now, we haven't brought any of this up yet. So I'm just gonna give a little uh update. Uh, I have been following along the Stanley Cup playoffs. Uh, we didn't really talk much about the first round. I was kind of disappointed because uh I'm a quiet, hidden behind the door uh Edmonton Oilers fan. Because I kind of like uh Connor McDavid and Leon Dreisido. I kind of like those two guys. Uh two best players in the league. Uh go figure, right? The host jumping on that bandwagon. Uh, I kind of like those guys. I kind of watched and like watched Edmonton play. Well, they got bounced by Anaheim. I'm still following along because uh in the Eastern Conference, our good friends in New York, who are all their Bills fans, still got the Sabres out there competing against the Montreal Canadian. And I didn't bring any of this up yet. I haven't mentioned this at all. When I went on the golf trip, usually you go on the golf trip every year, and I meet up with my friends who are all from southern New York down there in Wellsville. Uh they always had their Bill's stuff on, Bill's hats. For the first time ever. I showed up, and most of these guys had saber gear on. Saber shirts, saber hats. Now, when you got close to them, they all smelled like a bunch of mouth uh mothballs because they've been in the closet for the last 18 years. I mean, they all smelled horrendous with their shirts and their hats on because they haven't been wearing them. So, now I would have rather seen the Bills stuff on because at least they don't smell when they're wearing the Bills stuff. But they got all their saber gear on now because the sabers are somehow all of a sudden good. Now I gotta sit there and smell them like I'm in my grandma's closet back in the 80s. So that's what I had to put up with on the golf trip. I didn't mention that from those guys. But they're all rooting for their sabres on, and they're tight at one. They play tonight. Uh, hopefully, uh, and I'm rooting for Buffalo. I'm rooting for the Sabres. I like to see the Sabres in there. Uh what surprised me about Buffalo was um they've been so bad. So I asked them, well, what'd they do? What did the Sabres do to all of a sudden get better? Well, they fired the GM and they hired a new GM, and the guy didn't make any changes to the roster. I said, Well, who's their coach? And their coach was their coach is Lindy Ruff. And I looked at him, I said, the same guy that was the coach in the late 90s in 2000, in the early 2000s. And they said, Yep. I can't believe this guy is back coaching the team. Well, whatever he's doing is working. Uh, they're playing great. I think they'll end up beating Montreal uh and making it to the Eastern Conference Finals. I don't know if they can beat Carolina. Carolina just took care of Philadelphia uh in four games, and they're gonna be well rested. So hopefully the uh Sabres uh can uh take care of Montreal in five and uh go on and play Carolina. I don't think they'll be able to beat Carolina. Carolina's a great team, but uh props to the Sabres for having a great season. And uh maybe next year I won't have to smell the mothballs on the uh on the golf trip from these shirts. Now out west, we got the Avalanche in the wild. Uh, we had a crazy game, the first game. 15 goals scored in that first game. Uh Wild came back last night uh to trim the two games to one lead. They had played a great game. They won 5-1. And they gave Colorado some scare with their goalie. Uh the goal they pulled the goalie last night, their top goalie that's been with them all year. All of a sudden now he looks a little shaky. Now is not the time for you to have your number one goalie be shaky. This is not when you want to have your guy be shaky, is right now. This is definitely not the time. Uh, at the end of the year, when you need your guy the most, when you have the most confidence in your goalie, this is not the time. And Kyle Roll is having that right now with their goalie. But they got all the big players. McKinnon, uh, their top player on that team. They should be able to take care of the wild. But hopefully they get that uh goalie shakiness out of the way before the Western Conference Miles because Yep. I hate to say it. The Golden Grams are still alive. They are playing the Anaheim Ducks. Uh the Ducks were the team that beat Edmonton in the first round. So as much as I want to see the Ducks lose because they beat Edmonton, I don't want to see them lose to the Golden Grams. We can't have the Golden Grams. Golden Grams aren't beating Colorado anyway. Just be better just to knock off the Golden Grams right now, just to get them out of the way. And the Golden Grams, for those who don't know, they fired their coach. Uh I forget his name, butch something. They fired his coach with about seven, six, seven games left. And they hired John Torto. This guy, I think he's coached almost every team in NHL. This guy's been such a journeyman as a coach. He's he's I like I said, he's coached every team. I almost think he coached the Rochester Amherst uh back then. Uh, guess can uh look that up. I almost think he coached the Rochester Amherst. Uh that's uh uh the uh triple A team of uh in the town I grew up in when I was a kid. Um I think he was the coach of that team. This guy's coached so many teams. Whoa, he's lit a little fire under them. Uh they've been playing much. I'll met they've been playing much better. Uh they you know went through the first round pretty easily. Uh they're up two games in one of the Ducks, but they played tonight in a game four, and the Ducks are a very young team. Their head coach is Joe Quinville. Uh, there's another journeyman coach. Uh coach the Blackhawks for years, coach the blues for years. Uh, this guy has been around as a coach in the NHL. These coaches, and you know, I mentioned this a long time ago on the show. The NHL, a life of a head coach, manager, whatever you want to, is the shortest of the four major sports. They go through so many changes as a head coach in the NHL. Because if you hear NHL coaches talk, they put in a system. And I got system in air quotes because you can't see me. They put in a system, and once that system and the players don't believe in that system anymore, then the coach has got to go. That's what happens with the uh Golden Grams this season. Uh, the players were stale with the system. That's why John Torritello was brought in, and they've been playing better with him. So we'll see what happens with that series. That game four is also uh going on tonight. Now, this was a hot topic, and I keep on talking about this because this has to involve my team as we swing over to some NFL news here. Aaron Rodgers was allegedly on a plane and in the Pittsburgh area on Friday. And then we had some news later Friday afternoon that Aaron Rodgers was nowhere to be found in Pittsburgh. Everybody thought he was flying to Pittsburgh to finally sign his deal and be part of rookie camp weekend in Pittsburgh. Well, that was not the case because there were reports that he wasn't even there. And after before that, there were reports that he was gonna be there. So then that was Friday. Then on Saturday, well-known post Pittsburgh Post Gazette writer Gary Doole reported Aaron Rodgers was in town, but had not meted, had not met with the Pittsburgh Steelers. So we got this whole saga going on and on and on again. And the Steelers keep putting up. I just don't understand what you're saying. So I went back and I did a little research, and I said to myself, well, how bad can it be if we have Aaron Rodgers again for another season? I mean, I I just said I said, okay, right, we could have the Howard kid in, we could have the Drew Aller kid in, or we could just put Mason Rudolph in before he falls flat on his face after two games and then put one of those other guys in that just mentioned. Would they still win eight or nine, ten games? I don't know. I don't know. Would they only win four or five games? Well, yeah, it'd be great because then they'd be in line for another quarterback. But now there's people saying within the organization and people who really know the team that don't plan on the Steelers if they have a bad season drafting one of the top quarterbacks next year. They really want to see what they got in Howard and L. And I was like, okay, I just don't understand what this franchise is doing. So then I went back and looked. And I just wanted to share this with you. I know it's Pittsburgh Steelers stuff, but I just wanted to share this with you. Aaron Rodgers' last season stats compared to Big Ben's last season, he played with Pittsburgh. Rogers, 498 attempts. Big Ben, 605. Rogers, 327 completions. Big Ben, 390. Completion percentage, Rogers, 65.7, Ben, 64.5. Passing yards last season for Aaron Rodgers. 3,322. Passing yards for Big Ben his last season. 3,740 yards. Passing touchdowns, Rogers 24, Big Ben 22. Yards per attempt, Rogers 6.7, Ben 6.2. Interceptions, Rodgers threw 7, Big Ben threw 10. Rodgers was sacked 29 times. Big Ben was sacked 38 times. And the only reason I'm giving that is there was a whole mob of people in Ben's last year that didn't want Ben to retire. They wanted to continue to go on with those numbers. And me, who wants to move on from Aaron Rodgers, well, there's a whole nother fans and a group of them who want to continue with Aaron Rodgers. That's what you're gonna get. Oh, and on top of that, you're only gonna get nine and win and booted out of the playoffs. Is that what you want to keep on doing? And we've talked about this I don't know how many times. I'm wearing the carpet out here in the host's studio. But that's I just want to share those stats with you so people understood where we were and what these idiot Hittsburg Stealers are doing. And I can't believe Mr. Rooney won't put his soup down and take care of Aaron Rodgers and say, hey, enough's enough. Are you coming? And if you're not, we're moving on. Just say that. Simple. You're letting a quarterback who's on the cusp of retirement, letting him run your franchise. Your billion dollar franchise. It's just sad. It's just sad what this dealer said. I don't think Ann Rooney's dad would allow it. We know the chief. Aren't Rooney would allow it. I'm surprised that this is still happening. This doesn't make any sense. I just don't. So I have another stat for you here. And I know some people aren't gonna like this. So you know, there's some people I'll be texting with all day on Sunday when NFL season's going on watching. And you'll get the text Oh, it's fixed! The games are fixed for certain teams! There's never any penalties called. There's never any penalties called on certain teams. Okay. Alright. Alright? I got this answer right here. Right in front of me for the 2026 season. How many yards called on your team this past season? Who do you think of the 32 NFL team had the least amount of penalties called again? This team made the playoffs? They went to the division round. And I'll give you I'll give you the first team here on this list. I'll give you the last team, just so you can hear the difference in the yard. The Chicago Bears were penalized the least amount last year. 678 yards. That's it. They're the only team under 700. The highest team, the most penalized team in the NFL, were the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants at 1,142 yards. That's almost double the yardage of the Chicago Bears. Those team two teams. And they're they're a hundred yards more than the team before that. Washington Commanders, they were penalized a thousand thirty yards last year. A thousand four teams were penalized over a thousand yards last year. Jacksonville, Washington, Dallas, and the New York football giants. All four of those teams penalized over a thousand yards. Meanwhile, I get people texting. Those Kansas City Chiefs, they always get the call. I'm sick of it. I can't watch the NFL's fix. The Kansas City Chiefs, folks, they were the 27th most penalized team in the NFL. At 969. So when you when you people want to complain and say the league is fixed and you're gonna get upset because you think Mahomes is getting all the calls. Look at the box score. Look at the box score the next day on Monday. After you're after you everything has happened, and you're taking a deep breath. And yes, the host does the same thing. I get upset at what happens in games too. I come on here on Sunday night and rant about what I see. Yeah. But after that, just take a deep breath. Look at the stats. Stats don't lie. Kansas City, the 27th most penalized team. Detroit Lions were the second least penalized team with 701 yards, followed by Buffalo, San Francisco, Atlanta, Tennessee, Jets, Philadelphia, New England, Arizona, San Diego, Carolina, Baltimore, Miami, Denver, Cleveland, Green Bay, Minnesota, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Oakland, Seattle, Houston, New Orleans, Indianapolis, and then Chiefs, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, Washington, Dallas. That's it in order, folks. Bears made a playoff. Lions did. Bills made a playoff. San Francisco made a playoff. Atlanta didn't. Tennessee didn't. The Jets didn't. Philadelphia did. New England did. Arizona didn't. San Diego did. Carolina did. Baltimore did. Miami did. Denver did. Cleveland did. So you it's just not the playoff teams being the least penalized teams. It's everybody. It's a good mix. It's not there's not a pattern there where you would think that only the good teams are not getting penalized. That's not true. There's a good mix there. Tennessee's a terrible team. They're one of the least penalized teams in the league. So it wasn't penalties killing the Tennessee Titans last year. It was their roster and the way they played and their coaching. I don't know if that's going to change with Robert Sala. But this is an example of, you know, things that are happening. Anyway, I just wanted to share that with you, uh, with that. So a little NFL stuff for you on uh on a Sunday. Uh before I go, I I gotta talk about this story here that happened here, right here in Las Vegas. I know, I know some people might have already heard this story. I know some people are uh locally that listen to the show are probably uh know all about everything that's happened with this story. But I have a national audience, 97th ranked podcast in America. So I'm sure other people would like to hear this part of this story. A couple uh came into town and they ended up playing a game called Mega Bucks. Mega Bucks is uh a game that's in every casino here. You go in every casino, they got this slot machine called Mega Bucks. Up at the top is the big grand prize jackpot. And you you you could be off the strip at a casino that has the mega bucks, you could be on the strip at a casino, you could be anywhere to win megabucks. You just don't have to be on the strip and all the lights and glitter and all of its glory. You could be anywhere in town to win megabucks. Now, real quick, one year, uh our great bowling team, we used to keep track of misses. Uh, and every miss, you had to put a quarter into a pot. And we were gonna do something with that money at the end of the year. Of course, yours truly, I didn't have many quarters in the pot. So I didn't care. Just saying. I didn't have I didn't have a lot of quarters in the pot. Some other people did, not the host. But anyway, at the end of the bowling year, we took all of that money, and all of us that were on the team, we put it in the mega bucks machine. And we spun the max bet. I don't know how many times we got to spin the max bet. There we we had a lot of money in there. There's a lot of money in the in the pot. We ended up winning them. Well, this couple ended up coming into town and playing Mega Bucks. They end up hitting the Mega Bucks for $10 million. $10 million. So when you win a big jackpot, and uh if the guest was on here, he could he could tell you a few stories of the jackpots the guest has won. High roller guest. When you win any kind of jackpot, any kind, that doesn't have to be 10 million, it could be, it could be fifty, it could be a thousand dollars, it could be fifteen hundred, it could be, it could be five thousand, it doesn't matter. You hit this call attendant button. A person who works at the casino where you win the money, they're called an attendant, they come over and help you get your money, help you claim your money that you won. They uh you know confirm the bet, they confirm the winning, and then off you go and you collect your money, and this attendant takes you away. Or sometimes, if it's enough, if it's only like three, four, or five hundred bucks, they come back with the money and they hand you the cash. So they got this attendant. Well, the couple that won the $10 million, they didn't tip. They didn't tip the attendant. Now, there's no rule that says you have to tip. It's expected for you to tip. Because the attendant sits there and has their hand out looking for a tip of the money you just want. Now keep in mind, that that attendant has nothing to do with you winning, didn't bring you anything to drink, didn't lead you and sit you down at the machine, didn't make you feel any comfortable, but they got their handout right away when you win looking for a tip. Well, this couple didn't tip anything on a $10 million win. The couple even cashed out the four dollars, the four dollars that was left in the machine. Didn't even leave that. They even cashed out the four dollars that was left on the machine and didn't tip that either. Now this became a story and got around town. People in the industry are pissed at this couple because they didn't tip a cent. The cash attendant came out and said after the couple won, the cash attendant said they expected a ten thousand dollar tip. $10,000 for doing nothing except coming over confirming that they won the $10 million. They wanted a tip of $10,000. They went to social media and complained about it. They went to the paper and complained about it. They went to these two uh main Twitter sites here in Vegas, uh Las Vegas locally and uh I can't remember what the other one was. They went to them and complained that they didn't get a tip. Vegas locally came out and said in a tweet related to the story that if the couple that won 10 million was having a good time and they were in the casino all weekend, they should have tipped everyone involved in their weekend, including the waitresses, the waiters, the bartenders, and anybody that helped them along. This website said that they should have tipped everyone involved $300,000. Are you kidding me? Look at I know those people were lucky that they won $10 million. If they know what they're doing with their money and they know how to handle and invest properly, they won't have to do a thing the rest of their lives. Now I know taxes are in the play, they'll probably end up getting close to six million dollars after it's said and done. Hey, you know Uncle Sam's taking four, four and a half million. Okay, but none of those people that were involved of them winning the $10 million should be tipped at all. I'm with the couple. I wouldn't tip anybody. You know what the tip I would do? You know what tip I would say? Don't play that machine. I just won $10 million on it. That's what I would say. There's my tip. Here, you want my tip? Don't play that machine. I just won $10 million on it. It's ice cold. That's what I would say. Screw those people that work at the casino. If you're whole, if you're if you're sitting there with your hand out expecting a tip, come on, knock it off. That's ridiculous. I wouldn't tip a dime. That all that money would go right in the host's pocket. You know what I would do? I'd go get, I'd go, regardless of when I got the money or not, I'd go over to the ATM and I would withdraw as much money as I could. I'd take whatever it was, $20 bills, $100 bills, I'd go right up to that call tenant and fan the money right in their face. There's your tip, pal. That's what I would. I don't blame those people at all for not tipping. That's just what I that's just all I say. Anyway, I hope everyone has a great week. Uh, I hope everybody enjoyed the show on Friday. And hey, if you like the show, honestly, honestly, if you like the show, tell someone else about it. Pass it on to someone. Hey, I listen to this crazy idiot on the internet, the host. You should hear what he says about tipping people. Hey, this is just to go back on that. I go, I go to Starbucks, I tip a couple bucks on my coffee. You know why? Because they know me by name in there, they make my drink right every time, and they deserve to get tipped. When we go out to eat for a restaurant, if I get a nice meal, the people are friendly, the tip, the host tips very well. So don't think the host is a scammer on the tips, because I'm not. I just wouldn't tip in that situation. Those people don't deserve anything. But anyway, you know where to get the show by now. That's the host on the Twitter feed. It's a still DF72. Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Podcasts, Podcast Tech, and of course, Amazon Music. And as always, it's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. Or is it it's nice to win, but more nice to tip. Is that how the news saying it should be? All right, everybody. Have a great week. And uh, what are we gonna play here? We gotta play a little something. Oh, I last night, um, well, it in honor of that, I guess I should go and just do a little bit of this. Last night I went and saw the Iron Maiden documentary movie uh called Burning Ambition. So, you know, why don't I just play uh a little Iron Maiden here to uh end the night? And everybody have a great weekend.